The chronicle of Zafiris’ “yes” to the Greek National Team and the role of Ivan Jovanovic

With the deal for the assumption of technical leadership by Ivan Jovanovich the possibility of being called to was discussed Men’s National Team the midfielder of Slavia Prague, Christos Zafeiris. The Serbian coach had a general picture, but now he started to check him in order to form a complete opinion.

He watched last year’s matches, saw this year’s matches so far in the Czech championship and in Europe. It is worth mentioning that Ivan Jovanovich spoke several times on the phone with the 21-year-old midfielder as he places great emphasis on the issue of personal contact.

From the first moment, Christos Zafeiris showed how much she wants to wear the jersey of the Greek National Team, although he also competed for the Norwegian National Team of Hope. He obviously felt a moral obligation to the Norwegians who promoted him in football, but his desire is to wear the “blue and white”.

Ivan Jovanovic concluded that the footballer qualifies based on his characteristics and gave the “green light” for the bureaucratic procedures to proceed. After all, the Slavia Prague player plays in a position where the national team has limited options.

In fact, Christos Zafeiris after the Lille-Slavia Prague game made a lightning trip to Athens last Thursday wherever and completed the procedures for issuing a passport and identity card. He was at the offices of the EPO, had a meeting with Ivan Jovanovic, who essentially welcomed him to our representative group. The only pending issue is now the consent of FIFA to formalize the call-up of Christos Zafeiris in the Men’s National Team.