Lambis Serafidis

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Lambis Serafeidis
Personal information
Full name Charalambos Serafidis
Date of birth 1929
Place of birth Aigaleo, Athens, Greece
Date of death 20 August 2003(2003-08-20) (aged 73–74)
Place of death Athens, Greece
Position(s) Forward
Youth career
–1946 AE Ierapolis
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1946–1949 AEK Athens 0 (0)
1949–1951 Apollon Athens 0 (0)
1951–1954 AEK Athens 0 (0)
1954–1963 Apollon Athens 70 (19)
Total70(19)
International career
1952 Greece Military
1950–1960 Greece 12 (3)
1960 Greece Olympic 2 (2)
Managerial career
1977–1978 Egaleo
1980 Egaleo
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Lambis Serafidis (Greek : Λάμπης Σεραφείδης; 1929 – 20 August 2003) was a Greek professional footballer who played as a forward and a manager. [1]

Contents

Club career

Serafidis played mainly as a left winger and started his football career at a club of his neighborhood, AE Ierapolis. At the age of 17, he moved to AEK Athens, where he played for three season, however he did not manage to participate in an official match. In 1949 he moved to the neighboring Apollon Athens playing for two years. In 1951 he returned to AEK, where he remained for another three seasons until 1954, having 9 appearances and 6 goals in the Athens championship. In 1954 Serafidis rejoined Apollon Athens until 1963, when he retired from the as a footballer.

International career

He played in twelve matches for the Greece national football team from 1950 to 1960. [2] He was also part of Greece's team for their qualification matches for the 1954 FIFA World Cup. [3] He also played with the military team and won the World Military Cup in 1952. [4]

Managerial career

Serafidis was occasionally involved in coaching, taking charge over Egaleo, [5] the club where he took his first football steps. In the first of his two spells at the Athenian team, remaining in his position for the entire season, he won the second division championship of the Southern Group and the promotion to the first division.

Other activities

Between 1961 and about 1965, still being an active footballer although he was a substitute, Serafidis invested in business and enacted with the former entertainment center of Panos Gavalas in the forest of the Kaisariani Shooting Range. He was the one who reformed the appearance of the place and renamed it "Charama", a name where in the following decades it developed into a popular spot on the Athenian music scene and hosted well-known representatives of Greek music. [6] [7]

Personal life

He was the older brother of Stelios, who was also a footballer that played as a goalkeeper and followed him from Apollon on his return to AEK in 1951, but he remained at the club for over 20 years as a football player and then in various coaching positions until the 2010's. Although the two brothers coexisted in national team assignments, they ultimately did not compete at the same time as Stelios, being 6 years younger, was anointed an international once, few months before Lambis retired.

Honours

As a player

Apollon Athens

Greece military

As a manager

Egaleo

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References

  1. ↑ "Lambis Serafeidis". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
  2. ↑ "Lambis Serafeidis". eu-football.info. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
  3. ↑ "World Cup 1954 - Qualifying". RSSF. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
  4. ↑ "World Military Championship". RSSSF .
  5. ↑ "ΣΤΗΝ "ΠΡΕΜΙΕΡΑ" ΤΟΥ ΧΛΟΟΤΑΠΗΤΑ, ΠΡΙΝ ΤΟΝ ΑΓΩΝΑ ΑΙΓΑΛΕΩ-ΠΡΟΟΔΕΥΤΙΚΗΣ ΤΟ 1980". reocities.com. 5 March 2016. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016.
  6. ↑ "Στου Κιτσίνη και στο "Χάραμα""" (PDF). kathimerini.gr.
  7. ↑ "άρθρο του Πάνου Γεραμάνη στο αφιέρωμα "Καισαριανή", ένθετο «επτά ΗΜΕΡΕΣ» της εφημερίδας «Η ΚΑΘΗΜΕΡΙΝΗ», Αθήνα 11 Μαϊ 2003, σ. 16" (PDF). kathimerini.gr. 13 November 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 November 2012.
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