Kostas Mourouzis

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Dinos Mourouzis
Ντίνος Μουρούζης
Personal information
Born(1934-05-10)10 May 1934
Panathinaikos (sports director
)
Career highlights and awards
As head coach:
Medals
Men's Basketball
Representing  Greece
Mediterranean Games
Bronze medal – third place 1955 Spain

Konstantinos "Kostas" Mourouzis (

coach.[1] His nickname was, "The Fox of the Bench".[2]

Playing career

Club career

Mourouzis started playing youth club basketball in Greece, with the youth clubs of Triton, in 1945, and made the club's men's senior team in 1948. He also played in the top-tier level Italian League, with Sporting Club Gira Bologna, in the mid to late 1950s.

National team career

Mourouzis played with the senior

1960 Pre-Olympic Tournament, and the EuroBasket 1961.[4]

Coaching career

Clubs

Mourouzis began working as a

Panathinaikos, he won 6 Greek League championships (1967, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974). He also led Panathinaikos to the semifinals of the European-wide second-tier level FIBA Cup Winners Cup (later called FIBA Saporta Cup), in the 1968–69 season, and to the semifinals of the European-wide top-tier level FIBA European Champions Cup (later called EuroLeague), in the 1971–72 season
.

After coaching

Olympiacos. With Olympiacos, he won the Greek Cup title in 1977, and both the Greek League championship and the Greek Cup title in 1978. In the 1978–79 season, he led Olympiacos to a 6th-place finish in the FIBA European Champions Cup (EuroLeague
).

Greek national team

Mourouzis was also the

1973 EuroBasket
.

Personal life

Mourouzis died in

Athens, Greece, on June 11, 2014.[5][6][7]

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