Manuel "Manolo" Cintrón Vega (born January 4, 1963, in Ponce, Puerto Rico) is a former Puerto Rican professional basketball player, who for 11 seasons in the 1980s and early 1990s played with several teams in the National Basketball League in Puerto Rico.,[1] including the Atléticos de San Germán, the Leones de Ponce and the Gigantes de Carolina.
He is the former head coach of the Puerto Rico national basketball team, after being replaced in 2011 by Flor Melendez.
He is the head coach of Veracruz´s "Halcones Rojos" in the Mexican Professional Basketball League.
[2] As the assistant head coach of Puerto Rico from 2001 to 2006, he helped the team obtain gold at the 2001 Centrobasket.
In 2007, he became Puerto Rico's head coach, taking over the work done by Julio Toro.