years caps goals clubs birth_place nationalteam article_title position nationalcaps manageryears nationalyears birth_date managerclubs currentclub name nationalgoals
1980 1991 -- 1996 -- 1984 1984 -- 1989 1989 -- 1991 114 48 103 27 15 6 vyzas f.c. ofi crete panathinaikos fc ofi crete melbourne , australia greece ioannis samaras
 midfielder 16 2000 -- 2002 2012 -- 1986 -- 1990 3 may 1961 ofi crete panathinaikos '' -lrb- general manager -rrb- '' panathinaikos -lrb- general manager -rrb- ioannis samaras 1
ioannis samaras

ioannis samaras -lrb- -rrb- -lrb- born 3 may 1961 -rrb- is an australian-born greek former footballer who played as a midfielder during the 1980s and 1990s .
samaras was born in melbourne , australia , to greek parents .
his father , georgios , was a co-founder of south melbourne fc , an australian soccer club with strong ties to the greek community .
he moved to greece at the age of thirteen .
his son , also named georgios , is a footballer who previously played for manchester city and celtic .
he now plays for west bromwich albion f.c. samaras is a common member of the greek squad .
greek national team .
he began his football career in 1980 with vyzas f.c. , but before long he had attracted the attention of several bigger teams and he signed for ofi crete in the summer of 1984 .
he went on to play over 100 matches for crete before he left for panathinaikos fc in january 1989 .
in 1991 , samaras returned to crete , playing 103 games and retiring in 1996 .
samaras earned 16 caps for the greek national team between 1986 and 1990 .
he scored one goal , on his eighth cap , in a 4-2 friendly win over norway .
he was appointed on 26 july 2010 as the new technical manager for the panathinaikos f.c. academies , replacing nikos kovis .
