He is officially repatriated Vangelis Mantzaris!
PAOK announced his agreement with the Greek guard, who signed until the end of the season.
The “Northern Biceps” will be the third station of the experienced regional this year, as it started in Poland and Stal and then moved to Israel on behalf of Hapoel Eilat.
The announcement of KAE:
KAE PAOK mateco announces the agreement with the international basketball player Vangelis Mantzaris, who will play in our team, until the end of the 2021-22 season.
PAOK mateco adds a very experienced athlete to its roster. The numbers speak for themselves: 304 league games, 237 European Championship games, of which 210 in the Euroleague and 202 games with the National Teams, 78 of them with the Men’s National Team.
Vangelis Mantzaris was born on April 16, 1990 in Peristeri, he is 1.96m tall. and fights as a guard. He started his career with the team of Peristeri, in which he played until 2011. Then he transferred to Olympiakos, where he played for 8 years, winning twice the Euroleague (2012 and 2013), the Intercontinental Cup (2013), 3 Greek Championships. (2012, 2015 and 2016), while twice participating in the final of the Euroleague Final 4.
In the 2019-20 season, he initially played for Uniks Kazan, to continue at Prometheus Patras. He managed to play in 14 games (Championship, Cup and Eurocup), before all the tournaments stopped due to the pandemic.
Last season found him at the start in Prometheus, but during the year he moved to Peristeri, while in the 2021-22 season, he started with the Polish Stal Ostrow (with whom he played in 4 games) and then moved to Israel to fight with Hapoel Eilat. Last night he played his last game in the FIBA Europe Cup,
Vangelis Mantzaris has participated in all the small National teams, with great success, as he won a Gold Medal at the Pan-European Youth (U18 in 2008) and Youth (U19 in 2008) and a silver medal at the World Youth (U19 in 2009) and Pan-European Hope (U20 in 2010). In the small national teams he was a teammate with Vlado Jankovic.
Since 2011 he is a regular member of the National Team of Greece in Men, with participation in the Qualifiers of the Olympic Games of 2012, the World Cup of 2014, the Eurobasket of 2015, the Pre-Olympic Tournament of 2016, the Eurobasket of 2017 and the World Cup of 2019. He also participated in the Eurobasket 2022 qualifiers, which took place in November 2020.
Vangelis Mantzaris with 809 assists is 13th in the history of the Basket League in final passes.
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