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Young Greek Talent Abroad To Look Out For

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Five years ago Greece qualified for the 2014 World Cup, since then the National Team & Greek Football has really struggled, the organization & development of players from the Greek Football Federation since Fernando Santos and Fyssas left has basically been non existent (until recently at least). At club level aside for 4-5 teams the same problem exists. Fortunately with the internet these days, the advanced scouting, agents, and the avenues opened up with the success of former players Dellas, Karagounis, Samaras, Sokratis, etc. Its not all dark for Greek Football, especially with plenty of talent on the way. With all this, the Greek youngsters & their agents are simply just being smarter about their careers (for the most part at least) then they have been in the past. One example is you'll see someone like Olympiakos' Left Back Tsimikas going on loan last season to a Dutch team in the first division which greatly improved his game, while others like Kampe