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Vasilis Botinos
Personal information
Full name Vasilios Botinos
Date of birth (1944-10-19) 19 October 1944 (age 79)
Place of birth Volos, Greece
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Winger
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1958–1964 Olympiakos Volou 58 (33)
1964–1972 Olympiacos 140 (120)
1972–1973 Panegialios
1973–1974 Panionios 7 (2)
International career
1967–1969 Greece 12 (3)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Vasilis Botinos (Greek: Βασίλης Μποτίνος; born 19 October 1944) is a Greek former footballer who played for Olympiacos,[1] as well as the Greek national side.[2]

Career

Born in Volos,[3] Botinos began playing football as a winger with Olympiakos Volou F.C. in 1958, until he joined Alpha Ethniki side Olympiacos F.C. in July 1964.[4][5] He spent most of his career with Olympiakos, where he suffered a serious leg injury in 1969. Botinos left Olympiacos for Panegialios F.C. in 1972, and finished his career in the Alpha Ethniki with Panionios G.S.S.,[6] retiring at age 29 in 1974.[5]

Botinos made twelve appearances and scored three goals for the Greece national football team from 1967 to 1969,[7] scoring two goals in a 4–1 1970 FIFA World Cup qualifying victory against Switzerland on 15 October 1969.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Profile". worldfootball.
  2. ^ Vasilios BotinosFIFA competition record (archived)
  3. ^ Kolokotsios, Lambros (16 January 2010). Αθλητικοί Φάκελοι (ΜΠΟΤΙΝΟΣ) [Sporting Capsules (Botinos)] (in Greek). Evrytania News.
  4. ^ Ο μεγάλος Βασίλης Μποτίνος θυμάται ... [Vasilis Botinos remembers...] (in Greek). Taxydromos. 30 January 2011.
  5. ^ a b c Αέρινος, αδικημένος, ανεπανάληπτος [Ethereal, wronged, unprecedented] (in Greek). Thessalia. 6 February 2011.
  6. ^ Mastrogiannopoulos, Alexander (19 January 2003). "Greece 1973/74". RSSSF.
  7. ^ Mastrogiannopoulos, Alexander (25 September 2004). "Greece - International Matches 1961-1970". RSSSF.