Yiorgos Samaras moved to the Netherlands at the age of 16, signing for Heerenveen. He made his first team debut in the 2003/04 season, starting a total of ten matches. This was followed by another successful two seasons in the Dutch top flight before some Premier League clubs started showing interest in the striker. After interest from teams like Arsenal, he joined Manchester City for a fee that was close to £6 million.
Having made 8 goals in 55 apperances with the english club, in 2008 he signed a contract with the Scottish club of Celtic. He scored his first two goals of the 2008-09 season against Falkirk on 23 August. Following some impressive performances, Samaras was named SPL Player of the Month for September 2009. On 26 July 2009, he scored a wonder goal, running from just inside his own half before slotting home, in the 2-0 win against Tottenham in the Wembley Cup. He scored a brilliant goal which baffled the keeper in injury time against Dynamo Moscow in the Champions League knock-out stages - his first European goal - which led to Celtic's qualification for the Play-off round.
He made his debut for National Team just a week after his 21st birthday on 28 February 2006 in a friendly game against Belarus, in which he scored the only goal of the game. He featured in Greece's Euro 2008 qualifiers, the final Greek squad at the finals. Samaras' fourth international goal went on to be a crucial one, when he scored the winning goal in a World Cup 2010 qualifier against Israel in front of his hometown crowd in Heraklion.
(The player number is indicative, based on appearances with the National Team so far. The final squad (and numbers) for the World Cup 2010 will be finalized in June).
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