Foda: “There is a great madness for Demir”

The Barça player Yusuf Demir is concentrating with the Austrian national team. The young 18-year-old footballer is one of the positive news for Barcelona this summer. He has earned the trust of Koeman and also that of Austrian coach Franco Foda, who before tonight's match against Israel has raved about him. “Yusuf Demir surprised us all. Nobody in Austria expected him to be a Barcelona first team player this year. Nobody expected him to play in preseason games with the first team. We thought he was on loan to Barça B ”, he admitted in a statement to the Barça Times.

Foda goes further and assures that “today he is considered the greatest promise of Austrian football, there is no doubt. Since we started to know that he would be a player in the squad of Barcelona's first team, he started a great madness in Austria with him ”.

Franco Foda has been closely following the evolution of Yusuf Demir for a long time. In fact, He already made his debut with the Austrian senior team before the Eurocup. Its international premiere was produced on March 28 against the Faroe Islands, at the age of 17 years, 9 months and 26 days. “Already in the lower categories he was a great talentHis arrival in the Rapid first team did not help him much. The team believed in him a lot, the coach less, he did not feel that Yusuf was prepared. In Austria we knew that very big clubs in Europe were already interested in him. From the national teams we tried to get him to play a little more in the Austrian league so that he would improve ”, declared the Austria coach.