Juan Ignacio Sánchez

Juan Ignacio Sánchez
Player information
Full name	Juan Ignacio Sánchez Brown
Nickname	Pepe
birthday	May 8, 1977
place of birth	Bahía Blanca, Argentina
size	193 cm
position	Point guard
college	Temple University
Clubs as active
1994–1995 Deportivo Roca 1995–1996 Estudiantes de Bahía Blanca 1996–2000 Temple Owls ( NCAA ) 2000–2001 Philadelphia 76ers 2001 Atlanta Hawks 2001–2002 Panathinaikos Athens 2002–2003 Detroit Pistons 2003 Golden State Warriors * 2003–2004 Etosa Alicante 2004– 2007 Unicaja Málaga 2007–2008 FC Barcelona 2008–2009 Real Madrid 2010 CA Obras Sanitarias 2010–2013 Estudiantes de Bahía Blanca * remained unused 00000 00000 00000
National team
1998-2011	Argentina

Juan Ignacio Sánchez medal table
Basketball (men)
Argentina
Olympic games
gold	2004 Athens
World Championship
silver	2002 Indianapolis
American Championship
gold	2001 Neuquén
silver	2003 San Juan
gold	2011 Mar del Plata

Juan Ignacio "Pepe" Sánchez Brown (born May 8, 1977 in Bahía Blanca , Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine basketball player. The 1.93 m tall point guard was together with Rubén Wolkowyski the first Argentine in the NBA and was 2004 Olympic champion with the national team.

Career

After Sánchez had been active for two years in Argentina for Deportivo Roca and Estudiantes de Bahía Blanca, he moved to the NCAA in 1996 for the Temple University team . He then became the first Argentine to sign a contract with the NBA, but he was rarely used with the Philadelphia 76ers and the Atlanta Hawks . Therefore, Sánchez was active in the following season for Panathinaikos Athens , where he won the Euroleague . He then tried it one more time in the NBA, but he came in the 2002/03 season to a total of only nine appearances for the Detroit Pistons , the Golden State Warriors used him not once in the league. Sánchez returned to Europe and has been active in Spain since 2003. After a year at Etosa Alicante , he signed with Unicaja Málaga , where he stayed for three years and won the Spanish Cup in 2005 and the championship the following year. Sánchez then moved to FC Barcelona and, after one season, to Real Madrid . Eventually he returned to Argentina, where he played briefly for Obras Sanitarias and again for Estudiantes de Bahía Blanca until 2013.

With the Argentine national team , Sánchez reached the final of the 2002 World Cup and the semifinals of the 2006 World Cup . He celebrated his greatest success with the 2004 Olympic gold medal , but he was no longer available for the 2008 Games .

Web links

• Pepe Sanchez - player profile on basketball-reference.com
• Pepe Sanchez - Overview of participation in international FIBA tournaments on archive.fiba.com (English)
• ACB.COM: Pepe Sánchez - Profile on the website of the ACB League ( Spanish )