Konstantinos “ Dinos ” Mavropanos, Greek football player

Konstantinos Mavropanos ( greek : Κωνσταντίνος Μαυροπάνος ; born 11 December 1997 ) is a greek professional football player who plays as a center back for Bundesliga baseball club VfB Stuttgart, on lend from Arsenal, and the Greece national team. [ 3 ]

Club career [edit ]

PAS Giannina [edit ]

Born in Athens, [ 4 ] Mavropanos began his career with the youth side at Apollon Smyrnis where he stayed for eight years. [ 5 ] He then joined Super League side PAS Giannina in January 2016, signing a three-and-a-half-year narrow. [ 6 ] Mavropanos made his competitive debut for PAS Giannina in the greek Cup on 29 November 2016. He started and played the broad match as PAS Giannina won 1–0. [ 7 ]

Mavropanos made his league introduction for PAS Giannina on 5 April 2017 against Veria. He started and played 57 minutes as PAS Giannina lost 3–0. [ 8 ] He scored his first base goal for the club on 19 August 2017 during the first league match of the season against Asteras Tripolis. His 19th-minute goal would be winner in a 2–1 victory. [ 9 ] Mavropanos was then vote man of the pit in PAS Giannina ‘s draw against ΑΕΚ Athens a week late on 27 August. [ 6 ] Mavropanos made 23 times in all competitions for PAS Giannina, scoring three goals. [ 3 ]

armory [edit ]

On 4 January 2018, Mavropanos signed for Premier League side Arsenal, for a report tip €2.1 million. [ 10 ] On 15 January, Mavropanos helped Arsenal U-23 all in Manchester United ‘s reserves 4–0 at home, playing the stallion 90 minutes. [ 11 ] On 2 February, Mavropanos was added to the Europa League police squad for the hard phase. [ 12 ] On 29 April, Mavropanos made his Premier League introduction in a 2–1 defeat against Manchester United at Old Trafford. [ 13 ] His performance was praised by both fans and pundits. [ 14 ] He made his home debut in the club ‘s adjacent match against Burnley. That peer was besides the concluding home game under coach Arsène Wenger, with Mavropanos keeping his first clean sheet as the team won 5–0. [ 15 ] He besides played in the surveil game away against Leicester City, but was sent off after 15 minutes to conclude his first season at Arsenal. [ 16 ] At the begin of October 2018, Mavropanos suffered a groin wound and was ruled out until mid-December. [ 17 ] On 15 January 2019, he returned to competitive action after closely four months, playing 70 minutes of the U23s ‘ 5–1 win over Manchester City. On 3 February 2019, he made his 2018–19 season debut as a substitute for Shkodran Mustafi in a 3–1 away loss against champions Manchester City. [ 18 ] On 12 May 2019, on the last matchday of the temper, Mavropanos was partnered with Shkodran Mustafi at centre-back, but was replaced by Laurent Koscielny after half an hour due to injury in a 3–1 aside win against Burnley. [ 19 ]

loanword to 1. FC Nürnberg

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On 13 January 2020, after struggling for match time at Arsenal, Mavropanos moved to 2. Bundesliga club 1. FC Nürnberg on loanword for the remainder of the 2019–20 season, [ 20 ] [ 21 ] and the Greek external had been picking up momentum in the heart of the Nuremberg defense with three stellar performances in a row. He won straight Man of the Match awards in his second and third game for the club, before making a key goalline clearance in his one-fourth. On 25 February 2020, Mavropanos picked up an injury acting against Darmstadt 98, but the club did n’t know the accurate duration of his absence. [ 22 ]

lend to VfB Stuttgart [edit ]

On 16 July 2020, Mavropanos signed a new batch with Arsenal and joined VfB Stuttgart on a €250.000 loanword for the 2020–21 temper, [ 23 ] reuniting with Sven Mislintat who had primitively scouted and signed the musician for Arsenal. [ 24 ] On 3 October 2020, Mavropanos made his competitive debut for Stuttgart in the Bundesliga against Bayer Leverkusen, the game ended in a 1–1 pull back. [ 25 ] On 15 October 2020, Mavropanos suffered the injury during a friendly with SC Freiburg and underwent an operation on his meniscus. [ 26 ] On 24 June 2021, his lend deal was extended for a second season, with an option to make the loan permanent with a buy choice of €3.5 million at the end of the temper. [ 27 ] On 7 August 2021, a workweek before hosting Greuther Fürth for the Bundesliga premier, Mavropanos as a starter scored with a header after a corner complain against BFC Dynamo for the first base round of the DFB-Pokal. [ 28 ] On 28 August 2021, Mavropanos scored his first Bundesliga goal as he battled his direction through three defenders before exchanging passes with Hamadi Al Ghaddioui and powers a fine finish into the top corner in a home Bundesliga game against SC Freiburg. [ 29 ] [ 30 ] On 2 October 2021, with an hour played, Konstantinos Mavropanos collected the ball on the right, explosion through the Hoffenheim defense at speed, and unleashed a cutthroat left-footed drive to double Stuttgart ‘s advantage, in a 3–1 home Bundesliga win game. [ 31 ] On 16 October 2021, the greek cardinal defender opened the score in the 15th moment with an amazing nip from 30 meters and against the menstruate of the match, finally sealing a 1–1 away draw against Borussia Mönchengladbach. [ 32 ] On 11 December 2021, he opened the score with a frightful kick in a vital away 2–0 win against VfL Wolfsburg in his club feat to avoid relegation. This is the fourth goal of the season for the defender. [ 33 ] On 14 December 2021, according to german newspapers, the excellent season he was having with Stuttgart caught the eyes of respective teams of greater prestige than the Stuttgart, namely Borussia Dortmund, West Ham United and Newcastle United, with Stuttgart having acquired him on loanword from Arsenal but with a purchase choice of just €3.5 million. It seems certain that the option will be paid, with the german cabaret possibly asking for up to €15 million for the international defender. [ 34 ]

International career [edit ]

On 24 March 2021, Mavropanos was called up to the Greek aged team by coach John van ‘t Schip for the approaching World Cup 2022 qualifiers against Spain and Georgia. On 28 March 2021, he made his debut with the national team as a substitute in a friendly against Honduras. [ 35 ]

career statistics [edit ]

club [edit ]

As of match played 19 December 2021[36]

International [edit ]

As of match played 12 October 2021
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National team Year Apps Goals
Greece 2021 7 0
Total 7 0

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