The Monaco coach is 6-2 since taking charge
Vassilis Spanoulis: ‘It’s a big challenge for me and the club’
His playing career speaks for itself, but Vassilis Spanoulis is already forming a reputation as an elite coach in the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague.
The 42-year-old play-caller, who starred as a player for Panathinaikos AKTOR Athens and Olympiacos Piraeus, was appointed by AS Monaco as the team’s new head coach in early December following the departure of Sasa Obradovic.
Since then, Spanoulis has guided the team to six wins and two defeats, which has seen the Monegasque side rise to first place in the standings with a joint league-best 13-6 record.
“It is a big challenge for me and for the club,” Spanoulis says in a feature interview. “It’s not easy coming in the middle of the season because you haven’t put your identity and your philosophy from the summer, but it is what it is. We have to move forward. There are a lot of things we have to change step by step and not change dramatically; it’s time to put your philosophy and character into the team. Already the team has changed some things.”
Watch the entire interview in full above.