Pedro Calles

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Basketball player
Pedro Calles
Player information
birthday August 24, 1983
place of birth Cordoba , Spain
Clubs as coaches
2010-2011 SpainSpain Plasencia Extremadura (assistant coach)
2011–2012 SpainSpain Plasencia Extremadura
2013-2015 GermanyGermany Artland Dragons (Assistant Trainer)
2015-2018 GermanyGermany Rasta Vechta (Assistant Trainer)
2018-2020 GermanyGermany Rasta Vechta
2020– GermanyGermany Hamburg Towers

Pedro Luis Calles Porres (born August 24, 1983 in Córdoba ) is a Spanish basketball coach .

Coaching career

Calles grew up in Cordoba , playing basketball, soccer and tennis . He studied sports science  (with a focus on basketball) in Granada and graduated in 2006, and in 2009 he graduated from the Spanish Basketball Federation. He worked at the third division club Cajasol Córdoba as a fitness, assistant and youth coach. In the 2010/11 season Calles was at Plasencia Extremadura (also third division) as an assistant coach, in November 2011 he was promoted to head coach.

In 2012 Calles went to Germany and worked in the basketball league at the Quakenbrück  club Artland Dragons  as an athletics coach and from 2013 as an assistant coach. In 2015 he moved to SC Rasta Vechta in Lower Saxony , where he also took up a position as an assistant coach. In the 2015/16 season he contributed to Rasta's promotion to the Bundesliga in this position, where Vechta failed to stay up. In his third year at SC Rasta Calles rose again as an assistant coach in the first division. Shortly after winning the championship title in the 2nd Bundesliga ProA in  early May 2018, the Spaniard was promoted to head coach in Vechta, taking over the position of his previous superior Douglas Spradley . Calles caused a stir with his team in the Bundesliga season 2018/19 as a promoted team, in mid-January 2019 they were third in the table. At the end of the point round it was fourth place. He was voted the best coach of the 2018/19 Bundesliga season by his Bundesliga counterparts, the captains of the Bundesliga teams and media representatives. After the season he was in the NBA Summer League member of the staff of the Minnesota Timberwolves and there assistant to coach Pablo Prigioni .

In the 2019/20 season Calles was in sixth place in the table with Vechta (twelve wins, nine defeats) when the game was interrupted in March 2020 due to the spread of COVID-19 . At the following season-end tournament of the Bundesliga in June 2020, the team under his leadership had no win in the group phase, in the game for ninth place he then defeated Crailsheim with Vechta. Under Calles, Vechta competed in a European Cup for the first time in the 2019/20 season and achieved six wins and eight defeats in the Champions League .

In summer 2020 he used a contractual clause to leave Vechta and accept an offer from Bundesliga competitor Hamburg Towers .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BIG interview with Pedro Calles. In: Basketball Bundesliga. Retrieved January 16, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b SPANISH EYES: PEDRO CALLES IS RASTA's HEAD COACH . ( rasta-vechta.de [accessed on May 8, 2018]).
  3. ↑ MOKOM 01 GmbH & Co. KG: Artland Dragons -News detail. Retrieved May 8, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Preferred candidate: Griffin stays & Pedro Calles comes . ( rasta-vechta.de [accessed on May 8, 2018]).
  5. ↑ NDR: RASTA Vechta signs Calles as a trainer. Retrieved May 8, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Defeated and overtaken the series champions: Vechta beats Bamberg 85:67 and moves up to third place. In: Basketball Bundesliga. Retrieved January 12, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Nordwest-Zeitung: Coach Calles is “trainer of the year” Vechta: Rasta coach. May 11, 2019, accessed May 13, 2019 .
  8. ↑ High- flyer Pedro Calles is named Trainer of the Year. In: Basketball Bundesliga. Retrieved May 10, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Pedro Calles, el heredero de Aíto García Reneses en Alemania. July 20, 2019, accessed June 27, 2020 (Spanish).
  10. ↑ Overall table. In: Basketball Bundesliga. Retrieved June 26, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Final tournament 2020, table group B. In: Basketball Bundesliga. Retrieved June 26, 2020 .
  12. ↑ RASTA finishes the season in ninth place: Seven Vechtaers score double-digit at 95:66 over Crailsheim. Retrieved June 26, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Rasta Vechta: Games and Results. In: championsleague.basketball. Retrieved June 26, 2020 .
  14. ↑ PEDRO CALLES BECOMES NEW EXECUTIVE TRAINER. In: Hamburg Towers. Retrieved June 26, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Calles, Pedro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Calles Porres, Pedro Luis (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION spanish basketball coach
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Cordoba