Daniel Batista
Personal information
Full name	Daniel Batista Lima
Date of birth	(1964-09-09) 9 September 1964 (age 59)
Place of birth	São Vicente, Cape Verde
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Team information
Current team	Ethnikos Piraeus (technical director)
Youth career
1983–1986	Feyenoord Rotterdam
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1986–1987	Feyenoord Rotterdam
1987–1989	Ethnikos Piraeus	67	(14)
1989–1992	AEK Athens	90	(39)
1992–1995	Olympiacos	78	(16)
1995–1999	AEK Athens	77	(28)
1999–2001	Aris	5	(0)
Total		317	(97)
International career
1994–1997	Greece	14	(2)
Managerial career
2003–2007	Diagoras
2007–2008	Fostiras
2008–2009	Nea Ionia
2009–2013	AEK Athens U20
2013	Peramaikos
2014–2015	Niki Volos (technical director)
2021–	Ethnikos Piraeus (technical director)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Daniel Batista Lima (Greek: Ντανιέλ Μπατίστα Λίμα; born 9 September 1964) is a former professional footballer who played as a forward. Born in Cape Verde, he represented Greece internationally. He is the Technical Director of Ethnikos Piraeus.

Club career

Batista started his football career at the academies of Feyenoord Rotterdam. After playing there a while a good friend of him and also a Feyenoord supporter brought him to Greece to follow his career there. Batista played for Ethnikos Piraeus in whose colors he impressed and soon became an interest of the big clubs of Athens. Finally, in the summer of 1989, he prefers to transfer to AEK Athens, while Olympiacos also strongly claimed him.

It didn't take long for him to impress at AEK as well. He started very well from his very first season at AEK, even though he had some injuries. Alongside Patikas and Christodoulou, he formed a very good trio in the "yellow-black" offense. The following season was not a good one for the team, but Batista again had a very good season, while among other things he also scored the winning goal against Olympiacos.^[1] In both of these years, Batista played mainly as a striker, but the arrival of Dimitriadis and Alexandris in the summer of 1991, made Bajević to play Batista behind the two strikers, in order to "fit" them all in the starting eleven. Batista formed an excellent duo with Dimitriadis in attack and helped AEK to win the championship. He also has excellent performances for the UEFA Cup.

In the summer of 1992, with the expiration of his contract and during a period of administrative changes at AEK, he decided to move to Olympiacos, displeasing the people of the "yellow-blacks". In the club of Piraeus, he had a good presence, but did not reach the high standards he at AEK. However he scored many goals in the matches against his former club. In the summer of 1995, he returned to AEK and got an excellent performance again, as he played a big part in winning the cup, scoring 2 times in the final with Apollon Athens.^[2] The following season was also great, despite facing some injuries, creating an excellent trio in the attack with Kostis and Nikolaidis, in a season where AEK was again crowned cup winner. In AEK he played for another 2 seasons and despite the new injuries contributed to club. With AEK he won 1 championship, 2 cups, 2 Super Cups and 1 League Cup.^[3] In the summer of 1999, he was released from the club and moved to Aris.^[4] Batista retired after the end of the 2000–01 season.

International career

Batista naturalized a Greek citizen, and debuted in the Greece national team on 12 October 1994. At the time, he had the distinction of being the only Greek athlete of black ethnicity to do so. He played 14 times scoring twice.^[5]

Managing career

After his playing days were over, Batista coached Diagoras, Fostiras, he was the director of football of Lamia, head coach of AO Nea Ionia, AEK Athens U20, Peramaikos and a technical director of Niki Volos. From the summer of 2021 he is the Technical Director of Ethnikos Piraeus.^[6]

Personal life

Batista's uncle, Noni Lima was a former footballer who had a successful career in Greece at Panionios. His nephew and Noni's son, Konstantinos is a player of Episkopi.