Vasilis Lakis

Naoussa

Lakis began his career in Naoussa playing as a defender, but his coaches soon switched him to the attacking role more appropriate to his innate talent. His team mates in Naoussa included the future star Vasilios Tsiartas.

Paniliakos

In the summer of 1995, Lakis signed for the professional club Panileiakos. In the following season, he helped the team to finish seventh in the Greek League by scoring seven goals.

AEK Athens

On 12 June 1998, Lakis was transferred to AEK Athens for a fee of 320 million drachmas. There he played alongside Demis Nikolaidis, Vasilios Tsiartas and Theodoros Zagorakis. With the yellow-blacks, he won two Greek Cups, one in 2000 against Ionikos and the other in 2002 against their rival, Olympiakos. He was in the squad that reached the Fourth round of the UEFA Cup in 2002 and was eliminated by the Inter Milan of Héctor Raul Cúper. The following season, with the acquisition of Grigorios Georgatos from Inter Milan, AEK reached the group stage of the UEFA Champions League, where they were drawn with Roma and Real Madrid. The club nearly beat Real Madrid after leading 3–1 and then 3–3 at home in the old stadium Nikos Goumas Stadium, but AEK Athens took their revenge in Madrid at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, drawing 2–2.

Crystal Palace

On 29 September 2004, after the conquest of Euro with Greece, Lakis signed as a free agent for Crystal Palace in the Premiership. He made 18 league appearances for Palace. He…

Lakis made 35 appearances for the Greece national football team and scored his first goal in a friendly match, in April 2000 in Dublin against the Republic of Ireland, in Lansdown Road. The coach Otto Rehhagel called him for the qualification for Euro 2004 and he was included in the Greek squad that won Euro 2004 and made two appearances as a substitute against Portugal in the group-stage and France in the quarterfinal.

International goals

Scores and results list Greece's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Lakis goal.

AEK Athens

Greek Cup: 1999–2000, 2001–02 Greece

European Championship: 2004 UEFA Euro U21: runner-up 1998