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Alejandro 'Aíto' García Reneses (born 20 December 1946 in Madrid, Spain), usually known as just Aíto, is a Spanish former professional basketball coach and former player.
 Aíto in 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Bàsquet Girona | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Head coach | |||||||||||||||||||
| League | Liga ACB | |||||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 20 December 1946 Madrid, Spain | |||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Spanish | |||||||||||||||||||
| Listed height | 6 ft 1.25 in (1.86 m) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Listed weight | 180 lb (82 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Career information | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing career | 1963–1973 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Point guard | |||||||||||||||||||
| Coaching career | 1998–present | |||||||||||||||||||
| Career history | ||||||||||||||||||||
| As player: | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1963–1968 | Estudiantes | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1968–1973 | FC Barcelona | |||||||||||||||||||
| As coach: | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1973–1983 | Círculo Católico / Cotonificio | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1983–1985 | Joventut Badalona | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1985–1990 | FC Barcelona | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1992–1997 | FC Barcelona | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1998–2001 | FC Barcelona | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2003–2008 | Joventut Badalona | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2008 | Spain | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2008–2011 | Unicaja | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2012–2014 | Sevilla | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2014–2016 | Gran Canaria | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2017–2021 | Alba Berlin | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2022– | Bàsquet Girona | |||||||||||||||||||
| Career highlights and awards | ||||||||||||||||||||
As head coach:
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Medals
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As a head coach, as well as leading Spain's national team to Olympic silver, he has won nine Spanish Liga ACB titles, all of them with FC Barcelona. He has won four European competitions - the FIBA Korać Cup (twice) and FIBA Saporta Cup with FC Barcelona, and the FIBA EuroChallenge and EuroCup with Joventut Badalona. He was also a EuroLeague runner-up on three occasions with FC Barcelona: in 1989–90, 1995–96, and 1996–97. Garcia Reneses is the first person to win the EuroCup Coach of the Year award twice: with Gran Canaria in 2015 and with Alba Berlin in 2019.[1]
He has trained and fostered later NBA players such as Pau Gasol, Rudy Fernandez, Juan Carlos Navarro, Ricky Rubio and Kristaps Porzingis.
Playing career
During his playing career, he played at the point guard position. He played with Estudiantes (1963–1968), and FC Barcelona (1968–1973). While with Barcelona, he was the team's captain.
During his time in Barcelona as a player, he studied physics and telecommunications. He designed later electronic basketball scoreboards, which have been installed in more than thirty pavilions throughout Spain.
Coaching career
Clubs
García Reneses has spent most of his coaching career in Barcelona Cataluña (Spain): He spent 15 seasons with FC Barcelona (13 as head coach, and two as general manager), and also coached two basketball teams from Badalona: Círcol Catòlic (also called "Cotonificio" or "Coto"]), and Joventut, where he worked in two different periods, 1983–1985, and 2003-2008. In Spain he also coached Baloncesto Unicaja Málaga for 3 seasons (2008–2011), led CDB Sevilla between 2012 and 2014 and trained CB Gran Canaria from 2014 to 2016.
In Summer 2017, at the age of 70, switched García Reneses to a foreign club for the first time in his life: He became head coach at the German Bundesliga club Alba Berlin. In his first season in Berlin, he was awarded "Coach of the Year" of the Bundesliga and had already a big influence in the german basketball: Under García Reneses, several talented Berliners such as Tim Schneider and Bennet Hundt made the leap to the Bundesliga team. In 2018 and 2019 the Berliners became German runners-up under his leadership. In the 2018-19 season, the Spaniard also led the team to the final of the European club competition Eurocup and he won the title "EuroCup Coach of the Year". Under his guidance, Berlin captured the German championship title as well as the German Cup in the 2019-20 campaign.[2]
Spanish senior national team
In June 2008, he became the head coach of the Spanish national team, replacing Pepu Hernández. In the 2008 Summer Olympics, he coached the team to a silver medal, in the closely contested gold medal game, losing to the USA after being down by just 2 points with a few minutes left in the game.
Teams coached
- Círcol Catòlic de Badalona: 1974–1983: started the 1973-74 season in January 1974.
- Joventut Badalona: 1983–1985.
- FC Barcelona:
- 1985–1990: head coach.
- 1990–1992: general manager
- 1992–1993: head coach, after 3 games he swapped his place with Quim Costa, so he became the 2nd coach.
- 1993–1997: head coach.
- 1998–2001: head coach.
- Joventut Badalona: 2003–2008.
- Baloncesto Málaga: 2008–2011.
- Cajasol: 2012–2014.
- Gran Canaria: 2014–2016.
- Alba Berlin: since 2017.
- Spanish national teams:
- 1979 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship in Damascus:
Bronze - 2008 Summer Olympic Games:
Silver
- 1979 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship in Damascus:
Titles
Clubs
- National competitions:
- 9× Liga ACB (Spanish League) champion with FC Barcelona: 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999 and 2001.
- 5× Copa del Rey (Spanish King's Cup) winner, 4 with FC Barcelona: 1987, 1988, 1994, 2001 and 1 with Joventut Badalona: 2008.
- Prince of Asturias Cup winner, with FC Barcelona: 1988.
- German champion with Alba Berlin: 2020
- German Cup champion with Alba Berlin: 2020
- International competitions:
- FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup (Saporta Cup) champion, with FC Barcelona: 1986.
- 2× FIBA Korać Cup champion, with FC Barcelona: 1987 and 1999.
- FIBA EuroCup (EuroChallenge) champion with Joventut Badalona: 2005–06
- ULEB Cup (EuroCup) champion with Joventut Badalona: 2007–08
References
- "Coach of the Year: Aito Garcia Reneses, ALBA Berlin". Welcome to 7DAYS EuroCup. Retrieved 2020-01-15.
- GmbH, ALBA BERLIN Basketballteam. "Ohne Niederlage durchs Finalturnier - Albatrosse holen sich das Double!". www.albaberlin.de. Retrieved 2020-06-28.
External links
- ACB Coach Profile (in Spanish)
На других языках
- [en] Aíto García Reneses
[es] Aíto García Reneses
Alejandro García Reneses (Madrid, España, 20 de diciembre de 1946), conocido como Aíto García Reneses o simplemente Aíto, es un entrenador español de baloncesto, que actualmente dirige al Bàsquet Girona de la liga ACB. Es el cuarto técnico español a nivel de títulos, tras Díaz Miguel, Lolo Sainz y Pedro Ferrándiz, con nueve títulos de Liga ACB conseguidos con el F. C. Barcelona. Ha ganado la Recopa de Europa y la Copa Korac, además, con el F. C. Barcelona, llegó a disputar tres veces la final de la Euroliga y seis veces la Final Four y no ganó ninguna.[it] Aíto García Reneses
Alejandro García Reneses, meglio noto come Aíto (Madrid, 20 dicembre 1946), è un allenatore di pallacanestro, dirigente sportivo ed ex cestista spagnolo.[ru] Гарсия Ренесес, Айто
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