{"id":67895,"date":"2024-07-29T09:40:55","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T07:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/news\/welcome-nikola-akele\/"},"modified":"2024-07-29T09:40:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T07:40:55","slug":"welcome-nikola-akele","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/news\/welcome-nikola-akele\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Nikola Akele!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bologna &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>From the two-year period in Brescia comes Nikola Akele, last season from 36 league games with 5 points and 3 rebounds, a ductile \u201cfour\u201d of 203 centimeters, dynamic, able to adapt to team needs in various tactical situations.<\/p>\n<p>At 15 already with his suitcase in hand, from 19 to 22 the overseas experience at the High School Img Academy and Rhode Island in the NCAA (where he will return to graduate in summer 2019) then the return to Italy. The youth lived away from home useful to make do with what he had, shining on the court, cementing outside the concept of family, which has always been an essential value on which to rest one&#8217;s convictions in order to restart with momentum.<\/p>\n<p>And for a boost of morale, because those experiences have turned the seasons of this 28-year-old Italian-Congolese, born in Treviso, raised in Montebelluna by parents originally from Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, in recent years improved on the attack from the dribble, with wide margins also in shooting from outside.<\/p>\n<p>After 14 Azzurri tokens and 2 European experiences with Treviso in Champions and Brescia in Eurocup, his new life in Virtus appears to be a mix of substance and prestige, testing himself even in Euroleague against even more talented opponents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":67884,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[307,268,256,248],"tags":[308,269,265],"class_list":["post-67895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague-en","category-primo-piano-en","category-a-league","category-news","tag-euroleague-en","tag-app-en","tag-evidence"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}