Petros Karavitis

Petros Karavitis (Greek: Πέτρος Καραβίτης; born 11 March 1952) is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

Petros Karavitis

Personal information
Full name	Petros Karavitis
Date of birth	(1952-03-11) 11 March 1952 (age 72)
Place of birth	Haidari, Athens, Greece
Height	1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder, defender, left winger
Youth career
1966–1968	Chaidari
1968–1970	Olympiacos
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1970–1980	Olympiacos	201	(50)
1980–1982	AEK Athens	27	(6)
1982–1984	Proodeftiki
1984–1986	Chaidari
Total		228	(56)
International career
1971	Greece U21
1975–1979	Greece	10	(3)
1975–1979	Greece military	5	(1)
Managerial career
1987	Panarkadikos
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Club career

Karavitis began his football career in 1966 at his hometown club, Chaidari.^[1] He transferred to the youth team of Olympiacos for a fee of 30,000 drachmas in 1968. In December 1970, manager Lakis Petropoulos promoted Karavitis to the first team, in which he remained a regular in several roles for ten years. He won four Greek Championships and three Greek Cups with Olympiacos, including two domestic doubles in 1973 and 1975. In December 1980, Karavitis left the club after the then president, Stavros Daifas did not proceed in renewing his contract.^[2]

Thus, Karavitis signed for AEK Athens.^[3] During his one-and-a-half-year spell at AEK, Karavitis was used as a regular. On 25 April 1982, in AEK's away match against Panserraikos, he was sent off alongside Mojaš Radonjić for insulting the referee.^[4] As a result, he was punished with a 19-match ban, which combined with his age, led to his departure from the club.^[2] In December 1982, Karavitis signed for Proodeftiki, where he played for one and a half season. In 1984, Karavitis returned to Chaidari as a player-manager, and finished his playing career in 1986.^[5]

International career

Karavitis was a member of Greece U21, which in 1971 won the Balkan Youth Championship.^[6]

Karavitis played a total of 10 appearances with Greece, scoring three goals, from 1975 to 1979. His debut took place on 30 December 1975,^[7] under Alketas Panagoulias in an away friendly 3–2 loss against Italy, where he played for 46 minutes before being replaced by Georgios Delikaris.^[8]

After football

After the end of his career, Karavitis was involved in coaching, but remaining in low categories, while he was also involved in politics as a candidate in Athens B with the party of LAOS^[9] and later at the District level, with the combination of Giorgos Patoulis.^[10] He was also involved in the administration of Chaidari as the head of a group of investors.^[11]

Honours

Olympiacos

• Alpha Ethniki: 1972–73, 1973–74, 1974–75, 1979–80
• Greek Cup: 1970–71, 1972–73, 1974–75

Greece U21

• Balkan Youth Championship: 1971

References

1. "Οι δόξες του "χθες"". Athetic Echo (in Greek). 2 December 1984. p. 6.
2. "Πέτρος Καραβίτης". aekpedia.com.
3. newsp. Athetic Echo, 18 December 1980, p. 1, 2, 6
4. "Ανυπεράσπιστη στο… χειρουργείο". aek365.org.
5. "Ο Πέτρος Καραβίτης «κρεμάει» τα παπούτσια του στο τέλος της περιόδου", newsp. Φως των Σπορ, 3 May 1986, p. 4
6. "Το Βαλκανικό Κύπελλο του 1971 για τις ελπίδες". 10 July 2015.
7. "Petros Karavitis on epo.gr".
8. "Greece matches 1971–1975" (PDF). epo.gr.
9. "Στον ΛΑΟΣ ο παλαίμαχος του Ολυμπιακού, Πέτρος Καραβίτης". protothema.gr. 12 April 2012.
10. "Στο πλευρό του Γιώργου Πατούλη ο Χαϊδαριώτης Πέτρος Καραβίτης". 15 March 2019.
11. "Τι κάνει σήμερα ο Πέτρος Καραβίτης;". newsbeast.gr. 18 June 2014.

External links

• Petros Karavitis at Soccerway.com
• Petros Karavitis at National-Football-Teams.com
• Petros Karavitis at EU-Football.info
• Petros Karavitis at National-Football-Teams.com