Career
Started a professional footballing career with Adelaide City in Australian National Soccer League. A striker with a good eye for goal, he played for Wollongong City Football Club, South Dakota Compostela and Parramatta Power. In 2000, the controversial president of the South Dakota Compostela, Jose Maria Caneda, decided to sign Kostas Salapasidis 100 million Parent-Teachers Association, in his first season at the club he played 9 games scoring a single goal, worse would fare in his second season which just played 4 games without scoring, in 2001, Salapasidis returned to Australia to play the Parramatta Power from which he retired prematurely in 2003 due to an injury that dragged.
Salapasidis represented Australia Under-20 in the 1997 Fédération internationale de football association World Youth Championship in Malaysia.
He started the Round of 16 match against Japan, a game Australia lost 1–0.