Michalis Sifakis

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Michalis Sifakis
Sifakis with Greece
Personal information
Date of birth (1984-09-09) 9 September 1984 (age 39)
Place of birth Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Youth career
OFI
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2002–2007 OFI 105 (0)
2007–2008 Olympiacos 2 (0)
2008–2012 Aris 80 (0)
2012–2013
Charleroi
 10 (0)
2013–2014 Atromitos 11 (0)
2014–2015 Levadiakos 25 (0)
2015–2017 Kortrijk 16 (0)
2017–2018 Samsunspor 6 (0)
Total 255 (0)
International career
2004–2005 Greece U21 15 (0)
2005–2012 Greece 15 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Michalis Sifakis (Greek: Μιχάλης Σηφάκης; born 9 September 1984) is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

Early years

Born in

Atsalenios Herakliou
(P.O.A.).

Club career

OFI

In 1999 Sifakis was transferred to

OFI Crete
where he played with the B squad of OFI until 2002. In 2002, he signed his first professional contract with the club. He played for OFI until 2007 and participated in 112 matches in the Greek championship and cup.

Olympiacos

In 2007, the team

Antonis Nikopolidis. During the season 2007–2008 his team won the Greek championship, the Greek Cup and the Greek Super Cup. And then he continued to be the replacement.[1]

Aris

In 2008,

Panathinaikos by 1–0. His reaction in the goal, a long-distance shot by Leto, was very slow and his performance is questionable. In the season 2010–2011 he passed the group stage of the Europa League with Aris and were then eliminated by Manchester City of Roberto Mancini, at Round of 32 of the competition. In the following season (2011–2012) he had some medical problems that kept him away from some Aris and national squad's matches.[2] In April 2013 Sifakis demands through his lawyers 988.000 euros from the almost bankrupt Aris, although his unpaid wages are 188.000.[3][4]

Charleroi

Newly promoted Jupiler Pro League side

Charleroi are set to sign Michalis Sifakis on a free transfer after the Greek 'keeper severed ties with Aris at the end of last season. Part of Greece's UEFA EURO 2012 contingent this past summer, Sifakis replaced Kostas Chalkias midway through Greece's Group A clash with the Czech Republic and carried the mantle for the national team until Greece were eliminated by Germany in the quarter-finals. Sifakis should have plenty of competition at the club as other 'keepers in the squad include Parfait Mandanda, the brother of Marseille and France shot-stopper Steve Mandanda. Failing to sign anywhere all summer long, Greece manager Fernando Santos forced to leave Sifakis, as well as other players yet to sign with a club, out of the Greece squad for the recent World Cup Qualifiers against Latvia and Lithuania.[5]

Eventually in September 2012, after the

Charleroi
, wearing number 1.

Atromitos

In the summer of 2013, Sifakis returned to Greece by signing a 1-year contract with Atromitos.[6] In his first interview as a member of the club, he stated that "Atromitos is one of the few teams for which I would have returned to Greece and it is true that only a few days ago I wasn’t even considering it". Furthermore, "The fact that Atromitos is in a phase of development is something which I am very pleased with, especially at a time when everything in our country is going in the other direction".[7] He made his debut at 17 August against a draw 2–2 with

Ergotelis
. On 27 May 2014, Atromitos announced the end of his contract, after a year with the club.[8]

Levadiakos

On 12 September 2014, Sifakis penned a one-year deal with fellow

Levadiakos.[9][10]

Kortrijk

The 30-year-old International has signed a two-year-contract with

Charleroi during the 2012–2013 season, will have a Greek teammate, as Thanasis Papazoglou
has also joined Kortrijk. [11][12] On 23 September 2015, he made his debut with the club in a game against K Olsa Brakel for Belgian Cup. Michalis Sifakis made his Belgium
Royal Mouscron-Péruwelz. On 30 April 2016, he kept the third clean sheet in 5 appearances this season in a game against Standard Liège.[13]
He started the
2016–17 Jupiler League was a substitute. On 24 January 2017, he made his debut in the League, in a 3–0 away loss against Genk
.

Samsunspor

On 6 August 2017, Sifakis signed a year contract with TFF First League club Samsunspor.[14][15] On 10 December 2017, Michalis Sifakis made his league debut for Samsunspor, keeping a clean sheet in a 0–0 draw away to Denizlispor. On 14 May 2018, he mutually solved his contract with the club.

International career

In 2004, Sifakis was called for the Greece national under-21 football team. He played 15 games with the U21 selection. He was member of Greece national team during 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup.

