National Team Coaches

Christos Stylianides

Date of birth: 03 May, 1968 | Nationality: Cypriot | Coach of: MENS NATIONAL TEAM

Christos Stylianides, the Cypriot Gallis as his nickname was while being an active player, consider being the best point guard in the modern History of Cyprus. He is the only player won champions with all the teams played (ENAD, Keravnos Strovolou) the specific record van be balanced only by one player, Giorgos Anastasiadis if his current team (Etha Engomis) finally wins the title.

Christos has another record, he is the only player who right after the end of his career as a player he became a Head Coach continue to win titles (APOEL Nicosia) after only three years coaching.

The 43 years old “young” Head Coach won as a player five champion leagues with three different teams and one Cyprus Cup. As a head coach he won the 2008-2009 title with the team of APOEL Nicosia while from 2008 is the Head Coach of the Cyprus National Team after spending two years as an assistant coach to Predrag Benacek.

This year (8/4/2011) the Cyprus Federation renewed his contract for another one year. During his time in the National Team of Cyprus, the years 2009 and 2010 nothing serious happened as for the Eurobasket Qualifiers The Cyprus National team succeeded three victories while lost five times, and with a record of 3-5 came out third out of Five teams with Belarus coming first with a record of 7-1 and Switzerland coming second with a record of 5-3.

Christos Stylianides basically used (for Eurobasket 2009 qualifiers) all and all five players with Panagiotis Trisokkas of Keravnos, Aris Korononides of Apollon Patras, and Alexis Liatsos of AEL Limassol nearly playing 30-32 minutes, while Antreas Pilavas of Keravnos, and Jo-Jo Garcia of Keravnos were playing around 27 minutes per game.

The greatest moment for Christos Stylianides as a head Coach of the Cyprus team came in the 13th Games of small States of Europe, in June 2009, the Cyprus National Team won the gold medal unbeaten and after thrashing the teams of Luxemburg 80-57, the team of Iceland 87-54, the San Marino NT 86-53, the Maltese NT 69-55 and the Andorra NT with 91-70 having as a top scorer the usual suspect, Panagiotis Trisokkas with 13.4ppg, followed by Koronides with 12ppg, Jo-Jo Garcia and Kounas with 10ppg each and Anastasiadis with 8ppg in his last games with the Cyprus NT jersey. The games were not to be criticized as the National teams who came in Cyprus were of a very low quality. In any case Stylianides had a perfect record of 5-0.

In his next attempt, Christos Stylianides for the Eurobasket 2011 qualifiers at this stage the Cyprus National Team is (currently) at the last spot of the board after losing from all its opponents quite easily, from Czech Republic and Slovak Republic, the team of Cyprus was simply thrashed with 43 and 27 points respectively while from the team of Switzerland lost the only home court game until now, Cyprus NT lost by 67-70.

In the qualifiers of the Eurobasket 2011, the captain of the National Team and one of the top performers in the Cyprus League, Giorgos Anastasiadis was not present as he decided to give space to younger players and retired, so Coach Stylianides used in the three games of this first round of the qualifiers the following players: Panagiotis Trisokkas of Keravnos Strovolou with an average of 32 minutes per game, followed by Andreas Sizopoulos who was playing for around 25 minutes per game, and followed by the biggest surprise of the National Team of Cyprus the last decade the young player of Keravnos Strovolou Christopher Razis who had no real time in the league due to the so many foreigners but he was the top performer of the NT with as many as 10 points per game, 2.4 assists per game, 2 rebounds and 1 steal per game in the three games played.

All and all the record of Christos Stylianides as a Head Coach of the Cyprus NT is currently 8-8. Within the next months this record will either be better or much worst as the three games in Cyprus and away will be quite decisive for the future of the specific National team members

Giorgos Papares

Date of birth: 01 January, 1970 | Nationality: Cypriot | Coach of: WOMENS NATIONAL TEAM U16

Giorgos Papares

Date of birth: 01 January, 1970 | Nationality: Cypriot | Coach of: WOMENS NATIONAL TEAM U16

Konstantinos Filippopoulos

Date of birth: 19 November, 1967 | Nationality: Greek | Coach of: MENS NATIONAL TEAM U18

Career:

