{"id":269739,"date":"2022-04-04T22:14:19","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T20:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=269739"},"modified":"2022-04-04T22:14:19","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T20:14:19","slug":"petar-skansi-passes-away-at-78","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/petar-skansi-passes-away-at-78\/","title":{"rendered":"Petar Skansi passes away at 78"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world of European basketball mourns the passing of Petar &#8216;Pero&#8217; Skansi, a champion both as a player and as a coach.<\/p>\n<p>As a coach he wrote important pages of history in Italy, for example guiding the Benetton Treviso to its first Italian title in 1992.<\/p>\n<p>It is impossible not to remember among his achievements, again in 1992, the Olympic silver medal in Barcelona at the helm of Croatia, stopped only by Michael Jordan&#8217;s Dream Team.<\/p>\n<p>In Italy, Skansi has led several teams, including Fortitudo Bologna, Scavolini Pesaro and Reyer Venezia.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The ABA family is deeply saddened to hear that one of the greats of regional basketball Petar Skansi has passed away at the age of 78.<\/p>\n<p>Our thoughts and prayers are with his family. \ud83d\ude4f May he rest in peace. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CEOPpHueyP\">pic.twitter.com\/CEOPpHueyP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; AdmiralBet ABA League (@ABA_League) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABA_League\/status\/1511060524565422084?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 4, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skansi won Olympic medals as both a player and a coach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":269738,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[49,26],"tags":[16027],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-269739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-croazia","category-serie-a","tag-petar-skansi-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/04\/petar-skansi.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269739","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269739"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=269739"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=269739"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=269739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}