Name Yannis Christopoulos | ||
Sport Eagle TV Interview with Yannis Christopoulos, Bayern Basketball Head Coach
Yannis Christopoulos (alternate spelling: Giannis) (born June 7, 1974) is a Greek professional basketball coach.
Contents
- Sport Eagle TV Interview with Yannis Christopoulos Bayern Basketball Head Coach
- Coaching career
- Awards and accomplishments
- References
Coaching career
Christopoulos began his coaching career in 1996, at the age of 22, with the youth departments of the Romanian club CS Universitatea Mobitelco Cluj-Napoca. He then became an assistant coach with Apollon Patras, where he worked under head coach Dirk Bauermann. He also worked as an assistant coach under Bauermann in the German club Brandt Hagen.
Christopoulos' career as a club head coach started in 2004, in Cyprus, with Proteas EKA AEL. He was also the head coach of Apollon Patras. As the head coach of APOEL, he won the Cypriot League championship in 2010.
He became an assistant coach under Dirk Bauermann again, this time with Bayern Munich. After Bauermann left as Bayern's head coach, on 27 September 2012, Christopoulos was promoted to be the team's new head coach for the 2012–13 season. However, on 27 November 2012, he was replaced as the team's head coach by Svetislav Pešić.