“Red” from Chicago Fire: The national team is without boxes at Euro U19!

A blow for the Youth National Team with Giorgos Koutsias in view of its final phase Euro U19 (3/7-16/7).

In particular, our representative group will be deprived of the services of the 19-year-old striker (who scored three goals in five matches in the qualifying phase) and this because the Chicago Fire they did not agree to “give away” their player for this period.

It should be noted that the American team made use of the relevant right arising from the fact that the European Championship is not included in the official FIFA dates. Which means that the teams are not obliged to agree to the relevant requests of the Federations, as in what the EPO proceeded with.

The Greek Federation made every effort to convince the Chicago Fire people (trying to take advantage of the presence of Frank Klopp and Nikos Kostenoglou). However, the American club explained that the move in question is a consistent policy of the club, citing the recent U20 World Championship, where it did not let Chris Brady and Brian Gutierrez represent the US national team.

It is recalled that the final phase of the European U19 Championship is held in Malta, with the Greek National Team facing in Group B the Spain, Norway and Iceland.