Kostas Missas

Greek basketball player and coach

Kostas Missas
Κώστας Μίσσας

Missas at a press conference in 2011

Olympiacos
Position| Head coach
Personal information
Born|  (1953-08-15) August 15, 1953 (age 70)
Nationality| Greek
Career information
Playing career| 1968–1989
Coaching career| 1989–present
Career history
As player:
1968–1986| Panionios
1986–1988| Panathinaikos
1988–1989| Panionios
As coach:
1989| AE Peramatos
1989–1993| Panionios (assistant)
1993–1994| Panionios
1994–1995| Peristeri
1994–1995| Cyprus
1996–1998| Papagou
1998–1999| Apollon Patras
2000–2001| Dafnis
2001–2002| KAOD
2002| Panionios
2004–2006| AGE Chalkida
2007–2011| Greece women
2009–2014| Greece Under-20
2014–2017| Promitheas Patras (academies)
2016–2017| Olympiacos women
(technical director)
2017| Greece
2017–2018| Olympiacos women
Career highlights and awards
As a player:

* 2× Greek 2nd Division champion (1974, 1981)

Medals

Men's basketball
Representing  Greece
European U-20 Championship
| 2009 Greece | Under-20
| 2010 Croatia | Under-20

Konstantinos "Kostas" Missas (alternate spelling: Constandinos, Costas) (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος "Κώστας" Μίσσας; born August 15, 1953, in Greece) is a Greek former professional basketball player, and current professional basketball coach. He is currently the head coach of Olympiacos women basketball team. He also coached the Greece men's national basketball team at the 2017 FIBA EuroBasket. During his playing career, he was nicknamed "The General".[1]

## Playing career[edit]

### Club playing career[edit]

In his club playing career, Missas played with the Greek clubs Panionios (1968–1986, 1988–1989), and Panathinaikos (1986–1988). With Panionios, he won the Greek 2nd Division twice, in 1974 and 1981. With Panionios, he also played in the European-wide 3rd-tier level league, the FIBA Korać Cup.

He also played in the Greek Cup final in 1977, while with Panionios. With Panathinaikos, he played in the European-wide 2nd-tier level league, the FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup (later called FIBA Saporta Cup). In his club career, he scored a total of 5,005 points, in 325 games played, for a scoring average of 15.4 points per game, in Greece's top-tier level Greek Basket League.

### Greece men's national team[edit]

Missas played with Greek junior national team at the 1972 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship.[2] Missas was also a member of the Greece men's national basketball team. He played with Greece at the 1984 Summer Olympics qualification tournament.[3] In total, he played with Greece's senior national team in 45 games.

## Coaching career[edit]

### Club coaching career[edit]

In his head coaching career, Missas has coached the following club teams: Panionios, Peristeri, Papagou, Apollon Patras, Dafnis, KAOD, Panionios, and AGE Chalkida.

### National teams coaching career[edit]

Missas has been the head coach of the senior men's Cypriot national basketball team, the senior Greek women's national basketball team, and the Greek men's national under-20 basketball team. While coaching the Greek men's Under-20 national team, he won the gold medal at the 2009 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship, and the silver medal at the 2010 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship.

In June 2017, he became the head coach of the Greece men's national basketball team.[4][5] He coached Greece at the EuroBasket 2017, where he reached the quarterfinal stage, eventually losing the ticket to the semifinals to Russia.[6]

## References[edit]

1. ^ Οι ευχές του Προμηθέα στον Κώστα Μίσσα (in Greek).
2. ^ Konstantinos MISAS (GRE) participated in 1 FIBA / FIBA Zones events.
3. ^ K. MISSAS (GRE) participated in 1 FIBA / FIBA Zones events.
4. ^ Veteran Missas takes the helm of Greece.
5. ^ Kostas Missas the new head coach of Greece National Team.
6. ^ "Αυτοκτόνησε η Εθνική, ηττήθηκε από τη Ρωσία και αποκλείστηκε". Retrieved 2017-09-18.

## External links[edit]

* FIBA Player Profile (archive)
* FIBA Europe Coach Profile
* Eurobasket.com Coach Profile
* BolerBasket.no Coach Profile
* Hellenic Basketball Federation Player Profile (in Greek)
* Hellenic Basketball Federation Coach Profile (in Greek)