Leonardo Koutris

Leonardo Koutris
Personal information
Full name Leonardo Pablo Koutris
Date of birth (1995-07-23) 23 July 1995
Place of birth Rhodes, Greece
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Playing position Left Back / Left Midfielder
Club information
Current team
 PAS Giannina
Number 23
Youth career
–2011 Niki Rodos
2011–2013 Ergotelis
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2013–2016 Ergotelis 39 (1)
2016– PAS Giannina 3 (1)
National team
2013–2014 Greece U19 3 (0)
2015– Greece U21 2 (0)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 19 August 2015.


Leonardo Koutris (Greek: Λεονάρντο "Λεονάρδος" Κούτρης), born 23 July 1995 in Rhodes, is a Greek professional footballer, who currently plays for Greek Superleague club PAS Giannina.

Career

Ergotelis

Koutris started his career from a local amateur team from Rhodes, Niki Rodos, where he was spotted by Superleague club Ergotelis scouts in 2011.[1] On 28 January 2013, he signed his first professional contract with the club [2] and made his debut as a substitute in a match against Greek champions Olympiacos on 1 December 2013.[3] Already an international with the Greek U19 and U21 squads, and considered one of the greatest talents at Ergotelis, he renewed his contract with the club on 5 June 2014.[4]

After Ergotelis' relegation to the Football League in the summer of 2015, and despite reported interest from Greek giants Panathinaikos,[5] Koutris was one of the 17 players to hold out as part of the club's roster until the very end, which came in January 2016, when Ergotelis officially withdrew from professional competitions, and released all players from their contracts.[6]

PAS Giannina

As a free agent, Koutris signed a three-year contract with Greek Superleague club PAS Giannina on 26 January 2016.[7] He scored his first goal for the club on 21 July 2016, during his European debut, netting a crucial extra time away goal vs. Norwegian club Odd during the third qualifying round of the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League. This goal helped his club advance to the next round for the first time in its history, after winning the two-legged tie 4–3 on aggregate.[8]

Personal

Koutris holds both Greek as well as Brazilian citizenship, being born of a Greek father and a Brazilian mother.[9]

Stretcher bearer incident

On 17 October 2015, during an Ergotelis game vs Larissa at the AEL FC Arena for the Greek Football League, Koutris was involuntarily involved in a comical incident after having gone down injured by a challenge just outside the penalty area. Unable to stand up, Koutris was roughly loaded onto a stretcher by two stretcher bearers, who proceeded to drop him twice while carrying him outside, before unceremoniously dumping him at the side of the pitch.[10] Ergotelis issued a formal complaint a few hours after the match had ended.[11]

The incident video went viral worldwide, and received coverage from major networks, such as BBC[12] and the Telegraph,[13] as well as being shown on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.[14]

References

  1. ↑ "Ταλεντάρες από Λάρισα και Ρόδο στον Εργοτέλη! (Greek)". athleticradio.gr. 7 June 2011.
  2. ↑ "ΕΠΑΓΓΕΛΜΑΤΙΕΣ ΟΙ ΜΠΟΥΡΣΕΛΗΣ, ΑΛΑ ΚΑΙ ΛΕΟΝΑΡΝΤΟ (Greek)". Ergotelis F.C. 28 January 2013.
  3. ↑ "ΟΛΥΜΠΙΑΚΟΣ - ΕΡΓΟΤΕΛΗΣ 3-0 (Greek)". Ergotelis F.C. 28 January 2013.
  4. ↑ "ΕΠΕΚΤΑΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΣΥΝΕΡΓΑΣΙΑΣ ΜΕ ΤΟΝ ΛΕΟΝΑΡΝΤΟ (Greek)". Ergotelis F.C. 5 June 2014.
  5. ↑ "Στην "αγκαλιά" του Παναθηναϊκού ο Κούτρης (Greek)". sport24.gr. 2 August 2015.
  6. ↑ "Ηταν υπέροχο όσο κράτησε: Λύγισε μετά από 14 χρόνια στις επαγγελματικές κατηγορίες ο Εργοτέλης (Greek)". patris.gr. 20 January 2016.
  7. ↑ "Ανακοίνωσε Κούτρη ο ΠΑΣ Γιάννινα (Greek)". sport24.gr. 26 January 2016.
  8. ↑ "Προκρίθηκε ο ΠΑΣ Γιάννινα, ηττήθηκε 3-1 από την Οντ (Greek)". sport24.gr. 21 July 2016.
  9. ↑ "Το νέο… αίμα του Εργοτέλη (Greek)". neakriti.gr. 11 May 2012.
  10. ↑ "Τραυματίας για... πέταμα ο Κούτρης (Greek)". sport24.gr. 17 October 2015.
  11. ↑ "ΑΝΑΚΟΙΝΩΣΗ (Greek)". Ergotelis F.C. 18 October 2015.
  12. ↑ "Greek player given rough treatment by stretcher bearers". BBC Sports. 19 October 2015.
  13. ↑ "Greek stretcher-bearer falls over and drops injured player twice in farcical scenes". The Telegraph. 19 October 2015.
  14. ↑ "Από τη Λάρισα στην Ellen DeGeneres! (Greek)". sport24.gr. 21 October 2015.
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