A man handed him over to the composition and the quarry directed the basketball from Spanish males to the first gold in its history. Bebo Hernandez (Madrid, 67) trained the team on this Unforgettable World Cup for 2006 It opened a stage of glory without comparison in Europe in this century: then it reaches four Europeans and the other World Cup between 2009 and 2022. The Pepu stage ended in the national team soon and badly, after European funds, and returned to his beloved students, which he prepared between 1994 and 2005 (he won glass and was second in ACB) and in 2011-12, after passing through Joventut. Then he lived another kind of battles, politics, and more full of elbows, such as PSOE candidate for the mayor of Madrid. He was a consultant until she resigned. Today he sees the bulls from the barrier.
Ask. What are you doing now?
answer. I am in a quiet moment in my life. With basketball I have a simple relationship. I am still in the student institution and there is something that I do not do, I feel bad: the train. In a very modest school in my neighborhood, the holy angel, in Canillejas, I do technology with a group of children. I see you one day a week to spend and throw it. This completes me, I need it. Fill me. When I have nightmares, not that because I lose a game, but because I am late for training.
D. I was the world champion, but you never stopped feeling a quarry man …
R. Yes, I always thought I was a training coach. I like to form young players and coaches, so they know what a coach is and what responsibilities they bear. The poor who knows only technology and tactics. We form people. It may seem important to influence the children’s personality, but it is good to work in their education. I run it several times to keep a friendly and healthy field in basketball. It is very important to me. The three legs are parents, teachers and trainers.
D. I started training with 15 years …
R. My dreams were a player, but that helped me direct myself as a coach. I tried to learn from the players, know their fears and strengths. The coaches are only aides for the players, who are 12 or 38 years old. I played up to 17 years, although I knew it was not like my colleagues. My dream was not easy. But I wanted to continue in this world. The training was a coincidence. A player in the first team, who gave an attachment to guidance in a small basket, asked me to be his assistant because he was traveling a lot. I accepted and did not appear again in the entire season. At some point, I wondered how I wanted to be a coach. And I wanted to be fair. Just as the coach who was with 12 years was with me. There are people who may not be used to play but to be in basketball, you should not get rid of it. There is a very reflection: “Why do you train? Because they trained me.” I wanted to return to basketball, what gave my life, a shelter of storms.
D. Did Ramiro De Maeztu enter without basketball?
R. It is not that I didn’t like it, I didn’t know him. I came from Canillejas and when this school entered, with seven years, I saw a hidden football goal. The rest was a basket farm. They started building Magicariños. In my neighborhood, we did not put the goals in the pieces. The first was a rope to play tennis. I wanted to be like Santana. The second is to mark the basement bases because there were many American boys. Basketball, nothing.
D. He studied information science and was a colleague in the Ser series. What was the journalist?
R. I did not finish the race. I loved the profession much more than the university. I thought there was another kind of press. When I was first place, in 75, Franco’s death. I wanted to be that journalist who would have needed a more free society. I always love politics. I tried to be a good parallel. You have to explain it well, and if not the case, explain again. If the player does not ask you, you do not care about it. With children, you have to talk about everything, not just basketball. The world does not end in the ball.
D. How do you see the quarry in Spain?
R. There is an unusual base and Huge difficulties. I am decisive not much for quality but for the quantity. For any coach, it is very good to have difficulty choosing. I think about the coach, Sergio Scarlo. He knows exactly what problems are to choose from.
D. Are clubs profitable to form players when They go to the United States with economic offers better?
R. The quarry is always profitable. It may not be economical, but in other phrases. There is a profession difference so that children who can be in choice goes. Difficulties are always there. What cannot be is that we are closed although there is, or a tremendous ease of the young man, then he does not cost him or benefit, or a great difficulty that abandons her on his way. There we have a problem. There are many boys and girls who give up basketball because it seems worthy of only the first team. The dream often ends, but you cannot end at the age of fourteen. Profitability is that there are people who enjoy basketball, amateurs, trainers, referees or two goals. We lose those who wear. Then there is something else that worries me. Where there is no competition, there is nothing. Some federations decide that there are no marks in matches. Only the result is very bad, but also the other party. The most important quarries, students and wovenot, were about to disappear. horrifying
D. How do you see the formation of the young man in the United States?
R. It is very good to leave if the university has a good basketball program. Go because it is not the best for young people. Sometimes it is better to stay. We hope a lot will be formed at home before. Rudi and Mark Jasol left when they were already world champions. It was new in the American Professional League, but not young people. They did not wear the bag.
D. Y. students?
R. Philosophy is still alive. The deadly enemy of the quarries is when there is no team that represents the continuity of this work. If this crisis goes on, it is very complicated.
D. Your phase in Juventus?
R. I signed for three years and I was a year and a half. The economic complications were so great that if I was, there was no team budget. In JOVENTUT, they were bad news every day: with a lower budget, less income, the injury of the players and you cannot sign, and the creditors competition … Nevertheless, up to eight new players entered the first team in one season.
D. What is the education of the game in Europe and the United States?
R. The United States has changed. Now there is different respect and look at European basketball. There was a time when universities abandoned the integrated training of the player. The great athletes arrived, but they were not trained as people or in the game. Sports players went to the American Professional League, but not good personalities. Bad action. Today they are signed by people from abroad more prepared, with sports training and better academic training. The Spanish was a great contribution. Bao, Mark, Calderon, Ricky … were copies. They left a legacy. I directed a generation in the World Cup Eurobasket and almost everyone today continues in basketball. There is a national coach in Germany (MMBRú), a sports director in Barcelona (Navarro), the director of Fiba (Garbajosa), the president of Marc, and the Uniona ambassador (Carlos Capisas and Bern Rodriguez) … we will become medals or not, but there is a good base. When we were the world champions, we did not. The union had to spend money on this.
D. That Ba-LOS-To, which shouted at Plaza de Castella after the World Cup?
R. I got out of my soul. They took us out of the bus, went on the stage and gave me a small picture. I said what came out of my heart.
D. Did your stage of choice be prolonged?
R. I decided that I will not continue after Beijing games. I told President (Jose Luis Souz) and threw me. It was a wrong decision. There was persecution. I thought you could work to death with the technical team and with the players, but not with a toxic person. It was found that it was.
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D. What changed this gold?
R. Remove the complexes. We taught us to win. It was extremely important to maintain style and personality even if the player was missing. Then came four Europeans and another World Cup. No one has achieved it. The Spaniards updated us as a society, and we helped us. When I was a child I wanted to be Santana, Angel Nieto, Mariano Harro … they were alone. Today we are equipment. Work together gives us a lot as a society. In Spain, we are very divided, but sport unites us.
D. What did the policy leave?
R. I tried Is sport in politics. It was very difficult. I tried to speak and reach the agreements. Very difficult. They did not compete for 365 days a year. Where does that happen? Only in politics. This cannot be, it’s useless. There is never a break. They want people to go from other regions, but they seem to be upset. They need to learn to listen. I don’t regret passing it, but I enjoyed very a little.
D. Today’s youth?
R. Premate is not just a problem for young people. We also wanted everything and now, but it is now general. We appreciate more than moments of small happiness. In basketball I get sorry when I see people who do not enjoy.
