Selects new helms / day
The Latvian Basketball Union (LBS), who has selected new head coaches for national teams, will be able to work for the successful professionals in the club’s basketball. Matīss Rožlapa will take place in the place of Martins Gulbis in the Latvian women’s basketball team and will start his first job as early as May, but Spaniard Sito Alonso’s Men’s Team corners will take over Luka banks in the autumn following the final of the European Championship in Riga.
His former assistant Jānis Gailītis also claimed the role of the descendants, but the majority of the coaching commission has supported Alonso. The Spaniard has been working with teams of the Supreme League of his country for 15 years, including the famous BarcelonaIn addition, he has also coached several Latvian basketball players – Kristaps Walter, Richard Kuksik, Dairy Bertan, Rinald Malman, Arthur Kuruc. Since 2019, he has run the Murcia club represented by Rodion Kuruc. He was the head coach of the Spanish U20 national team at the 2013 European Championship in Tallinn, where he conceded to the Latvians in the semi -finals and won third place. A year later, he was the assistant of the Spanish adult coach at the World Cup.
The women’s unit will be trained in the past with several youth teams, Matīss Rožlapa, who has successfully developed a career in German clubs in recent years. This season with sauclas Royals He won the German Cup and entered the final of this national championship.
Matisse
- Basketball coach
- Born on February 24, 1992 in Talsi
- Career: Marupe, LBL2 (2013-2016), assistant Baron Quarter (2016-2017), assistant BK Jurmala (2017-2018), Latvian U16 women’s team (2018-2019, 2023-2024), TTT Riga U16 (2018-2019), TTT Riga Juniores (2019-2020) Riga (2018-2020), University of Latvia Women’s Team (2020-2021), Latvian U18 women’s team (2021), Latvian U20 women’s team (2022), RSU women’s team (2021-2023), assistant in the Latvian women’s unit (2019-2024), Nerdlingen Angels, Germany (2023-2024), Germany (2023-2024)
- Success: German Cup (2025), German Cup finalist (2024), Latvian Champion (2019), Baltic Champion (2019)
- Recognition: Latvian Basketball Coach of the Year (2021)
Sito Alonso
- Basketball coach
- Born on December 4, 1975 in Madrid (Spain)
- Career: Monzon, Spain League 4 (1999-2004), Prat, Spain’s 4th League (2004-2005), assistant Joventut, Spain (2005-2008), Joventut (2008-2010), Gipuzkoa, Spain (2011-2014), Spain U20 team (2013) (2014-2016), Baskonia, Spain (2014-2016), Barcelona (2017-2018), Cedevita, Croatia (2018), Murcia, Spain (2019 -)
- Success: FIBA Eurocup (2006), Spain King’s Cup (2008), ULEB Eurocup (2008), 3rd place in the European U20 Championship (2013)
- Recognition: The Coach of the Year at the Spanish coaching association rating (2012)
