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Virtus Bologna<\/strong> have officially announced the appointment of Alex Mumbr\u00fa<\/strong> as head coach of the first team.<\/p>\n

Born in Barcelona on June 12, 1979, Mumbr\u00fa had a long playing career with Joventut Badalona, Real Madrid and Bilbao Berri, winning, among other titles, one Spanish championship, one ULEB Cup and one EuroCup. With the Spanish national team, he won medals at the Olympics, World Cup, EuroBasket and Mediterranean Games.<\/p>\n

His coaching career started at Bilbao Berri, where he had spent the final nine seasons of his playing career. He later coached Valencia Basket before taking over the German national team, leading it to a historic gold medal at EuroBasket 2025 in Latvia.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am excited to start this new adventure on the bench of one of the most historic clubs in Europe,\u201d Mumbr\u00fa said. Virtus also thanked the German Federation for allowing him to hold a double role with both the national team and the Bologna club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Spanish coach will lead the Italian club while also keeping his role with the German national team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":501717,"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":[82,26],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[20],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-501718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-serie-a","typology-ufficiale"],"yoast_head":"\nVirtus Bologna officially appoint Alex Mumbr\u00fa as head coach - Sportando<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/virtus-bologna-officially-appoint-alex-mumbru-as-head-coach\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Virtus Bologna officially appoint Alex Mumbr\u00fa as head coach - 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