{"id":428122,"date":"2025-02-12T09:43:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T08:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=428122"},"modified":"2025-02-12T09:43:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T08:43:51","slug":"pallacanestro-varese-reportedly-targets-danny-franco-as-new-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/pallacanestro-varese-reportedly-targets-danny-franco-as-new-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Pallacanestro Varese reportedly targets Danny Franco as New Head Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>OJM Varese<\/strong> is actively searching for a new head coach to rescue their season, and the top candidate appears to be <strong>Danny Franco<\/strong>, a 51-year-old Israeli coach recently with <strong>Hapoel Tel Aviv<\/strong>. Franco boasts an impressive r\u00e9sum\u00e9, including an <strong>Israeli League title with Hapoel Jerusalem<\/strong> and a national cup with <strong>Hapoel Holon<\/strong>, as well as extensive international experience in Eurocup, BCL, and FIBA Europe Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Franco\u2019s <strong>attacking philosophy<\/strong> and <strong>player-friendly approach<\/strong> could be the right fit for Varese\u2019s current roster. Other names under consideration include Belgian coach <strong>Roel Moors<\/strong> and Israeli <strong>Guy Goodes<\/strong>, both with strong European credentials. A decision is expected soon, with the new coach likely to sign a contract through <strong>June 30, 2026<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: la Prealpina<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Israeli coach leads the shortlist to replace Mandole, with other European options still in play<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":428121,"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":[26],"tags":[],"rumors":[134],"typology":[21],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-428122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-serie-a","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/02\/Danny-Franco.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428122","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=428122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428122"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=428122"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=428122"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=428122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}