Néstor Rafael "Che" García (born 11 January 1965) is an Argentine professional

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Head coaching career

Latin American clubs

García won the 3rd-tier

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in 2008, with

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. He also won the 1st-tier

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championship in 2016, with

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National teams

García coached the Uruguay national team in 2003. He also coached the Argentina national team at the 2012 South American Championship, where they won a gold medal. He has also coached the senior men's Venezuela national team. As the

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of Venezuela, he won the gold medal at the 2014 South American Championship, the gold medal at the

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, and the gold medal at the 2016 South American Championship. He also coached Venezuela at the

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. In 2019, Garcia was hired as head coach of the Dominican Republic national team, where he took the helm prior to their entrance into the

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. In 2021, Garcia was reappointed as head coach of the Argentina national team. However, Garcia was abruptly let go a year later, prior to Argentina's arrival at the 2022 FIBA AmeriCup tournament. In September 2022, Garcia reappeared as head coach of the Dominican Republic national team.

European clubs

On 6 July 2017, García went to Spain, and agreed on a one-year contract term with Montakit Fuenlabrada. This marked the first European club that he worked in as a

. After parting ways with the club at the end of the 2017–18 season, he came back to the club in October 2018, in order to replace Agustí Julbe.

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