The Segafredo Bologna he exonerated Sergio Scariolo. The Emilian club, vice champion of Italy, has relieved the 62-year-old coach from Brescia, who arrived at Virtus in 2021 and was the protagonist of the Eurocup victory last year and of two championship finals. The decision comes two days after the declarations on the transfer market made by Scariolo in a press conference upon his return from the World Cup with Spain, words (“The construction of the team belongs to the club”) which the owner didn’t like Zanetti who decided to make the change on the bench just over a week before the first official match of the season, the Super Cup semi-final against Milan scheduled for 23 September in Brescia.
Nerves on edge at Virtus: Zanetti annoyed, Scariolo at risk
by Walter Fuochi 15 September 2023
The Virtus press release
“Virtus Pallacanestro Bologna announces that it has arranged for the dismissal of coach Sergio Scariolo. The coach’s statements released to the press on 13 September 2023, which follow those released during the end-of-season press conference on 27 June 2023, unfortunately undermine the serenity and enthusiasm of the Virtussi environment and of the group that is preparing to face the first official commitments of the new sporting season with the aim of achieving important results at both a national and international level. The club also announces that first assistant Andrea Diana has been relieved of his duties.”
Luca Banchi made official
The new coach of Virtus will be Luca Banchi. The 58-year-old coach from Grosseto, formerly of Siena, Milan and Pesaro among others, is the current coach of Latvia: in this role he led the Baltics to 5th place at the last World Cup and won the award as best coach of the world championship tournament . The agreement is for two years.
Banchi coached in Trieste, Trapani and Jesi before starting his adventure in Siena in 2006, first as assistant and then as head coach. An experience that culminated in 2013 with the victory of the Scudetto and the Italian Cup. Then the move to Olimpia Milano where he won the tricolor in his first season, signing a record, since before him, no one in his first year on the Milanese bench managed to bring home the title of Italian champion. In 2018 he began working abroad, first coaching Bamberg and then Aek Athens, with whom he won an Intercontinental Cup. In January 2021 he became assistant coach of the Long Island Nets, the Brooklyn Nets franchise playing in the NBA D-League. Last stops in Pesaro and Strasbourg where he leads both clubs to the playoffs. With the French, among other things, he came close to reaching the Champions League Final Four, eliminated by the future champions of Bonn. From 2021, however, here is Latvia, led to the historic qualification for a World Cup which concluded a few days ago with an extraordinary fifth place, celebrated in Riga with a real state party. Now the return to Italy to ride the Vu Nere.
2023-09-15 17:28:44
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