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Laso: “If Madrid is so worried about my health, let them pass me the reports”

Pablo Laso, at a press conference. / efe

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“My mother found out on television that I had a heart attack and had to call my wife to see what was happening,” reveals the Vitoria-based coach after being fired for “medical reasons”

«I have some medical reports that say that the heart is perfect and that I have no sequelae. If Real Madrid is so concerned about my health, it has some reports and it is based on them to dispense with me, I would appreciate it if you would pass them on to me. I don’t see very coherent and I don’t understand that if I was fit to train, as I was in the final of the League, then that was what Real Madrid used for me to leave the team, ”Pablo Laso lamented this Monday after being fired on July 4 when he suffered a myocardial infarction a month and a half ago, “a little heart attack, as some doctor has described it.”

The coach from Vitoria also acknowledged being upset with Real Madrid because some of his closest relatives, including his mother, found out about his heart attack on television. «That the family finds out by any other means of something that happens to you is not the most pleasant thing. I didn’t like it. My mother had to call my wife to see what was happening”, revealed the former Madrid coach, who did not want to enter into “conjectures” about whether the white club has taken advantage of his medical situation to dismiss him, since the club’s decision to break their relationship With the coach from Vitoria, with a contract until 2023, it had been taken for a long time.

“In the statement from Real Madrid it states that I am only and exclusively dispensed with for medical reasons. If we keep the statement, it was for medical reasons. Speaking of guesses… I can have my opinion. If I go by what the statement says, obviously it speaks of a medical decision, solely and exclusively, “he settled without going into more details, although the head of the Real Madrid basketball section, Juan Carlos Sánchez, wanted to fire Laso since 2014 «Do you take one hundred percent to death with your boss? Surely not,” Laso launched.

“What saddens me is that unfortunately Pablo Laso will not be able to train Real Madrid next year,” said the coach from Vitoria, who insisted that for him “the first priority is health.” «If tomorrow I have a game but I put my life at risk, the first one who would not train is me, apart from the fact that my wife would give me a caponazo with all reason. Real Madrid told me that I could not train because they had reports that I was at great risk, but I did not have any formal offer to be able to train again later or continue at the club in another position, “confirmed Laso, who avoided charging against the entity chaired by Florentino Pérez or against Juan Carlos Sánchez during his first public appearance after his controversial departure from the club with which he has won 22 titles in 11 seasons.

“I don’t know if it’s treason or not”

“We have terminated the contract by mutual agreement. I was clear that when they tell me that I am not going to be the coach of the first team, I do not paint anything here. I don’t have the medical reports that Real Madrid has. I have mine, which are personal. If Madrid has some reports and is based on those reports, I don’t know if that is treason or not. I trust my reports about my health », reiterated Laso, who denied having received an offer from Red Star Belgrade and said he was not looking for a team at the moment, although he wants to return to the bench. “I want to train, but I’m not going to train for training. I hope to have an opportunity and that the project transmits to me the illusion with which I am going to get involved, just as I have always done », he pointed out at the Francisco de Vitoria University in Madrid, where he presented the fourth edition of his training campus.

After undergoing a catheterization, Laso reiterated that he is “quite well” and that all the doctors who have treated him have given him “the certainty” that he is “a fairly normal person” and that he can return to training, on the contrary. of what Real Madrid thinks, which has said goodbye to him in a bad way. «I do not consider that training basketball is something so important. An airplane pilot is important to me”, commented who wanted to especially thank the doctor of the basketball section, Miguel Ángel López, also fired from Madrid, for refusing to sign the coach’s sick leave during the Endesa League final . “He was the one who told me to go to the hospital quickly and treated me from day one,” he congratulated. He also thanked “the president of Real Madrid, the board of directors, the fans and the people who have worked” with him during these 11 years. “In addition to being workers, they are friends. Because of the way I am, I have no enemies », he declared proudly, the same day that Real Madrid made official the return of Sergio Rodríguez to the team now led by his former assistant, Chus Mateo.

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