Great puffs from the Spanish League: Nikos Machlas

Last update 28 March, 2024 by Alberto Llopis

Sevilla has many times managed to sign high-level players who were truly unknown when they arrived in the city of Seville and who left the club as top-level players.. However, a kind of empirical method of success and error, It has also come to sign errors turned into horrors. Some even have a good record in other leagues. One of them could be the Greek Nikos Machlas.

Nikos Machlas: The Golden Boot that did not triumph in Seville

Born in 1973 a Heraklion, Creta , was one of the front-fashioned in his country by the middle of the decade of the 90. Being one of the members of the first Greek team to play in a World Cup in the entire history of Greek football.. The one they disputed in United States one 1994. And where the last ones were by the way. However, He was going to reach the peak of his career when, as a Vitesse player, he managed to be Golden Boot after being the top European scorer.

This fact, He earned him to sign for Ajax where in 2002, He was loaned to Sevilla. The Seville team was looking for that decisive striker that he had been a few years before., but it was far from that level. With sevillista shirt played 14 games and scored 2 goals. But he attracted more attention for ending up detained for eight hours for reckless driving than for his performance on the pitch..

As is logical, Sevilla passing through only lasted a few months to return to Ajax and ultimately, It is pierced by the Dutch Greek Iralkis from where he went to the club OFI Crete where he had formed and finished his career in Cyprus. However in Seville, It will be remembered as one of the worst signings in the history of Sevilla.