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Greek athlete, football manager and businessman For the singer, see Apostolos Nikolaidis (singer).

Apostolos Nikolaidis
Nikolaidis with Panathinaikos in 1922
Personal information
Full name Apostolos Nikolaidis
Date of birth (1896-04-19)19 April 1896
Place of birth Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Date of death 15 October 1980(1980-10-15) (aged 84)
Place of death Athens, Greece
Position(s) Defender, midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1914–1928 Panathinaikos
International career
1920 Greece 1 (0)
Managerial career
1923–1927 Panathinaikos
1929 Greece
1934–1935 Greece
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 14 June 2024
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 14 June 2024

Apostolos Nikolaidis (Greek: Απόστολος Νικολαΐδης; 19 April 1896 – 15 October 1980) was a Greek athlete, football manager and businessman. He was a leading board member and president of Panathinaikos A.O.

Life and career

Nikolaidis as basketball player with Panathinaikos in 1919

Nikolaidis was born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, a member of the Greek community. After his graduation from the Robert College in Istanbul, he moved first to Thessaloniki (where he competed as an athlete of Aris) and later to Athens in 1917 and joined the family of Panathinaikos. He was an athletic phenomenon, as he successfully competed in decathlon, football, basketball and volleyball and also a successful racing driver. He was a member of the Greek team at the 1920 Summer Olympics, both as a football player and as a track athlete. He played football for more than ten years and contributed to all sports departments of PAO. He also became manager of the Greece national football team.

In 1926–27 he was elected president of the Hellenic Football Federation and for a period of more than twenty years president of the Hellenic Amateur Athletic Association (1945–67). Moreover, he was president of the Automobile and Touring Club of Greece. For many decades, he was a board member of Panathinaikos A.C. and in 1974 he became president of the club. His contribution was significant to the transformation of Panathinaikos to a successful multi-sports club, apart from football.

From 1974 to 1976 he was also president of the Hellenic Olympic Committee. He was also a businessman and owner of Softex.

Death

With the football team of AEK (on the right)

Upon his death, as an honour, his coffin was carried on the shoulders of eight athletes from different departments of Panathinaikos: Ikonomopoulos, Kamaras, Antoniadis (football), Zacharopoulos (track), Georgantis, Iliopoulos (volleyball), Garos, Kalogeropoulos (basketball). The home stadium of Panathinaikos at Alexandras Avenue was named after him in 1981, at a ceremony presided by the then Prime Minister Georgios Rallis.

References

  1. "Apostolos Nikolaidis". Olympedia. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  2. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Apostolos Nikolaidis Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
Greece football squad – 1920 Summer Olympics
Kingdom of Greece
Apostolos Nikolaidis managerial positions
Panathinaikos F.C. – managers
(c) = caretaker manager
Greece national football team – managers
(c) = caretaker manager
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