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Christos Xenofontos

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Christos Xenofontos
Personal information
Full name Christos Xenofontos
Date of birth (1989-01-06) January 6, 1989 (age 34)
Place of birth Larnaca, Cyprus
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s) Striker winger
Youth career
AEK Larnaca
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2005–2010 AEK Larnaca 33 (3)
2010 → Othellos Athienou FC (loan) 9 (1)
International career
Cyprus U19 8 (2)
Cyprus U21 9 (3)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Christos Xenofontos (Greek: Χρίστος Ξενοφώντος; born January 6, 1989) is a Cypriot former professional soccer player, who played as a striker and midfielder for AEK Larnaca, Othellos Athienou FC, and the Cyprus national football team.[1][2]

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Greek language

Greek language

Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, southern Italy, southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean. It has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning at least 3,400 years of written records. Its writing system is the Greek alphabet, which has been used for approximately 2,800 years; previously, Greek was recorded in writing systems such as Linear B and the Cypriot syllabary. The alphabet arose from the Phoenician script and was in turn the basis of the Latin, Cyrillic, Armenian, Coptic, Gothic, and many other writing systems.

Cyprus

Cyprus

Cyprus, officially the Republic of Cyprus, is an island country located south of the Anatolian Peninsula in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. It is geographically in Western Asia, but its cultural ties and geopolitics are overwhelmingly Southeastern European. Cyprus is the third-largest and third-most populous island in the Mediterranean. It is located north of Egypt, east of Greece, south of Turkey, and west of Lebanon and Syria. Its capital and largest city is Nicosia. The northeast portion of the island is de facto governed by the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.

Association football

Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposite team by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular-framed goal defended by the opposing side. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45-minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries and territories, it is considered the world's most popular sport.

Midfielder

Midfielder

A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively right back role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundaries, with mobility and passing ability, they are often referred to as deep-lying midfielders, play-makers, box-to-box midfielders, or holding midfielders. There are also attacking midfielders with limited defensive assignments.

AEK Larnaca FC

AEK Larnaca FC

AEK Larnaca FC is a Cypriot professional football club based in Larnaca. The club was formed in 1994 after a merger of two historical Larnaca clubs, EPA Larnaca and Pezoporikos. The club also has a men's basketball team, a women's volleyball team and a men's futsal team.

Othellos Athienou FC

Othellos Athienou FC

Othellos Athienou is a football club based in Athienou, Larnaca, Cyprus and competes in the Cypriot Second Division. The football department is the only activity of the club at the moment, which participated for the first time in the Cypriot First Division, the top football level division in Cyprus. The club colours are green and white.

Cyprus national under-21 football team

Cyprus national under-21 football team

The Cyprus national under-21 football team is the national under-21 football team for Cyprus and like the senior team, is controlled by the Cyprus Football Association.

Biography

Xenofontos was born in Larnaca, Cyprus, on 6 January 1989. He did Karate and played basketball and a child, and started playing soccer at the age of nine. Xenofontos obtained his BSc in sport and exercise science from the UCLan Cyprus.[3][4]

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Larnaca

Larnaca

Larnaca is a city on the south east coast of Cyprus and the capital of the district of the same name. It is the third-largest city in the country, after Nicosia and Limassol, with a metro population of 144,200 in 2015.

Karate

Karate

Karate (空手) is a martial art developed in the Ryukyu Kingdom. It developed from the indigenous Ryukyuan martial arts under the influence of Chinese martial arts, particularly Fujian White Crane. Karate is now predominantly a striking art using punching, kicking, knee strikes, elbow strikes and open-hand techniques such as knife-hands, spear-hands and palm-heel strikes. Historically, and in some modern styles, grappling, throws, joint locks, restraints and vital-point strikes are also taught. A karate practitioner is called a karateka (空手家).

Bachelor of Science

Bachelor of Science

A Bachelor of Science is a bachelor's degree awarded for programs that generally last three to five years.

Sports science

Sports science

Sports science is a discipline that studies how the healthy human body works during exercise, and how sport and physical activity promote health and performance from cellular to whole body perspectives. The study of sports science traditionally incorporates areas of physiology, psychology, anatomy, biomechanics, biochemistry, and kinesiology. Sports scientists and performance consultants are growing in demand and employment numbers, with the ever-increasing focus within the sporting world on achieving the best results possible. Through the scientific study of sports, researchers have developed a greater understanding of how the human body reacts to exercise, training, different environments, and many other stimuli.

University of Central Lancashire

University of Central Lancashire

The University of Central Lancashire is a public university based in the city of Preston, Lancashire, England. It has its roots in The Institution For The Diffusion Of Useful Knowledge, founded in 1828. Previously known as Harris Art College, Preston Polytechnic and Lancashire Polytechnic. in 1992 it was granted university status by the Privy Council. The university is the 19th largest in the UK in terms of student numbers.

