Kostas Negrepontis

Kostas Negrepontis

Kostas Negrepontis
Personal information
Full name	Konstantinos Negrepontis
Date of birth	1897
Place of birth	Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
Date of death	(1973-02-19)19 February 1973 (aged 76)
Place of death	Athens, Greece
Position(s)	Striker, Inside/Outside right
Youth career
	Propontida Tataoulon
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
-1918	Fenerbahçe S.K.
1918–1923	Pera Club
1923–1926	in France
1926–1932	AEK	6	(2)
International career
1929-1930	Greece	2	(0)
Managerial career
1933–1934	Greece
1933–1936	AEK
1937–1940	AEK
1938	Greece
1944–1948	AEK
1948–1950	Greece
1953	Greece
1953	AEK
1955	Olympiacos
1955–1957	AEK
1958–1959	AEK
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Konstantinos (Kostas) Negrepontis (Greek: Κώστας Νεγρεπόντης; 1897 – 19 February 1973) was an international Greek football player who played as a center forward in the 1920s and 1930s and later a coach.

Career

Playing career

Born in Constantinople (now Istanbul) in 1897, he started his football career as a young player in Turkey, playing for the Propontida Tataoulon. Later he joined Fenerbahçe S.K. where he won 3 amateur championships. In 1918 alongside other Greeks from Pera he founded Pera Club, which he joined as a player. With Pera Club he won a Turkish Championship in 1922. After the Greco-Turkish War in 1922, Pera Club did a tour in Europe with Greece being one of their stops. Negrepontis decided to stay in France where he played for a number of French football teams. Negrepontis eventually settled in Greece to play for AEK Athens F.C. in 1926, where he became a crowd favourite and the team captain. In 1932 he retired as a footballer.

He was capped twice by Greece because the Hellenic Football Federation was founed at the dawn of his career.

Coaching career

After retiring from football, Negrepontis coached a number of clubs, including AEK Athens FC, Olympiacos, Panelefsiniakos, Apollon Smyrnis, Panionios, Ethnikos Piraeus and Panegialios. He was the first (and the prewar) coach of Greece national football team which he completed above ten appearances for Greece in a total of 16 (in four different periods between 1933–1953). He was also the coach who achieved Greece's biggest victory of 8–0 against Syria in a match which took place on 25 November 1949 at Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium.