Georgios Iordanidis (defender)
Georgios Iordanidis (, ; born 17 October 1989) is a Greek former football player and current head coach. Early life, coaching career, and education He was born in 1989 to a middle-class family in Athens, the younger son of Iordanis Iordanidis, an auto electrician, and his wife, Dr. Ioanna Syriou, a secondary school principal and adjunct professor at the University of West Attica. He played senior-level football for Eleftheroupoli, PAO Kalyvion, IFA Blackpool, Sholing, and QK Southampton but several injuries led him to put an early end in his career. In July 2014, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Football Studies from Southampton Solent University, and earlier that year received the FA Level 2 coaching badge from the English FA. On 12 February 2016, he was appointed national team head coach by the Greek Amputee FA. In his debut as a head coach Greece Amputee FA drew 3-3 to AEK Futsal in a friendly game. In June 2016, he led the national team in the country's first participation in the EAFF Amputee Football Weeks project. In January 2017, he organized a charity tournament to gather food supplies for homeless people in Athens. On 11 January 2017, he resigned