Ronen Ginzburg

Ronen Ginzburg was born in 1963 in Tel Aviv

Ronen Ginzburg, known as Neno, was born in Tel Aviv on September 19, 1963. He began playing basketball in the youth team of Beitar Tel Aviv and captained Israel's youth national team.

He played for the Beitar Tel Aviv senior team in the Premier League from 1981 to 1988, and later in lower divisions. He retired as a player in 1995.

He started coaching in 1993 with the youth department of A.S. Ramat HaSharon and won the youth cup with it in 1999. He later coached Bnei Herzliya, Ramat HaSharon and Maccabi Givat Shmuel, and reached the 2005 State Cup final with Bnei HaSharon Herzliya.

In 2006 he joined Czech club Nymburk as assistant to Muli Katzurin, then became head coach. He won the Czech double with Nymburk in 2011, 2012 and 2013.

In November 2013 he became head coach of the Czech national team, which he led until July 2023. He coached it at the 2019 World Cup, where it finished sixth, and at the Tokyo Olympics, and received Czech citizenship in October 2020.