Joan Plaza

Joan Plaza i Durán ( born December 26, 1963 in Barcelona ) is a Spanish basketball coach. Since 2013 he is with Unicaja Málaga under contract.

Career

Joan Plaza began his career as a coach in which was founded by him and his brother basketball school EB Bethsaida. Parallel to this, he worked for the women's team of EB Santisima Trinitat and the small club CB Sant Adrià. In 1995, he finally joined as a junior coach to Joventut de Badalona, ​​where he remained in both the youth as well as assistant coach of the first team until 2004. He celebrated his biggest success in the 2000 /01 season when he won the Spanish U20 Championship. In the summer of 2004, Joan joined Plaza, at the request of the new coach Bozidar Maljković to Real Madrid. As the Serb was finally in 2006, after a disappointing season, dismissed, Joan Plaza took over for the first time the office of the head coach. Real Madrid won this season's first thirteen league matches in a row, which set a new record Plaza for a coach in his first year. Internationally, he won the ULEB Cup and also became only the third coach in the history of Spanish basketball, in his debut year, the Spanish championship.

Achievements

Internationally

  • ULEB Cup: 2006/ 07
  • Best coach of the ULEB Cup: 2007

National

  • Spanish Cup: 2006/ 07
  • Lithuanian champion: 2012/13
  • Lithuanian Super Cup winner: 2012
  • Best coach of the Spanish League: 2006/2007, 2007/2008
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