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The Polish reporters point out that Dragovski is very likely to get a starting shirt on Friday (15/11) in the match against Portugal of the big stars and the goalkeeper of Panathinaikos, vindicated for his choice to continue in the “clover”, is preparing for the biggest come back of his career.
Not everything is “black” on… planet Panathinaikos, even if it is sometimes “convenient” to present things this way, under the cloak of the given introversion that always eats the club. And… it shot up even higher after the very difficult first quarter of the season, although despite the thousands of miles that the “clover” has spent in these first 11 games of the Stoiximan Super League, it is now -2 from top.
Panathinaikos has the “wish and curse” together, to have 11 international footballers in this (third in the season) international “window”. So many will be missing from the training sessions of the greens in the next 10-11 days and Rui Vitoria’s attempt to make a total racing restart in Koropi.
On the one hand, the confirmation of the upgrade and quality that now exists in the Panathinaikos roster with 11 first-line footballers in their national teams, and on the other hand, the extra difficulty of managing the situation for the 54-year-old technician, who wanted and wants to take advantage of this break to start passing on the pieces of his own philosophy to the team and to correct the – oops – bad texts in the Panathinaikos game, first of all the creation and the goal.
Of the 11 internationals of the “clover”, 10 had a significant role in their national teams. Other key and irreplaceable players – Tasos Bakasetas, Fotis Ioannidis in Greece, Azedin Unahi in Morocco, Facundo Pellistri in Uruguay, Adam Cerin in Slovenia, Nemanja Maksimovic in Serbia, Ingi Ingason in Iceland – and others (at this timing) in more secondary but sure “active” role (Vagiannidis in Greece, Mladenovic in Serbia, Sporar now in Slovenia since he was decommissioned from Panathinaikos).
The… eleventh of the group, Bartlomiej Dragovski was eagerly waiting for his own next opportunity and now it seems that the time has come. Through Panathinaikos and his performances with the “trefoil” over the past 11 months, the 26-year-old goalkeeper managed to return to the Polish national team’s call-ups in the last few months since last September in a very special timing, as Michal Probierze was looking for the best possible option after the departure of Sezny.
From September calls
“Drago” entered the September call-ups and was on the bench for the games against Scotland (5/9, a 3-2 away win for the Poles) and Croatia (8/9, a 1-0 loss to Croatia in Zagreb), being behind Marcin Bulka of Nice and Lukasz Skorupski of Bologna.
In the October “window” he was in the starting calls and there was a feeling that he would get one of the games against Portugal (1-3 home loss) or Croatia (3-3 home draw), but his minor adductor injury before from the derby with Olympiakos in OAKA led Probiergs to the decision to “cut” him with… a heavy heart, waiting for the next “window”.
The ultimate… crash test for him
And this moment has arrived, with Dragovski preparing to return to the elite, almost two and a half years after his last appearance with the national team of Poland.
And this is because, as reported by the Polish teams, even though 4 goalkeepers were called up (along with “Drago” and Bulka, Skorupski and Mrozek), the Panathinaikos goalkeeper is ready for the big comeback. Not in any… ordinary match, but against the great Portugal of Cristiano Ronaldo and the rest of its big stars, which the Poles will face on Friday (15/11) at the “Estadio do Dragao” in Oporto in the framework of the 5th game of League A Group 1 of the Nations League.
In an absolute… crash test that can – provided “Drago” passes it with a high grade – consolidate him under the goalposts of the Polish team in the 2026 World Cup qualifiers, which is also the next normal bet of the Poles.
All in all, all this is honorable for Panathinaikos, absolute justification for Dragovski, who wanted to be able to return to the highest level through the greens. And before he gets out in 2024 he sees a big goal of his coming back to life.
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