Peter Philipakos (Greek: Πέτρος Φιλιππάκος; born 21 January 1983) is an American retired soccer player who played as a midfielder.
[2] He spent the 2002 and 2003 seasons playing as an outside-midfielder and second-striker, making 37 total appearances (35 starts), scoring 12 goals and adding 7 assists.
[5] In late December 2003, after completing his junior year, Philipakos tried out with AEK Athens of A' Ethniki (now called the Greek Super League).
[5][6] He was ineligible to appear in competitive matches in the 2003–04 season since AEK already had the maximum-allowed number of non-European Union players on its roster.
[18][19] Olympiacos became A' Ethniki champions and Greek Cup winners in the 2004–05 season,[10][11] with Philipakos making a total of 6 appearances (2 starts), playing primarily as a right-sided midfielder.
That season Aris was playing in B' Ethniki for the just the second time in the club's long history, and during the winter transfer period manager Nikos Anastopoulos hired Philipakos and defender Efthimios Kouloucheris—who had also been recently released by Olympiacos.
Shortly after Philipakos signed, President Nikos Pirounias agreed to sell controlling interest to a group of investors fronted by Cypriot businessman Fivos Moridis.
[38] Philipakos officially cut ties with Ethnikos in February 2007,[38] but because the release came after the close of the winter transfer period, he was unable to be registered by a European club for the remainder of the 2006–07 season.
[42] Once the adductor healed, Philipakos made his Gambrinus Liga debut against FK Mladá Boleslav on September 16, 2007.
In November 2007 Philipakos had the problem surgically repaired at the Hernienzentrum clinic in Munich by world-renowned hernia operation specialist Ulrike Muschaweck.
[42] Philipakos fully recovered and returned to normal training in late November 2007,[42] just prior to the beginning of the league's winter break; by that time though, Most was in last place and poised for relegation.
In August 2009, Philipakos accepted a trial invitation from Danish club Vejle, but he returned to Greece after only a few days, suffering from an ankle injury.
[50] In the next transfer window, in January 2010, Philipakos signed a 6-month contract with Greek Football League 2 club Chersonissos.
In late September, Ionikos was found guilty of committing contract forgery during the 2010–11 season and was relegated to Football League 2.
[52] On November 27, 2011, in the fourth week of the 2011-12 Football League season, Philipakos played in Iraklis Psaxna's first win in the Greek second tier in club history—a 2–0 defeat of Diagoras.
[55] On March 18, 2005, Philipakos was called by the Greek Under-21 National Team for UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification matches against Georgia and Albania.
[56] Philipakos declined the invitation, citing a desire to focus on Olympiacos duties, while also adding he was not ready to close the door on the prospect of one day representing the United States.