{"id":497755,"date":"2026-05-21T14:50:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T12:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=497755"},"modified":"2026-05-21T14:50:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T12:50:14","slug":"ettore-messina-i-have-full-passion-to-return-to-coaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/ettore-messina-i-have-full-passion-to-return-to-coaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Ettore Messina: I have full passion to return to coaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1396\" data-end=\"1566\"><strong data-start=\"1396\" data-end=\"1414\">Ettore Messina<\/strong> looks at the Athens Final Four with the experience of someone who knows every detail of EuroLeague, calling it \u201cthe toughest competition in the world\u201d.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1568\" data-end=\"1852\">The former Olimpia Milano coach, now club president, highlighted how demanding the season has been: \u201cThere were 10 double-round weeks and players also played with their national teams.\u201d For Messina, the playoffs and Final Four make the format \u201ccruel\u201d, but also unique and fascinating.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1854\" data-end=\"2019\">On <strong data-start=\"1857\" data-end=\"1882\">Olympiacos-Fenerbahce<\/strong>, Messina sees total balance: \u201cIt is a completely open game.\u201d The key could be Fenerbahce\u2019s switch defense and how Olympiacos handles it.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2021\" data-end=\"2229\">On <strong data-start=\"2024\" data-end=\"2048\">Real Madrid-Valencia<\/strong>, the Italian coach pointed to the weight of the Real Madrid jersey, but warned that Valencia \u201chas shown it is not afraid of anyone\u201d. On Jean Montero, he added: \u201cIncredible talent\u201d.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2231\" data-end=\"2441\">Messina also discussed the future: \u201cIt would be a great thing for basketball if there was an agreement between NBA, EuroLeague and FIBA.\u201d On coaching again, he said: \u201cI have full passion to return to coaching\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ettore Messina looks at the Athens Final Four with the experience of someone who knows every detail of EuroLeague<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":474595,"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-497755","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\/12\/Giuseppe-Peppe-Poeta-Sergio-Rodriguez-Ettore-Messina-.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497755","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=497755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497755"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=497755"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=497755"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=497755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}