{"id":504406,"date":"2026-07-06T10:25:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T08:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=504406"},"modified":"2026-07-06T10:25:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T08:25:04","slug":"olimpia-milano-officially-sign-nicola-akele","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/olimpia-milano-officially-sign-nicola-akele\/","title":{"rendered":"Olimpia Milano officially sign Nicola Akele"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nicola Akele is a new Olimpia Milano player. The club announced a multi-year agreement with the 2.03m forward, born in Treviso on November 7, 1995, who joins from Virtus Bologna.<\/p>\n<p>Akele arrives in Milan after winning the Italian league title with Bologna in 2025. During his career, he has also played for Roseto, Treviso, Cremona and Brescia, winning the Italian Cup with Brescia in 2023, after his U.S. experience between IMG Academy and Rhode Island University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI arrive in Milan with great ambitions and ready to give my best,\u201d Akele said. He described the opportunity as \u201ca privilege,\u201d highlighting Olimpia Milano\u2019s mentality and organization as being \u201cat the top in Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Italian forward joins from Virtus Bologna on a multi-year deal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":504403,"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":[],"typology":[185],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-504406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-serie-a","typology-official"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - 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