GRE – Printezis leaves Unicaja, returns to Olympiacos

ATHENS (A1) - Greece international Georgios Printezis has cut short his time at Unicaja Malaga and signed for Olympiacos.

Printezis, one of his country's star players at EuroBasket 2009 when the Greeks captured the bronze medal, moved to Spain and had a positive start to his Unicaja career under Aito Garcia Reneses but injured himself while crashing to the floor after a dunk.

After missing a lot of action, Printezis returned to the line-up but hasn't seen his career take off as he’d hoped.

Unicaja changed coaches earlier this year, replacing Aito Garcia Reneses with Chus Matteo, and Printezis hasn't played since the end of February.

He has decided to rescind his three-year contract and return home to Greece to wear the shirt of Olympiacos again, the team he competed for before leaving for Malaga before the 2009-10 campaign.

The player, in a statement on the Olympiacos website, said Unicaja was a great club with tremendous fans.

"I made the most difficult professional decision of my life," he said.

"I wanted to return to Olympiacos because I want to play."

Printezis was in the Greece squad at last year’s FIBA World Championship in Turkey but saw his minutes reduced from 16.2 per game at the EuroBasket in Poland to 8.6 in Turkey.

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