{"id":498041,"date":"2026-05-23T11:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T09:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=498041"},"modified":"2026-05-23T11:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T09:52:09","slug":"aris-thessaloniki-strongly-interested-in-luca-banchi-for-next-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/aris-thessaloniki-strongly-interested-in-luca-banchi-for-next-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Aris Thessaloniki Strongly Interested in Luca Banchi for Next Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-path-to-node=\"5\">According to today&#8217;s print edition of <i data-path-to-node=\"5\" data-index-in-node=\"38\">La Prealpina<\/i>, Aris Thessaloniki is reportedly highly interested in coach Luca Banchi for next season.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"6\">This is what <i data-path-to-node=\"6\" data-index-in-node=\"13\">La Prealpina<\/i> writes about the Italbasket head coach: &#8220;There is strong interest from Aris for Luca Banchi; the Italbasket head coach is a leading candidate to guide the Greek club, which was acquired 12 months ago by the young Canadian-American entrepreneur Richard Hsiao. The coach from Grosseto, who has a part-time option in his contract with the FIP starting next season, had ruled out the possibility of coaching in Italy in 2026\/27. If the deal\u2014which is still in its early stages, though an initial contact has reportedly been made\u2014goes through, Banchi will face Andrea Trinchieri as an opponent. Trinchieri signed a three-year agreement with PAOK Thessaloniki in recent months (and will bring with him Max Menetti, already his assistant at Zalgiris Kaunas).&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to today&#8217;s print edition of La Prealpina, Aris Thessaloniki is reportedly highly interested in coach Luca Banchi for next season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":177,"featured_media":471596,"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":[54,131],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-498041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grecia","category-italbasket"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/11\/Luca-Banchi-1-1.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498041","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\/177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498041"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=498041"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=498041"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=498041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}