Pambos Christodoulou subsequently went to AEK Larnaca in the first division, before deciding to become a manager at the age of 39 in the 2006 season for Doxa Katokopias.
22 Facts About Pambos Christodoulou
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Pambos Christodoulou spent a lot of time in Portugal hunting for players with good technical skills, a good team spirit, with speed and on a low budget.
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Pambos Christodoulou managed to find such players in the 2nd and 3rd levels in Portugal on a budget that Doxa could afford.
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Pambos Christodoulou used the player agent Costas Christodoulou to help him bring the players to Cyprus and subsequently learned the tricks of the trade himself, in 2011 the Olympiakos Nicosia supporters club cast doubt on Christodoulou's scouting prowess by claiming that player agent Karavidas in fact finds and signs the players.
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Pambos Christodoulou brought some notably good strikers to Cyprus that were crowned as top scorers for Doxa and in the Cypriot First Division such as Brazilians: David, Serjao and Portuguese Henrique as well as Angolan Freddy.
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Pambos Christodoulou managed with this formula and with his trusted coaching team of: Assistant coach Marios Markou, Goalkeeping Coach Andreas Mavris, fitness coach Sotiris Charalambous and Kokos Evripidou and by playing attractive attacking football, against all odds kept Doxa in the Cypriot First Division for a record three consecutive years.
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Pambos Christodoulou brought with him from Doxa the following players: Brazilian defender, Rodrigo, Portuguese left back Pedro Duarte, Portuguese winger Carlos Andre, Cypriot holding midfielder Kyriakos Polykarpou and an old Olympiakos Nicosia player for many years, Defensive allrounder Nikolas Nicolaou, to form the basis of his new squad.
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Pambos Christodoulou overhauled the squad bringing in players from Portugal, Brazil, Angola and Nigerian and Cameroon strikers.
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Pambos Christodoulou decided to leave the club in 2011 together with all his coaching team and Rui Paulo Silva Junior, who retired as a footballer to become Director of Football, but without his assistant manager Marios Markou who stayed on at Olympiakos, to join AEL Limassol, one year before his contract expired.
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Pambos Christodoulou moved to one of the clubs of Cyprus with a large following, AEL Limassol together with the coaching team mentioned above, except assistant Marios Markou.
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Pambos Christodoulou started his rebuilding of AEL in the usual fashion, bringing as a basis players that played for him in Doxa such as Brazilian winger Edmar, Cypriot winger Georgios Eleftheriou and together with players that he had originally brought to Cyprus for Doxa and were now at AEL such as Portuguese striker Henrique formed the basis of his new team.
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Pambos Christodoulou pleaded patience with his new club's supporters who are notorious for their high expectations.
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Pambos Christodoulou has acknowledged that moving to AEL is a great risk as the club is well known for its frequent managerial changes in the past 10 years the fact that he is a personal friend of AEL chairman Andreas Sofocleous will give him more goodwill than previous AEL managers.
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Pambos Christodoulou has disclosed that a secret of his success is to manage the wage bill of his players so all players earn just about the same amount, players who are younger and relatively less well known are given slightly less to have an incentive to perform to catch up with their team players.
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Pambos Christodoulou had a dream-like first season at AEL not conceding any goals in the first 5 games and the team was unbeaten.
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Pambos Christodoulou has managed to bring to AEL the championship crown, which the team last won in 1968, and is in the final of the cup and has achieved cult status among AEL's demanding supporters.
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Pambos Christodoulou's contract carried a renewal option for the upcoming season but it was not exercised.
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On 9 January 2014, Pambos Christodoulou was appointed by the Cyprus Football Association as the new national team coach in charge through qualifying for the European Championship of 2016.
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On 8 February 2016 Pambos Christodoulou came back to the club, with whom he won the title, for an 18 months contract.
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On 27 March 2017 Pambos Christodoulou was appointed by AC Omonia as the new team manager.
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On 27 May 2019 Pambos Christodoulou was re-appointed as manager of Olympiakos Nicosia for one season.
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On 11 August 2021, Pambos Christodoulou was appointed as the new manager of Armenian Premier League club Sevan.