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| Born | (1946-12-20)20 December 1946 (age 78) Madrid,Spain | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Listed height | 6 ft 1.25 in (1.86 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Listed weight | 180 lb (82 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Playing career | 1963–1973 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Point guard | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Coaching career | 1998–present | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1963–1968 | Estudiantes | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1968–1973 | FC Barcelona | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| 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 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2022–2023 | Bàsquet Girona | ||||||||||||||||||||
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As head coach:
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Alejandro "Aíto" García Reneses (born 20 December 1946 inMadrid,Spain), usually and most commonly known as just"Aíto", is a Spanish former professionalbasketball player andcoach. As ahead coach at the professionalclub level, García Reneses won theFIBA European Super Cup championship in1986. He was also aFinalist of Europe's top-tier level pro club competition, theEuroLeague, on three occasions with Spanish clubFC Barcelona: in the1989–90,1995–96, and1996–97 seasons. He also coached Barcelona in sixEuroLeague Final Fours. García Reneses also won five European-wide professional club championships. He won two European-wide 2nd-tier level championships, as he won theFIBA Saporta Cup championship with FC Barcelona, in the1985–86 season; and theEuroCup championship with the Spanish clubJoventut Badalona, in the2007–08 season. He also won three European-wide 3rd-tier level championships, as he won theFIBA Korać Cup championship with Joventut Badalona, in the1986–87 season, the FIBA Korać Cup championship with Barcelona, in the1998–99 season, and theFIBA EuroChallenge championship with Joventut Badalona, in the2005–06 season.
García Reneses was the first head coach to win the European-wide 2nd-tier levelEuroCup'sCoach of the Year award twice, as he won the award withGran Canaria in 2015, and also withAlba Berlin in 2019.[1] During his club head coaching career, García Reneses trained and developed several young players that would eventually go on to play in theNBA, such as:Pau Gasol,Juan Carlos Navarro,Rudy Fernández,Ricky Rubio, andKristaps Porziņģis.
García Reneses was also thehead coach of the seniorSpanish national team. He led Spain's national team to the silver medal at the2008 Summer Olympics.
During hisclub playing career, García Reneses played at thepoint guard position. He played in theSpanish First Division, withEstudiantes Madrid, from 1963 to 1968, and withFC Barcelona, from 1968 to 1973. While with Barcelona, he was the team'scaptain.
García Reneses spent most of his basketball coaching career inBarcelona,Cataluña,Spain, withFC Barcelona. Altogether, he spent a total of 15 seasons with FC Barcelona, working as the club'shead coach for 13 seasons, and also as the club'sgeneral manager, for two seasons. García Reneses also coached two basketball teams fromBadalona,Cataluña, Spain:Círcol Catòlic (also called "Cotonificio" or "Coto"), andJoventut, where he worked from 1983–1985 and also from 2003–2008. In Spain, he also coachedBaloncesto Unicaja Málaga for three seasons (2008–2011), ledCDB Sevilla between 2012 and 2014, trainedGran Canaria, from 2014 to 2016, and coachedGirona, during the 2022–23 season.
As FC Barcelona's head coach, García Reneses won nine Spanish national domesticLiga 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, and2000–01. He also won five national domesticSpanish King's Cup titles. He won four Spanish Cup titles with Barcelona in the years1987,1988,1994, and2001, and a fifth Spanish Cup title with Joventut Badalona, in2008. In addition to that, he won theSpanish Super Cup title with Barcelona, in 1987.
On an individual level, García Reneses was a four-timeAEEB Spanish Coach of the Year, in the years 1976, 1990, 2006, and 2008.
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 theGerman Bundesliga clubAlba Berlin. In his first season in Berlin, he was awarded the German Federal League'sBundesliga 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 asTim Schneider andBennet 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, theEuroCup, and he also won theEuroCup Coach of the Year award. Under his guidance, Alba Berlin also captured the German League championship title, as well as theGerman Cup title, in the 2019–20 campaign.[2] García Reneses also won the German League championship with Alba, in the 2020–21 season.
García Reneses won the bronze medal with theSpanish Under-16 junior national team, at the1979 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship.
In June 2008, García Reneses became thehead coach of the senior men'sSpanish national team, after he replacedPepu Hernández in the role.
In the2008 Beijing Summer Olympics' closely contested gold medal game againstTeam USA, Spain was trailing by just 2 points, with a few minutes left in the game. However, they eventually lost the game to theRedeem Team, by a score of 118–107.
During his time inBarcelona, when he was a member of theFC Barcelona senior men's basketball team, García Reneses also studiedphysics andtelecommunications. He would later go on to designelectronic basketball scoreboards, which have been installed in more than thirtyindoor arenas throughoutSpain.
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