Career
The Aragonese holds the record among Spanish players with the most national team caps (239, during a period longer than fifteen years). He is also the only Spanish national basketball team player who took part in 4 Summer Olympic Games (Moscow-80 to Barcelona-92). He was a silver Olympic medalist for Spain in Los Angeles-84, and a silver medalist in the European Championship in Nantes-83.
His 54 points scored in a game against Joventut Badalona, in the early 80"s, counts among his most memorable performances, and is the 2nd best scoring record ever in the Spanish League.
Ranko Žeravica, was the one who gave him the opportunity to play for Barcelona"s first team, in 1979. In 1973, he made his debut with CN Helios, in the Spanish third division.
He was named by the Best European Player of the 80"s, L’Equipe. At the 1992 Summer Olympic Games, in Barcelona, he was honoured to be the last to carry the Olympic torch, before handing it to the archer Antonio Rebollo, who lit the fire in the cauldron with an arrow.
San Epifanio, known by almost everyone simply as, "Epi", grew up in Zaragoza, and began to play in his native city, but the local club, C.N. Helios Zaragoza, rejected him.
Herminio insisted that Juan would join him at the club, and so the two moved to In 1977, he joined the first team of Barcelona, and quickly became the leading man in Barcelona"s successful team of the 80"s, which finally broke the long-lived dominance of Real Madrid, after a prolonged period. Together with players such as, Ignacio Solozábal, Juan de la Cruz, Audie Norris, and others Although he reached the European Champions Cup (Euroleague) Final 3 times (1984, 1990, 1991), he never lifted the most important trophy in European basketball.
He was named the Most Valuable Player of the 1987 edition of the International Basketball Federation Club World Cup.
In the same year he debuted with F.C. Barcelona, he also made his first appearance with the He appeared in a total of 239 games, giving him the all-time lead in national team appearances for Spain. As of 2007, he is a basketball commentator with Canal+ Spain.