Ettore Messina, patience needed before embracing new acquisition

FIBA’s official okay is awaited, which is getting closer.

Awaiting the official start of the new season, Olimpia Milano is hard at work shoring up the roster with the latest market shots. One of the players long in the crosshairs is Johannes Voigtmann, the center bound to CSKA Moscow by a contract until June 30, 2023.

The Milanese club has long had the deal with the German in hand, but it is waiting for the FIBA’s official green light, which should allow the signing of the same soon. However, considering the basketball player’s commitment with his national team ahead of Eurobasket 2022, the same may not be available to Ettore Messina before mid-September. The newspaper La Prealpina, picking up on the quesiton already raised by Corriere della Sera, has no doubts that the federation’s okay will come, which will release the former Saski Baskonia in time for the upcoming season. It is only a matter of waiting for the end of the continental kermesse to include in the rotations a player who could be very useful to the cause.

Last season, Ettore Messina’s team returned to win the scudetto, snatching it from the jerseys of Virtus Segafredo Bologna. The red-and-whites, who had finished in second place right behind Sergio Scariolo’s team in the regular season, immediately brought the court factor to their side in the final series and never let the Felsinians catch them again. In the Euroleague, Sergio Rodriguez (who said goodbye to the Red Shoes in the summer to return to Spain) and his teammates were eliminated by Ergin Ataman’s Anadolu Efes, who would go on to win the competition for the second year in a row.