Themis Rigas

Footballer
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IntroFootballer
PlacesGreece
isAthlete Football player Association football player
Work fieldSports
Gender
Male
BirthPatras
Death13 January 1984
The details

Biography

Themis Rigas (Greek: Θέμης Ρήγας) (born 1945 - died 13 January 1984), popularly nicknamed The Train, is a former Greek footballer (winger) born in Patras. One of the fastest and most talented wingers of his generation, he was a member of the great Panachaiki football team that impressed Greece in the seventies and qualified to the 1974 UEFA Cup.
He died in a domestic accident in 1984, at the age of 39, leaving behind him the Panachaiki family without one of its most eminent members.

Statistics

Themis Rigas had 165 First Division appearances for Panachaiki and scored 23 goals.

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