Kostas Choumis

Kostas Choumis (, , 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.

Club career Choumis was born on 20 November 1913 in Piraeus, Greece and began playing junior-level football in 1929 at local club Ethnikos. In 1933 he made his senior debut for The Blue-Whites. He played his first Divizia A match on 13 September 1946 under coach Ferenc Plattkó in a 1–1 draw against AMEF Arad. 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. 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 with five goals netted in the second. 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. The match was lost by Venus, 4–6, with Choumis also scoring the last goal of the Romanian team.

He stayed with Venus during World War II but left in 1946 to play for Rapid București. He made a total of 102 appearances with 80 goals scored in the Romanian top-league, Divizia A. A few days later, in the same competition, he scored his first goal in a 2–2 draw against Romania.

In the 1935 Balkan Cup, he scored two doubles, the first in a loss to Bulgaria and the second in a draw against Romania. 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.

International Goals Greece score listed first, score column indicates score after each Choumis goal.

Romania score listed first, score column indicates score after each Humis goal.

+ List of international goals scored by Constantin Humis for Romania No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition1 12 October 1941 ANEF Stadium, Bucharest, Romania 1–1 3–2 Friendly

Managerial career In the middle of the 1950s, Choumis returned to Greece where he coached teams such as Egaleo, Ethnikos and PAS Giannina. In 1969 he coached for one month the national amateur team of Greece.

Death Choumis died on 20 July 1981 in Athens, Greece at age 67.

Honours Club Ethnikos Piraeus Greek South Division Championship: 1934–35 Venus București Divizia A: 1936–37, 1938–39, 1939–40 Cupa României runner-up: 1939–40 UTA Arad Divizia A: 1946–47 International Greece Balkan Cup runner-up : 1934–35 Individual Panhellenic Championship: 1935–36 (12 goals)