Aíto García Reneses

During his club playing career, García Reneses played at the point guard position. He played in the Spanish First Division, with Estudiantes Madrid, from 1963 to 1968, and with FC Barcelona, from 1968 to 1973. While with Barcelona, he was the team's captain. ==Club coaching career==

Spain García Reneses spent most of his basketball coaching career in Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain, with FC Barcelona. Altogether, he spent a total of 15 seasons with FC Barcelona, working as the club's head coach for 13 seasons, and also as the club's general manager, for two seasons. García Reneses also coached two basketball teams from Badalona, Cataluña, Spain: Círcol Catòlic (also called "Cotonificio" or "Coto"), and Joventut, where he worked from 1983–1985 and also from 2003–2008. In Spain, he also coached Baloncesto Unicaja Málaga for three seasons (2008–2011), led CDB Sevilla between 2012 and 2014, trained Gran Canaria, from 2014 to 2016, and coached Girona, during the 2022–23 season. As FC Barcelona's head coach, García Reneses won nine Spanish national domestic Liga ACB championships. He won the Spanish League championship with Barcelona in the seasons: 1986–87, 1987–88, 1988–89, 1989–90, 1994–95, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1998–99, and 2000–01. He also won five national domestic Spanish King's Cup titles. He won four Spanish Cup titles with Barcelona in the years 1987, 1988, 1994, and 2001, and a fifth Spanish Cup title with Joventut Badalona, in 2008. In addition to that, he won the Spanish Super Cup title with Barcelona, in 1987. On an individual level, García Reneses was a four-time AEEB Spanish Coach of the Year, in the years 1976, 1990, 2006, and 2008. Germany In the Summer of 2017, at the age of 70, García Reneses moved to a non-Spanish club, for the first time in his life: He became the head coach of the German Bundesliga club Alba Berlin. In his first season in Berlin, he was awarded the German Federal League's Bundesliga Coach of the Year award, and he also had a big influence on the German club's youth basketball development. Under García Reneses, several talented Alba youth players, such as Tim Schneider and Bennet Hundt, made the leap up from the German junior ranks, to the senior men's Bundesliga team. In 2018 and 2019, the Berliners became the German League's runners-up, under his leadership. In the 2018–19 season, the Spaniard head coach also led Alba Berlin to the final of the secondary level European-wide club competition, the EuroCup, and he also won the EuroCup Coach of the Year award. Under his guidance, Alba Berlin also captured the German League championship title, as well as the German Cup title, in the 2019–20 campaign. García Reneses also won the German League championship with Alba, in the 2020–21 season. ==National team coaching career==

Spanish junior national team García Reneses won the bronze medal with the Spanish Under-16 junior national team, at the 1979 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship. Spanish senior national team In June 2008, García Reneses became the head coach of the senior men's Spanish national team, after he replaced Pepu Hernández in the role. In the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics' closely contested gold medal game against Team USA, Spain was trailing by just 2 points, with a few minutes left in the game. However, they eventually lost the game to the Redeem Team, by a score of 118–107. ==Personal life==

During his time in Barcelona, when he was a member of the FC Barcelona senior men's basketball team, García Reneses also studied physics and telecommunications. He would later go on to design electronic basketball scoreboards, which have been installed in more than thirty indoor arenas throughout Spain. ==References==