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Stelios Serafidis (Greek: Στέλιος Σεραφείδης; 6 August 1935 – 4 January 2022) was a Greek international football player who played as a goalkeeper for AEK Athens. Serafidis was among the most reliable and consistent goalkeepers in the history of the club. Gifted with agility and excellent reflexes, he was famous for his high diving saves under tough conditions. Despite his small stature, he managed to become one of the top players in the 1950's and 1960's and he is considered as one of the top Greek goalkeepers of all time.[1][2]

Stelios Serafidis
Personal information
Full name Stylianos Serafidis
Date of birth (1935-08-06)6 August 1935
Place of birth Gazi, Athens, Greece
Date of death 4 January 2022(2022-01-04) (aged 86)
Place of death Athens, Greece
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Youth career
1948–1950 Egaleo
1950–1951 Apollon Athens
1951–1953 AEK Athens
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1953–1972 AEK Athens 243 (0)
Total 243 (0)
National team
1963–1972 Greece 1 (0)
Teams managed
1973–1995 AEK Athens (goalkeeping coach)
2012–2013 AEK Athens Academy (goalkeeping coach)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Early life


Born on 6 August 1935 in Gazi, Athens, to refugee parents from Pontus and raised in Aigaleo, Serafidis had a particularly difficult childhood like most children of that time before, during and after World War II. Before playing football he did various small jobs to make a living. He worked as a water carrier, baker, porter, shoe polisher and peddler. His older brother Lambis, who was an international striker at Apollon Athens, brought him at the age of 14 to his club. He stayed there for a very short period and then, at the age of 16, was transferred to the infrastructure departments of AEK Athens.


Club career


After two years with the reserve team, followed by a year in the second team of AEK and from 1954 onwards, Serafidis became the main goalkeeper of the team for almost 20 years, with 323 appearances in all competitions (of which 243 for the league, 37 for the Greek Cup, 40 for the Athens EPS Championship and 3 for the UEFA competitions)[3][4] winning 3 league titles and 3 Cups. He was the main goalkeeper of AEK in the final of the Balkans Cup of 1967 against Fenerbahçe, where AEK Athens won the silver medal.[5] He part of the squad that reached the quarter-finals of the European Cup in 1969.[6] He retired in the summer of 1972, at the age of 37.[7]


International career


Serafidis was a permanent member of the Greek national team, even though he had only one appearance in an official match against Poland in 1963. He did not manage to make more appearances, because he was the back up choice to Theodoridis and Ikonomopoulos.[8]


After football


After he retired, Serafidis went on to offer his services to AEK for a number of consecutive years as coach. He returned in 1973 as a goalkeeping coach and remained in that position for over 2 decades. He worked for many years with the club's goalkeepers and later on he undertook similar duties for the AEK Athens Academy. Although he was in his eighties, Serafidis was always close to his beloved AEK in both home and away matches, whereas he was the president of the Veterans Association of AEK Athens.[9][10] His name is honoured on one of the four pillars of AEK Athens' new stadium, Agia Sophia Stadium, alongside other important figures of the club's history such as Kostas Nestoridis, Mimis Papaioannou and Thomas Mavros. Furthermore, the name "Serafidion" was given to the training ground of AEK Athens in his honour.[11] He died after a long battle with cancer on 4 January 2022, at the age of 86.[12][13]


Honours


AEK Athens

See also



References


  1. "HISTORY". AEK F.C. Official Web Site. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
  2. "Ο Στέλιος Σεραφείδης αφηγείται τη ζωή του..." aek-live.gr (in Greek). 24 January 2020. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
  3. "Στέλιος Σεραφείδης". football.aek.com.
  4. "Στέλιος Σεραφείδης: Ο πιστός και ταπεινός στρατιώτης της ΑΕΚ". gazzetta.gr.
  5. "Στέλιος Σεραφείδης". kitrinomavro.gr. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
  6. Καζαντζόγλου, Σταύρος (15 June 2019). "1968/69: Η πρώτη ελληνική ομάδα σε ευρωπαϊκή οκτάδα, η απογοήτευση εντός συνόρων". enwsi.gr.
  7. "Η μεγάλη επιστροφή του Στέλιου Σεραφείδη". aek365.org.
  8. "ΣΤΕΛΙΟΣ ΣΕΡΑΦΕΙΔΗΣ: 20 Χρόνια κάτω από τα δοκάρια της ΑΕΚ- 1952-1972". koinoniki.gr.
  9. "Στέλιος Σεραφείδης : Στο πάνθεον της ιστορίας της ΑΕΚ". tovima.gr. 17 April 2019.
  10. ""Η ΑΕΚ αναγεννήθηκε από τις στάχτες της". Ο Στέλιος Σεραφείδης στο sport-retro.gr". 13 April 2018.
  11. "Αποκλειστικά στο Sportime: «Σεραφείδειον» θα ονομαστεί το νέο γήπεδο της ΑΕΚ στα Σπάτα!". 23 October 2021.
  12. "Τέσσερις ιστορικές μορφές της ΑΕΚ θα κοσμούν τους πυλώνες της Αγιά Σοφιάς - OPAP Arena". gazzetta.gr. 19 October 2021.
  13. "Πέθανε ο Στέλιος Σεραφείδης". sport24.gr.

На других языках


- [en] Stelios Serafidis

[ru] Серафидис, Стелиос

Стелиос Серафидис (6 августа 1935 — 4 января 2022) — греческий футболист, игравший на позиции вратаря. Всю карьеру провёл в составе афинского АЕКа. Серафидис был одним из самых надёжных и стабильных вратарей в истории клуба. Одарённый ловкостью и хорошей реакцией, он был известен своими сейвами в тяжёлых ситуациях. Несмотря на невысокий рост, ему удалось стать одним из лучших греческих вратарей своего времени[4][5].



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