Roberto Íñiguez
Roberto Íñiguez de Heredia Santamaria, (born 5 September 1967) is a former Spanish basketball player and the current manager of Dynamo Kursk. Iñiguez spent most of his career with Valencia BC.
Dynamo Kursk | |
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Position | Head coach |
Personal information | |
Born | Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spain | 5 September 1967
Nationality | Spanish |
Career information | |
Playing career | 1986–1996 |
Career history | |
As player: | |
1986–1987 | Baskonia |
1987–1990 | Valencia |
1990–1992 | Gran Canaria |
1992–1993 | Murcia |
1993–1994 | Tizona Burgos |
1994–1995 | L'Horta |
1995–1996 | Gandía |
As coach: | |
2003–2011 | Valencia Basket |
2011–2012 | Ros Casares Valencia |
2012–2014 | Fenerbahçe Istanbul |
2015 | Uni Girona |
2015–2017 | Nadezhda Orenburg |
2017 | Montenegro |
2017–2019 | WB SOPRON |
2019–2020 | Dynamo Kursk |
He played for Saski Baskonia, Valencia BC, CB Murcia, CB Gran Canaria, Valencia Godella and Gandía BA as a player for 12 years in his career.[1]
He started like coach on Valencia BC. With them he worked in different teams during 8 years; Junior, U20, 2nd team and worked with young players of the first team to improve them. He coached the Valencia BC Junior Team as head coach for 2003/04 season and Valencia BC Under 20 Team between 2004 and 2006. from 2006 to 2010 he worked lıke coach of second team ın Valencıa. Then he signed with Ros Casares Valencia.[2] He won EuroLeague Women and Spanish League with a historic record in Spain: They won this competition without losing any games in either the regular season or the playoffs.[3]
In 2012, Íñiguez signs with Fenerbahçe, where he coaches during two seasons[4][5][6] in Turkey.
In February 2015, he returned to Spain and signed with Catalan squad Uni Girona.[7] With Uni Girona he won the Spanish League for the second time without losing any games, so he is still undefeated in this competition with an incredible 42/0 record.
After winning the Spanish Championship again, in summer 2015 he signed a contract for 2015 - 2016 with Russian team Nadezhda Orenburg where he coached Orenburg´s team in Euroleague and Russian league during 2 seasons.
When he finished the season he signed a contract for 2 years with WB Sopron and 4 years with Montenegro Federation to coach Montenegro NT.
During the 2019-2020 season he was the Coach of other powerful russian club; Dynamo Kursk
Honors
- Ros Casares Valencia (2011–12)
- Fenerbahçe Istanbul (2012–14)
- Presıdent Cup of Turkey: 2012
- EuroLeague Women: 2012-13 runner-up
- Turkish League TKBL 2012-13
- Coach of the year in Turkey: 2013
- President Cup of Turkey: 2013
- Euroleague Women: 2013–14 runner-up.
- Uni Girona (2014–15)
- Liga Femenina de Baloncesto: 2014-15
Nadezhda Orenburg (2015-2017) -
Euroleague Women: 2016 Runner - up
Russian league: 2016 Runner - up
Coach of the year in Russia: 2016
Coach of the season Euroleague: 2016
WB SOPRON (2017-2019)
● Hungarian League 2018
● Hungarian League 2019
● Hungarian Cup 2019
● Euroleague runner up 2018
● Euroleague Final Four 2019
● Euroleague Coach of the year 2018
DYNAMO KURSK (2019-20)
● Russian Cup 2019
References
- Roberto Iñiguez sustituye a Natalia Hejková en el banquillo del Ros Casares
- El Ciudad Ros Casares presenta a su nuevo entrenador Roberto Iñiguez
- Roberto Iñiguez: “Este equipo ha hecho historia”
- Iniguez to set for Fenerbahce
- Inigues signed with Fenerbahce
- New patron is Iniguez
- ROBERTO ÍÑIGUEZ FIRMA AMB L'SPAR CITYLIFT GIRONA; Uni Girona, 26 February 2015 (in Catalan)