Yiannis Andrianopoulos

Yiannis Andrianopoulos
Personal information
Full nameΓιάννης Ανδριανόπουλος
Date of birth1900
Place of birthGreece Piraeus, Greece
Date of death6 November 1952
Playing positionAttacking Midfielder, Second Striker
Youth career
1915–1918Peiraikos Syndesmos FC
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps†(Gls)†
1918–1923Peiraikos Syndesmos FC
1924Athletic and Football Club of Piraeus
1924–1925Olympiacos Omilos Filathlon Peiraia
1925–1929Olympiacos FC
National team
1920Greece Greece
Teams managed
1925–1927Olympiacos FC
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Yiannis Andrianopoulos (1900 – 6 November 1952[1]) was a Greek Football Legend and one of the founding members of Greece's most successful football club, Olympiacos CFP.

Club career

Born in Piraeus, Greece, Yiannis began his career at the age of 18, playing for home town club Peiraikos Syndesmos FC. Here Yiannis earned his first taste of success, winning an unofficial Greek Championship in 1923. Peiraikos Syndesmos FC merged with Peiraiki Enosis FC in January 1924 and the Athletic and Football Club of Piraeus was formed.Yiannis was part of the new team and helped them win the 1924 Athens-Piraeus championship.

Olympiacos FC

The same year around autumn, the new club split in two different squads: One team, led by the Andrianopoulos brothers and goalkeeper Kostas Klidouchakis, formed Olympiakos Omilos, which evolved into Olympiakos FC;[2] the other, led by Kostas Ferlemis, Christos Peppas and Giorgos Hadjiandreou merged, with an independent club named "Young Boys" to form Peiraikos Omilos, which in turn evolved into Ethnikos Peiraios FC.

Following a series of mergers between other Piraeus and Athens based clubs, as well as an Athens football Championship, Yiannis and his brothers went on to create Olympiacos FC in March 1925.Yiannis, Giorgios, Dinos and Vasilis, Leonidas went on to make the newly formed Piraeus Club famous throughout Greece.[3] He had also two other brothers Aristides and Stelios Andrianopoulos were they playing in other Peiraias football clubs.

Yiannis was the oldest of seven brothers who like him, would go on to become famous footballers in the Olympiacos' ranks.As a result, Yiannis and his brothers earned Olympiacos the name Thrylos meaning "Legend" in Greek, a nickname which the club carries to this day. Yiannis was certainly the brother who made the biggest impact towards the club, even becoming a player-coach; Olympiacos' first coach, from 1925 until 1927. In 1929, Yiannis retired from football, and became Olympiacos' president for 3 years.

International

Yiannis played for the national side for the 1920 Olympic Games His brother Giorgos was a member of the team too. His brothers at Olympiakos also played for Greece in 1929 and 1930.

Honours

References

  1. ↑ http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/columns_1KathiLev&xml/&aspKath/columns.asp&fdate=07/11/2002
  2. ↑ http://www.andrianopoulos.gr/xmsAssets/File/Osfp/PDFs/history.pdf
  3. ↑ http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/grizano/History.htm&date=2009-10-25+23:32:31
  4. ↑ http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/statisticsandrecords/players/player=293133/index.html