The questions "SE" said the new head coach of UNICS - the third after Ettore Messina and Sergio Scariolo Italian, Russian club accepted the elite division. Recall that the contract in a "1 +1" Trinkeri 44-year-old signed with the Kazan team on Monday. In this role, he will replace Stanislav Eremin, which in turn modified the sezon-2012/13 instead fired the winter Aco Petrovic.
- When Unics approached you with a formal proposal? - Trinkeri question, on Wednesday morning, who had served from Kazan to his homeland.
- I do not remember. In my opinion, at the beginning of last week. Over the last few days had to spend so much negotiation, which in my head all mixed up. However, I am happy. Kazan for me - an ideal option to continue a career after four wonderful seasons working in the "Kant".
- What do you know about the city, where you will live, and the team, which will now be trained?
- Not so little. Read in the Internet that Kazan was founded in the 11th century Bulgar ... Well, Unics - known name in Europe. Club with tradition, more recently, speaking in the Euroleague win in the European Cup. I do not have to rebuild the team from scratch. Before me, there was laid a good foundation. My goal - to correct a little bit vector to Unics played even better. I know that the club president Yevgeny Bogachyov against my candidacy was considering options with an invitation to Luke Banks, Giorgos Bardzokas and Joan Place. I know all of these professionals. Treat them with the utmost respect. But now my task - and even Bogachev prove that he made the right choice.
- In parallel with Unics you will coach the national team of Greece, where two players - Ian Vuyukas and Costas Kaymakoglu - are your wards at the club. The possibility of other know as well?
- Yes, you can call the move the whole structure UNIKS to the last backup.
- Reveal the shuttle plans for the 2013 off-season? Rumor has it that in Kazan in the summer can move the leader of "Siena" Bobby Brown, who became one of the major discoveries of the past season Euroleague.
- Of course, the Cubs will be. Brown? Nothing definite can not say. I note only that Unics intends to invite only those players for whom the first place will not be worth the money.
- Who will replace you during the preseason, so long as you reside in the location of the Greek national team at the European Championships in Slovenia?
- This question we all thoroughly discussed with Bogachev before signing the contract. However, the final decision is still pending. There are several candidates, which in the next few days I'm going to negotiate.
- One of the candidates - Valdemaras Homicius?
- (Laughs.) Well, I will open a secret - yes, Homicius can be my assistant. It was a great team player of the USSR, who sold himself as a coach. In addition, we are well acquainted with him.
- However, do not fear that moonlighting hurt your club work?
- Of course, the risk is present. But there are positive aspects. You said yourself that Kaymakoglu and Vuyukas will be with me in the preparation of the national team. So, after returning to the club they will clearly understand all of my requirements. In addition, these players can not be two, three ...
- What is your credo basketball?
- Each player must have the desire and the will to help the partner to protect and share the ball on offense. My team never dependent on any single artist. I think this one-sidedness is fraught. For example, a person receives an injury - and everything, the whole game falls apart. This should not be!
- When did you start coaching?
- At 19 years of age. But in a very bad, terrible level because of basketball, and I came out very mediocre. However, since childhood I have been obsessed with the sport. He dreamed of when not to play, the coach. And though my father, a successful businessman, insisted on my studies at Harvard, went against the family. And the step-by-step master all the basics of basketball, through working with children's teams, then the small lower division clubs, then more teams. Now my father 82 years old, my mother - 71. And they did not regret that once they have failed to convince me.
- In their responses, you occasionally eat Russian word. Following the example of Ettore Messina has already started to learn our language?
- And how could it be otherwise? If you come to a new country, to respect its traditions and culture. In addition, languages are easy for me. In addition to the Italian own to varying degrees, Serbo-Croatian, English, Spanish. If osvoyu also Russian, become a true polyglot (laughs)!
- Themselves anyone think? After all, your father is an American by birth, and mother - a Croat.
- I'm from Mars! (Laughs) In me so much things are mixed. Grandmother - a native of Montenegro, grandfather - an Italian. My father was actually born in the States, and my mother - already in the Apennines. In general, I do not have some of the same nationality. But I can call myself a fan of the Yugoslav cuisine. Macedonian wine, stuffed peppers, smoked meat in Montenegrin - Yum! By the way, in the Kazan hotel had time to try and Tatar cuisine. Triangular pie potatoes with meat - it is simply delicious.
- I have a large family?
- The wife and two sons - five-year Leonardo and Sasha, who are two and a half years old. They will come to me in Kazan, although they managed to scare the harsh Russian winter. It's okay. So cold we somehow survive.
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