Petar Borota

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Petar Borota
Personnel
birthday March 5, 1952
place of birth Belgrade ,  SFR Yugoslavia
date of death February 12, 2010
Place of death Genoa ,  Italy
position goal
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1969-1975 OFK Belgrade 129 (0)
1976-1979 Partizan Belgrade 89 (0)
1979-1982 Chelsea FC 107 (0)
1982 Brentford FC 0 (0)
1982-1983 Portimonense SC 7 (0)
1983-1984 Boavista Porto 15 (0)
1984-1985 FC Porto 0 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1977-1988 Yugoslavia 4 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Petar Borota ( Serbian - Cyrillic Петар Борота ; born March 5, 1952 in Belgrade , † February 12, 2010 in Genoa ) was a Yugoslav football goalkeeper . Borota won the Yugoslav national championship with Partizan Belgrade in 1978 and from 1979 made over 100 appearances for Chelsea FC .

Career

Borota began his professional career at OFK Belgrade in 1969 and became the club's goalkeeper in 1972. After he missed the 1975/76 season because of his military service, he continued his career from 1976 at the top club Partizan Belgrade , with whom he won the national championship in 1978. During this time there were four missions in the Yugoslav national team . He made his debut as a substitute on October 5, 1977 against Hungary and played a month later in a 6-4 win in World Cup qualification against Romania, the only Yugoslav point win in qualifying. He completed his last international match almost a year later on October 25, 1978, when they met again in the European Championship qualifier against Romania and lost 3-2.

In March 1979, for a transfer fee of 70,000 pounds, he moved to English club Chelsea , where he replaced long-time goalkeeper Peter Bonetti . There, the extroverted goalkeeper quickly became a crowd-pleaser because of his spectacular excursions outside of the staf area and unusual parades. After Chelsea was relegated to the Second Division at the end of the 1978/79 season , Borota acted as the club's regular goalkeeper for the following two seasons and was voted Chelsea's Player of the Year by fans in 1981, after being 16- in the 1980/81 season. once remained without a goal. When his performances in the 1981/82 season increasingly fluctuated, he was replaced by coach John Neal in November 1981 by the only 17-year-old Steve Francis and left the club at the end of the season.

After a short stay at FC Brentford , he ended his career in Portugal at Portimonense SC , Boavista Porto and FC Porto . Borota died after a long illness at the age of 57 in Genoa, Italy .

literature

  • Peter Lovering: Chelsea Player by Player . Hamlyn, London 1998, ISBN 0-600-59497-1 , pp. 101 .

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personal data
SURNAME Borota, Petar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Борота, Петар (Serbian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav football goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Belgrade
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 2010
Place of death Genoa