Basketball coach Trinchieri: the Captain in the ship of FC Bayern

When Andrea Trinchieri about Basketball is talking, a fall often funny comparisons. There is a particularly amusing, which is already more than four years old now but too good not to tell him. The Italians Trinchieri, then coach of Brose Bamberg, you should talk in an Interview with the "süddeutsche Zeitung" about the basketball Department of FC Bayern Munich. "They are like Aliens," he said. "Because you appeared out of nowhere. Bayern Basketball did not exist before.“ The questioner replied that Bayern have managed to climb from the second League athletic. "Really? Anyway, they had a space ship, and thus you are landed in Munich. And about Aliens, I don't speak.“

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Christopher Meltzer

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a few weeks Ago, the space ship from Munich, is in contact with the Earthling Trinchieri included. And so foreign, like he said at the time, seems to him the crew to not have been. He spoke to them, negotiated, and lo and behold: In the spaceship, he is now the Captain.

On Wednesday morning, announced the basketball player of FC Bayern, that they have hired Andrea Trinchieri, 51 years old, as a head coach. They sent out a press release, which is, even for the PR-conditions, almost exuberant. The Association President Herbert Hainer announced Trinchieri in it, "one of the most sought-after European Trainer". The Basketball managing Director Marko Pesic thinks he's "the perfect cast". Especially Pesic has certainly not forgotten what has been said by Trinchieri earlier about his club. He remembered then, but probably it quickly, as this has his club on the field of play demonstrated.

As Trinchieri in the summer of 2014 for the first Time in the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL) changed, and threatening to have the power to move conditions permanently. The Bavaria, since 2011, in the first League, had just won the championship. So it goes, thought many. In the next three years, the Bavarians have failed in the Play-offs, but always in a coach Trinchieri. In Bamberg, this led a team that played so beautifully as well-no in the Bundesliga before. His players– paid with Brose-million – a lot of blocks, played many passes, threw a lot of threes. They defeated Bayern in the Play-offs with more than 30 points ahead. In the Bundesliga they grabbed in the first three Trinchieri-years, three times the title, in the Euroleague, they missed the Play-offs just. Then the Empire fell apart.

In February of 2018 at the University of Bamberg Trinchieri, which had occurred for months, so demanding, and arrogant released, that some asked at the club, on what distant planet he actually lives. The great dispute there was, however, already one year earlier: at the Time, Trinchieri and the Italian sporting Director Daniele Baiesi bickered so much that one had to go. It Baiesi, the cunning cadres of planners met. He moved in the summer of 2017 to Bayern. And here it gets complicated.

He encounters the sporting Director, with whom he once absent-rode

It is not sure whether and when Trinchieri and Baiesi reconciled have. In the press release, the Bayern sports Director's word. From Munich, it is said that Baiesi has, however, recognized what was missing in his club in the last few years: an exceptional Trainer. This claim, Aleksandar Djordević, Dejan Radonjić and, most recently, Oliver Kostić failed in the past few years. They took out some of the titles, but never the Best from their teams. In Bamberg Baiesi from the first series experienced, as Trinchieri improved his players every day, until you were too good for the League. They switched in the NBA (Wanamaker, Miller, Melli, Theis) or to the elite clubs in the Euroleague (Causeur, Strelnieks). And in Munich?