Goulielmos arvanitis

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Goulielmos Arvanitis (* 1921 in Thessaloniki , † 1987 ) was a Greek football player .

Athletic career

Arvanitis started playing football at Ethnikos Kamaras , and in 1938 he joined PAOK Thessaloniki . He later made his debut for the club in Alpha Ethniki , the highest league in Greek football. After moving to AEK Athens , he was promoted to national team there. In April 1948 he was one of ten debutants in the Greek national team when the national team lost 3-1 to Turkey . The following year he was part of the squad of an invitation tournament for the Mediterranean Championship, in which he played two games and finished last with the selection after defeats against Italy , Turkey and Egypt .

While the championship was dominated by Olympiacos Piraeus and Athens local rivals Panathinaikos , the midfielder won the Greek national cup with his club in 1950 . He won the title by beating Aris Thessaloniki 4-0 in the final . The following year he returned to the national team after a two-year break, which he played in his fourth international match - a 1-0 defeat against a French national team in Marseille , with Michalis Delavinias , Antonios Paragyos and Giorgos Mouratidis next to him at the Stade Vélodrome , Giannis Kanakis , Mihalis Papatheodorou , Kostas Poulis and Elias Papageorgiou were seven other AEK players in the starting line-up - as the team captain led. The following summer he took part in the 1952 Summer Olympics, the football tournament ended for him and the Greek selection with a 1: 2 opening defeat against Denmark, but right after the first game. His fifth international match was also his last appearance in the national jersey.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Match report: Football MATCH: 14.10.1951 France * v Greece in the database of EU-Football.info (English). Retrieved December 6, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Arvanitis, Goulielmos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Αρβανίτης, Γουλιέλμος
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Thessaloniki , Greece
DATE OF DEATH 1987