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Canadian Senior Club Soccer Championship 2000

Nova Scotia

Mens Team

King of Donair


Team History and Information

The King of Donair Soccer Team was founded in 1983 by businessmen George Athanasiou, Nick Garonis and Takis Mitropoulos and modeled on the simple premise that hard work, perseverance and commitment brings success, it has proven to be Atlantic Canada's premier soccer team in its 18 year existence.

No team can match King of Donair's on the field performance or its commitment to developing young talent. The team  has reached the Nova Scotia Provincial “Challenge Cup” final in every year of it’s 18 year existence, winning nine times, including an unprecedented five in a row from 1992 through 1996. The team’s record speaks for itself:
18 consecutive years as Provincial “Challenge Cup” Finalist
9 time Provincial Champions
Has finished in 4th Place at Nationals 3 times - 83, 92, 95 
National Bronze Medal - 1994
National Silver Medal - 1995
King of Donair has on four occasions finished the regular season and regional playoffs with an undefeated record, a feat no other team in Atlantic Canada has ever accomplished.

The team  has experienced great success at the National Championships. Twice the club has come home with medals - a bronze in 1994 and a silver in 1995. Only a heart-breaking overtime goal in 1995 stopped the club from becoming the first Nova Scotia team to win the Air Canada Challenge Cup awarded to Canada’s top amateur men’s senior soccer team. 

Individually, past and current King of Donair players have received a multitude of awards. In May 1998, Ante Jazic became the fifth member from the team to wear Canada’s National Team jersey when he played against Macedonia in Toronto. In doing so, he joined Craig Janc, Lewis Page, Tony Pignatiello and Neil Sedgwick as King of Donair players who have represented Canada in international competitions. Stephen Hart, king of Donair’s Head Coach  has also earned an international cap having suited up for Trinidad and Tobago in World Cup qualifying.

King of Donair players have also made their mark in professional soccer. Jazic currently plays for HNK Hajduk Split, a powerhouse team in the Croatian Premier League and George Kyreakakos has played professionally in Greece. In 1992, six members - Stewart Galloway, Phil Ruiz, George Kyreakakos, Lewis Page, Tony Pignatiello and Neil Sedgwick - spent the season with the Nova Scotia Clippers of the Canadian Soccer League.

Closer to home, Mike Hasiuk and Mike Dunphy and most recently, this year, Robbie Dow have received soccer scholarships to American universities and, in the past twelve years, Soccer Nova Scotia's player of the year was a member of King of Donair on eight occasions - Costa Elles, Doug Hadley, Trevor Chisholm, Craig Janc, Ante Jazic, George Kyreakakos, Lewis Page and Neil Sedgwick. This award traditionally goes to an up-and-coming player and is perhaps the best indicator of King of Donair's commitment to youth development. 

The team had a very successful campaign in 1999, winning three Maritime Major Indoor Soccer Tournaments, and the NSSL Provincial Indoor title. During the 1999 outdoor Season, the team completed it’s regular twenty game NSSL season with a record of 17 wins, 0 defeats, and 3 draws scoring 96 goals and having only 9 scored against it. This past winter, the team won the 2000 NSSL Indoor Provincial  title and the inaugural Soccer Nova Scotia 2000 Invitational  Indoor Tournament.

The team  ended it’s 2000 outdoor NSSL campaign with it’s second consecutive undefeated regular season and had a record of 16 wins, 0 defeats, and 2 draws, scoring 78 goals and having only 10 scored against it. (10 Shutouts). KOD currently carries a 48 game regular season undefeated streak, the last time the team was defeated in regular season play by a score of  1 - 0 was June 20, 1998. At the conclusion of the 2000 outdoor season KOD had 4 of it’s players in the top 10 in league scoring. KOD players and it’s Head Coach swept all of the NSSL individual awards for 2000. 4 KOD players were selected as NSSL All-stars.

King of Donair defeated Halifax Dunbrack (4 - 2) on aggregate in a two game total goal Provincial Championship Series and wins the right to represent the province of Nova Scotia for a record 9th  time at the National Senior Club Championships  which will be held in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan October 3 - 9, 2000.

Gray Zurheide - 26 Goals (New League Record) - 2000 NSSL “GOLDEN BOOT AWARD” -  2000 NSSL ALL-STAR
Trevor Reddick - 18 Goals (2nd place in league scoring) - 2000 NSSL “MOST VALUABLE PLAYER” -  2000 NSSL ALL-STAR
Stephen Hart - 2000 NSSL “COACH OF THE YEAR”
Ian Clark - 2000 NSSL “FAIR PLAY AWARD”
Jay Robinson - 2000 NSSL ALL-STAR
Mike Hasiuk - 2000 NSSL ALL-STAR

The Coaching Staff is headed by Stephen Hart, he is assisted by Mourad Farid and George Iatrou. For more information about the team and it’s players, contact  Mourad Farid at 902-443-7274

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