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Charalampos Lykogiannis

ハラランボス・リコヤニス　/　はららんぼす・りこやにす

Association football player from Greece

October 22, 1993 (age 32)　・　Piraeus, Piraeus Regional Unit, Greece

Piraeus Regional Unit
association football player

My Take

There is something I respect about a left-back who quietly anchors a Serie A side and a national team without chasing headlines. Lykogiannis, the 191cm Greek nicknamed Lykos, the wolf, struck me as a player whose value lives in the work nobody films: the recovery runs, the covering, the discipline. Coming out of the port city of Piraeus and earning his place at Bologna and with Greece is no small feat. I tend to admire defenders precisely because their excellence is invisible to casual fans, and he reads to me as exactly that kind of dependable, underappreciated professional.

Overview

Charalampos "Babis" Lykogiannis (Greek: Χαράλαμπος "Μπάμπης" Λυκογιάννης; born 22 October 1993), also known as Lykos (Greek for "wolf" – from the first letters of his surname), is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Serie A club Bologna and the Greece national team.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Charalampos Lykogiannis
Name (Japanese): ハラランボス・リコヤニス
Reading: はららんぼす・りこやにす
Born: October 22, 1993 (age 32)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Libra / Rooster
Origin: Piraeus, Piraeus Regional Unit, Greece
Blood type: Private
Height: 191 cm
Agency: Private
Occupation: association football player

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Private

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8F%E3%83%A9%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%9C%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B3%E3%83%A4%E3%83%8B%E3%82%B9

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