Michalis Delavinias
Michalis Delavinias ( Greek Μιχάλης Δελαβίνιας , * 1921 ; † November 6, 2003 ) was a Greek football player .
Athletic career
Delavinias played in the 1940s and early 1950s for AEK Athens in the Greek championship , which at the time was still held in regional series and a national final. With the club he won the championship title under coach Kostas Negrepontis in 1940 , before the game came to a standstill in the following years due to the Second World War . While the championship was dominated after the end of the war by Olympiacos and local rivals Panathinaikos from Athens , the goalkeeper reached the final of the Greek Cup three times with his club in the late 1940s . The team went in 1949 and 1950 as the winner from the place Panathinaikos and Aris Thessaloniki had to admit defeat. In 1953 he was in the final again, but at the time Olympiakos won the title with a 3-2 victory.
In 1948 Delavinias made his debut in the jersey of the Greek national team when they lost 3-1 to Turkey in front of a home crowd in Athens . In the following years he was a regular member of the selection squad , but played until his last appearance against a French national team in October 1951 in Marseille , where he was next to Antonios Paragyos , Giorgos Mouratidis , team captain Goulielmos Arvanitis , Mihalis Papatheodorou , Kostas Poulis , Elias Papageorgiou and Giannis Kanakis was one of eight AEK players in the starting line-up at the Stade Vélodrome , only four internationals . The following summer he took part in the 1952 Summer Olympics as a substitute goalkeeper behind Nikolaos Pentzaropoulos , but the soccer tournament ended for him and the Greek selection with a 1: 2 opening defeat against Denmark immediately after the first game.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Delavinias, Michalis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Δελαβίνιας, Μιχάλης |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1921 |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 6, 2003 |