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Greek footballer and manager

Georgios Magiras
Personal information
Georgios Magiras in 1950
Full name	Georgios Simos
Date of birth	1919
Place of birth	Smyrna, Ottoman Empire
Date of death	12 February 1994(1994-02-12) (aged 74–75)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
1931–1938	Eleftheroupoli
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1938–1949	AEK Athens	9	(0)
Total		9	(0)
International career
1948–1949	Greece	4	(0)
Managerial career
1960	Olympiacos Chalkida
1961	Egaleo
1961	Greece U19
1965	Greece U19
1965–1967	AEK Athens (assistant)
1967–1968	Proodeftiki
1970	Vyzas Megara
1972	Apollon Athens
1972	Pierikos
1972–1973	Chalkida
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Georgios Simos or Charalampous (Greek: Γιώργος "Mάγειρας" Σίμος ή Χαραλάμπους; 1919 – 12 February 1994), commonly known as "Magiras" (Which meant "Cooker", a nickname that followed him throughout his career, on the occasion of the fact that his grandfather maintained a cooking restaurant in Naxos), was a Greek professional footballer who played as a midfielder for AEK Athens and a manager.

Club career

Mageiras started football in 1931 from Eleftheroupoli and in 1933 he joined AEK Athens, at the age of 14 and in the first years, was a member of their academies, with teammates such as Kleanthis Maropoulos and Tryfon Tzanetis, with whom he later coexisted in the first team. He was part of the club that won the Panhellenic Championship and Greek Cup in 1939. Mageiras retired from football in 1949 after a serious injury in the Cup final against Panathinaikos on 19 June. With the "yellow-blacks" he won 2 Panhellenic Championships and 2 Greek Cups.

International career

He played a total of 4 times with Greece from 1948 to 1949. His debut came on 23 April 1948, in a friendly at home against Turkey, the first to be played after World War II, under the instructions of Kostas Negrepontis.

Managerial career

After his retirement from as a footballer, Magiras became involved in coaching. He coached Olympiacos Chalkida in the first division in 1960. He also worked at Egaleo in 1961. In the 1960's he was a partner of Lakis Petropoulos in the technical leadership of Greece. In 1972, he was also the coach of Pierikos. Magiras returned to Chalcis to coach Chalkida, in 1972 for a year and led them to 4th place in the standings.