Koy Banal
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| Phoenix Fuel Masters | |
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| Position | Assistant coach |
| Personal information | |
| Nationality | Filipino |
| Career information | |
| College | Arellano University |
| Career history | |
| As coach: | |
| 2000–2004 | FEU Tamaraws (UAAP) |
| 2005–2006 | San Beda Red Lions (NCAA) |
| 2011–2013 | Arellano Chiefs (NCAA) |
| 2013–2014 | Petron Blaze Boosters (assistant) |
| 2014–present | Barako Bull Energy / Phoenix Fuel Masters (PBA(assistant) |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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Enrico Banal, known as Koy Banal, is a Filipino professional basketball head coach.
Coaching career
Prior to his first PBA coaching job, Banal has had extensive head coaching experience in the collegiate and amateur ranks. From 2000-2004, he was the head coach of the FEU Tamaraws[citation needed] in the UAAP, bannered by future PBA MVP Arwind Santos, Denok Miranda, Mark Isip, Cesar Catli. He won two championships for FEU from 2003 to 2004 (Due to La Salle's ineligible players which led them to give up the 2004 championship trophy due to the scandal that leaked out the following year and forfeiting all their wins from 2003-2005).
Midway through the 2005 NCAA season, he was hired as head coach of the San Beda Red Lions, and in 2006, he guided the team to their first championship after 28 years. He was awarded as Coach of the Year.[1] Citing differences with the management, he was unceremoniously dumped as head coach of the Red Lions in 2007.
He then jumped to the pros as an assistant coach to Ryan Gregorio at Purefoods, and back in the collegiate ranks in 2011, coaching his college alma mater Arellano University.[2] After his stint at Arellano in 2013, he was appointed assistant coach to Siot Tanquincen and was then promoted to head coach a day before the start of the 2014-15 PBA season replacing Tanquincen.[3] On May 31, 2016, Banal was fired by the Phoenix Fuel Masters after rumors emerged that Banal was going to return to one of the teams San Miguel Corporation owned (Barangay Ginebra San Miguel, San Miguel Beermen, and Star Hotshots).[4] He was replaced by former Westports Malaysia Dragons Ariel Vanguardia.[5]
To this date, he is one of only a handful of coaches to win championships in the UAAP and NCAA.[6]
Personal life
Banal is the younger brother of former PBA, UAAP and NCAA coach Joel Banal and has a son Jonathan Banal, a former point guard for the Mapúa Cardinals in the NCAA.[7]
References
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| Preceded by | FEU Tamaraws men's basketball head coach 2000–2004 |
Succeeded by Bert Flores |
| Preceded by | San Beda Red Lions men's basketball head coach 2005–2006 |
Succeeded by Frankie Lim |
| Preceded by | Arellano Chiefs men's basketball head coach 2011–2013 |
Succeeded by Jerry Codiñera |
| Preceded by | Barako Bull Energy Head Coach 2014–2016 |
Succeeded by team renamed as Phoenix Fuel Masters |
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