Mourning in Greek basketball, Giorgos Valavanidis passed away

Greek basketball mourns his loss Giorgos Valavanidis.

His veteran basketball player PAOKwho worked for a number of years at Dikephalos of the North and also played for teams such as Xanthi, Kolossos Rhodes and MENT, passed away at the age of 50, plunging the ranks of the club into grief.

KAE PAOK reports:

PAOK mourns the sudden death of Giorgos Valavanidis



KAE PAOK mateco expresses its pain and deep sadness for the sudden death of Giorgos Valavanidis who passed away today, so prematurely at the age of 50.

We express our deepest condolences to the family and friends of Giorgos Valavanidis. The shock of his loss is enormous. His void is irreplaceable.

Have a nice trip George…

Who was George Valavanidis?



Giorgos Valavanidis was born was born in Germany on February 16, 1974, he started playing basketball from the local team of Fero Evros where he came from and in 1988 he came with a transfer to PAOK. At the age of 17, from 1991 he was a member of the men’s team, with which he won the European Cup Winners’ Cup in Geneva in 1991, the Greek championship in 1992, and the Korats Cup in 1994. He was a member of all the small National teams and with the national team of children won the silver medal in the Eurobasket for children that took place in Thessaloniki in 1991.

He left PAOK in 1994 and then played in MENT for 6 years (until 2000) and playing basketball even after his 40 years, played among others in Xanthi, Kolossos Rhodes, Nikopoli Prevezas, Panorama, Apollon Kalamaria, Asvestochori, Eleftheroupoli and Zefyro.

In 2010 he returned to PAOK, his great love, as a coach of the academies and from 2013 he was in charge of the PAOK Junior Basketball Program.