Famous People with Name Ioannis

Ioannis Damanakis            Origin/Culture/Country: Greek

Ioannis Damanakis: a retired Greek footballer.During his career he played for PAOK FC.He scored 16 league goals,26 in total for PAOK. He earned 24 caps and scored 1 goal for the Greece national football team, and participated in UEFA Euro 1980.

Ioannis Gounaris            Origin/Culture/Country: Greek

Ioannis Gounaris: a retired Greek footballer.During his career he played for PAOK FC and Olympiacos FC. He earned 27 caps for the Greece national football team, and participated in UEFA Euro 1980. Gounaris was far ahead of his time playing as a full-back in the early seventies.He plowed the whole right wing from defence to offence.For sure he was the first one to do so in Greece along with his other side wing playmate Kostas Iosifidis.PAOK was the happy one to have these young talented full-backs around at the same time but so did the Greek national team also.The two of them,were a very important part of the PAOK team who won the first championship in the history of the club and played in 7 cup finals from 1970 to 1978

Ioannis Samaras            Origin/Culture/Country: Greek

Ioannis Samaras: a Greek former footballer who played as a midfielder during the 1980's and 1990's.He began his football career in 1980 with Vyzas F.C., but before long he had attracted the attention of several bigger teams and he signed for OFI Crete in the summer of 1984. He went on to play over 100 matches for Crete before he left for Panathinaikos FC in January 1989. In 1991, Samaras returned to Crete

Ioannis Valaoras            Origin/Culture/Country: Greek

Ioannis Valaoras: was a football Striker in Greece during 1980's and early 1990's. He played only for Larissa.

Ioannis Masmanidis            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Ioannis Masmanidis: is a German footballer of Greek descent who currently plays for Apollon Limassol.He represented Germany Under-20 team at the 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship, Germany Under-21 team at European under-21 championship 2006.