Lakis Nikolaou

Infobox Football biography
playername = Lakis Nikolaou


fullname = Pantelis Nikolaou
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1949|7|17
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position = Centre Back
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clubs = AEK Athens
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nationalyears = 1973–
nationalteam = Greece
nationalcaps(goals) = 15

Pantelis "Lakis" Nikolaou (born July 17, 1949) is a retired Greek football defender.

Club career

He played mainly for AEK Athens forming a powerful defending duo with Petros Ravousis.

International career

He made his debut for Greece on September 8 1973 and played a total of 15 games. He was a participant at the 1980 UEFA European Football Championship.

Other activities

Lakis studied medicine while still being a professional footballer and managed to become a successful medicine professor and surgeon (with speciality in orthopedics). He later became doctor of AEK Athens and now of Olympiakos On October 13 1997 he became AEK Athens' thirty fifth president, serving from 1997 until 1998.