title: Andreas Pistiolis
text: # Andreas Pistiolis
  
  Andreas Pistiolis (born on 6 July 1978; in Athens, Greece), is a Greek professional basketball coach.He has previously served as an assistant next to top-tier European coaches such as Željko Obradović and Dimitrios Itoudis.
  
  ## Coaching career
  
  Andreas Pistiolis, started his coaching career in the Panathinaikos youth team between 1996–2005, started to work as an assistant coach in the Panathinaikos in 2005. During his 7 seasons there, he was the assistant of Serbian coach Željko Obradović.
  
  Pistiolis moved to Banvit as an assistant of Dimitris Itoudis in the 2013–2014 season, after one season there, he signed with CSKA Moscow by following Itoudis, and he was worked as the first assistant coach of CSKA Moscow for 8 seasons, between 2014–2022.
  
  ### Galatasaray
  
  On 19 March 2022, he became the head coach of Galatasaray Nef of the Turkish BSL. On 26 November 2022, it was announced that the contract with Galatasaray Nef was extended until 2025.
  
  In the notification made by Galatasaray Sports Club on 9 May 2023, it was announced that Pistiolis, who has been working as Galatasaray Nef Head Coach since the second half of the 2021–22 season, parted ways.
  
  