Farewell to the Euroleague: Yorgos Printzis retired from basketball at the age of 37
The veteran Greek who spent 18 seasons in the Olympiacos uniform in two different terms separately after winning the championship: "From next season we will watch together from the stands"
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18/06/2022
Saturday, 18 June 2022, 07:26
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A year after the retirement of Vasilis Spanoulis' basketball, Olympiacos parted ways last night (Friday) with the second player to symbolize the team's two Euroleague wins in 2012 and 2013 - Yorgos Printzis.
At 37, and after 20 seasons in two different terms on the team, the veteran forward announced the good news that many had expected during the season and announced his retirement from basketball.
For the first time in six years, during which she also spent time in the sub-league, Olympiacos was crowned Greek champions after defeating bitter rival Panathinaikos 74:93 and completing 0: 3 in the series.
At the end of the game, when all the players went up for the trophy, the crowd in the Peace and Fraternity Hall in Piraeus cheered for the red symbol who said: "From next season we will watch the team together from the stands. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for the moments we spent together.
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The Greek joined the Reds' senior team when he was a teenager in 2002 and in the 2006/07 season was loaned to local Larissa.
After two years in Malaga between 2009 and 2011, Printzis returned to his youth club and in the first two seasons of this term won with the team in the Euroleague, when in the 2012 final against CSKA Moscow he scored the winning basket in the last second. In 2015 and 2017 Printzis reached the final with the team The Euroleague under the leadership of Yannis Sapropoulos, but lost to Real Madrid and Fenerbahce respectively
. Who were included in the Euroleague team of the decade and in 2017 were selected to the factory's first five of the season.
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