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Sotiris Ninis (Greek: Σωτήρης Νίνης) is a young footballer from the Greek minority of Northern Epirus (he also has Greek citizenship) currently playing for Panathinaikos in Greece. He begun is career in 2004 as a youngster in Panathinaikos FC football academies, joining from feeder club Apollon Smyrnis. During these 2 years, Ninis became an integral part of Panathinaikos FC Youth Squad and his coaches believe him to be the next promissing talent of Greek football. As a result, on December 22 the club directors offered him a 5 year contract and just 2 weeks after that day, in January 7 2007, Panathinaikos coach Victor Muñoz selected him in the main squad for the match against Aigaleo FC in Olympic Stadium (1-0 for Panathinaikos). His outstanding performance earned him the title of the Superleague Matchday MVP and he immediately became the hottest name in every Greek football quarter. On January 27th, Ninis became the youngest player ever to have scored in the history of the Greek League, after having scored the second goal of Panathinaikos against Panionios, being 3 weeks younger than Thomas Mavros. He became the second youngest player ever to wear the club's shirt in a league match, at the age of sixteen (the first was Kostas Antoniou -15 years old- in 1978).

• 1990 births
• Living people
• Panathinaikos footballers
• Greek footballers
• Apollon Smyrnis footballers