{"id":512294,"date":"2026-08-29T10:51:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T08:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=512294"},"modified":"2026-08-29T10:51:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T08:51:56","slug":"virtus-bologna-racing-toward-the-new-season-between-the-porelli-and-the-national-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/virtus-bologna-racing-toward-the-new-season-between-the-porelli-and-the-national-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtus Bologna, racing toward the new season between the Porelli and the national teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Il<em> Resto del Carlino<\/em> takes stock of Virtus Bologna\u2019s preseason preparations, with the team having started working at the Porelli ahead of the new season. The group is still reduced due to the numerous players involved with their respective national teams. Among those absent are not only the players: head coach <strong>Alex Mumbr\u00f9<\/strong> is also coaching Germany, while <strong>Francesco Olivo<\/strong>, Virtus\u2019 scouting director, is working as a video and advanced statistics analyst with France. <strong>Roberto Molina <\/strong>and <strong>Jorge Alvarez Sierr<\/strong>a are also in Germany with Mumbr\u00f9.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper highlights how little time Virtus have to absorb Mumbr\u00f9\u2019s new tactical ideas. New captain Daniel Hackett has stressed the need to adapt quickly, with the word \u201crun\u201d seemingly best representing the new era in Bologna.<\/p>\n<p>On the national-team front, several Virtus players have already made an impact. <strong>Aliou Diarra<\/strong> scored 10 points and grabbed 3 rebounds in Mali\u2019s loss to Ivory Coast. <strong>Bobi Klintman<\/strong> also made a solid start with Sweden, recording 5 points, 10 rebounds and 5 assists in the win over Finland. <strong>Marcus Carr<\/strong>, meanwhile, starred for Canada, finishing the victory over Panama with 15 points and 12 assists.<\/p>\n<p>Mumbr\u00f9\u2019s Germany defeated the Netherlands and will face Poland on August 30. <strong>Tommaso Baldasso<\/strong> and <strong>Francesco Ferrari<\/strong> are representing Italy, which will face Bosnia and Serbia. Olivo\u2019s France defeated Slovenia and will next take on Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>Il Resto del Carlino also reports that Virtus will play their first preseason game on September 3 in Rimini, while the second phase of the season-ticket campaign will begin on Monday, August 31. Meanwhile, anticipation continues to grow for the announcement of the new title sponsor, which will accompany Virtus in both the Italian league and EuroLeague during the club\u2019s centenary season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Il Resto del Carlino takes stock of the Black and Whites\u2019 preparations, with the team still working with a reduced group due to international commitments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":512300,"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":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-512294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-serie-a"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/08\/HQuYs-AXMAAnYTA.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512294","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\/178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512294"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=512294"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=512294"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=512294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}