Full name Boris Edward Binkowski Playing position Died 25 November 2014 | Place of birth Finow, East Germany Years Team Position Forward | |
Date of birth (1945-11-25)25 November 1945 Date of death 25 November 2014(2014-11-25) (aged 69) | ||
Boris Binkowski (25 November 1945 – 25 November 2014) is an East German footballer who spent most of his career in Yugoslavia, with spells also in Austria and Belgium. As he spent most of his life and career in Slovenia, Yugoslavia, he became vastly known in his Slovenian and Serbo-Croatian spelling of his name, Boris Binkovski.
Club career
Born in Finow, East Germany, right at the end of Second World War, Binkowski played with Slovenian clubs NK Triglav Kranj and NK Kladivar in Yugoslav third level before joining NK Maribor in 1965. Maribor was back then playing in the Yugoslav Second League and Binkowski was part of the generation that archived promotion to the Yugoslav First League in 1967. He will play with Maribor for almost a decade, the exception were two half seasons he spent on loan with Mura in the Second League, in second half of season 1971–72 and first half of 1972–73. He made 182 appearances and scored 30 goals in the league with Maribor.
In summer 1973 he moved across the border to Austria where he played a season with FC Wacker Innsbruck and then a season and a half with LASK Linz in the Austrian Bundesliga. During the winter-break of 1975–76 he joined Royal Antwerp and played with them the second half of the 1975–76 Belgian First Division. He stayed at Royal Antwerp at several functions within the club until 1992.
He died on November 25, 2014.