Panagiotis Lagos
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Panagiotis Lagos (born on 18 July 1985 in Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki , historically also known as Thessalonica, Salonika or Salonica, is the second-largest city in Greece and the capital of the region of Central Macedonia as well as the capital of the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace...

) is a Greek
Greeks
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 football player currently playing as a left wingback for AEK Athens F.C. in the Greek Super League
Super League Greece
The Superleague Greece is the highest professional football league in Greece. It was formed on July 16, 2006 and replaced Alpha Ethniki at the top of the Greek football league system. The league consists of 16 teams and runs from August to May, with teams playing 30 games each...

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Iraklis Thessaloniki

Lagos started his professional football career with Iraklis in 2002. Having made 74 appearances for the club, he became one of the most important players in qualifying for Europe during the 2005–06 season.

AEK Athens

Lagos was a target of many big Greek clubs, Olympiacos, Panathinaikos
Panathinaikos FC
Panathinaikos Football Club is a Greek professional football club based in Athens. Founded in 1908, they play in the Super League Greece and are one of the oldest and most successful clubs in Greek football history. They have won 20 Greek Championships and 17 Greek Cups.Panathinaikos is the most...

 and PAOK, in the end Lagos signed with AEK Athens and was transferred from Iraklis in 2006. In his first season at AEK Lagos started his career with AEK brightly before suffering a serious injury on his right leg in 2007, forcing him out of Football for 1 year . Lagos' first game back from his injury was in a derby match against Panathinaikos. Lagos is now a regular in the AEK starting line-up, being played as a left back.

In 2010, Lagos renewed his contract with the club signing a new three year deal witch will last him at the club until 2013.

Lagos scored 2 goals against Larissa
Larissa
Larissa is the capital and biggest city of the Thessaly region of Greece and capital of the Larissa regional unit. It is a principal agricultural centre and a national transportation hub, linked by road and rail with the port of Volos, the city of Thessaloniki and Athens...

 which lead AEK winning 2-3.

International career

Lagos made his debut for Greece
Greece national football team
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 in 2006 gainst Korea Republic
Korea Republic national football team
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Due to his injury, Lagos has been dropped from the national side. Lagos has played 9 times for Greece, Lagos has not featured for Greece since 2007.

Lagos competed for Greece at the 2004 Summer Olympics
2004 Summer Olympics
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.

Lagos was recalled to the Greece squad by Fernando Santos
Fernando Santos
Fernando Manuel Fernandes da Costa Santos is a Portuguese football manager and former player. He is the current manager of the Greek national team, last managing PAOK of the Super League Greece....

 to play against Malta
Malta
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 in a Euro 2012 qualifier and a friendly match against Poland
Poland
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Career statistics

|-
|2002–03
|rowspan=4|Iraklis
|rowspan=4|Alpha Ethniki
Super League Greece
The Superleague Greece is the highest professional football league in Greece. It was formed on July 16, 2006 and replaced Alpha Ethniki at the top of the Greek football league system. The league consists of 16 teams and runs from August to May, with teams playing 30 games each...


|6||0||0||0||0||0||3||0
|-
|2003–04
|17||0||4||0||0||0||21||0
|-
|2004–05
|24||3||5||0||0||0||29||3
|-
|2005–06
|28||7||1||0||0||0||29||7
|-
|2006–07
|rowspan=5|AEK Athens
|rowspan=5|Super League
Super League Greece
The Superleague Greece is the highest professional football league in Greece. It was formed on July 16, 2006 and replaced Alpha Ethniki at the top of the Greek football league system. The league consists of 16 teams and runs from August to May, with teams playing 30 games each...


|10||1||1||0||4||0||15||1
|-
|2007–08
|13||0||1||0||1||0||17||0
|-
|2008–09
|14||0||1||0||2||0||17||0
|-
|2009–10
2009–10 Super League Greece
The 2009–10 Super League Greece season is the fourth since its establishment. The league consists of 16 teams. Participants are the 13 best teams from the 2008–09 season and three teams that have been promoted from the Beta Ethniki...


|15||0||0||0||0||0||15||0
|-
|2010–11
2010–11 Super League Greece
The 2010–11 Superleague Greece was the 52nd season of the highest football league of Greece and the fifth under the name Superleague. The league consisted of 16 teams, the 13 best teams of the 2009–10 season and three teams that had been promoted from the 2009–10 Beta Ethniki.The season began on 27...


|27||2||5||1||7||0||14||0

155||13||18||1||14||0||187||14

International

| 2006
| 6
| 0
|-
| 2008
| 2
| 0
|-
! Total
! 8
! 0

Honours

AEK Athens
  • Greek Cup
    Greek football Cup
    The Greek Football Cup , commonly known as the Greek Cup or for sponsorship reasons the Football Cup OPAP, is a Greek football competition, run by the Hellenic Football Federation....

    : 2010–11
    2010–11 Greek Cup
    The 2010–11 Greek Cup is the 69th season of the Greek Football Cup. A total of 67 clubs were accepted to enter, after the withdrawal of Egaleo, Kalamata and Pyrsos Grevena and their relegation to Delta Ethniki....



Individual
  • Greek Young Footballer of the year: 2005, 2006
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