Daniel Batista Lima

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Daniel Batista
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Batista playing for Olympiacos
Personal information
Full name Daniel Batista Lima
Date of birth (1964-09-09) 9 September 1964 (age 57)
Place of birth São Vicente, Cape Verde
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s) Striker
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1986–1989 Ethnikos Piraeus 67 (14)
1989–1992 AEK Athens 90 (39)
1992–1995 Olympiacos 78 (16)
1995–1999 AEK Athens 77 (28)
1999–2001 Aris 5 (0)
Total 317 (97)
National team
1994–1997 Greece 14 (2)
Teams managed
2003–2007 Diagoras
2007–2008 Fostiras
2008–2009 Nea Ionia
2009–2013 AEK Athens U20
2014–2015 Niki Volos (Technical Director)
Honours
Gold medal – first place Greek Super Cup 1989
Gold medal – first place Greek League Cup 1990
Gold medal – first place Pre-Mediterranean Cup 1991
Gold medal – first place Alpha Ethniki 1992
Gold medal – first place Greek Super Cup 1992
Gold medal – first place Greek Cup 1996
Gold medal – first place Greek Super Cup 1996
Gold medal – first place Greek Cup 1997
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Daniel Batista Lima (Greek: Ντανιέλ Μπατίστα Λίμα; born 9 September 1964) is a Greek former professional football player of Cape Verdean descent who played as a striker. He has been given the title "poor man's Gullit" by the Italian press after an impressive display against Torino. Batista's uncle, Noni Lima, already had a successful career in Greece at Panionios. Also Batista's nephew, Noni's son named Konstantinos Lima is a player of Episkopi

Club career[]

Daniel Batista started his football career at Feyenoord Rotterdam. After playing there a while a good friend of him and also a Feyenoord supporter brought him to Greece to follow his career there. Batista played for Ethnikos Piraeus from 1987 until 1989 when he moved to AEK Athens. At AEK, Batista established himself as one of the best forwards of the Greek Championship. After the end of the 1991–92 season, Batista made the jump to AEK Athens' rivals Olympiacos He returned to AEK in 1995 and stayed there until the end of the 1998–99 season when he was released from the club and moved to Aris. Batista retired after the end of the 2000–01 season.

International career[]

Having acquired Greek citizenship he debuted for the Greek national team (12 October 1994) being the first black sportsman to do so. He played 14 times scoring twice.

Managing career[]

After his playing days were over, Batista coached Diagoras, Fostiras, he was the director of football of Lamia, head coach of AO Nea Ionia and AEK Athens U20 and a technical director of Niki Volos

Career statistics[]

National team Season Apps Goals
 Greece 1994 6 1
1995 6 0
1996 2 1
Total 14 2

Honours[]

AEK

Olympiacos

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