Panagiotis Giannakis
Panagiotis Giannakis (Greek Παναγιώτης Γιαννάκης, born January 1, 1959 in Athens, Greece ) is a retired Greek professional basketball player and coach. Nikos Galis addition Giannakis is considered the best Greek basketball player of all time. He received a number of titles and awards. 2008 Giannakis was named one of the top 50 players in the history of the European League.
Playing career
His career began Giannakis, who played in the position of point guard and is named by the fans and Dragon, at Ionikos Nikeas, a club from Athens. At the age of only 13 years Giannakis managed there under then coach ( and today's President of FIBA Europe ) Georgios Vasilakopoulos, the leap into the professional team. In 1984 he moved to Aris Thessaloniki where he was to have his most successful phase as a player. In addition to seven Greek Championships (1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991) and six Cup victories (1985, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992) won Giannakis also the European Cup Winners' Cup (1993). With Aris, who rose under Giannakis and Galis the elite in European basketball, he also managed to qualify three times in a row for the Final Four tournament for the European Champions Cup - but could not win the cup. In 1993, Giannakis for a season to BC Panionios Athens Panathinaikos Athens before in 1994 he signed a two year contract. With Panathinaikos he won in 1996 a second time the cup and managed to win the European Champion Clubs' Cup finally in the fifth attempt. With 163 European Cup inserts is Giannakis, who also came up with four nominations for the European selection, record holder.
His national team career began Panagiotis Giannakis in the U16 selection, with whom he won the 1975 European Championship runner-up. In 1976, he debuted at the age of 16 years, for the first time in a game against Czechoslovakia in the Lord national team. Between 1976 and 1996 Giannakis participated in eight European Championships, the FIBA World Championships in 1994 and at the 1996 Summer Olympics. In 20 years Giannakis it came to 351 games, which also means the world record, and scored 5307 points. His biggest success with the national team celebrated Giannakis 1987, when Greece in the final of the European Championship, the Soviet Union defeated and was able to secure the title for the first time.
Achievements
- Greek champion: 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991
- Greek Cup winner: 1985, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1996
- Cup Winners' Cup: 1993
- European Champion Clubs' Cup: 1996
- European Championship: 1987
- European runners-up: 1989
- U16 European Championship: 1975
- Gold medal at the Mediterranean Championships: 1979
Coaching career
His career as a coach began Panagiotis Giannakis 1997-1998 in the Greek national team he could each lead to fourth place at the European Championship in 1997 and the 1998 World Cup. In 2001 he took over the office to the Greek first division club Panionios BC Athens before moving to Athens Marousi a season later. Under Giannakis, who remained at Marousi to 2006, the club rose to become the leading forces of the Greek league and players brought forth such as Vasilis Spanoulis. 2004 Giannakis returned to the national team and led the team to fifth place at the Olympic Games in Athens. 2005 at the European Championships in Serbia, he finally won the gold medal and was thus the first person to have won both as a player and as a coach this item. At the 2006 World Cup in Japan Giannakis could reach with Greece, the Vice World Championship after you could conquer the national team of the United States, among others, in the semifinals.
Achievements
- Greek Cup winner: 2010
- European Championship: 2005
- Vice World Cup: 2006
- National Basketball Players (Greece )
- Basketball coach (Greece )
- European Champion (Basketball)
- Born in 1959
- Man
- Greek