Argentina Basketball Coaches

One might be amazed to know that Argentina knows a lot of sports and usually excel on it. Argentina has a varied sport because of its multicultural population and some environmental reasons such us having a mild climate. Argentina citizens are into a lot of sports such as field hockey, pato, sailing, skiin, swimming, tennis, polo and rugby union.

As of the moment basketball is considered a popular sport in the country because of the year 2000s events which had boosted its popularity. One event that made basketball be embraced by the country was when they had won gold medal in the 2004 Summer Olympics thru this they were able to believe that they could excel in that field.

The victory of the country in every game is the responsibility of the players as well as the coaches. If one is not that determined than the other the team has a high possibility of failing. Let us now discuss some of Argentina basketball coaches who had helped the team become victorious.

Flor Meléndez Montañez

Flor is known for being the coach of Argentina men’s Basketball team during the 1986 World Championship where in the team had ranked 12th among the 24 participants. Monatañez is considered as one of the best Argentina basketball coaches for her passion for the game.

Though in the 1986 World Championship they only ranked 12th it is very visible that the team had made a good fight and had showed more enhancements in their skills.

Montañez is also known for being one of the veteran Argentina basketball coaches for he had started his coaching career way back in year 1967 in a certain youth team. In his coaching career in a youth team he was able to make the team become champion four times in between 1967 to 1973, see as early as 6 years of coaching he was able to grab 4 championship awards this is an obvious proof why he is considered to be famous.

In his coaching career he was able to get over 500 victories which made him one of the best coaches in the country and as of now he is being idolized by a lot of aspiring coaches.

Sergio Santos Hernández

Hernandez is very popular in Argentina for his excellent skills in teaching as well as his great patience in training certain basketball teams. He was also the head coach in the 2008 Summer Olympics where they were able to get a bronze medal.

He is also considered the most visible among the Argentina basketball coaches because he had coached the Argentina National basketball team from year 2005 up to year 2010.

During his years of being the head coach of the national team he had made the team get numerous achievements which made the Argentine Basketball Federation want him still to become the head coach however after he had finished his contract in 2010 he decided to retire in becoming the head coach of the national team and focused more in coaching teams in the Argentine basketball league.

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