17-year-old Kos Karetsas is competing smoothly in the Belgian competitions. However, the creative midfielder is at the beginning of his career. His name includes 25 matches with the first team, with 2 goals and 4 assists.
Konstantinos Karetsas played 18 times with the Belgian U15 to U17. Last year he played 2 matches with the Young Devils. Filip Joos would make the Genk player appear twice in the jump-off matches against Ukraine in March. To make Kos Karetsas choose Belgium and not Greece. However, opinions on this are divided.
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“Karetsas was very strong against KV Mechelen. He is becoming a patron at KRC Genk,” Filip Joos said in the VRT program Extra Time. “He says he still has to choose between the Red Devils and Greece. We will soon play against Ukraine on behalf of the Nations League, the Greeks against the Scots. There is a good chance that he will be called up there, shouldn’t we just select him?
“He just has to come on twice. Suppose you do that. What’s the problem that it wouldn’t work out anyway? What have you lost then? Call him anyway. I now always let him play twice. Why risk losing him to Greece?”
Frank Boeckx thinks differently. He doesn’t think you should put pressure on a 17-year-old player. Perhaps Kos Karetsas, born in Genk, is not yet ready to make a choice. Boeckx advises Karetsas to listen to his heart. The national team is a different story than club football. You defend the colors of a nation.
-Unhealthy
Kos Karetsas recently indicated that he is waiting to see which football country calls him up for the national call-up. Peter Vandenbempt does not think this is a healthy view. “I actually think it’s a strange way of doing things. I’m now 17 years old and I’m going to see who calls me up and I’m going to play for that, that’s also very strange.”
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“But what if you have a heart that doesn’t know, have you never doubted?” was Filip Joos’s response. “I criticized Kevin De Bruyne and Romelu Lukaku for deciding when they were selected. Now there is someone of 17 years old who says that he must be called up or he will choose another country, that is not healthy,” Peter Vandenbempt noted.
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