I started playing basketball when I was ten years old. Every afternoon, I would play with my friends in the local elementary school court and without any formal coaching I became quite good. When I was fourteen I joined the “third” team of APOEL, the famous Nicosia soccer club. There we had a professional coach who helped me reach a much higher level of play and in one year I became a member of the “…showed first 75 words of 291 total…

…showed last 75 words of 291 total…because we became from a small island and we were all amateurs. Once we came very close to qualifying for the next round of European championship. Then in July 1999 I had to join the army and do my national service. For three months-during the initial basic training-I could not play basketball. In October, when we were assigned for our respective units, I was called to the armed forces national team and resumed my basketball “life”.