Xavi Pascual takes Óscar Orellana to Dubai

Xavi Pascual will leave Barça in the coming days but he will not do it alone. In addition to taking with him the second who has accompanied him throughout his career, Íñigo Zorzano from Rioja, he has also recruited Óscar Orellana, another of his assistants during these months at the Palau, for the stage that will open in Dubai. The Gavà coach has been seduced by Orellana’s tactical knowledge and work capacity, who has accepted the offer to continue working under XP, now at Dubai Basketball.

Few profiles fit the label of club coach more than that of Óscar Orellana, who had been at Barça for more than twenty years (with a brief interruption to coach the Sarrià women’s team). Throughout this time he has developed different technical tasks in the training teams and it was in 2016 when he made the jump to the first team when he was chosen as one of Georgios Bartzokas’ assistants. Orellana maintained these functions with all subsequent technicians, Sito Alonso, Svetislav Pesic, Sarunas Jasikevicius, Roger Grimau, Joan Peñarroya and Xavi Pascual.

Barça has yet to make Pascual’s dismissal official, which is expected this next week.