Manolis Kottis
Greek footballer
Manolis Kottis (Greek: Μανώλης Κώττης; born 25 January 1955) is a Greek former professional footballer who played as forward.
Club career
Early years
Kottis started his football career through his older brother who played football for the team of Apollon Kalythies. At the age of 13, he trained with the club's youth team. At the age of 13, he trained with the youth team of the club and when he scored three goals in a friendly match of the division against Rodos, he was called by the officials of Apollon Kalythies and signed a sport's card with the team. His reputation as a prolific scorer began to spread in the football community of Rhodes. This recognition was further solidified when he scored twice in a friendly match against Rodos. Impressed, the officials of the island's big team visited Kottis at the carpentry workshop where he worked and offered him a contract which he signed for a fee of 30,000 drachmas.
Rodos
During the eight years he played with Rodos, he made sure to constantly prove his executive scoring ability, culminating in being named the top scorer of the second division in 1977 season with 28 goals, while also making a decisive contribution in the promotion of Rodos to the first division. He was the first player of Rodos to complete a hat-trick in the first division, as he did scoring all the goals for his club in the 3–1 win over PAS Giannina. The transfer rumors that had long started becoming more and more intense for Kottis, when in his first season with Rodos in the league as he emerged as the 2nd top scorer with 24 goals, tied with Dušan Bajević behind the 31 goals of Thomas Mavros.
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