Marios Elia | |
Fullname: | Marios Elia |
Height: | 1.75 m |
Birth Date: | 14 April 1979 |
Birth Place: | Lythrodontas, Nicosia, Cyprus |
Position: | Defender |
Years1: | 1998–2014 |
Years2: | 2000–2001 |
Years3: | 2008 |
Clubs1: | APOEL |
Clubs2: | → Doxa Katokopias (loan) |
Clubs3: | → Ethnikos Achna (loan) |
Caps1: | 176 |
Goals1: | 13 |
Caps2: | 22 |
Goals2: | 2 |
Caps3: | 11 |
Goals3: | 0 |
Totalcaps: | 209 |
Totalgoals: | 15 |
Nationalyears1: | 2003–2011 |
Nationalteam1: | Cyprus[1] |
Nationalcaps1: | 51 |
Nationalgoals1: | 2 |
Manageryears1: | 2015–2016 |
Managerclubs1: | Olympiakos Nicosia (assistant manager) |
Pcupdate: | 31 May 2014 |
Ntupdate: | 10 August 2011 |
Marios Elia (; born 14 April 1979 in Nicosia) is a retired Cypriot professional footballer and manager of the restaurant Ivory in Nicosia.
Marios Elia spent almost his entire career playing for APOEL, where he won 7 Championships, 4 Cups, 6 Super Cups and appeared in four official 2009–10 UEFA Champions League group stage matches in APOEL's first UEFA Champions League participation. He also appeared in one 2011–12 UEFA Champions League match for APOEL, in the club's surprising run to the quarter-finals of the competition. In his last season (2013–14) as a player, APOEL's vice-captain managed to win all the season's trophies in Cyprus, the Cypriot League,[2] [3] the Cypriot Cup[4] [5] and the Cypriot Super Cup,[6] [7] retiring as a proud domestic treble winner.