{"id":1002,"date":"2021-01-30T07:44:31","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T07:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/etrendsnews.com\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2021-01-30T07:44:31","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T07:44:31","slug":"top-scorer-giakoumakis-surprises-fellow-countrymen-he-almost-never-scored-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etrendsnews.com\/2021\/01\/30\/top-scorer-giakoumakis-surprises-fellow-countrymen-he-almost-never-scored-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Top scorer Giakoumakis surprises fellow countrymen: ‘He almost never scored here’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Football experts in Greece look with amazement at the performance of Eredivisie top scorer Giorgos Giakoumakis. The VVV-Venlo striker is already at twenty goals after nineteen games, while he was not exactly known as a goal-scoring machine in his native country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I can hardly believe that he is doing so well at VVV at the moment,” said Antonis Tsirakis, journalist for the Greek sports newspaper Sportime. “And I’m not alone in that. Actually, everyone in Greece tries to understand why he is so good in the Netherlands and why he didn’t show it here.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Giakoumakis scored no less than four goals in the home game against Vitesse (4-1) on Wednesday. With twenty league goals in total, the 26-year-old Greek has already scored more goals this season than in his last four years together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Only in the 2016\/2017 season did he show a glimmer of his killer instinct with eleven league goals for the Greek Platanias. “Then he left for AEK Athens, where he struggled with his form and almost never scored again,” said Johnny Georgopoulos, sports journalist with the Greek Gazzetta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Most people therefore initially thought that his series of goals in the Eredivisie was pure coincidence, but now more and more Greeks have come to believe in his qualities.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For users of the app: tap the video to watch how VVV-Venlo announced the arrival of the Greek striker in August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
‘He had never made a hat-trick in his career’ In his first match on behalf of VVV, Giakoumakis immediately made a hat-trick on a visit to FC Emmen (3-5). “That was actually unimaginable, because he had never done a hat-trick in his career,” said Georgopoulos. “It boosted his confidence and he doesn’t seem to stop ever since.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/strong>Without playing for a minute, Giakoumakis already went viral in his native country with his announcement video. In the video – in addition to technical director Stan Valckx who tries to write out the name of Giakoumakis – Greek culture is also emphatically present. “That was smart and also very flattering for the Greek players,” said Georgopoulos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n