Nikos Christidis

International career Christidis played for Greece U19 6 times. He was also the main goalkeeper of the squad that competed in the European Championship of 1963.

Christidis made with Greece 26 appearances, between 1964 and 1978, four of which as a captain.

Managerial career After Christidis ended his playing career and worked for many years as assistant coach and as the goalkeeping coach for AEK. He also worked as a first coach mainly in teams of smaller divisions. He assumed the position of coach initially as an interim on 26 April 1987, when a two-month exclusion sentence was imposed on the then coach of AEK, Nikos Alefantos. But shortly after Alefantos was fired and Christidis took over until the end of the season.

He occasionally managed various clubs such as A.O. Karditsa, Ionikos, Edessaikos, Kalamata, Paniliakos, Sparta, Trikala and Chania. In 1996 he was in charge of infrastructure departments at AEK. In 1998 he worked as an assistant to Giannis Kollias in Greece U21 and in 2000 as an assistant to Vasilis Daniil in Greece, while in 2001 he was their first coach, in a friendly match against Russia, before Otto Rehhagel took over the technical leadership.

Honours

Aris Greek Cup: 1969–1970

AEK Athens Alpha Ethniki: 1977–78, 1978–79 Greek Cup: 1977–1978