Georgios Tofas is a Cypriot

Cyprus

Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country, member of the European Union, in the Eastern Mediterranean, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and north of Egypt. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.The earliest known human activity on the...

 footballer currently playing for Anagennisi Dherynia

Anagennisi Dherynia

Anagennisi Deryneia is Cypriot football team based in Deryneia, Famagusta. The club was founded in 1920 and they joined the Cyprus Football Association in 1972. The team will play in the Cypriot First division in 2011. It has participated in the first and second divisions and Cypriot Third...

. He can play in several positions behind the front two or as a forward, and wide on the left side of midfield.

Career

Tofas made his debut for Enosis Paralimni first team at 15, he was then called into the Cyprus U16 squad. He made nine substitute appearances for Paralimni in the 2006–07 season.

Aged 17, he signed for AEK Athens for two years, he went straight into the first team squad and trained with players like Rivaldo

Rivaldo

Rivaldo Vítor Borba Ferreira , commonly known simply as Rivaldo , is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays for São Paulo, on loan from Mogi Mirim, as an attacking midfielder and sometimes as a supporting striker.He most notably played five years with Spanish club FC Barcelona, with whom he...

, Akis Zikos

Akis Zikos

Andreas Vassilis "Akis" Zikos is a retired Greek international football player who played as a defensive midfielder...

, where he impressed the then coach Lorenzo Serra Ferrer the former FC Barcelona

FC Barcelona

Futbol Club Barcelona , also known as Barcelona and familiarly as Barça, is a professional football club, based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain....

 coach. He then progressed to play for Cyprus at all levels up to under-21 from under-16.

He was spotted playing mostly in AEK Athens U-21 team and went to Middlesbrough

Middlesbrough F.C.

Middlesbrough Football Club , also known as Boro, are an English football club based in Middlesbrough, who play in the Football League Championship. Formed in 1876, they have played at the Riverside Stadium since August 1995, their third ground since turning professional in 1889...

 in January 2009 and after a week's trial was promptly offered a loan contract until the end of the season with a view to buy him, but this fell through. He then signed for Anorthosis in January with the same deal as he was offered at Middlesbrough; a loan until the end of the season.

Tofas has also been called into the Cyprus national squad

Cyprus national football team

The Cyprus national football team represents Cyprus in association football and is controlled by the Cyprus Football Association, the governing body for football in Cyprus. Cyprus' home ground is the GSP Stadium in Nicosia and the current coach is Nikos Nioplias...

 for the World Cup qualifiers in March.

On 2 November 2010, Tofas signed for Queens Park Rangers

Queens Park Rangers F.C.

Queens Park Rangers Football Club is an English professional football club, based in White City, Hammersmith and Fulham, west London. As the 2010-11 Football League Championship champions, they now play in the top tier of English football the Premier League, for the first time in 15 years...

 (QPR) on a deal until the end of the 2010–11 season. He made his debut for QPR against Norwich City on 1 January 2011.

He got promoted to Premier League with QPR as champions of the Football League Championship

Football League Championship

The Football League Championship is the highest division of The Football League and second-highest division overall in the English football league system after the Premier League...

 in the 2010–11 season. On 1 June 2011, Tofas was one of eight players to be released by QPR manager, Neil Warnock

Neil Warnock

Neil Warnock is an English former footballer who is currently manager of English Premier League club Queens Park Rangers....

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