Dimitrios Kalogerakos
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Dimitrios Kalogerakos | ||
| Date of birth | 7 June 1996 | ||
| Place of birth | Athens, Greece | ||
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Club information | |||
Current team | Olympiacos | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –2009 | Kentavros Vrilission | ||
| 2009–2012 | Asteras Glyka Nera | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2012–2013 | Apollon Smyrni | 18 | (0) |
| 2013–2014 | Egaleo | 27 | (0) |
| 2014 | Real Salt Lake AZ | 6 | (0) |
| 2014–2015 | Alimos | 13 | (0) |
| 2016 | Ilisiakos | 3 | (0) |
| 2016–2017 | Lugo Fuenlabrada | 10 | (0) |
| 2017 | Rayo Vallecano | 0 | (0) |
| 2017 | →Moratalaz Madrid (loan) | 7 | (0) |
| 2017–2018 | Acharnaikos | 4 | (0) |
| National team | |||
| 2009–2012 | Greece U17 | 11 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2018– | Olympiacos (Academy Goalkeeper Coach) | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 1 July 2018 | |||
Dimitrios "Dimitris" Kalogerakos (Greek: Δημήτρης Καλογεράκος; born 7 June 1996) is a former Greek footballer who played as a goalkeeper and the current Olympiacos FC Academy goalkeeper coach.
Born in Athens, Greece, Kalogerakos began his career at the age of 16 with Apollon Smyrni FC when he appearanced in his first professional friendly game in September 2012 with the senior team. The same season (2012–13) that Apollon Smyrni FC won the Greek Football League title. Being as one of the most promising goalkeepers in his age, the football manager Luciano de Souza trusted the 17-year-old goalkeeper to play for Egaleo FC[1] in the Greek Football League 2 for the season 2013–14. At the end of the season he moved to the United States for Real Salt Lake participating in the MLS US Soccer Development Academy.[2]
Kalogerakos returned to his native Greece to join AOT Alimos FC in Greek Football League for the 2014–15 season. During the U20 final against AEK Athens sustained a serious fracture at the right greater trochanter of his right foot, due to his collision over an iron object near to his goal line. He returned the next season playing for Ilisiakos FC in Greek Football League 2.
On August 2016, he made a deal with Lugo Fuenlabrada, which is based in Madrid.[3] He started the 2016–17 season as the undisputed first goalie for the Spanish club. The Greek goalkeeper made notable performances, until the middle of the season, when he suffered from supraspinatus tendinitis injury on his right shoulder.
In 2017, after a long-standing damage injury he made a loan deal with Moratalaz of Madrid[4] participating in the rest games until the end of the season.
On 31 August 2017, he signed a 1-year contract with a Greek Football League club Acharnaikos[5] for an undisclosed fee. From the beginning of the season the Greek second division club struggled with a massive financial problems, revealing an unprecedented debt. That fact led Kalogerakos negotiate the terms of his contract resolve and eventually released as a free agent until the end of the season.[6]
Since 2018, after his recent retired from playing, Kalogerakos serves at the Olympiacos FC Academy as a goalkeeper coach.[7]
Outside football
Kalogerakos owns an Olympiacos FC football school in Athens, which collaborates with Olympiacos FC Youth Academy.[8]