Virgil Villavicencio

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Virgil Villavicencio
NLEX Road Warriors
PositionTeam manager
League PBA
Personal information
NationalityFilipino
Career information
College De La Salle
Coaching career1989–1996; 2003–2005
Career history
As coach:
1989–1993 Ateneo HS
1991–1992 Triple-V Foodmasters
1993–1996 De La Salle
1994 Philippines
2003–2005 Talk 'N Text Phone Pals (assistant)
Career highlights and awards
As head coach:
  • Metro Manila Basketball League champion (1989–1993)

As assistant coach:

As executive:

As player:

Virgil Vargas Villavicencio is a Filipino former collegiate basketball player and coach. He is the current team manager of NLEX Road Warriors in the Philippine Basketball Association and former assistant coach of Talk 'N Text's championship-winning team in the 2003 All-Filipino Cup. Villavicencio is also a former head coach of the La Salle Green Archers in the UAAP and led the team to consecutive runner-up finishes in 1994 and 1995.

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Basketball career

Villavicencio played for the La Salle Green Archers in the collegiate ranks between 1972 and 1976, and was part of the 1974-75 NCAA championship-winning team, alongside former PBA legend Lim Eng Beng.

Coaching career

Villavicencio coached the Ateneo Blue Eaglets high school basketball team to five consecutive titles in the Metro Manila Basketball League (1989–1993) and four consecutive runner-up spots in the UAAP Juniors Division (1989–1992). In 1993, he was appointed head coach of the La Salle Green Archers, and in his first year guided the team to a third-place finish in a tournament dominated by the UST. In the next season, 1994-95, he led the team even closer to the title, as they won the first of a three-game Final series against UST, before losing the second game by 14 points and then the deciding game by a single point. He repeated this feat in the next season, as La Salle again beat UST in the first game of the finals, only to lose the second game by four points and the third game by three points to finish runner-up for the second season running.

He coached the Philippines national basketball team at the 1994 SEABA Championship where the team which had Allen Patrimonio, Rensy Bajar, Gerard Francisco, Romel Adducul and Joel Villanueva among its roster finished fourth. [1]

Alongside his collegiate coaching duties, Villavicencio was assistant coach of the Triple-V team in the Philippine Basketball League, helping them to championships in the 1991 and 1992 seasons. In 1995, he coached the Philippine youth national basketball team at the 13th Asian Youth Basket Ball Championship. [2]

After this, Villavicencio moved on to the Philippine Basketball Association, where he was assistant coach of Talk 'N Text (then known as the Phone Pals) as they won the 2003 All-Filipino Cup. The team continued to perform well, finishing third in the transitional 2004 conference and reaching the finals of the 2004-05 Philippine Cup only to lose 4-2 to Barangay Ginebra Kings. Villavicencio left the coaching staff in 2005 but returned to Talk 'N Text as part of the management team in 2008 [3] until 2010, when he was assigned to Meralco Bolts. [4] He served as Bolts' manager until 2014. He was later reassigned in 2015, and stepped down after winning many championships and replaced by Gabby Cui in 2019.


Coaching record

Collegiate record

SeasonTeamEliminationsPlayoffs
GPWLPCTFinishGPWLPCTResults
1993 DLSU 1486.5713rd————Thirda
1994 DLSU 12102.8331st422.500Runner-Up
1995 DLSU 14104.7142nd422.500Runner-Up
Totals402812.700844.5000 championships

aAs UST swept the regular season and automatically declared champion the Archers ended up as 3rd place

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References

  1. ↑ Henson, Joaquin (18 May 2017). "Coach recalls beating Pinoys". The Philippine Star. Retrieved 21 May 2017.
  2. ↑ Korea turns table on China
  3. ↑ Talk 'N Text walks out, forfeits Game 4
  4. ↑ Villar, Joey; Beltran, Nelson. "New coaches up in SMC revamp". Philstar.com. Retrieved 2024-07-29.


Preceded by De La Salle Green Archers men's basketball head coach
1993-1995 		Succeeded by
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