Porfirio Fisac

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Fisac and the second or maternal family name is de Diego.
Porfirio Fisac
Casademont Zaragoza
PositionHead coach
LeagueLiga ACB
Personal information
Born (1965-01-24) January 24, 1965 (age 59)
Fuenterrebollo, Spain
Coaching career1998–present
Career history
As coach:
1998–1999Peñarroya
1999–2001Doncel La Serena
2001–2002Tarragona
2002–2004Ciudad de Algeciras
2004–2007Gipuzkoa
2008–2011Valladolid
2011–2012Fuenlabrada
2014–2015Valladolid
2015Palencia
2015–2018Gipuzkoa
2016–2017Senegal
2018–2020Zaragoza
2020–2022Gran Canaria
2022–presentZaragoza
Career highlights and awards
As head coach
Medals
Men's basketball
Head Coach for  Senegal
AfroBasket
Bronze medal – third place 2017 Senegal/Tunisia Team

Porfirio Fisac de Diego (born January 24, 1965) is a Spanish basketball coach for Casademont Zaragoza of the Liga ACB. He was the head coach of the Senegalese national team, participant at the AfroBasket 2017.[1]

Coaching career

With CB Valladolid, in 2011.

Born in Fuenterrebollo, Segovia, Castile and León, the first sporting success of Fisac arrived in 2002, by promoting CB Tarragona to the LEB league. He would repeat promotion two years later with Ciudad de Algeciras.

In 2004, Fisac signed with Gipuzkoa BC, again in the LEB 2 league (third tier). In his first season, despite finishing as regular season winners, he could not achieve a new promotion due to being eliminated in the quarterfinals by CB Canarias. However, the club bought the LEB place of his former club Ciudad de Algeciras.

"I never felt so messed up for anything and I only can compare it with the death of my father."

— Porfirio Fisac, after the relegation of GBC.[2]

In the club's debut season in LEB, despite finishing the regular season in the sixth position, Gipuzkoa BC completed a perfect playoff with seven wins and no defeats and promoted to the Liga ACB. In the next season, he could not avoid the last position and ended his stage at Gipuzkoa. Fisac compared the relegation of the club with the death of his father.[2]

After one season without coaching, Fisac took the helm of freshly relegated from Liga ACB CB Valladolid and achieved the promotion in his first season, and qualified the team to the Copa del Rey in 2011. He ended the contract in that year and signed with Baloncesto Fuenlabrada, where he was sacked.

Two years later, he came back to Valladolid, for coaching the club in their last season before relegation and in 2015, after starting the season with Palencia Baloncesto, he left the team as leader of the LEB Oro with a 9–1 record for agreeing terms with Gipuzkoa Basket. Fisac could not avoid finally their relegation, but he achieved a third promotion to Liga ACB in the next season.

In March 2016, Fisac was hired as manager of the Senegal national team.[3] After coaching the team in the Olympic Qualifying Tournament of Manila, he extended his contract for the AfroBasket 2017,[4] where he led the hosts to the bronze medal.

On 30 May 2018, despite avoiding successfully the relegation from Liga ACB, Fisac resigned to continue at the helm of GBC. He alleged he feels he "completed the cycle".[5]

Two weeks later, Fisac signed a two-year contract with Tecnyconta Zaragoza.[6]

On July 8, 2020, he has signed with Gran Canaria of the Liga ACB.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Porfirio Fisac De Diego, sélectionneur de l'équipe nationale masculine : Le parcours de combattant du nouveau patron de la "Tanière"". rts.sn. 19 September 2017.
  2. ^ a b "Porfi Fisac, abatido, terminó la rueda de prensa entre lágrimas" (in Spanish). Diario Vasco. 23 April 2007. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
  3. ^ "Porfi Fisac, nuevo seleccionador de Senegal; objetivo: Afrobasket 2017". Solobasket. 5 March 2016. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
  4. ^ "Porfi Fisac, seleccionador de Senegal". Mundo Deportivo. 23 July 2017. Retrieved 18 April 2018.
  5. ^ "Porfi Fisac: "Siento que he completado el ciclo"" [Porfi Fisac: "I feel I completed the cycle"] (in Spanish). ACB.com. 30 May 2018. Retrieved 30 May 2018.
  6. ^ "Porfirio Fisac, nuevo entrenador de Tecnyconta Zaragoza" [Porfirio Fisac, new coach of Tecnyconta Zaragoza] (in Spanish). ACB.com. 16 June 2018. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
  7. ^ "Porfirio Fisac hired as new head coach of Gran Canaria". Sportando. July 8, 2020. Retrieved July 8, 2020.