Rooster close to a contract with the French Basketball Super League team Strasbourg Sig / Day
The news portal, referring to their sources, reports that Sig and Gailitis are discussing the last nuances of the contract before the appointment of a Latvian specialist as head coach of the Elzas Club, starting with the 2025/2026 season.
SIG this season lost his senior coach Loran Vila after the eight -game loss series, replacing Tom Druo.
The Strasbourg Club in the Main Event with 11 wins in 29 matches ranks 13th in the 16-club competition and will end the season with a home game against the Gravelines-Dunkerque team.
It is emphasized that the Latvian coaching MBC coaching at the German Super League club is the assistant to former SIG coach Luka Banki in the Latvian national team.
The 40 -year -old coach, from 2015 to 2024 leading the VEF Riga team, helped the club win seven national championship titles, win once in the Latvian -Estonian Basketball League, three times in the Latvian Cup and get twice in the quarter -finals of the VTB United League.
In June 2024, he signed a contract with the MBC, with a modest budget and 17 wins in 32 games.
The portal recalls that the MBC has been struggling to fall out of the league for years, always finishing between 13th and 16th place in the German Super League in 2017.
This season, the MBC became the winner of the German Cup in February, who was the first remarkable trophy in the team in Germany, successfully playing the Euroleague club Munich’s Bayern and Bamberg.
It has already been reported that the German play-in tournament in the MBC lost to Berlin’s « Alba » with 78:81 in the first match, but on Thursday beat the Oldenburg EWE at home with 110: 95, entering the play-off tournament.
In the survey, Rigans took third place behind Braunschweig coach Hessus Ramires (31%) and Head of « Heidelberg » Denny Janson (28%) with 18%.
In 2021, SIG with Gailitis, led by VEF Riga, met in the first group tournament of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) Champions League, winning SIG in Riga with 77:75 after Bonzia Colsson’s three -pointer, with the end of the game, but celebrating his success in the second overtime with 101: 94.
The MBC and the Latvian had a one -season contract with the possibility of extending cooperation for another year.
As a coach Gailitis, VEF Riga has been working as an assistant since 2010, when he finished his basketball career in the same unit. The former match manager also previously represented the ASK Juniors and Skonto teams.
Gailītis is one of the assistants of Luka banks in the Latvian adult national team. He has also worked as head coach and assistant in Latvian youth teams.
