13 Facts About Tryfon Tzanetis

Tryfon Tzanetis was a Greek footballer and a later manager.

Tryfon Tzanetis 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.

Tryfon Tzanetis was born in 1918 in Smyrna, from Naxian parents.

Tryfon Tzanetis started from the youth departments of AEK and he was promoted to the men's team in 1935, alongside Maropoulos and participated in an official match.

Tryfon Tzanetis 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.

Tryfon Tzanetis 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.

Tryfon Tzanetis was insightful, extremely fast, creative and team and in addition to being an aggressive midfielder, he was distinguished by his inhibitions.

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

Tryfon Tzanetis assumed the position of the coach of AEK in many periods during the 50s and the 60s, winning the Greek Cup in 1966.

Tryfon Tzanetis coached Apollon Athens which was the last club of his career.

Tryfon Tzanetis was a selector of the Greece military national football team, where he won the World Military Cup in 1962.

Tryfon Tzanetis had a wife named Lela and two kids, Manolis and Mary.

Tryfon Tzanetis identified on the pitch and in life with Kleanthis Maropoulos, 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.