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He's started at LCB for Inter Miami the first 2 games of the MLS season. I mean, he's not going to come in to the senior team anytime soon. But I am sure he will get PT with the U21 team. Plays next to Jordi Alba, and with Messi & Suarez. I assume he is learning a lot.

How could it have been him if he was TOO BUSY PARTYING

Kafeino time, 100% it was Despodov! He is sick of riding the bench while he watches Zivkovic start every game. He is trying to maximise his minutes.

Compare that to Scotland who only has 3 players under 25 from their last callups

We may actually have three callups who are teenagers!! Karetsas (17), Mouzakitis (18), and one of Kostoulas (17) or Tzimas (19). Then we have quite a few players who are 21-23 who will be called up (Koulerakes, Tzolakis, Delias, Tzolis, Zafeiris).

“According to multiple news sources Konstantinos Karetsas has been called up for the Greece national team against Scotland in March. The rest of the squad is due to be announced”

The point of the Nations League was exactly that. UEFA's goal was to give the smaller nations in League C and D a path to qualify for a major tournament. Something which has been almost impossible to achieve in the past. Hence we've seen Georgia and Skopia amongst the the countries making their debut at the last 2 Euros. Whether it is right or not is a different conversation. But that was always UEFA's goal by forming the play-offs through the NL. Euro qualifying is different as all the playoff participants come from the NL but World Cup qualification allows only for 4 NL group winners to participate. With the other 12 playoff participants being the runners-up from the WC qualification groups. So it is bad luck for Greece that we were a League B runner-up during a WC cycle. If it was a Euro cycle we would have almost certainly been handed a playoff birth. If we were to be promoted to League A, then regardless of where we finish in our group, we would again almost be guaranteed a playoff spot. For reference, in the 2 playoffs for Euro qualification since the NL was introduced, by virtue of almost all of the League A teams qualifying directly, the League A teams left behind have all taken part in the playoffs. In 2024 that was Poland and Wales and in 2021 (Euro 2020) it was Iceland.