Marios N. Lefkaritis ( el, Μάριος Λευκαρίτης; born on 28 November 1946 in

Limassol Limassol (; el, Λεμεσός, Lemesós ; tr, Limasol or ) is a city on the southern coast of Cyprus and capital of the district with the same name. Limassol is the second largest urban area in Cyprus after Nicosia, with an urban population ...

) is a

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football administrator and industrial manager. He is honorary president of the

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. Since 1996 he has been a member of the UEFA Executive Committee, and since 2007 he is also a member of the

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. Leftarikis is one of the directors of the Cypriot oil company ''Petrolina''. It belongs to the ''Lefkaritis Group'', which operates mainly in trade, bottling and transportation of

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and liquefied petroleum gas.

Life

Since 1971, he has been working for the Cypriot oil company

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, part of family-owned ''Lefkaritis Group''. From 1972 to 1977 he was a board member of the football club Apollon Limassol. From 1985 he was a member of the Presidium of the Cyprus Football Association. Starting in 1991, he spent ten years as President of the Association and was subsequently Honorary President. Since 2002, Lefkaritis has been honorary president of the

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n football club

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. Lefkaritis is married, has three daughters and lives in Limassol.

References

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