Efstathios Tavlaridis

England

Tavlaridis was born in Serres. He started his career at Iraklis, debuting at the age of 17, and was transferred to Arsenal in 2001 for £1m. He never fully broke into the first team, unable to displace Sol Campbell and Kolo Touré, and was loaned to Portsmouth as a result. There, he made four appearances as Pompey won the First Division Championship and promotion to the Premier League. He made eight appearances for Arsenal, all but one of them in the League Cup. He made his Premier League debut in 2002–03 season against Southampton, where Arsenal rested many of their players for the upcoming FA Cup Final, also against Southampton.

Lille

On 29 April 2004, Tavlaridis was transferred from Arsenal to Lille on a four-year contract after having been loaned there early in the year. In his spell with the club he continually created a great deal of interest and attention from several other teams. With regard to Tavlaridis's time at Lille, he has regularly featured within both Champions League and Ligue 1 games for Les Dogues. His debut was in the first leg of a Champions League tie against AEK at the Stade Pierre-Mauroy in October 2006, of which eventually finished 3–1 to the hosts. All in all, Tavlaridis in 2011 described his spell with Lille as "the most beautiful page of his career".

Saint-Étienne

Despite being linked with a hosts of Ligue 1 clubs, notably Bordeaux, Marseille, and Monaco, Tavlaridis announced that he was signing with Saint-Étienne…

Tavlaridis managed to play only twice for Greece in 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup, having fallen out of favor with coach Otto Rehhagel as well as Akis Zikos, Ieroklis Stoltidis, Grigoris Georgatos, Nikos Lyberopoulos and Vasilios Tsartas. After ten years and the amazing 2014-2015 season with Atromitos and Panathinaikos he was called up by Markarian for the games against Faroe Islands for the preliminary round of UEFA Euro 2016 and the friendly game against Poland. On 17 June 2015, in a friendly match against Poland, at the beginning of the second half, he wore the jersey of the Greek team after almost ten years, by replacing Sokratis Papastathopoulos.

Club

Lille

UEFA Intertoto Cup: 2004 Individual

Super League Greece Team of the Season: 2013–14, 2014–15