Giorgos Valerianos

Giorgos Valerianos (Greek: Γιώργος Βαλεριάνος; born 13 February 1992) is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Cypriot First Division club Pafos.[1]

Giorgos Valerianos
Personal information
Full name Georgios Valerianos
Date of birth (1992-02-13) 13 February 1992
Place of birth Athens, Greece
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Left-back
Club information
Current team
 Pafos
Number 15
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2010–2012 Olympiacos 1 (0)
2010–2011 → Thrasyvoulos (loan) 17 (0)
2012 → Glyfada (loan) 9 (1)
2012–2013 OFI 1 (0)
2013–2014 Kavala 17 (0)
2014–2015 Iraklis 13 (0)
2015–2016 Apollon Smyrnis 16 (1)
2016 Platanias 2 (0)
2016–2017 Apollon Smyrnis 26 (0)
2017–2019 Aris 43 (0)
2019– Pafos 23 (0)
2019 → Riga (loan) 2 (0)
National team‡
2010–2011 Greece U19 8 (0)
2019– Greece 1 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 15:59, 08 January 2021 (UTC).
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 30 May 2019

Club career

Giorgos Valerianos began playing football with Olympiacos. He is a very talented player and one of the best young players who were playing in Olympiacos U-21. He made 44 appearances for the youth team with four goals. Valerianos was first included in Olympiacos' first team in a league match against Panthrakikos on 11 April 2010, where he appeared as a second-half substitute.[2] On 22 July 2014 he signed for Iraklis in the Greek Football League.[3] Valerianos debuted for Iraklis in a cup match against Lamia.[4] On 12 August 2015, he signed a contract with second tier club Apollon Smyrnis.[5] On 29 January 2016, he solved his contract with the club.[6]

The 27-year-old left back can be considered as somewhat of a journeyman despite his age as on July 2017, signed with Aris that officially announced his acquisition.[7] His path to the top has been chequered and he has had to do it the hard way, meaning a lot of resilience was needed. Even this season at Aris, he has been a squad player that has been rotated in and out of the team.

On 1 July 2019, after two years with Aris, Valerianos signed a three years' contract with Cypriot club Pafos for an undisclosed fee.[8] On 4 July 2019, the international back will have an intermediary station in his career after being loaned to Riga, a Latvian football club, which owns the same property status as Pafos. According to sources the borrowing will take just a month for the international left back in order to help the club for the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League qualifying phase and play-off round.[9]

International career

On 19 March 2019, Greece head coach Angelos Anastasiadis announced the first call up of Valerianos for the match against Liechtenstein and Bosnia and Herzegovina for UEFA Euro 2020.[10] He made his debut on 30 May 2019, in a friendly against Turkey, as a starter.[11]

Career statistics

Club
As of 5 November 2020
Club Season League Cup Continental Other Total
AppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Olympiacos 2009–10 1000——10
2011–12 0010——10
Total 1010——20
Thrasyvoulos (loan) 2010–11 17010——180
Total 17010——180
Glyfada (loan) 2011–12 9100——91
Total 9100——91
OFI 2012–13 1000——10
Total 1000——10
Kavala 2013–14 17010——180
Total 17010——180
Iraklis 2014–15 13050——180
Total 13050——180
Apollon Smyrnis 2015–16 14021——161
Total 14021——161
Platanias 2015–16 2000——20
Total 2000——20
Apollon Smyrnis 2016–17 26030——290
Total 26030——290
Aris 2017–18 25020——270
2018–19 18000——180
Total 43020——450
Riga 2019 201050—80
Total 201050—80
Pafos 2019–20 13010——140
2020–21 6010——70
Total 19020——210
Career total 166018150001891

Honours
Riga

References
  1. "Σε ομάδα της Λετονίας ο Βαλεριάνος". www.zougla.gr (in Greek). Retrieved 14 July 2019.
  2. "Archived copy" Πρόστιμο σε "Ντάρμπι" και Λούα Λούα (in Greek). sports.e-go.gr. 9 April 2010. Archived from the original on 13 March 2012. Retrieved 4 May 2010.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. Υπέγραψε ο Βαλεριάνος (in Greek). Iraklis FC. 22 July 2014. Archived from the original on 30 July 2014. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
  4. Θετικό ξεκίνημα με νίκη (1-0) (in Greek). bluearena.gr. 29 August 2014. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
  5. "Παίκτης του Απόλλωνα και ο Βαλεριάνος" (in Greek). Apollon Smyrni FC. 12 August 2015. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
  6. ""Τέλος" ο Βαλεριάνος" (in Greek). sport24.gr. 29 January 2016.
  7. "Οι πρώτες έξι μεταγραφές του Άρη". sport24.gr. 25 July 2017.
  8. "Στην Πάφο ο Βαλεριάνος" (in Greek). sport24.gr. 1 July 2019.
  9. "Από την Πάφο στη Λετονία ο Βαλεριάνος" (in Greek). makthes.gr. 4 July 2019.
  10. Η λογική πίσω από τις κλήσεις Αναστασιάδη (in Greek). contra.gr. 19 March 2019.
  11. "Turkey v Greece game report". ESPN. 30 May 2019.
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