34 Facts About Kostas Nestoridis

Kostas Nestoridis was a Greek professional footballer, who played as a forward and a manager.

Kostas Nestoridis was amongst the best players in the history of AEK Athens and one of the greatest Greek footballers and goalscorers.

The work difficulties that his parents repeatedly faced, affected the young Kostas Nestoridis and were several times the criteria for any decisions during his football career.

Kostas Nestoridis occasionally played football in his neighborhood until Karamalengos, the owner of the factory "Indiana" and a member of Hellas Moschato, heard about him.

Kostas Nestoridis offered Nestoridis a steady job in his business and offered him to sign in his team.

The young Kostas Nestoridis, seeing that his two big dreams, the steady job and football were being materialized at the same time, did not hesitate to sign a fake sport's card under the name "Brinzos", as was the nickname of his brother, Christos and started playing in Hellas Moschato.

Kostas Nestoridis played for the club from Moschato until 1948.

Kostas Nestoridis stayed for the first time in his career out of football competitions for a year and in 1949 with the exhortation of the former footballer of Olympiacos, Babis Kotridis, he decided to join Panionios.

Kostas Nestoridis wore the blue-red jersey for seven years and in 63 appearances he scored 26 goals, winning the first and only AFCA league title of the club in 1951, finishing as its top scorer with seven goals.

Nevertheless, Kostas Nestoridis did not spend beautiful days at the club.

Kostas Nestoridis was boiling, as he waited for his punishment to end, competing only in friendly matches, with his only distractions being his marriage and the birth of his son.

The next day, immediately with the kick-off, Kostas Nestoridis scored a goal in the corner he had indicated in the photo.

Kostas Nestoridis scored the first hat-trick in the history of the first division on 6 December 1959 in an away match against Panegialios.

Kostas Nestoridis is the only player to become the top scorer of the Greek championship five times in a row.

Kostas Nestoridis is one of only three players in the history of AEK who managed to score five goals in a single league match which he achieved on 2 June 1963 against Iraklis.

Kostas Nestoridis won with AEK a Greek Cup in 1964.

Kostas Nestoridis returned to Australia and Hellas Melbourne and scored another 12 goals with their jersey, this time finishing in 4th place in the league.

In January 1967 Kostas Nestoridis returned permanently to Greece and played for Vyzas Megara However, he only managed to make only two appearances, after it was revealed that his signing date was overdue and thus the transfer was cancelled.

In 1950 Kostas Nestoridis volunteered for the Air Force to play for the Greek Military team, where started scoring a lot of goals and participated in the CISM Football Cup.

Kostas Nestoridis was then offered a job in the Air Force, but he refused and withdrew from the Military team.

Kostas Nestoridis played with Greece a total of 17 times: 2 as a player of Panionios and 15 as a player of AEK Athens, scoring 3 goals.

Kostas Nestoridis made his debut in the blue and white jersey on 14 October 1951.

Kostas Nestoridis remained in the position of assistant of the new coach, being the connecting link between the previous and the current technical leadership, while handling the situation in the team's locker rooms.

Everyone's indignation for "Cik" was obvious and he was removed, with Kostas Nestoridis taking over the technical leadership, as an interim as it turned out, since after about forty days Helmut Senekowitsch was hired.

Kostas Nestoridis, having made three wins and two draws in the away matches, delivered the club second with a little distance from the top, while he felt rather sidelined from the hiriging of the Austrian manager and temporarily resigned from the technical staff.

Kostas Nestoridis remained on the team's bench until the summer of 1984 and achieving five wins, one draw and four defeats, where AEK finished at the 7th place, recording one of their worst appearances in the league.

In June 2017 Kostas Nestoridis opened his football academies, under the name Nestoras FC.

Kostas Nestoridis's name is honoured on one of the four pillars of the Stadium, alongside other important figures of the club's history such as Stelios Serafidis, Mimis Papaioannou and Thomas Mavros.

Kostas Nestoridis lived in Kallithea with his wife, Eleni and their sons, Panagiotis, Antonis and Giorgos, who maintains the family's Pro-Po business.

Kostas Nestoridis died on the morning of 12 December 2023, after a long-term struggle with health issues at the age of 93.

From a young age Kostas Nestoridis was gifted with an innate and unrepeatable talent, that of absolute "communication" with the ball.

The ball seemed to obediently follow the course ordered by Kostas Nestoridis, drawing tracks inconceivable to common sense.

Kostas Nestoridis was a specialist in free-kicks and corner kicks, having scored 17 goals from direct corner kicks.

Kostas Nestoridis used to announce the way he would maneuver and send the ball with the final shot.