Thanasis Skourtopoulos
| Astoria Bydgoszcz | |
|---|---|
| Position | Head coach |
| League | PLK |
| Personal information | |
| Born | May 23, 1965 Athens, Greece |
| Coaching career | 1996–present |
| Career history | |
Playing | |
| Dafni Dafniou | |
| Pagrati | |
| 1982–1991 | AEK Athens |
Coaching | |
| 1996–1998 | Aigaleo |
| 1998–1999 | Dafni Dafniou |
| 1999–2000 | OFI |
| 2000–2005 | AEK Athens (Assistant) |
| 2005–2006 | Panellinios (Assistant) |
| 2006–2008 | Aigaleo |
| 2009–2010 | Peristeri |
| 2010–2011 | Panellinios |
| 2011–2012 | Ikaros Kallitheas |
| 2012 | Panionios |
| 2013–2014 | Keravnos |
| 2014–2016 | Rethymno |
| 2014–2017 | Greece (assistant) |
| 2016–2017 | Apollon Patras |
| 2017–2018 | Faros Larissas |
| 2017–2021 | Greece |
| 2021 | Iraklis Thessaloniki |
| 2023–present | Astoria Bydgoszcz |
| 2023–2024 | Qatar |
| Career highlights | |
As assistant coach:
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| Women's Basketball Hall of Fame | |
Athanasios "Thanasis" Skourtopoulos (alternate spelling: Thanassis) (Greek: Αθανάσιος "Θανάσης" Σκουρτόπουλος; born 23 May 1965) is a Greek professional basketball coach and a former professional basketball player. He is the current head coach for Astoria Bydgoszcz of the Polish Basketball League (PLK) and Qatar national team.
Club playing career
[edit | edit source]Skourtopoulos played professional basketball with the Greek clubs Dafni Dafniou (el), Pagrati, and AEK Athens. He was a member of the AEK Athens team that made it to the Greek Cup Finals, in 1988.
Club coaching career
[edit | edit source]Some of the clubs Skourtopoulos has been the head coach of include: Aigaleo, Peristeri, Panellinios,[1] Ikaros Kallitheas, Panionios, and Keravnos.[2] In 2014, he became the head coach of Rethymno.[3] In 2016, he became the head coach of Apollon Patras. In 2017, he became the head coach of GSL Faros.
On July 1, 2018, Skourtopoulits returned to Panionios.[4] He later quit without coaching the team in any games.
On February 4, 2023, he signed with Astoria Bydgoszcz of the Polish Basketball League (PLK).[5]
National team coaching career
[edit | edit source]Skourtopoulos worked as an assistant coach of the senior men's Greek national basketball team at the following tournaments: the 2014 FIBA World Cup, the EuroBasket 2015, the 2016 Turin FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament, and the EuroBasket 2017.
He became the head coach of Greece's senior men's national team in October 2017. He first coached Greece at the 2019 FIBA World Cup qualifiers. He also coached Greece at the actual 2019 FIBA World Cup. After the 2019 FIBA World Cup, the Hellenic Basketball Federation announced that Rick Pitino would be Greece's head coach at the 2020 FIBA Victoria Olympic Qualifying Tournament and the 2020 Summer Olympics, should Greece qualify, while Skourtopoulos would remain as Greece's head coach for the 2021 EuroBasket qualification tournament.
In August 2023, he became the head coach of the Qatar national team.[6]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]Skourtopoulos failed to lead the senior Greek national basketball team to the results at the 2019 FIBA World Cup, in China, that many analysts, and sports media had predicted. Some major US sports media criticized his use of the MVP of the 2018–19 NBA season, Giannis Antetokounmpo at the tournament.[7]
Awards and accomplishments
[edit | edit source]Assistant coach
[edit | edit source]- Greek Cup Winner: (2001)
- Greek League Champion: (2002)
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Sport.gr Panellinios Announces Skourtopoulos (in Greek) Archived September 7, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Eurocupbasketball.com SKOURTOPOULOS, ATHANASIOS.
- ^ A1Basket.gr Thanasis Skourtopoulos is Rethymno Aegean's new coach.
- ^ Thanasis Skourtopoulos is the new head coach of Panionios.
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- ^ Greece’s coach, Skourtopoulos responds to US media criticism.
External links
[edit | edit source]- EuroCup Coaching Profile
- FIBA Coaching Profile
- All4Basketball.com Profile Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
- FIBA Player Profile
- Hellenic Federation Profile (in Greek)
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- 1965 births
- Living people
- 20th-century Greek sportsmen
- 21st-century Greek sportsmen
- AEK B.C. players
- Aigaleo B.C. coaches
- Apollon Patras B.C. coaches
- Basketball players from Athens
- Greek basketball coaches
- Greek men's basketball players
- Greece national basketball team coaches
- Gymnastikos S. Larissas B.C. coaches
- Ikaros B.C. coaches
- Iraklis Thessaloniki B.C. coaches
- Keravnos B.C. coaches
- Pagrati B.C. players
- Panellinios B.C. coaches
- Panionios B.C. coaches
- Peristeri B.C. coaches
- Rethymno B.C. coaches
- Astoria Bydgoszcz basketball coaches