Ergin Ataman, one of the remarkable names in the basketball world, is known as the head coach of Panathinaikos, one of the EuroLeague teams. The search for information about Ataman’s life and career, which is a matter of curiosity among social media users, is increasing. Alright, Who is Ergin Ataman?, how old? Which teams did Ergin Ataman coach? Details about the life, career and origin of basketball coach Ergin Ataman are curious.
WHO IS ERGİN ATAMAN?
Ergin Ataman was born in Istanbul on January 7, 1966 and started his education life at the Italian High School. In the following years, he graduated from Istanbul University, Department of Business Administration. He started his basketball career as a player in the Eczacıbaşı team in 1978 and then also played in the Yeşilyurt team. He ended his acting career in 1996. He won the FIBA Saporta Cup with Montepaschi Siena in 2002, the EuroChallange with Beşiktaş in 2012 and the EuroCup with Galatasaray in 2016. He also won the EuroLeague championship with Anadolu Efes in 2021 and 2022, an achievement that made him the first Turkish coach to achieve this title in EuroLeague history and was named EuroLeague Coach of the Year in 2021. He also became the third coach to win four different European trophies, along with Dušan Ivkovic and Aíto García Reneses.
WHICH TEAMS DID ERGİN ATAMAN TRAIN?
He started his coaching career in the Eczacıbaşı infrastructure and later continued in the Efes Pilsen infrastructure. He coached important teams such as Türk Telekom, Pınar Karşıyaka and Efes Pilsen in the Turkish Basketball League.
In 1997, he became the national team coach of the Turkish national basketball team as Ercüment Sunter’s assistant. Then, in the 1998-99 season, he went to Stanford University in the USA for a year to study basketball coaching.
He played in the final four of the Europa League with Efes Pilsen in 2000. Then, he coached Montepaschi Siena in the Italian Basketball League between 2001-03 and won the Saporta Cup championship with this team in the 2001-02 season.
While he was coaching Ülkerspor in 2006, he parted ways with his team during the season due to his private life being covered in the tabloid press. Thereupon, he started working in the Italian Basketball League again in the middle of the season and signed a contract with Climamio Bologna until the end of the season.
At the beginning of the 2007-08 season, Beşiktaş signed an agreement with Cola Turka and played in the play off semi-finals and quarter-finals in the ULEB Cup during this period. He resigned from his position at the end of the season.
2024-05-23 14:44:19
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