Career

At 15, Xenofontos was his team's first scorer at the U-17 Championship with 33 goals. He was called to division 1 at the age of 16, and was first scorer in the friendly games with 6 goals.[3] Xenofontos started his professional soccer career in 2005 with AEK Larnaca, and remained with the team until 2010. He was on loan with Othellos Athienou FC in 2010. Xenofontos played with the Cyprus U15, U17, U19, and U21 national football teams. He returned to playing with AEK Larnaca, but he was marred by a series of metartarsal injuries. He announced his retirement from soccer at the age of 23.[3] Xenofontos founded the Larnaca-based XTC Fitness in 2016, offering sport scientist-supervised individualized coaching.[4][5][6] Among his patrons are national team and international athletes, such as basketball players Alex Antetokounmpo, Nikolaos Stylianou,[7] and Cyprus national football team players Ioannis Kosti, Marios Elia, Nikolas Panayiotou, Andreas Avraam, Nestoras Mytidis, Rafail Mamas, Kyriacos Pavlou, Stavros Tsoukalas, Ioakim Toumpas, among others.[4]

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Exhibition game

Exhibition game

An exhibition game is a sporting event whose prize money and impact on the player's or the team's rankings is either zero or otherwise greatly reduced. In team sports, matches of this type are often used to help coaches and managers select and condition players for the competitive matches of a league season or tournament. If the players usually play in different teams in other leagues, exhibition games offer an opportunity for the players to learn to work with each other. The games can be held between separate teams or between parts of the same team.

Othellos Athienou FC

Othellos Athienou FC

Othellos Athienou is a football club based in Athienou, Larnaca, Cyprus and competes in the Cypriot Second Division. The football department is the only activity of the club at the moment, which participated for the first time in the Cypriot First Division, the top football level division in Cyprus. The club colours are green and white.

Metatarsal bones

Metatarsal bones

The metatarsal bones, or metatarsus, are a group of five long bones in the foot, located between the tarsal bones of the hind- and mid-foot and the phalanges of the toes. Lacking individual names, the metatarsal bones are numbered from the medial side : the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth metatarsal. The metatarsals are analogous to the metacarpal bones of the hand. The lengths of the metatarsal bones in humans are, in descending order, second, third, fourth, fifth, and first.

Alex Antetokounmpo

Alex Antetokounmpo

Alexandros Emeka "Alex" Antetokounmpo is a Greek-Nigerian professional basketball player for the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is the youngest brother of National Basketball Association (NBA) players Giannis, Thanasis, and Kostas.

Nikolaos Stylianou

Nikolaos Stylianou

Nikolaos Stylianou is a Cypriot professional basketball player for Keravnos of the Cypriot League. He played college basketball for Navarro College and West Texas A&M. After 3 years of college basketball, Stylianou entered the 2010 NBA draft but was not selected in the draft's two rounds.

Ioannis Kosti

Ioannis Kosti

Ioannis Kosti is a Cypriot professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Super League 2 club Olympiacos B and the Cyprus national team.

Marios Elia (footballer, born 1996)

Marios Elia (footballer, born 1996)

Marios Elia is a Cypriot professional footballer who plays as a forward for Cypriot First Division club APOEL on loan from Ethnikos Achna and the Cyprus national team.

Nikolas Panayiotou

Nikolas Panayiotou

Nikolas Panayiotou is a Cypriot footballer who plays as a centre-back for Omonia and the Cyprus national team.

Andreas Avraam

Andreas Avraam

Andreas Avraam is a Cypriot professional footballer who plays as a left back.

Nestoras Mytidis

Nestoras Mytidis

Nestoras Mytidis is a Cypriot professional footballer who plays as a striker for Greek Super League 2 club Panachaiki.

Rafail Mamas

Rafail Mamas

Rafail Mamas is a Cypriot professional footballer who plays for AEK Larnaca as a midfielder.

Kyriacos Pavlou

Kyriacos Pavlou

Kyriakos Pavlou is a Cypriot footballer who plays for P.O. Xylotymbou. He is the brother of singer Maria Kyriakou

Source: "Christos Xenofontos", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2023, March 4th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christos_Xenofontos.

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References
  1. ^ Soccerway (2022). "Cyprus - C. Xenofontos - Profile with news, career statistics and history". Soccerway. Retrieved 2023-03-03.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ "Ο Χρήστος Ξενοφώντος γυρίζει τον χρόνο πίσω / Το πρώτο γκολ και η ανατροπή". www.aekskala.net. Retrieved 2023-03-03.
  3. ^ a b c Christou, Andreas (2012-08-25). "Ο άσωτος ποδοσφαιριστής Ξενοφώντος αποσύρεται μετά από σειρά τραυματισμών". Goal News.
  4. ^ a b c Leonidou, George (2022-11-09). "Ο Χρίστος Ξενοφώντος μίλησε στο Sportime για τον ρόλο της γυμναστικής στη ζωή μας!". Sportime (in Greek). Retrieved 2023-03-03.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ^ Larnakaonline (2022-12-19). "Χρίστος Ξενοφώντος: «Είμαστε ακόμη στην αρχή γιατί έχουμε παρά πολλά να δώσουμε σαν γυμναστήριο»". Larnakaonline.com.cy. Retrieved 2023-03-03.
  6. ^ "«Αν δεν είσαι δουλευταράς δεν μπορείς να αντεπεξέλθεις»". themasports.tothemaonline.com (in Greek). Retrieved 2023-03-03.
  7. ^ Larnakaonline (2022-06-12). "Συμπολίτης μας γυμναστής είχε την τιμή να τον επισκεφθεί και να δουλέψει με τον Αντετοκούμπο (photo)". Larnakaonline.com.cy. Retrieved 2023-03-03.
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