Manolis Saliakas
Saliakas (left) with Olympiacos U19s
Personal information
Full name Emmanouil Saliakas
Date of birth (1996-09-12) 12 September 1996 (age 27)
Place of birth Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Right-back
Team information
Current team
 FC St. Pauli
Number 2
Youth career
2013 Ergotelis
2013–2014 Olympiacos
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2014–2019 Olympiacos 1 (0)
2016–2017 → Karmiotissa (loan) 30 (0)
2017–2019 → Chania (loan) 45 (7)
2019–2020 Lamia 24 (1)
2020–2022 PAS Giannina 66 (1)
2022– FC St. Pauli 52 (5)
International career‡
2011–2013 Greece U17 8 (1)
2013–2014 Greece U18 4 (0)
2014–2015 Greece U19 17 (1)
2015–2018 Greece U21 15 (3)
2021– Greece 3 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 19:44, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 1 September 2021

Manolis Saliakas (Greek: Μανώλης Σάλιακας; born 12 September 1996) is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a right-back for 2. Bundesliga club FC St. Pauli.[1]

Club career

Saliakas began his football career attending the Ergotelis Youth Academy, the youth system of his local Super League Greece club Ergotelis. Already capped with the Greece U17 national team, he was spotted by Olympiacos' scouts, who arranged his transfer to the Super League champions in the winter of 2013.[2]

Olympiacos

Saliakas played little for Olympiacos and moved to Limassol-based side Karmiotissa on loan, who had been newly promoted to the Cypriot First Division. Having made 31 appearances, he returned to Greece joining Chania of the Football League Greece on a two-year loan. He scored seven goals in 50 games.

Lamia

On 12 July 2019, facing competition at Olympiacos for his playing position from Omar Elabdellaoui, Bruno Gaspar and Vasilis Torosidis, Saliakas moved to Lamia on a free transfer. He made 29 consecutive appearances in all competitions.

PAS Giannina

On 31 July 2020, he signed a contract with PAS Giannina in Ioannina.[3][4] He played against Panathinaikos where he got into the semi-final of the Greek Cup in the season 2020–21.[5][6] With PAS Giannina he achieved 6th place in the 2021–22 Super League Greece.

FC St. Pauli

In June 2022 Saliakas moved to FC St. Pauli.[7]

International career

Saliakas made his debut for Greece national team on 3 June 2021 in a friendly against Belgium. He substituted Thanasis Androutsos in the 80th minute.[8]

Career statistics

As of 28 May 2023
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League Cup Continental Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Olympiacos 2013–14 Super League Greece 1 0 1 0 — — 2 0
2014–15 0 0 1 0 — — 1 0
2015–16 0 0 3 0 — — 3 0
Total 1 0 5 0 — — 6 0
Karmiotissa (loan) 2016–17 Cypriot First Division 30 0 1 0 — — 31 0
Chania (loan) 2017–18 Super League Greece 2 26 5 0 0 — — 26 5
2018–19 19 2 5 0 — — 24 2
Total 45 7 5 0 — — 50 7
Lamia 2019–20 Super League Greece 24 1 5 1 — — 29 2
PAS Giannina 2020–21 31 0 5 1 — — 36 1
2021–22 35 1 1 0 — — 36 1
Total 66 1 6 1 — — 72 2
FC St. Pauli 2022–23 2. Bundesliga 33 4 1 0 — — 34 4
Career total 199 13 23 2 0 0 0 0 222 15

Honours

Olympiacos

Individual

References

  1. ^ "Manolis Saliakas". Retrieved 29 August 2015.
  2. ^ "Aπό τον Εργοτέλη στον Ολυμπιακό ο Σάλιακας" (in Greek). 30 January 2013. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  3. ^ "ΚΑΛΩΣ ΟΡΙΣΕΣ ΜΑΝΩΛΗ ΣΑΛΙΑΚΑ". 31 July 2020.
  4. ^ "ΠΑΣ Γιάννινα: Ο Μανώλης Σάλιακας τιμάει και το τελευταίο ψίχουλο από το ψωμί που τρώει". www.sport24.gr. 8 December 2021.
  5. ^ "PAS Giannina FC 2 - 1 Panathinaikos FC". www.soccerway.com. Retrieved 16 March 2021.
  6. ^ "Panathinaikos 1 - 2 PAS Giannina FC". www.soccerway.com. Retrieved 16 March 2021.
  7. ^ "Vielen Dank für drei Jahre am Millerntor und alles Gute für die Zukunft, Rico!". www.fcstpauli.com (in German). FC St. Pauli. 18 May 2022. Retrieved 3 June 2022.
  8. ^ "Belgium v Greece game report". ESPN. 3 June 2021.
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