Paschalis Tountouris

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Paschalis Tountouris (born 25 April 1978) is known as the most successful FIFA agent in Greece. Tountouris is the owner of Prosport, [1] voted as Agency of the Year in Greece in 2021,2022 & 2023. Founded in 2004 and successfully concluded over 300 football transfers around the world. Tountouris represents a number of well known players and coaches including former Greek Captain Giorgos Karagounis, [2] [3] Greek Internationals Konstantinos Tsimikas, Anastasios Douvikas, Dimitrios Kourbelis, Anastasios Chatzigiovanis upcoming stars Konstantinos Koulierakis and Sotiris Alexandropoulos, South African stars Andile Jali [4] and Bernard Parker, Zimbabwean Captain Knowledge Musona, manager Giannis Anastasiou [5] and others.

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Early career

Tountouris began his career as the Sports Director of Aris Thessaloniki F.C. [6] and later as the Head of World Football Division of Prosport International, [7] the largest agency in Africa which is run by infamous South African agent Mike Makaab. During his involvement with African football he successfully transferred to Europe several International stars including Knowledge Musona, [8] Jabu Pule, Collins Mbesuma, Bernard Parker, Nasief Morris, Jonathan Mensah [9] and more.

Anti-racism activity

On 14 April 2008 Tountouris organized a conference in Athens Metropolitan Hotel in order to mobilize the Greek society in the battle against racism. [10] Many politicians, journalists and sports celebrities attended the day conference including the President of the Hellenic Football Federation Sofoklis Pilavios, International footballers Manucho, Nasief Morris and Simão Mate Junior, South African Olympic Champion Elana Meyer, [11] Apostolos Tzitzikostas, Yannis Moralis and more.

Tsimikas transfer to Liverpool F.C.

In August 2020 Tountouris concluded as an agent the most prestigious transfer of a Greek player with the signing of Konstantinos Tsimikas to Liverpool F.C. for a fee believed to be around €17mil from Olympiacos Piraeus [12]

Politics

In May 2023 Tountouris was elected as a councilor for the municipality of Thessaloniki lining up with the party of New Democracy (Greece) [13] On 25 September 2019 Tountouris was appointed as a debuty chairman of E.A.K (National Sports Centers of Thessaloniki) [14]

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  12. ↑ "Τουντούρης στον ΣΠΟΡ FM: "Για αυτό επέλεξαν τον Τσιμίκα στη Λίβερπουλ"".
  13. ↑ "Ο πρωτοκλασάτος μάνατζερ Πασχάλης Τουντούρης υποψήφιος με τον Νίκο Ταχιάο στη Θεσσαλονίκη". Archived from the original on 2019-07-02. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
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