1. Ioannis Sfairopoulos is a Greek professional basketball coach who is currently a head coach for Crvena zvezda of the Basketball League of Serbia, the Adriatic League and the EuroLeague.
16 Facts About Ioannis Sfairopoulos
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Ioannis Sfairopoulos worked as a coach with the club, from 1986 to 1997.
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Ioannis Sfairopoulos coached in the club's cadets, juniors, and senior men's teams.
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Ioannis Sfairopoulos 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.
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Ioannis Sfairopoulos then worked as an assistant head coach with Olympiacos, from 2005 to 2008, under head coaches Pini Gershon and Panagiotis Giannakis.
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Ioannis Sfairopoulos then worked briefly as an assistant coach of the NBA's Houston Rockets.
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Ioannis Sfairopoulos became the head coach of the Greek EuroCup team Panionios in 2012.
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Ioannis Sfairopoulos became the head coach of the Greek EuroLeague team Olympiacos in 2014.
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Ioannis Sfairopoulos was named Israeli League Coach of the Year.
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On December 15,2019, Ioannis Sfairopoulos signed a three-year contract extension with Maccabi.
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On February 15,2022, Ioannis Sfairopoulos was sacked from the head coach position, after a loss in the Israeli Cup semifinals, which led to public discontent, as well as a disappointing EuroLeague campaign.
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Ioannis Sfairopoulos was an assistant coach with the Greece men's national basketball team from 2001 to 2004, under head coaches Kostas Petropoulos, Giannis Ioannidis, and Panagiotis Giannakis.
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Ioannis Sfairopoulos was an assistant coach on the Greece national team that competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
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Ioannis Sfairopoulos worked as assistant coach for the Greece national team from 2009 to 2010, under head coach Jonas Kazlauskas.
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Ioannis Sfairopoulos was an assistant coach with Greece at the EuroBasket 2009, and the 2010 FIBA World Championship.
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Ioannis Sfairopoulos is married and is the father of two sons.