Thanasis Karagounis
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Thanasis Karagounis is a Greek
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

 footballer who plays for Atromitos in the Greek Superleague.

Club career

He started his professional career in 2008 with Fokikos
Fokikos F.C.
Fokikos F.C. is a Greek football club based in Amfissa, Greece. The club was founded in 1964 and currently plays in Football League 2 North, the third level of the Greek football league system....

, making 30 appearances in the Football League 2 and scoring 4 goals.

On summer 2009 he joined the newly-promoted Beta Ethniki champions Atromitos, where so far he made 33 league appearances and scored 2 goals.

He was part of the Atromitos team who were runner-ups of the 2010–11 Greek Cup
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....

, after losing 0–3 to AEK Athens. Thanasis only made 2 appearances in Atromitos' way to the final, one as a starter against Anagennisi Giannitsa for the fourth phase and one as a substitute against Diagoras
Diagoras F.C.
Diagoras FC is a football club based in Rhodes, Greece. It was founded in 1905. Diagoras is named after the island's famous hero Diagoras. The team first played under Ottoman Rule until the short lived independence of the Dodecanese in 1912...

 for the second leg of the quarter finals.

International career

Thanasis Karagounis made 6 appearances for Greece under-19
Greece national under-19 football team
-Group 3:- Current squad :Represented Greece in the UEFA under 19 championship July 20- August 1 2011- See also :* Greece Under-19 2007 national team* Greece Under-19 2007 national team- External links :*...

 in the past. He is currently a member of the under-21 team, making 3 appearances for them so far.

Club statistics

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|2008–09||Fokikos
Fokikos F.C.
Fokikos F.C. is a Greek football club based in Amfissa, Greece. The club was founded in 1964 and currently plays in Football League 2 North, the third level of the Greek football league system....

||Gamma Ethniki
Gamma Ethniki
Football League 2, formerly known as Gamma Ethniki, is the third highest professional football league in Greece.-History:It began in 1965 as an amateur championship, while in 1983 it was changed to professional...

||30||4||1||0||31||4
|-
|2009–10||Atromitos||Superleague Greece||11||1||0||0||11||1
|-
|2010–11||Atromitos||Superleague Greece||13||0||2||0||15||0
|-
|2011–12
2011–12 Superleague Greece
The 2011–12 Superleague Greece is the 53rd season of the highest football league of Greece and the sixth under the name Superleague. The season will begin in late August or early September 2011 and will end in May 2012 with the last matches of the European playoff round...

||Atromitos||Superleague Greece||9||1||0||0||9||1
63||6||3||0||66||6

Personal life

Although he shares the same surname as Giorgos Karagounis
Giorgos Karagounis
Giorgos Karagounis is a Greek footballer who currently plays for Panathinaikos . He is best remembered for scoring the first goal of UEFA Euro 2004, a very long range effort that helped his team to win the opening game of the tournament, in which the Greeks surprisingly emerged as champions.His...

, captain of the Greek national football team and Panathinaikos, it was revealed at an joint interview of both players that they are not related.

Honours

Atromitos
  • Greek Cup: Runners-up, 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....

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