Vasilios Botinos

Vasilios Botinos (Greek: Βασίλειος Μποτίνος; 19 October 1944 – 16 February 2022) was a Greek footballer who played as a winger for Olympiacos^[2] as well as the Greece national team.^[3]

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	Nikaia, Greece[1]
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s)	Winger
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1958–1964	Olympiakos Volos	58	(33)
1964–1972	Olympiacos	134	(42)
1972–1973	Panegialios
1973–1974	Panionios	7	(2)
International career
1967–1969	Greece	12	(3)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Career

Born in Volos,^[4] 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.^[5][6] 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.,^[7] retiring at age 29 in 1974.^[6]

Botinos made twelve appearances and scored three goals for the Greece national team from 1967 to 1969,^[8] scoring two goals in a 4–1 1970 FIFA World Cup qualifying victory against Switzerland on 15 October 1969.^[6]

Honours

Olympiacos

• Panhellenic Championship: 1966 και 1967
• Greek Cup: 1964, 1968 και 1971

Personal life

Botinos died from COVID-19 in Nikaia, on 16 February 2022, at the age of 77.^[9]

References

1. Βασίλης Μποτίνος Πέθανε ο παλαίμαχος άσος του Ολυμπιακού
2. "Profile". worldfootball.
3. Vasilios Botinos – FIFA competition record (archived)
4. Kolokotsios, Lambros (16 January 2010). Αθλητικοί Φάκελοι (ΜΠΟΤΙΝΟΣ) [Sporting Capsules (Botinos)] (in Greek). Evrytania News. Archived from the original on 8 October 2010. Retrieved 2 May 2012.
5. Ο μεγάλος Βασίλης Μποτίνος θυμάται ... [Vasilis Botinos remembers...] (in Greek). Taxydromos. 30 January 2011. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 2 May 2012.
6. Αέρινος, αδικημένος, ανεπανάληπτος [Ethereal, wronged, unprecedented] (in Greek). Thessalia. 6 February 2011.
7. Mastrogiannopoulos, Alexander (19 January 2003). "Greece 1973/74". RSSSF.
8. Mastrogiannopoulos, Alexander (25 September 2004). "Greece - International Matches 1961-1970". RSSSF.
9. Πέθανε ο Βασίλης Μποτίνος (in Greek)