Ioannis Sfairopoulos
Personal information | |
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Born | Thessaloniki, Greece | March 21, 1967
Nationality | Greek |
Career information | |
NBA draft | 1989: undrafted |
Playing career | 1985–1988 |
Position | Point guard |
Coaching career | 1986–present |
Career history | |
As player: | |
1985–1988 | Apollon Kalamarias |
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 | Houston Rockets (assistant) |
2012–2014 | Panionios |
2014–2018 | Olympiacos |
Career highlights and awards | |
As head coach
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Ioannis Sfairopoulos (alternate spellings: Giannis, Yiannis, Yannis, Sferopoulos) (Greek: Γιάννης Σφαιρόπουλος; born March 21, 1967) is a Greek professional head basketball coach.
Playing career
Sfairopoulos began playing basketball in the youth system of Apollon Kalamarias at the age of 12. After playing 2 years in the Greek 2nd Division, with the senior men's team of Apollon Kalamarias, as a player-coach, he retired from playing club basketball, at the age of 21, to become to a full-time basketball coach.
Coaching career
Clubs
After Sfairopoulos retired from playing club basketball, at the age of 21, he immediately began his basketball coaching career, within the same Apollon Kalamarias club system in which he was a player. He worked as a coach with the club, from 1986 to 1997. He coached in the club's cadets, juniors, and senior men's teams. He coached the Apollon Kalamarias senior men's team, which he took over in 1994, in both the Greek 4th Division, and the Greek 3rd Division.
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.[1] He then worked briefly as an assistant coach of the NBA's Houston Rockets.[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] In 2015, he extended his contract with Olympiacos, through the 2017–18 season.[6][7] After he lost to Panathinaikos in the Greek League Finals, 2–3, Olympiacos announced Sfairopoulos and the club would separate ways.[8]
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 Olympics. 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 EuroBasket 2009, and the 2010 FIBA World Championship.
Coaching record
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G | Games coached | W | Games won | L | Games lost | W–L % | Win-loss % |
Note: The EuroLeague is not the only competition in which the team played during the season. He also coached in domestic competition, and regional competition if applicable.
EuroLeague
Team | Year | G | W | L | W–L% | Result |
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Olympiacos | 2014–15 | 26 | 18 | 8 | .692 | Lost in the final game |
Olympiacos | 2015–16 | 24 | 14 | 10 | .583 | Eliminated in Top 16 stage |
Olympiacos | 2016–17 | 37 | 23 | 14 | .622 | Lost in the final game |
Olympiacos | 2017–18 | 34 | 20 | 14 | .588 | Eliminated in quarterfinals |
Career | 121 | 75 | 46 | .620 |
Awards and accomplishments
As Assistant coach
Greek national team
- EuroBasket 2009:
Bronze
Pro clubs
- Greek Cup Winner: (1999)
- VTB United League Champion: (2012)
- Russian League Champion: (2012)
As Head coach
Pro clubs
- 2x Greek League Champion: (2015, 2016)
- Greek League Best Coach: (2015)
References
- ^ Giannis Sferopoulos added to CSKA coaching staff.
- ^ Career Notes.
- ^ PANIONIOS finds new leader in Sfairopoulos.
- ^ Olympiacos tabs Sferopoulos as head coach.
- ^ Ioannis Sfairopoulos returns to Olympiacos.
- ^ Olympiacos, coach Sfairopoulos together until 2018.
- ^ Head-coach Ioannis Sfairopoulos extends with Olympiacos until 2018.
- ^ "Olympiacos and Sfairopoulos part ways". Eurohoops.net. 2018-06-18. Retrieved 2018-06-18.
External links
- Ioannis Sfairopoulos at euroleague.net
- Ioannis Sfairopoulos, Olympiacos: 'Above all, I love basketball!' at euroleague.net