Fuerza Regia de Monterrey

Fuerza Regia de Monterrey
Fuerza Regia de Monterrey
Conference	East
League	LNBP
Founded	2001
History	Fuerza Regia de Monterrey; (2001–present)
Arena	Gimnasio Nuevo León Independiente
Capacity	5,000
Location	Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
Team colors	Black, yellow and white;
President	Sergio Ganem Velázquez
Head coach	Nicolás Casalánguida
Championships	4 (2017, 2019, , )
Website	Official site
Home	Away

The Fuerza Regia de Monterrey (Monterrey Royal Force in English) is a Mexican professional basketball team based in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico playing in the Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional (LNBP). They currently play their home games in the .

Franchise history[]

2007-2008[]

The team finished second in the 2007–08 LNBP Northern Zone division standings only behind Lobos Grises UAD, but failed to advance to the Northern Zone Finals after losing to the Soles de Mexicali which advanced to the LNBP final.

2016-2017[]

Fuerza Regia finished first on the league table and qualified to the playoffs. The team won its first championship by defeating Soles de Mexicali 4–2 in the finals.

International tournaments[]

On December 4, 2007, Fuerza Regia was one of the 16 teams to participate in the first annual FIBA Americas League in Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico that ended on February 9, 2008. Argentina's Peñarol Mar del Plata won the competition and LNBP's Soles de Mexicali were the runner-up, while Fuerza Regia finished in 9th place.

Honours[]

Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional: (4)

2017, 2019, ,

Logos[]

Fuerza Regia former logo (2001–2015)

Home arenas[]

Arena Monterrey (2003–2008)
Nuevo Leon Gimnasium (2008-2013)
(2013-present)

Players[]

Current roster[]

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality not displayed.

Fuerza Regia de Monterrey roster

Players

Coaches

Pos.	No.	Name	Ht.	Wt.
G	0		1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)	75 kg (165 lb)
G	1		2.00 m (6 ft 7 in)	105 kg (231 lb)
G	2		1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)	92 kg (203 lb)
F	3		2.01 m (6 ft 7 in)	102 kg (225 lb)
G	4	Stoll, Paul	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)	80 kg (176 lb)
G	5	Anderson, Jerime	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)	83 kg (183 lb)
F	6		1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)	95 kg (209 lb)
G	7	Aguirre, Nicolás	1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)	92 kg (203 lb)
G	8		1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)	79 kg (174 lb)
C	9	Fuller, Aaron	1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)	107 kg (236 lb)
F	11		1.94 m (6 ft 4 in)	91 kg (201 lb)
F	21		1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)	90 kg (198 lb)
F	31		2.01 m (6 ft 7 in)	107 kg (236 lb)
G/F	33	Huertas, David	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)	89 kg (196 lb)
C	43		2.11 m (6 ft 11 in)	104 kg (229 lb)
C	44		2.11 m (6 ft 11 in)	110 kg (243 lb)
C	55	Anosike, Oderah	2.03 m (6 ft 8 in)	100 kg (220 lb)

Head coach

Assistant coach(es)

Legend

(C) Team captain
Injured

Roster

Updated: 14 November 2020

Notable former players[]

NBA Chicago Bulls superstar Dennis Rodman^[1] was signed for three games and played for at least thirty minutes.

Fuerza Regia's Jamario Moon was signed by the NBA's Toronto Raptors for the 2007–08 and 2008–2009 season, and later played for other NBA teams. Altogether, he played more than 300 NBA games.

On April 25, 2007, Fuerza Regia signed Chinese basketball player Sun Mingming, the world's tallest active basketballer at 7' 9".

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