Vasilios Barkas

Vasilis Barkas
Personal information
Full name Vasilios Barkas
Date of birth (1994-05-30) 30 May 1994
Place of birth Zetten, Netherlands
Height 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)
Playing position Goalkeeper
Club information
Current team
 AEK Athens[1]
Number 1
Youth career
Atromitos
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2013–2016 Atromitos 13 (0)
2016– AEK Athens 32 (0)
National team‡
2012–2013 Greece U19 6 (0)
2015–2016 Greece U21 6 (0)
2018– Greece 5 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 23:10, 7 October 2018 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 20:50, 12 October 2018 (UTC)

Vasilios "Vasilis" Barkas (Greek: Βασίλειος "Βασίλης" Μπάρκας) is a Greek professional football goalkeeper who plays for AEK Athens. He was born in the Netherlands.

Club career

Atromitos

Barkas signed a professional contract with Atromitos in the beginning of 2013–14 season. He made his debut on 20 May 2015 against PAOK, getting in 83rd minute of the game as a backup for Andrey Gorbunov. In the 2015–16 season didn't start so good for him as he was the backup goalkeeper. On 30 January 2016, he started as regular against PAOK [2] making an excellent appearance. After that, he became the first-choice goalkeeper of the club.[3]

AEK Athens

When the 2015–16 season ended, Aston Villa, Olympiacos, PAOK and AEK were interested in signing the player.[4] On 9 June 2016, he preferred to join AEK.[5] The officials of AEK decided to not complete the transfer of Georgian international goalkeeper Giorgi Loria and start 2016–17 season with Giannis Anestis and Barkas duo. The new manager of the Greek club, Temur Ketsbaia, finally chose to abandon the case of his experienced compatriot, because the 25-year-old Anestis and 22-year-old Barkas are equally talented and have proved their quality in Super League and Greek Cup. On 27 November 2016, in a triumphic 3–0 home win against Platanias made his debut with the club.

On 20 July 2017, the talented goalkeeper of AEK, suffered serious injury during the training, when he broke the thumb of his right hand. The 23-year-old player will remain out of action for three months and of course will miss the upcoming matches for 2017–18 UEFA Champions League's qualifiers, against CSKA Moscow, where Giannis Anestis is expected to take his place, as starting goalkeeper, for AEK.[6] On 29 November 2017, he recovered from his injury taking his place in the team as a starter in a 3–2 away Greek Cup win against Kallithea, after Giannis Anestis was frozen out and shared goalkeeping duties with Panagiotis Tsintotas in the Super League while participating in all knockout cup fixtures.[7]

On 7 June 2018, Barkas agreed to a contract extension with AEK, until the summer of 2022.[8] The Dutch born Greek goalkeeper had some injury issues last season but since coming back, has shown outstanding form. His form this season so far has been a highlight for AEK and he made some very impressive saves in the qualifiers against Celtic F.C. and MOL Vidi FC for the UEFA Champions League preliminary rounds. On 22 June 2018 the administration of the team rejected a €6,000,000 offer from Udinese, asking for a minimum fee of €10,000,000.[9]

International career

He has played for Greece U19 and Greece U21, making six appearance for both. Οn 4 June 2016, he was called by Michael Skibbe in the Greece national football team after Orestis Karnezis was injured for the friendly games against Australia.[10] On 16 March 2018, he called in the Greek national team from Michael Skibbe for the friendly matches against Switzerland on 23 March 2018 and Egypt on 27 March 2018. On 27 March 2018, he made his debut with the Greek national team against Egypt as a second-half substitute.

Career statistics

Club

As of 23 September 2018[11]
Club Season League Cup Europe* Other** Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Atromitos 2014–15 10———10
2015–16 12080——200
Total 130800000210
AEK 2016–17 21010——220
2017–18 508010—140
2018–19 400040—70
Total 300905000440
Career total 4301705000650

Honours

AEK Athens

References

  1. ↑ Σπανός: «Συμφωνία με ΑΕΚ για Μπάρκα»!
  2. ↑ ΠΑΟΚ - Ατρόμητος 1-1
  3. ↑ Ο... ιπτάμενος Ελληνο-ολλανδός
  4. ↑ Και οι Άγγλοι για Μπάρκα, τι ισχύει με Άστον Βίλα
  5. ↑ Οχυρώνει τα γκολπόστ με Λόρια και Μπάρκα
  6. ↑ Σοβαρή ζημιά ο Μπάρκας
  7. ↑ Μπάρκας: «Ελπίζω να γίνω ξανά βασικός»
  8. ↑ Στην ΑΕΚ μέχρι το 2022 ο Μπάρκας
  9. ↑ "«Όχι» σε 6.000.000 ευρώ για Μπάρκα από Μελισσανίδη!" (in Greek). Retrieved 2018-06-22.
  10. ↑ Εθνική Ελλάδας: Άσχημα νέα με Καρνέζη – Κλήθηκε ο Μπάρκας
  11. ↑ "Giannis Anestis profile". Soccerway. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
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