Kostas Tsanas
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Konstantinos Tsanas | ||
Date of birth | 22 August 1967 | ||
Place of birth | Kyriaki, Boeotia, Greece | ||
Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Hellenic Football Federation (Technical Director) | ||
Youth career | |||
–1985 |
Levadiakos | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1985–1995 |
Levadiakos | 257 | (52) |
1995–1996 | Kalamata | 18 | (1) |
1996–1999 | Athinaikos | 43 | (2) |
1999–2000 | Ethnikos Piraeus | 14 | (0) |
Managerial career | |||
2001–2005 | Athinaikos U19 | ||
2005–2006 | Athinaikos | ||
2006–2007 | Ilisiakos (Assistant) | ||
2007 | Ilisiakos | ||
2008-2009 | AEK Athens (Scout) | ||
2009–2010 | Greece U19 (Assistant) | ||
2010–2011 | Greece U21 (Assistant) | ||
2011–2012 | Greece U19 | ||
2012–2015 | Greece U21 | ||
2012–2013 | Greece U20 | ||
2014 | Greece U19 | ||
2014 | Greece (Caretaker) | ||
2015 | Greece (Caretaker) | ||
2015–2018 | Greece (Assistant) | ||
2019–2021 | AEK Athens (Academies Director) | ||
2021– | Greek FA (Technical Director) | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Kostas Tsanas (
footballer who played as a midfielder. He is the current technical director of the Hellenic Football Federation
.
Career
He began his career playing for
Ethnikos Piraeus FC
. In the 1992–93 season, he was the top Greek Second Division scorer with 14 goals. In total he played 257 games in A Division and 75 in Second Division, scoring 30 and 25 goals respectively.
In 2001, he began his coaching career in the academies of
AEK FC
.
He went on to join the National team staff as an assistant coach for the U19 and U21. In October 2011 he took charge of the
2012 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship
.
In August 2012 he was named the head coach of the Greece national under-21 football team.[1] .[2] [3]
He has been a caretaker coach of the Greece national football team on two occasions. From 2019 to 2021 he was an academy director in AEK Athens football club.[4] In August 2021, Tsanas was appointed as a technical director from the Hellenic Football Federation.[5]
International
Greece U19
- UEFA European Under-19 Championship runner-up:2012[6]
References
- ^ ""Tsanas keeps Greece grounded"".
- ^ "Focus called for in race for semi-final places".
- ^ "Greece desire delights Tsanas".
- ^ "Tsanas named Head Coach of Greece National under-21 football team (in Greek)".
- ^ Παπαδόπουλος, Κώστας. "Κώστας Τσάνας: Και επίσημα τεχνικός διευθυντής της ΕΠΟ". sportime.gr (in Greek). Online. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
- ^ "Spain-Greece | Under-19".
External links
- Kostas Tsanas – UEFA coaching record (archived)