Nikos Milas

Nikos Milas
Personal information
Born 1928
Athens, Greece
Nationality Greek
Coaching career 1960–1976
Career history
As player:
0000 Panathinaikos
As coach:
1960–1965 Panathinaikos
1967–1974 AEK Athens
1975–1976 Panathinaikos
Career highlights and awards

As a player:

As a head coach:

Medals
Representing  Greece
EuroBasket
1949 Egypt As player

Nikolaos "Nikos" Milas (Greek: Νικόλαος "Νίκος" Μήλας, born 1928, in Athens) is a Greek former basketball player and coach.[1]

Playing career

Club career

Milas was a skilled technical player, with good dribbling and shooting ability.[2][3] He played with Panathinaikos in his club career. He won three Greek League championships (1949–50, 1950–51, 1953–54).

Greek national team

Milas was also a member of the senior men's Greek national basketball team. He was an international player with the Greek men's national team in 8 games. He played at the EuroBasket 1949 in Egypt, where he won a bronze medal, and at the EuroBasket 1951. Milas also played at the 1951 Mediterranean Games, and the 1952 Summer Olympics basketball tournament of Helsinky, (two loses against Hungary and Israel).

Coaching career

In 1961, Milas won the Greek League championship from the post of head coach of Panathinaikos.[4] He was the head coach of AEK, in 1968, when they won the FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup's 1967–68 season championship, in Kallimármaro, Athens, against the Czechoslovak League powerhouse of the sixties, Slavia VŠ Praha.[5]

On the bench of AEK, he also won two Greek League national domestic championships in the 1967–68 and 1969–70 seasons (the 1969–70 title was the last for the club until the 2001–02 season).[6] In the 1969–70 season, Milas also led AEK to the semifinals of the 1969–70 FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup, where his team was defeated by the French League club, Vichy, in a two legged aggregate score series (consisting of a 60–78 loss in France, and a 74–65 win in Athens).

References

  1. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill. "Nikolaos Milas". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 2016-05-26.
  2. ↑ Αθλητική Ηχώ 26/1/1951
  3. ↑ ΕΟΚ
  4. ↑ Αθλητική Ηχώ 24/9/1961
  5. ↑ Σαν σήμερα Archived 2009-04-16 at the Wayback Machine.
  6. ↑ Ιστότοπος της ομάδας καλαθοσφαίρισης της ΑΕΚ
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