Stelios Malezas

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Stelios Malezas
Malezas in 2013
Personal information
Full name Stylianos Malezas
Date of birth (1985-03-11) 11 March 1985 (age 39)
Place of birth Katerini, Greece
Height 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Position(s) Centre back
Team information
Current team
Makedonikos (manager)
Youth career
2000–2003 Pontioi Katerini
2003–2004
PAOK
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2004–2005
Irodotos
30 (1)
2005–2012
PAOK
129 (3)
2012–2014 Fortuna Düsseldorf 33 (0)
2014–2015 Panetolikos 25 (1)
2015–2019
PAOK
53 (1)
2019–2020 Xanthi 11 (0)
Total 281 (6)
International career
2010–2012 Greece 3 (0)
Managerial career
2020–2023 PAOK U19
2023– Makedonikos
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 19 January 2020

Stelios Malezas (Greek: Στέλιος Μαλεζάς; born 11 March 1985) is a Greek professional football manager and former player. He is the current manager of Super League 2 club Makedonikos.[1]

Club career

PAOK

He started his career at AEP Katerini and moved to PAOK in 2003, thus signing his first professional contract. He plays as a centre back, having formerly played as a defensive midfielder. In the 2008–09 season, he gained his place in the starting eleven, making some regular first-team appearances. On 6 February 2009, he signed a new contract with

PAOK
in all competitions.

Fortuna Düsseldorf

Defender Malezas of Greek club PAOK FC, is making the move to Germany for a reported fee of €577,000 (£450,000), with the money being paid in installments over the next 12 months. Malezas was on Monday undergoing a medical and Fortuna Düsseldorf, who last season won promotion via the play-offs, are then expected to officially announce a three-year contract. General manager Wolf Werner told Express newspaper: "We are about to sign Stelios Malezas from PAOK of Greece."[2]

In December 2013, Malezas was informed that is already named for returning to his former club

PAOK nor the possibility of my return to it. I have a contract with Fortuna until summer. I do not know what will happen in January and after that I have the right to negotiate, but as we speak there is absolutely not any communication with PAOK." Otherwise Malezas would not say no to the possibility of a return to PAOK, but this time there is nothing to confirm that he wants to leave Germany.[3]

The German dream seems to take a fee for Stelios Malezas, who the summer of 2014 will be past for the roster of Fortuna Düsseldorf. He failed to prove his worth to the people of the German club and specifically, the former PAOK defender has only made 10 appearances after half of the season passed. The coach of Fortuna, Lorenz-Günther Köstner believes that the former Thessalonian player can not cope with the demands of the team, so it can be assumed that is almost in exit.[4] Eventually on 23 May 2014 after two years with the club was informed that there was not in the staff's plan for next season. Malezas stated that " Everybody does not like goodbyes, but I must do it. I have no choice".[5][6]

Panetolikos

On 11 July 2014, Malezas joined

Panetolikos on a two-year contract,[7] after he completed his transfer from Fortuna Düsseldorf
as a free agent.

Return to PAOK

On 10 August 2015, Malezas joined for a second spell

Lubos Michel
.

On 1 March 2017,

Greek Cup winners until the end of 2018–19 season. The owner and president of historic Thessaloniki club, Ivan Savvidis, had publicly promised after victory over AEK at 2017-18 Greek Cup final that the contract of 33-year-old international defender will be extended, something which was officially announced.[11]

Xanthi

On 24 June 2019, Malezas joined

PAOK
as a free agent.

International career

On 28 February 2010, he was called up to represent Greece in a friendly against Senegal. On 1 June it was announced that he would be in the 23-man squad for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. He was also to the 23-man squad for the UEFA Euro 2012.

Club statistics

As of 23 December 2019[13]
Club performance League Cup Continental Total
Season Club League Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Greece League Greek Cup Europe Total
2004–05
Irodotos
Gamma Ethniki 30 1 4 0 0 0 34 1
2005–06
PAOK
Super League Greece 2 0 1 0 0 0 3 0
2006–07
10 0 0 0 0 0 10 0
2007–08
11 1 0 0 0 0 11 1
2008–09
29 1 3 0 0 0 32 1
2009–10
26 1 3 0 2 0 31 1
2010–11
18 0 1 0 4 1 23 1
2011–12
33 0 3 0 12 0 48 0
2012–13 Düsseldorf Bundesliga 21 0 1 0 0 0 22 0
2013–14 2. Bundesliga 12 0 0 0 0 0 12 0
2014–15
Panetolikos
Super League Greece 25 1 2 0 0 0 27 1
2015–16
PAOK
18 0 2 0 5 0 25 0
2016–17
27 0 8 0 3 0 38 0
2017–18
7 1 9 0 0 0 16 1
2018–19
1 0 3 0 0 0 4 0
2019–20
Xanthi 11 0 1 0 0 0 11 0
Career total 280 6 41 0 26 1 349 7

Honours

Player

PAOK

Manager

PAOK U19

References

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