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Aliki Konstantinidou
Aliki Konstantinidou (Greek: Αλίκη Κωνσταντινίδου; born June 26, 1989, in Thessaloniki, Greece) is a female retired professional volleyball player from Greece, who used to be a member of the Greece women's national volleyball team.[1][2][3] CareerAlikis Konstantinidou's first contact with sports venues was at a very young age with swimming, which she engaged in for about nine years. But because swimming as an individual sport did not inspire her, and mainly at the urging of her father Alexandros Konstantinidis who was an international volleyball player, she finally turned to volleyball.[4] Her excellent performances in the championship attracted the interest of Pannaxiakos, trhat had just been promoted to the major division. Thus, in the Summer of 2013, Aliki Konstantinidou takes the first big leap in her career and joins the Naxos club,[6] with which she experiences her first great success, reaching the final of the Hellenic Cup in 2014. The following year is spent at A.E.K. Athens,[9] with which she reached the final of the Hellenic Cup again in 2016, but at the end of the season he moved again, this time to Panathinaikos.[10] Because of the financial events in the Athenian club in the Summer of 2017 she remained without a club, so she accepted the proposal of Olympiacos Piraeus to rejoin the team of the "big port",[11] with which in the 2017-18 season she tasted the success of winning the CEV Challenge Cup, and the domestic conquests of the Championship and the Greek Cup as well, in the most successful year for the women's volleyball team of the "Red-whites". Aliki Konstantinidou remained at Olympiakos until the 2019-20 season, and won two more Greek Championships in the 2018–19 and 2019-20 seasons as well as the Hellenic Cup in 2019. "After several years of training, competitions, missions, successes, failures, travels, titles, injuries, joy, sadness, the difficult time has come to say goodbye to the sport I loved and served with all my soul. Intrernational careerAliki Konstantinidou was called up to the Women's Hellenic National Team for the first time in 2006, at the age of 17.[13] Since 2011, however, she became a member of the national representative group several times. In 2013 she participated in the qualifiers for the 2014 World Championship[14] and in 2014 in the qualifiers for the 2015 European Championship,[15][16] and in matches for the Europa League as well.[17][18] She was then declared to CEV for 2017 European Championship,[19] but she only participated in friendly preparation matches.[20] Studies - ActivitiesWhile playing for the Thessaloniki teams, Aliki Konstantinidou studied at the School of Early Childhood Education of the Aristotle University, from which she received her degree in 2011.[4] Then and at the same time as her professional career in volleyball, she continued to work with children, and in 2015 she trained as a "Baby Swimming Instructor Level 1, 2", and in 2016 as a "Baby Swimming Instructor with special skills" (Baby Swimming Instructor Special Needs) by the organization Birthlight UK.[21] Thus, she combined her original occupation with swimming with her love for children and sports. Also in 2017 she trained in "Prenatal Yoga in water" courses (Aquanatal Yoga Instructor)[22] and σηε attended many seminars on the psychology of children, their reflexes and parenthood. Sporting achievementsInternational competitionsNational championships
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