{"id":497320,"date":"2026-05-18T20:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T18:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=497320"},"modified":"2026-05-18T20:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T18:26:10","slug":"xavi-pascual-heading-toward-dubai-bc-as-barcelona-studies-spanoulis-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/xavi-pascual-heading-toward-dubai-bc-as-barcelona-studies-spanoulis-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Xavi Pascual heading toward Dubai BC as Barcelona studies Spanoulis option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1390\" data-end=\"1619\">According to <em data-start=\"1403\" data-end=\"1414\">Eurohoops<\/em>, the Catalan coach met with president Rafa Yuste, but did not change his mind: barring a major twist, his future will be in Dubai. His decision is now accelerating Barcelona\u2019s search for a new head coach.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1621\" data-end=\"1811\">One of the first names emerging is <strong data-start=\"1656\" data-end=\"1678\">Vassilis Spanoulis<\/strong>, the European basketball legend who recently coached Monaco to a EuroLeague runner-up finish and also leads the Greek national team.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1813\" data-end=\"2108\"><em data-start=\"1813\" data-end=\"1825\">Encestando<\/em> had also reported that Barcelona was \u201cforced\u201d to study coaching alternatives, with <strong data-start=\"1909\" data-end=\"1922\">Spanoulis<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1927\" data-end=\"1943\">Ibon Navarro<\/strong> among the first names considered. In the background is agent Misko Raznatovic, already involved in several Bar\u00e7a market files.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2110\" data-end=\"2246\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xavi Pascual has reportedly informed Barcelona of his decision to leave the club at the end of the season and accept Dubai BC\u2019s offer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":486706,"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":[305,199],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-497320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acb","category-euroleague","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/03\/DE9_1373.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497320","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=497320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497320"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=497320"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=497320"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=497320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}