Christos Kostis

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Christos Kostis
Full name	Christos Kostis
Date of birth	January 15, 1972 (1972-01-15) (age 36)
Place of birth	Thessaloniki, Greece
Height	1.79 m (5 ft 10+¹⁄₂ in)
Playing position	Striker
Youth clubs
-1989	Iraklis
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1989-1994 1994-1998 1998-2000 2000-2005 2005-2006 2006-2007	Iraklis AEK Athens Anderlecht AEK Athens Alki Larnaca Ajax Cape Town Total	110 (24) 105 (55) 000 0(0) 007 0(1) 019 0(3) 000 0(0) 241 (84)
National team
1993-1997	Greece	015 0(4)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Christos Kostis is a former Greek football player. He is regarded as one of the finest Greek strikers of his time and one of the greatest talents ever produced by Greece.

[edit] Club career

His career was going from good to better as he managed to rise to [[Iraklis Thessaloniki F.C.|Iraklis']' first team squad and become the club's best striker. This made AEK Athens and Olympiacos battle for his signature during the summer of 1994. Olymiakos' and Iraklis' boards agreed for the transfer and Kostis took a plane to Athens in order to sign his new contract with them. Surprisingly who he found waiting for him in the airport were AEK Athen's 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 October 23, 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 sign him the following summer. Sadly he never managed to recover fully from his injury and returned to AEK Athens two years later. He played some matches but was injured again making it clear the what was to be a glorious career was practically over.