Takis Economopoulos

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A young Takis Econopoulos.

Takis (Dimitrios) Economopoulos, born October 19, 1943.

Takis Economopoulos, while playing for Panathinaikos, managed to keep a clean sheet for 1,088 minutes (record). He kept a clean slate from January 17, 1965 until May 9, 1965 - when he was finally beaten.

After retiring as a football player, he went on to work with Panathinaikos as a goalkeeping coach.

In 2002 he became responsible for coaching Panathinaikos' first team during the four last matches of the season -- after coach Sergio Markarian had been barred from entering any stadium for 40 days following an incident with with Olympiakos Piraeus FC.