Panagiotis Ventouris

Panagiotis Ventouris
Panagiotis Ventouris with AEK Athens
Personal information
Full name Panagiotis Ventouris
Date of birth (1943-03-01)1 March 1943
Place of birth Tavros, Athens, Greece
Date of death 10 June 2002(2002-06-10) (aged 59)
Place of death Tavros, Athens, Greece
Position(s)
Youth career
1955–1958 Fostiras
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1958–1965 Fostiras 74[a] (20[a])
1965–1972 AEK Athens 143 (35)
1965–1966 →Hellenic (loan)
1972–1973 Anorthosis Famagusta 13 (1)
1973–1974 Agioi Anargyroi
Total 230 (56)
International career
1963 Greece 2 (0)
Managerial career
1978–1979 Sourmena
1983 Fostiras
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Panagiotis Ventouris (Greek: Παναγιώτης Βεντούρης; 14 February 1944 – 10 June 2002) was a Greek professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder.

Club career

Early years

Ventouris started his football career, when at the age of 12 signed a sports card at Fostiras, where in 1958 was promoted to the men's team. He was a member of the great team that won the second division in their respective group and were promoted to the recently established first national division. Fostiras stayed for two seasons in the top and in 1963 was relegated again, but Ventouris had shown examples of his talent and his football value.[1] In the summer of 1965, AEK Athens acquired him as part of the renewal of the club's roster, spending the particularly important for the time amount of 435,000 drachmas.[2]

AEK Athens

In December 1965, disillusioned by the failure of the management for professional rehabilitation, Ventouris left AEK and traveled to Cape Town to play at the local Hellenic, alongside his former teammates at Fostiras, Deimezis and Aidiniotis in the non-FIFA professional South African League.[3] The new contacts and discussions with the management of AEK, towards the end of the season, got him to return to Greece continue his career with the yellow-blacks. In the summer of 1966, under Tryfon Tzanetis, they emerged as Cup winners, as the other finalist, Olympiacos did not accept to compete in the final.[4] He scored for the first time with the club on 30 October 1966 against Vyzas Megara, scoring both goals in the 2–0 home win. Ventouris had a major contribution in the campaign of the team to the finals of the Balkans Cup in 1967, where the lost to Fenerbahçe.[5] He also scored twice in the institution of the following year, scoring the only goal of his team in the 2–1 away defeat against Spartak Sofia and in the 3–1 win against Fenerbahçe at home.[6] In 1968 under the guidance of Jenő Csaknády, they won the championship, where he had a decisive contribution, as well as in the championship of 1971 under Branko Stanković. In his 7 appearances for the European Cup he scored 3 times, including a brace in the 3–2 away defeat against Jeunesse Esch on 2 October 1968,[7] in a campaign that eventually reached the quarter-finals of the tournament[8] and once on 29 September 1972 against Internazionale at home, equalizing the game before the final 3–2 win.[9]

Later career

In the summer of 1972, Ventouris left AEK as a part of the renewal of the club's roster by Stanković and moved to Cyprus where he signed for Anorthosis Famagusta.[10] He played there for one season, before returning to Greece[11] to play for the AFCA league side, Agioi Anargyroi,[12] before retiring from football in the summer of 1974.

International career

Ventouris made 2 appearances with Greece in 1963.[13] On 14 April 1963, he played at a friendly match was held in Lisbon for Greece U21 against Portugal, but it proved to be a men's team, as players of 25 and 26 years old were competing.[14]

He made his official debut on 27 November 1963, under his future manager at AEK, Tryfon Tzanetis and alongside his future teammate also at AEK, Mimis Papaioannou, who was the captain, in a friendly away 3–1 loss against Cyprus.[15]

Personal life

Ventouris worked at the PPC, while he was playing for AEK. He had a wife named Evgenia and two children named Antonis and Athanasia. He died on 10 June 2002, at the age of only 59, from heart attack and after suffering in his last years from health problems with rheumatoid arthritis.[16][17]

Honours

Fostiras

AEK Athens

References

  1. ^ "Για θυμήσου..." tanea.gr. 22 June 2002.
  2. ^ "Παναγιώτης Βεντούρης". aekpedia.com.
  3. ^ "Η υπόσχεση που παραλίγο να καταστρέψει την ΑΕΚ". sportday.gr. 29 December 2021.
  4. ^ "ΑΕΚ-Ολυμπιακός 2-0 (άνευ αγώνα)". oldfootball.gr (in Greek). Archived from the original on 10 August 2019. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
  5. ^ "Balkans Cup 1966–67 season". RSSSF.
  6. ^ "Balkan Cup 1960-69". RSSSF.
  7. ^ "Jeunesse Esch-AEK UEFA Champions League 1968/69". UEFA.
  8. ^ Καζαντζόγλου, Σταύρος (15 June 2019). "1968/69: Η πρώτη ελληνική ομάδα σε ευρωπαϊκή οκτάδα, η απογοήτευση εντός συνόρων". enwsi.gr.
  9. ^ "AEK-Inter UEFA Champions League 1971/72". UEFA.
  10. ^ Solutions, BDigital Web. "Ομόνοια: Ο πρώτος "Κύπριος" Μουντιαλικός φορούσε πράσινα". kathimerini.com.cy.
  11. ^ newsp. Athletic Echo, 29 June 1973, page 8
  12. ^ ΠΑΝ. ΒΕΝΤΟΥΡΗΣ: «Πιστεύω ότι θα κάνω μία δεύτερη καρριέρα στην Α.Ε. Αγ. Αναργύρων», συνέντευξη Παναγιώτη Βεντούρη, newsp. Athletic Echo, 10 August 1974, page 2
  13. ^ "Συμμετοχές και γκολ όλων των διεθνών (Α-Γ)". 31 December 2009. Archived from the original on 4 March 2010.
  14. ^ "U21 Ελλάδα-Πορτογαλία: Προϊστορία". epo.gr.
  15. ^ "Greece matches 1961–1965" (PDF). epo.gr.
  16. ^ ""Εφυγε" ο Βεντούρης". flash.gr. 10 June 2002.
  17. ^ "ΑΕΚ: Μέρα θλίψης για τη διπλή απώλεια των Σκευοφύλακα και Βεντούρη". enwsi.gr. 10 June 2020.

Notes

a. ^ Includes only the first division stats.
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