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About Pantelis Chatzidiakos
Pantelis Chatzidiakos (born 18 January 1997) is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Danish Superliga club Copenhagen and the Greece national team. As the son of a Greek father and a Dutch mother, Chatzidiakos was eligible to play for both Greece and the Netherlands. He played for the Netherlands under-16 team, but switched to Greece. As a result of his exceptional performances he was called in the Greece U-21 team from Antonis Nikopolidis for the 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification match against San Marino and Czech Republic on 22 and 27 March 2018 respectively. Chatzidiakos made his first appearance with the Greece senior national team on 12 October 2019, in the game against Italy in Rome, for the Euro 2020 Qualifiers. The young defender was a starter for Greece and played the whole 90 minutes in his debut for the team. Chatzidiakos was born in Rhodes to a Greek father and a Dutch mother.
