fullname years clubs caps goals birth_place nationalteam totalcaps position nationalcaps nationalyears birth_date totalgoals image article_title name nationalgoals
kostantinos eleftherakis 1964 1981 -- 1982 -- 1968 1968 -- 1980 1980 -- 1981 fostiras panathinaikos aek athens fostiras 308 23 83 5 greece greece 331 midfielder 34 1969 -- 1977 18 july 1950 88 kostas eleftherakis panathinaikos.jpg kostas eleftherakis
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kostas eleftherakis

kostas eleftherakis -lrb- , born 18 july 1950 -rrb- is a retired greek association football midfielder .
his nickname was `` the deer '' -lrb- `` to elafi '' -rrb- .
he started his career in 1964 -- 65 , playing for beta ethniki side fostiras .
he later joined panathinaikos in 1968 .
at age 21 he played for panathinaikos at 1971 european cup final in wembley stadium against ajax amsterdam .
he scored 2 goals during that campaign to reach the final .
following that game , real madrid and everton expressed interest in acquiring him .
real madrid would offer an inconceivable -lrb- for the time -rrb- 35 million drachmas for kostas eleftherakis .
but costas aslanidis -lrb- secretary general of athletics , appointed by the greek military junta of 1967-1974 -rrb- would stand in the way .
the same happened when everton made an offer through billy bingham who coached greece in the early 1970s .
he was invited to play for the world xi .
an injury he sustained in may 1977 would force him to stay away from the game for six months .
he would never regain his form completely after that .
five years later he retired from football , but not before he won another greek league title with aek in 1980 -- 81 .
he ended his career playing again at fostiras .
he played a total of 331 games in the greek a division , 308 of which with panathinaikos , and scored 88 goals .
eleftherakis made 34 appearances for the greece national football team from 1969 to 1977 .
