{"id":476849,"date":"2026-01-02T18:23:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T17:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=476849"},"modified":"2026-01-02T18:23:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T17:23:00","slug":"virtus-bologna-close-to-signing-young-prospect-francesco-ferrari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/virtus-bologna-close-to-signing-young-prospect-francesco-ferrari\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtus Bologna Close to Signing Young Prospect Francesco Ferrari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"182\" data-end=\"401\"><strong data-start=\"182\" data-end=\"223\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Virtus Bologna<\/span><\/span><\/strong> are set to announce an agreement with <strong data-start=\"262\" data-end=\"303\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Francesco Ferrari<\/span><\/span><\/strong>, a 2005-born Italian prospect regarded as one of the most promising young players in the country.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"403\" data-end=\"695\">The news was reported by <strong data-start=\"428\" data-end=\"448\">Fabrizio Lorenzi<\/strong> in <em data-start=\"452\" data-end=\"467\">La Repubblica<\/em> (Milan edition). Ferrari developed at <strong data-start=\"506\" data-end=\"529\">College Borgomanero<\/strong> and gained national attention after winning the <strong data-start=\"578\" data-end=\"601\">Next Gen Tournament<\/strong>, where he was also named <strong data-start=\"627\" data-end=\"634\">MVP<\/strong> while playing for <strong data-start=\"653\" data-end=\"694\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Olimpia Milano<\/span><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"697\" data-end=\"901\">Over the past two seasons, Ferrari has been a key figure for <strong data-start=\"758\" data-end=\"799\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Cividale<\/span><\/span><\/strong> in Serie A2, establishing himself as a consistent and reliable contributor at the professional level.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"903\" data-end=\"1066\">The 19-year-old guard is expected to become available to Virtus Bologna starting <strong data-start=\"984\" data-end=\"998\">January 26<\/strong>, strengthening the club\u2019s roster for the second half of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtus Bologna are set to announce an agreement with Francesco Ferrari, a 2005-born Italian prospect regarded as one of the most promising young players in the country<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":470641,"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":[199,259],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-476849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","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\/11\/Ferrari-Francesco-.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476849","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\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476849"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=476849"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=476849"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=476849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}