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When you have a career like Lubos it’s hard to know from where to start, but like always we will start from his early beginnings.
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. If you are making mistakes…you’re Doing Something. “
When you have a career like Lubos it’s hard to know from where to start, but like always we will start from his early beginnings.
In summer 1992, Barcelona Olympics, American Dream Team. That was the moment when he fell in love with basketball.
“It was as if someone from Mars had suddenly come to play.”He got into basketball when he was 7 years old. Under the leadership of coach Miroslav Potměšil, he developed rapidly in the youth teams in Česká Lípa and was also included in the U17 and U19 national teams. At the age of 17, due to faster player growth, he moved to the first-league BK Děčín.
Barton possesed a long wingspan and physical attributes from his parents who were also good athletes. With these good physical parameters, a jump, strength it was easy to predict that he is going to be a very good professional athlete. After hight school, he went to study and play basketball in the USA.
He was a four-year started at Valparaiso University, and helped the team make NCAA tournament three times during his time there. He was the leagues MVP in his final senior year in 2002. He put his name in the NBA draft and unlike his Czech peer Jiri Welsch, he was not selected. Even though he put up a quite good impression in the NBA summer league that year, Barton prefered to come back to Europe and signed with italian powerhouse Fortitudo Bologna.
In the following years, he played in clubs in Italy (Fortitudo Bologna, Virtus Roma), Spain (Joventut Badalona, FC Barcelona, Fuenlabrada and Valencia). His most successful years were in Spain where he took many titles with Joventut and with Barcelona teams. Impressive 5-year run was capped with Euroleague title in 2010. After returning to the Czech Republic, he played briefly for USK Prague, and in the summer of 2014, he transferred to the ČEZ Basketball Nymburk team. At the end of 2015, he took advantage of the offer of the Barcelona Club, where he played in the reserve team. Besides obvious playing, his duty was to mentor young players and prepared himself for a coaching career.
He began his career as a coach at Europrobasket, leading the Europrobasket team as a Head Coach. After two months with Europrobasket, he was offered a position as assistant coach of the FC Barcelona Cadet team.
He saw a unique chance to “fix” someone at his young age from a basketball and human point of view.Thanks to his rich career, he has a clear idea of how basketball should be played and that’s what he demands from his players. He served 3 years in the FC Barcelona youth categories.
His specialty has been working with the big guys, as well as mentoring the young star players. In that season, Barton took his Cadet team to the final game of the Spanish championship, where he lost by two points to the other Spanish powerhouse Real Madrid.
During that time, since 2017, Barton has been also working with the Czech basketball association. First, he joined the senior national team for the Euro championship in 2017, then shortly after he was named the head coach of the Czech Republic U18 national team in 2018, and the team to advance to division “A” in 2019. In 2020, it was his 4th year, leading the group of players born in 2003 and 2004.
In the Euroleague Basketball Adidas Next Generation Tournament Istanbul, coach Barton led Basket Brno for its first victory in ANGT history as it knocked off U18 Tofas Bursa 71-66 in overtime to finish seventh in Istanbul.
To put a extra plus in his career Lubos have won another ticket to The Euroleague Basketball Adidas Next Generation Tournament enters its 20th edition this season. he brings Basket Brno another year with more experience.
We can talk days about Lubos Barton’s interesting basketball career, but one thing is sure, he was an amazing player on the right track to becoming an even better coach, teaching young players important things in life and basketball.
Brno basketball will be represented in the best youth competition in Europe for the second year in the row.
Basket Brno team called Next Generation led by coach Luboš Bartoň will be one of the 32 top european teams this year.
The road to the 2022 Euroleague ANGT Finals will pass through Munich, Germany; Belgrade, Serbia; Patras, Greece; and Varese, Italy.
The Next Generation project was created in Brno club last year and during that time, it attracted a lot of attention. Coach Lubos Barton selected a lot of talented young guns prepared to play and learn during the whole year.
The aim is to ensure the best possible conditions for young players to learn the basics of basketball from well-known professionals. One of the goals for Basket Brno is to regularly take part in Europe’s top tournaments such as Addidas Nextgen Tournament.
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. If you are making mistakes…you’re Doing Something. “
The aim is to ensure the best possible conditions for young players to learn the basics of basketball from well-known professionals. One of the goals for Basket Brno is to regularly take part in Europe’s top tournaments such as Addidas Nextgen Tournament.
During last year’s tournament In the Euroleague Basketball Adidas Next Generation Tournament Istanbul, coach Barton led Basket Brno for its first victory in ANGT history as it knocked off U18 Tofas Bursa 71-66 in overtime to finish seventh in Istanbul.
This year we can expect a step forward in the right direction. It is going to be the second time for young players to attend the tournament. Coach Barton along with his staff is bringing many players back, hoping that their last year experience will push their chances for better play this this year.
It’s hard to expect them to win tournament, but hard work, desire, passion, and skill will be enough to show themselves in bright light. And the and, it’s a sport….anything can happen.
I know it seems like there will be no party for the New Year´s Eve this years!
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes…you’re Doing Something. “
To anyone who noticed my recent 4-month inactivity on my Instagram.
They shot me down, but it was all my mistake!
