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Sotiris Silaidopoulos
Sotiris Silaidopoulos (Greek: Σωτήρης Συλαϊδόπουλος; born 8 February 1979) is a Greek professional football manager and former player who played as a midfielder. He is the current manager of Portuguese club Rio Ave.
Silaidopoulos was born on the Greek island of Kos and started playing football at local club Antagoras, where he later went on to play for the club's senior team at age 15.
In 1999, he signed for Super League 1 club Panionios, where the 19-year-old initially joined the Under-20 team, while training with the senior side. At the end of 2000, Silaidopoulos suffered a severe knee injury that forced him to undergo multiple surgeries and prevented him to pursue a professional playing career.
After a long injury break, Silaidopoulos returned to the pitch in 2004 and played for lower division clubs, before he retired in 2009 and focused on his coaching career.
Following his retirement, Silaidopoulos started making his first experiences in coaching by taking over the U-15 team of Omilos Athlopaidion Kos at the beginning of the 2010–11 season. In the following season, he led the club's U-17 side to victory in the Dodecanese League.
In 2012, Silaidopoulos was approached by his childhood club Antagoras to take over the senior team after the club had overcome some financial turmoil and was forced to build up a new team in the fourth division. He accepted the offer and gained promotion to Greece's third division in the 2014–15 season.
On 1 July 2015, Silaidopoulos was hired by Super League Greece club Panathinaikos and appointed as head coach of the club's U-16 team, which he led to win the Attica League in his first season in charge. In the following two seasons, he was coaching the club's U-17s. During this period, the team reached the final of the prestigious 2017 Puskás Cup in Felcsút, Hungary only losing to champion Real Madrid.
His team finished first in the regular season of 2017-18 and lost the championship title in a penalty shoot-out against Olympiacos, in which Panathinaikos conceived a late equaliser in extra time.
Sotiris Silaidopoulos
Sotiris Silaidopoulos (Greek: Σωτήρης Συλαϊδόπουλος; born 8 February 1979) is a Greek professional football manager and former player who played as a midfielder. He is the current manager of Portuguese club Rio Ave.
Silaidopoulos was born on the Greek island of Kos and started playing football at local club Antagoras, where he later went on to play for the club's senior team at age 15.
In 1999, he signed for Super League 1 club Panionios, where the 19-year-old initially joined the Under-20 team, while training with the senior side. At the end of 2000, Silaidopoulos suffered a severe knee injury that forced him to undergo multiple surgeries and prevented him to pursue a professional playing career.
After a long injury break, Silaidopoulos returned to the pitch in 2004 and played for lower division clubs, before he retired in 2009 and focused on his coaching career.
Following his retirement, Silaidopoulos started making his first experiences in coaching by taking over the U-15 team of Omilos Athlopaidion Kos at the beginning of the 2010–11 season. In the following season, he led the club's U-17 side to victory in the Dodecanese League.
In 2012, Silaidopoulos was approached by his childhood club Antagoras to take over the senior team after the club had overcome some financial turmoil and was forced to build up a new team in the fourth division. He accepted the offer and gained promotion to Greece's third division in the 2014–15 season.
On 1 July 2015, Silaidopoulos was hired by Super League Greece club Panathinaikos and appointed as head coach of the club's U-16 team, which he led to win the Attica League in his first season in charge. In the following two seasons, he was coaching the club's U-17s. During this period, the team reached the final of the prestigious 2017 Puskás Cup in Felcsút, Hungary only losing to champion Real Madrid.
His team finished first in the regular season of 2017-18 and lost the championship title in a penalty shoot-out against Olympiacos, in which Panathinaikos conceived a late equaliser in extra time.