Messina to Barcelona?

kobimel · Dec 4, 2008

Ettore Messina has been in the spotlight of today's basketball news around Europe as the current president of the French Basketball federation Yvan Manini, "slipped up", by saying that he spoke to him on the phone regarding the head coach position of France.

Apparently Ettore Messina replied in that conversation that as he will become the head coach of Barcelona next season he won't be able to become the coach of a National Team, moreover he said he wouldn't like coaching against his home country Italy. That was quite an interesting statement by president Manini during the pre-election season.
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http://thehoop.blogspot.com/2008/12/messina-going-to-barcelona.html

That would take him off the list of potential coaches for the Raptors.

kobimel · Dec 4, 2008

George Vassilakopoulos, President of FIBA Europe, made some comments regarding the end of the cooperation of the Greek Federation with coach Giannakis. Vassilakopoulos gave an interview to the Ethnos newspaper saying that coach Giannakis is no longer to be considered the head coach of the Greek National Team and that there are efforts to find his replacement. He also said that he wants to maintain the "greek model" of basketball in the team and that he didn't dismiss the possibility of the new head coach being non-Greek. He also said that he is against the possibility of a "closed" Euroleague with permanent contracts and the matter is going to court and it will end up in a fight between Eduardo Portela and Jordi Bertomeu.

Having said that the coach is not necessarily Greek, the media in Greece have gone crazy about another rumor that sees Ettore Messina as the new coach of the Greek National Team. Messina's contract with CSKA runs out at the end of this season and the summer is going to be hot until he decides what his next team is going to be.
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http://thehoop.blogspot.com/2008/12/giannakis-out-messina-in.html

Another Messina rumor...

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