Josep Clarós

Josep "Pep" Clarós Canals (born January 28, 1969) is a Spanish professional basketball coach with experience in Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America.^[4]

Josep Clarós

Angola men's national basketball team
Position	Head coach
Personal information
Born	(1969-01-28) January 28, 1969 (age 56)[1] Barcelona, Spain[2]
Career information
College	University of Barcelona[3]
Career history
As a coach:
1993–1994	NE Missouri State (assistant coach)
1995–1997	American University (PR)
1995	El Salvador
1997	Correcaminos UAT Reynosa
1998	Trotamundos de Carabobo
1999	Correcaminos Reynosa
1999–2000	Fort Wayne Fury (assistant coach)
2000–2002	Ulla Oil Rosalía
2002–2005	Tarragona
2004–2006	CAB Madeira
2007–2008	Donar
2008–2009	Joventut Badalona (assistant)
2009–2010	Joventut Badalona
2010–2011	Joventut Badalona (assistant)
2011–2012	Halifax Rainmen
2010–2013	Mexico
2012–2013	Pioneros de Cancún
2014–2015	Halifax Rainmen
2015–2016	Al-Muharraq SC
2016	Rizing Fukuoka
2016–2017	Manama Club
2017–2019	Akita Northern Happinets
2019	Bahrain
2020–2021	Rizing Zephyr Fukuoka
2021–present	Angola
Career highlights
Portuguese Cup winner (2005) Eurobasket.com Portuguese League Coach of the Year (2005) Lliga Catalana champion (2009) Central American and Caribbean Games Coach of the Year (2010) FIBA Americas League champion (2012) NBL Canada Coach of the Year (2015) Bahraini League champion (2017) B. League Division 2 (2018)
Medals Head coach for  Mexico Men's basketball Central American and Caribbean Games 2010 Mayagüez National team

He has been in 15 Finals so far with different teams in different countries as a Head coach.^[5] He has NCAA, CBA, ACB, Eurocup, Uleb, Euroleague, Liga de las Americas, Olympic Games Tournament, Afrobasket and World Cup Qualifiers. He has been Head Coach with 5 National Teams. He is the first coach (in any sport) in history who has won a championship or medal in four different continents as a head coach.

International career

En 2012, Clarós won la Liga de las Americas in Formosa, Argentina^[6] .On March 27, 2015, Clarós, who was planning to coach the Egypt national basketball team at the 2015 FIBA Africa Championship and potentially the 2016 Summer Olympics,^[7] confirmed that he would not. He said, "I wish them all the best for the next AfroBasket and African games with the goal to qualify for the Olympics in Rio 2016."^[8] He loves to implement a full court press defence.^{[9][10][11][12][13][14][15]}

In 2017, Clarós signed with Akita Northern Happinets in Japan.^[16]

In 2020, he signed with Rizing Zephyr Fukuoka.^[1][17]

Head coaching record

Legend

Regular season	G	Games coached	W	Games won	L	Games lost	W–L %	Win–loss %
Playoffs	PG	Playoff games	PW	Playoff wins	PL	Playoff losses	PW–L %	Playoff win–loss %

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B2 record

Team	Year	G	W	L	W–L%	Finish	PG	PW	PL	PW–L%	Result
Ulla Oil Rosalía	2000-01	30	10	20	.333	13th	-	-	-	–	-
Ulla Oil Rosalía	2001-02	30	10	20	.333	13th	-	-	-	–	-
CB Tarragona	2002-03	30	12	18	.400	12th	-	-	-	–	-
CB Tarragona	2003-04	34	15	19	.441	13th	-	-	-	–	-
CB Tarragona	2004-05	34	18	16	.529	7th	4	1	3	.250	Lost in 1st Round
Hanzevast Capitals	2007-08	40	24	16	.600	5th	3	1	2	.333	Lost in 1st Round
Halifax Rainmen	2011-12	36	23	13	.639	2nd	8	5	3	.625	Runners-up
Pioneros de Quintana Roo	2012-13	40	28	12	.700	6th	8	4	4	.500	Lost in 2nd Round
Halifax Rainmen	2014-15	32	20	12	.625	1st in Atlantic	16	10	4	.714	Runners-up
Al Muharraq	2015-16	5	3	2	.600	5th	-	-	-	–	-
Rizing Fukuoka	2016	12	6	6	.500	8th in Bj Western	2	0	2	.000	Lost in 1st Round
Al Manama	2016-17	16	15	0	1.000	1st	6	5	1	.833	Champions
Akita Northern Happinets	2017-18	60	54	6	.900‡	1st in B2 Eastern	5	3	2	.600	Runners-up in B2
Akita Northern Happinets	2018-19	60	17	43	.283	5th in Eastern	-	-	-	–	-
Rizing Zephyr Fukuoka	2019-20	15	4	11	.267	6th in B2 Western	-	-	-	–	-
Rizing Zephyr Fukuoka	2020-21	59	26	33	.441	5th in B2 Western	-	-	-	–	-