The start of the collaboration with Juan Plata announced AEK! The “yellow and black” completed the great agreement with the Spanish coach, who will replace Ilias Kanzouris at the reins of the team.
The experienced technician counts 17 years as a first coach at the top level, having passed through the benches of Real Madrid, Zalgiris, Malaga, Zenit and Betis. He stayed at the “queen” from 2006 to 2009, winning the Eurocup in 2007, a feat he repeated with Malaga in 2017.
In detail, the announcement:
“AEK BC is pleased to announce the start of its collaboration with Joan Plaza.
The Catalan coach signed a two-year contract today (14/06), ie until Summer 2025.
Coates Plata, welcome to the “Queen” family.
Juan Plata was born on December 26, 1963, in Barcelona. He started his career in 1995, when he sat on the bench of the Badalona Youth team, with which he also won a Championship, in the period 2000-2001. At the beginning of that season he was also on the bench of the first team as an assistant coach, a position he kept until 2004.
THE Bozidar Malkovich took over the reins of Real Madrid and asked Platha to join his coaching staff, partnering him for two years, winning a Championship with him. In the Summer of 2006, Platha succeeded him as head coach, a position he held for the first time in his career, at the Men’s level. On her counter Real he was there for three consecutive seasons, winning the Championship and the ULEB Cup in his first year (2006-2007), when he was named the best coach of the Championship.
In 2009 he signed a contract with Real Betison whose bench he sat for three years, before being tried for the first time abroad, for the sake of Zalgiris Kaunas (2012-2013), where he won two titles, the Championship and the Super Cup. In 2013 he returned to Spain and to its bench Malaga, with whom he collaborated for five years. In fact, in 2017 he won the Europe Cup, with the League declaring him the coach of the year.
In 2018, she went to the Russian championship to wear her suit Zenit Saint Petersburg for one two years. From November 2020, until the end of the 2020-2021 season, he sat on the Real Betis bench».
Source: Sport Fm
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