Vasilios Botinos

Vasilios Botinos (Greek: Βασίλειος Μποτίνος; 19 October 1944 – 16 February 2022) was a Greek footballer who played as a winger for Olympiacos[1] as well as the Greece national team.[2]

Vasilios Botinos
Personal information
Date of birth (1944-10-19)19 October 1944
Place of birth Volos, Greece
Date of death 16 February 2022(2022-02-16) (aged 77)
Place of death Nice, France
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)
National team
1967–1969 Greece 12 (3)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

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 Olympiacos, 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 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]

Personal life

Botinos died from COVID-19 in Nice, France, on 16 February 2022, at the age of 77.[8]

References
  1. "Profile". worldfootball.
  2. Vasilios Botinos – FIFA 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. 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.
  8. Πέθανε ο Βασίλης Μποτίνος (in Greek)


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