{"id":158882,"date":"2020-07-14T08:23:26","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T06:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=158882"},"modified":"2020-07-14T08:24:35","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T06:24:35","slug":"ertugrul-erdogan-to-stay-with-galatasaray-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/ertugrul-erdogan-to-stay-with-galatasaray-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ertugrul Erdogan to stay with Galatasaray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coach Ertugrul Erdogan announced that he opted to stay with Galatasaray, despite Zalgiris Kaunas\u2019 interest.<\/p>\n<p>Erdogan spoke with Zalgiris president and GM Paulius Motiejunas in the last week, but there was never traction on reaching a contract agreement as the days wore on. Turkish coach has emerged as the frontrunner for Zalgiris head coaching post, along with Salt Lake City Stars Head Coach Martin Schiller, as stated by the Lithuanian media.<\/p>\n<p>Erdogan announced his decision by a written statement:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany thanks to Zalgiris president Paulius Motiejunas, who sees me as a head coach candidate for such a prestigious Euroleague club, Zalgiris. It was an honour. But from now on, I won\u2019t pursue Zalgiris coaching job. I\u2019m staying at Galatasaray.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Erdogan has been with the Turkish powerhouse Galatasaray since the 2018 summer.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"tr\">Kamuoyuna duyurulur&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZzgBXD7W0G\">pic.twitter.com\/ZzgBXD7W0G<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ertugrul Erdogan (@CoachErtugrul) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CoachErtugrul\/status\/1282919876206657538?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 14, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coach Ertugrul Erdogan announced that he opted to stay with Galatasaray, despite Zalgiris Kaunas\u2019 interest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31,82,60],"tags":[1355,901,611],"rumors":[],"typology":[185],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-158882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bsl","category-euroleague","category-lituania","tag-ertugrul-erdogan-en","tag-galatasaray-en","tag-zalgiris-kaunas","typology-official"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158882"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=158882"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=158882"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=158882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}