Giannis Sfairopoulos

Giannis Sfairopoulos
Γιάννης Σφαιρόπουλος
Olympiacos
Position Head coach
League Greek League
Euroleague
Personal information
Born March 21, 1967
Thessaloniki, Greece
Nationality Greek
Coaching career 1986–present
Career history
As coach:
1986–1994 Apollon Kalamarias Cadets, Juniors
1994–1997 Apollon Kalamarias
1997–2005 PAOK (Assistant)
2001 PAOK
2001–2004 Greece (Assistant)
2005–2008 Olympiacos (Assistant)
2008–2011 Kolossos Rodou
2009–2010 Greece (Assistant)
2011–2012 CSKA Moscow (Assistant)
2012–2014 Panionios
2014–present Olympiacos

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

Coaching career

Clubs

Sfairopoulos played basketball in the Apollon Kalamarias youth club systems, and as soon as he stopped playing youth level basketball at age 19, he began his coaching career in the same Apollon Kalamarias club systems, working there from 1986 to 1997. He coached in the club's cadets, juniors, and senior men's teams. He coached the senior men's team, which he took over in 1994, in the Greek lower divisions.

He was then 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 then 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]

He became the head coach of the Greek Eurocup team Panionios in 2012.[3] He became the head coach of the Greek Euroleague team Olympiacos in 2014.[4][5]

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

Greek national team

Pro clubs

References

  1. ↑ Coach Profile SFAIROPOULOS, IOANNIS
  2. ↑ Giannis Sferopoulos added to CSKA coaching staff.
  3. ↑ PANIONIOS finds new leader in Sfairopoulos.
  4. ↑ Olympiacos tabs Sferopoulos as head coach.
  5. ↑ Ioannis Sfairopoulos returns to Olympiacos.

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