Among other things, Thodoris Zagorakis said:
“I experienced this when I left PAOK, as Panagiotis Katsouris had lost his life. It is shocking to lose a person. In less than 24 hours our internationals had to deal with the worst thing a human can experience. Because these kids and Giorgos trained together, competed together, were in the rooms together and generally spent most hours of the day together. And they managed to hit the perfect pitch and take a huge double at Wembley against England. The image conveyed to us was extremely moving and many congratulations are due to all the children and all the honor of our representative group.
In the two games against England and Ireland they honored their teammate in the best possible way. I believe that more great victories will come in the future. When you have consecutive games you can overcome situations, but like this with Baldock’s death it’s very difficult.
The signs of improvement of our national team can be seen in the results. With Baldock in mind our internationals will achieve even more. The score at Wembley does us an injustice based on the image we had for most of the match. Under no circumstances will the game in the OAKA against England be easy and we cannot say that we are favourites.
The National should last and I think people will love it and fall in love with it again. Always good results attract people. Our internationals will always carry Baldock within them. Jovanovic is a coach who knows the Greek reality and I was sure that he will lead the national team to success. The same had happened with Santos».
THE Nikos Nioplias stated:
“For my part I want to express my condolences to the Baldock family. The boys gave their best and managed to get a historic double at Wembley. It is not at all easy what they achieved when, one day before, they learned the shocking news of the loss of their teammate. The English come to OAKA only for one result and they see it as a final because in a different result they will lose the first place in the group.
In the match against Ireland for 35 minutes we played amazing football. In the last four years we have been making progress and let’s not forget with Poget on the bench for a missed penalty we did not go to the European Championship in Germany. They have been the same team for four years, they have all bonded together and this can be seen on the field and in the results.
Whichever coach went was lucky because he didn’t have to make any changes. For me always because I was in national teams for years it takes 4 to six years to mature and succeed. These children, like the coach, are not in our toxicity. Only Mandalos and Masouras have not played abroad.
We are a good team and we are on the right track. Jovanovic is a coach that is accepted by everyone because in the past in each player call we had different things and different things were written. Difficult days will come and the people will have to support them because for many years our national team has been absent from a major event. But when he sees effort he is there».
Source: Sport Fm
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