Dimitris Diamantidis and Giannis Maize depart for the US – The meeting with Rick Pitino and “Greek Abroad”

The information of the EEC on the trip to the USA by Giannis Kalambokis, as well as the meeting they will have with the new associate of the Federation, . Dimitris Diamantidis and Giannis Kalbokis will travel to the US in the period 5-15 April as part of the Greek Abroad program. Diamantidis, an advisor to the development program and Cornbokis, coach of the National Children and in charge of the Greeks Abroad program, will see Greek athletes of the diaspora in New York and Chicago. The two will make visits to colleges, while there will be a meeting with Rick Pitino, as part of his cooperation with the EEC, which was announced a few days ago. It is the second consecutive year that a similar trip takes place in the United States under the Greeks Abroad program. We recall that Rick Pitino (ed. former coach of national men and Panathinaikos) accepted the EEC’s proposal for extended cooperation in order for him and his associates to offer the expertise of college basketball and propose ways of implementing it in the Federation’s development programme. In his statements, Rick Piton had pointed out the importance of development by saying that “this is the key to Greek basketball, that there should be proper development of new players not only to be good for their teams, but for the National team, this is the “key” to see how many next Diamantidis, Spanoulis, the creation of this system is the most important. ‘