Stelios Giannakopoulo - football (soccer) player, photo wallpapers - Galawallpapers.com: Stylianos Giannakopoulos (popularly known as Stelios) (born July 12, 1974 in Athens, Greece) is a Greek football player who currently plays for Bolton Wanderers F.C. as a midfielder. He initially started in his homeland of Greece, spending his first playing season with Ethnikos Asteras. Having been thrust immediately into first-team action, he found himself scoring six goals in his opening season, before moving to Paniliakos, where, in the three years he spent there, he scored 26 goals in 84 games. Olympiacos CFP soon were after his signature. However, after seven years playing in Greece, and having achieved such a high rating, he was snapped up by Bolton Wanderers. Having made his Bolton début in a 4–0 defeat to Manchester United F.C., and, growing in confidence, he was one of the players selected for the Greek national team which were victorious in the 2004 European Football Championship. One of his most important goals with the Greek national team was against Spain in Saragosa Stadium, in the qualifying session for the Euro 2004. He scored the winning goal against Arsenal in an FA Cup Fourth round match played at the Reebok Stadium on January 28, 2006. Bolton won 1–0. Stelios is one of the best Greek football players, and one of the few who improved their performance significantly after Euro 2004. Stelios also has the distinction of being part of the substitution that holds the record of the largest difference between the number of letters in the surnames of two players in a Premiership substitution. This occurred when he replaced Ibrahim Ba during a league game for Bolton Wanderers on February 7, 2004.