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Biography
Roberto Íñiguez de Heredia, (born 5 September 1967 in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spain) is a former Spanish basketball player and the current manager of Spar CityLift Girona. Iñiguez spent most of his career with Valencia BC.
He played for Saski Baskonia, Valencia BC, CB Murcia, CB Gran Canaria, Valencia Godella and Gandía BA as a player for 12 years in his career.
He started like coach on Valencia BC. With them he worked in different teams during 8 years; Junior, U20, 2nd team and worked with young players of the first team to get better. He coached the Valencia BC Junior Team as head coach for 2003/04 season and Valencia BC Under 20 Team between 2004 and 2006. from 2006 to 2010 he worked lıke coach of second team ın Valencıa. Then he signed with Ros Casares Valencia. He won EuroLeague Women and Spanish League with a historic record in Spain: They won this competition without losing any games in either the regular season or the playoffs.
In 2012, Íñiguez signs with Fenerbahçe, where he coaches during two seasons in Turkey.
In February 2015, he returned to Spain and signed with Catalan squad Uni Girona. With Uni Girona he won the Spanish League for the second time without losing any games, so he is still undefeated in this competition with an incredible 42/0 record.
After winning spanish Championship again, on summer 2015 he signed a contract for 2015 - 2016 with russian team Nadezhda Orenburg where he will coach Orenburg´s team in Euroleague and Russian league.
Honors
Ros Casares Valencia (2011-12)
- EuroLeague Women: 2011-12
- Liga Femenina de Baloncesto: 2011-12
Fenerbahçe Istanbul (2012-14)
- Presıdent Cup of Turkey: 2012
- EuroLeague Women: 2012-13 runner-up
- Turkish League TKBL 2012-13
- Coach of the year in Turkey: 2013
- President Cup of Turkey: 2013
- Euroleague Women: 2013–14 runner-up.
Uni Girona (ESP)(2014-15)
- Liga Femenina de Baloncesto: 2014-15