Porfirio Fisac de Diego (born January 24, 1965) is a Spanish

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ...

coach for

Casademont Zaragoza Basket Zaragoza 2002 S.A.D., more commonly referred to as Basket Zaragoza and as Casademont Zaragoza for sponsorship reasons, is a professional basketball club based in Zaragoza, Spain. The team plays in the Liga ACB. Their home arena is th ...

of the

Liga ACB The Liga ACB, known as Liga Endesa for sponsorship reasons, is the top professional basketball division of the Spanish basketball league system. Administrated by the Asociación de Clubs de Baloncesto (ACB), Liga ACB is contested by 18 teams, wi ...

. He was the head coach of the Senegalese national team, participant at the

AfroBasket 2017 FIBA AfroBasket 2017 was the 29th edition of the AfroBasket, a men's basketball continental championship of Africa. The tournament was jointly hosted by Tunisia and Senegal. Angola was proposed by FIBA Africa to host the tournament, an offer dec ...

Coaching career

Born in Fuenterrebollo,

Segovia Segovia ( , , ) is a city in the autonomous community of Castile and León, Spain. It is the capital and most populated municipality of the Province of Segovia. Segovia is in the Inner Plateau (''Meseta central''), near the northern slopes of th ...

Castile and León Castile and León ( es, Castilla y León ; ast-leo, Castiella y Llión ; gl, Castela e León ) is an autonomous community in northwestern Spain. It was created in 1983, eight years after the end of the Francoist regime, by the merging of the ...

, the first sporting success of Fisac arrived in 2002, by promoting CB Tarragona to the

LEB league LEB or Leb may refer to: * Lausanne–Echallens–Bercher railway, Switzerland * Lebanon, UNDP country code * Lebanon Municipal Airport (New Hampshire) (FAA identifier) * Lexham English Bible * Life expectancy at birth * Liga Española de Baloncest ...

. He would repeat promotion two years later with Ciudad de Algeciras. In 2004, Fisac signed with

Gipuzkoa BC Donosti Gipuzkoa Basket 2001 Saskibaloi Kirol Elkartea S.A.D., commonly known as Gipuzkoa Basket and as Acunsa GBC for sponsorship reasons, is a professional basketball club based in San Sebastián, Gipuzkoa, Spain. The team plays in the LEB Oro. ...

, again in the

LEB 2 The LEB Plata is the third basketball division of the Spanish basketball league system and the second basketball division organized by the Spanish Basketball Federation. Since 2019, three teams are promoted to Liga Española de Baloncesto, LEB Oro ...

league (third tier). In his first season, despite finishing as regular season winners, he could not achieve a new promotion due to being eliminated in the quarterfinals by

CB Canarias Club Cantera Base 1939 Canarias S.A.D., commonly known as CB Canarias and known as Lenovo Tenerife for sponsorship reasons, is a professional basketball team that is based in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain. Domestically, the team pl ...

. However, the club bought the LEB place of his former club Ciudad de Algeciras. In the club's debut season in LEB, despite finishing the regular season in the sixth position, Gipuzkoa BC completed a perfect playoff with seven wins and no defeats and promoted to the

. In the next season, he could not avoid the last position and ended his stage at Gipuzkoa. Fisac compared the relegation of the club with the death of his father. After one season without coaching, Fisac took the helm of freshly relegated from Liga ACB

CB Valladolid Club Baloncesto Valladolid, S.A.D. was a professional basketball team based in Valladolid, Castile-León, Spain. CB Valladolid was member of the Asociación de Clubs de Baloncesto (ACB). Famous players that have played for the team include Arvydas ...

and achieved the promotion in his first season, and qualified the team to the

Copa del Rey The Campeonato de España–Copa de Su Majestad el Rey, commonly known as Copa del Rey or simply La Copa and formerly known as Copa del Presidente de la República (1932–36) and Copa del Generalísimo (1939–76), is an annual knockout footbal ...

in 2011. He ended the contract in that year and signed with

Baloncesto Fuenlabrada Baloncesto Fuenlabrada, S.A.D., known as just Fuenlabrada and also Carplus Fuenlabrada because of sponsorship reasons,, is a professional basketball team based in Fuenlabrada, Spain. The team plays in the Liga ACB and plays their home games at Fe ...

, where he was sacked. Two years later, he came back to Valladolid, for coaching the club in their last season before relegation and in 2015, after starting the season with

Palencia Baloncesto Palencia Baloncesto, officially named as CD Zunder Palencia, is a professional basketball team based in Palencia, Castile and León. The team currently plays in league LEB Oro. History The club was founded in 1979 at Colegio Marista of Palencia, ...

, he left the team as leader of the

LEB Oro LEB or Leb may refer to: * Lausanne–Echallens–Bercher railway, Switzerland * Lebanon, UNDP country code * Lebanon Municipal Airport (New Hampshire) (FAA identifier) * Lexham English Bible * Life expectancy at birth * Liga Española de Balonces ...

with a 9–1 record for agreeing terms with Gipuzkoa Basket. Fisac could not avoid finally their relegation, but he achieved a third promotion to Liga ACB in the next season. In March 2016, Fisac was hired as manager of the Senegal national team. After coaching the team in the Olympic Qualifying Tournament of

Manila Manila ( , ; fil, Maynila, ), officially the City of Manila ( fil, Lungsod ng Maynila, ), is the capital of the Philippines, and its second-most populous city. It is highly urbanized and, as of 2019, was the world's most densely populate ...

, he extended his contract for the

, where he led the hosts to the bronze medal. On 30 May 2018, despite avoiding successfully the relegation from Liga ACB, Fisac resigned to continue at the helm of GBC. He alleged he feels he "completed the cycle". Two weeks later, Fisac signed a two-year contract with Tecnyconta Zaragoza. On July 8, 2020, he has signed with

Gran Canaria Gran Canaria (, ; ), also Grand Canary Island, is the third-largest and second-most-populous island of the Canary Islands, an archipelago off the Atlantic coast of Northwest Africa which is part of Spain. the island had a population of that co ...

of the

References

External links

ACB profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Fisac, Porfirio Living people 1965 births Baloncesto Fuenlabrada coaches Liga ACB head coaches Spanish basketball coaches Sportspeople from the Province of Segovia