Andreas Chrysostomou (Greek: Ανδρέας Χρυσοστόμου; born 14 January 2001) is a Cypriot professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Cypriot First Division club Anorthosis Famagusta and the Cyprus national team.[1]
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 14 January 2001 | ||
| Place of birth | Nicosia, Cyprus | ||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Central midfielder | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Anorthosis Famagusta | ||
| Number | 88 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –2018 | Anorthosis Famagusta | ||
| 2018–2019 | Inter Milan | ||
| 2019–2020 | Sampdoria | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2020– | Anorthosis Famagusta | 61 | (5) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2016–2018 | Cyprus U17 | 5 | (0) |
| 2019 | Cyprus U19 | 1 | (0) |
| 2021 | Cyprus U21 | 4 | (0) |
| 2024– | Cyprus | 3 | (0) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 25 November 2024 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 12 June 2024 | |||
Club career
editChrysostomou was born on 14 January 2001 in Nicosia, Cyprus. He started his youth career at the age of 5 as a member of Anorthosis Famagusta academy. During his time in the Anorthosis Academies, he showed his talent, and was acquired by Inter Milan, where he played for Inter Milan's U17 and U19 teams, and also played for Sampdoria's U19. After his stint in Italian clubs, he returned to Cyprus and the team where he was promoted.
Anorthosis Famagusta
editChrysostomou made his debut for Anorthosis in a Cypriot Super Cup match against Omonia on 13 July 2021, he scored the only goal for his team.[2]
On 14 January 2022, Anorthosis announced the renewal of Chrysostomou contract until 2025.[3]
International career
editChrysostomou made his debut for the senior Cyprus national team on 25 March 2024 in a friendly against Serbia.[4]
Personal life
editChrysostomou's father, "Tomis", spoke to Super Sport FM 104.0's "Eisai Offside" show, about the young talents in Cyprus and among other things he referred to his son's experience abroad and the difficulties he encountered in Italy when he made the decision to wear the Inter jersey.
"It takes a lot of sacrifices from the youngsters. I speak from experience having seen what Andreas went through. He left Cyprus as a youngster, at the age of 15. He went to Inter and stayed there until he was 19-20. We were deprived of him at a difficult age. He went to a foreign country, there was a lot of racism because you can understand how they felt when they saw someone coming from abroad to take their place. Andreas experienced racism, but he fought it, he didn't give up. Let me give you the simple example of Italians not speaking English to him only Italian, so he had to learn the language. It was very difficult. Andreas took the hardest way to play football," he said.
And after a question, he replied, "Definitely the fact that he trained with Inter's first team helped him. He experienced things that we unfortunately didn't have here in Cyprus as academies. When the academy alone has a budget of 12 million euros, you can see the difference with the Cypriot academies where we were running around trying to find stadiums".[5]
Career statistics
edit- As of match played 19 April 2023
| Club | Season | League | National Cup | Europe | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Anorthosis | 2020–21 | Cyta Championship | — | 1 | 0 | — | — | 1 | 0 | |||
| 2021–22 | 19 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 4[a] | 0 | 1[b] | 1 | 28 | 3 | ||
| 2022–23 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 11 | 1 | ||||
| Total | 30 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 40 | 3 | ||
| Career total | 30 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 40 | 4 | ||
- ^ Appearance in UEFA Europa League, three appearances in UEFA Conference League
- ^ Appearance in Cypriot Super Cup
Honours
editClub
edit- Cypriot Cup
- Winner: 2020–21
References
edit- ^ "Image". anorthosisfc.com.cy. Retrieved 6 June 2023.
- ^ "Omonia Nicosia vs. Anorthosis - 13 July 2021 - Soccerway". int.soccerway.com.
- ^ "Ανανέωση συνεργασίας με Ανδρέα Χρυσοστόμου". 14 January 2022.
- ^ "Cyprus v Serbia game report". ESPN. 25 March 2024.
- ^ "Πατέρας Ανδρέα: «Ο Χρυσοστόμου βίωσε τον ρατσισμό…»". 3 December 2022.
External links
editAndreas Chrysostomou at Soccerway
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