Anton Žlogar reveals the trump cards for the first round of European Championship qualifiers and makes it clear: “The goal is to qualify for the next round!”
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Qualification for the next European Youth Championship will start in mid-November, and the Slovenian national team will be at work, led from the selector’s bench by Anton Žlogar. The latter has published the list of players he will count on for the tournament in Albania, where Slovenia will be travelling from 15. to 21. November. In the meantime, the team will play three matches: the opening one against Belgium, followed by Ireland and finally Albania.
Anton Žlogar has included 20 players on the list, including six who, despite their youth, are already earning their living abroad: Miha Trdan, Luka Mlakar and Lovro Golič are training in Italy, Jaka Čuber Potočnik in Germany, Kristjan Bendra and Arjan Malić in neighbouring Austria.
“The opponents are certainly good. Fortunately, in the current era, we have various technological resources at our disposal, through which we have been able to analyse the play of the teams that await us in this year’s first round of qualification. I watched a few games and tried to prepare myself for our opponents. I stress again that the opponents are good, but at the same time we have to be aware that this must not affect our objective, which is nothing other than to advance to the next round,” is for
NHS website
selector Anton Žlogar.
Žlogar: “Some are already playing youth football”
The former top-class footballer, who also played 37 games for the Slovenian national team, added: “We need to focus on the first game against Belgium and realise that we also have quality and a good team that can produce a positive result. When selecting players, we gave priority to those who we think are in the best shape in this period. Some of our boys are already playing professional football at this age, which is very noticeable in these generations. I believe that we will be able to parry all three opponents. We will do our best and hope to advance to the next round.”
Youth national team for the first round of qualification for the European Championship: Miha Trdan (Pisa/ITA), Luka Mlakar (Roma/ITA), Lovro Golic (Roma/ITA), Jaka Čuber Potočnik (Cologne/NEM), Timotej Brkić (Mura), Niko Kasalo (Mura), Tim Štrasberger (Koper), Kristjan Bendra (RB Salzburg/AVT), Kevin Benkič (Ilirija), Jan Petek (Aluminij), Beno Selan (Bravo), Lan Hribar (Bravo), Lucas Mačak (Celje), Lukas Hempt (Domžale), Luka Topalović (Domžale), Luka Poredoš (Maribor), Riad Silajdžić (Maribor), Arjan Malić (Ried/AVT), Dino Kojić (Olimpija), Aldin Jakupović (Olimpija).
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