{"id":487526,"date":"2026-03-10T22:49:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T21:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=487526"},"modified":"2026-03-10T22:49:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T21:49:30","slug":"as-monaco-reaches-french-cup-final-but-set-to-lose-coach-vassilis-spanoulis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/as-monaco-reaches-french-cup-final-but-set-to-lose-coach-vassilis-spanoulis\/","title":{"rendered":"AS Monaco Reaches French Cup Final but Set to Lose Coach Vassilis Spanoulis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AS Monaco continues to dominate in France (currently on a 13-games winning streak in BetClic Elite) but the club appears set to lose head coach Vassilis Spanoulis.<\/p>\n<p>The Principality team <a href=\"https:\/\/asmonaco.basketball\/news\/show.php?ID=75741\">had initially announced<\/a> that the Greek coach would be on the bench, effectively denying several reports suggesting an imminent separation.<\/p>\n<p>However, Spanoulis did not coach the team in the French Cup semifinal and, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/en\/euroleague\/1941904\/vassilis-spanoulis-is-set-to-leave-monacos-bench\/\">according to Eurohoops<\/a> and other specialized outlets, has confirmed his \u201cirreversible\u201d intention to leave following the well-known issues that have affected the group in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>On the court, the team\u2014once again led by Sergei Gladyr with Manuchar Markoishvili serving as first assistant\u2014reached the French Cup final after defeating Nanterre92 88-83.<\/p>\n<p>Six Monaco players scored in double figures, led by Alpha Diallo with 16 points. Mike James finished with 14 points and seven assists, while Matthew Strazel added 15 points and Nemanja Nedovic contributed 14, shooting 3-of-4 from beyond the arc.<\/p>\n<p>For Nanterre92, Roko Prkacin recorded 18 points, nine rebounds and five assists, while Mitchell Puttkammer-Saxen posted a double-double with 14 points and 11 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>AS Monaco will face Le Mans in the French Cup final on April 25 at the Accor Arena in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"fr\">\ud83d\ude80 Victoire \u00e0 Nanterre pour la <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RocaTeam?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RocaTeam<\/a>, direction la finale de la Coupe de France ! \ud83c\udfc6<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DagheMunegu?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DagheMunegu<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CDFBasket?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CDFBasket<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iAWTXQr1Re\">pic.twitter.com\/iAWTXQr1Re<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AS Monaco Basket \ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\udde8 (@ASMonaco_Basket) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ASMonaco_Basket\/status\/2031475439462469781?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 10, 2026<\/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>&#8216;Kill Bill&#8217; has confirmed his &#8216;irreversible&#8217; intention to leave the Principality team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":487525,"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":[237,199],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-487526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-betclic-elite","category-euroleague"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/03\/as-monaco-2.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487526","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=487526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487526"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=487526"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=487526"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=487526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}