Ioannis Sfairopoulos

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Ioannis Sfairopoulos
Ιωάννης Σφαιρόπουλος
Panionios
Position Head Coach
League Greek League
Personal information
Born (1967-03-21) March 21, 1967
Greece
Nationality Greek
Career information
Coaching career 1986–present
Career history
As coach:
1986–1997 Apollon Kalamarias (Cadets, Juniors, Greece 3rd, Greece 2nd)
1997–2005 PAOK (Assistant) (Greece)
2001 PAOK (Greece)
2001–2004, 2009–2010 Greece (Assistant)
2005–2008 Olympiacos (Assistant) (Greece)
2008–2011 Kolossos (Greece)
2011–2012 CSKA Moscow (Assistant) (Russia)
2012–present Panionios (Greece)

Ioannis Sfairopoulos[1] (alternate spellings: Giannis, Yiannis, Yannis, Sferopoulos) (Greek: Ιωάννης Σφαιρόπουλος; born March 21, 1967 in Greece) is a Greek professional basketball coach.

Coaching career

Clubs

Sfairopoulos began his coaching career in the Apollon Kalamarias club system, from 1986 to 1997. He was an assistant coach with the Greek Basket League club PAOK, from 1997 to 2005, and also was PAOK's head coach during the 2000-01 season. He worked as an assistant head coach with Olympiacos, from 2005 to 2008, under head coaches Pini Gershon and Panagiotis Giannakis.

In 2006, he worked as an assistant coach with the NBA club Cleveland Cavaliers' NBA Summer League team. From 2008 to 2011, he was the head coach of Kolossos. In 2011, he became an assistant coach with the Russian League club CSKA Moscow, under head coach Jonas Kazlauskas.[2][3]

He became the head coach of the Greek Eurocup team Panionios in 2012.[4]

Greek national team

Sfairopoulos was an assistant coach with the senior men's Greek national basketball team from 2001 to 2004, under head coaches Kostas Petropoulos, Giannis Ioannidis, and Panagiotis Giannakis. He was an assistant coach on the Greek national team that competed at the 2004 Summer Olympic Games. He also worked as assistant coach for the Greek national team from 2009 to 2010, under head coach Jonas Kazlauskas.

He was an assistant coach with Greece at the 2010 FIBA World Championship.

Awards and accomplishments

Assistant coach

References

  1. ↑ EurocupBasketball.com Coach Profile SFAIROPOULOS, IOANNIS
  2. ↑ CSKABasket.com Giannis Sferopoulos added to CSKA coaching staff.
  3. ↑ FCMBasketball.com Coach Sferopoulos joins CSKA.
  4. ↑ Eurocupbasketball.com PANIONIOS finds new leader in Sfairopoulos.

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