Guaros de Lara

In 1982, Flavio Fridegotto decided to sell his ownership in the Colosos de Carabobo basketball team, which led the club move from Carabobo, to the city of Acarigua. In Acarigua, the club began to compete under the name of Bravos de Portuguesa, in 1983. In 1993, the club moved to Barquisimeto, and changed its name to Malteros de Lara. In 1995, the club changed its name to Bravos de Lara.

The club again relocated, as it moved to the city of Guanare. After moving to Guanare, the club re-named itself to Bravos de Portuguesa once again, in 1998. Former NBA player Carl Herrera played with the team in 1999. In 2003, Carlos García Ibáñez bought the Bravos de Portuguesa club, and he subsequently moved it back to the city of Barquisimeto. After the club returned to Barquisimeto, it was re-named to Guaros de Lara.

In 2016, Guaros de Lara won the 2016 FIBA Americas League championship, and was crowned as the champion of all of Latin America, for the first time.^[1] Following their FIBA Americas League championship, Guaros also won the 2016 FIBA Intercontinental Cup, and thus they were crowned world basketball club champions, after beating the Skyliners Frankfurt in the final.^[2]

In 2017, Guaros successfully defended their Americas intercontinental title, by defeating Weber Bahía Blanca, by a score of 88–65, in the final of the years' Americas League. Later, they also won their first Venezuelan League national domestic title, by defeating Marinos de Anzoátegui, 4–2, in the Venezuelan League's finals. Afterwards, they won the 2017 FIBA South American League championship, which was the club's first South American continental championship; after defeating Estudiantes Concordia, 3–1, in the league's finals.

Guaros de Lara plays their home games at the 10,000 seat capacity Domo Bolivariano arena.

• Venezuelan League

Champions (2): 2017, 2018

Runners-up (5): 2005, 2006, 2015, 2019, 2022

• FIBA South American League

Champions (1): 2017

• FIBA Americas League

Champions (2): 2016, 2017

Runners-up (1): 2019

• FIBA Intercontinental Cup

Champions (1): 2016

Runners-up (1): 2017

Guaros de Lara roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. Name Ht. Age SF 1   Gonzalez, Ruben 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) 22 – (2002-01-13)13 January 2002 PG 3   Moreno, Luis 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) 23 – (2001-05-02)2 May 2001 G 9   Guillent, Heldrin 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) 26 – (1998-09-03)3 September 1998 G/F 10   Vargas, José Gregorio 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) 42 – (1982-02-23)23 February 1982 SG 11   Marquez, Omar 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 24 – (2000-11-10)10 November 2000 PF 12   Palacios, Juan 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) 39 – (1985-05-11)11 May 1985 F/C 14   Ruiz, Miguel 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) 33 – (1990-12-20)20 December 1990 PG 19   Guillent, Heissler 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) 37 – (1986-12-17)17 December 1986 C 23   Ibeh, Prince 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) 30 – (1994-06-03)3 June 1994 G 30   Cabrera, Alan 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) 23 – (2001-05-09)9 May 2001 F 32   Rodriguez, Erick 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 25 – (1999-01-19)19 January 1999	Head coach   Fernando Duró Assistant coach(es)   Yonaicker Ecker   Pablo Favarel Legend (C) Team captain   Injured

Source:^[3]

•   Che García
•   Iván Déniz
•   Fernando Duró

• Guaros de Lara Official website (in Spanish)
• Latin-Basket.com Team Page