Kostas Katsouranis

**Kostas Katsouranis** (Girkanci: ; an haife shi a ranar 21 ga watan Yunin shekara ta 1979) tsohon ɗan wasan ƙwallon ƙafa ne na Girka. dan wasan tsakiya ne mai ƙwarewa, wanda ya lashe kyautar Super League Greek Footballer of the Year a 2005 da 2013, da kuma kyautar Cosme Damião don Footballer na Shekara a 2008. 

Katsouranis ya cancanci taka leda tare da Girka don taka leda a kasa da kasa tsakanin 2002 da 2015. Sun lashe gasar cin kofin Turai ta UEFA ta 2004, kuma sun taka leda a gasar cin kofen duniya ta UEFA ta 2008, 2010 FIFA ta 2010, UEFA ta 2012 da 2014 FIFA World Cup. Tare da bayyanar 116, shi memba ne na kulob din kusa na 'yan wasan da suka fi 100 a tarihin Girka.

## Ayyukan kulob din

### Panachaiki
Katsouranis bai ma da shekaru 17 ba lokacin da ya fara bugawa kulob din Panachaiki na Patras a shekarar 1996. A kakar wasa ta farko, Panachaiki ya kai wasan kusa da na karshe na gasar cin Kofin Girka, inda ya samu sakamako mafi kyau a gasar. A kakar wasa mai zuwa, Katsouranis ya buga wasanni uku a gasar cin Kofin Intertoto, inda ya zira kwallaye daya yayin da Panachaiki ya kammala na huɗu daga cikin biyar a cikin rukuni. Ya shafe shekaru shida a Patras kuma a karo na uku, ya kasance na yau da kullun.

A lokacin rani na shekara ta 2002, lokacin da kwangilarsa tare da Panachaiki ta kare, Katsouranis ya bude tattaunawa da Panathinaikos. Portuguese_footballer)" id="mwLw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Fernando Santos (Portuguese footballer)">Fernando Santos duk da haka, kocin Panathinaikos a lokacin, ya yanke shawarar sanya hannu kan Carlos Chaínho na Fotigal, dan wasan da ya sani lokacin da yake Porto, wanda ke nufin ba za a kammala canjin Katsouranis ba. Katsuuranis daga nan ne Olympiacos suka kusanci shi. Tattaunawar da mataimakin shugaban kulob din, Giorgos Louvaris, ya zama na karshe, amma Louvaris ya nemi Katsouranis ya jira har sai shugaban, Sokratis Kokkalis, ya dawo daga tafiyar kasuwanci zuwa Amurka don tattaunawar karshe. Koyaya, tsohon shugaban AEK Athens Chrysostomos Psomiadis ya yi amfani da halin da ake ciki kuma ya shawo kan dan wasan tsakiya mai alƙawari ya sanya hannu kan kwangilar shekaru uku tare da AEK Athens.[1]

### AEK Athens
Da yake fitowa daga benci kuma yana yin wasan kwaikwayo mai ban sha'awa ga kulob din, Katsouranis nan da nan ya zama wani ɓangare na kulob din. Ci gaba da ci gaba a matakin farko da sauri ya sanya shi daya daga cikin 'yan wasan da suka fi dacewa da manyan wasanni, a cikin gida da na duniya. An yi amfani da shi galibi a matsayin dan wasan tsakiya na tsakiya amma kuma ana iya amfani da shi a cikin fuka-fuki. A kakar wasa ta farko, tare da abokin aikinsa a cikin tawagar kasa, Thodoris Zagorakis ya kafa "duo" mai ban mamaki a tsakiyar filin AEK. A zahiri, ya yi kyakkyawan aiki a wasannin rukuni na gasar zakarun Turai na wannan kakar kuma ya zira kwallaye na tarihi a kan Real Madrid a Filin wasa na Santiago Bernabéu .  Ya kuma zira kwallaye a kan Olympiacos a Filin wasa na Rizoupoli a lokacin dakatarwar.

A lokacin rani na shekara ta 2004, Katsouranis ya kasance a AEK, duk da tayin da yawa, bayan ya amince da sabon kwangilar shekaru uku, yayin da yawancin abokan aikinsa daga yakin da ya gabata suka yi aiki a kan takaici kuma suka bar. A cikin yanayin zafi wanda ya ga ƙofofin AEK sun ninka sau huɗu yayin da magoya baya suka taru don tallafawa kulob din a ƙarƙashin sabon shugaban da tsohon dan wasa, Demis Nikolaidis, Katsouranis ya ɗauki matsayi na musamman a zukatan magoya baya. Wannan kakar za ta zama daya daga cikin manyan lokutan Katsouranis tare da kulob din, yayin da ya zira kwallaye 10 a wasanni 28 duk da wasa a tsakiyar filin wasa, yana jagorantar kulob din don tseren taken, yayin da aka zabe shi a matsayin dan wasan kwallon kafa mafi kyau na Girka na gasar. AEK ta sami nasarar kammala ta uku duk da babban raguwa a cikin kasafin kudin tawagar. Werder Bremen ya nuna sha'awar Girka ta kasa da kasa, amma duka Katsouranis da Nikolaidis sun yanke shawarar kin tayin.

## Manazarta