Kostas Tsanas ( el, Κώστας Τσάνας; born 22 August 1967) is a Greek former professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who played as a

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. He is the current technical director of the

Hellenic Football Federation The Hellenic Football Federation (HFF), also known as the Greek Football Federation ( el, Ελληνική Ποδοσφαιρική Ομοσπονδία; ΕΠΟ, translit=Ellinikí Podosferikí Omospondía; EPO) is the governing body of associat ...

Career

He began his career playing for

Levadiakos Levadiakos Football Club ( el, ΠΑΕ Λεβαδειακός) is a Greek professional football club that plays in the Super League Greece. Based in Livadeia, Greece, the club was promoted to the Alpha Ethniki, forerunner of the Super League, afte ...

(1985–1995) and was later transferred to

Kalamata FC Kalamata Football Club ( el, Π.Σ. "Η Καλαμάτα") is a Greek professional football club based in Messenia, Kalamata. They compete in the Super League Greece 2, the second tier of the Greek football league system. The club's home ground is ...

. He then played for

Athinaikos Athinaikos A.C. ( el, Αθηναϊκός Α.Σ., full name Athinaikos Athletic Club) is a Greek multisport-club, founded in 1917. It is based in Vyronas, a suburb east of Athens. Athinaikos has football, basketball, and handball teams. Its achiev ...

(1996–1999) and finished off that portion of his career with Ethnikos Piraeus FC. In the 1992–93 season, he was the top Greek Second Division scorer with 14 goals. In total he played 257 games in A Division and 75 in Second Division, scoring 30 and 25 goals respectively. In 2001, he began his coaching career in the academies of

. His first head coaching experience was in 2005 with

and in 2006 took charge of

Ilisiakos Ilisiakos Football Club ( el, Ηλυσιακός A.O.) is an Athens-based Association football, football club that was founded in 1927 by Michalis Xydis, Lambropoulos, Evgenopoulos, Nikolaos Plessas, ''et al.''. They played in Delta Ethiniki until ...

. In 2008-2009 he worked as a scouter for AEK FC. He went on to join the National team staff as an assistant coach for the U19 and U21. In October 2011 he took charge of the

Greece national under-19 football team The Greece national under-19 football team is the national football team of Greece and is controlled by the Hellenic Football Federation. In July 2007 the Under-20/19 Football Team finished second in the 2007 UEFA European Under-19 Football Cham ...

and led them to the finals of the

2012 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship The 2012 UEFA European Under-19 Championship was the 61st edition of UEFA's European Under-19 Championship (the eleventh since the age competition change to an Under-19 level) and took place in Estonia from 3 to 15 July. Spain are the title hol ...

. In August 2012 he was named the head coach of the

Greece national under-21 football team The Greece national under-21 football team is the national under-21 football team of Greece and is controlled by the Hellenic Football Federation, the governing body for football in Greece. The team competes in the European Under-21 Football Ch ...

. . He has been a caretaker coach of the

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on two occasions. From 2019 to 2021 he was an academy director in

AEK Athens A.E.K ( el, AEK , formally Αθλητική Ένωσις Κωνσταντινουπόλεως; Athlitikí Énosis Konstantinoupόleos, ''Athletic Union of Constantinople''), known as A.E.K, is a major Greece, Greek multi-sport club based in Nea ...

football club. In August 2021, Tsanas was appointed as a technical director from the

International

Greece U19 *

UEFA European Under-19 Championship The UEFA European Under-19 Championship, or simply UEFA Under-19 Championship or the UEFA Euro U-19, is an annual football competition contested by the European men's under-19 national teams of the member associations of UEFA. Spain and England ...

runner-up:

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tsanas, Kostas 1967 births Living people Greek men's footballers Super League Greece players Football League (Greece) players Levadiakos F.C. players Kalamata F.C. players Athinaikos F.C. players Ethnikos Piraeus F.C. players Greek football managers Athinaikos F.C. managers Ilisiakos F.C. managers Greece national football team managers Men's association football midfielders AEK F.C. non-playing staff People from Boeotia Footballers from Central Greece