Nick Efthimiou Ethan
Nick Efthimiou Ethan commonly known as Nixo (born November 15, 1966), is a Greek American football soccer player who played professional soccer in Greece in 1990-1992 and in the United States from 1993-1999. He was a soccer state championship in 1985 from Richardson High School. He transferred to to UNC from UNT in 1987, under coach Anson Dorrance, and had an immediate impact as a walk on leading his team mates to the 1st ever college cup semi-final losing to Clemson the eventual national champions. He was awarded the Scholar athlete award in 1987 and 1988. He was selected to the Senior Indoor Soccer Combine for the West along with UNC team mate Chad Ashton, where he he was drafted by the Dallas Sidekicks in the fourth round (thirty-first overall) of the Major Indoor Soccer but ended up going abroad to his homeland and signing with AEK Athens F.C. a Greek 1st division team. In 1990, under coach Dušan Bajević he signed with AEK Athens F.C. in the Greek 1st Division and scored 8 goals and 16 assists in 59 game tenure with them. They won the league cup in 1990 and the Greek 1st division in 1992. Efthimiou was with AEK for 2 years, before returning back to his home town in Dallas Texas where he signed with the Sidekicks as a free agent in 1993.
In his career with the Sidekicks he won 2 Sidekicks indoor championships, one in the C.I.S.L.(Continental Indoor Soccer League) and the other in the P.S.A. (Premier Soccer Alliance).He is one of 9 indoor soccer players to have won two more championship rings. As a graduate from UNC with a journalism degree and a sports psychology degree from Texas Christian University he wrote a sports psychology book on how psychology can help collegiate and profession athletes in all sports. He currently an artist living in Scottsdale Arizona where his CEO of his sports apparel line called Nixo which he co founded with Plank before buying the company out right from Plank.{mosimage}
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