caption years cyears cteam birth_place highlights team nationality career_end league coach_start birth_date career_position image article_title name career_start
aíto , with unicaja málaga 1963 -- 1968 1968 -- 1973 1973 1992 -- 1993 1993 -- 1997 1998 -- 2001 2003 -- -- 2008 2008 2008 -- 2011 2012 -- 2014 2014 1983 -- present 1983 -- 1985 1985 -- 1990 círculo barcelona fc barcelona fc barcelona joventut badalona spain unicaja sevilla católico gran canaria / cotonificio joventut badalona fc barcelona fc madrid , spain '' ` as head coach : '' ' herbalife gran canaria estudiantes fc barcelona spanish 1973 liga acb eurocup basketball 1998 20 december 1946 point guard aitogarcíaunicaja.jpg aíto garcía reneses
 aíto garcía reneses 1963
aíto garcía reneses

alejandro `` aíto '' garcía reneses -lrb- born in madrid , spain , on 20 december 1946 -rrb- , usually known as just aíto , is one of the most prestigious spanish basketball coaches .
he has won nine liga acb titles , all with fc barcelona .
he has won all the european titles except the euroleague although he was runner-up on three occasions -lrb- all with fc barcelona -rrb- : in 1989 -- 90 , 1995 -- 96 , and 1996 -- 97 .
he has spent most of his coaching career in catalonia .
he spent 15 seasons in fc barcelona -lrb- 13 as coach and two as general manager -rrb- and also in the three basketball teams from badalona : círculo católico , cotonificio and specially joventut , where he has been in two different periods , 1983 -- 1985 , and from july 2003 to may 2008 .
he trained club baloncesto malaga for 3 seasons -lrb- 2008-2011 -rrb- and from 20012 he trains club baloncesto sevilla .
in june 2008 , he became head coach of the spanish national basketball team , replacing pepu hernández .
in the 2008 olympics he coached the team to a silver medal in the closely contested gold medal game losing to the usa national team after being down by 2 points with a few minutes left in the game .
