Vasilios Lakis

On 1 July 2009, Lakis signed a two-year contract with the football club Kavala. Here lakis found the goalkeeper Fanis Katergiannakis that he helped to promote the team in the Greek Super League after ten years. His new club Kavala was the revelation of the Greek Super League fighting for the first six positions and Lakis become one more time one of the most important players with experience.

On 2 July 2007, Lakis was released by AEK, on 3 July he signed a three-year contract with PAOK, which here he founds Zagorakis as the president of the club and Zisis Vryzas as a player, that they won Euro 2004. Lakis helped his new team to gain the second place in the Greek Championship behind Olympiacos and qualifying PAOK for the UEFA Intertoto Cup.

He returned to long-time club AEK Athens and here he found players like, Traianos Dellas that came from Roma and as president Demis Nikolaidis. AEK Athens gained again the 2006–07 UEFA Champions League in the same group of Milan that they beat at home 1–0 with the goal of Júlio César. In the summer 2007 AEK Athens signed the Brazilian Rivaldo from the Olympiacos and the club rich the top of Greek Championship with the Piraeus rival. He is a pacy right winger who can also play up front, known for his fast-paced end-to-end style of play. He is renowned in his home country for his habit of missing easy chances but his speed, cutting passes, and incisive runs into the box more than makeup for this failing.

After Greece won Euro 2004, Lakis signed as a free agent for Crystal Palace in the Premiership. He made 18 league appearances for Palace. He notably missed the goal from 6 yards in the game against Arsenal at Selhurst Park while the score was 1-1. It is likely that Palace would have won the match had he scored. He was also sent off a in a 0–0 draw with Manchester United. Unfortunately the club was relegated the same year and Lakis decided to return to Greece and his previous club AEK Athens.

Lakis made 35 appearances for the Greece national football team and scored his first goal in a friendly match, in April 2000 in Dublin against the Republic of Ireland, in Lansdown Road. The coach Otto Rehhagel called him for the qualification for Euro 2004 and he was included in the Greek squad that won Euro 2004 and made two appearances as a substitute against Portugal in the group-stage and France in the quarterfinal.

On 12 June 1998 Lakis was transferred to AEK Athens for a fee of 600,000,000 drachmas. There he played alongside players of the likes of Demis Nikolaidis, Vasilios Tsiartas and Theodoros Zagorakis. With the yellow-blacks, he won two Greek Cups, one in 2000 against Ionikos and the other in 2002 against their rival, Olympiakos. He was in the squad that reached the Fourth round of the UEFA Cup in 2002 and were eliminated by the Inter Milan of Héctor Raul Cúper. The following season, with the acquiring of Grigorios Georgatos from Inter Milan AEK reached the group stage of the UEFA Champions League, where they were drawn with Roma and Real Madrid. The club nearly beat Real Madrid after leading 3–1 and then 3–3 at home in the old stadium Nikos Goumas Stadium, but AEK Athens took their revenge in Madrid at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium drawing 2–2.

In the summer 1995, Lakis signed for the professional club Panileiakos and in the next season he helped the team to finish in the 7th place in the Greek League by scoring 7 goals.

Vasilios Lakis (Greek: Βασίλειος Λάκης; born 10 September 1976) is a Greek former professional footballer. He was nicknamed "Turbo" for his speed when attacking along the right wing and ability to provide accurate crosses for the strikers in the area.