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| Born |
9 July 1969 (age 54) Volos, Greece | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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–1989 | NO Volos & Argonautes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1989–1998 | Olympiacos | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1998–1999 | PAOK | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1999–2000 | Panathinaikos | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Greece | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2000–2005 | Olympiacos (assistant) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2005–2011 | Palaio Faliro | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2011–2022 | Olympiacos | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2014– | Greece | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Theodoros "Thodoris" Vlachos (Greek: Θοδωρής Βλάχος; born 9 July 1969, in Volos) is a retired Greek water polo player and the current coach of the Greece men's national water polo team.[1][2]
As a player, Vlachos played for Olympiacos from 1989 to 1998, winning numerous titles. He was also a member of the Greece men's national water polo team. After his retirement, he became assistant coach of Olympiacos under coaches Dragan Matutinović, Zoltán Kásás and Veselin Đuho.[3] He became Olympiacos head coach in 2011, following a successful stint as head coach in Palaio Faliro. Under his guidance, Olympiacos won the 2017–18 LEN Champions League in Genoa, after a 9–7 win against home team Pro Recco in the final and completed a Triple Crown, winning the season's all available titles.[4][5] Besides the LEN Champions League and the Triple Crown, he has also coached Olympiacos to 10 consecutive Greek League titles (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022) 9 Greek Cups (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022) and 7 domestic Doubles.[6]
In 2014, he became head coach of Greece men's national water polo team,[7] whom he led to the bronze medal at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships in Kazan and the bronze medal at the 2016 World League in Huizhou.[8]
