Paraskevas Antzas

Paraskevas Antzas
Personal information
Date of birth	18 August 1977 (age 47)
Place of birth	Drama, Greece
Height	1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)
Position(s)	Defender
Youth career
000–1995	Pandramaikos
Senior career*
Years	Team
1995–1998	Skoda Xanthi
1998–2003	Olympiacos
2003–2004	Doxa Drama
2004–2007	Skoda Xanthi
2007–2009	Olympiacos
Total
International career‡
1999–2008	Greece
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 3 May 2009; ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 15 June 2008

Paraskevas Antzas (Greek: Παρασκευάς Άντζας, born 18 August 1977) is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a central defender.

Career

Antzas' career began in Pandramaikos F.C. in Gamma Ethniki in 1993. In 1995, he signed with Skoda Xanthi at Super League. In 1998, he signed with Greek Olympiacos and until 2003 played in 76 league games plus 20 international games (18 games in UEFA Champions League and 2 games in UEFA Europa League, scoring one goal). In 2003, he left Olympiacos, for still an unexplained reason, while he was a key member of the Greece national team and had qualified for the European Championship 2004 in Portugal. In 2003 was announced that stops the football for family reasons. He changed his mind and signed with Doxa Drama, on loan from Olympiakos, and consequently he lost his place in the Greece, and he regained it years after in 2007 when he returned to Olympiacos from Skoda Xanthi.

On 15 June 2008, one day after the defeat of Greece from Russia in the final tournament of Euro 2008, Antzas announced his retirement from international football.^[1] On 3 May 2009, he played his last career game.

Honours

Club

Olympiacos

Superleague Greece (7): 1998–99, 1999–2000, 2000–01, 2001–02, 2002–03, 2007–08, 2008–09
Greek Cup (3): 1998–99, 2007–08, 2008–09
Greek Super Cup: 2007

Greece

UEFA Euro U21: Runner-up 1998

References

^ Greece stalwarts hand in their notice Archived 17 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine

External links

Paraskevas Antzas at National-Football-Teams.com
Paraskeuas Antzas Personal Site (Greek)

[1] Greece stalwarts hand in their notice Archived 17 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine

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