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Leandros Symeonidis

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[[Image:Leandros.jpg|frame|left|Leandros - also know as '''''the black arrow''']]
[[Image:Sarafis-Leandros-Koudas.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Stavros Sarafis|Sarafis]], Leandros and [[Giorgos Koudas|Koudas]]]]Known to most only by his first name, '''Leandros Symeonidis''' was a star forward (outside-left) of [[PAOK FC|PAOK]] during the [[1950s]] - early [[1960s]]. He was born in [[1937]] at in [[Kilkis]]. His nickname was '''Black Arrow''' (''Μαύρο Βέλος'').
He started playing with PAOK's youth team at the age of 13. Three years later he joins joined PAOK's ''third'' team which consisted primarily of teens. One year later he advanced to PAOK's first team along with team players [[Giannelos Margaritis|Giannelos ]] and [[Giorgos Havanidis|Havanidis]]. His first game for the first team of PAOK was a friendly game against the Army National team (Εθνική Ενόπλων). He scored two goals in that game and PAOK won 4-0. His first official championship game was against [[Apollon Athens FC|Apollon Athens]] where he scored his first league goal for PAOK in a championship game. In 1955-56 he is was called to play with the Under 21 National team.
From [[1957 ]] until [[1969 ]] when he retired, he was the captain of the team, wearing number 7. He scored more than 80 goals for PAOK.
'''Leandros''' was capped 6 times by the Greek [[National Football Team]] during his career.
After retirement, he continued working with the management team of PAOK and established a Youth Academy at PAOK (the Academy later in 1974 sprung players like [[Nikos Alavantas|Alavantas]], [[Kyriakos Alexandridis|Alexandridis]], Skounas, [[Thomas Siggas|Siggas]]).
[[Category:Football Players|Symeonidis, Leandros]]
[[Category:1937 births|Symeonidis, Leandros]]

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