Georgios Skartados

Georgios Skartados (Greek: Γεώργιος Σκαρτάδος; born 7 April 1960) is a Greek former international footballer who played as a midfielder.

Career Club career Born in Rhodes, Skartados started his football career at local club Rodos in 1975, aged 15. The next year, he joined the first team and after two seasons in the second division, they managed to get promoted to the top-tier Alpha Ethniki in 1978. In the summer of 1982, he joined PAOK and quickly became a first-team regular at the White-blacks of the North. Although he was initially acquired by PAOK president Giorgos Pantelakis to replace Giannis Gounaris as a right wing-back, Skartados shined as a box-to-box midfielder who had good all-round abilities, skilled at both defending and attacking. Regarded as one of the greatest midfielders in club's history, Skartados wore the No 8 white-black jersey for ten seasons and won the league title in 1985. He is PAOK 8th all-time appearance maker with 342 games in total (265 in the league) and 4th all-time goalscorer with 112 goals (84 in the league).

In 1992, Skartados moved to Iraklis and played for three seasons, making 94 league appearances and scoring 16 goals in total. He was named PSAP Best Greek Player of 1994–95 season alongside Giorgos Georgiadis of Panathinaikos and Michalis Kasapis of AEK Athens. In 1995, he was acquired by Olympiacos and won the 1997 league title playing as a sweeper (libero). He ended his career in 1998, playing his last season for Ialysos.

International career He had 26 caps for the Greece national team between 1983 and 1992, scoring 3 goals.

Career statistics Club career

International career

Honours PAOK Alpha Ethniki: 1984–85

Olympiacos Alpha Ethniki: 1996–97

Individual PSAP Best Greek Player: 1994–95