Last update 17 April, 2024 by Alberto Llopis
When Demis Nikolaidis arrived at Atlético de Madrid in the summer of 2003, It was possibly one of the best Greek players of the moment. He was also one of the most media. Star AEK Athens, which came after a confrontation with the chief executive of the club with attacks including, he was married to one of the media stars of the Hellenic country, the singer Despina Vandi.
The failure of Nikolaidis' signing for Atlético de Madrid
It was the hot summer when Atletico Madrid who had returned a year earlier to First, He is casting their nets on this Greek-born striker 1973. His good campaigns at AEK and the Hellenic national team made the Colchonero team's coaches see in him an ideal complement for the newcomer to stardom. Fernando Torres that at that time, She had recently had exploded.
The truth is that the thing did not start badly for him. The tip heleno, He started the season scoring goals but a series of injuries caused performance down and out slowly disappearing of calls and presence on the pitch was increasingly irrelevant. In the end, It was talk over his famous wife who took a summer theme that became fashionable at that time their attitudes on the field.
Despite the plague of injuries that almost ended his career, came to play the Euro Cup that Greece won in 2004 in Portugal, where he participated in several matches. After a new injury left the Atlético after the Portuguese round, a year after arriving, and he made to retire with just over 30 years before the impossibility of recovering their level. He was later president of AEK Athens but that, It's another story.