Guaros de Lara

Guaros de Lara
Guaros de Lara
Leagues	LPB ; Champions League Americas
Founded	1983;42 years ago (original club) 2003;22 years ago (current club)
History	Bravos de Portuguesa; (1983–1993) ; Malteros de Lara; (1993–1995) ; Bravos de Lara; (1995–1998) ; Bravos de Portuguesa; (1998–2003) ; Guaros de Lara; (2003–present)
Arena	Domo Bolivariano
Capacity	10,000
Location	Barquisimeto, Lara, Venezuela
Team colors	Red, Black
President	Jorge Hernández Fernández
Vice-president	Andrea Hernández M./ Jorge Hernández M.
Team captain	Heissler Guillent
Ownership	Jorge Hernández Fernández
Championships	1 FIBA Intercontinental Cup ; 2 FIBA Americas League ; 1 FIBA South American League ; 2 Venezuelan League
Website	guarosbbc.com

Last updated October 09, 2025

The Guaros de Lara is a Venezuelan professional basketball club, that is based in Barquisimeto, Lara, Venezuela. Guaros de Lara BBC has existed as a club in various different forms since 1983. It has existed in its current form since 2003.

The club competes in the Venezuelan LPB. The club has won two Venezuelan LPB national domestic titles. On the international stage, the club also has one continental FIBA South American League title, and three intercontinental titles, consisting of two FIBA Americas League titles and one FIBA Intercontinental Cup title.

History

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, the 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, the 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.

Arena

The Guaros de Lara play their home games at the 10,000-capacity Domo Bolivariano in Barquisimeto, numerous times in front of thousands of spectators.

Honours

Domestic

Venezuelan League

Champions (2): 2017, 2018

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

South America

FIBA South American League

Champions (1): 2017

Latin America

FIBA Americas League

Champions (2): 2016, 2017

Runners-up (1): 2019

Worldwide

FIBA Intercontinental Cup

Champions (1): 2016

Runners-up (1): 2017

Current roster

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Guaros de Lara roster

Players

Coaches

Pos.	No.	Name	Ht.	Age
SF	1	Gonzalez, Ruben	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)	23 – (2002-01-13)13 January 2002
PG	3	Moreno, Luis	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)	24 – (2001-05-02)2 May 2001
G	9	Guillent, Heldrin	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)	27 – (1998-09-03)3 September 1998
G/F	10	Vargas, José Gregorio	1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)	43 – (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)	40 – (1985-05-11)11 May 1985
F/C	14	Ruiz, Miguel	2.03 m (6 ft 8 in)	34 – (1990-12-20)20 December 1990
PG	19	Guillent, Heissler	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)	38 – (1986-12-17)17 December 1986
C	23	Ibeh, Prince	2.08 m (6 ft 10 in)	31 – (1994-06-03)3 June 1994
G	30	Cabrera, Alan	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)	24 – (2001-05-09)9 May 2001
F	32	Rodriguez, Erick	2.01 m (6 ft 7 in)	26 – (1999-01-19)19 January 1999

Head coach

Vacant

Legend

(C) Team captain
Injured

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Depth chart

Source:^[3]

Pos.	Starting 5	Bench
C	Prince Ibeh	Miguel Ruiz
PF	Juan Palacios	Erick Rodríguez
SF	José Gregorio Vargas	Ruben Gonzalez
SG	Alan Cabrera	Omar Marquez
PG	Heissler Guillent	Heldrin Guillent

Notable players