“I’m still an Austrian and not a German.” Says the Slovenian.
Ales Pajovic has been running two -track since February of this year. Sporty, of course. After the World Cup, he announced that he would switch to the German Bundesliga in Flensburg.
At the same time, as a team manager of Austria, he finalizes the European Championship qualification with the doubles against Germany and in May with the games against Turkey and Switzerland. The 46-year-old speaks of two important weeks that are still imminent with his team. On Thursday evening he cheered in Vienna-Kagran with his team over a sensational 26:26 against Germany.
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The players want to give him a say goodbye to the successful qualification, as district runner Tobi Wagner last expressed on Kurier.tv. “With us there is already a big melancholy, Pajo has accompanied me for many years.” With Pajovic himself, this emotion does not yet arise, and it currently does not allow it. “I just focus on the tasks. Maybe it will be different in May, more emotional. ”
He can handle the double pollution between Austria and Flensburg well. “It’s not that bad. There have been many games in the past few weeks, but I was very happy to be with the boys again now. ”
Constant reunion
With Flensburg he is in fifth in the league, in the European League you are in the quarter -finals. Germany’s captain Johannes Golla now meets his club coach twice in international matches and has to smile.
“It is a special constellation that you play with the national team against your club coach. Otherwise you only know the duels against players. ” In the first duel, Pajovic had more reason to celebrate than Golla.
Golla is full of praise for Pajovic. “I am very positive from the first few months together.” After the international matches, Pajovic meets Flensburg and with Golla again on Kiel and Mykola Bilek, then on Lemgo with Lukas Hutecek and Constantin Möstl. Against see again.
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What Pajovic has been as team boss in Austria in recent years? Möstl: “It is his personality. He always left us freedom, but always made clear announcements. ”
Pajovic also wants to plant the team spirit, which has developed over the years in the ÖHB selection over the years and which one saw again in draw against Germany. “We are currently working on some things. This is all a process that takes time. The development of such a team spirit as we have here takes. ”
Likewise, that his family follows him to Germany, which should happen soon. What Pajovic has in Flensburg: “That I have to explain my Austrian expressions to you. Because they don’t understand. ”