Andreas Govas in Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

 is a Greek

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

 footballer who currently plays for Greek Super League side AO Kavala.

Club career

In 2007 Govas was a part of Portsmouth's U-18 Youth Academy team.

In 2008 he and Australian Apostolos Giannou

Apostolos Giannou

Apostolos Giannou is a football player who currently plays for PAOK in the Superleague Greece.-Career:After migrating to Melbourne, Australia with his family, Giannou played junior football for the Oakleigh Cannons and South Melbourne...

 played together for Apollon Kalamarias, a year which saw Govas gain 7 appearances before transferring to FS Kozani.

In January 2010 Govas was signed to Kavala where he joined Australians; Zeljko Kalac

Željko Kalac

Željko Kalac is a retired Australian football goalkeeper. Standing at 2.02m, Kalac is one of the world's tallest professional goalkeepers....

, Apostolos Giannou

Apostolos Giannou

Apostolos Giannou is a football player who currently plays for PAOK in the Superleague Greece.-Career:After migrating to Melbourne, Australia with his family, Giannou played junior football for the Oakleigh Cannons and South Melbourne...

, Craig Moore

Craig Moore

Craig Andrew Moore , is a retired Australian soccer defender.Moore is best known for his two spells with Scottish Premier Division / Scottish Premier League club Rangers...

 and Robert Stambolziev.

International career

He was a part of the Australia U-20 team that participated in and won the 2008 ASEAN Youth Championship

AFF U19 Youth Championship 2008

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.

He was also a part of the Australia U-20 team that competed at the AFC U-19 Championship 2008.

In 2008 he had also represented Greece's U-19 squad with Apostolos Giannou

Apostolos Giannou

Apostolos Giannou is a football player who currently plays for PAOK in the Superleague Greece.-Career:After migrating to Melbourne, Australia with his family, Giannou played junior football for the Oakleigh Cannons and South Melbourne...

 and Dean Bouzanis

Dean Bouzanis

Dean Anthony Bouzanis is an Australian football player who currently plays as a goalkeeper for League One side Oldham Athletic on non-contract terms.-Club career:...

. It had been reported that Govas, Giannou and Bouzanis chose to represented Greece as they had been snubbed by Australian national selectors.

"I represented the Victorian squad at Under 15 and Under 16 levels and I was lucky enough to have been selected for the VIS to be part of a development program aimed at producing players for the national team. As I came towards the end of my time at VIS I was hoping to get an international call-up or an invitation to the AIS. I was invited up to the AIS for a day trial, but unfortunately I was not in the (selected) 18 and was sent home. I thought I was really good while on trial there and was surprised not to have been picked. I was also then told that I would not be in the mix for AIS selection, so I looked overseas." – Govas speaking with Melbourne's Greek newspaper Neos Kosmos

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