A few days ago I had the pleasure of attending to my friend Pablo Bernabe who conducted an interview for his website Mi Pizarra de Basket. You can read it below or by clicking here.
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Today a great Andalusian coach and friend who is currently in China working for the Jilin Northeast Tigers team visits our interview section.
Curro Segura has a long professional career that starts from his native Granada, touring through numerous ACB and Leb (Linense, Tenerife, Menorca, Zaragoza, Obradorio, Unicaja Málaga …) as well as having a small background as a National Team last year in Kuwait
Throughout his professional career he has worked alongside great national and international coaches such as Pedro Martínez, Jasmin Repesa, etc.
Curro is a great communicator who has delighted us with many coaches in his talks and Clinics where he shows his great knowledge about our sport.
From these lines I want to thank him for his generosity in the numerous occasions I have had to deal with him for different reasons and he has always been receptive, collaborative and above all close. I would like to wish you the best of luck in your most immediate future because technicians of this profile are very necessary in our basketball.
I leave the “Face to Face” with the good Curro Segura
1) What is your first memory related to basketball?
The Minibasket baskets that were in my College of the Company of Mary in Granada.
2) What led you to dedicate yourself to him professionally?
That the coaches I had would like to sign me as an assistant and not as a player, hahahahaha
3) Your best and most bitter memory lived on a basketball court
The best memories I have are both promotions to the ACB league, in Menorca and Zaragoza, they were very different but in both there were indelible memories of how happy people were.
My worst memory was the knee injury
4) Who are your referents as coaches?
Something is learned from each coach but by how they have been able to play their teams, Popovic in the USA, Obradovic in Europe and Pedro Martinez in Spain.
5) What is your daily life like today?
Hotel-Pavilion-Hotel-Avion-Hotel-Pavilion-Hotel-Pavilion-Hotel-Avion….
6) Players who have passed through your hands and left you an indelible mark
I can not fail to name Larry Lewis for his extraordinary work ethic and then I would tell you that from almost all the bases that I have coach I have learned many things and I have had enough complicity, Lucas Vitoriano, Tisi Reynés, Nico Gianella, Oscar González, Salva Camps, Mario Bruno Fernández, Maxi Stanic, … Andre Turner …
7) How do you spend your free time?
Well, I try to be with family and friends and do sports, if possible any aquatic sport.
8) What differences do you appreciate in the basketball of other countries with respect to the national? (competitive level, professionalism, infrastructure, media impact, etc.)
Today our basketball is highly valued outside our borders. But, in each country there are differences in terms of operation, structures, etc. and the one that has been considered 2nd best league in the world such as the ACB, every time it has closer other leagues that are growing a lot and that in some cases, we could already Say they have advanced us. In Germany or in China you can see the full pavilions every day and they are two leagues in clear growth.
9) In your opinion, what three qualities should a good coach meet?
- Leadership Capacity – Have clear ideas – Ability to convey
10) Tips for all those who start in this beautiful passion to train
Never lose that passion to learn, our profession is wonderful and enormously rich in concepts and ways of working. Forever!!! It can be learning.
Personal
11) Favorite color
Green
12) Favorite number
7
13) Beach or mountain
Beach
14) A book, a movie and a song
The Art of War – Life is Beautiful – Beautiful Day (U2)
15) A historical character
Mandela
16) Place to spend the holidays
Minorca
17) What three things would you take to a desert island?
Health, ingenuity and strength
18) If you could go back in time, you wouldn’t …
Continue in the Obradorio when they stopped Miguel Juane, my intention was to resign and in the end I did not
19) Some dream to fulfill
It’s a secret …. It will happen
20) To end the interview, do you want to add something?
Thank you Pablo !!!! A hug
Thank you