Christos Kostis

Kostis begun his professional career at Iraklis' where at a young age became the club's best striker. This made AEK Athens and Olympiacos battle for his signature during the summer of 1994. Olympiakos' and Iraklis' boards agreed for the transfer and Kostis took a plane for Athens in order to sign his new contract with them. Surprisingly, he found waiting for him an the airport, AEK Athens' board as during the flight they made a better offer to Iraklis and signed him. With his new club Kostis continued his good performances featuring in the Champions League, winning 2 Greek Cups and a Greek Super Cup. His career was cut short when he got seriously injured on 23 October 1997 after a collision with Sturm Graz's goalkeeper Kazimierz Sidorczuk during a game for the Cup Winners' Cup. Nevertheless, his until then appearances made Anderlecht to sign him the following summer. He never managed to fully recover from his injury and returned to AEK Athens two years later. He played some matches, but was injured again making it clear that what was to be a glorious career was practically over.

He debuted for the Greek national football team on 10 March 1993 and went to score 4 times during his 15 caps.[1]

AEK Athens

• Greek Cup: 1996–97, 1999–2000, 2001–02
• Greek Super Cup: 1996