{"id":446766,"date":"2025-06-17T12:52:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T10:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=446766"},"modified":"2025-06-17T12:52:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T10:52:22","slug":"ainars-bagatskis-named-new-head-coach-of-slask-wroclaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/ainars-bagatskis-named-new-head-coach-of-slask-wroclaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Ainars Bagatskis named new head coach of \u015al\u0105sk Wroc\u0142aw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1311\" data-end=\"1476\"><strong data-start=\"1332\" data-end=\"1391\">\u015al\u0105sk Wroc\u0142aw has officially appointed Ainars Bagatskis<\/strong> as their new head coach. The Latvian signs a guaranteed deal for the 2025\/26 season.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1478\" data-end=\"1683\">A former player in Poland in the late &#8217;90s, <strong data-start=\"1522\" data-end=\"1624\">Bagatskis has coached Maccabi Tel Aviv, Brose Bamberg and the national teams of Latvia and Ukraine<\/strong>. He is known for offensive schemes and player development.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1685\" data-end=\"1810\">The club sees him as the right man to <strong data-start=\"1723\" data-end=\"1788\">restore \u015al\u0105sk\u2019s competitive identity and push back to the top<\/strong> of Polish basketball.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"pl\">Nieco starsi kibice PLK z pewno\u015bci\u0105 znaj\u0105 to nazwisko! \ud83d\ude0e<\/p>\n<p>Ainars Bagatskis nowym trenerem koszykarskiego \u015al\u0105ska!\ud83d\udca5<\/p>\n<p>\u0141otysz podpisa\u0142 z klubem kontrakt na sezon 2025\/26\u270d\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>Wi\u0119cej informacji \u25b6\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LeLRlSrhuE\">https:\/\/t.co\/LeLRlSrhuE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Laipni l\u016bdzam Wroc\u0142aw coach! \ud83d\udc4b<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/plkpl?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#plkpl<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Hej%C5%9Al%C4%85sk?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Hej\u015al\u0105sk<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NoweOtwarcie?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NoweOtwarcie<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Mt3BImOQCF\">pic.twitter.com\/Mt3BImOQCF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 WKS \u015al\u0105sk Wroc\u0142aw &#8211; koszyk\u00f3wka (@WKS_SlaskBasket) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WKS_SlaskBasket\/status\/1934915537680961900?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 17, 2025<\/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>The Latvian coach has signed for the 2025\/26 season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":446765,"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":[285],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[185],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-446766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poland","typology-official"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/06\/Coach-Bagatskis-www.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446766","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=446766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446766"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=446766"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=446766"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=446766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}