Enrico "Koy" Banal, is a

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professional basketball head coach.

Coaching career

Prior to his first PBA coaching job, Banal has had extensive head coaching experience in the collegiate and amateur ranks. He called the shots for the PSBA Jaguars in the late 90s with ex-pro Warren Ybanez as his main man. From 2000-2004, he was the head coach of the

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in the UAAP, bannered by future PBA MVP Arwind Santos, Denok Miranda, Mark Isip, Cesar Catli. He won two championships for FEU from

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(Due to La Salle's ineligible players which led them to give up the 2004 championship trophy due to the scandal that leaked out the following year and forfeiting all their wins from 2003-2005). Midway through the 2005 NCAA season, he was hired as head coach of the

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, and in

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, he guided the team to their first championship after 28 years. He was awarded as Coach of the Year. Citing differences with the management, he was unceremoniously dumped as head coach of the Red Lions in 2007. He then jumped to the pros as an assistant coach to

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at Purefoods, and back in the collegiate ranks in 2011, coaching his college alma mater

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. After his stint at Arellano in 2013, he was appointed assistant coach to

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and was then promoted to head coach a day before the start of the 2014-15 PBA season replacing Tanquincen. On May 31, 2016, Banal was fired by the Phoenix Fuel Masters after rumors emerged that Banal was going to return to one of the teams

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owned (

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, and

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). He was replaced by former

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Ariel Vanguardia. To this date, he is one of only a handful of coaches to win championships in both UAAP and NCAA.

Coaching record

Collegiate record

Personal life

Banal is the younger brother of former PBA, UAAP and NCAA coach

Joel Banal Joel Banal (born February 6, 1958) is a retired Filipino professional basketball player, and former head coach in the Philippine Basketball Association. He is the former commissioner of the now-defunct Pilipinas Commercial Basketball League (P ...

and has a son Jonathan Banal, a former point guard for the

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in the NCAA.

References

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