There is also no doubt that we will also be impressed by his off court character. He is very close to the profile we used to see in the team. Like most of his teammates, he goes for the best hobby he could ever chosen in order to exercise his mind: reading.
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At the Turgenev Library! 🇷🇺📚🏀 #Moscow #Euroleague #GreatExpectations #CSKA Thank’s @mihaserbin 📷
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The Frenchman enjoys every kind of book and makes sure that he selects the right one for the trip he is about to take. The start of this routine comes from the long bus travels back in Cholet years. These travels has brought him a lifetime habit that cherishes his soul and senses.
Toujours un plaisir : de passer sur mon camp @NDCBasketball 😉 De revoir mon staff qui reste fidèle été après été… Merci à vous 👏🏻 Et bien-sûr, de partager mon métier, ma passion (sur et en dehors des terrains) avec tous ces jeunes stagiaires ⛹🏻♂️⛹🏼♀️ #Édition2019
-> Merci Wass 📷 pic.twitter.com/ZlLNPeVToL— Nando De Colo (@NandoDeColo) 27 Temmuz 2019
If there is remaining time left after reading, he never gives up discovering new ideas which can help to enhance his summer basketball camp. He sometimes feels exhausted to use computers and phone calculators, he prefers refusing “the shortcuts.” He grabs pen and paper and helps his brain to work in a traditional way.
His curiosity in learning and hunger for constant improvement makes him a unique athlete on and off the court. Such as Kalinic, Datome, Melli, Dixon, Bogdanovic and Udoh.
The expression he made about the famous football player, Andres Iniesta, sheds a light on the values in his life.
“I love Iniesta because of how he plays and also the way he is off the pitch,” De Colo explained. “He’s not the kind of guy who will take all the limelight, he’s very quiet, but he has a football camp to show young people how they can be better. And on the pitch, he’s not the player who will score two or three goals but he makes the team better, and improves everyone around him.”
Nando De Colo and Fenerbahçe Beko appears to be a splendid fit to each other, both on and off the pitch. It is also crystal clear that Ülker Arena will not be just a hardwood court for him. It would make him feel like home as it does to Obradovic, Kalinic, Datome and any other teammates.
“Passion for books, own basketball camp and adoration of Andres Iniesta”