With new season, Chechu Mulero is coming to the position of sports director!

In the new competition season 2024/25, the role of sports director in the Cedevita Olimpija will be taken over by the Chechu Mulero. The latter will replace Vlado Ilievski, whose contract with the Ljubljana team expires at the end of the 2023/24 competition season.

At the end of the 2023/24 competition season and the start of preparations for the new 2024/25 competition season, Chechu Mulero will replace Vlado Ilievski as sports director. Ilievski, who took the position of sports director at the beginning of the 2023/24 competitive season. Ilievski contract expires at the end of the season.

“I am very happy to be able to work for a basketball club as important as Cedevita Olimpija. Great challenge awaits us. I’m sure our fans will be proud of their team. I prefer not to talk too much, as I like to be focused on work, and I always trust to what is done, instead of what is said. Now is time for the team to finish the Slovenian league, and I wish them good luck in these final battles of the season. After the season concludes, we’ll start making the team for the next season. Greetings to all the fans, and I hope we meet soon,” said Chechu Mulero upon announcement.

Mulero worked for almost two decades in Valencia Basket, where he was part of the club in various roles. After being part of the team’s coaching staff as assistant coach between 2004 and 2014, he took the position of sports director in 2014.

In this role, he won the title of EuroCup champion (2019) and Spanish national champion (2017) with Valencia, in 2017 Valencia finished the EuroCup in second place, and in the same year Mulero was also selected as the best sports director in the ACB League. He said goodbye to Valencia, which in the last six years of his term as sporting director, appeared in the elite Euroleague four times, in 2023

In the role of assistant head coach, where he was part of the coaching staff of various coaches, including Pablo Laso, Neven Spahija, Svetislav Pešić and Velimir Perasović, he won two EuroCup championships (2010, 2014) in the period between 2004 and 2014. once he finished the competition in second place (2012). Mulero also led Valencia in 17 games as head coach, and the team recorded nine wins and eight losses.

Mulero started his coaching career in 1986 in the youth selections of the Forum Valladolid, and in the 2002/03 season he also led the senior’s team in the Spanish national championship in 11 matches. Between 2003 and 2004, he was part of the coaching staff of the Spanish national team under the age of 20, and he spent the 2003/04 season in Malaga, where he was an assistant coach to Laso and Sergio Scariolo at Unicaja.