Tryfon Tzanetis

Tryfon Tzanetis
Tryfon Tzanetis
Personal information
Date of birth 1918
Place of birth Urla, Smyrna, Ottoman Empire
Date of death 8 September 1998(1998-09-08) (aged 79–80)
Place of death Athens, Greece
Position(s)
Youth career
–1932 AE Kalogreza
1932–1933 PO Olympiacos Nea Ionia
1933–1934 Ermis Nea Ionia
1934–1935 Eleftheroupoli
1935 AEK Athens
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1935–1951 AEK Athens 19 (1)
Total 19 (1)
International career
1949 Greece 1 (0)
Managerial career
1950–1951 Egaleo
1951–1952 AEK Athens
1954–1955 AEK Athens
1957 AEK Athens
1958–1959 Egaleo
1960–1961 Greece
1961–1962 AEK Athens
1962–1964 Greece
1965–1967 AEK Athens
1967–1968 Apollon Athens
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Tryfon Tzanetis (Greek: Τρύφων Τζανετής; 1918 – 8 September 1998) was a Greek footballer and a later manager. He was best known as a great figure for AEK Athens during the 30's and 40's, partnering Kleanthis Maropoulos in AEK's front line.[1] Tzanetis also contributed to AEK by coaching the club during the 50's and 60's.

Early life

Tzanetis was born in 1918 in Smyrna, from Naxian parents. After the Asia Minor disaster, his family moved to Athens and installed at the district of Nea Ionia.[2]

Club career

Early years

Tzanetis started playing football at his local club of AE Kalogreza.[3] In the following season, he became a member of the first team at PO Olympiacos Nea Ionia, earning the distinction of being the youngest player on the roster. He stayed at the club for one year.[4] In 1933, he moved to Ermis Nea Ionia and after one year, he signed to Eleftheroupoli.[5][6]

AEK Athens

In 1935, people of AEK Athens scouted him and he signed a sport's card with the club. He started from the reserve team of the club[7] and later he was promoted to the men's team alongside Maropoulos and participated in an official match. Over the following years, he established himself as a regular member of the first team at AEK Athens.[8][9][10]

He was a member to the great team of the yellow-blacks in the late 30s, having teammates, such as Kleanthis Maropoulos, Spyros Sklavounos and Spyros Kontoulis. He started his career as a striker, but later in his career he became a central defender, when the then coach, Jack Beby relocated him, in the WM system that he applied since he came to Greece in 1948. His presence was imposing. He was insightful, extremely fast, creative and team and in addition to being an aggressive midfielder, he was also distinguished by his inhibitions. With AEK he won 4 times the FCA Championship, 2 consecutive Panhellenic Championships and 3 Greek Cups, including the first domestic double by a Greek club in 1939.[11][12]

International career

He wore once the jersey of Greece on 25 May 1949, against Italy B in a 2–3 defeat, with Tzanetis coming from the bench on the 46th minute.[13][14]

Managerial career

In 1950 after his playing days were over, Tzanetis took up coaching Egaleo in the first division of Athens for a season before returning to AEK Athens.

He assumed the position of the coach of AEK in many periods during the 50s and the 60s (1951, 1954, 1957, 1961 and 1965), winning the Greek Cup in 1966.[15]

Tzanetis also coached Apollon Athens which was the last club of his career. He was also a selector of the Greece military national football team, where he won the World Military Cup in 1962.[16] From 1960 to 1964 (in two different periods) he was the coach of Greece with a record of 5 wins, 1 draw and 5 losses.

After football

Tzanetis had a wife named Lela and two kids, Manolis and Mary.[17] He identified on the pitch and in life with Kleanthis Maropoulos,[18] with whom he remained friends and partners in a sporting goods store in the center of Athens, until the end of the latter's life, in 1991. Seven years later, Tzanetis died.[19]

