Missas Pantazopoulos

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Missas Pantazopoulos

Missas Pantazopoulos was a Greek basketball player and coach (1924 - 2006).

Pantazopoulos played for Panellinios and Panathinaikos. With Panathinaikos, as a player he won 3 Greek championships (1946, 1947, 1950) and 2 local Athens-Piraeus championships (1947, 1950). As a coach, he won the Greek championship in 1951 for Panathinaikos.

He also coached AEK and won 5 Greek championships (1958, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966).

Pantazopoulos was capped by the National Basketball Team of Greece and was a member of the Eurobasket 1949 team that won bronze in Egypt. In 1969, he was the coach of the National Basketball Team.