{"id":499572,"date":"2026-06-04T09:59:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T07:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=499572"},"modified":"2026-06-04T09:59:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T07:59:39","slug":"aris-betsson-officially-names-vassilis-spanoulis-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/aris-betsson-officially-names-vassilis-spanoulis-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Aris Betsson officially names Vassilis Spanoulis head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>Vassilis Spanoulis<\/strong> is officially the new head coach of <strong>Aris Betsson<\/strong>. The Thessaloniki club announced an agreement with the Greek coach for the next <strong>three years<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Spanoulis, born on August 7, 1982, is also the head coach of the <strong>Greek national team<\/strong> and was one of the greatest European basketball players of all time. He began his coaching career in 2022 with <strong>Peristeri<\/strong>, leading the team to the <strong>Basketball Champions League<\/strong> Final Four in 2024 and earning Coach of the Season honors.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2024, he took over <strong>Monaco<\/strong>, guiding the club to the <strong>EuroLeague<\/strong> Final Four and the final before leaving in March 2026. With Greece, he won bronze at <strong>EuroBasket 2025<\/strong>, the national team\u2019s first medal in a major competition since 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greek club announced a three-year agreement with the head coach of the Greek national team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":385688,"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":[195,249],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[185],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-499572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball-champions-league","category-greece","typology-official"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/04\/Vassilis-Spanoulis.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499572","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=499572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499572"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=499572"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=499572"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=499572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}