Casademont Zaragoza has announced the departure of its sports director from the club, Pep Cargolafter three and a half seasons in office.
Cargol It has been everything in the club. He started out as a player, youth coach, assistant coach, coach and athletic director.
As a player, he joined the ‘rojillo’ club in 2002, retiring in the Aragonese capital as captain to later become part of the club’s structure in the aforementioned positions.
As sports director, he began his work in 2018 replacing save guard and after a good season the team played in the qualifying rounds for the title in which they gave a surprise in the quarterfinals leaving Baskonia in the gutter and falling in the semifinals against Barcelona.
In the following season, 2019-20, things continued excellently, with the third team, but the pandemic arrived that forced the League to be suspended on matchday 23 (March). It was decided that the top twelve classified at that time would play a special final phase in two groups of 6 teams to determine the winner of the competition.
The break broke Casademont, who finished last in their group due to the absence of their foreign players, although they managed to get a place to play in the Champions League.
Two excellent first years that gave way to another season and a half below expectations.
In the 2020-21 campaign, the decision to Porfirio Fisac of not continuing as a coach to go to Gran Canaria brought with him the arrival of Diego Ocampo in a season in which things began to go wrong for the team.
The poor initial results led to the cessation of Ocampo and the arrival of the Argentine coach, Sergio “The Sheep” Hernandezwho did not finish the season by personal decision and whom he replaced in the last days Louis Casimir.
The team, after several player changes, finished thirteenth and failed to qualify for European competitions. He achieved bronze in the Champions League when the goal was to lift the trophy.
James Ponsarnau was chosen by Cargol to lead the bench in the current season with a totally new team that already began to have problems from the beginning of the season.
Injuries, several changes of players and the poor performance of some players have led to a particular ‘way of the cross’ that have made him an example of irregularity with resounding defeats and meritorious triumphs, although more of the former than the latter.
This, together with the elimination in the first round of the European Cup in which the goal was to be champion, have decided the club to do without the services of Cargol.
On the other hand, Basket Zaragoza and Tony Muedra They have reached an agreement for him to become the new sports director of our club from today.
Toni Muedra Vanacloig (Valencia, 9-27-1976) began his passion for basketball at the age of 16, combining study and benches in base categories, until his arrival in 2002 at Valencia Basket, a club where he remained until 2014.
A long career in the taronja club in which he went from coach at his School, prior to his professional stage, to later combining his work in the training categories, even with the Club’s communication department, given his status as a journalist.
A training job in the base teams, until advising the Endesa League team, in November 2008 he was appointed sports director of the entity and thus began a prosperous journey. In this stage, Muedra they reached two Eurocup titles (2010 and 2014), in the Copa del Rey they achieved a final -runner-up in 2017- and three semifinals, while in the Endesa League they always had the team in the quarterfinals and semifinals.
In the 2015-16 and 2016-17 seasons, he joined Bayern Munich in the BBL as director of scouting, two campaigns in which the Bavarian team reached the semifinals of the League, two runner-up finishes in the German Cup, in addition to play Euroleague and reach the quarterfinals of the Eurocup in both participations.
The new sports director of Basket Zaragoza studied journalism (CEU San Pablo University) and Psychology, both in Valencia.