{"id":467898,"date":"2025-11-04T11:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T10:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=467898"},"modified":"2025-11-04T11:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T10:00:14","slug":"vassilis-spanoulis-to-remain-greece-head-coach-through-2027-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/vassilis-spanoulis-to-remain-greece-head-coach-through-2027-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Vassilis Spanoulis to remain Greece head coach through 2027 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"970\" data-end=\"1150\">The <strong data-start=\"974\" data-end=\"1014\">Hellenic Basketball Federation (EOK)<\/strong> confirmed that <strong data-start=\"1030\" data-end=\"1052\">Vassilis Spanoulis<\/strong> will continue as head coach of the <strong data-start=\"1088\" data-end=\"1111\">Greek national team<\/strong> through the <strong data-start=\"1124\" data-end=\"1147\">2027 FIBA World Cup<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1152\" data-end=\"1432\">Spanoulis, who took over in 2023, guided Greece to a <strong data-start=\"1205\" data-end=\"1240\">bronze medal at EuroBasket 2025<\/strong>, marking the country\u2019s first podium finish in 16 years. His extension was also supported by <strong data-start=\"1333\" data-end=\"1358\">Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/strong>, who publicly praised the coach after the third-place win over Finland.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1434\" data-end=\"1628\">The EOK thanked Spanoulis and <strong data-start=\"1464\" data-end=\"1477\">AS Monaco<\/strong> for their cooperation, confirming that the coach will lead Greece during the upcoming <strong data-start=\"1564\" data-end=\"1596\">World Cup qualifying windows<\/strong> in Thessaloniki and Portugal.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1630\" data-end=\"1696\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hellenic Basketball Federation (EOK) confirmed that Vassilis Spanoulis will continue as head coach of the Greek national team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":467897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[249],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-467898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-greece"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/11\/spanoulis-1200x800-1.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467898"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=467898"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=467898"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=467898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}