{"id":446195,"date":"2025-06-13T07:32:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T05:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=446195"},"modified":"2025-06-13T07:32:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T05:32:00","slug":"xevi-pujol-leaves-manresa-to-become-baskonias-new-sporting-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/xevi-pujol-leaves-manresa-to-become-baskonias-new-sporting-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Xevi Pujol leaves Manresa to become Baskonia\u2019s new sporting director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"192\" data-end=\"515\">Xevi Pujol, the architect behind <strong data-start=\"225\" data-end=\"241\">Baxi Manresa<\/strong>\u2019s recent success, has parted ways with the Catalan club to become the <strong data-start=\"312\" data-end=\"349\">new sporting director of Baskonia<\/strong>. The announcement comes as a surprise, just three weeks after he signed a contract extension. Manresa has scheduled a press conference on Friday to explain the move.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"517\" data-end=\"989\">At just 35, Pujol is widely regarded as one of the brightest young executives in Spanish basketball. He was instrumental in discovering talents like <strong data-start=\"666\" data-end=\"682\">Chima Moneke<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"684\" data-end=\"705\">Sylvain Francisco<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"707\" data-end=\"722\">Ismael Bako<\/strong>, and <strong data-start=\"728\" data-end=\"750\">Derrick Alston Jr.<\/strong>. Having progressed through Manresa\u2019s system, he became sporting director in the 2020-21 season, helping the club reach the Basketball Champions League final, the Copa del Rey, the Liga Endesa playoffs, and winning the 2021 Catalan League.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"991\" data-end=\"1177\"><strong data-start=\"991\" data-end=\"1004\">Barcelona<\/strong> had shown interest in signing him as a scout last season, but the offer was not in line with his profile and responsibilities at Manresa, prompting him to stay \u2014 until now.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1137\" data-end=\"1197\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mundodeportivo.com\/baloncesto\/acb\/20250612\/1002482359\/xevi-puyol-deja-baxi-manresa-director-deportivo-baskonia.html#google_vignette\"><strong data-start=\"1137\" data-end=\"1147\">Source:<\/strong> <em data-start=\"1148\" data-end=\"1165\">Mundo Deportivo<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After five seasons and a recent contract renewal, the young front-office talent takes on a new challenge in Vitoria<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":446194,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[305,199],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-446195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acb","category-euroleague","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/06\/Pujol.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446195"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=446195"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=446195"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=446195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}