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Ilias Kantzouris
Kantzouris as coach of Bamberg in 2018
AEK Athens
PositionAssistant coach
LeagueGreek League
Champions League
Personal information
Born (1973-08-11) August 11, 1973 (age 50)
Greece
NationalityGreek
Coaching career2000–present
Career history
As coach:
2000–2001Apollon Patras (assistant)
2001–2003Near East (assistant)
2005–2006Aris (assistant)
2006–2007Sporting (assistant)
2007AEK Athens (assistant)
2007–2011Panellinios (assistant)
2011–2012Žalgiris Kaunas (assistant)
2013Greece (assistant)
2013–2014UNICS Kazan (assistant)
2014–2018Brose Bamberg (assistant)
2018Brose Bamberg (interim)
2018–presentAEK Athens (assistant)

Ilias Kantzouris (Greek: Ηλίας Καντζούρης; born August 11, 1973) is a Greek professional basketball coach.

Coaching career

Professional clubs

Kantzouris began his coaching career in 2000, as an assistant coach, with the Greek club Apollon Patras. He then worked as an assistant coach with the Greek clubs Near East, Aris Thessaloniki, and Sporting Athens. Following that, he worked as an assistant coach with the Greek clubs AEK Athens and Panellinios.

He was an assistant coach with the Lithuanian League club, Žalgiris Kaunas, in the 2011–12 season. He was then an assistant coach with the Russian VTB United League club, UNICS Kazan, in the 2013–14 season. After that, he worked as an assistant for the German League club, Brose Bamberg, from 2014 to 2018.

Kantzouris then became the interim head coach of Brose Bamberg, after head coach Andrea Trinchieri was fired by the team, in February 2018.[1] He worked as Brose's interim head coach, until the club hired Luca Banchi, as its new permanent head coach.[2]

Greek national team

Kantzouris worked as an assistant coach of the senior Greek national basketball team, in 2013.[3]

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