Andreas Mouratis

Andreas Mouratis (Ανδρέας Μουράτης; 29 November 1926 – 10 December 2000), nicknamed Missouri, was a Greek footballer, who played for Olympiacos. Besides his football career, he participated in the Greek Resistance during World War II, as a member of the National Liberation Front.

Biography
He was born in 1926, in Piraeus, to a poor family of refugees from Asia Minor. He was not a good student in his childhood and did several different jobs during his youth. During the axis occupation of Greece, he was active in the Resistance, stealing food from the occupation forces, and sharing it with other locals. He was also a part of United Panhellenic Organization of Youth (EPON), the youth branch of the National Liberation Front (EAM). In 1943, he joined Proodeftiki and in 1945, he was transferred to Olympiacos, asking in return, instead of money, that the state security delete his personal information from their archives. In the following years, he also played for the Greek national football team, but he was removed from the team in 1953, after demanding, along with his team mates, that they be paid by the HFF the money they had been promised for participating in the preliminaries of the 1954 FIFA World Cup.

Mouratis died at the age of 74.

Career
He was the leading power of Olympiacos in the post-war era and won numerous league and cup titles. He was considered one of the favourite players of Olympiacos. Vigorous, aggressive and passionate, he embodied the ideal player characteristics for the fans of Olympiacos.

He made 16 appearances and scored one goal for the Greece national football team. He was also member of the national side for the 1952 Olympic Games, but he did not play in any matches.

Mouratis was nicknamed "Mourat Aslan" (Mouratis the Lion) by the Turkish press, after a friendly match of the national teams of Greece and Turkey, because he was playing aggressively like a lion.

Honours

 * Olympiacos
 * Panhellenic Championship: 1946–47, 1947–48, 1951–52, 1953–54, 1954–55
 * Greek Cup: 1946–47, 1950–51, 1951–52, 1952–53, 1953–54
 * Piraeus FCA Championship: 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955
 * Greek Military Team
 * World Military Cup: 1962