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Costas Charalambides (Greek: Κώστας Χαραλαμπίδης) (born July 25, 1981 in Nicosia) is a Cypriot football midfielder currently playing for APOEL in the Cypriot First Division.
Club career
He began his career on 1998-99 season with Cypriot club APOEL where he became a regular, appearing 122 times, and helped lead them to two championship titles on 2002 and 2004. He also won one Cup on 1999 and two Super Cups on 2002 and 2004.
He then signed a 2-and-a-half-year contract with Panathinaikos FC in the middle the 2004-05 season. Charalambides would make a total of 45 league appearances for Panathinaikos, but in the summer of 2007 the club chose not to renew his contract. In his final season with Panathinaikos, Charalambides spent the first 6 months of the season on loan to PAOK F.C., where he made 16 league appearances and scored 1 goal.
In the summer of 2007 Charalambides spent time on trial at English Championship side Cardiff City but eventually signed with German club FC Carl Zeiss Jena, playing in the 2. Bundesliga for the 2007-08 season.
In the first half of the 2007-08 season Charalambides featured regularly for Carl Zeiss Jena, making 10 starts and 12 total appearances and scoring 1 goal, but in January 2008 he and the relegation-bound club agreed it was better for both the player and the club to part ways, and the contract was mutually terminated.
Not long thereafter, APOEL managed to lure Kostas back to Cyprus to again play for his former team, and on the 27 January signed a 4 years contract with APOEL [2] Since then he won Cypriot Cup 2007-08, Cypriot First Division 2008-09 and also Cypriot Super Cup 2008 and 2009 with APOEL. He also appeared in five official 2009–10 UEFA Champions League group stage matches with APOEL. The next year he won the 2010–11 Cypriot First Division adding another championship title to his honours list.
International career
Charalambides has been an important player for the Cypriot national team in recent years. He scored twice in their famous 5-2 win over the Republic of Ireland in the Euro 2008 qualifiers in October 2006, and also scored in their 3-1 win over Wales during the same campaign. The midfielder also scored twice in Cyprus' 4-1 win over Bulgaria in a World Cup qualifying match in October 2009.
Trivia
- He is known for doing a flip when he scores a goal.
Honours
Cyprus APOEL
Cypriot First Division: 4
2001–02, 2003–04, 2008–09, 2010–11
Cypriot Cup: 2
1998-99, 2007–08
Cypriot Super Cup: 5
2002, 2004, 2008, 2009, 2011
References
^ "Cyprus - Record International Players". rssf.com. 2008-05-19. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
^ "Kostas Charalambides Signed Contract". APOELFC.com.cy. 2008-01-27.
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