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Alexandros Kasmeridis played for which team from 2014 to 2015?
Alexandros Kasmeridis Alexandros Kasmeridis ( , born 23 April 1986 ) is a former Greek footballer who played as a goalkeeper . He started his career at OFI Crete in 2002 and stayed there until 2011 , followed by three one-year spells at Thrasyvoulos , Levadiakos , Asteras Magoula and Olympiacos Volou , until he returned to OFI in 2015 . Kasmeridis is a former member of all youth national teams of Greece ; under-17 , under-19 and under-21 – he was also part of Greeces 2005 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship squad . Club career . Early career . Kasmeridis was born in Serres and , during his early teens , he played for local club Anatoli . Despite the efforts of Panserraikos to sign him , he decided to join OFI Crete in 2002 at the age of 15 . He played for the clubs amateur team until 2006 , when he signed his first professional contract . With OFI Amateurs , he won the 2004 Heraklion Football Clubs Association Cup against PANOM . During his whole spell at OFI Crete , Kasmeridis was always a backup goalkeeper behind other goalkeeping talents produced by the club , such as Kostas Chaniotakis , Michalis Sifakis and Sifis Daskalakis . Even during the later years , goalkeepers from Panathinaikos ( Arkadiusz Malarz and Alexandros Tzorvas ) or abroad ( Tristan Peersman ) were preferred , so he earned little playing time . OFI Crete . Kasmeridis made his Superleague debut on 30 November 2008 coming as a substitute during an away game against Panthrakikos , when Malatz was injured in the 26th minute . He then went on to make another 3 performances for OFI during the 2008–09 season , which saw the club ending in 14th place and being relegated from the first division for the first time since 1976 . The 2009–10 season was worse for Kasmeridis , even though OFI was playing in the Beta Ethniki – he was the second goalkeeper behind Polychronis Vezyridis and only played once in the second-last game of the promotion play-offs against Pierikos because Vezyridis was banned from the match . OFI eventually missed promotion at the final fixture , so they stayed in the second division . Kasmeridis was still a backup for OFI in the 2010–11 season , as he made a total of 3 appearances in the now-called Football League . His season debut was on an away game against PAS Giannena , coming as a substitute for Vezyridis , after the latter was hit by a fan of PAS . He made another appearance in the regular season against Ionikos and a final appearance in the last game of the promotion play-offs against Diagoras , where OFI won and secured promotion to the Superleague after 2 years . However , Kasmeridis did not fit the plans of his manager , Nikos Anastopoulos , for the following season and was asked to look for a new club . Thrasyvoulos . On 10 September 2011 , a day after his OFI contract was terminated , Kasmeridis signed a one-year contract with Thrasyvoulos in the second division . He was a regular for the club in the 2011–12 season , making 26 appearances and earning one red card in the final game against Anagennisi Epanomi . Kasmeridis blocked two penalties in the 4–2 penalty shoot-out win in his teams Round of 16 match against Superleague side Levadiakos during the 2011–12 Greek Cup campaign . Levadiakos . On 12 June 2012 , Kasmeridis signed a two-year contract for Levadiakos . In a later interview , he justified his decision to join Levadiakos by saying that his goal was to establish himself in the Superleague . He made his league debut on 8 October 2012 during a home match against Panthrakikos – there , first-choice keeper Dimitris Kyriakidis received a red card on the 37th minute and Kasmeridis entered as a substitute for Stefano Napoleoni ; he conceded an additional 2 goals for a final result of 0–3 for the visitors . However , Kasmeridis never managed to establish himself as the first-choice goalkeeper at Levadiakos instead of Kyriakidis , as he only managed to make 3 ninety-minute appearances at the 2012–13 Superleague – as a result , he terminated his contract one year early in May 2013 and were released from the club . International career . Greece under-17 . Kasmeridis was called up to the Greek national under-17 football team on 6 March 2003 for a friendly game against Yugoslavia on 8 March . Greece under-19 . On 28 August 2004 , Kasmeridis , still a player of OFI Amateurs at the time , was called for the first time to the Greek national under-19 football team to play in a friendly match against Netherlands under-19 on 4 September . He did not get any playing time , but made his debut a month later , on 8 October , in a 2005 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship qualification match against Faroe Islands . He made good appearances in the rest of the qualifiers and Greece qualified to the final stage of the 2005 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship . 2005 UEFA European U19 Championship finals . Kasmeridis was a member of Greeces squad in the finals . He played in the victorious first game of the group stage against the hosts , Northern Ireland , and in the second game against Germany , where Greece lost 3–0 . Greece was eventually eliminated after another 3–0 defeat against Serbia and Montenegro , a game which Kasmeridis watched from the bench as Dimitrios Sotiriou took his place in the starting lineup . Greece under-21 . On 16 October 2006 , Kasmeridis made his debut for the Greece under-21 in a friendly match against Ethnikos Asteras as a second-half substitute for Leonidas Panagopoulos . He went on to make 6 appearances in 2007 , with Panagopoulos and Kasmeridis swapping places in the starting lineup , and 2 appearances in 2008 , all of which as a starter . External links . - Profile at Guardian.co.uk