Candidates for the head of “Žalgiris” Message from the coach: two Spaniards and two last names little heard



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Kaunas “Žalgiris” team continues the search for the coach and this time the Spaniards are in the spotlight.

Eurohoops announces two Spaniards among applicants: coach RETAbet from Bilbao Alexas Mumbru and already stopped behind the wheel of “Žalgiris” Joan Square.

A. Mumbru, 41, ended his playing career alone in 2018 and immediately became a man. coach. He managed to get RETAbet back to the Spanish Premier League, where he finished eighth this season.

Meanwhile, J.Plaza, 56, is well known and loved by the Kaunas public, as “Žalgiris” was trained in 2012-2013. season, when Kaunas had a great lineup and had a real chance to enter the quarterfinals in the Top 16 stage. It is true that financial problems finally overwhelmed the team and left it in the hands of several important players.

Later, Plaza worked for the Unicaja team in Malaga for five years and spent a season and a half at the helm of Zenit. It is true that nothing was done with the Russian team: they did not make the playoffs in the European Cup, and were in last place in the Euroleague, so they lost their jobs.

15min.lt journalist Donatas Urbonas also announced that there are two little-known names on the candidate list: 38-year-old Austrian. Martin Schiller and Finns 37 years old Tuomas Iisalo.

He first worked in the Development League recently and in 2020. He became the best coach. He finished second in the Salt Lake City All-Star League, where he trained.

The second has worked for the HAKRO Merlins team in Krailsheim for the past 5 years. The Finns elevated the team to the first division and before the coronavirus, the club in Germany ranked third.

Another well-known candidate is Ertugrul Erdogan, who worked at the Galatasaray camp in Istanbul last season.

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