Joe Moujaes
 | |
| Current position | |
|---|---|
| Title | Head coach[1] |
| Team | Homenetmen[1] |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | January 16, 1976[2] Beirut, Lebanon[2] |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 2006–2007 | First team assistant coach at Sagesse[3] |
| 2007–2008 | Head coach at Byblos Division II (promoted them to Division I)[2] |
| 2008–present | Head coach at LAU men senior basketball team [2] |
| 2008–2013 | Head coach at Byblos Division I..[4] |
| 2013–2014 | Head coach at Al Muttahed Division I[4] [5] |
| 2010–present | Lebanon national basketball team[6][7] [8] [9] [10] |
| 2014–present | Homenetmen Division I[11] [1][12] [13] |
Joe Moujaes (Arabic: جو مجاعص, born January 16, 1976)[2] is the head coach of Division I Men Basketball team Homenetmen[11] [1], along with Lebanese U18 Men Basketball National Team.[6] [14] He is the only Lebanese who won the Lebanese 1st division Basketball Championship as a coach and as a player.[15]
Education and playing career
Joe Moujaes graduated in 2001 from the Lebanese American University and received his B.E. in Civil Engineering.[15] He also earned his M.A. in Sports Management from the University of Balamand in 2011.
As a coach, He received the FECC – FIBA Europe coaching certification after a 3 years program which made him the first, and so far, the only Lebanese coach to have received the FIBA Europe Coaching Certification, class of 2015.[16]
As a player, he played as a youth and in the first division with Sagesse basketball club, winning the D1 championship with them, and also played for Amal Bikfaya and Mont La Salle. He also was his varsity team captain at LAU.
Coaching philosophy
Basketball Analysts say that Joe Moujaes seems to prefer a style of play mostly based on fast offense, and that he seems to have the ability to extract the best possible from his players by motivating them psychologically.[17] But he is a very smart defensive coach as well.
Coaching career record
• Won the Khalifa Ben Salman Cup, Bahrein, as the head coach of Al Ahli Club, 2022
• King Abdullah II Cup winner, as the Head coach of Lebanese Senior men NT, 2020
• Lebanese Basketball Division I champion as teh head coach of Homenetmen 2017/2018.[12][13]
• Lebanese Basketball Cup Champion with Homenetmen 2018.[7][8][9][10]
• Arab Cup Champion with Homenetmen 2017.[18]
• West Asia Championship 2017 champion with Lebanon Senior NT, Amman, Jordan, 2017[19][20][21]
• Won the Hariri International Tournament in 2016 with Homenetmen.[22] [23][24]
• Won the University league Championship 12 times with LAU, 5 back to back, an unprecedent record 2010-2015.[25][26][27]
• Joe Moujaes has been reappointed as of June 2019 as the Lebanese senior National Team Men coach.[28] He won 19 consecutive games with the Lebanese Senior men NT and did not lose a single one.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "SportKello - كما ألمحنا من أسبوع...جو مجاعص الى الهومنتمن". sportkello.com.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "Coach Profile". basketball.eurobasket.com.
- ↑ "ßÑÉ ÇáÓáÉ ÇááÈäÇäíÉ".
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "مجاعص مدرّباً لنادي المتّحد طرابلس لعقد يمتد لثلاثة مواسم". LBCI Lebanon.
- ↑ "Lebanese Basketball, News, Teams, Scores, Stats, Standings, Awards - asia-basket". Eurobasket LLC.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Coach Joe Moujaes Head of the Lebanese National Team". Sports 961. January 7, 2017.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Lebanese Basketball Federation | Flbb". Archived from the original on 2009-07-01. Retrieved 2019-12-16.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "هومنتمن بطلاً لكأس لبنان ٢٠١٨". LBCI Lebanon.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Homenetmen crush Riyadi for maiden League title | Sports , Basketball | THE DAILY STAR". www.dailystar.com.lb.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 "فريق الهومنتمن يفوز على الرياضي بيروت بنتيجة 92-84 ويُتوّج بطل مرحلة الذهاب في بطولة لبنان لكرة السلة". An-Nahar. December 9, 2017.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 "Positive vibes as Lebanon go to WABA". January 27, 2017.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 "Homenetmen Crowned 2018 Lebanese Basketball Champions". Blog Baladi.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 "نادي هومنتمن يتوّج بطلاً للبنان للمرة الأولى في تاريخه". Lebanon24.
- ↑ "Joe Moujaes named Lebanese National Team head coach". Sportando.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 "LAU athletics director appointed head coach of national basketball team | LAU News". LAU | News.
- ↑ "Meet The National Team's Youngest Coach". Sports 961. January 12, 2017.
- ↑ "جو مجاعص يتحدث عن فريق الهومنتمن ولاعبيه ويكشف عن هدفه". Elsport News.
- ↑ "هومنتمن بطل العرب للمرة الأولى في تاريخه". Al-Joumhouria.
- ↑ "Lebanon officially rule WABA Championship 2017 while Iran and Syria make it to FIBA Asia Cup". FIBA.basketball.
- ↑ "لبنان استعاد زعامة غرب آسيا بكرة السلة...,والاردن ضحيته الجديدة". LBCI Lebanon.
- ↑ "Cedars beat Jordan to clinch fifth WABA title | Sports , Basketball | THE DAILY STAR". www.dailystar.com.lb.
- ↑ "الهومنتمن يتوج بطلا ويحرم النجم الساحلي من الاحتفاظ بلقبه". beIN SPORTS.
- ↑ "homanetmen beirut". Archived from the original on 2018-07-07. Retrieved 2019-04-15.
- ↑ "دورة حسام الدين الحريري – نادي هومنتمن اللبناني يحرز اللقب".
- ↑ "Joe Moujaes coaches LAU's Byblos basketball team to victory | LAU News". LAU | News.
- ↑ "LAU's Basketball team take the trophy home | LAU News". LAU | News.
- ↑ [https://sports-961.com/lau-captains-claim-back-gold-basketball-uni-league/ sports-961.com
- ↑ "مجاعص مدربا لنادي المطيلب لثلاث سنوات". IMLebanon. July 22, 2019.
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