Lolo Sainz
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Born | Tetuan, Spain (now Morocco) | August 28, 1940|||||||||||||
Nationality | Spanish | |||||||||||||
Listed height | 6 ft 1.25 in (1.86 m) | |||||||||||||
Career information | ||||||||||||||
Playing career | 1961–1968 | |||||||||||||
Position | Point guard / Shooting guard | |||||||||||||
Coaching career | 1969–2001 | |||||||||||||
Career history | ||||||||||||||
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1961–1968 | Real Madrid | |||||||||||||
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1969–1972 | Real Madrid (juniors) | |||||||||||||
1971–1972 | Real Madrid (assistant) | |||||||||||||
1972–1973 | Club Vallehermoso Madrid | |||||||||||||
1973–1975 | Real Madrid (assistant) | |||||||||||||
1975–1989 | Real Madrid | |||||||||||||
1989–1990 | Real Madrid (GM) | |||||||||||||
1990–1993 | Joventut Badalona | |||||||||||||
1993–2001 | Spain | |||||||||||||
2001–2002 | Spain (GM) | |||||||||||||
2002–2005 | Real Madrid (GM) | |||||||||||||
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Manuel "Lolo" Sainz Márquez (born August 28, 1940) is a Spanish retired professional basketball player and coach. Sainz spent most of his career with Real Madrid, either as a player, or a head coach. He did however, also coach the senior Spain national team, between 1993 and 2001. On 3 February 2008, he was chosen as one of the 50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors, over the previous half-century, by the EuroLeague Basketball Experts Committee.[1]
Playing career[]
Clubs[]
As a player with Real Madrid, Sainz won 4 FIBA European Champions Cup (now called EuroLeague) titles (1964, 1965, 1967, 1968).
Spanish senior national team[]
As a player, Sainz was a member of the senior Spain national basketball team. With Spain, he played at the EuroBasket 1961, the 1963 EuroBasket, and the 1965 EuroBasket.
Coaching career[]
Clubs[]
As a head coach with Real Madrid, Sainz won 2 FIBA European Champions Cup (now called EuroLeague) titles (1978, 1980). He was the AEEB Spanish Coach of the Year in 1977, 1985, and 1991.
National team career[]
Sainz was also the head coach of the senior Spanish national team, between 1993 and 2001. He led Spain to a silver medal at the 1999 EuroBasket.
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- 1940 births
- Living people
- EuroLeague-winning coaches
- Joventut Badalona coaches
- People from Tétouan
- Point guards
- Real Madrid basketball coaches
- Real Madrid Baloncesto players
- Shooting guards
- Spanish basketball coaches
- Spanish men's basketball players
- Spanish Olympic coaches
- Spanish basketball biography stubs