'Aíto' García Reneses is the new coach of Basketball Girona

The Madrid coach will lead the first team in the ACB premiere

| Tuesday, 05 July 2022

Alejandro ‘Aíto’ García Reneses (Madrid, 1946) is the new coach of the Girona Basketball first team. García Reneses, with extensive experience in state and European basketball, becomes the top representative of the technical team in the club’s debut season in the elite.

‘Aíto’ García Reneses has an extensive career on state benches with a European route. In the 2013-14 season, he played over a thousand games as a coach in the ACB (1,077 in total). During his long journey he has coached at FC Barcelona (14 seasons), Club Joventut de Badalona (7), Club Baloncesto Málaga (3), Club Baloncesto Sevilla (2) and Club Baloncesto Gran Canaria (2).

His last European experience was at the German ALBA Berlin (2017-21), which competed in the Euroleague, where he won one edition of the German Cup and twice the Bundesliga (German first division).

The technical organizational chart that will accompany ‘Aíto’ García Reneses in the debut season of Basketball Girona in the elite will be configured in the coming days.

Aíto García Reneses: “After a sabbatical year, I decided to accept the offer from Básquet Girona to continue training. At the moment I am waiting to form the best possible team to work with the best enthusiasm to improve the players and get the best results.”

Marc Gasol: “Very happy that Aíto is joining the project, eager to start working to make the 2022-23 squad from today.”