REGAL FCBARCELONA press guide 2008/09 general index Team history ..................................................210 Schools program .............................................292 Club history ....................................................212 Summer camp.................................................293 Championships................................................213 Former players association .............................293 Palau Blaugrana .............................................214 Cheerleaders ...................................................294 management: Media information...........................................295 Joan Laporta ..................................................215 ACB teams information ...................................296 Josep Cubells ..................................................216 Euroleague team information ..........................302 Francesc Solanellas .........................................217 2007-08 statistical review Joan Creus......................................................218 2007-08 ACB season records (RS) ..................312 team: 2007-08 ACB season records (PO) ..................316 Xavi Pascual ...................................................220 2007-08 Euroleague season records ................320 Agustí Julbe....................................................222 history of the team: Josep Maria Berrocal ......................................223 All-time roster ................................................324 Íñigo Zorzano..................................................224 All-time coaches ..............................................327 Gianluca Basile ...............................................226 Coaches record................................................327 André Barrett ................................................230 Head-to-head results vs. Spanish teams...........328 Jordi Trias ......................................................234 Head-to-head results vs. European teams ........353 Lubos Barton ..................................................238 records acb / regular season: Jaka Lakovic...................................................242 Season by season record .................................365 Juan Carlos Navarro.......................................246 Leaders, season by season ..............................366 David Andersen ..............................................250 Single game highs ...........................................367 Xavi Rey.........................................................254 Biggest margin of victory................................399 Fran Vázquez ................................................258 Biggest margin of defeat .................................399 Nihad Dedovic .................................................262 Best scores .....................................................399 Ersan Ilyasova ...............................................264 Worst scores ...................................................370 Daniel Santiago ..............................................268 Games in OT ...................................................370 Víctor Sada .....................................................272 Results in first game of the season ................371 Roger Grimau .................................................276 Record wins/defeats year by year...................372 staff: All-time monthly record ..................................373 Gil Rodas ........................................................280 Toni Bové........................................................280 Most consecutive wins ....................................374 Toni Caparrós .................................................281 Most consecutive losses...................................374 Xavier Montolío ..............................................281 records acb / play-offs: Eduard Torrent ...............................................282 Leaders season by season ...............................375 Miquel Font.....................................................282 Single game highs ...........................................376 Sección de basket ............................................283 Best scores .....................................................378 2007-08 review: Worst scores ...................................................378 2007-08 season review ...................................284 european competitions: fc barcelona retired numbers: Biggest margin of victory................................379 Juan Antonio San Epifanio "Epi"....................286 Biggest margin of defeat .................................379 Andrés Jiménez ..............................................287 FCB best scores...............................................380 Nacho Solozábal ..............................................288 FCB worst scores ............................................380 Roberto Dueñas .............................................289 Opponents worst scores ..................................381 team information: awards: Youth teams....................................................290 ACB awards ....................................................382 Wheelchair basket team ..................................291 Euroleague awards .........................................383 Director: Toni Ruiz Production: Difusión Ediciones, S.L. Empresa Periodística Deputy Director: Oriol Bonsoms Coordination: Toni Civis Editors: Departament de Comunicació FCB Graphic Design and set up: Geuve comunicació gràfica Photographies: Alejandro García, Miguel Ruíz, José Luis García Surrallés, Euroleague, arxiu FCB Legal deposit: B-4844 2007 Linguistic edition: Lourdes Julià, Marina Àlamo, Óscar ISBN-13: 978-84-611-5471-5 Broc i Sportslingua Press: SPAWN LEVEL, S.L. general index www.fcbarcelona.cat // regal fcbarcelona guia de premsa 209 The FC Barcelona sports section that carries the greatest weight and also has the highest number of fans and most promising future of is basketball; Barcelona fans generally consider it to be the club’s second most powerful Spanish team of that time. One of the most important sport. turning points was the 1977-78 season when Barcelona won the Copa del Rey beating Real Madrid 103-96. history of the section First European title In the eighties the team enjoyed one the periods of its Then, in the 1986-87 season, Barça won the European Founded on the 24th August team won the Spanish League and the Copa del history thanks to Juan Antonio San Epifano "Epi" Super Cup as they embarked upon a period of 1926, the Barça basketball team Generalisimo. The subsequent period of decline went Nacho Solozábal and Chicho Sibilio amongst others. In supremacy that lasted for three years. played its earliest games at the Sol de on for some time and the inauguration of the Palau the 1980-81 season, the club won the league after Baix sports complex of (between the current Blaugrana (1971) despite being a major boost for the twenty-two years of disappointments. In the 1984-85 The Euroleague, Avinguda Madrid and the Travessera de Les Corts). club, did not help bring Barcelona fans the success that season, FC Barcelona collected their first European the long-awaited title However, it was not until the thirties that the sport they had long been craving. Real Madrid remained the trophy winning, the Cup Winners Cup, beating Zalgiris At the end of the twentieth century, the generation Kaunas in the final (77-73). The trophy was retained the of Andrés Jiménez, Audie Norris and Epi made way for following year against Italian team Scavolini (101-86). another, starring the likes of Juan Carlos Navarro, Rodrigo de la Fuente, Roberto Dueñas and Pau Gasol. For a period of ten years the team returned to the same heights of the eighties and won four leagues, three of them consecutively, as well as three Copas del Rey and one Korac Cup. But Barça hit the top on a European level in 2002-03, when a team led by Dejan Bodiroga, Sarunas Jasikevicius and Navarro himself won the long-awaited Euroleague title, formerly known as the European Cup, beating Benetton Treviso in the Final Four in front of a really started taking off in Catalonia. The glory years packed Palau Sant Jordi. The same year as that major came in the late 1940s after the Civil War, when the FC continental achievement, Barça also won the ACB Barcelona basketball team played in the First Division league and Copa del Rey double. on a new court located next to the south goal of the In 2004/05 Barça won the ACB Super Cup. This was Les Corts ground. The team reached its peak in the late the first ever edition of the competition, and in a close forties, when Barça established themselves as one of final they overcame Real Madrid in overtime (76-75). the leading clubs in Spanish basketball. The last title Barça won was the Copa del Rey in the 2006/07 season, played in Malaga. The final, once again Inauguration of the Palau against Real Madrid, was won in style by the Catalan Following a period of crisis in the 1958-59 season, the outfit (53-69). 210 guía de prensa regal fcbarcelona // www.fcbarcelona.cat history of the section history of the section www.fcbarcelona.cat // regal fcbarcelona guía de prensa 211 On November 29, 1899, Hans Gamper founded Futbol Club Barcelona, along with Year of foundation: 24th August 1926 eleven other enthusiasts of 'foot-ball', a game that was still largely unknown in this honours part of the world. He could never have imagined the magnitude of what that initiative would eventually develop into