Video: Nets’ Dennis Schröder Makes Educated Soccer Debut with sixth-Tier German Personnel
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Dennis Schröder is trading the hardwood for the pitch this offseason.
On Friday, the Brooklyn Nets point guard suited up for his expert soccer debut with FC Germania Bleckenstedt, a sixth-tier German soccer team.
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Basketball world champion Dennis Schroder performed for a sixth-tier German football membership this week. Ultimate contact for a noteworthy man, too. 😅
As Schroder’s brother-in-rules performs for FC Germania Bleckenstedt, he’s training with the team to withhold match sooner than the Olympics. ⚽️🤝🏀
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Schröder’s brother-in-rules performs for FC Germania Bleckenstedt and acquired him associated to the membership, and he’s the use of it as a contrivance of conditioning sooner than this summer time’s Olympics. Schröder became born in Braunschweig, Germany, and might per chance well simply describe the nation in Paris in July.
Per NBA.com, Schröder grew up having fun with soccer sooner than transitioning to basketball, so he’s now not contemporary to the pitch and can clearly sustain his possess if he’s getting having fun with time.
Schröder performed 63 minutes as a left winger in the 5-1 loss to SC Göttingen 05, per Transfermarkt (h/t ESPN’s Anthony Gharib).
After the match, he posted on Instagram to sing he wished his first sport had long past better while also shouting out his brother-in-rules.
“No longer the final consequence I needed for my first ever loyal football sport,” he wrote. “But [thanks] to my brother-in-rules for making it happen.”
Schröder, who became traded to the Nets from the Toronto Raptors this season, averaged 14.0 aspects and 6.1 assists per sport. Final year, he led Germany to a FIBA World Cup title over Serbia, earning FIBA World Cup MVP in the wait on of 17.9 aspects and 6.7 assists per sport.
After getting some execrable-training while having fun with soccer, he’ll gaze to book Germany to glory again this summer time in the Olympics.
