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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 56. Chapters: Ahmed Magdy, Alain Raguel, Alexis Gavrilopoulos, Amadou Sanokho, Anastasios Karamanos, Andreas Tatos, Antonis Antoniadis, Araquem de Melo, Athanasios Tsigas, Biro-Biro (footballer born 1974), Carlos Alberto Massara, Cesar Alberto Castro, Charles Itandje, Chrisostomos Michailidis, Christos Kalantzis, Christos Koutsospyros, Christos Mikes, Chumbinho, Cristiano Roland, David Meza (footballer), Denis Epstein, Dimitrios Geladaris, Dimitrios Ioannou, Dimosthenis Manousakis, Dominique Wassi, Efstathios Rokas, Efstathios Tavlaridis, Efstrat Billa, Elini Dimoutsos, Emanuel Perrone, Fabian Pawela, Filippos Darlas, Fotis Kipouros, Francisco Zuela, Francis Doe, Georgios Anatolakis, Georgios Georgiou, Georgios Korakakis, Georgios Makris, Georgios Simos, Giannis Katemis, Giannis Skopelitis, Giannis Sotirhos, Giorgos Koutsis, Giorgos Sideris, Ilias Anastasakos, Ilias Manikas, Ilias Mihalopoulos, Ioannis Karalis, Ioannis Skondras, Jean-Hugues Ateba, Jonas Sandqvist, Juan Carlos Blengio, Julian Gjeloshi, Khaled Al Zaher, Kleopas Giannou, Konstantinos Andriolas, Konstantinos Mitroglou, Konstantinos Nebegleras, Kostas Giannoulis, Kostas Mendrinos, Leandro Lourenco Franco, Lefteris Intzoglou, Loukas Karadimos, Lucas Trejo, Luciano de Souza, Luiz Eduarto Santana Brito, Manolis Kallergis, Marcelo Jose Oliveira, Marcelo Sarmiento, Marcin Baszczy ski, Martin Rodriguez (footballer born 1968), Michalis Kripintiris, Milen Petkov, Nikolaos Zafeiropoulos, Nikola Belji, Nikos Nioplias, Nikos Skarmoutsos, Oscar Marcelino Alvarez, Panagiotis Ballas, Panagiotis Korbos, Pascal Vahirua, Pashalis Melissas, Pavlos Dermitzakis, Petros Zouroudis, Pierre Ebede, Predrag Erak, Rafik Djebbour, Roberto Fabian Sanchez Doldan, Roberto Merino, Rock Itoua-Ndinga, Roland Zajmi, Stelios Sfakianakis, Stergos Marinos, Thanasis Karagounis, Vangelis Koutsopoulos, Vasilios Rovas, Vasilis Avramidis, Vassilios Apostolopoulos, Velimir Radman, Vlasis Kazakis, Walter Iglesias, Wander dos Santos Machado, Wayne Thomas (footballer), Zdravko Popovi, Zoran Jevtovi . Excerpt: Wayne Junior Robert Thomas (born 17 May 1979) is an English professional footballer who played as a centre back or right back for Greek side Veria FC. Thomas was born in Gloucester and began his career playing for Torquay United. He would go on to make over one hundred league appearances for them, and one season managed to be ever-present, starting all forty-four league games. His performances soon brought attention from larger clubs, with Stoke City, then in the Second Division, winning the race for his signature in the summer of 2001, paying a transfer fee of 200,000. He soon became a regular in the side and made 43 appearances during the 2000-01 season as Stoke lost to Walsall in the play-offs. In the 2001-02 season Thomas helped Stoke achieve promotion through the play-offs with a 2-0 win against Brentford at the Millennium Stadium in the final. Despite the promotion, Thordarson was sacked and replaced by Steve Cotterill. Cotterill was manager for just six months before he resigned amidst much controversy to become assistant manager at Sunderland. After a short spell under the caretaker manager Dave Kevan, Tony Pulis would become the new manager of Stoke. Thomas' career would flourish under Pulis and so, with his contract running out in the summer of 2005, several Championship clubs were looking to sign Thomas on a free transfer after he stated that unhappy with Stoke taking too long to offer him a new contact. The race was eventually won by Cotterill, then managing Burnley after Cotterill flew out to Thomas' holiday home in Florida to persuade him. His first season as a Burnley player was an unsuccessful one, as he was hit with two serious injuries; first tearing his knee ligaments and then, after a surprisingly quick recovery, breaking...
