Jordi Fernandez admits he’s still a work in progress. For all accomplishments, an Olympic coach with teams from three different continents, assistant coaching jobs on three winning teams, and now, the head coaching gig in Brooklyn, he says he understands that the world he’s chosen is cut throat and there’s always going to be pressure.
“This is a very competitive country. In this country it feels like if you get fired you don’t get paid. In Spain, it’s like if you work for a company and then you get unemployment. Right here it’s like cutthroat,” he told Steve Serby in one of the Post writer’s patented lengthy interviews, referring to a difference between his native Spain and the U.