Roberto Íñiguez Explained

Roberto Íñiguez de Heredia
Position:	Head coach
Birth Date:	1967 9, df=yes
Birth Place:	Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spain
Team:	Çukurova Basketbol
Nationality:	Spanish
Career Start:	1986
Career End:	1996
Years1:	1986–1987
Team1:	Baskonia
Years2:	1987–1990
Team2:	Valencia
Years3:	1990–1992
Team3:	Gran Canaria
Years4:	1992–1993
Team4:	Murcia
Years5:	1993–1994
Team5:	Tizona Burgos
Years6:	1994–1995
Team6:	L'Horta
Years7:	1995–1996
Team7:	Gandía
Cyears1:	2003–2011
Cteam1:	Valencia Basket
Cyears2:	2011–2012
Cteam2:	Ros Casares Valencia
Cyears3:	2012–2014
Cteam3:	Fenerbahçe Istanbul
Cyears4:	2015
Cteam4:	Uni Girona
Cyears5:	2015–2017
Cteam5:	Nadezhda Orenburg
Cyears6:	2017
Cteam6:	Montenegro
Cyears7:	2017–2019
Cteam7:	WB SOPRON
Cyears8:	2019–2020
Cteam8:	Dynamo Kursk
Cyears9:	2021
Cteam9:	Perfumerías Avenida

Roberto Íñiguez de Heredia Santamaria, (born 5 September 1967) is a former Spanish basketball player and the current head coach of Çukurova Basketbol. Iñiguez spent most of his career with Valencia BC.

He played for Saski Baskonia, Valencia BC, CB Murcia, CB Gran Canaria, Valencia Godella and Gandía BA as a player for 12 years in his career.^[1]

He started as a coach with Valencia BC. With them he worked in different teams during 8 years; Junior, U20, 2nd team and worked with young players of the first team to improve them. He coached the Valencia BC Junior Team as head coach for 2003/04 season and Valencia BC Under 20 Team between 2004 and 2006. From 2006 to 2010 he worked as coach of second team in Valencia. Then he signed with Ros Casares Valencia.^[2] He won EuroLeague Women and Spanish League with a historic record in Spain: they won this competition without losing any games in either the regular season or the playoffs.^[3]

In 2012, Íñiguez signed with Fenerbahçe, where he coached for two seasons^[4] ^[5] ^[6] in Turkey.

In February 2015, he returned to Spain and signed with Catalan squad Uni Girona.^[7] With Uni Girona he won the Spanish League for the second time without losing any games, so he is still undefeated in this competition with a 42/0 record.

After winning the Spanish Championship again in summer 2015, he signed a contract for 2015–2016 with Russian team Nadezhda Orenburg where he coached Orenburg's team in EuroLeague and Russian league for two seasons.

When he finished that season he signed a contract for two years with WB Sopron and four years with Montenegro Federation to coach Montenegro NT.

During the 2019–2020 season he was the Coach of another powerful Russian club, Dynamo Kursk.

Currently he is coaching Çukurova Basketbol after leaving the euroleage team Perfumerias Avenida Salamanca in the middle of the season.