19/11/24 The Aragonese Basketball Federation and the Spanish Association of Basketball Coaches (AEEB), with the collaboration of Ibercaja and the Government of Aragon, organize the IX ‘José Luis Abós’ Memorial Clinic.
The activity will take place on Friday, December 6, at 11 a.m., in the pavilion of the Liceo Europa school in Zaragoza (FAB Technology Center).
The IX Clínic ‘José Luis Abós’ will have a truly luxurious speaker, the legendary coach Aito García Reneseswho will offer a conference on the topic: ‘Reaching the elite as a young player.’
The activity is aimed at coaches, athletes, technicians, managers and fans in general and is completely free, upon registration by sending an email to [email protected]
Aito García Reneses
Aíto is above all a teacher of coaches and a trainer of players. He is the fourth Spanish coach in terms of titles, after Díaz Miguel, Lolo Sainz and Pedro Ferrándiz, with nine ACB titles. They have won the European Cup Winners’ Cup, the Korac Cup and other European competitions, as well as five Copa del Rey and have played in the Euroleague final three times and the Final Four six times.
Olympics
He has been a Spanish junior and youth coach, a team with which he won the bronze medal in the European Championship. And he won the silver medal with the senior men’s team at the 2008 Beijing Games.
Ten years without José Luis Abós
On the night of October 20, 2014, the saddest news arrived, the one that no one would have wanted to hear. José Luis Abós had died. After a tough fight against a cruel illness, the Aragonese coach died at the age of 53. His optimism and desire for recovery had not been enough to combat an illness that only a few months earlier had kept him from the CAI Zaragoza bench.
Ten years have passed and his memory remains present among fans, professional colleagues, athletes and among all those who make up the great family of Aragonese and national basketball, who showed great unity when it came to showing their support and affection for José Luis Abós.
Since then there have been many events that serve to remember the figure of the Zaragoza coach. There is the City of Zaragoza Trophy that is held every year before the start of the season and that bears his name.
The Aragonese Basketball Federation established the José Luis Abós Award for the best coach of the season, which is presented annually at the Aragonese Basketball Gala.
And the Clínic José Luis Abós, which this year celebrates its ninth edition, which has become one of the great events for coaches nationwide and which will be held next Friday, December 6.
