fbpx
Connect with us
Apply Now

Executive Voice

Lubos Barton Basketball Career

Barton

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 feel 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 t he U17 and U19 national teams. At the age of 17, due to faster player growth, he moved to the first-LEAGUE BK DĚČÍN.

Barton possessed 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 high school, he went to study and play basketball in the USA. He was four-year started at  VALPARAISO university, and helped the team make NCAA TOURNAMENT THREE TIMES during his 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 preferred to come back to Europe and signed with Italian powerhouse FORTITUDO BOLOGNA.

In the following years, he played in clubs in ITALY (FORTITUDO BOLOGNA, VIRTUSROMA), SPAIN (JOVENTUT BADALONA, FCBARCELONA, 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 Euro League 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 ČEZBASKETBALL 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 EuroProBaseket, 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 FB 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 EURO LEAGUE BASKETBALL ADIDAS NEXT GENERATION TOURNAMENT ISTANBUL,coach Barton led in Basket BRNO for its first victory in ANGT HISTORY as it knocked off U18 to FAS 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 Euro League 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 things 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.

Continue Reading


Copyright © 2022 Disrupt ™ Magazine is a Minority Owned Privately Held Company - Disrupt ™ was founder by Puerto Rican serial entrepreneur and philanthropist Tony Delgado who is on a mission to transform Latin America using the power of education and entrepreneurship.

Disrupt ™ Magazine
151 Calle San Francisco
Suite 200
San Juan, Puerto Rico, 00901

Opinions expressed by Disrupt Contributors are their own. Disrupt Magazine invites voices from many diverse walks of life to share their perspectives on our contributor platform. We are big believers in freedom of speech and while we do enforce our community guidelines, we do not actively censor stories on our platform because we want to give our contributors the freedom to express their opinions. Articles are not commissioned by our editorial team, and opinions expressed by our community contributors do not reflect the opinions of Disrupt or its employees.
We are committed to fighting the spread of misinformation online so if you feel an article on our platform goes against our community guidelines or contains false information, we do encourage you to report it. We need your help to fight the spread of misinformation. For more information please visit our Contributor Guidelines available here.


Disrupt ™ is the voice of latino entrepreneurs around the world. We are part of a movement to increase diversity in the technology industry and we are focused on using entrepreneurship to grow new economies in underserved communities both here in Puerto Rico and throughout Latin America. We enable millennials to become what they want to become in life by learning new skills and leveraging the power of the digital economy. We are living proof that all you need to succeed in this new economy is a landing page and a dream. Disrupt tells the stories of the world top entrepreneurs, developers, creators, and digital marketers and help empower them to teach others the skills they used to grow their careers, chase their passions and create financial freedom for themselves, their families, and their lives, all while living out their true purpose. We recognize the fact that most young people are opting to skip college in exchange for entrepreneurship and real-life experience. Disrupt Magazine was designed to give the world a taste of that.