This venue also hosted an Italy national under-21 football team match in 1994, which ended in a 2–1 win for the azzurrini against Croatia national under-21 football team, but is best remembered for seeing the Italian team play with Nissa's red-coloured home shirts due to both teams having very similar jersey colours and lacking the corresponding reserve kits.
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Adamos Andreou (Greek: Αδάμος Ανδρέου; born 18 December 1994 in Cyprus) is a Cypriot football midfielder who currently plays for Anorthosis Famagusta and the Cypriot National Team U21.
Ismayilov is a part of the Azerbaijan U-21 side that is competing in the 2011 European Under-21 Championship qualification.
On 6 February 2013 O'Brien scored on his debut for the Republic of Ireland U21s against Netherlands in a 3–0 win at Tallaght Stadium.
Tettey is now a naturalized Norwegian and has been capped for the Norwegian under-18, 19 and 21 national teams, and he made his first appearance on the Norwegian national team in their 2–1 win against Argentina on 22 August 2007.
At Gençlerbirliği he started to play for Turkey U21 since April 1996 and selected to 1997 Mediterranean Games.
In the final against Switzerland, through another header, Herrera netted the first goal in an eventual 2–0 win in Aarhus.
On March 27, 2009 in an interview with the local newspaper Hallandsposten, Raskaj stated that he had been in contact with Swedish U21 co-manager Jörgen Lennartsson, who had told him that he just had missed out on the 2009 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship as he had not yet gained Swedish citizenship.
He was an assistant coach of the Slovakia U-21 team at the 2000 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship and the 2000 Summer Olympics alongside Dušan Radolský.
He was part of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Under 21 team together with players like Edin Džeko, Vedad Ibišević and Sejad Salihović.
He returned to Stuart Pearce's coaching staff, assisting with the under-21 team and with the Great Britain Olympic team.
Additionally, it also held other sporting events, most notably the under-21 match between Spain and Poland in 2006 (0–1).
He also appeared for the England Under 21 side in Toulon in 1996.
Partly because of his strong performances for the young Red Devils, he attracted the interest of some Belgian top-clubs, including Club Brugge, Germinal Beerschot and Gent.
That was second appearance from Croatian football team on FIFA competition, after A-team appeared on FIFA World Cup in France in 1998.
First game = U-23: Bulgaria 2-1 Czechoslovakia
Pleven, November 15, 1967
U-21: Czechoslovakia 0-0 Scotland
Plzeň, October 12, 1976
Last International
U-23: Czechoslovakia 1-1 Portugal
Teplice, November 12, 1975
Gordon was capped by England under 21s towards the end of the campaign, but hampered his chances of future selection when he and his Norwich City team mate Robert Rosario broke curfew while away with the under 21s and went to a nightclub.
During his third appearance for the team on 5 September 2013, in the Group 5 qualification game to the 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championships, he scored his first goal for them in the 2-0 away win against Latvia U-21 team in Slokas Stadium, Jūrmala.
On 31 March 2009, he made his debut for the Italy U-21 squad in a friendly against the Netherlands, played at Parkstad Limburg Stadion, Kerkrade and ended in a 1–1 draw.
He made his debut with the Italy U-21 on 3 September 2010 in a qualification match against Bosnia Herzegovina played in Sarajevo.
After impressing with PSV both in the UEFA Cup against Tottenham Hotspur and Fiorentina, where he played solid games against Dimitar Berbatov and Adrian Mutu, Marcellis caught the eye of not only Dutch football fans but also the Netherlands U-21 coach Foppe de Haan.
In the early morning of 5 September 2010, hours after an under-21 international between Serbia and Croatia, Ladić was involved in a car accident when the Mercedes-Benz E-Class he was driving collided with a Renault Clio at a Zagreb road intersection.
After excelling with Standard Liège's senior team, Mangala drew the interest of the French Football Federation with France under-21 manager Erick Mombaerts attending a match between Liège and Mouscron at the Stade Le Canonnier in November.
It held two matches of the 2006 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship, Serbia & Montenegro 0-1 Germany and Portugal 0-2 Serbia & Montenegro.
Faroe Islands had to wait until their fourth match for the first under-21 victory, it came when they beat Azerbaijan 1-0 in Toftir.
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Faroe Islands had the chance of finishing third in the group going into the final match against Moldova, in Tiraspol.
After half a year working for the Royal Belgian Football Association as head coach of the Belgium U-21, he was hired again by Zulte Waregem as head coach in the last week of 2011.
He made his Italy U-21 debut on 4 September 2009 as starter, in a match lost 1–2 against Wales in Swansea.
In 1964, the team's new home ground, Gradski stadion u Kutini, was officially opened with a game against the Croatia U-19 team.
At the age of 18, Ward-Prowse received his first call-up to the England under-21 team from Gareth Southgate in August 2013, for the 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification matches against Moldova and Finland.
In June 2010, he finished his contract with Spain Under-21 and he decided not to continue anymore and to sign a contract with the Romanian Liga 1 club FC Vaslui.
He made his under-21 debut as an 84th minute substitute in a 1–1 draw away to Georgia on 14 November 2009 in a 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship qualification Group 2 match.
Neto appeared with the Portuguese under-21 team at the 2009 Lusophony Games.
A string of impressive performances later he was even able to keep newly signed Belgian international Filip Daems (Ziege's proposed replacement) off the starting berth on left-back and enjoyed a bright debut season in the professional game, winning a key role for the German U21 as well.
On 5 October, Van der Maarel was called up for Netherlands U21, for the European U21 Championship group 4 qualifiers at Finland and Poland.
Stepanov was part of the Serbian and Montenegrin team that was knocked out in the first round of the 2004 Summer Olympics after finishing fourth in Group C behind eventual winners Argentina, