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Achilleas Grammatikopoulos

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Place of birth
  
Piraeus, Greece

Role
  
Football player

Years
  
Team


Playing position
  
Goalkeeper

Place of death
  
Piraeus, Greece

Position
  
Goalkeeper

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Date of birth
  
(1908-09-28)28 September 1908

Date of death
  
30 December 2008(2008-12-30) (aged 100)

Name
  
Achilleas Grammatikopoulos

Died
  
December 30, 2008, Piraeus, Greece

Achilleas Grammatikopoulos (Greek: Αχιλλέας Γραμματικόπουλος) (28 September 1908 – 30 December 2008) was a Greek football player, one of the most prolific goalkeepers in the Greek league during the late 1920s and the early 1930s.

Grammatikopoulos was born in Piraeus in 1908. He started his football career at Aris Nikaia before transferring to Olympiakos whose nets he guarded from his debut on 4 November 1928 until 1944. He was considered one of the top keepers of the pre-WWII era and was capped 5 times by the Greek National team. His nickname during that time was "Zamora" after Ricardo Zamora, the top Spaniard goalkeeper of the same era.

Grammatikopoulos saw action in World War II. After his playing career was over, he stayed on in football as a referee. On 30 December 2008 he died in Piraeus of natural causes, at the age of 100.

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