Michel Gomez

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Michel Gomez (born September 14, 1951 in Rouen ) is a French basketball coach .

career

Gomez played basketball at Saint-Étienne du Rouvray from 1966 after he had previously been a gymnast. From 1969 to 1975 he played with Caen BC and then again in Saint-Étienne du Rouvray. Afterwards, Gomez was player-coach at SPO Rouen . In 1980 Gomez moved to ESM Challans as a player, where he was appointed coach in December 1982. In 1984 he led Challans to win the French cup competition.

He moved to CSP Limoges in 1986 and remained in office until 1990. In 1988, 1989 and 1990 Limoges became French champions under his leadership. In 1987 he reached the two finals of the Korać Cup European Cup with his team , but lost both to FC Barcelona . In 1988 Gomez won the European Cup Winners' Cup with CSP . In the European Cup of National Champions he reached the semifinals with Limoges in 1990, losing this against the eventual winner of the competition, KK Jugoplastika Split , but won the game for third place. During his tenure, his leading players in Limoges included the French internationals Jacques Monclar , Richard Dacoury and Stéphane Ostrowski , and he also had strong American players such as Paul Thompson , Clarence Kea , Don Collins and Michael Brooks .

Gomez trained after his departure from Limoges from 1990 to 1996 the arch rival Pau-Orthez and won the championship title with the team in 1992 and 1996. In 1995 he was with Pau-Orthez in the semi-finals of the European Cup Korać Cup, where he lost with the team against Stefanel Milan. In addition, between 1993 and 1995 he was the French national coach in a first term.

In September 1996 the Frenchman became the head coach of the Greek first division club PAOK Thessaloniki , and at the end of January 1997 he was sacked for sporting reasons.

For the 1997/98 season Gomez was again coach in Limoges, at the end of December 1997 it came to a separation, at this time CSP was sixth in the French league and bottom of the table in his Euroleague group. From mid-October 1998 to the end of the 1998/99 season he coached the first division team Olympique d'Antibes . From 2000 he was the coach of STB Le Havre , led the team to relegation in the French first division in the 2000/01 season, after a failed start in the 2001/02 season (one win, eleven defeats) he had to go to Le Havre .

In January 2003 he took on the managerial position at the second division club Orléans Loiret Basket , in mid-February 2003 he temporarily took over the coaching position. In the same year his term in Orléans ended again. From 2005 Gomez was a technical advisor to the French Basketball Federation, in January 2006 he was again transferred to the office of national coach, in 2007 he was in charge of the U20 national team.

Gomez, who was named France's basketball coach of the year in 1986, 1990 and 1996 and was credited with having made significant progress in training in France in the late 1980s and early 1990s, took over the post of head coach for France's national team again in February 2008. At this point in time he had not looked after a top-level team for a long time, his return was considered a failure, and Tony Parker , among others, clearly criticized Gomez's way of working. He remained national coach until the summer of 2009.

In May 2011 he became the national coach of Angola . With the team he won the tournament for the Stankovic Cup in China . During the Africa Cup of Nations in August 2011, Gomez was sacked ahead of the quarter-final against Cameroon .

In January 2018, Gomez, who has been organizing youth camps since 1983, became the women's trainer at Dieppe-basket.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Michel Gomez et Pierre Vincent à la tête des Bleus. In: Fédération Française de BasketBall. Retrieved August 6, 2020 (French).
  2. ↑ a b Michel Gomez à la tete des A ??. In: Fédération Française de BasketBall. Retrieved August 6, 2020 (French).
  3. ^ Korac Cup 1986-87. Retrieved August 6, 2020 .
  4. ^ Cup Winners' Cup 1987-88. Retrieved August 6, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Champions Cup 1989-90. Retrieved August 6, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Le site des archives du basket per francais. Retrieved August 6, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Korac Cup 1994-95. Retrieved August 6, 2020 .
  8. ↑ BASKET: l 'entraîneur français Michel Gomez a été remercié par les dirigeants du club grec de basketball du PAOK Salonique. In: Le Monde.fr . January 28, 1997 ( lemonde.fr [accessed August 6, 2020]).
  9. ^ Basket Ball France: Gomez suspendu de ses fonctions. December 27, 1997, accessed August 6, 2020 .
  10. ↑ MICHEL GOMEZ QUITTE ANTIBES. May 6, 1999, accessed August 6, 2020 (French).
  11. ↑ Histoire du club - STB Le Havre - Site officiel. Retrieved August 6, 2020 (French).
  12. ^ Pro B - Orléans: Labouize écarté, Gomez en intérim - Basket Info. Retrieved August 6, 2020 .
  13. ↑ a b BasketActu.com: Tony Parker se paie Michel Gomez. August 29, 2011, accessed on August 6, 2020 (French).
  14. ↑ Basket: Collet, une éviction de Strasbourg sans conséquence pour les Bleus. January 26, 2020, accessed on August 6, 2020 (French).
  15. ↑ Michel Gomez nouvel entraîneur de l'Angola. Retrieved August 6, 2020 (French).
  16. ↑ Basket-ball: l'Angola archi-favori de l'Afrobasket 2011. August 16, 2011, accessed on August 6, 2020 (French).
  17. ↑ Afrobasket: Côte d'Ivoire-Senegal et Tunisie Maroc-en quarts, Gomez quitte le banc de l'Angola. August 24, 2011, accessed August 6, 2020 (French).
  18. ↑ Présentation du FastBreak Camp -. Retrieved August 6, 2020 (French).
  19. ↑ Basket: Michel Gomez entraîneur à Dieppe! Retrieved August 6, 2020 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Gomez, Michel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Rouen