{"id":509640,"date":"2026-08-12T22:01:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T20:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=509640"},"modified":"2026-08-12T22:01:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T20:01:06","slug":"andrea-trinchieris-first-message-to-paok-i-got-every-player-i-wanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/andrea-trinchieris-first-message-to-paok-i-got-every-player-i-wanted\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrea Trinchieri&#8217;s first message to PAOK: &#8220;I got every player I wanted&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"346\" data-end=\"729\"><strong data-start=\"346\" data-end=\"354\">PAOK<\/strong> officially began preparations for the <strong data-start=\"393\" data-end=\"411\">2026-27 season<\/strong>, with new head coach <strong data-start=\"433\" data-end=\"454\">Andrea Trinchieri<\/strong> delivering his first speech to the team before the opening practice at the PAOK Sports Arena. Club president <strong data-start=\"564\" data-end=\"584\">Ioannis Petmezas<\/strong> and general manager <strong data-start=\"605\" data-end=\"624\">Giorgos Tsiaras<\/strong> also welcomed the players and coaching staff ahead of the session.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"731\" data-end=\"1126\">Speaking to his new squad, Trinchieri expressed his satisfaction with the club&#8217;s offseason work, revealing that he had secured every player he wanted. The Italian coach also emphasized the responsibility that comes with representing one of Greece&#8217;s most historic basketball clubs, urging his players to approach every day with commitment and maximum effort.<\/p>\n<blockquote data-start=\"1128\" data-end=\"1554\">\n<p data-start=\"1130\" data-end=\"1554\"><strong data-start=\"1130\" data-end=\"1516\">&#8220;I feel grateful because I got every player I wanted, and this is the team I wanted to have. It is very important that you understand what this jersey represents and how much weight the jersey you are wearing carries. This is not pressure. It means that you must know what is expected of you. It means commitment to this club, and it means that you must always give your very best.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Italian coach addressed his players on the opening day of preseason, stressing the responsibility of wearing the PAOK jersey and his belief in the roster he has assembled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":497003,"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":[197,249],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-509640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurocup","category-greece"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/05\/Andrea-Trinchieri-.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509640","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\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509640"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=509640"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=509640"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=509640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}