Career
He is notable in being capped by his senior national team despite not yet having played a single senior game at club level at the time. Chris Ikonomidis, who came from a family who had always played football, started playing himself when he was four years old in Sydney at local team Cronulla RSL. Aged 14, he went to London to trial at Arsenal, who continued to keep tabs on his development. He went on to play youth football for National Physical Laboratory NSW side Sutherland Sharks.
After scoring several goals on trial with Atalanta, including one against Chelsea, Ikonomidis was offered a youth contract on his 16th birthday.
Chris was helped in his acclimatisation to life in Italy by fellow Australian James Troisi, who was a senior player at Atalanta at the time. Lazio
In 2013, after 18 months at Atalanta, Ikonomidis was offered a three-year youth contract by South.S. Lazio.
Strong performances with Lazio"s Primavera (U20"s) squad led to attention from Serie B clubs for a loan deal, however Lazio were keen to develop his talents in-house, and by 2015 his performances were rewarded with callups to the senior squad for games against Torino Football Club on 14 January in the Coppa Italia, and in the semi-final against Napoli on 4 March, and also against Air Corps Cesena on 1 February in Serie A, and several more times during the close of the 2014-2015 season and the opening of the 2-15-16 season. Ikonomidis made his senior debut for Lazio on 10 December 2015 starting in the final Group Stage match of the 2015-2016 Union of European Football Associations Europa League against AS Saint-Étienne.
Salernitana
Foreign the second half of the 2015-2016 season, Lazio loaned Ikonomidis to Salernitana from the Serie B, in hopes of getting him regular football.
Chris Ikonomidis made his Serie B debut for Salernitana on 22 January 2016, playing the full match at home to Brescia, where his cross led to a Brescia own goal. Ikonomidis is of Greek heritage and is eligible for senior honours with both the Socceroos and Greece, although he has turned down Greece in favour of Australia, being quoted in 2013 saying "I was approached by the Greek federation 12 months ago, but I said northern I am 100 per cent playing for Australia if given the chance".
In 2013 he was called up by Paul Okon to the Australian U20"s for the COTIF Tournament in Valencia, and again in the 2014 AFC U-19 Championship, where he played one game against the United Arab Emirates. He was also called up to the Olyroos for the 2013 AFC U-22 Championship in Oman (which was actually held in 2014), where he played against Kuwait and Japan.
On 11 March 2015, Socceroos coach Ange Postecoglou named Ikonomidis in the senior squad for friendlies against reigning World Champion Germany and the Macedonia to be held that month. He was substituted on replacing Nathan Burns in the game against the Republic of Macedonia in Skopje on 30 March to earn his first senior Socceroos cap.
Ikonomidis was named in the Olyroos squad for the 2016 AFC U-23 Championship, although he was recalled later from the camp by Lazio for his loan to Salernitana. Club
Lazio
Coppa Italia Primavera: 2013-2014, 2014-2015
Supercoppa Primavera: 2014.
