Christos Kontis

Christos Kontis
Personal information
Full name	Christos Kontis
Date of birth	13 May 1975 (age 48)
Place of birth	Athens, Greece
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Position(s)	Defender
Senior career*
Years	Team
1995–1999	Ethnikos Piraeus
1999–2000	Panionios
2000–2002	Olympiakos
2002–2004	Panionios
2004–2006	AEK Athens
2006–2011	APOEL
Managerial career
2011–2013	APOEL (Assistant Manager)
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 30 August 2011

Christos Kontis (Greek: Χρήστος Κόντης, born 13 May 1975 in Athens, Greece) is a retired Greek footballer who finished his career playing for APOEL as a defender .

Club career

Christos Kontis started his career at Ethnikos Piraeus. In Greece he played also for Panionios, Olympiacos and AEK Athens. With Olympiacos he won 2 Greek Championships.

In the summer of 2006 he moved to Cyprus and signed with APOEL. During his five-year spell with APOEL, he won 3 Championships, 1 Cup and 3 Super Cups. He also appeared in four official 2009–10 UEFA Champions League group stage matches with APOEL.

End of career

After a successful career at APOEL, Christos Kontis was forced to retire due to heart failure problems. During the first official 2011–12 Cypriot First Division match (29 August 2011) between AEK Larnaca and APOEL, Kontis felt a slight discomfort and a pain in his chest. Later that night the discomfort continued to exist and the pain got worse, thus the Club's doctors moved him to Nicosia's General Hospital. It was diagnosed that Kontis had suffered a minor heart attack that had damaged one of the veins in his heart.^[1] Consequently, he was forced to retire from his professional football career 9 months before his contract with APOEL expires.

He was one of APOEL's fans' favorite players and he will always be remembered for his passion and for the low profile that he always kept. These virtues earned him the respect and admiration of all Cypriot football fans. He wore the jersey with the number 24.

Assistant Manager

When Christos Kontis recovered fully from the heart incident that forced him to retire, the Board of Directors of APOEL appointed him as an assistant of the head coach of APOEL, Ivan Jovanović. He served as an assistant manager of Ivan Jovanović at APOEL for two years, until the end of 2012–13 season.^[2]