Andrea Trinchieri: 'Giorgi Shermadini is not ready for Maccabi now'

Andrea Trinchieri released an interview to Walla talking about Giorgi Shermadini who is, in the coach's opinion, ready to play in Maccabi Tel Aviv now.

"I told Shermadini that he is not ready for a team like Maccabi now. That it’s a different team with a lot of pressure and 11,000 fans in every game. I told Shermadini that he is not going to replace Benjamin Ortner, that he is going to replace Sofo in Maccabi! He is very talented, but he is not ready for Maccabi now. Shermadini was injured ,it's true,but I had a feeling that he didn’t do his best to return from his injury because he was afraid that it will be worst and than he won’t sign in Maccabi.....because he already agreed with them in March. Since then it wasn’t the same Shermadini. He wasn’t hungry as in the start of the season. Giorgi wasn’t fair with the club (Cantà) but maybe it's not just him, it's also his Israeli agent – Guy Zucker. I can’t say that Shermadini is a bad boy, but but he made a mistake....But maybe when a big club like Maccabi calls you, so you do things like that. It's also a dream for me to coach in Maccabi, but for now they have a coach, one of the best in Europe, but when he will quit, and if I will be a candidate I will be proud and happy. When I coached at Nokia this year with Cantù, I felt the pressure on Maccabi, but in the other hand I felt the commitment of Maccabi players. For now Shermadini didn’t show commitment ,and in Maccabi you have to be commited, it’s a team of a country, everyone is looking at you. If he won’t realize it he will fail.Another problem is that he doesn’t speak English well, we were lucky becaise we had Markoshvili who helped us with him, but I don’t know how it will work in Maccabi.