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Christian Standhardinger’s international career for Team Philippines started with a Southeast Asian (SEA) Games gold medal.
After winning a third one in the hardest way imaginable—and giving great consideration to painful knees ravaged by double Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) and national team duties—the 6-foot-7 workhorse is calling it a day internationally, but not after seeing that the Gilas Pilipinas team he will be leaving is “in good hands.”
“The [final] game marked a highly emotional day for me. Looking down in the locker room 30 minutes before tip-off at my swollen knees, I knew that this game would be my last appearance for the Gilas national team,” he wrote in a lengthy Instagram entry on Saturday.
“I knew that my body could not withstand the double duty and unfortunately, nothing showed that more clearly than this tournament where the demands were intensified,” he added.
Standhardinger has given it his all for flag and country and while in Cambodia, he got a full-length look at two players who can easily fill the void.
