Exciting news! 18-year old Croatian central defender Luka Vuskovic, who will join Tottenham Hotspur this summer from Hajduk Split, has been rewarded for his excellent season with his first ever call-up to the Croatian national team! Vuskovic will be part of the squad that will play Gibraltar and Czechia in June.
Former Tottenham players Luka Modric and Ivan Perisic are also in the squad because they are ageless football liches who through dark magic are still good at football despite ostensibly dying sometime in the 19th century.
Vuskovic has spent the season, along with Spurs academy player Alfie Devine, at Belgian first division club Westerlo, and he’s been an absolute rock in the back line. He has seven goals this season as a central defender and has already emerged as one of the top young defenders in world football. And he’s coming to Spurs next season because Tottenham reached an agreement to sign him when he turns 18 two seasons ago.
I have no idea whether Vuskovic will play or not. You’d like to think he’d get some minutes against Gibraltar at least, but who knows — and honestly just getting a call-up to a major European national team at age 18 is significant and laudatory. And if he does play, it will give Spurs fans who don’t have a line on how to watch Belgian league football an opportunity to watch him in action.
Congrats, Luka!