Category | Contributor Date of Birth | 11.02.1922 Date of Death | 30.08.2008 Country | Spain
Highlights
He was a lawyer
Secretary and then Vice President of the Catalan Basketball Federation: 1954-1959
President of the Catalan Basketball Federation: 1959-1972
President of the Spanish Basketball Federation: 1972-1984 and 1992-2004
Member of the Spanish Olympic Committee: 1973-1989
Member of the Executive Board of the Spanish Olympic Committee: 1977-1982
Member of the Executive Board of the Consejo Superior de Deportes (High Council for Sport in Spain): 1981-1985
President of the Legal Commission of FIBA as of 1986
President of the Standing Conference of Europe (current FIBA Europe): 1996-1998
Member of the FIBA Central Board: 1998-2002
Distinctions & Recognitions
Named Honorary Life Member of FIBA in September 2002
FIBA Order of Merit in November 2002
Named Honorary President of the Spanish Basketball Federation in November 2004
Order of Merit from the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE) in 2005
Named Honorary Member of FIBA Europe in May 2006
Gran Cruz Real Orden del Mérito Deportivo (Great Cross of the Royal Order of Merit in Sports) in May 2006, awarded by the Spanish Government