Lucas Mondelo ceases to be Spain’s women’s basketball coach

It has not been an easy summer for the Spanish women’s basketball team. To Eurobasket quarter-final loss and the not qualifying for the World Cup of 2022 to be held in Australia, the bump against France in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

Given these results, the Spanish Basketball Federation (FEB) has moved token and its first decision has been the removal of the coach. Lucas Mondelo he is no longer in charge of the Spanish women’s team.

Through a statement, the FEB itself has notified this decision that they justify in “the failure to achieve sporting goals“of his contract and he wanted to thank Mondelo for his work” at the head of the team during these years “, but they recognize that” it is time to look for a new impulse for the Spanish National Team“.

Mondelo’s seven medals

Recent poor results cannot cloud the great performance by Lucas Mondelo leading the women’s basketball team.

Mondelo joined the team in 2012 and has since played 152 games, with a balance of 127 victories and 25 defeats, between official and friendly matches. In addition, he has been able to conquer seven medals in these nine years.

Three european golds (2013, 2017 and 2019), a silver in world (2014), other at the Olympics Rio 2016, Y two bronzes (2014 and 2018 World Cups) make up the record of a coach whose luck has not smiled in this last summer.

In search of his replacement

FEB is already working on find your replacement, a task that will not be easy. As the federation itself states in the statement, begins “a stage in which the team will continue to face the generational change that has already begun, and in which the FEB He hopes that Spain will return to occupy the relevant sports place in which it has been maintained during the last years “.