Assistant Coach:
1990–1993: Bazaar BC, (B), Nis Yugoslavia
1996–1997: Apollon Limassol (Pro A)
1997-1998: Apollon Limassol ( Pro A)
1998–1999: Panathinaikos Limassol (Pro A)
1999–2000: Panathinaikos Limassol (Pro A)
2000–2001: Ahilleas Kaimakliou Nicosia (Pro A)
2001–2002: EKA AEL (Pro A)
2002–2003: Auburn University, division I, Conference SEC, Alabama USA.
2004-2005: Apollon Limassol (Pro A)
2006-2007: Ahilleas Kaimakliou Nicosia (Pro A)
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Head Coach:
1997-1998: U-22 Apollon limassol
1998-1999: U-22 Apollon Limassol
1999-2000: U-22 and U17 Panathinaikos Limassol
2001-2002: U-22 Eka-Ael Limassol
2003-2004: U-22 Apollon Limassol
2004 October: Apollon Limassol (Pro- A)
2004-2005: U-22 Apollon Limassol
2005-2006: Asteras Limassol (Pro- B)
2006–2007: started the season as a Head Coach at Asteras Limassol (B), in Oct.'06 moved to Achilleas Kaimakliou (Division A) as an assistant coach, also Head Coach U16 Team
2007-2008: started the season as a Coach Assistant at Achilleas Kaimakliou (Cyprus-Division A), left on Nov.'07, in Feb.'08 hired at Keravnos Strovolou (Cyprus-A1) women team as a Head Coach
2010-2011: A.Yermasogias (Cyprus-Division B)

2011-2012: A.Yermasogias (Cyprus- Womens team U18)

Michalis Tsangaridis

Date of birth: 01 January, 1965 | Nationality: Cypriot | Coach of: MENS NATIONAL TEAM U16

Nikos Lambrias

Date of birth: 02 January, 1981 | Nationality: Cypriot | Coach of: MENS NATIONAL TEAM

Nikos Lambrias is the one of the two assistan Coaches of the National Team of Cyprus being in the specific position the last four years.

Lambrias is also an assistant Coach in the team of APOEL Nicosia since the season 2006-2007, he has been an assistant Coach of Christos Stylainides, Kyriakos Yiangoullis and Giannis Christopoulos. At the same time he is the Head Coach of the APOEL Academies the last five years.

He studied Sports Science at the University of Athens and he is often participating in various seminars which are taking place there from SEPK.

Lastly, Lambrias is an active memebr of the Union of Cyprus Basketball Coaches Association, SEPK as he is the General Secretary of the Association.

Panagiotis Yiannaras

Date of birth: 05 February, 1973 | Nationality: Cypriot | Coach of: MENS NATIONAL TEAM

The assistant Coach of Christos Stylianides in the National Team of Cyprus comes from Larnaka. He has been coaching teams since the age of 22, he is now 38 years old so he has an experience of more or less 15 years as a Basketball Coach.

He has a sports science degree from TEFAA Athens with specialty of Basketball. He has been a head Coach of Paralimni in the second division and then as an assistant Coach in AEK Larnakas. At 1999 he transfered in Keravnos Strovolou where he was the main responsible for the U21 team, he remain only for one season as the very next season joined Paralimni for another two seasons as a head coach.

At 2002 he took over the women's team of AEL Limassol women's team where he won the champion and then join forces the next season with Keravnos Strovolou where he took over the Women's team and for three season he won two doubles and three special super cups.

From 2007 onwards is the assistant coach of Keravnos in the men's team and there are some rumors that the coming season will take over the men's team as the main head coach.

Headlines

20/02/2012
Week 18: Top seated Keravnos lost by Gagaloudis for its first negative result this season!!

17/02/2012
Cyprus (Mini) Cup Semi Final Games: ENAD and Keravnos will play in the finals

17/02/2012
Apollon Limassol adds Gagaloudis for the play offs!

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Result

Papa Johns Pizza Omonoia Nicosia vs. Frederick Achilleas Kaimakliou	20-0
Intercollege Etha Engomis vs. Pizza Express Apollon Limassol	82-67
Frederick Achilleas Kaimakliou vs. Ydra Asfalistiki E.N.A.D.	0-20
Proteas DaNoi AEL vs. Papa Johns Pizza Omonoia Nicosia	70-77

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W/L

1. Keravnos Strovolou - Men's team	15/0	30
2. Pizza Express Apollon Limassol	12/3	27
3. Intercollege Etha Engomis	11/4	26
4. Petrolina A.E.K. Larnakas	9/5	23
5. CytaVision APOEL	7/7	21
6. Papa Johns Pizza Omonoia Nicosia	6/8	20
7. Ydra Asfalistiki E.N.A.D.	5/10	20
8. Proteas DaNoi AEL	2/14	16
9. Frederick Achilleas Kaimakliou	0/0	0

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