‘I hope it motivates other teams to see more kids’

Christos Mouzakitis was called up to the Men’s National Team for the first time with Ivan Jovanovic stating among other things that he wants to open up the roster and integrate more players, while he hopes this will motivate other teams to use Greek players.

In detail what Ivan Yovanovitch said about Christos Mouzakitis at the press conference: “Ma press conference is not enough to explain my thoughts. Greece based on the population, football and teams we do not have a large roster for the national team.

It consists of 25-27 players and one of the roles I have is to try in this period ahead of us and regardless of the difficulties to open the roster and I am certainly glad that there are footballers in Greece who play in big teams in big games and have to they also have the message from the national team that we count on them and I hope that in the future it will motivate other teams to see more children and also motivate players who are abroad to try harder.

In these competitions there are charges regarding the players, injuries, cards, many issues that as time goes by the problem will grow and my rationale is to slowly open the roster with new kids, new players. It is important that in the future we have more and more children who will live the atmosphere we have in the team and live this goal throughout their career“.

On not having time to work with the players and where he focused on communicating with the internationals, how he sees the players: ‘The results are important. Having won four I expected they would also be waiting to get back together for a game like this one against England. They are very positive, they have a good relationship with each other. They understand what we want, we have a great attitude. Good results bring euphoria, it brings people to the stadium. They are impatient. I am happy to have children who are happy to come to the National Team“.