Coach Rodrigo Pastore as a guest on the phone and press spokesman Matthias Pattloch as an expert on everything
Niners coach Rodrigo Pastore lied. Right with one of his first sentences. His German is not good enough to talk about his job in a podcast in this language. He said. In the podcast. In English. Outright lie.
Because not only the most loyal fans of the Niners Chemnitz basketball players know, at the latest after the win against Alba Berlin, that their head coach can speak German very well. Rodrigo Pastore, who was born in Argentina, had promised that if he defeated the German record champions, he would not hold the press conference in English for the first time. Then he did. And spoken really well.
Pastore has been the head coach of the Niners since 2015, led them to the Bundesliga in 2020 and this year to the final tournament for the cup and the league championship round. Reasons enough to let him have his say on “Laktatsachen”, the “Freie Presse” sports podcast. And to make an exception. Pastore is the first who was allowed to answer in English when he was connected by phone. Because it makes him feel safer. And he said interesting things. You can hear it in the podcast, in which Niners spokesman Matthias Pattloch otherwise answers questions. And read about it in the sports section. Translated, of course.
