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Daniel Batista Lima

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Daniel Batista
Personal information
Full name Daniel Batista Lima
Date of birth (1964-09-09) 9 September 1964 (age 60)
Place of birth São Vicente, Cape Verde
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 Ethnikos Piraeus (technical director)
Youth career
1980 Castilho (Mindelo)
1983–1985 Feyenoord
1985–1986 Excelsior
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)
International career
1994–1997 Greece 14 (2)
Managerial career
2003–2007 Diagoras
2007–2008 Fostiras
2008 Lamia
2008–2009 AO Nea Ionia
2009–2013 AEK Athens U20
2013 Peramaikos
2014–2015 Niki Volos (technical director)
2021– Ethnikos Piraeus (technical director)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Daniel Batista Lima (Greek: Ντανιέλ Μπατίστα Λίμα; born 9 September 1964) is a former professional footballer who played as a forward. Born in Cape Verde, he represented Greece internationally. He is the technical director of Ethnikos Piraeus.

Club career

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Batista started his football career at the academies of Feyenoord Rotterdam. After a while playing there, a good friend of him who was also a Feyenoord supporter brought him to Greece to follow his career there. Batista played for Ethnikos Piraeus, where he impressed and soon caused the interest of the big clubs of Athens. In the summer of 1989 Olympiacos strongly claimed him, but he preferred to sign for AEK Athens.

It didn't take long for him to impress at AEK as well. He started very well from his very first season at AEK, even though he had some injuries. Alongside Patikas and Christodoulou, he formed a good trio in the "yellow-black" offense. The following season was not a good one for the team, but Batista again had a very good season, while among other things he also scored the winning goal against Olympiacos.[1] In both of these years, Batista played mainly as a striker, but the arrival of Dimitriadis and Alexandris in the summer of 1991, made Bajević to play Batista behind the two strikers, in order to "fit" all of them in the starting eleven. Batista formed an excellent duo with Dimitriadis in the attack and helped AEK to win the championship, while also having excellent performance in the UEFA Cup, scoring at all home games against the likes of Vlaznia Shkodër, Spartak Moscow and Torino.

In the summer of 1992, with the expiration of his contract and during a period of administrative changes at AEK, he decided to move to Olympiacos, displeasing the people of the "yellow-blacks". In the club of Piraeus, he had a good presence, but did not reach the high standards he had at AEK. Nevetheless, he scored multiple times against his former club. In the summer of 1995, he returned to AEK and got an excellent performance again, as he played a big part in winning the cup, scoring 2 times in the final with Apollon Athens.[2] The following season was also great, despite facing some injuries, creating an excellent trio in the attack with Kostis and Nikolaidis, in a season where AEK was again crowned cup winner. In AEK he played for another 2 seasons and despite the new injuries contributed to club. With AEK he won 1 championship, 2 cups, 2 Super Cup and 1 League Cup.[3] In the summer of 1999, he was released from the club and moved to Aris.[4] Batista retired in the summer of 2001 at the age of 36.[5]

International career

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Batista became a naturalized citizen of Greece and debuted in the Greece national team on 12 October 1994. At the time, he held the distinction of being the only Greek athlete of black ethnicity to achieve this. He played 14 times scoring twice.[6]

Managerial career

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After his playing days were over, Batista coached Diagoras, Fostiras, he was the director of football of Lamia, head coach of AO Nea Ionia, AEK Athens U20, Peramaikos and a technical director of Niki Volos. From the summer of 2021 he is the technical director of Ethnikos Piraeus.[7]

Personal life

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Batista's uncle, Noni Lima was a former footballer who had a successful career in Greece at Panionios.[8] His nephew and Noni's son, Konstantinos is also a footballer.[9]

Career statistics

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

Honours

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AEK Athens

Olympiacos

  • Greek Super Cup: 1992

References

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  1. ^ "Ιδού η Ρόδος, ιδού και το πήδημα". 6 February 2020.
  2. ^ ""Ενέργειες που γίνονται με κομπιούτερ": Η ιστορική επτάρα της ΑΕΚ στον Απόλλωνα στον τελικό του '96". sport-fm.gr.
  3. ^ "Ντανιέλ Μπατίστα". aekpedia.com.
  4. ^ "Απομένουν οι λεπτομέρειες για να πάει στον Άρη". tanea.gr. 16 July 1999.
  5. ^ "Ντανιέλ Μπατίστα: Ο... Survival που άλλαξε τέσσερις υπηκοότητες!". onsports.gr. 19 September 2017.
  6. ^ "Greece matches 1990–1995" (PDF). epo.gr.
  7. ^ "Εθνικός: Προπονητής ο Καλύβας – Τεχνικός διευθυντής ο Μπατίστα". onsports.gr. 10 July 2021.
  8. ^ "Ο «Γκούλιτ των φτωχών» που έκανε πλούσιο το ελληνικό ποδόσφαιρο". sport-retro.gr. 9 September 2019.
  9. ^ Μυλωνάς, Γιώργος (16 September 2017). "Τα 10 highlights της ποδοσφαιρικής καριέρας του Μπατίστα". oneman.gr.
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