{"id":216913,"date":"2025-10-16T04:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T04:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/216913\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T04:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T04:27:07","slug":"10-things-about-patrick-retschko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/216913\/","title":{"rendered":"10 things about Patrick Retschko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Get to know more about our newest Tiger, Patrick Retschko.\n            <\/p>\n<p>\n                            By Tony Greenberg, Richmond Media\n                            <\/p>\n<p>Find out more about Richmond\u2019s newest recruit Patrick Retschko&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>1. \u00a0 \u00a0He was born on February 28, 2006.<br \/>2. \u00a0 \u00a0He grew up in Malvern East.<br \/>3. \u00a0 \u00a0His first football memory was being up at 5.30am wearing his Richmond football gear, ready to have a kick of the footy.<br \/>4. \u00a0 \u00a0He played junior football with the Malvern East Knights and later at St Kilda under Darren Crocker\u2019s coaching.<br \/>5. \u00a0 \u00a0He went to Caulfield Grammar and captained its firsts team.<br \/>6. \u00a0 \u00a0He has drawn football inspiration from fellow Caulfield Grammarian and dual Brownlow Medallist Chris Judd.<br \/>7. \u00a0 \u00a0He was a schoolboy athletics star, winning an under-13s national 800-metres title, but chose football over an athletics career in America.<br \/>8. \u00a0 \u00a0His unique pre-game ritual since under-12s level was running several laps of the oval.<br \/>9. \u00a0 \u00a0He was a Vic Metro teammate of young Tigers Josh Smillie, Luke Trainor, Harry Armstrong and Tom Sims and a Caulfield Grammar teammate of Jasper Alger.<br \/>10. \u00a0 \u00a0He finished fifth in Geelong VFL team\u2019s 2025 best and fairest (the second highest Cats AFL-listed player in the count).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Get to know more about our newest Tiger, Patrick Retschko. By Tony Greenberg, Richmond Media Find out more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,85,83],"class_list":["post-216913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}