The counselor and former national basketball coach dies

On January 22, 2019, he took office as Minister of Education and Sports of the coalition Executive made up of PP-A and citizens (Cs) and chaired by Juanma Moreno, a position he held until the day of his death. Imbroda had a long sports career which made him a benchmark for Spanish basketball. Thus, he participated in the preparation of the Lithuanian team for the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games, after which with Unicaja de Málaga he achieved the runner-up position in the ACB. After ten years linked to the Malaga entity, he managed Caja San Fernando de Sevilla, Real Madrid and the Spanish National Team. With the National Team he won a European bronze medal in Turkey during his first year, and achieved the historic milestone of beating the United States basketball team in official competition at the World Cup in Indianapolis.

After overcoming the Cancer, decided to share his experience by getting involved in different projects with sport as the backbone. In addition, he created the Javier Imbroda Foundation, which serves children daily with sport as a tool for inclusion and which he set up with his own resources, without public aid or subsidies. He has served as a speaker at numerous university, social and business forums on management and leadership. Before assuming his position as counselor, Imbroda already had experience in being part of a government team led by the PP, since in July 2011 he was appointed as the new director of the Sports Area of ​​the Malaga City Council, governed by the popular Francisco of the tower.

The Spanish Basketball Federation He has echoed the death of Javier Imbroda and “sadly says goodbye to an indispensable figure in our history” on social media. “Spanish basketball sadly bids farewell to an indispensable figure in our history. We will never forget you, dear Javier. He rests in Peace », reads the FEB tweet. The matches of the Endesa League that will be played this Sunday will observe a minute of silence in tribute to the former Spanish coach Javier Imbroda. “Very sad,” the Association of Basketball Clubs (ACB), organizer of the competition, said in a statement about the death of the Melilla coach.

The President of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, lamented this Sunday “with a broken heart” the death of the Minister of Education and Sports, Javier Imbroda, who died this Saturday after a long illness. “Thank you, Javier Imbroda, for giving us the privilege of meeting you, of being your colleagues,” the president said in a post on social networks. “This Sunday in April we wake up with a broken heart. Thank you for your dedication to Andalusia. You leave us your legacy and we have your memory, which we will always honor,” Moreno said in his tweet.

The president of the Government, Pedro Sanchez, has expressed his “great sadness” over the death of the Andalusian Regional Minister of Education and Sports and former basketball coach, Javier Imbroda, whom he has described as a “historical” Spanish sport and “committed public servant.” This has been stated in a publication on his Twitter profile, in which he has also claimed the “dialoguing” and fighting character “of Imbroda, whose death occurred this Saturday afternoon, at the age of 61, after a long fight against prostate cancer. “All my love to his family and friends,” concluded the president, who shared a photo of the former coach — between 2001 and 2022 — next to a basketball.

Imbroda in Minorca

The coach landed at the Pavelló Menorca the season 2008-2009 replacing the Catalan coach, Ricard Casas, who was dismissed after the poor performance of Vive Menorca in the ACB League. Imbroda took the Bintaufa team in penultimate position and with a poor record of 5 wins and 15 losses. Finally, the coach from Melilla did not meet the challenge in Maó of keeping Vive
Menorca in the ACB League and failed to avoid relegation to LEB Plata.