In 2009, Greece's national team coach, Otto Rehhagel, invited Sifakis to help the national team qualify for the South Africa 2010 FIFA World Cup. On 14 October, he contributed to his team's victory against Luxembourg. He was also part of the squad for the final tournament.

Under coach

Fernando Santos, Sifakis played most of his country's UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying
matches.

Following an injury to regular goalkeeper Kostas Chalkias in Greece' second game of Euro 2012, against the Czech Republic, Sifakis was substituted into the game to replace him and he remained the starting goalkeeper for the rest of the tournament, as Greece reached the Quarter finals of the competition.

Personal life

Sifakis is the son of former

Vasilis
.

Career statistics

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition[16]
Club Season League Cup[A] Continental[B] Others[C] Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
OFI Crete 2002–03 4 0 – – – 4 0
2003–04 14 0 1 0 – – 15 0
2004–05 27 0 2 0 – – 29 0
2005–06 30 0 1 0 – – 31 0
2006–07
 30 0 3 0 – – 33 0
Total 105 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 112 0
Olympiacos
2007–08
 2 0 5 0 – – 7 0
Aris Thessaloniki
2008–09
 24 0 3 0 – – 27 0
2009–10
 30 0 3 0 2 0 – 35 0
2010–11
 22 0 1 0 12 0 – 35 0
2011–12
 4 0 – – – 4 0
Total 80 0 7 0 14 0 0 0 101 0
Charleroi
 2012–13 10 0 1 0 – – 11 0
Atromitos
2013–14
 11 0 5 0 1 0 – 17 0
Levadiakos
2014–15
 25 0 0 0 0 0 – 25 0
Kortrijk 2015–16 8 0 3 0 – – 11 0
2016–17
 8 0 2 0 – – 10 0
Total 16 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 21 0
Samsunspor 2017–18 6 0 1 0 – – 7 0
Career total 255 0 31 0 15 0 0 0 301 0

Honours

In 2009, the Greek Professional Players Association honored Sifakis with the

2009–2010 Greek season away at Iraklis. During the match, Sifakis was approached by an Iraklis fan who had run onto the pitch and began to verbally abuse him. Sifakis did not react and the stewards eventually intervened, removing the fan from the pitch. In the years 2010 and 2011, he was awarded from PSAP
as the best goalkeeper in Superleague.

Olympiacos

Aris

  • Greek Cup
    : Runners up 2009–10

Individual

References

  1. ^ Το ροστερ του Ολυμπιακού (in Greek). pasalimanius.150m.com. Archived from the original on 13 June 2014.
  2. ^ Σοκ με Σηφάκη στον Αρη! (in Greek). sport24.gr. 23 September 2011.
  3. ^ Ο Σηφάκης, ο Άρης και τα 988.000 ευρώ! (in Greek). pamesports.gr. 19 July 2012. Archived from the original on 28 April 2014. Retrieved 27 April 2014.
  4. ^ Εκ νέου δικαίωση για Σηφάκη (in Greek). sport24.gr. 23 November 2012.
  5. ^ "Sifakis set for Charleroi move". footballhellas.com. 12 September 2012.
  6. ^ Ανακοίνωσε Σηφάκη ο Ατρόμητος (in Greek). sport24.gr. 3 July 2013.
  7. ^ "Atromitos sign Greece international Michalis Sifakis on one-year deal". footballhellas.com. 3 July 2013.
  8. ^ Τέλος ο Σηφάκης (in Greek). naftemporiki.gr. 27 May 2014.
  9. ^ Ανακοινώθηκε ο Σηφάκης (in Greek). sport-fm.gr. 12 September 2014.
  10. ^ Στον Λεβαδειακό ο Σηφάκης (in Greek). sport24.gr. 12 September 2014.
  11. ^ "Sifakis joins Kortrijk". sdna.gr. 24 August 2015.
  12. ^ "Doelman Michalis Sifakis nieuwe aanwinst KV Kortrijk". focus-wtv.be. 24 August 2015.
  13. ^ "Ο Διαμαντάκος και οι άλλοι..." sport24.gr. 3 May 2016.
  14. ^ "Samaras ve Sifakis Samsunspor'da". fanatik.com.tr. 6 August 2017.[permanent dead link]
  15. ^ "Υπέγραψαν στη Σάμσουνσπορ Σαμαράς, Σηφάκης". sport24.gr. 8 August 2017.
  16. ^ "M. Sifakis statistics". Soccerway. Retrieved 22 January 2018.

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