{"id":262274,"date":"2025-11-04T16:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/262274\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T16:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T16:00:13","slug":"spanoulis-to-lead-greece-through-fiba-basketball-world-cup-2027-fiba-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/262274\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanoulis to lead Greece through FIBA Basketball World Cup 2027\u00a0|\u00a0FIBA Basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATHENS (Greece) &#8211; Vassilis Spanoulis has pulled the right strings for Greece, helping the team return to the upper echelon of international basketball.<\/p>\n<p>He coached it to 2024 FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament glory in Piraeus and then to third place at the FIBA EuroBasket 2025 in Riga.<\/p>\n<p>Now Greece take at aim at FIBA Basketball World Cup 2027 qualification with Spanoulis still at the helm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Hellenic Basketball Federation is pleased to announce that Vassilis Spanoulis will continue to offer his services as head coach of the men&#8217;s national team,&#8221; <a class=\"_1pmct9j0\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.basket.gr\/main-slider\/ethniki-andron-me-ton-vasili-spanoyli-s\/155303\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the federation announced<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Coach Spanoulis will be present and will lead the team&#8217;s efforts in the upcoming windows of the 2027 World Cup Qualifiers, in Thessaloniki and Portugal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the first window, Greece host Romania on November 27 and play at Portugal on November 30.<\/p>\n<p>Spanoulis, in his first full season as the head coach of French giants Monaco, will therefore take a small break from that role so he can lead his national team. <\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" style=\"opacity:0;object-fit:cover\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Spanoulis coached Greece to the Quarter-Finals at the Olympics in France<\/p>\n<p>Greece had their finest moment in nearly two decades with Spanoulis in charge, when they won the FIBA OQT in Piraeus to clinch a spot in the Olympics for the first time since 2008.<\/p>\n<p>This summer, Spanoulis coached Greece at FIBA EuroBasket 2025, guiding the national team to the their first podium in two decades, when he was still a player.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" style=\"opacity:0;object-fit:cover\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Spanoulis coached Greece to third place at EuroBasket 2025<\/p>\n<p>Now he is aiming to coach in the event where he played a major role in one of the country&#8217;s biggest wins, a 101-95 upset of the USA in the Semi-Finals of the 2006 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"_1pmct9j0\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fiba.basketball\/en\/events\/fiba-basketball-world-cup-2027-european-qualifiers\/how-to-qualify-for-the-world-cup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Greece must first qualify<\/a>, with only 12 spots for European teams at the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>In the European Qualifiers, they will need a top three finish in the four-team Group B to advance to the Second Round, and will then have to register another top three finish in the six-team group to qualify for Doha.<\/p>\n<p>FIBA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATHENS (Greece) &#8211; Vassilis Spanoulis has pulled the right strings for Greece, helping the team return to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-262274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}