Dimitrios Tsaldaris
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Tsaldaris with Dinamo Sassari in 2010
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| No. 16 – Doxa Lefkadas | |
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| Position | Shooting guard / Small forward |
| League | Greek A2 League |
| Personal information | |
| Born | March 7, 1980 Piraeus, Greece |
| Nationality | Greek |
| Listed height | 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) |
| Listed weight | 210 lb (95 kg) |
| Career information | |
| Playing career | 2001–present |
| Career history | |
| 2001–2004 | Alimos (Greece) |
| 2004–2005 | Peristeri (Greece) |
| 2005–2006 | Panellinios (Greece) |
| 2006–2009 | Aris (Greece) |
| 2009 | Napoli (Italy) |
| 2009–2010 | Montegranaro (Italy) |
| 2010–2011 | Sassari (Italy) |
| 2011–2012 | Aris (Greece) |
| 2012–2013 | Kolossos Rodou (Greece) |
| 2013 | Biella (Italy) |
| 2013–2015 | AENK (Greece) |
| 2015 | KAOD (Greece) |
| 2015–present | Doxa Lefkadas (Greece) |
| Career highlights and awards | |
Dimitrios Tsaldaris (alternate spelling: Dimitris) (Greek: Δημήτρης Τσαλδάρης) (born March 7, 1980) is a Greek professional basketball player for KAOD of the Greek Basketball League. Born in Piraeus, Greece, he is a swingman. He is 1.96 m (6'5") in height.
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Player profile
Tsaldaris is a left-handed, crafty offensive player and pesky defender. He is a good ball handler and passer and he can play the shooting guard and small forward positions.
Professional career
Tsaldaris began his professional career in 2001 with Alimos. He then played with Peristeri during the 2004–05 season and then with Panellinios during the 2005–06 season. He was voted the Greek League Best Young Player in 2006.[1]
He then transferred to Aris. In 2009, he moved to the Italian League club Napoli. He then moved to the Italian clubs Sutor Montegranaro and Dinamo Sassari. He returned to Aris for the 2011-12 season. He moved to Kolossos in 2012.
In 2013, he joined Biella, and the next club he moved to was AENK.
On January 6, 2015 he signed with KAOD.[2]
Greek national team
Tsaldaris has also played with the senior men's Greek national basketball team.
Personal life
He is married to Polina and has a daughter named Despina and son named Stelios. In his spare time he enjoys reading and traveling. His sports idols are Michael Jordan and Dražen Petrović. His favorite movie is 'Apocalypse Now' and favorite car the Nissan GT-R. He thinks of himself as a very quiet and reserved person who likes to be in group of friends. His jokes were famous in the Montegranaro trainings, with the usual victim being his co-player...Dejan Ivanov. He considers Željko Obradović as the ideal coach, while the most difficult opponent ever faced, Juan Carlos Navarro. His likes any kind of music and his nickname is "Mitsos". He thinks of Greek islands as the ideal destination for holidays and he prefers brunettes to blondes.[3]
Awards and accomplishments
- Greek League Best Young Player: (2006)
- 2x Greek League All-Star: (2008, 2009)
References and notes
External links
- Articles with Italian-language external links
- Pages with broken file links
- Pages using infobox basketball biography with unsupported parameters
- Articles containing Greek-language text
- Articles with Greek-language external links
- 1980 births
- Living people
- Aris B.C. players
- Dinamo Basket Sassari players
- Doxa Lefkadas B.C. players
- Greek basketball players
- Greek Basket League players
- KAOD B.C. players
- Kolossos Rodou B.C. players
- Nea Kifissia B.C. players
- Pallacanestro Biella players
- Panellinios B.C. players
- Peristeri B.C. players
- Reyer Venezia players
- Shooting guards
- Small forwards
