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Kostas Choumis

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Kostas Choumis
Personal information
Full name Konstantinos Choumis
Date of birth (1913-11-20)20 November 1913
Place of birth Piraeus, Kingdom of Greece
Date of death 20 July 1981(1981-07-20) (aged 67)
Place of death Athens, Greece
Position Striker
Youth career
1929–1933 Ethnikos Piraeus
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1933–1936 Ethnikos Piraeus[a] 24 (27)
1936–1946 Venus București 74 (66)
1946 Rapid București 2 (1)
1947 IT Arad 1 (0)
1947–1948 Karres Mediaș 25 (13)
1948–1949 Venus București
1950–1951 Progresul ICAS București
Total 126 (107)
International career
1934–1936 Greece 9 (8)
1941–1943 Romania 2 (1)
Managerial career
1951–1954 Progresul ICAS
1955 Flacăra Moreni
1956–1957 Locomotiva Constanța
1957–1958 Progresul Sibiu
1958–1959 CSU București
1959–1961 Șantierul Naval Maritim Constanța
1961–1962 Farul Constanța (juniors)
1962–1963 IMU Medgidia
1963 Jiul Petroșani
Egaleo
Ethnikos
1966 PAS Giannina
1969 Greece amateur
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Kostas Choumis (Greek: Κώστας Χούμης, Romanian: Constantin "Costică" Humis, 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.[2][3]

Club career

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Choumis was born on 20 November 1913 in Piraeus, Greece and began playing junior-level football in 1929 at local club Ethnikos.[4][5] In 1933 he made his senior debut for The Blue-Whites.[4] He won the South Division championship with Ethnikos in the 1934–1935 season, scoring 15 goals in 10 matches.[1][5] The National Championship was not held in the 1934–35 season, but in the next year it was played, and Choumis, became a top scorer alongside three other players, with 12 goals netted in 14 matches.[1][5]

In 1936, Choumis joined Romanian club Venus București, after scoring two goals against Romania a year earlier.[4][5][6] He played his first Divizia A match on 13 September 1946 under coach Ferenc Plattkó in a 1–1 draw against AMEF Arad.[6][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 Plattkó used him.[5][6][9] He won two more championships in the 1938–39 and 1939–40 seasons, playing under coach Béla Jánosy in 14 matches in which he scored nine goals in the first one and in eight games with five goals netted in the second.[5][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, which ended 4–4, Choumis scored two goals) Rapid București won the third replay and the trophy.[10] He remains in history as the first scorer for a Romanian team in the European competitions, netting the first goal for Venus București in the first round of the 1937 Mitropa Cup against Ujpest from Hungary.[5][11] The match was lost by Venus, 4–6, with Choumis also scoring the last goal of the Romanian team.[11][12]

He stayed with Venus during World War II but left in 1946 to play for IT Arad.[4][6][13] Choumis played only one game for ITA in half a season, before moving to Rapid București, but ITA managed to win the championship without him.[6][9][13] In 1947, he joined Karres Mediaș, where he played a season alongside Ștefan Dobay.[4][5][6][14] He made a total of 102 appearances and scored 80 goals in the Romanian top-league, Divizia A.[6][14] In 1948, Choumis returned to Venus, which was playing in Divizia C, and in 1950 he joined Divizia B club Progresul ICAS București, retiring in 1951.[13]

International career

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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 in the 1934–35 Balkan Cup.[15][16] A few days later, in the same competition, he scored his first goal in a 2–2 draw against Romania.[15][17]

In the 1935 Balkan Cup, he scored two doubles, the first in a loss to Bulgaria and the second in a draw against Romania.[15] 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 scorers in the competition's history.[15]

In his last match for Greece, he scored the team's only goal in Cairo, but the Greek squad lost to Egypt.[15]

In 1941, after five years of living in Romania, Choumis made his debut for Romania's national team under coach Virgil Economu in a 3–2 friendly victory against Slovakia where he scored once.[15][18] 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.[15]

Managerial career

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Choumis started his coaching career at Progresul ICAS in 1951, where he worked for several of the club's teams in the Romanian lower leagues in the cities of Focșani, Satu Mare and Bucharest.[13] From 1955 onwards, he had tenures at multiple clubs from the lower leagues, including Flacăra Moreni, Locomotiva Constanța, Progresul Sibiu, CSU București and Șantierul Naval Maritim Constanța.[13] Notably, he helped the latter gain promotion to Divizia B.[13] In 1961, he went to work as a junior coach at Farul Constanța, returning after one year to coach seniors at IMU Medgidia, and in 1963 he had a stint at Jiul Petroșani.[13] Choumis returned to Greece in the mid-1960s, coaching clubs like Egaleo, Ethnikos and PAS Giannina.[4][13] In 1969, he coached for one month the national amateur team of Greece.[4]

