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Maria Lazarou (Greek: Μαρία Λαζάρου; born 30 September 1972) is a retired Greek football player who played for Greece women's national football team, which she also captained, and a former football manager.

Maria Lazarou

Personal information
Full name	Maria Lazarou
Date of birth	(1972-09-30) 30 September 1972 (age 49)
Place of birth	Serres, Greece
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
	Artemis Drama
	Kavala 86
1995–	FC Rumeln-Kaldenhausen
	Illiopouli Thessaloniki
	Olympiada Thessaloniki
–2004	PAOK
2006–2008	Illiopouli Thessaloniki
2008–?	Aris
National team
1991–2004	Greece	111	(26)
Teams managed
2006–2008	Illiopouli Thessaloniki
2008–?	Aris
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Club career

Lazarou played for several clubs in the Greek Alpha Ethniki, and also had a spell in-between in the German Fußball-Bundesliga with FC Rumeln-Kaldenhausen.[1]

In 2002, Lazarou was part of the squad of PAOK that played in the UEFA Women's Champions League for the first time ever, in the 2002–03 season; PAOK lost in all three matches they played, but in the final match they managed to score for one and only time, in an 8–1 defeat, with Lazarou being the scorer.[2][3]

Lazarou retired in 2004, after the 2004 Summer Olympics, but she returned to playing again in 2006 as a player-coach for Illiopouli Thessaloniki, and then Aris, a club founded in 2008, and being actually the successor team of Illiopouli; Aris actually "absorbed" Illiopouli, with the latter adopting the badge, name and colours of Aris, with the newly created club continuing to play in Women's Alpha Ethniki (top-tier league) in the place of Illiopouli.[4][5]

International career

Lazarou appeared 111 times for the Greece women's national football team,[6] including six appearances in the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup qualifying rounds[7] and appearances at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens,[8] which she also captained,[9] and is the top scorer of the Greece women's national football team with 26 goals.

Managerial career

Lazarou, after having retired in 2004, returned to playing again in 2006 as a player-coach for Illiopouli Thessaloniki, and then Aris.[5][4]

Nowadays, she is not involved with football and works as a private-sector employee.

Honours

Lazarou won four Greek A Division (top-tier league) with four different clubs and one league in Germany with the semi-professional team of FC Rumeln-Kaldenhausen.

See also

• List of women's footballers with 100 or more international caps
• Greece at the 2004 Summer Olympics

References

External links

• Profile at Womensoccer.gr (in Greek) (Archived)
• Aris Women Official Website (in Greek)
• All About Aris (in Greek)
• Press Aris (in Greek)
• Aris AC (in Greek)

На других языках

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Maria Lazarou (griechisch Μαρία Λαζάρου; * 30. September 1972 in Serres) ist eine ehemalige griechische Fußballspielerin, die vorwiegend im offensiven Mittelfeld zum Einsatz gekommen ist. Sie bestritt 111 offizielle Länderspiele für die A-Nationalmannschaft, für die sie 26 Tore erzielte; sie war damit lange Zeit Rekordnationalspielerin ihres Landes, ehe sie im Sommer 2012 in der Anzahl der Länderspiele von der 1979 geborenen Natalia Chatzigiannidou übertroffen wurde.

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