Kostas Choumis

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Kostas Choumis (Template:Langx, Template:Langx, born 20 November 1913 in Piraeus, Greece – deceased 20 July 1981 in Athens) was a Greek-Romanian football player who played as a striker. He is often regarded in Greece and Romania as one of the greatest strikers from the 1930s.[1][2]

Club career

Choumis was born on 20 November 1913 in Piraeus, Greece, starting to play junior level football in 1929 at local club, Ethnikos.[3][4] In 1933 he made his senior debut for Ethnikos.[3] He won the South Division championship with Ethnikos in the 1934–1935 season, scoring 15 goals in 10 matches.[5][4] The National Championship was not held in the 1934–35 season, but in the next year it was played, and Choumis, alongside three other players became the top scorer of the league, with 12 goals netted in 14 matches.[5][4]

In 1936, Choumis moved to Romanian club Venus București, after scoring two goals against Romania a year earlier.[3][4][6] He played his first match in Divizia A against AMEF Arad.[7][8] At the end of his first season, the team won the title with him contributing with 18 goals netted in the 20 games coach Ferenc Plattkó used him.[4][6][9] He won two more championships in the 1938–39 and 1939–40 seasons, being used by coach Béla Jánosy in 14 matches in which he scored nine goals in the first one and in eight games in which he scored five goals in the second.[4][6][9] He played in the last three matches of the 1940 Cupa României final, when, after two draws in two replays of the final (in the first replay, ended 4–4, Choumis scored two goals) Rapid București won the third replay and the final.[10] He remains in history as the first scorer for a Romanian team in the European competitions, netting the first goal of Venus București in the first round of the 1937 Mitropa Cup, against Ujpest from Hungary.[4][11] The match was lost by Venus, 4–6, with Choumis scoring also the last goal of the Romanian team.[11][12]

He stayed with Venus during World War II but left in 1946 to play for Rapid București.[3][6] Choumis played at Rapid only half of a season, afterwards moving at IT Arad, where he played just one game but won the championship.[6][9] In 1947 he went to play at Karres Mediaș, where he played a season along Ștefan Dobay.[3][4][6][13] He has a total of 102 appearances with 80 goals scored in the Romanian top-league, Divizia A.[6][13]

International career

Choumis played nine games and scored eight goals for Greece, making his debut on 23 December 1934 under coach Apostolos Nikolaidis in a 2–1 home win against Yugoslavia at the 1934–35 Balkan Cup.[14][15] A few days later, in the same competition, he scored his first goal in a 2–2 draw against Romania.[14][16]

In the 1935 Balkan Cup, he scored two doubles, the first in a loss to Bulgaria and the second in a draw against Romania.[14] In the following edition of the Balkan Cup, he again scored a brace in a loss to Bulgaria, bringing his total tally in the Balkan Cup up to seven goals, which means he is among the all-time top goal scorers in the competition's history.[14]

In his last match for Greece, he scored the only goal for his team in Cairo, but the Greeks lost the game against Egypt.[14]

In 1941, after five years of living in Romania, Choumis made his debut for Romania's national team under coach Virgil Economu in a friendly that ended with a 3–2 victory against Slovakia in which he scored once.[14][17] His second and last international match for The Tricolours came in June 1943, playing another friendly against Slovakia which ended with a 2–2 draw.[14]

International Goals

Greece score listed first, score column indicates score after each Choumis goal.
List of international goals scored by Kostas Choumis for Greece[14]
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1 27 December 1934 Leoforos Alexandras Stadium, Athens, Greece File:Flag of Romania.svg Romania 2–2 2–2 1934–35 Balkan Cup
2 16 June 1935 Yunak Stadium, Sofia, Bulgaria File:Flag of Bulgaria.svg Bulgaria 1–0 2–5 1935 Balkan Cup
3 2–5
4 24 June 1935 Levski Stadium, Sofia, Bulgaria File:Flag of Romania.svg Romania 1–0 2–2
5 2–0
6 21 May 1936 ONEF Stadium, Bucharest, Romania File:Flag of Bulgaria.svg Bulgaria 2–3 4–5 1936 Balkan Cup
7 2–3
8 19 June 1936 Prince Farouk Stadium, Cairo, Egypt File:Flag of Egypt (1922–1958).svg Egypt 1–1 1–3 Friendly
Romania score listed first, score column indicates score after each Humis goal.
List of international goals scored by Constantin Humis for Romania[14]
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1 12 October 1941 ANEF Stadium, Bucharest, Romania File:Flag of Slovakia.svg Slovakia 1–1 3–2 Friendly

Managerial career

In the middle of the 1950s, Choumis returned to Greece where he coached teams like Egaleo, Ethnikos and PAS Giannina.[3] In 1969 he coached for one month the national amateur team of Greece.[3]

Death

Choumis died on 20 July 1981 in Athens, Greece at age 67.[3][4]

Honours

Club

Ethnikos Piraeus

  • Greek South Division Championship: 1934–35[5]

Venus București

UTA Arad

International

Greece

Individual

Notes

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