Kozlowski, youngest to play, 3 days forward of Bellingham

Dusseldorf (Germany), June 14 (EFE).- The Polish heart midfielder Kacper Kozlowski He has not performed along with his nation’s nationwide group since October 21, 2021, however he’s Euro Cup historical past: the youngest footballer to play within the ultimate part of the match, at 17 years and 246 days, three days forward of English worldwide Jude Bellingham, each in Euro 2020, ready to be surpassed by the Spanish Yamine Lamal.

Within the match that was delayed a yr because of the Covid pandemic, on June 19, 2021, on the La Cartuja stadium in Seville, Paulo Sousa, Poland’s then coach, introduced on Kozolowski within the fifty fifth minute to switch Mateusz Klich. towards the Spanish group, the match had simply been tied by Robert Lewandowski within the 54th minute, following Álvaro Morata’s 1-0.

That is how the footballer born on October 16, 2003 in Koszalin, at the moment 20 years outdated, forgotten within the Polish nationwide group since September 2023, went down in historical past, for now unsurpassed.

Then it was his final call-up, with Fernando Santos as coach. He didn’t play any minutes within the 2-0 defeat to the Faroe Islands. He has performed six of the eleven video games during which he was known as up for the senior group. His debut was on March 21, 2021 towards Andorra (3-0).

Worldwide in every of the Polish youth groups (eight video games with the U15, 17 with the U17, one with the U19 and twelve with the U21), the passage of the ultimate part of the match 2020 to 2021 benefited him: a yr earlier than, he was not but in the true focus of absolutely the group, with whom he performed one other duel in Euro 2020, on the third day of the group stage, during which his group misplaced and was eradicated, with a 3-2 with Sweden.

Kozlowski, a starter on solely one of many eleven instances he has been known as up for his nationwide group (the 5-0 win over San Marino on October 9, 2021), was signed for the 2021-22 marketing campaign by Brighton, who paid 11 million of euros to Pogon Szczecin, however in three years he has solely performed one sport with the English group, 61 minutes in a pleasant in 2022.

Consecutively loaned to Unión Saint Gilloise, in the midst of the 2021-22 marketing campaign, and the final two seasons to Vitesse, with whom he has performed 63 video games, scored six targets and given ten assists, he’ll not play in Euro 2024 .