Sakis Kouvas or Athanasios Kouvas or Thanasis Kouvas (Σάκης Κουβάς, Αθανάσιος Κουβάς, Θανάσης Κουβάς; born in 1946) is a Greek former footballer who played as a
midfielder
A midfielder is an outfield position in association football.
Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
.
Career
Kouvas began playing football for
Vyzas F.C. at age 16, transferred to
Panathinaikos in 1971 and played in
1971 Intercontinental Cup
The 1971 Intercontinental Cup was an association football tie held over two legs in December 1971 between the runners-up of the 1970–71 European Cup, Panathinaikos, replacing European Cup winners Ajax which declined to participate, and Nacional ...
. He scored 73 Greek league goals for Vyzas and Panathinaikos, making him one of the league's all-time leading goal-scorers. Kouvas won the Greek championship with Panathinaikos in 1972.
He made his only national appearance on 30 September 1971, for the
Greece national team.
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1946 births
Living people
Greek men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Greece men's international footballers
Super League Greece players
Super League Greece 2 players
Panathinaikos F.C. players
Vyzas F.C. players