The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) has named 40 avid gamers elderly 21 or beneath who they consider have the possible to overcome European soccer in 2023. The checklist, drawn up through mavens, features a Hungarian participant, Milos Kerkez, these days left-back for Dutch AZ Alkmaar.
UEFA stated that AC Milan may be apologetic about having let Milos Kerkez move remaining January. As the federation identified, the teen took over brilliantly from Owen Wijndal within the Alkmaar beginning line-up in the summertime and has been proving himself ever since. So a long way within the 2022-23 season, he has performed 28 fits and already has 3 targets and 6 assists regardless of being a left-back. Moreover, Kerkez has confirmed himself now not simplest within the Dutch league, but additionally within the European Conference League and the Nations League.
Every January, UEFA compiles an inventory of promising younger footballers; it remaining featured a Hungarian participant in 2020, Dominik Szoboszlai.
This yr’s checklist contains the world over famend avid gamers similar to Goncalo Ramos (Benfica), who scored a masterclass function for Portugal on the World Cup in Qatar, Nico Williams (Athletic Bilbao), who performed in all 4 of Spain’s remaining 8 fits, and Manchester United’s 18-year-old Argentine winger Alejandro Garnacho.
Besides UEFA, Kerkez has attracted the eye of the CIES Football Observatory in Switzerland as neatly, which not too long ago ranked him a number of the international’s maximum promising under-21 avid gamers of their newest learn about.
Kerkez used to be born in Serbia however has twin Serbian-Hungarian citizenship. This is how he used to be decided on for the Hungarian nationwide soccer staff, making his debut for the U17 nationwide staff in 2020, twelve months later for the U21 nationwide staff, and on June 9, 2022, he used to be invited to the Hungarian grownup nationwide staff for the primary time. He made his debut as a starter within the Nations League fit towards Germany on September 23, 2022, the place the staff gained, and Kerkez performed all through the entire fit.
He performed his first senior league fit in Hungary in 2020 for ETO FC Győr, however in 2021 he used to be signed through AC Milan, the place he first joined the U19 staff within the Italian early life league first department. In 2021, a then 17-year-old Kerkez used to be already taking part in for the grownup staff. In January 2022, he used to be signed through Dutch first department staff AZ Alkmaar, the place he has since turn into a first-rate participant.
According to contemporary media information, French Premier League staff OGC Nice is now having a look to signal Kerkez in January. Reportedly, the membership has already formally contacted the participant’s company.
Featured photograph by the use of Twitter/Milos Kerkez
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