Ministry of Sport and EEC honor the “golden” national of 2005

The protagonists of 2005, who raised Greece in their hands, were triggered next Monday, February 24, 2025, in the match of our National Basketball Team with the Netherlands, for the Eurobasket 2025 qualifiers in Patras, where they will be honored at a special ceremony. which will take place in the half time of the race.

Features are the words of the Deputy Minister Giannis Broutsis: “The past drives the present and marks our future. Following last year’s 2004 football legends award, the Ministry of Sport’s initiative to mark the 20th anniversary of their unprecedented success, it was the turn of the 2005 Eurobasket legends to be honored respectively.

Basketball has to show enormous successes from a very long time, both on a cross -legged level, with AEK, Mars, PAOK, and with the amazing Panathinaikos and Olympiacos teams who have been in the Euroleague over time, and with the national teams in the national team. Every age!

Eurobasket 2005 has a special place in the hearts of all of us. These children succeeded the “heroes” of 1987, and on the occasion of the 20 years, we seek to honor those protagonists but essentially the whole Greek basketball. We will be in Patras for a nice, big, basketball celebration by combining it then with now. ”

The President of the Hellenic Federation Vangelis Liolios He welcomed the Minister’s proposal with great pleasure and stressed:

“2005 was a milestone year for Greek basketball, a year that confirmed the… love affair of our people with the sport, a year when the national team took the Greeks to the streets to celebrate the triumph of the conquest of Eurobasket.

Two decades later, the contributors to that unforgettable success are present with active roles now many of them in the Hellenic Federation and passionately offer the sport, to inspire their successors to keep basketball high and bring the next great success.

On Monday 24/2 in Patras, in collaboration with the Ministry of Sport and Minister Yiannis Broutsis, we will applaud them once again. We will award them because the past should never be forgotten, we will thank them for what they have been offered and continue to offer in sports, we will see them once again as a right athletic example for the younger generations. ”

The players, who then coached by Panagiotis Giannakis, the leader and the 1987 national team, achieved the triumph and will be honored with the Miniature of the Trophy, are as follows:

Panagiotis Vassilopoulos

Dimitris Diamantidis

Nikos Zisis

Michalis Kakiouzis

Yiannis Bourousis

Dikoudi Municipality

Lazaros Papadopoulos

Theodoris Papaloukas

Vassilis Spanoulis

Costas Tsartsaris

Antonis Fotsis

Nikos Hadjivrettas