Last night, Basketball Talavera announced on its Social Networks the hiring of Ricardo Uriz as the new coach of the First Team, which next season will compete for the first time in its history in LEB Platathird category of Spanish basketball.
It’s about a former professional basketball player that in his 23-year career he spent through Murcia, Baskonia, Valladolid, Zaragoza, Bilbao, San Sebastian, Valladolid, Canaries, Fuenlabrada, Breogan or Caceres among other teams, interspersing seasons in Liga ACB and LEB Gold.
The 2020/2021 season was his last active as a player, immediately becoming part of the Baskonia Technical Staff. At first he took over the reins of the subsidiary team in the EBA League, achieving a record of 13 wins and 4 losses, but later he became the Assistant Coach of Neved Spahija in the ACB team, which managed to reach the ACB semifinals, losing to Real Madrid.
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It is a real luxury to tell @RicardoUriz6 as coach in this new journey in LEB Plata
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⛹️ 23 seasons as a professional player
???? 5 Ascensos a ACB pic.twitter.com/W8h4gK3yvO– Talavera Basketball (@Talavera_Basket) July 19, 2022
One of the striking facts of Uriz’s career, always surrounded by successes, is the consecutive obtaining of the ascenso a ACB the last 5 seasons he was active as a player, always being one of his team’s references on and off the pitch.
With the arrival of Ricardo Uriz, the first objective that Guillermo Rejón, sports director of Baloncesto Talavera, had this summer market is achieved, since from this hiring the arrival of the players who will be part of the squad will be announced, whose preseason will initially begin in early September.
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