Vassilis Borbokis is a former Greek

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

 football (soccer)

Football (soccer)

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 player. He is the brother of former Greek football (soccer) player Stefanos Borbokis

Stefanos Borbokis

Stefanos Borbokis is a former Greek football player. He is the brother of former Greek football player Vassilis Borbokis, who was also a former PAOK FC player.-Club career:...

, who was also a PAOK FC

PAOK FC

P.A.O.K. F.C. is a Greek association football club based in Thessaloniki, Greece. It is the largest supported football club in Macedonia.PAOK FC is the football department of Pan-Thessalonian Athletic Club of Constantinopolitans , a multi-sport club. Since its formation in 1926 the football club...

 player (from 1986 until 1994). He is currently working as a scouter for AEK Athens FC

AEK Athens FC

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Playing career

Borbokis began his career at Apollon Kalamaria in 1987 before Dusan Bajevic

Dušan Bajevic

Dušan Bajević is a Bosnian football manager and former Yugoslav international.-Playing career:...

 signed him at AEK Athens

AEK Athens FC

AEK Athens F.C. , the Athletic Union of Constantinople, is a Greek association football club based in the city of Athens, Greece. Outside Greece, the club is also known as AEK Athens, however, the word Athens is not part of the club's official title.Established in Athens in 1924 by Greek refugees...

 in 1993, playing 86 games as a right back. In 1997 new Sheffield United manager Nigel Spackman

Nigel Spackman

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 signed him for £1 million. He became an instant hero on his debut against Sunderland with a creative finish.

Borbokis played some good football in Spackman's Wing-Back style of play at the start of the 1997/1998 season and with United looked to be Premiership

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 bound. However Spackman left after the chairman allowed top strikers Brian Deane

Brian Deane

Brian Christopher Deane is an English former footballer.Signed for £40,000 from Doncaster Rovers in the close season of 1988, Deane first played and scored for Sheffield United in an 8–1 victory against Skegness Town...

 and Jan Åge Fjørtoft

Jan Åge Fjørtoft

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 to be sold to Benfica and rivals Barnsley

Barnsley F.C.

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 respectively and after defender Carl Tiler

Carl Tiler

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 left for Everton

Everton F.C.

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Under caretaker manager Steve Thompson, Borbokis helped United to the FA Cup

FA Cup

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 semi final against Newcastle United

Newcastle United F.C.

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 which the Blades lost 1–0 at Old Trafford. United also qualified for the play-off and beat Sunderland

Sunderland A.F.C.

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 2–1 at Bramall Lane

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 with Borbokis scoring the winner with a 30 yard free kick. However, at the Stadium of Light

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 United lost the second leg 4–2 to leave them outside the Premiership for another year.

The following season Borbokis fell out with new manager Steve Bruce

Steve Bruce

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 and moved to Derby County

Derby County F.C.

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 in a swap deal for Jonathan Hunt

Jonathan Hunt (footballer)

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. He played just 16 games for them, scoring once in the League Cup against Swansea City, before returning to his homeland Greece 6 months later to play for PAOK Thessaloniki FC

PAOK FC

P.A.O.K. F.C. is a Greek association football club based in Thessaloniki, Greece. It is the largest supported football club in Macedonia.PAOK FC is the football department of Pan-Thessalonian Athletic Club of Constantinopolitans , a multi-sport club. Since its formation in 1926 the football club...

 under his former coach Dusan Bajevic

Dušan Bajevic

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 where he scored a goal in PAOK's 4–2 win over Olympiakos FC in the 2001 Greek Cup Final in Athens

Athens

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Honours

AEK Athens

AEK Athens FC

AEK Athens F.C. , the Athletic Union of Constantinople, is a Greek association football club based in the city of Athens, Greece. Outside Greece, the club is also known as AEK Athens, however, the word Athens is not part of the club's official title.Established in Athens in 1924 by Greek refugees...

• Greek Championship
  Super League Greece
  The Superleague Greece is the highest professional football league in Greece. It was formed on July 16, 2006 and replaced Alpha Ethniki at the top of the Greek football league system. The league consists of 16 teams and runs from August to May, with teams playing 30 games each...
  
  : 1994
• Greek Cup
  Greek football Cup
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  : 1996, 1997
• Greek Super Cup
  Greek Super Cup
  -Official edition:-External links:*...
  
  : 1996

PAOK

• Greek Cup: 2001

Anorthosis Famagusta

Anorthosis Famagusta FC

Αnorthosis Famagusta FC is a Cypriot football and volleyball club which is originally based in Famagusta, but is now temporarily based in Larnaca, due to the Turkish invasion. Anorthosis is one of the most successful clubs in Cypriot football, having won 13 league titles, 10 Cypriot Cups and 6...

• Cypriot Championship
  Cypriot First Division
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  : 2005

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