Michael Matsentides

Michael Matsentides (Greek: Μιχάλης Ματσεντίδης; April 11, 1980) is a Greek-Cypriot professional basketball coach and current Assistant Coach of Kuwait SC (basketball) and Assistant Coach of Cyprus men's national basketball team

Michael Matsentides
Μιχάλης Ματσεντίδης

Matsentides in 2020
Kuwait Sporting Club
Position	Assistant coach
League	Kuwaiti Division I Basketball League West Asia Super League
Personal information
Born	(1980-04-11) April 11, 1980 Nicosia, Cyprus
Career history
As coach:
2007-2008	ENAD BC women's team
2008–2009	ENAD BC (assistant)
2009–2010	ETHA (assistant)
2010–2011	APOEL (assistant)
2012–2017	Cyprus (assistant women's team)
2013–2014	Cyprus U18W (assistant)
2014–2015	Cyprus U18W Head Coach
2015–2016	Cyprus U16W Head Coach
2016-2017	Cyprus U18W Head Coach
2017–2022	Cyprus U16B head Coach
2019–present	Cyprus Men’s (assistant)
2011–2019	Keravnos (assistant)
2019–2020	Al Riyadi Beirut (assistant)
2020-2021	Keravnos (assistant)
2021-2022	Keravnos Head Coach
2022-2023	Omonia Nicosia Head Coach
2023-present	Kuwait SC (basketball) (assistant)

Club coaching career

After having previously worked as the assistant coach of ENAD BC, ETHA and APOEL, Matsentides became the assistant coach of Keravnos in 2011 where he won 3 super cup, 2 cups and 3 championships.

In 2019, he was hired by the Al Riyadi Beirut as an assistant coach.

In 2020 he returned to the Keravnos as an assistant coach, in 2021 he became as a head coach

In 2022 he is the head coach at Omonia Nicosia

From August 2023 he is the Assistant coach of Kuwait SC (basketball)

Cypriot national team

Matsentides has also worked as an assistant coach of the senior Cyprus women's team between 2012 and 2017 and between 2012 and 2017 he was head coach of Cyprus youth national teams, Since 2017 until now, Matsentides is the head coach of Cyprus U16 Boys team and in 2019 he was named assistant coach of Cyprus men's team.

External links

• Asia-basket Profile
• FIBA Europe Coaching Profile