Panos Markovits is a former Greek

Greece

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

 football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 coach and player.

He was born in Drama

Drama

Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...

, Macedonia (Greece)

Macedonia (Greece)

Macedonia is a geographical and historical region of Greece in Southern Europe. Macedonia is the largest and second most populous Greek region...

 in 1925. He played football for PAOK

PAOK FC

P.A.O.K. F.C. is a Greek association football club based in Thessaloniki, Greece. It is the largest supported football club in Macedonia.PAOK FC is the football department of Pan-Thessalonian Athletic Club of Constantinopolitans , a multi-sport club. Since its formation in 1926 the football club...

 from 1945 to 1951 and then transitioned from player to coach.

As a coach, Markovits has worked for:

• Doxa Drama (1952–1955, 1990}
• Iraklis (1960)
• Thermaikos
• Apollon Kalamaria (1963)
• Pierikos
• The Greece national football team
  Greece national football team
  The Greece national football team represents Greece in association football and is controlled by the Hellenic Football Federation, the governing body for football in Greece. Greece's home ground is Karaiskakis Stadium in Piraeus and their head coach is Fernando Santos...
  
   (1966–1967)
• Ethnikos Piraeus
• Apollon Athens
• APOEL
  APOEL FC
  APOEL F.C. is a professional football club based in Lefkosia , Cyprus and they are one of the founding members of the Cyprus Football Association. APOEL is one of the most popular football teams in Cyprus and they are the most successful with an overall tally of 21 championships, 19 cups and 12...
  
   Nicosia
  Nicosia
  Nicosia from , known locally as Lefkosia , is the capital and largest city in Cyprus, as well as its main business center. Nicosia is the only divided capital in the world, with the southern and the northern portions divided by a Green Line...
  
   (1973, 1974, 1984, 1985 and 2004)
• Panionios (1979)

In 2010, he was given an award by y President of the Republic Demetris Christofias, for his contributions to sport in Cyprus