Eduardo Pascual is the new sports director of Obra

Eduardo Pascual Arcas (Bilbao, June 5, 1971)who turned 52 this Monday, and Obradoiro reached an agreement for the Bilbao native to become the new sports director of the entity after confirmation of departure Jose Luis Mateo. Eduardo Pascual graduated in journalism from the University of the Basque Country, and holds a master’s degree and is an expert in sports data analysis at the University of Valladolid. He has rich experience in sports management, as he led several ACB and LEB clubs as general and sports director.

He retired as a professional player in 2000. He went to Valencia Basket, who offered him his first job. He took over the management of the quarry for two seasons. Then he packed his bags for the trip to Burgos, where he held the position of general director during seven campaigns (from 2003 to 2010). Shortly after that, he got an opportunity in ACB as sports director of Valladolid (2010 to 2013). It was in the 2013-2014 campaign when he worked for Estudiantes as sporting director. In 2021, after the departure of Sergio Pérez to Cáceres, he took over the day-to-day management of the entity from the position of general and sports management. In Cáceres, they said of him that he is “a calm man and very open to dialogue.”

On this whole path we must also add his experience in professional scouting. He performed this job in Europe for the Minnesota Timberwolves between 2016 and 2019. In the 2021-2022 season. took over the general management of Cáceres Baloncesta in LEB Oro.

Great experience

Eduardo Pascual is also the CEO of Sport Events since 1995, which is responsible for the organization and management of national and international camps, sports events, basketball programs, business sponsorship, sponsorship and institutional relations.

He has a lot of experience in the world of basketball. In addition to being a sports director, he was a player for teams such as Albacete, Don Benito, La Serena, Bilbao Board of Trustees, Askatuak, Lucentum, in the LEB; and Cantabria Lobos, in the ACB. His role in the offices, both in Burgos and Valladolid, has been repeatedly described as brilliant, while on the track he briefly made his ACB debut. “I had problems. Only two meters tall, he wasn’t even athletically built, like some centers are today. But the important thing is that I went little by little, fulfilling the goals,” he recalled on several occasions when he was interviewed.

He was born in Bilbao and played the promotion phase in Primera B in Cáceres, 1991, with his school club, Loyola Indautxu. In the following years, he gradually climbed the ladder until he returned to his hometown, where he was on the verge of promotion to ACB with the Bilbao board, until Caja Cantabria de Torrelavega crossed his path, giving him the chance to make his debut in the top flight. category in the match against Girona, October 31, 1999. The coach was Quino Salvo. “I was already invited once, but when he told me to go out, I was shaking all over. And that was already something of a veteran. But it was very exciting,” he explained several times. He spent three minutes on the track. He played in Canada on a scholarship to improve his English. Valencia Basket gave him his first job after retirement. He was a quarry manager for two years.