{"id":509975,"date":"2026-08-14T11:25:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T09:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=509975"},"modified":"2026-08-14T11:25:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T09:25:54","slug":"peristeri-betsson-signs-manolis-chatzidakis-for-the-2026-27-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/peristeri-betsson-signs-manolis-chatzidakis-for-the-2026-27-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Peristeri Betsson signs Manolis Chatzidakis for the 2026-27 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"1402\" data-end=\"1636\">Peristeri Betsson has officially announced the signing of Greek center <strong data-start=\"1473\" data-end=\"1496\">Manolis Chatzidakis<\/strong> for the 2026-27 season. The 2.08-meter big man will add depth to the team&#8217;s frontcourt for both the Greek League and European competitions.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1638\" data-end=\"1774\">Last season, Chatzidakis played 17 Stoiximan GBL games with Maroussi, averaging <strong data-start=\"1718\" data-end=\"1749\">2.5 points and 1.6 rebounds<\/strong> in 9.9 minutes per game.<\/p>\n<h2 data-section-id=\"bb6urn\" data-start=\"1776\" data-end=\"1815\">Experience across Greece&#8217;s top clubs<\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"1817\" data-end=\"1987\">Born in Leros on April 21, 2000, Chatzidakis began his professional career with <strong data-start=\"1897\" data-end=\"1911\">AEK Athens<\/strong> before spending time with Maroussi, Koroivos Amaliadas and Kolossos Rhodes.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1989\" data-end=\"2116\">He returned to AEK for the 2023-24 campaign, appearing in 34 games across the Greek League and the Basketball Champions League.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2118\" data-end=\"2271\">During the 2024-25 season, he played for <strong data-start=\"2159\" data-end=\"2167\">Aris<\/strong>, averaging <strong data-start=\"2179\" data-end=\"2210\">3.8 points and 2.7 rebounds<\/strong> in 41 appearances between the Stoiximan GBL and the EuroCup.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2273\" data-end=\"2401\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Chatzidakis has also represented Greece at the Under-16 and Under-18 levels and has earned call-ups to the senior national team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greek center strengthens the frontcourt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":509974,"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":[407],"typology":[185,15727],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-509975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-greece","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-official","typology-press-release-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/08\/peristeri-1-1200x800-1.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509975","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\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509975"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=509975"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=509975"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=509975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}