Xavi Pascual (basketball)
Pascual in January 2009.
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| Panathinaikos | |
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| Position | Head coach |
| League |
Greek Basket League EuroLeague |
| Personal information | |
| Born |
September 9, 1972 L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Coaching career | 1990–present |
| Career history | |
| As coach: | |
| 1990–1991 | CB Gavà |
| 1995–1997 | Cornellà (assistant) |
| 1997–1999 | CB Santfeliuenc |
| 1999–2001 | CB Olesa |
| 2001–2004 | CB Aracena |
| 2004–2005 | FC Barcelona B |
| 2005–2008 | FC Barcelona (assistant) |
| 2008–2016 | FC Barcelona |
| 2016–present | Panathinaikos |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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Xavier "Xavi" Pascual i Vives, commonly known as Xavi Pascual, (born September 9, 1972) is a Spanish professional basketball coach. On May 9, 2010, he became the youngest coach to manage to win the EuroLeague championship (only counting the Euroleague Basketball Company era, since the year 2000), and soon after, he also won the EuroLeague Coach of the Year Award. He is currently the head coach of Panathinaikos.
The first team Pascual coached was Gavà (1990–91). Other teams he has coached are: Cornellà, Santfeliuenc, Olesa, and Aracena.
In the 2004–05 season, Pascual moved to FC Barcelona, where he became the head coach of the FC Barcelona Bàsquet B, the club's Liga EBA (Spanish 4th Division) affiliate team.
In the following, 2005–06 season, he became the assistant head coach of the Spanish 1st Division team of FC Barcelona. After the team and then head coach Duško Ivanović parted ways in 2008, Pascual became the club's head coach. On September 21, 2012, Pascual extended his contract with Barcelona until the end of 2014–15 season. On February 3, 2015, he extended his contract with Barcelona until the end of the 2016–17 season.
After the 2015–16 season, in which Barcelona failed to win the Spanish ACB League, and was eliminated in the EuroLeague's quarterfinal playoffs, Pascual was fired.
On October 22, 2016, Pascual signed a three-year contract to be a head coach of the Greek team Panathinaikos.
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