Juan Antonio Orenga Forcada (born July 29, 1966 in

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) is a retired

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professional

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player, and a current professional

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. He is the current

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of the

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of the

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(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

Real Madrid Real Madrid Club de Fútbol (, meaning ''Royal Madrid Football Club''), commonly referred to as Real Madrid, is a Spanish professional football club based in Madrid. Founded in 1902 as Madrid Football Club, the club has traditionally wor ...

where he won the Spanish League championship in 1984 and the

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against Simac Milan. He signed for

CB Collado Villalba Club Baloncesto Collado Villalba was a professional basketball club based in Collado Villalba, Spain. History CB Collado Villalba was founded in 1922. During its first years in Liga ACB, the club had the sponsorship of the actual BBVA bank, in th ...

in the ACB looking for more minutes and a more important role. After only one season signed for Cajamadrid where he played in ACB before get relegated to Primera B (the 2nd division) until 1988. In the 1988-89 season signed for Estudiantes where he spent 8 seasons playing at his best. In these seasons was named the MVP of the

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in 1991, won the Spanish Cup title in 1992 and played in the

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in a historic qualification for his humble team but lost to

Joventut Badalona Club Joventut Badalona, S.A.D. () is a Spanish professional basketball club based in Badalona, Catalonia, Spain, playing in the Liga ACB and the EuroCup. Known to their fans as ''La Penya'' (in English, ''The Club''), it is one of only two teams ...

and Philips Milano. After 8 seasons in Estudiantes, Orenga signed for

once more with a bench role but they couldn't win the ACB League after losing the 1997 final against

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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

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(1998-2000) and

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(2000-02) before getting retired of playing professional basketball.

Spain national team

As a player, Orenga played 128

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for the

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. He played at the

1992 Summer Olympic Games The 1992 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992, ca, Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992), officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XXV Olimpiada, ca, Jocs de la XXV Olimpíada) and commonly known as ...

, the

1994 FIBA World Championship The 1994 FIBA World Championship was the 12th FIBA World Championship, the international basketball world championship for men's teams. The tournament was hosted by Canada from August 4 to 14, 1994. The tournament was held at SkyDome and Maple L ...

, and the

1998 FIBA World Championship The 1998 FIBA World Championship was the 13th FIBA World Championship, an international basketball tournament held by the International Basketball Federation and hosted in Greece from 29 July to 9 August 1998. The tournament was contested by 16 n ...

. He won the bronze medal in the 1991 European Championship of Rome and played the European Championships of

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and

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. In youth levels Orenga won the silver medal in the 1984 Tübingen European Championship U17 after losing the final game against

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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: Adecco Estudiantes. In the club of Madrid he competed both in ACB and ULEB Cup but after a bad record was fired in February 2006.

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

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, led by

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. In Spain some players as

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or Xavi Rey played some years after in the National Men's Team. In

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, coaching the U20 Spain national team he won one more European medal, in this case, bronze in a team led by

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. A year after,

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, in

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, 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

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in the Spain National Team in three years where Spain won the European Championships of

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and

in a great back to back performance. After the European success Spain won the silver medal in the

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, only defeated in a memorable final against

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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

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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 European Championship defeating Lithuania in the final after a great tournament and Marc Garcia named MVP of the event.

Egyptian national team

In April 2016, Orenga signed as head coach of the Egyptian national team where he won the XXII Arabian Nations Championship held in El Cairo in a tight final against Morocco in January 2017. This win allowed Egypt to play in the

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but Orenga resigned before the championship.

Chinese Basketball Association

In November 2017, Juan Orenga signed for

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of the

(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

to compete in 2018-19 season. His first trophy was the Asia League Summer Super 8 won in Macau.

Achievements

As player

Estudiantes

: **

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Real Madrid

* Spanish League: **

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Spain national Basketball team

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* U-16 European Championship **

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As head coach

: **

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* U-20 European Championship: **

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References

External links

Spanish League profile

Resign announcement
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