Kostas Christodoulou

Kostas Christodoulou

Christodoulou (right) with Maropoulos, Tzanetis and Chatzistavridis. (left)
Personal information
Full name	Konstantinos Christodoulou
Date of birth	1915 (1915)
Place of birth	Athens, Greece
Position(s)	Forward
Youth career
–1930	PAO Daphni Athens
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1930–1936	Panathinaikos
1936–1945	AEK Athens	3	(1)
International career
1934–1938	Greece	5	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Kostas Christodoulou (Greek: Κώστας Χριστοδούλου; born 1915) was a Greek footballer who played as a forward and a later manager.

Club career

Christodoulou started the football at PAO Dafni Athens where he competed at the left wing of the offense. In the summer of 1930 and at a very young age, he moved to Panathinaikos without the consent of his club, a very common event at the time and was punished with a one year ban from every official competition, according to the regulations at the time.[1] With the "greens" he won the Athens FCA league in 1934.

In 1936 he joined the city rivals, AEK Athens, where he played for 9 years winning 2 consecutive Panhellenic Championships, 1 Cup[2] and 2 Athens FCA Championships, including the first domestic double in by a Greek club in 1939.[3] He stopped football in 1945, during the events of the World War II and the Occupation, where the Greek football was inactive, at the age of 30.[4]

International career

Christodoulou played for Greece, where he made his debut on 4 February 1934 in the 1–0 friendly win against Bulgaria at Leoforos Alexandras Stadium, where he replaced Leonidas Andrianopoulos in the 55th minute. He was limited to 5 international appearances, four with Panathinaikos and one with AEK,[5] due to World War II, as he took part in Greece's last pre-war meeting on 25 March 1938, where they achieved their greatest defeat by 11–1 against Hungary in Budapest.[6]

Managerial career

After retiring as a football player, Christodoulou coached various teams such as Proodeftiki among others.[7]

Personal life

His younger brother, Christos was also a footballer, also on the left wing of the midfield of Panathinaikos.

Honours

Panathninaikos

• Athens FCA League: 1934

AEK Athens

• Panhellenic Championship: 1938–39, 1939–40
• Greek Cup: 1938–39
• Athens FCA League: 1940, 1946

References

1. "ΕΒΕ - Ψηφιακή Βιβλιοθήκη Εφημερίδων και Περιοδικού Τύπου". efimeris.nlg.gr.
2. "ΑΕΚ ΠΑΟΚ: Πρώτα πόζαραν αγκαλιασμένοι και μετά έπαιξαν το τελικό του κυπέλλου του 1939". sport-retro.gr. 4 November 2017.
3. "Το πρώτο νταμπλ ελληνικής ομάδας, το έκανε η ΑΕΚ!". enwsi.gr. 11 June 2022.
4. "Τι έγινε στο ελληνικό ποδόσφαιρο τον καιρό της Κατοχής". newsbeast.gr (in Greek). 27 October 2018.
5. "Συμμετοχές και γκολ όλων των διεθνών (Χ-Ω)". epo.gr. 31 December 2009. Archived from the original on 7 December 2008.
6. "Greece matches 1929-1938" (PDF). epo.gr.
7. Ιωάννης Χιωτάκης (5 October 1950). "Η Προοδευτική έχει σημάνει γενικόν συναγερμόν και εξορμά δια νέας κατακτήσεις". newspaper "Athletic Echo" (in Greek). pp. 3, 4.

External links

• Kostas Christodoulou at WorldFootball.net
• Kostas Christodoulou at EU-Football.info
• "The History of AEK", collective work, G.X Alexandris Publications, Athens 1996
• "National Greece • March through time", V. Melecoglou-Agg. Mendrinos- T. Davelos, "Papazisis Publications", Athens 2001, ISBN 960-021-082-9
• "Greek national football team 1929-2004 • 75 blue and white years, with full analytical data", Stathis Arvanitis, Kastaniotis Publications, Athens 2004, ISBN 960-033-778-0
• archive of national games of Greece, Alexandros Mastrogiannopoulos for the rsssf.com
• "1908-1998 Panathinaikos • 90 years of football epic", Vangelis Melecoglou-Angelos Mendrinos-Thodoris Davelos, "Trifilli AEVE publication", Athens 1999, ISBN 960-862-531-9