Spanoulis’ first selections for the National Team: With few absences and… a lot of Euroleague

Her first mission National team by Vasilis Spanoulis on the counter is a fact. Kill Bill has selected 16 players for the first two matches of the EuroBasket 2025 qualifiers, on 23 February in SEF against the Czech Republic (21:00) and on 26 of the same month in The Hague against the Netherlands (19:30).

There are players from EuroLeague teams on the list (since the competition has been suspended for the “windows”), but not all are available. Present will be Papanikolaou, Larentzakis, Walkap and Mitrou-Long from Olympiakos and Mitoglou, K. Antetokounmpo, P. Kalaitzakis, Moraitis and Mantzoukas from Panathinaikos.

Slukas, Kalathis (who, however, want to be available for the Pre-Olympic Tournament) and Dorsey were left out, while on the contrary, Papagiannis and Rogavopoulos, who are also from the Euroleague, are in. Toliopoulos, Bohorides (Aris), Kouzeloglou (AEK), Charalambopoulos (Sassari) and Zougris (Peristeri bwin) have also been invited.

It is noted that in each game only one can be available between Walkup and Mitrou-Long.

The preparation will start on Monday 19/2 at SEF and the 16 players called are as follows:

Full Name Date of Birth Height Team Comp. P. (m.o.)

Kostas Papanikolaou 31.07.1990 2.04 Olympiakos 143 6.32

Giannoulis Larentzakis 22.09.1993 2.00 Olympiacos 63 6.98

George Papagiannis 03.07.1997 2.20 Fenerbahce 56 7.20

Dinos Mitoglou 11.06.1996 2.10 Panathinaikos 28 9.14

Lefteris Bohorides 18.04.1994 1.96 Aris 28 5.36

Nikos Rogavopoulos 27.06.2001 2.01 Baskonia 20 8.30

Kostas Antetokounmpo 20.11.1997 2.08 Panathinaikos 18 5.94

Dimitris Moraitis 03.02.1999 1.94 Panathinaikos 16 4.50

Panagiotis Kalaitzakis 02.01.1999 2.00 Panathinaikos 14 4

Thomas Walkup 30.12.1992 1.95 Olympiakos 11 10.82

Yannis Kouseloglou 01.04.1995 2.08 AEK 7 1.71

Vassilis Charalambopoulos 06.01.1997 2.05 Dinamo Sassari 7 2.43

Vassilis Toliopoulos 15.06.1996 1.88 Aris 4 4

Lefteris Mantzoukas 08.07.2003 2.07 Panathinaikos 1 2

Naz Mitrou Long 28.07.1993 1.93 Olympiacos – –

Vangelis Zougris 14.10.2004 2.01 Peristeri – –