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Angelos Charisteas

Angelos Charisteas (Greek: Άγγελος Χαριστέας, pronounced [ˈaɲɟelos xariˈste.as]; born 9 February 1980) is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a forward. Since 2019, he works as sporting director for Aris. At club level he played for Aris Thessaloniki, Werder Bremen, Ajax, Feyenoord, Bayer Leverkusen, Schalke 04, Arles-Avignon, and Al-Nassr. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Angelos Charisteas has received more than 775,630 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Angelos Charisteas is the 1,896th most popular soccer player (down from 1,465th in 2019), the 641st most popular biography from Greece (down from 612th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Greek Soccer Player.

Greek footballer (born 1980)

Angelos Charisteas (Greek: Άγγελος Χαριστέας, pronounced[ˈaɲɟelosxariˈste.as]; born 9 February 1980) is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a forward. Since 2019, he works as sporting director for Aris.^[1]

At club level he played for Aris Thessaloniki, Werder Bremen, Ajax, Feyenoord, Bayer Leverkusen, Schalke 04, Arles-Avignon, and Al-Nassr. In 2004, he won the double with Werder Bremen,^[1] earning Bundesliga and DFB-Pokal medals and was also the club's Sportsman of the Year.^[1] With Ajax, Charisteas also won the Dutch Cup and the Dutch Super Cup.

Internationally, he was capped 88 times by Greece, scoring 25 goals. He was a member of the UEFA Euro 2004 winning team, scoring three goals, including the winning goal in the final against the hosts Portugal, which was considered as the greatest triumph of the nation. He also represented Greece at UEFA Euro 2008 and the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

In 2019, Charisteas was also a political deputy in the region of Central Macedonia

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