Maria Lazarou (Greek: Μαρία Λαζάρου; born 30 September 1972) is a retired Greek football player who played for Greece women's national football team, which she also captained, and a former football manager.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Maria Lazarou | ||
| Date of birth | 30 September 1972 | ||
| Place of birth | Serres, Greece | ||
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| Artemis Drama | |||
| Kavala 86 | |||
| 1994–1995 | FC Rumeln-Kaldenhausen | ||
| Illiopouli Thessaloniki | |||
| Olympiada Thessaloniki | |||
| 2001–2004 | PAOK | ||
| International career | |||
| 1991–2004 | Greece | 111 | (26) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2006–2008 | Illiopouli Thessaloniki | ||
| 2008–2009 | Aris | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Club career
editLazarou played for several clubs in the Greek Alpha Ethniki, and also had a spell in-between in the German Fußball-Bundesliga with FC Rumeln-Kaldenhausen.[1]
In 2002, Lazarou was part of the squad of PAOK that played in the UEFA Women's Champions League for the first time ever, in the 2002–03 season; PAOK lost in all three matches they played, but in the final match they managed to score for one and only time, in an 8–1 defeat, with Lazarou being the scorer.[2][3]
Lazarou retired in 2004, after the 2004 Summer Olympics, but she returned to playing again in 2006 as a player-coach for Illiopouli Thessaloniki, and then Aris, a club founded in 2008, and being actually the successor team of Illiopouli; Aris actually "absorbed" Illiopouli, with the latter adopting the badge, name and colours of Aris, with the newly created club continuing to play in Women's Alpha Ethniki (top-tier league) in the place of Illiopouli.[4][5]
International career
editLazarou appeared 111 times for the Greece women's national football team,[6] including six appearances in the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup qualifying rounds[7] and appearances at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens,[8] which she also captained,[9] and is the top scorer of the Greece women's national football team with 26 goals.
Managerial career
editLazarou, after having retired in 2004, returned to playing again in 2006 as a player-coach for Illiopouli Thessaloniki, and then Aris.[5][4]
Nowadays, she is not involved with football and works as a private-sector employee.
Honours
editLazarou won four Greek A Division (top-tier league) with four different clubs and one league in Germany with the semi-professional team of FC Rumeln-Kaldenhausen.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Fussball-Notizen" [Football News]. Βerliner-Ζeitung.de (in German). Berliner Zeitung. 5 January 1995. Archived from the original on 9 June 2012. Retrieved 20 June 2022.
- ^ "Αφιέρωμα: Η παρουσία των ελληνικών ομάδων στο Women's Champions League" [Tribute: The presence of the Greek clubs in Women's Champions League]. KingSport.gr (in Greek). King Sport. 17 August 2021. Archived from the original on 21 June 2022. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
- ^ "Maria Lazarou". PlayMakerStats.com. oGol. Archived from the original on 21 June 2022. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
- ^ a b "Πιότρ Βλόνταρτσικ: Το σημείο αναφοράς του Άρη – Άρης και στις γυναίκες" [Piotr Włodarczyk: The benchmark of Aris – Aris also in women]. MakThes.gr (in Greek). Makedonia. 2 September 2008. Archived from the original on 21 June 2022. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
- ^ a b "Γενέθλια για το τμήμα ποδοσφαίρου των γυναικών του Άρη, κλείνει 13 χρόνια από την ίδρυσή του" [Birthday for the women's department of Aris, 13 years have passed since it was founded]. PressAris.gr (in Greek). Press Aris. 1 July 2021. Archived from the original on 21 June 2022. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
- ^ "FIFA Women's Century Club" (PDF). FIFA. 25 August 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 November 2012.
- ^ Maria Lazarou – FIFA competition record (archived)
- ^ "Maria Lazarou Biography and Statistics". Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 29 April 2010.
- ^ "Women chase Olympic gold". UEFA. 11 August 2004. Archived from the original on 25 June 2022. Retrieved 25 June 2022.
External links
edit- Profile at Womensoccer.gr (in Greek) (Archived)
- Aris Women Official Website (in Greek)
- All About Aris (in Greek)
- Press Aris (in Greek)
- Aris AC (in Greek)