Faidon Matthaiou

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Faidon Matthaiou
Φαίδων Ματθαίου
PAOK
Career highlights and awards
As player:

As head coach:

  • 2×
    FIBA European Selection
    (1970, 1973)
  • Greek League champion (1976)
  • 2× Greek Cup winner (1976, 1984)
  • Greek 3rd Division champion (1978)
Medals
Men's basketball player
Representing  Greece
FIBA EuroBasket
Bronze medal – third place 1949 Egypt
Mediterranean Games
Bronze medal – third place 1955 Spain

Faidon Matthaiou,

rower at the 1948 Summer Olympics, and as a basketball player at the 1952 Summer Olympics.[3]

Faidon Matthaiou is widely considered to be the Patriarch of Greek basketball.[4]

Professional playing career

Born in

Sporting
.

With Panathinaikos, he won 3 Greek League championships, in the years 1950, 1951, and 1954. He also played at the International Cup Tournament (the forerunner of the EuroLeague) in 1955 at the Viareggio Tournament, where he was the leading scorer and MVP.[5]

National team playing career

Matthaiou played for the

FIBA EuroBasket 1951,[6] and also in the 1952 Olympic Basketball Tournament.[7]

Coaching career

After his playing career ended, Matthaiou coached the

Virtus Roma
.

He was also named as a coach of the

FIBA European Selection team in the years 1970 and 1973. He also won both the Greek Cup and the Greek League
championship with Olympiacos in 1976, and the Greek Cup with PAOK in 1984.

Awards and accomplishments

Playing career

Clubs

  • 3× Greek League Champion: (1950, 1951, 1954)
  • Viareggio International Cup Tournament Top Scorer: (1955)
  • Viareggio International Cup Tournament MVP: (1955)

Greece national team

Head coaching career

Clubs

  • 2×
    FIBA European Selection
    : (1970, 1973)
  • 2× Greek Cup Winner: (1976, 1984)
  • Greek League Champion: (1976)
  • Greek 3rd Division Champion: (1978)

References

  1. ^ Sports-Reference.com Faidon Matthaiou.
  2. ^ Sports.in.gr «Έφυγε» σε ηλικία 87 ετών ο Φαίδων Ματθαίου (in Greek).
  3. ^ Sports-Reference.com Biography.
  4. ^ Οι κορυφαίοι των ελληνικών πάγκων: Φαίδων Ματθαίου (in Greek).
  5. ^ Naftemporiki.gr Απεβίωσε ο Φαίδων Ματθαίου (in Greek).
  6. ^ FIBAEurope.com Fedon Mattheou (Greece).
  7. ^ Sports-Reference.com Men's Basketball.

External links

  • FIBA.com Profile (archive)
  • Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Faidon Matthaiou". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
  • Hall of Game.gr Profile
  • The top of the Greek bench: Faidon Matthaiou (in Greek)
  • Hellenic Federation Profile (in Greek)
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