Pepu Hernández

José Vicente "Pepu" Hernández Fernández (born 11 February 1958) is a Spanish former professional basketball coach.

Pepu Hernández
Hernández, in 2007
Personal information
Born (1958-02-11) 11 February 1958
Madrid, Spain
NationalitySpanish
PositionHead coach
Coaching career1994–2012
Career history
As coach:
1990–1994Estudiantes (assistant)
1994–2001, 2001-2005Estudiantes
2006–2008Spain
2009–2011Joventut
2011–2012Estudiantes
Career highlights and awards
As head coach
Medals
Men's Basketball
Head Coach for  Spain
FIBA World Cup
Gold medal – first place2006 Japan
EuroBasket
Silver medal – second place2007 Spain
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Hernández and the second or maternal family name is Fernández.

Coaching career

Club coaching career

During his club career, Hernández won the Spanish Cup in 2000, and the AEEB Spanish Coach of the Year award in 2004, while he was the head coach of Estudiantes.

National team coaching career

Between 2006 and June 2008, Hernández was the head coach of the senior Spain men's national basketball team, that won the gold medal at the 2006 FIBA World Championship,[1] and the silver medal at the EuroBasket 2007.

Awards and accomplishments

CB Estudiantes

Spanish senior national team

Political career

On 30 January 2019, it was announced that Hernández would run in the Spanish Socialist Worker's Party's primary election to select the party challenger to become Mayor of Madrid (vis-à-vis the 2019 Madrid City Council election), facing Manuel de la Rocha and Chema Dávila as rivals.[2][3] He won the primary election and ran for mayor of Madrid finishing in an all-time-worst fourth place for a PSOE candidate with just 13.7% of the vote.

He is not the only former Spanish men's national basketball team coach in politics. Javier Imbroda also entered politics, joining Citizens in Andalusia.

See also

References
  1. Game Report, Spain vs Greece, 64-47
  2. "Sánchez elige a Pepu Hernández como candidato del PSOE al Ayuntamiento de Madrid" (in Spanish). El País. 29 January 2019.
  3. Montero, Sara (2 February 2019). "Pepu Hernández, Manuel de la Rocha y Chema Dávila: tres hombres y unas primarias". Cuarto Poder.
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