Vangelis Angelou


Evangelos "Vangelis" Angelou , is a Greek retired professional basketball player and current professional basketball coach. At 6'2 " in height, Angelou played at the point guard position.

Professional playing career

Angelou began playing basketball with the youth teams of AGE Chalkida. In his pro playing career, Angelou played with Apollon Patras, Olympiacos, Panionios, and Iraklis. He scored 1,782 points in 254 games played in the Greek League.

Coaching career

Angelou began his coaching career with AGE Chalkida from 1996–2002, where he led the club from the lower categories of Greek basketball up to the Greek 2nd Division. He then worked as an assistant coach under Milan Minić at Aris in the 2002–03 season. He then moved to Maroussi, where he was an assistant coach under Panagiotis Giannakis, from 2003–2005. After that, he moved to Dynamo Moscow, where he was Dušan Ivković's assistant from 2005–2007.
He was named the head coach of AEK Athens on November 7, 2007, and remained the team's head coach for the 2007–08 season. He was then the head coach of Trikala 2000 in the 2008–09 season. After coaching Trikala, he once again worked as Ivković's assistant, this time at Olympiacos, from 2010–2012. He then became the head coach of Aris in 2012.
He then became the head coach of Efes in December 2013, and then worked as an assistant with Efes. He became the head coach of the Greek club Promitheas Patras in December 2016. He became Aris' head coach again, in 2018.

Personal life

Angelou's son, Georgios, is a professional basketball player, and played under Angelou, while he was the head coach of Aris.

Awards and accomplishments

Assistant coach