Nick Efthimiou
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Nicholas Efthimiou | ||
| Date of birth | November 15, 1966 | ||
| Place of birth | Johannesburg, South Africa | ||
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1985-1987 | North Texas Mean Green | ||
1987-1990
| North Carolina Tar Heels | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| Austin Thunder | |||
| F.C. Dallas | |||
| 1993 | Dallas Sidekicks (indoor) | 7 | (1) |
| 1993-1999 | Dallas Sidekicks (indoor) | 31 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). | |||
Nicholas "Nixo" Efthimiou is a retired South African-American football (soccer). A former player for the Dallas Sidekicks in the United States. He is an artist living in Dallas, Texas.
Efthimiou's parents moved from their native Greece to South Africa before Efthimous was born. The family then moved back to Greece when he was a child before moving again, this time to Dallas, Texas when Efthimiou was thirteen. In 1985, he graduated from Richardson High School where he was on selected on the All District,All Regional,& the All State team. He won the state championship in 1985 with Richardson & was selected on the All State Tournament team. It was the 1st year the mens & women's soccer team's won the state championship in the same year. This record still stands as of today, this year of 2013. He earned several scholarships but chose to walk on the next year at North Texas State, now called The University of North Texas, where he was a walk-on soccer player. He earned a scholorship for his sophomore season, but broke his ankle early in the summer before the season. Efthimiou re-broke his ankle which led to him red shirting that year. In 1987, he transferred to the University of North Carolina where he only scored 4 goals and 3 assist that year helping lead his team to their first A.C.C. Championship tournament.Recruited by Anson Dorrance in 1987, he was one of 3 players to play in every single game as a starter holding that record to this day as the men's Tarheels under Anson Dorrance leadership also went to Carolina's first N.C.A.A. Mens Final Four tournament only to lose bad to Clemson University 4-1 in the semifinal game.Efthimiou and his North Carolina,men's soccer team mates failed to win the national championship even though Anson Dorrance, in 1987 was named Mens Head coach of the year in the N.C.A.A. Efthimiou was also honored with Mens Scholar Athlete Award and played at U.N.C.until 1987 to 1989, graduating with a Bachelors in Journalism & Sports Psychology degree.[1][2]
After college, Efthimiou played for the Austin Thunder and F.C. Dallas of the Lone Star Soccer Alliance. The Dallas Sidekicks selected Efthimiou in the fourth round of the 1990 Major Indoor Soccer League draft. The Sidekicks released him during the pre-season training camp. He had other trials with the Sidekicks in 1991 and 1992, before signing with the team in 1993 in the Continental Indoor Soccer League.Efthimiou won his 1st championship in 1993 in the C.I.S.L. A member of the Sidekicks' MISL championship teams in 1993, 1998 when his sports apparel line NSN™ NEVER SAY NEVER™ [3] sponsored the Dallas Sidekicks official practice gear when the Sidekicks won the P.S.A Premier Soccer Alliance championship. Efthimiou scored one goal for the team in 1994. In 1998 Efthimiou was on the championship team that won the championship with the Sidekicks in the Premier Soccer Alliance. He played until the year 1999 when he had to retire due to health reasons. He was diagnosed with Ulcerative Coltis Chronse disease. Nicholas Efthimiou is also a Free lance Journalist for Time Warner, CNN an artist living in Dallas, Texas.[4]