{"id":534029,"date":"2026-09-24T15:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T13:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=534029"},"modified":"2026-09-24T15:41:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T13:41:15","slug":"virtus-bologna-heads-to-istanbul-alston-we-must-be-brave-and-enjoy-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/virtus-bologna-heads-to-istanbul-alston-we-must-be-brave-and-enjoy-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtus Bologna heads to Istanbul, Alston: \u201cWe must be brave and enjoy it\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Virtus Bologna will open its EuroLeague season at Fenerbahce on Friday, September 25, at 7:45 p.m. CET. The game will be broadcast in Italy on Sky Sport Basket, Now and Nettuno Bologna Uno. Kevin Kokila is the only unavailable player.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA very difficult game awaits us on one of the toughest courts,\u201d Alex Mumbru told Virtus\u2019 official website. \u201cFenerbahce is a top-level team that added some excellent players. We are improving day by day and will adapt according to the type of game.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Derrick Alston Jr. views the matchup as a major opportunity: \u201cWe must play our style and maintain a very high level of concentration. For many of us, it will be our first EuroLeague game, so we need to be ourselves, be brave and have fun.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Mumbru previews the Fenerbahce opener: \u201cOne of the toughest courts, but we are improving every day\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":532854,"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],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-534029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/09\/Alex-Mumbru-1-1.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534029","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\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534030,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534029\/revisions\/534030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534029"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=534029"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=534029"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=534029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}