GREECE - Player Profile

Sotirios Kyrgiakos

Sotirios Kyrgiakos

NAME:

Sotirios Kyrgiakos

BORN:

POSITION:

DF

CLUB:

Liverpool

PREVIOUS CLUBS:

Panathinaikos, Agios Nikolaos (loan), Rangers, Eintracht Frankfurt, AEK Athens

INTERNATIONAL CAPS:

56

INTERNATIONAL DEBUT:

13 February 2002 vs Sweden

16 Sotirios Kyrgiakos

Kyrgiakos began his professional career in 1998 with Panathinaikos. He moved to Rangers in 2005, then to Eintracht Frankfurt in 2006 and AEK Athens in 2008. He spent one season in Athens before signing with Premier League side Liverpool.

He made his international debut on 13 February 2002 against Sweden, and scored his first goal a year later against Norway. He missed out on Greece's Euro 2004 victory due to injury, but participated in the Euro 2008 competition.


 

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