{"id":387777,"date":"2026-01-02T23:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T23:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/387777\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T23:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T23:10:08","slug":"trinchieri-explains-why-he-didnt-want-to-succeed-obradovic-at-partizan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/387777\/","title":{"rendered":"Trinchieri explains why he didn\u2019t want to succeed Obradovi\u0107 at Partizan"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Eurohoops team\/\u00a0info@eurohoops.net<\/a><\/p>\n

Since leaving his post at \u017dalgiris Kaunas after winning the Lithuanian championship last season, Andrea Trinchieri has been waiting for the right opportunity to resume his head coaching career.<\/p>\n

Naturally, his name was linked with the Partizan Belgrade bench following the departure of \u017deljko Obradovi\u0107, but the Italian tactician explained that he wasn\u2019t considering a return to the club he had already led from 2018 to 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cThroughout all these years, I\u2019ve always said that my love for Partizan has never changed. I\u2019ve also said many times that the best thing that could happen to Partizan is for \u017deljko Obradovi\u0107 to be the head coach. This split led to enormous polarization. On one side there is my love for Partizan, on the other my respect for Obradovi\u0107 as a man and as a coach. And I immediately told myself: no \u2013 I can\u2019t and I don\u2019t want to. In the end, this kind of polarization doesn\u2019t benefit anyone. It\u2019s sad, it\u2019s painful, and it hurts me. I hope better times are coming, because this wasn\u2019t needed by anyone,\u201d Trinchieri told Meridian Sport.<\/a><\/p>\n

He explained that he wasn\u2019t in direct contact with anyone from the club.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t speak to anyone. I have no problem telling the truth. If they spoke to my agent, I don\u2019t know, because when I saw what was happening, I immediately said I couldn\u2019t do it. I\u2019m sorry, because my love for Partizan is always there, but in this situation \u2013 because of love, respect, and this polarization \u2013 I said no, I can\u2019t, and it\u2019s not for me. In a division like this, it wasn\u2019t right for Partizan either.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trinchieri also spoke about the coaching profession nowadays, with many of his colleagues losing their jobs or stepping away since the start of the 2025\/26 season.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s completely clear to me that many things have changed. Starting with the EuroLeague format, player salaries, how and when you can sign players, all the way to how long a coach lasts at a club. We used to talk about five years, then it became three. Now even two years is an extremely long time. Everything is so fast, so intense, that relationships inevitably get disrupted much more quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Italian coach also touched on the new EuroLeague format and the increase in games throughout the season.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis 20-team EuroLeague season, with eight games in October alone, has already taken a huge toll. It\u2019s great to watch, there are so many games and something new seems to happen every time, but there are a lot of casualties.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Eurohoops team\/\u00a0info@eurohoops.net Since leaving his post at \u017dalgiris Kaunas after winning the Lithuanian championship last season, Andrea…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-387777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}