Vangelis Petrakis
Personal information
Full name Evangelos Petrakis
Date of birth (1938-09-07) 7 September 1938
Place of birth Sindos, Thessaloniki, Greece
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Youth career
–1957 Aris Ptolemaidas
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1957–1962 Aris 92 (0)
1962–1967 AEK Athens 42 (0)
1967–1969 OFI 36 (0)
Total 170 (0)
International career
1961–1966 Greece military 22 (0)
Medal record
Men's football
Representing  Greece
World Military Cup
Winner1962
Winner1963
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Vangelis Petrakis (Greek: Βαγγέλης Πετράκης; born 7 September 1938) is a Greek former footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

Club career

Petrakis started his football career at Aris Ptolemaidas and in the summer of 1957 he took the first big step of his career, as he transferred to Aris.[1] With the "yellows" he won the Macedonia FCA Championship in 1959, while finishing sixth place in the Panhellenic Championship.[2] He replaced Dimitris Akparidis under the posts of Aris and in the first year of the first national division, he was a key member of the team's squad. On 22 January 1962, he was blamed for a 2–5 loss to Panathinaikos, with his teammates and club officials asking him to take off his shirt and leave during the match.[3] The team management found him guilty of deliberately underperforming and punished him with a ban from the club's activities for the next few months. He returned in the away match against Panathinaikos on 10 June 1962, where with an amazing performance he kept a clean sheet, even saving a penalty, gave the team of Thessaloniki a 0–1 win.[4]

In the summer of 1962, he transferred to AEK, where he played for five years, but in the shadow of Stelios Serafidis. He was involved in some of the team's heaviest defeats, including the away 7–2 by Monaco for the European Cup,[5] the 4–5 by Panathinaikos[6] and the 4–0 by Olympiacos.[7] During his spell at AEK he won a league title in 1963 and 2 Cups. In 1967, he transferred to OFI, where he played for four seasons, having managed to celebrate the promotion to the first division in 1968 and to compete in it with the team from Heraklion for the next 3 years, until his retirement from football in 1971.[8][9][10]

International career

Petrakis was the main goalkeeper of the then Greece military team, where he made 22 appearances[11] and was a key and irreplaceable member of the team that won the World Military Cup in 1962[12][13][14][15][16] and 1963.[17]

Honours

Aris

AEK Athens

Greece military

References

  1. ↑ ""Η ΜΑΧΗ ΤΩΝ ΜΕΤΑΓΡΑΦΩΝ ΕΛΗΞΕ ΤΟ ΜΕΣΟΝΥΚΤΙΟΝ"". efimeris.nlg.gr. newsp. Macedonia, paper 1 August 1957, page 4.
  2. ↑ "1959: Μεγάλο διπλό στον Πειραιά". aris.re. aris.re. Archived from the original on 2016-06-02. Retrieved 2015-07-29.
  3. ↑ "newsp. Macedonia, paper 23 January 1962, page 4". efimeris.nlg.gr.
  4. ↑ "1962, ΠΑΟ-Άρης 0–1". aris.re.
  5. ↑ "Monaco-AEK UEFA Champions League 1963/64". UEFA.com.
  6. ↑ "Τα... όργια των Χολέβα - Γαλάκου και η "τρελή" ματσάρα του '63: 5+1 μεγάλες νίκες του Παναθηναϊκού επί της ΑΕΚ στη Λεωφόρο!". bankingnews.gr.
  7. ↑ "1966-03-27 ΟΣΦΠ-ΑΕΚ=4-0 ΠΡ". youtube.com.
  8. ↑ "Greece 1968/69". RSSSF.
  9. ↑ "Greece 1969/70". RSSSF.
  10. ↑ "Greece 1970/71". RSSSF.
  11. ↑ "Βαγγέλης Πετράκης". kitrinomavro.gr.
  12. ↑ "newsp. Athletic Echo, 31 October 1961". athlitikihxo.gr.
  13. ↑ "newsp. Athletic Echo, 3 November 1961". athlitikihxo.gr.
  14. ↑ "newsp. Athletic Echo, 31 May 1962". athlitikihxo.gr.
  15. ↑ "newsp. Athletic Echo, 18 September 1962". athlitikihxo.gr.
  16. ↑ "Εθνικό Οπτικοακουστικό Αρχείο". avarchive.gr.
  17. ↑ "World Military Championship". RSSSF.
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