Vasileios Kournetas

Vasileios Kournetas
Personal information
Born	(1976-08-02) 2 August 1976 (age 48) Athens, Greece
Height	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight	82 kg (181 lb)
Spike	336 cm (132 in)
Block	320 cm (130 in)
Volleyball information
Position	setter
Current club	retired
Career
Years Teams 1988–1996 1996–2009 2009–2010 2010–2011 2011–2013 2013–2014 2014–2016 Filia Ilioupolis Olympiacos Lokomotiv Belgorod EA Patras Foinikas Syros Olympiacos PAOK
National team
Greece, 279 caps

Vasileios "Vasilis" Kournetas (Greek: Βασίλης Κουρνέτας; born (1976-08-02)2 August 1976) is a retired Greek volleyball player. A long-standing member of Greece men's national volleyball team, he played in more than 270 games with the Greek team and he competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, finishing at the fifth place.^[1] He played in Greece for Olympiacos Piraeus, PAOK, E.A. Patras, Foinikas Syros V.C. and Filia Ilioupolis as well as in Russia for Lokomotiv Belgorod. He announced his retirement from volleyball courts on 5 May 2016.^[2] As a key member of Olympiacos for 14 years (1996–2009, 2013–2014) he won 1 CEV Cup, 7 Greek Championships, 6 Greek Cups, 1 Greek Super Cup and reached the final of the 2001–02 CEV Champions League with the Reds.^[3] He also won the 2012 Greek League Cup with Foinikas Syros as well as 2 Greek Championships and 1 Greek Cup with PAOK in the two final seasons of his professional career (2014-2016).