Román Montañez is a Spanish former professional

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player. Playing for several

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clubs during his career, Montañez played for

Bàsquet Manresa Club Bàsquet Manresa S.A.D., also known as Baxi Manresa for sponsorship reasons, is a professional basketball club based in Manresa, Spain. The team plays in the Liga ACB and the Champions League. It home arena is the Pavelló Nou Congost. In ...

during several separate spells, helping the Catalans win their first and only championship in the 1997-98 ACB season. Montañez retired from professional basketball in 2017, acting as

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in his last seasons with Manresa. After his playing career ended, Montañez continued at Manresa, acting as the team's

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between 2017 and 2020.

Trophies

With Bàsquet Manresa

: (1) **

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

With CB Girona

* FIBA Eurocup: (1) **

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

External links

ACB Profile

References

1979 births Living people Baloncesto Fuenlabrada players Bàsquet Manresa players BC Andorra players Spanish expatriate basketball people in Andorra Bilbao Basket players CB Girona players CB Valladolid players Liga ACB players Shooting guards Spanish men's basketball players {{Spain-basketball-bio-stub Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Spain Competitors at the 2001 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games medalists in basketball