15 Facts About Giorgos Karafeskos

Giorgos Karafeskos is a former Greek professional footballer, who played as a midfielder, mostly for AEK Athens and a former manager.

At the age of 13, in 1959 Giorgos Karafeskos went with a friend to the stadium of AEK Athens in Nea Filadelfeia to participate in the trials for the club's academies.

Giorgos Karafeskos's friend was chosen immediately, in contrast to young Karafeskos who was rejected.

The trials were watched by the then coach of the first team, Lukas Aurednik, who, watching the little Giorgos Karafeskos disappointed, called him by his side and asked him to do various exercises with the ball.

Two years later Giorgos Karafeskos was already a member of the teen and youth national team.

Giorgos Karafeskos started playing as right winger, but later established himself as a central midfielder while he played several times as a defensive midfielder.

Regardless of the position he covered, Giorgos Karafeskos showed great ease in scoring as he did not leave much room for reaction to the opposing goalkeepers with the "deadly" shots he attempted.

Giorgos Karafeskos was one of the main of the team that won second place in the Balkans Cup in 1967, losing only in the final by Fenerbahce.

Giorgos Karafeskos parted ways with AEK in the summer of 1974, after a misunderstanding, due to a publication that presented him as released and despite the assurance of the then president of the club, Loukas Barlos that such a reason did not occur.

Giorgos Karafeskos then signed to Kallithea, until 1980 when he retired, at the age of 33.

Giorgos Karafeskos played in all divisions of the national teams and had 8 appearances with the Men's team between 1968 and 1971, while he was a member of the military team that in 1967 won the World Military Cup in Baghdad.

Giorgos Karafeskos later returned to AEK as a coach in the reserve team and remained there for 12 years doing a fine job under adverse conditions, alongside Andreas Stamatiadis.

Giorgos Karafeskos is particularly active with the events of the Veterans Association of AEK Athens, while serving under various positions in the academies of the club.

Giorgos Karafeskos has a daughter, Melina, who is a pilot and lives permanently in New York with her husband and their two children.

On 29 September 2020 Giorgos Karafeskos donated part of his personal collection to the then under-construction History museum of AEK Athens in the Agia Sophia Stadium.