{"id":491717,"date":"2026-04-07T17:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=491717"},"modified":"2026-04-07T17:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:48:08","slug":"nebojsa-covic-reveals-crvena-zvezda-coaching-twist-spanoulis-said-no-trinchieri-came-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nebojsa-covic-reveals-crvena-zvezda-coaching-twist-spanoulis-said-no-trinchieri-came-close\/","title":{"rendered":"Nebojsa Covic reveals Crvena Zvezda coaching twist: Spanoulis said no, Trinchieri came close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"2003\" data-end=\"2437\"><strong data-start=\"2003\" data-end=\"2020\">Nebojsa Covic<\/strong> has revealed two coaching stories from his time at <strong data-start=\"2072\" data-end=\"2089\">Crvena Zvezda<\/strong>. Speaking about his spell in charge of the Belgrade club, before moving into his current role as president of the Serbian Basketball Federation, he said he wanted <strong data-start=\"2253\" data-end=\"2275\">Vassilis Spanoulis<\/strong> to become head coach after <strong data-start=\"2303\" data-end=\"2321\">Dusko Ivanovic<\/strong> left, but the Greek felt it was too early for him to coach in the EuroLeague.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2439\" data-end=\"2705\">Covic described the contact in these terms: <strong data-start=\"2483\" data-end=\"2667\">\u201cAfter Dusko\u2019s departure, I wanted to bring Vassilis Spanoulis. That was an idea of mine, we talked, but he honestly said that it was too early for him to coach in the EuroLeague.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2707\" data-end=\"3047\">He also mentioned <strong data-start=\"2725\" data-end=\"2746\">Andrea Trinchieri<\/strong>, saying Crvena Zvezda had once been very close to an agreement with the Italian coach before he chose to pursue an NBA assistant role. Covic added that, after Trinchieri later signed with <strong data-start=\"2935\" data-end=\"2947\">Partizan<\/strong>, there was no longer a realistic path for him to join Zvezda.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3049\" data-end=\"3120\"><strong data-start=\"3049\" data-end=\"3060\">Source:<\/strong> <em data-start=\"3061\" data-end=\"3073\">BasketNews<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Crvena Zvezda president Nebojsa Covic said he tried to hire Vassilis Spanoulis after Dusko Ivanovic\u2019s departure<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":463753,"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":[191,199,297],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-491717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aba-liga","category-euroleague","category-serbia","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/10\/span.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491717","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=491717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491717"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=491717"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=491717"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=491717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}