February 09, 2010
Countdown
Olympiacos
President Panayiotis and Georgios Aggelopoulos
Address
Akti Themistokleus 2
& Igias 1-3
Piraeus 18536-GREECE
Tel. (+30) 210 45 27 600
Fax (+30) 210 45 27 601
Arena PEACE AND FRIENDSHIP STADIUM
2009-2010 Games
Roster
No.PlayerCountryPos.HeightBorn
4 PAPALOUKAS, THEODOROS Greece Guard 2.00 1977
5 PENN, SCOONIE USA Guard 1.80 1977
6 CHILDRESS, JOSH USA Forward 2.03 1983
7 VUJCIC, NIKOLA Croatia Center 2.11 1978
9 BOUROUSIS, IOANNIS Greece Center 2.10 1983
10 HALPERIN, YOTAM Israel Guard 1.96 1984
11 KLEIZA, LINAS Lithuania Forward 2.03 1985
12 MAVROKEFALIDES, LOUKAS Greece Center 2.08 1984
13 VASILOPOULOS, PANAGIOTIS Greece Forward 2.02 1984
14 GLYNIADAKIS, ANDREAS Greece Center 2.15 1981
16 PAPANIKOLAOU, KOSTAS Greece Forward 2.03 1990
17 BEVERLEY, PATRICK USA Guard 1.85 1988
18 TEODOSIC, MILOS Serbia Guard 1.95 1987
19 SLOUKAS, KONSTANTINOS Greece Guard 1.90 1990
21 SCHORTSANITIS, SOFOKLIS Greece Center 2.06 1985
 Head Coach    
  GIANNAKIS, PANAGIOTIS Greece    
The Club
 The 2008-09 campaign may have marked the start for a new era for Olympiacos Piraeus and the Reds seem poised to go even farther this season. The club’s return to the Euroleague Final Four for the first time in a decade in addition to winning the Greek League regular season shows that Olympiacos is in the right direction as it targets its second Euroleague title. Now the Reds look to improve on their overall performance to give their fans reasons to believe that the best is yet to come. While it pursues the goal of winning a big title, Olympiacos has the winds of a great history at its back. The club was founded in the 1930s and won the first of its nine Greek League titles in 1949. It was in the 1990s that the Reds made their biggest mark. The middle of that decade was painted red, in Greece and around the continent, as head coach Ioannis Ioannidis led Olympiacos to four Greek League titles between 1993 and 1996 and to the Euroleague title game in 1994 and 1995. When Dusan Ivkovic came to the bench in 1997, the Reds promptly became the first Greek winner of a triple-crown – Greek League and Greek Cup and Euroleague titles – the latter by beating Barcelona 73-58 in Rome. Although they returned to the Final Four in 1999, a few years went by before the Reds won another trophy. The drought ended with a Greek Cup victory in 2002, when Olympiacos also reached the Greek League finals and came within a victory of the Euroleague Final Four. With the exception of a spot in the Greek Cup final in 2004, the next two years were rather quiet. The Reds returned to prominence in 2005-06 by taking then-defending champion Maccabi Tel Aviv the distance before bowing out in the Euroleague quarterfinals and going to the finals in the domestic playoffs. The 2006-07 season was just as exciting, although Olympiacos fell to Tau Ceramica in the Euroleague quarters and came a victory short in the Greek League finals. The 2007-08 season was nearly identical. After legend Panagiotis Giannakis took the coaching reins at midseason, the Reds seemed even closer to their Final Four dream, winning a thrilling playoff opener in Moscow before eventual Euroleague champion CSKA recovered to survive their quarterfinal series. Olympiacos also reached the last possible game before finishing as Greek League runner-up again. It all paid off last season in its fourth consecutive Quarterfinal Playoffs appearance. Olympiacos won its Top 16 group and downed Real Madrid 3-1 in the playoffs to make it to the Final Four. Once in Berlin, soon-to-be champion Panathinaikos edged the Reds in a thrilling semifinal that went down to the wire after Ioannis Bourousis missed a shot to take the game to overtime. Back in Greece, Olympiacos won the regular season, but once again Panathinaikos stood in the way of success. More ambitious than ever, Olympiacos will be back not only with the goal of making it to the Final Four, but also to celebrate at the end this time.
Trophy Case
Euroleague
1997
Greek National League
1948-49, 1959-60, 1975-76, 1977-78, 1992-93, 1993-94, 1994-95, 1995-96, 1996-97
Greek National Cup
1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1994, 1997, 2002
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