Honours

As a player

AEK Athens

As a coach

AEK Athens

Greece military

See also

References

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  2. ^ Αγγελίδης, Νικόλας (9 September 2018). "Ο θρυλικός Τρύφωνας από τα Βουρλά". aek-live.gr (in Greek).
  3. ^ Σαπουντζάκης, Χάρης (2013). "Ο ΑΘΛΗΤΙΣΜΟΣ". In Σαπουντζάκης, Χάρης; Χριστοδούλου, Λουκάς (eds.). Η ΝΕΑ ΙΩΝΙΑ ΣΤΟ ΜΕΣΟΠΟΛΕΜΟ 1922-1941 (PDF) (in Greek). Athens: EΝΩΣΗ ΣΠΑΡΤΗΣ Μ. ΑΣΙΑΣ. p. 185. ISBN 978-960-9592-01-7. [...] από την «Α.Ε. Καλογρέζας»: το Μαρόπουλο, τον Τζανετή, τον Κοσμίδη, τον Βουτσά, τον Πετρίτση, [...]
  4. ^ "Ολυμπιακός Ν. Ιωνίας - Π.Ο. Τόλμη Ν. Ιωνίας 8-3. Ολυμπιακός Ν. Ιωνίας - Απόλλων Πατησίων 3-1". Athletic Years (in Greek). Vol. Α, no. 108. Athens. digitallibrary.parliament.gr. 2 December 1932. p. 2. Π.Ο. Ολυμπιακός Ν. Ιωνίας. Την νικήτριαν αποτελούν οι εξής: Κοσόνογλου, Μηνάς, Χατζής, Περούλης (αρχηγός), Τζανετής, Ψύλλας, Δανιηλίδης, Κουμπής, Πολυχρονόπουλος, Κοντούλης, Παυλίδης.
  5. ^ "Ερμής Ν. Ιωνίας - Αχιλλεύς Ν. Ιωνίας 2-0". Athletic Years (in Greek). Vol. 3, no. 318. Athens. digitallibrary.parliament.gr. 23 May 1934. p. 2. Μετά σκληρού αγώνος νικήτρια ανεδείχθη η ομάς του Ερμέως: 2-0. Αποτελούν οι εξής: Α. Ευθυμίου, Ν. Βαρότσης, Γ. Αρβανίτης, Ι. Μιμηκός, Ι. Κόντος, Γ. Χαγιαλίδης, Χ. Βαρότσης, Κ. Μπρούσαλης, Τ. Τζανετής, Δ. Δανήλ.
  6. ^ "Συναντήσεις". Athletic Day (in Greek). Vol. Α, no. 21. Athens. digitallibrary.parliament.gr. 30 March 1935. p. 2. Εκ της νικήτριας διεκρίθησαν οι Τζανετής και Τσαγανιός.
  7. ^ "Β΄ ΑΕΚ - Β΄ ΓΟΥΔΙ 4-0". Athletic Year (in Greek). No. 99. Athens. digitallibrary.parliament.gr. 8 April 1935. p. 4.
  8. ^ "ΠΩΣ ΘΑ ΑΓΩΝΙΣΘΗ ΣΗΜΕΡΟΝ Η Α.Ε.Κ." Athletic Day (in Greek). Vol. 1, no. 125. Athens: Athanasios E. Sempos. digitallibrary.parliament.gr. 6 December 1935. p. 4.
  9. ^ "Η ΣΥΝΘΕΣΙΣ ΤΗΣ ΑΕΚ ΚΑΤΑ ΤΟΝ ΑΥΡΙΑΝΟΝ ΑΓΩΝΑ". Athletic Day (in Greek). Vol. 2, no. 156. Athens: Athanasios E. Sempos. digitallibrary.parliament.gr. 22 February 1936. p. 4.
  10. ^ "Ο ΑΓΩΝ ΕΘΝΙΚΟΥ - Α.Ε. ΚΩΝ/ΠΟΛΕΩΣ". Athletic Day (in Greek). Vol. 2, no. 163. Athens: Athanasios E. Sempos. digitallibrary.parliament.gr. 9 March 1936. p. 4.
  11. ^ "Το πρώτο νταμπλ ελληνικής ομάδας, το έκανε η ΑΕΚ!". enwsi.gr (in Greek). Online. 11 June 2022.
  12. ^ "Τρύφωνας Τζανετής" (in Greek).
  13. ^ "EPO - Hellenic Football Federation". epo.gr (in Greek).
  14. ^ "Greece matches 1948–1950" (PDF). epo.gr (in Greek). Online.
  15. ^ "Ο τελικός ΑΕΚ - Ολυμπιακού που δεν έγινε ποτέ". oldfootball.gr (in Greek). 8 May 2016. Archived from the original on 10 August 2019.
  16. ^ "World Military Championship". RSSSF.
  17. ^ "Ήταν όλοι εκεί, στο στερνό αντίο του Τρύφωνα Τζανετή". Athletic Echo (in Greek). 10 September 1998. p. 6.
  18. ^ Κώστας, Κοφινάς (14 October 2016). "Και το ποδοσφαιρικό τάνγκο θέλει πάντα δύο". tanea.gr (in Greek).
  19. ^ "Άνωθεν εντολή". tanea.gr (in Greek). Online. 9 September 1998.
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