Petar Borota
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Petar Borota | ||
| Date of birth | 5 March 1952 | ||
| Place of birth | Belgrade, FPR Yugoslavia | ||
| Date of death | 12 February 2010 (aged 57) | ||
| Place of death | Genoa, Italy | ||
| Height | 1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1969–1975 | OFK Beograd | 131 | (0) |
| 1976–1979 | Partizan | 77 | (0) |
| 1979–1982 | Chelsea | 107 | (0) |
| 1982 | Brentford | 0 | (0) |
| 1982–1983 | Portimonense | 7 | (0) |
| 1983–1984 | Boavista | 15 | (0) |
| 1984–1985 | FC Porto | 0 | (0) |
| 1986 | Boavista | 0 | (0) |
| Total | 337 | (0) | |
| National team | |||
| 1977–1978 | Yugoslavia | 4 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Petar Borota (Serbian Cyrillic: Пeтap Бopoтa; 5 March 1952 – 12 February 2010) was a Serbian footballer who played as a goalkeeper, most notably for Partizan and Chelsea.
In addition to great goalkeeping ability, Borota is also remembered for his eccentric style of play in goal that occasionally led to him conceding bizarre goals.
Borota started playing professional football with OFK Beograd in 1969, recording 8 league appearances for the club by the end of the season. Over the coming years he marked himself out as an able goalkeeper, earning a spot on the Yugoslav u-21 team and attracting interest from bigger clubs.
Eventually in 1975, he agreed terms with FK Partizan across town, leaving OFK after six seasons. However, before joining the crno-beli he went to serve the mandatory army stint that kept him out of action for the entire 1975–76 season.
Borota finally joined the reigning league champion Partizan in late 1976 with the season already in progress. The 23-year-old claimed a place between the goal posts right away, making 27 league appearances until the end of the season under also newly arrived head coach Biće Mladinić.
For the following 1977–78 season, Borota was an established squad member. With head coach Mladinić behind the bench, Partizan claimed the domestic title in dominating fashion behind the goalscoring efforts of club legend Moca Vukotić and new acquisition Slobodan Santrač (arrived in the winter transfer window, and scored 11 goals in 16 matches during the half-season), but also thanks in no small part to Borota (in addition to rugged central defenders Nenad Stojković and Jusuf Hatunić as well as full backs Nikica Klinčarski and Ivan Golac) who let in only 19 goals in 34 league matches.
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