Juan Antonio Orenga
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| 2022–present | AB Castelló | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Juan Antonio Orenga Forcada (born 29 July 1966 in Castellón de la Plana) is a retired Spanish professional basketball player, and a current professional basketball coach. He is the current head coach of the Guangzhou Loong Lions of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA).
Playing career
Club career
After growing up in San Agustín school in Madrid, Orenga signed for one of the powerhouses of the European basketball as
In the 1988-89 season signed for
After 8 seasons in Estudiantes, Orenga signed for Real Madrid once more with a bench role but they couldn't win the ACB League after losing the 1997 final against FC Barcelona and being defeated in the 1998 semifinals against the champion TDK Manresa for a tight 3-2 serie. In Europe Real Madrid won the Saporta Cup after beating Smash Verona in 1997, a great season for Orenga who was named the MVP of the ACB All Star.
His last 4 seasons Juan Orenga played for Unicaja Málaga (1998-2000) and Cáceres CB (2000-02) before getting retired of playing professional basketball.
Spain national team
As a player, Orenga played 128
In youth levels Orenga won the silver medal in the 1984 Tübingen European Championship U17 after losing the final game against Yugoslavia.
Coaching career
Estudiantes
His first experience as a head coach was the team where he spent the most part of his professional basketball career as a player:
Spanish national federation: youth teams and assistant coach of the National team
Orenga started to coach in the Spanish youth teams in 2007 where he coached the U20 team in the European Championship where his team won the silver medal after losing the final against
played some years after in the National Men's Team.In 2010, coaching the U20 Spain national team he won one more European medal, in this case, bronze in a team led by Nikola Mirotic. A year after, 2011, in Bilbao, partially the same team won the gold medal against Italy with Mirotic as MVP.
From 2009 to 2012 Juan Orenga worked as assistant coach of
Spain national team
After four seasons as assistant coach of Sergio Scariolo and a great success in youth levels winning 3 medals, Orenga was hired as head coach of the Spain national team that competed in the 2013 European Championship where Spain played without some of the stars like Pau Gasol, Serge Ibaka or Juan Carlos Navarro. Spain won the bronze medal after losing the semifinal against France in the extra time. A year after, in the 2014 World Championship held in Spain, and being considered the favourite team to defeat USA, they were defeated once more by France in the quarter-final round. After this result Orenga resigned as coach of the Spain main team.
In 2016, two years after the defeat in the World Championship, Orenga returned to the U20 Spain national team that reached the gold medal in the
Egyptian national team
In April 2016, Orenga signed as head coach of the
Chinese Basketball Association
In November 2017, Juan Orenga signed for Jilin Northeast Tigers of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) in the middle of the competition where his team registered an 8-30 record.
After his first experience in Jilin Orenga was signed for Guangzhou Loong Lions to compete in 2018-19 season. His first trophy was the Asia League Summer Super 8 won in Macau.
Achievements
As player
Estudiantes
Real Madrid
- Spanish League:
- Saporta Cup
Spain national Basketball team
As head coach
References
External links
- Spanish League profile (in Spanish)
- Resign announcement (in Spanish)
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