Alfrancis Chua

Alfrancis P. Chua
Barangay Ginebra San Miguel
Position	Board governor / Team manager
League	PBA
Personal information
Nationality	Filipino
Career information
High school	Colegio de San Juan de Letran
College	University of Santo Tomas
Coaching career	1995–present
Career history
As coach:
1995–1996	Stag Pale Pilseners
1997–2000	Tanduay Rhum Masters
2001–2007	Sta. Lucia Realtors
2012–2013	Barangay Ginebra San Miguel
Career highlights and awards
As coach: 7× PBL champion (1995–96 Reinforced, 1995–96 All-Filipino, 1995–96 Danny Floro, 1996 Danny Floro, 1997–98 Makati Mayor's, 1997–98 All-Filipino, 1998–99 Centennial)

Alfrancis P. Chua is a Filipino professional basketball coach, sports executive and former basketball player. He is currently the team manager of Barangay Ginebra San Miguel basketball team and sports director of San Miguel Corporation.

Playing career

Coaching career

Philippine Basketball League (PBL)

Stag Pale Pilseners (1995-1996)

Chua was the head coach of the Stag Pale Pilseners in the Philippine Basketball League. He achieved the grand slam during the franchise's debut 1995-1996 season, winning the Reinforced Conference, All-Filipino Cup and the Danny Floro Cup. After two seasons, Stag won four of the six tournaments held.

Tanduay Gold Rhum Masters (1997-1999)

The Stag franchise was renamed the Tanduay Gold Rhum Masters in the 1997-1998 season, where Chua piloted the team to another grand slam. During the 1998-1999 season, the team emerged as champion during the 1st Yakult-PBL Centennial Cup and runner-up during the 2nd Yakult-PBL Centennial Cup. Shortly after, the franchise would leave the PBL and move to the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA), marking the return of Tanduay to the PBA.

Philippine Basketball Association (PBA)

Pop Cola Panthers (1998)

While coaching Tanduay in the PBL, he was also an assistant coach for Norman Black with the Pop Cola Panthers in the Philippine Basketball Association.

Tanduay Gold Rhum Masters (1999-2000)

Tanduay re-entered the PBA in 1999 PBA season with Chua as head coach. He led the team to a runner-up finish in the 1999 PBA All-Filipino Cup. Chua remained as head coach until the 2000 season. He was succeeded by Derrick Pumaren in the 2001 season, Tanduay's final season.

Sta. Lucia Realtors (2001-2007)

In 2001, Chua joined the Sta. Lucia Realtors as assistant coach under Norman Black. In 2003, Chua was appointed as head coach and led Sta. Lucia to two semifinal appearances during the season (2003 PBA All-Filipino Cup and 2003 PBA Reinforced Conference). On February 2007, Sta. Lucia announced that Chua was moved to the position of team consultant and assistant coach Boyet Fernandez appointed as the new head coach.^[1]

Barangay Ginebra San Miguel (2012-2013)

Chua returned to the PBA on January 2012, joining Barangay Ginebra San Miguel as team consultant.^[2]

On January 1, 2013, Chua was appointed as head coach^[3] and led the team to a runner-up finish during the 2013 PBA Commissioner's Cup.

On July 25, 2013, San Miguel Corporation, owner of Barangay Ginebra San Miguel, announced that Chua has been appointed as team manager and Ato Agustin will assume the position of interim coach for the 2013 PBA Governor's Cup.^[4]^[5]^[6]

As sports executive

Concurrent with Chua's assumption as team manager of Barangay Ginebra San Miguel, he was appointed as alternate PBA governor representing Ginebra San Miguel, Inc. (GSMI) in the PBA board. On July 17, 2015, The Philippine Star reports of Chua's promotion to full-time PBA governor for GSMI and his appointment as sports director for San Miguel Corporation.^[7]

On June 14, 2015, Chua was elected as the new president of the Basketball Coaches Association of the Philippines (BCAP), succeeding incoming PBA commissioner Chito Narvasa.^[8]

References

Preceded by Turo Valenzona	Tanduay Rhum Masters head coach 1999-2000	Succeeded by Derrick Pumaren
Preceded by Norman Black	Sta. Lucia Realtors head coach 2003-2007	Succeeded by Boyet Fernandez
Preceded by Siot Tanquingcen	Barangay Ginebra San Miguel head coach 2013	Succeeded by Ato Agustin

Sta. Lucia Realtors

Founded in 1993 Disbanded in 2010 Owned by Sta. Lucia Realty & Development, Inc.

The franchise	Franchise All-time roster

Coaches	Canson Tierra Reyes Pumaren Tierra Black Chua Fernandez

Championships (2)	2001 Governors 2007-08 Philippine

Runner-up finishes (1)	2000 Commissioner's

Seasons (16)	1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10

Culture	The Real Deal The Menace Machine Gun The Skyscraper

Barangay Ginebra San Miguel

Formerly the Gilbey's Gin Tonics, Añejo Rum 65ers and Gordon's Gin Boars Founded in 1979 Owned by the Ginebra San Miguel, Inc., a subsidiary of the San Miguel Corporation

The franchise	Franchise All-time roster Seasons Current season

Coaches	Pumaren Villegas Valenzona Jaworski Salazar Caidic Tanquingcen Uichico Tanquingcen Chua Agustin Cariaso Lim Cone

Championships (8)	1986 Open 1988 All-Filipino 1991 First 1997 Commissioner's 2004 Fiesta 2004-05 Philippine 2006-07 Philippine 2008 Fiesta

Runner-up finishes (13)	1982 Open 1983 All-Filipino 1984 1st All-Filipino 1986 All-Filipino 1989 Reinforced 1990 First 1991 Third 1996 Governors 1997 All-Filipino 2001 All-Filipino 2009 Fiesta 2011 Commissioner's 2013 Commissioner's

Seasons (36)	1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16

Retired jerseys	7 Jaworski 8 Caidic

Culture and lore	The Big J Mr. Clutch The Spark Manila Clasico 1991 championship comeback Kapag Nananalo/Natatalo ang Ginebra

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