A night to remember for Cypriot basketball pioneer Paris Papaellinas

By Eurohoops staff/ data@eurohoops.web

Cyprus is without doubt one of the 4 co-hosts of Eurobasket 2025 and the celebrations centered across the sport have already been begun by one of many nation’s oldest basketball golf equipment, Keravnos Strovolou.

On a particular occasion, which the president of Cyprus Nikos Anastasiadis attended, the membership of Keravnos, which is at present competing within the FIBA Europe Cup, honored its long-time president for his 50 years of contribution to the staff on and off the court docket.

Within the presence of different native political figures and sports activities personalities each from Cyprus and Greece, Paris Papaellinas and others had the possibility to reminisce in regards to the historical past of the membership and the game on the Mediterranean island, whereas a brief documentary on this topic was additionally offered.

Εuroleague legend Dimitris Diamantidis, Greek federation president Vaggelis Liolios, former Greek nationwide staff members Nikos Filippou and Memos Ioannou and naturally the staff of Keravnos led by coach Michalis Kakiouzis, a former captain of the Greek nationwide staff, attended the occasion.

Papaellinas, who’s a former participant of the membership and likewise performed for the Cypriot nationwide staff, had additionally the respect of seeing his jersey with no.6 retired.