Panos Markovits (alternate spelling Panos Markovic) ( el, Πάνος Μάρκοβιτς; 5 May 1925 – 17 August 2012) was a
Greek football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
coach and player.
Career
He was born in
Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been ...
,
Macedonia (Greece)
Macedonia (; el, Μακεδονία, Makedonía ) is a geographic and former administrative region of Greece, in the southern Balkans. Macedonia is the largest and Greek geographic region, with a population of 2.36 million in 2020. It is ...
in 1925, but grew up in
Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki (; el, Θεσσαλονίκη, , also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece, with over one million inhabitants in its Thessaloniki metropolitan area, metropolitan area, and the capi ...
. He played football for
PAOK from 1945 to 1951 and then transitioned from player to coach.
In 2010, he was given an award by the President of the Republic
Demetris Christofias
Demetris Christofias, also spelled Dimitris Christofias ( el, Δημήτρης Χριστόφιας ; 29 August 1946 – 21 June 2019), was a Cypriot politician who served as the sixth president of Cyprus from 2008 to 2013. Christofias was the Ge ...
, for his contributions to sport in Cyprus.
/ref>
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Markovic, Panos
1925 births
2012 deaths
Greek footballers
Greek football managers
Greece national football team managers
Pierikos F.C. managers
Iraklis Thessaloniki F.C. managers
Panionios F.C. managers
APOEL FC managers
Panachaiki F.C. managers
Apollon Pontou FC managers
Association football midfielders
Footballers from Drama, Greece
Greek expatriate football managers