I have been verified on my FaceBook page, YEAH!, and until then, everything was going great. And then I noticed that my name on FaceBook was not the same as the one on my Instagram profile.
So I decided to change that and make things right. But as soon as I changed that, I realized that my new name was too long. I thought to myself, if I changed it once, I can change it again. But then at the moment of the question, if it was me that wanted to change the name, I answered no, trying to make things happen faster. WRONG!
Instagram froze my account, on my phone, on my computer and it wasn’t for just a couple of hours. It took exactly 4 months and countless emails about verification that it is ME that owns the account and that it was me that made that silly mistake.
Here is what I have learned:
1. Don’t mess with Mark Zuckerberg!
2. I realized that without Instagram, it is not the end of the world. First week was very hard for me, especially with the circumstances, I was only thinking about the engagement that I was losing, about all the energy and thought that I have spent on the whole Instagram thing. And suddenly it was gone. Completely gone. I felt small and insignificant. But as time went by, I realized that all other things that I have been ignoring these past years and I was able to connect more with people around me. The time that I have spent previously on Instagram I used on other things. In many ways, it was liberating.
Here is what I have learned:
1. Don’t mess with Mark Zuckerberg!
2. I realized that without Instagram, it is not the end of the world. First week was very hard for me, especially with the circumstances, I was only thinking about the engagement that I was losing, about all the energy and thought that I have spent on the whole Instagram thing. And suddenly it was gone. Completely gone. I felt small and insignificant. But as time went by, I realized that all other things that I have been ignoring these past years and I was able to connect more with people around me. The time that I have spent previously on Instagram I used on other things. In many ways, it was liberating.
3) That there are many people that are not my followers/admireres, but those that I consider my friends, either close or bit distant. Those are usually the ones that are genuienly worried when they don’t see me on Instagram for a while. These friends are usually quick to write if everything is ok and they do it via different type of media than Instagram. So it has been great to see that my close friends pay attention to my daily life and worry when things are different #LoveYouGuys
4) I have learned that there are more Apps to get engagement. I was pleased to find out that my Snapchat grew easily to over 5k within a few weeks and my Facebook fan page got a boost from it as well. Yes, Facebook still lives. It might be an older App, maybe without glitter and fame, but FB is still as solid as it comes. I recommend highly to keep on connecting FB with your other accounts and use it wisely.
Another way that I have been in contact with others via online has been Google Maps. Yes, Google Maps! My visits, reviews and opinions, along with photos has been wanted and searched and highly appreciated. I reached Level 7 of the Local Guide and my reviews help millions of people.
Este blog sigue vivo también, it has as many as 350 visits each week and I also have some fans on my Tiktok. And we all know that YouTube is another way to get engagement and the real moneymaker. (My next move, BTW!)
Overall, I have had good and bad experiences in social media. It has never been black and white, there are always people searching and hunting for something generic, not real, even fake. And there are also many people, who use social media to learn, to improve their lifestyle and connect with others in a meaningful way.
So I hope that in today’s world, which is full of people that “hate” or “have to have an opinion about something that they have zero knowledge about”, there are still many that will share positive thoughts, encouraging stories and more love overall, which is always needed. We have to understand more and judge less!
That is why it is so good to have the ability to share my thoughts and maybe influence some people through these social media, where I am able to experiment, to try new things. I am very happy to be back!
PS. I have recovery my insta name again @keilleylee geel free to follow me!! xoxo
Keiilley Lee Marques
When you have a career like Lubos it’s hard to know from where to start, but like always we will start from his early beginnings.
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. If you are making mistakes…you’re Doing Something. “
Life in the Bubble, with Euroleague (Junior) Basketball
Honestly, I have never thought that I would be part of the team that would spend the extended weekend “in the bubble”, meaning that nobody from the group of 23 people couldn’t leave the premises of the hotel and the arena.
I joined the team of Basket Brno Next Generation in their first ever trip to Adidas NG Tournament, held in Istanbul. I was assigned as team’s PR manager, meaning that I would do some interviews, and mostly be taking pictures.
My husband is the head coach and director of the team that was invited to the tournament, that includes some big names on club scene in Europe, such as Real Madrid, Zalgiris Kaunas, Efes Pilsen, among others.
The Euroleague did a good job of keeping the players, staff and team’s followers excluded from the outside world. They tried their best to separate even the teams, different times for meals, meeting rooms, etc. Nobody was hanging out in the lobby, which is very usual during these tournaments.
Tournament itself was broadcasted online, via Euroleague and YouTube, which was great since the games were closed to public.
I was fortunate to be allowed to be on the floor, and even though I had to always have a mask on, I was able to change spots on the floor, go into the stands and even get some cool pictures taken from above the floor.
People were genuinely nice and helpful, which is great in such times like present pandemic.
It was great to be part of the team, to feel their excitement from their first experience from the tournament, and even though they managed to win just one game out of four, they all seem to enjoy just to play and compete.
At the end, Basket Brno finished 7th but one of their players got selected in the All-Star team, which is very unusual, and it shows its value. It was definitely a great experience and everyone seemed to enjoy to play games, to compete and to feel a bit normal during this strange time.
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