Takis Anatolitis

AKA: Turk, Scuffer, Leon.

Takis Anatolitis is the founder, manager and captain of Charlie's Warlocks and is one of the four joint longest-serving players together with Charles Stewart, Mark Grogan and Simon Millson. Originally plucked from the Besiktas youth system Anatolitis is an integral part of the Warlocks set up, often providing comedy relief.



Anatolitis has appeared in the majority of Warlocks games since the team's foundation and has contributed several goals and assists. His predominant role in the team is that of a striker, due primarily to his complete inability and unwillingness to assist in defence or track back to support his teammates. Anatolitis is one of the Warlocks' all-time leading goalscorers with the vast majority of his strikes fortuitously having found their way to the back of the net as a result of mis-kicks intended for wholly different areas of the goal. It is estimated that a mere 6% of Anatolitis' career goals were intentional. Anatolitis is known for his inappropriately tight t-shirts and a unique ability to go from the 'sublime to the ridiculous' (Charles Stewart, 2012) in the blink of an eye. It is not unheard-of for Anatolitis to carry off incredible feats of skill and technique only to follow these up with catastrophic fails of shocking proportions, akin to someone who has never played the game of football before. It is exploits such as these that have earned him the nickname of Ridiculinho, a testament to his Brazilian-like flair coupled with the embarrassing ineptitude that inevitably ensues.

In Season 6, Anatolitis was the winner of the Charlie's Warlocks Golden Boot, after scoring an impressive 24 goals in 9 matches, more than any other Warlock. It should be noted however that a large number of these goals were deflections, mis-kicks and tap-ins, including at least three which Anatolitis himself was not even aware he had scored until after the match.

Anatolitis has been compared to footballing greats such as Leon Best and Ade Akinbiyi. Infamously during the summer of 2011 Anatolitis had a foot race with Jan Koller, naturally nobody came out a winner.

Warlock Tidbit: Takis once ate an impressive 5 boxes of Mini Milks for dessert.

