Nino Žugelj joins the national team before the hellish end of the qualifiers: he plays for a club with a mindset that is very close to the selector’s heart
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Every call-up to the national team is a big thing, but when you’re called up for the first time just before the end of the qualifiers, just before a big success… Then the honour is all the greater. As a newcomer, he will fight for the Euro 2024. Nino Žugelj will join the Slovenian national team, who has been selected by the selector Matjaž Kek has mentioned several times in the past as a potential national team player.
But Nino Žugelj, who is currently a member of Norwegian club Bodo/Glimt, with whom he is on the verge of becoming national champion, also had some health problems in the past, which forced Matjaž Kek to wait for him. Now he is playing again, not long ago he scored his first league goal of the season and was on the selectors’ list.
“Nino Žugelj has already been present in certain plans in the last period. He is a footballer who could fill several problematic positions due to injury problems. He had some problems himself, but he came back and played some very good games. And it plays in a way that could suit us. He earned his call-up by playing in a tough league and for a team that plays good, exciting football. They are close in character to my thinking,“, explained Matjaž Kek, revealing that he could call up another player later.
“Alongside the players who are on the list, there are also some who are on the waiting list for the action that awaits us. If necessary, we will activate one of them,” said Matjaž Kek, who, expectedly, did not want to talk about who all was in the waiting room.
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