Death

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Choumis died on 20 July 1981 in Athens, Greece at age 67.[4][5]

Career statistics

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Appearances and goals by national team and year[15]
National teamYearAppsGoals
Greece 193421
193544
193633
Total98
Romania 194111
194310
Total21

International goals

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Greece score listed first, score column indicates score after each Choumis goal.
List of international goals scored by Kostas Choumis[15]
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
Greece goals
127 December 1934Leoforos Alexandras Stadium, Athens, Greece Romania2–22–21934–35 Balkan Cup
216 June 1935Yunak Stadium, Sofia, Bulgaria Bulgaria1–02–51935 Balkan Cup
32–5
424 June 1935Levski Stadium, Sofia, Bulgaria Romania1–02–2
52–0
621 May 1936ONEF Stadium, Bucharest, Romania Bulgaria2–34–51936 Balkan Cup
72–3
819 June 1936Prince Farouk Stadium, Cairo, Egypt Egypt1–11–3Friendly
Romania goals
112 October 1941ANEF Stadium, Bucharest, Romania Slovakia1–13–2Friendly

Honours

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Club

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Ethnikos Piraeus

  • Greek South Division Championship: 1934–35[1]

Venus București

UTA Arad

International

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Greece

Individual

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Notes

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  1. ↑ The statistics for the 1933–34 season are unavailable.[1]

References

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  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Evidence of Kostas Humis' appearances and goals for Ethnikos". Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 8 September 2009.
  2. ↑ "Fotbaliști care au evoluat sub tricolor, dar s-au născut în afara granițelor României" [Footballers who evolved under the tricolor, but were born outside the borders of Romania] (in Romanian). Prosport.ro. 13 March 2009. Retrieved 14 June 2025.
  3. ↑ "Humis – un super interviu cu atacantul Venusului în anul 1939" [Humis – a great interview with the Venus striker in 1939] (in Romanian). Tikitaka.ro. Retrieved 14 June 2025.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Primul străin naturalizat din istoria naţionalei României! Costică Humis, grecul care a jucat sub tricolor" [The first naturalized foreigner in the history of the Romanian national team! Costica Humis, the Greek who played under the tricolor] (in Romanian). Fanatik.ro. 8 October 2020. Retrieved 8 May 2021.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Kostas Choumis, fotbalistul grec care s-a îndrăgostit de România și a devenit Constantin Humis" [Kostas Choumis, the Greek footballer who fell in love with Romania and became Constantin Humis] (in Romanian). Ripensia-sport-magazin.ro. 21 March 2017. Retrieved 14 June 2025.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Kostas Choumis profile". Labtof. Retrieved 14 June 2025.
  7. ↑ Mihai Ionescu, Mircea Tudoran Fotbal de la A la Z : Fotbalul mondial de-a lungul anilor, Bucharest: Editura Sport-Turism, 1988
  8. ↑ "Venus București - Vagonul Arad 1-1". Labtof. Retrieved 14 June 2025.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 "Romania National Champions". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 14 June 2025.
  10. 1 2 "Romanian Cup - Season 1939 - 1940". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 14 June 2025.
  11. 1 2 "Venus București, prima campioană a României care a jucat în cupele europene" [Venus București, the first Romanian champion to play in European cups] (in Romanian). Tikitaka.ro. Retrieved 14 June 2025.
  12. ↑ "Venus - Ujpest, 1937 Mitropa Cup". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 14 June 2025.
  13. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Primul jucător străin transferat în România: a venit Kostas și a plecat Costică (III)" [The first foreign player transferred to Romania: Kostas arrived and Costică left (III)] (in Romanian). Welovesport.ro. 14 September 2026. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
  14. 1 2 "Kostas Choumis". Fotbalisti Romani. Retrieved 14 June 2025.
  15. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Kostas Choumis". European Football. Retrieved 8 May 2021.
  16. ↑ "Greece 2-1 Yugoslavia". European Football. Retrieved 14 June 2025.
  17. 1 2 "1934–35 Balkan Cup". European Football. Retrieved 14 June 2025.
  18. ↑ "Romania 3-2 Slovakia". European Football. Retrieved 14 June 2025.
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