{"id":499013,"date":"2026-05-30T20:20:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T18:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=499013"},"modified":"2026-05-30T20:20:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T18:20:43","slug":"paolo-ronci-confirms-alessandro-pajolas-departure-from-virtus-bologna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/paolo-ronci-confirms-alessandro-pajolas-departure-from-virtus-bologna\/","title":{"rendered":"Paolo Ronci Confirms Alessandro Pajola\u2019s Departure from Virtus Bologna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with <em>La Repubblica Bologna<\/em>, Virtus Bologna general manager Paolo Ronci confirmed that captain Alessandro Pajola will leave the club at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement effectively marks the end of Pajola&#8217;s 11-year journey with Virtus, as <a href=\"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/virtus-bologna-alessandro-pajola-out-for-the-season-after-meniscus-surgery\/\">the injury that ended his season<\/a> will also keep him sidelined for the remainder of the playoffs. Rumors of his\u00a0 departure had circulated for months, but Ronci&#8217;s comments provided the first official confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>Several clubs are reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/crvena-zvezda-pushing-strongly-for-alessandro-pajola\/\">interested<\/a> in the Italian guard, including Olimpia Milano.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have known for some time about his desire to seek new experiences, preferably abroad,\u201d Ronci said, while stressing the importance of staying united through the end of the season despite the circumstances surrounding Pajola&#8217;s departure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several clubs are reportedly interested in the Italian guard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":477947,"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-499013","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\/2026\/01\/DSC05703.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499013","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=499013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499013"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=499013"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=499013"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=499013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}