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President: Sokratis Kokkalis Vice-President: George Salonikis General Manager: Takis Liveratos Secretary: Valentine Makri Address: Ipsilandou 170, 18535 Piraeus (Greece) Phone: (30+1) 4296043, Fax: (30+1) 4296045 Head Coach: Dusan Ivkovic Born: October 29, 1943 in Beograde. Coach of Partizan Beograde (Champion, Cup of Yugoslavia and Korac Cup, 1979), Aris Thessaloniki, Rantniski, Sibenka, Voiovodina, PAOK Thessaloniki (Greek Champion in 1992, Final Four in Athens in 1993), Panionios and Olimpiakos (Greek Champion in 1997, Euroleague Champion 1997). Coach of the Yugoslavian national team from 1988 until 1995 (gold medal World Champion of 1990, Eurobasket 1989, 1991, 1995, silver medal in the Olympic Games 1988). Ass. Coach: Milan Minic, Kostas Bogatsiotis Trainer : Yannis Merichovitis Physiotherapist: Nicos Likouressis History: Founded in 1925, Olympiakos is the most popular club in Greece with millions of fans all over the country. The basketball team reborned in the '90s when Sokratis Kokkalis took over the administration, the team finished in 2nd place at the Greek championship and got the ticket for the European Championship, after 15 years. Olympiakos is the most successful team in Greece in the last five years, with 4 consecutive championships and twice at the final-four. Big names of international basketball such as Zarko Paspalj, Roy Tarpley, Alexander Volkov, Walter Berry, Eddie Johnson, Willie Anderson passed from Piraeus. In 1993 the best Greeek center, Panayiotis Fassoulas, came from Thessaloniki and together with George Sigalas, Dragan Tarlach, Milan Tomic, Franco Nakic,Efthemis Bakatsias, Demetrios Papanikolaou and Davide Rivers Piraeus tried to be the European Champion. This year coach Dusan Ivkovic (World Champion with the national team of Yugoslavia in 1990) replaced Yiannis Ioannidis and Olympiakos finally won the Euroleague final-four. Olympiakos won the first championship in 1949. The big stars were the brothers Yiannis and Alekos Spanoudakis (Yiannis played in Italy for Virtus Bologna)and 11 years later the team won the secondchampionship. Two famous Greek coaches, Fedon Matheou and Costas Mourouzis were at the bench.In 1978 Olympiakos became the first Greek team ever played in the final six of European Champions Cup. This year the team finished first placed in the regular season of the Greek Championship and finally won the Greek Championship. In Europe this team was 4th in the first round of the EuroLeague, 3rd in the second round and qualified to the final-four winning against Partizan (2-1) and Panathinaikos (2-0) with home disadvantage and finally won in the semi-final against Smelt Olympia and the final game against Barcelona. Achievements: 9 times Greek Champion: 1949, 1960, 1976, 1978, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 6 times Greek Cup Holder: 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1994, 1997 Played twice in the Final of the European Championship (1994, 1995). Won the Euroleague Championship: 1997
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