Lamia will be the next stop in the career of Maria Oikonomidou. The Fthiotis have announced the signing of the 32-year-old international diagonal for next year, adding an important athlete to their roster.
Oikonomidou is considered one of the greatest volleyball players in Greece in the last ten years, having played in the biggest teams in Greece and in Europe, and is expected to strengthen the Greek women in the effort to stay in the Women’s Volleyball League.
In detail, the announcement:
“The Board of Directors of AO Lamia 2013 announces the start of the collaboration with the athlete Maria Oikonomidou. Maria was born in Thessaloniki on August 18, 1992 with a height of 1.85m. and fights as a diagonal.
She started her career in 2007 and has competed in the following teams: 2007-2008: Earinos Thessaloniki 2008-2011: Experimental Thessaloniki 2011-2013: Anatolia2013-2014: Vrilissia 2014-2016: A.O. Thiras 2016-2017: Pannaxiakos AON2017-2018: AEK2018-2020: Panathinaikos 2020 Pannaxiakos 2020-2021: Maccabi Haifa 2021-2022: Albese 2022 Bekestsbai 2022-2023: ASP Thetis 2023 -2024: PAOK
Maria is an international player with the Greek National Team and has many appearances with the official ‘favourite’!
After the agreement with our team, Maria said: “Thank you very much to the people of Lamia, the coaching team and the administration for their approach and their trust. In our country every year we compete with more and more foreign players and it is very important for me, for the sport and for all Greek women when teams like Lamia show their trust in Greek athletes! I wish you a successful and healthy year.”
The Board of Directors of AO LAMIAS 2013 welcomes Maria to its family and wishes her health and many successes with our team”.
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