It was known for a long time, now it is official: O Vasilis Spanoulis will be the new coach of the national basketball team. The agreement with the president of the EEC is for two yearswhich means that Kill Bill will lead the official favorite in both Pre-Olympic Tournament (and hopefully the Olympics) next summer, as well as in Eurobasket 2025where in the first phase of the organization Greece will be hosted in the Cyprus group.
At the age of 41 and after a great career that had many “awards” and as a player of the National team, Vassilis Spanoulis starts for a new challenge, which he undertakes in parallel with Peristeri bwin. Debut will play in the matches against the Czech Republic at home and the Netherlands away for the EuroBasket 2025 qualifiers in February. THE its official presentation will take place on Tuesday at 14:00 at the EEC offices.
It is worth noting that Spanoulis was on the mind of EEC even before the agreement with Dimitris Itoudis, but also when there was a possibility that there would be a problem with the permission from Fenerbahce for the coach of the Turkish team to guide Fener in the World Cup.
The announcement:
A member of a generation of athletes who combined her presence with great successes in Greek basketball, takes over as of today the technical guidance of the Men’s National Team. Vassilis Spanoulis agreed on everything with the president of the EEC, Evangelos Liolios, on behalf of the administration and both sides will walk together for the next two years.
The challenges on the calendar for the National Team during this time are the July 2024 Pre-Olympic Tournament with the aim of appearing at the Paris Olympics and the EuroBasket 2025 qualifiers which start earlier, with the aim of appearing in the final phase of the competition.
The official presentation of Vassilis Spanoulis will take place in the board room of EEC tomorrow Tuesday (3/10) at 2:00 p.m.
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Vassilis Spanoulis was born on 7/8/1982, he took his first basketball steps in GSL and Keravnos and in 1999 at the age of 17 he started his professional career with the team of Larissa.
In 2001 he went to Maroussi where he stayed until 2005, when he got his first transfer to Panathinaikos. A year later he joined the Houston Rockets, but in 2007 he returned to the “greens” until 2010, when he was transferred to Olympiakos. He stayed there for more than ten years, ending a long sporting career on June 26, 2021.
He won a total of 3 Euroleagues, 7 championships, 4 Greek cups and an Intercontinental Cup.
In his sports career, he played for the Men’s National Team 146 times and scored 1494 points, being a member of the team that won the gold medal at EuroBasket 2005, the silver medal at the 2006 World Cup and the bronze medal at EuroBasket 2009.
He also had 25 appearances with the Junior Men’s National Team with which he won the gold medal at the 2002 European Championships, 31 appearances with the Junior National Team with which he came third in the 2000 European Championships, while he also won the silver medal at the Mediterranean Games in 2001.
In the 2022-23 season, he began his career as a coach, with the team of Peristeri, in which he continues. In the first year, he led his team to the final of the Men’s Cup and 3rd place in the Basket League.
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Source: Sport Fm
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