"Annie Konstantinidou"

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Annie (or Annie) Konstantinidou (Cairo, June 11, 1962), is a Greek former basketball player, wall football as well as a former marathon runner. She is considered the leading Greek basketball player of her time. She competed in the position of playmaker and was known by the nicknames "Female Gallis" and "Magic Annie", by her two male colleagues who mediated at the time, Nico Gallis and Magic Johnson.

Life Story
Born in Cairo to a father, Dimitris, a distant Cypriot-born champion of triple and gymnast in Egypt, and mother, Dora of Armenian descent, international basketball player with the National Egypt, also had a sister Sophia also an athlete. He studied first at the Cairo School of Abbetion and then when in 1968 the family moved to Athens and the Makrygianni district, to a school in Athens and finally to the college of the American Community School of Athens where he graduated at the Canadian University of McGill. In Canada he first went to study translator but in the second year changed subject matter and transferred to the physical education department where he graduated.

From 1983 to 1985 he made a master's degree in ergonomics in the US. After the end of her studies she became an educator, in the early years gymnast, at the college of the American community of Athens and his coach.

He speaks besides Greek and Arabic, English, Spanish, and Armenian. She is married to former basketball player Panagiotis Gelalis and have two children.

Career in basketball
Basketball first played in the college of the American colony and in 1973 after a college friendly with Glyfada signed a contract in Glyfada. She herself in an interview says that Glyfada wanted her sister but at the request of her father she too was 11 years old. In Glyfada that same year and just 11 years old he played basic in the finals of the national championship, in Glyfada he would remain until 1980, intermediate studies in Canada and played in the university championship there with Macgi University (McGil) from 1979 to 1984 where he became the foundation's first scorer of all time.

Returning from studies in Canada in 1983 Glyfada faced a problem of dissolving the department and punished it for the purpose of not being able to leave but following an appeal to ASEAD she was freed. In 1983 she signed to Sporting, after first rejecting an offer from Old Faliro, and competed until 1993 when she stopped her career. In the early years at the club she had trouble participating and came from America where she had a master's degree only for the games. With Sporting he played in two final fours of Europe in 1991 in Barcelona where the club finished 3rd and in 1994 in Bari where the club was 4th but Annie was at the best five of the event. With Sporting he won 10 championships