Andreas Chrysostomou

Andreas Chrysostomou (Greek: Ανδρέας Χρυσοστόμου; born 14 January 2001) is a Cypriot professional footballer who plays for Cypriot First Division club Anorthosis Famagusta. He plays as a central midfielder.[1]

Andreas Chrysostomou
Personal information
Full name Andreas Chrysostomou
Date of birth (2001-01-14) 14 January 2001
Place of birth Nicosia, Cyprus
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Central midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Anorthosis Famagusta
Number 88
Youth career
—2018 Anorthosis Famagusta
2018–2019 Inter Milan
2019–2020 Sampdoria
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2020– Anorthosis Famagusta 30 (3)
International career‡
2016–2018 Cyprus U17 5 (0)
2019 Cyprus U19 1 (0)
2021– Cyprus U21 4 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23 October 2022 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 23 June 2023 (UTC)

Career

Chrysostomou was born on January 14, 2001 in Nicosia, Cyprus. He started his youth career at the age of 5 as a member of Anorthosis Famagusta academy. During his time in the Anorthosis Academies, he showed his talent, and was acquired by Inter Milan, where he played for Inter Milan's U17 and U19 teams, and also played for Sampdoria's U19. After his stint in Italian clubs, he returned to Cyprus and the team where he was promoted.

Anorthosis Famagusta

Chrysostomou made his debut for Anorthosis in a Cypriot Super Cup match against Omonia on 13 July 2021, he scored the only goal for his team.[2]

On 14 January 2022, Anorthosis announced the renewal of Chrysostomou contract until 2025.[3]

Personal life

Chrysostomou's father, "Tomis", spoke to Super Sport FM 104.0's "Eisai Offside" show, about the young talents in Cyprus and among other things he referred to his son's experience abroad and the difficulties he encountered in Italy when he made the decision to wear the Inter jersey.

"It takes a lot of sacrifices from the youngsters. I speak from experience having seen what Andreas went through. He left Cyprus as a youngster, at the age of 15. He went to Inter and stayed there until he was 19-20. We were deprived of him at a difficult age. He went to a foreign country, there was a lot of racism because you can understand how they felt when they saw someone coming from abroad to take their place. Andreas experienced racism, but he fought it, he didn't give up. Let me give you the simple example of Italians not speaking English to him only Italian, so he had to learn the language. It was very difficult. Andreas took the hardest way to play football," he said.

And after a question, he replied, "Definitely the fact that he trained with Inter's first team helped him. He experienced things that we unfortunately didn't have here in Cyprus as academies. When the academy alone has a budget of 12 million euros, you can see the difference with the Cypriot academies where we were running around trying to find stadiums".[4]

Career statistics
As of match played 19 April 2023
Club Season League National Cup Europe Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Anorthosis 2020–21 Cyta Championship —10——10
2021–22 192404[lower-alpha 1]01[lower-alpha 2]1283
2022–23 11110——111
Total 303504011403
Career total 303504011404
  1. Appearance in UEFA Europa League, three appearances in UEFA Conference League
  2. Appearance in Cypriot Super Cup

Honours

Club

Anorthosis

References
  1. "Image". anorthosisfc.com.cy. Retrieved 6 June 2023.
  2. "Omonia Nicosia vs. Anorthosis - 13 July 2021 - Soccerway". int.soccerway.com.
  3. "Ανανέωση συνεργασίας με Ανδρέα Χρυσοστόμου". 14 January 2022.
  4. "Πατέρας Ανδρέα: «Ο Χρυσοστόμου βίωσε τον ρατσισμό…»". 3 December 2022.

Andreas Chrysostomou at Soccerway

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