 For a Cypriot player, international goals were always harder to come by in the days of Pelé, Johan Cruyff, and Franz Beckenbauer.Yet, even while appearing for one of Europe's smaller teams, Kaiafas managed to register twice in 17 matches.Kaiafas announced his retirement from football in May 1984, ending a career which coincided with the greatest decade in Omonia's history, seeing them as league champions seven times.