Tasos Konstantinou

Konstantinou was promoted to the men's team of EPA Larnaca in 1968, where he won the championship in 1970, while he emergetd as the top scorer of the league with 15 goals and was named player of the season at the age of 19. The following season, Konstantinou played his first European appearances in the heavy defeats against Borussia Mönchengladbach for the European Cup. On 27 July 1972, at the age of 21, Konstantinou traveled to Greece and was transferred to AEK Athens for a fee of 600,000 drachmas. He was quickly established as a regular in the squad. He had the chance to be partnered alongside great players of the club, such as Mimis Papaioannou, Georgios Dedes, Walter Wagner, Thomas Mavros and Dušan Bajević in the offensive line, while as a penalty kick specialist, he was the main player that took the executions. On 20 April 1975, in the derby against Panathinaikos, he was subbed on at the 92nd minute and a minute later he scored the winner with a penalty, in an episodic 4–3 at home. He scored his first international goals with AEK in the 3–1 win over Inter Bratislava, on 5 November 1975, scoring a brace within 2 minutes. On 12 May 1976, he scored at the home defeat for the Greek Cup. by 2–3 against Olympiacos from the spot after he just came in the match. On 29 September 1976 in Moscow, for the second leg of the first round of the UEFA Cup, the match was sent to overtime and in the final minute, AEK won a penalty with Konstantinou was to undertake the execution. The…

Konastantinou played 13 times for Cyprus and scored 1 goal.

Born in Paliometocho, 20 kilometers southwest of Nicosia, Konstantinou was a member of a football family as his three brothers Charis and Chabis and Andreas Assiotis played for APOEL, Olympiakos Nicosia and ASIL respectively. In 1959 at the age of 8 he followed his parents and siblings in the family migration to London, where he joined the U18 team of Fulham. When in 1966 EPA Larnaca visited the English capital for friendly matches and were impressed by the 15-year-old Konstantinou and they and offered him an open-date plane ticket to return to Cyprus and join their youth team.

EPA Larnaca

Cypriot First Division: 1969–70 AEK Athens

Alpha Ethniki: 1977–78, 1978–79 Greek Cup: 1977–78 Individual

Cypriot First Division top scorer: 1969–70