Ioannis Athinaiou

Giannis Athinaiou Γιάννης Αθηναίου
Player information
Full name	Ioannis Athinaiou
birthday	May 27, 1988
place of birth	Cholargos , Greece
size	194 cm
position	Combo Guard
Club information
society	GS Peristeri
league	Basket League
Clubs as active
2006–2009 Ilisiakos Athens 2009–2013 Panionios Athens → 2011–2012 KAOD AM Genetics 2013–2014 Aris Saloniki 2014 Armani Milan 2014 Eskişehir Basket 2014–2015 AEK Athens 2015 - 2017 Olympiakos Piraeus 2017–2018 Aris Saloniki 2018–2019 PAOK Saloniki 2019 Fos Provence Basket 2019– 2020 Panathinaikos Athens 2020– GS Peristeri 00000 00000 00000 0000
National team 1
Since 02014	Greece	11
1 As of February 1, 2016

Ioannis "Giannis" Athinaiou ( Greek Ιωάννης "Γιάννης" Αθηναίου , born May 27, 1988 in Cholargos ) is a Greek basketball player who is 1.94 m tall and can be used in the positions of point guard or shooting guard .

Career

At club level

With the Ilisiakos junior team , Ioannis Athinaiou won the Greek Junior Championship for the 2006/07 season. In this competition Athinaiou was chosen in the selection of the best five and subsequently named the most valuable player of the season. The selection of the Best Five was completed by the players Nikos Theodorakos ( Larisa ), Giorgios Bogris (Ilisiakos), Zisis Sarikopoulos ( Olympiakos ) and Kostas Sloukas (Mantoulides). In the same season Athinaiou had also made his debut for the men's team of Ilisiakos, which was then playing in the Greek second division . From the 2007/08 season he was part of the fixed rotation of the squad and was used in all 30 possible games in the 2008/09 season. At that season, the Ilisiakos finished the second division in second place, which entitled to promotion to the first division. Athinaiou switched to league rivals and top club Panionios . The then 21-year-old signed there for the following four seasons. For the first two years, Athinaiou proved to be a reliable backup. For the 2011/12 season he was awarded to the first division promoted KAOD. After his return, Athinaiou also played on the international stage through Panionio's participation in the Eurocup .

With the completion of his contract, the Guard moved to Aris Saloniki for the 2013/14 season . There Athinaiou played his best season so far. With an average of 13.61 points per game, the Guard also attracted the interest of foreign clubs. Although Athinaiou expressed his intention to end the season at Aris first and only to examine incoming offers in the summer, he moved to the final stages of the Italian championship at the end of March 2014 after 22 games for Aris . Athinaiou only played four league games for Armani Milan , especially since he was not eligible to play in the Euroleague due to his late move, after which he had his contract terminated in mid-May due to insufficient playing times. For the season 2014/15 he joined the Turkish league and should in Eskişehir Basket the migrated Christos Tapoutos replaced. On December 2, 2014, the association announced the termination of the contract with Athinaiou, who was presented on the same evening as a new addition to the AEK Athens .

At the beginning of the 2015/16 season he signed a three-year contract with Olympiacos , which in turn, with Dimitris Katsivelis , had lost a player to the AEK. With Olympiakos he played internationally again by participating in the Euroleague and celebrated his first national championship title at the end of the season. In the 2017/18 season he played for Aris Saloniki and switched to city rivals PAOK Saloniki in summer 2018 . He left this in favor of the French team from Fos Provence Basket in mid-January 2019.

National team

Athinaiou played for the Greek U-20 team. For the first team , the Guard played a few games for Greece in the run-up to the 2014 World Basketball Championship . For the actual tournament, however, he was not nominated by coach Fotis Katsikaris .

successes

• Greek champion : 2016 , 2020

Web links

• Ioannis Athinaiou - Statistics ULEB (English)
• Ioannis Athinaiou - player profile EOK (Greek)
• Ioannis Athinaiou - player profile ESAKE (Greek)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ilisiakos becomes youth champion (Greek)
2. ↑ Athinaiou announced (Greek)
3. ↑ Athinaiou to Olympiacos for three years (Greek)
4. ↑ Athinaiou to PAOK (Greek)
5. ↑ Athinaiou moves to the French Provence (Greek)