Paraschos Zouboulis

Paris Zouboulis
Personal information
Full name Paraschos Zouboulis
Date of birth (1970-08-30) 30 August 1970 (age 54)
Place of birth Aridaia, Greece
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Forward
Youth career
Doxa Exaplatanos
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1992–1994 Edessaikos 63 (17)
1994–1999 PAOK 113 (29)
1998–1999 →AEK Athens (loan) 17 (6)
1999–2002 Skoda Xanthi 50 (17)
2002–2003 Apollon Kalamarias 23 (8)
2003 Kerkyra 9 (0)
2003–2004 Rodos 22 (5)
2004–2005 Levadiakos 5 (2)
2005–2007 Edessaikos
Total 302 (84)
Managerial career
2013–2015 Panetolikos (assistant)
2015–2016 AEL Limassol (assistant)
2016 Asteras Tripolis (assistant)
2017–2018 Panetolikos (assistant)
2019–2020 Edessaikos
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Paraschos "Paris" Zouboulis (Greek: Πάρης Ζουμπούλης; born 30 August 1970) is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a forward and a manager.[1][2]

Club career

Zoumboulis started his career from Doxa Exaplatanos of Aridaia[3] and was transferred to Edessaikos in 1992, where he played for two seasons in the first division.[4] This was followed by the move to PAOK, where he played until 1998. In his first season with the club of Thessaloniki, he scored 9 league goals, including two against Aris, in a 2–0 home win. The following season he scored again in another PAOK victory over Aris at Toumba Stadium by 1–0.[5] The completion of the competitive obligations found Zoumboulis again top scorer of the club with 13 goals, a performance that at the same time elevated him to the tenth place in the table of scorers of the league.[6]

In 1998 Zoumboulis was loaned to AEK Athens for a season in an exchange with Triantafyllos Macheridis.[7] Despite usually playing as a substitute, he scored 6 goals in 17 appearances.[8] The following season he was transferred to Skoda Xanthi, where in his first season he scored 11 goals in the league, a performance that brought him to the eighth place in the table of scorers together with Saša Jovanović and Frousos.[9] In December 2001, his contract with Xanthi was expiread and then he moved to Apollon Kalamarias where he played in the second division. He then played for Kerkyra in 2003 for a while, before moving to Rodos for a season and then to Levadiakos, where he played until 2005 before returning to Edessaikos, where he ended his career in 2007. At the first division, Zoumboulis scored 71 goals in 243 appearances.[10]

Managerial career

Zoumboulis coached for the first time at Doxa Exaplatanos which participated in the local championship of the Pella. Later he was an assistant coach at Panetolikos, AEL Limassol and Asteras Tripolis, while in the summer of 2019 he took over the technical leadership of Edessaikos, from which he left in January 2020 having 9 wins, 6 draws and 4 losses in the league.[11][12]

References

  1. ^ "Η απάντηση της ΑΕΚ και ο "καψούρης" Ζουμπούλης" (in Greek). aek365.
  2. ^ "Profile Paris Zouboulis". besoccer.com.
  3. ^ Mastrogiannopoulos, Alexander (21 March 2004). "Greece 1992/93". RSSSF. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
  4. ^ Isaakidis, Giorgos (5 October 1998). "Zouboulis: Four goals in Panileiako". tanea.gr. TA NEA. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
  5. ^ Kirtsos, Kyriakos (14 March 2010). "People who marked the Aris-PAOK matches". Aris vs PAOK. El Clasico. MetroSport newspaper insert: 22.
  6. ^ Mastrogiannopoulos, Alexander (26 April 2003). "Greece 1995/96". RSSSF.
  7. ^ "Πάρης Ζουμπούλης". aekpedia.com.
  8. ^ Xenakis, Yiannis (17 August 1999). "Zouboulis passed away from AEK". hri.org. Eleftherotypia Online SPOR. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
  9. ^ "Greece 1999/00". RSSSF. 26 April 2003. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
  10. ^ "Championship 2001-02 National Division: SKODA XANTHI (Total Stats After 26 days)". Galanis Sports Data. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
  11. ^ Mintzas, Stephanos (22 January 2020). "Paris Zoumboulis: Projects and days at the helm of Edessaikos". pellanews.gr. Pella News. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
  12. ^ Paraschos Zouboulis at WorldFootball.net