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Dionysis Skoulidas

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Nationality
  
Greek

Listed weight
  
215 lb (98 kg)

2012–2016
  
Peristeri

Weight
  
98 kg

Pro career
  
2012

Listed height
  
6 ft 7 in (2.01 m)

Playing career
  
2012–present

Height
  
2.01 m

Position
  
Small forward

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League
  
Greek Basket League Champions League

Born
  
July 29, 1997 (age 19) Maroussi, Athens, Greece (
1997-07-29
)

Dionysis "Sakis" Skoulidas (alternate spelling: Dionisis) (Greek: Διονύσης "Σάκης" Σκουλίδας; born July 29, 1997) is a Greek professional basketball player who plays for AEK Athens in the Greek Basket League and the Champions League. Born in Maroussi, Athens, Greece, he is a 2.01m (6'7") tall small forward.

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Youth career

Skoulidas played from a young age with the youth teams of AEK Peristeriou and Peristeri, before he started his pro career.

Professional career

Skoulidas played for the first time in the top-tier Greek Basket League, on 11 April 2012, at the age of 14. That was the only game that he played in during the 2011–12 Greek League season. The rest of that season, he played in Peristeri's youth club.

In the next season, 2012–13, he only played in Peristeri's youth club. In the 2013–14 and 2014–15 seasons, he played with Peristeri in the 3rd-tier semi pro level Greek B League. Skoulidas signed his first professional contract with the senior men's team of Peristeri in 2015, at the age of 18, after he rejected an offer from AEK Athens, and renewed his contract with Peristeri, in order to have more playing time. In the subsequent 2015–16 season, he played with Peristeri in the Greek 2nd Division.

In July 2016, Skoulidas moved to AEK Athens.

Greek national team

With the Greek Under-16 junior national team, Skoulidas played at the 2012 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship. He also played with Greece at the 2013 TBF International Under-16 Tournament in Sakarya, Turkey, where he helped Greece win the gold medal. He also played at the 2013 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship, where he won a bronze medal.

Skoulidas also played at the 2014 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship, the 2015 FIBA Under-19 World Championship, the 2015 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship, where he won a gold medal, and the 2nd division 2016 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship Division B, where he won a bronze medal.

References

Dionysis Skoulidas Wikipedia