fullname youthclubs pcupdate years death_date clubs caps birth_place goals position birth_date article_title name
georgios savva apoel nicosia march 8 , 2007 1955-1956 1956-1961 9 august 1992 apoel nicosia maccabi haifa apoel nicosia 38 nicosia , cyprus 10 striker 22 october 1933 savva georgiou
 georgios savva
savva georgiou

georgios savva -lrb- -rrb- was a cypriot football striker and was the first foreign footballer ever to play professionally in israel .
he was also the first ever greek cypriot that played in a football championship outside cyprus .
georgios comes from a working class greek background mixed with jewish heritage from one of his grandfathers .
he played football during the 1950s and he was one of the best ever cypriot footballers .
sometimes he could play even as a defender .
he began playing football for apoel youth team in 1949 and one year later he became a member of the senior squad .
scoring two goals for his team in the cypriot cup final in 1951 against epa larnaca , apoel won the final 7-0 -lrb- a record in a cypriot cup final until today -rrb- and he won the first trophy in his career .
in 1952 , he helped his team to win the cypriot championship and then , as the first professional cypriot player he played football in england with bristol city for one year and he also played for the representative team of london .
