About Vassilis Goumas
Vassilis Goumas is a Greek former professional basketball player. During his playing career, he was nicknamed "The Emperor". At the club level, Goumas was a member of the FIBA European Selection team in 1974. While at the national team level, he was the MVP of the 1973 FIBA EuroBasket Qualification Tournament, while representing the senior Greek national team. In June 1987, after Goumas had announced that the upcoming 1987–88 season would be the final season of his basketball playing career, he was honored by FIBA with a retirement farewell celebration FIBA Europe All-Star Game. On 9 December 1983, while playing with AEK Athens, in a Greek League game against VAO Thessaloniki, Goumas became the first player to ever reach 10,000 career points scored in the top-tier level Greek League. With Olympiacos Addis Ababa, he won the African Club Cup Championship title in 1964, and six Ethiopian Premier League championships, in the years 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, and 1966. With SCLM, he won the Mozambican League championship in 1970, while also being the Mozambican League's Top Scorer in the same year, with a scoring average of 35 points per game. With Ilysiakos, he won the Greek 2nd Division championship in 1986.
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