var playerInfo={"60DC9D976694DF52":"1","D41F91B0720932DCFCEBDA572EB68D71":"1983-10-10","8025E7E497D77CF6":"PAOK Saloniki","BA50BEB0DB40F3ADF7C4575FF4221F17":"","2134628892B06B90":"Nikos Spiropoulos","C94C0D651EC157BC":"66kg","411CCFA197052F93":"Nikos Spiropoulos","BFA4903D06441BD5032C18CFE9B50683":"","797F91F0051E8E7502912D1DDA7DF5C1":"Greece","99B9FE00554E753D0BC6E1E16DA9F791":"Chievo","C403D9D9F071ACF5":"55552","BDC97245F9A52F8B":"590","BCB817AACBF8A2A6870B9B82788BC0CB":"2","6A0E980854EFD8AD1B424574AD15DF0D":"2013-7","EABD711929A60B526AB9CD802EC5F0A7":"21","94D0847B815EE9D1AA49123A5072B2C7":"Nikolaos Spiropoulos has gained a reputation as a buccaneering left-back for both club and country, using his strength and speed to great effect in defence and attack.<BR><BR>His all-round skills are much admired by Henk ten Cate, his coach at Panathinaikos, who during the 2008\/09 season asked the club&#8217;s directors to go out and buy him &#8220;a Spiropoulos for the right wing&#8221;.<BR><BR>Prior to arriving in the Greek capital, the flying full-back learned his trade at PAS Giannina, spending three seasons there before making 51 appearances for Panionios and then joining Pana in the middle of 2008.<BR><BR>Despite impressing on the left flank for many seasons, he had to wait until November 2007 for his first taste of international action, a UEFA EURO 2008 qualifying match against Malta.<BR><BR>A few months later Otto Rehhagel included Spiropoulos in his squad for the finals in Austria and Switzerland. Though Greece&#8217;s European defence ended in failure, the Panathinaikos full-back has held on to his place in the side, becoming a regular first-choice since then.","FAF88D97B63B269A":"171cm","4039037DD85D60421E356E7B3EA31BE5":"Chievo,Panathinaikos","e_index":9};