{"id":35951,"date":"2021-08-26T08:14:55","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T06:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.demo.olimpia.iquii.info\/ricci-wants-to-make-another-step-forward-i-get-to-an-ideal-club-because-of-coachs-call\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T16:26:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T14:26:38","slug":"ricci-wants-to-make-another-step-forward-i-get-to-an-ideal-club-because-of-coachs-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olimpia.e2net.it\/en\/ricci-wants-to-make-another-step-forward-i-get-to-an-ideal-club-because-of-coachs-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricci wants to make another step forward: &#8220;I get to an ideal club because of Coach&#8217;s call&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Olimpia&#8217;s <\/strong><span class=\"Y2IQFc\" lang=\"en\"><strong>General Manager Christos Stavropoulos introduces Giampaolo Ricci, Pippo, as &#8220;a player who will give us energy and will play smart.<\/strong> He is now a national teamplayer, coming off the Olympics, but four years ago only, he wasn&#8217;t even in the top league. He had an impressive growth&#8221;. &#8220;If I think about my career, I &#8216;d say it was long, I did a lot of apprenticeship, I grew up a little bit at a time especially during my seasons in A2 and then the experience in Cremona was decisive. Especially the second season when Coach Sacchetti showed me great confidence. This is when I realized I could be an important player both in Cremona and then with the national team. Then I also won the Italian Cup. It&#8217;s true, I got to the Serie A at the late age of 26-27, but it was the result of the work that I have done previously. Still, I&#8217;m here to get even better, take another step forward, try to surprise once more, and it doesn&#8217;t matter if I&#8217;m nearly 30, \u201d he says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Y2IQFc\" lang=\"en\"><strong>The EuroLeague<\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;It was one of the reasons why I made this choice. I have been playing for a great club for two seasons, played alongside great players, now I enter the locker room and I see other legends, I see players of the first level, Gigi, Kyle, Chacho and others. Working with them every day is a privilege, I will try to learn as much as possible from those who have made the history of the competition and hopefully I will be able to get into the world where great basketball is going to be played.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9fB3a7HB7aE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Y2IQFc\" lang=\"en\"><strong>Going to Milano after Bologna &#8211;<\/strong> &#8220;It was a difficult choice, the most difficult I&#8217;ve ever made. I was coming from a championship won as a team Captain and managed to hoist the cup. I felt like an important part of that story, then there were situations that, without going into details, pushed me to make a decision. And my decision was this: Coach Messina&#8217;s call, the esteem he showed me, was decisive. In addition, the EuroLeague represents another step forward in my career. I gave everything to Virtus, over two intense years, but we know that good things can end and people can get on separate paths. I have a clear conscience, because I know I have always given everything that I had, putting myself back into the game. Now I will do it once again, in Milano, knowing that I will get to an organization that I consider perfect, an incredible structure that allows everyone to be in the ideal conditions to improve.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Olimpia&#8217;s General Manager Christos Stavropoulos introduces Giampaolo Ricci, Pippo, as &#8220;a player&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":-1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[502],"tags":[],"olimpia_common_tag":[],"class_list":["post-35951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news_generali"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olimpia.e2net.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olimpia.e2net.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olimpia.e2net.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olimpia.e2net.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olimpia.e2net.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olimpia.e2net.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141493,"href":"https:\/\/olimpia.e2net.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35951\/revisions\/141493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olimpia.e2net.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olimpia.e2net.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olimpia.e2net.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35951"},{"taxonomy":"olimpia_common_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olimpia.e2net.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/olimpia_common_tag?post=35951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}