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Euroleague Strength & Conditioning Coaches Association
The ESCCA is the official association of the strength and conditioning coaches that are currently members or were employed in the past by teams competing in the Euroleague. Its goals are:
Mission Statement
The ESCCA will use its global reach to share its members' knowledge and experience to promote the advancement of basketball strength and conditioning worldwide
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Featured Coaches
Justas Grainys is an Athletic Performance coach of FC Barcelona Basketball since 2020 where he won several titles in the Spanish league and had two appearances in final of the Euroleague Final Four.
Justas Grainys
Justas Grainys is an Athletic Performance coach of FC Barcelona Basketball since 2020 where he won several titles in the Spanish league and had two appearances in final of the Euroleague Final Four.
Prior to joining the Spanish powerhouse, Justas held the same position at the historic Lithuanian team of Zalgiris Kaunas, from 2012 until 2020. In Zalgiris 2019 – 2021 Lithuanian men National team. From 2011 – 2019 different youth National teams: U18, U19, U20. Education: Master’s degree in sports science and physiology; Bachelor level in sports education and coaching.
Juan Trapero is currently the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at the Spanish powerhouse Real Madrid, a position that he has held for a total of eighteen years.
Juan Trapero
Juan Trapero is currently the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at the Spanish powerhouse Real Madrid, a position that he has held for a total of eighteen years. Juan, a Madrid native, has a wealth of experience in training elite basketball players and working with teams that compete at the highest level. Over the years Coach Trapero has worked with some of European’s basketball greatest players, like Sergio Lull, Rudy Fernandez, Sergio Rordiguez and to name a few. He has also held similar positions in the professional basketball clubs of Zaragoza (two seasons) and Fuenlabrada (5 seasons) that competed in ACB, Spain’s top basketball league.
Playing a key role in the success of these teams, Trapero has an impressive collection of trophies having won two Euroleague titles, five ACB League titles, five ACB Cups, five ACB Supercups and one Intercontinental Cup.
Juan Trapero was himself an elite athlete and a member of the Spanish Track and Field National Team (his events were 60m-100m-4×100) and has successfully participated in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics (100m and 4x 100m), as well as several European and World Track and Field Championships between 1991 and 1995.
Juan holds a bachelor’s degree in Science of Physical Activity and Sports from INEF Madrid and a Master’s Degree in Sport Training and Nutrition from the European University of Madrid. He is a member of the Spanish Strength & Conditioning Coaches Association and a sought-after speaker in educational events.
Jairo Vázquez is currently the strength and conditioning coach for the Barcelona Basketball Professional Team, being in charge of player physical performance and load monitoring.
Jairo Vasquez
Jairo Vázquez is currently the strength and conditioning coach for the Barcelona Basketball Professional Team, being in charge of player physical performance and load monitoring. He is a member of the Department of Sport Performance at FC Barcelona and has also worked as the strength and conditioning coach for different Spanish National Basketball teams (U13, U16, U18 and U22).
Jairo holds a degree in Physical Activity and Sport Sciences from the Physical Education National Institute in Barcelona, Spain and is a PhD holder with his thesis titled “Adaptations of strength training in different instability conditions”. He also obtained a Professional Master in High Performance in Team Sports (Barça Innovation Hub, Inefc and Byomedic System) leaded by Paco Seirul.lo. Finally, Jairo is a Scholarship recipient from the Sports Council of Spain for The ALTITUDE Project in swimming.
Coach Vasquez is a frequent speaker at local, as well as international educational events covering topics in sport performance, fitness and health. He has also authored scientific articles about basketball monitoring loads and resistance training with rotational inertial devices.