Juan Antonio San Epifanio

Juan Antonio San Epifanio Ruiz ("Epi") (born 12 June 1959) is a retired Spanish professional basketball player, who is considered to be one of the greatest small forwards ever to play in Europe. Named the European Player of the Year, Mister Europa, in 1984, he spent all of his career playing with F.C. Barcelona.

Brief introduction

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 LA-84, and a silver medalist in the European Championship in Nantes-83. He also won a bronze medal at EuroBasket 1991.

With F.C. Barcelona, he was a 3 time finalist in the European Champions Cup (Euroleague), twice the Saporta Cup winner, once the Korać Cup holder, 7 times the Spanish national league champion, and 10 times the Spanish Cup winner. 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.

Juan Antonio

Juan Antonio (born 5 January 1988 in Trelew, Chubut) is an Argentine football forward who currently plays for Italian club FeralpiSalò on loan from Serie A club Parma.

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Juan Antonio (Cahuilla)

Juan Antonio (1783–1863), Cahuilla name: Cooswootna, Yampoochee, (He Gets Mad Quickly), was a major chief of the Mountain Band of the Cahuilla from the 1840s to 1863.

Biography

Juan Antonio was born somewhere in the vicinity of Mt. San Jacinto in 1783. In 1840, the Ute leader Walkara led a great raid through the Cajon Pass into Southern California to capture a large number of horses from the Mexican ranchos. In some of these raids, his raiders clashed with Juan Antonio and the Cahuilla Mountain Band. In 1842, Juan Antonio greeted the explorer Daniel Sexton and gave him access to explore the area near the San Gorgonio Pass.

Following Walkara's raid, Jose Carmen del Lugo invited New Mexican colonists to settle in Politana to in exchange for defending his Rancho San Bernardino and its herds of horses and cattle from raids by bandits and Native American raiders. Following a dispute with the Lugo's the New Mexicans moved south to build the settlements of Agua Mansa and La Placita de Trujillo on the Rancho Jurupa. Chief Juan Antonio was then invited to move a group of his Cahuilla Mountain Band to Politana in their place.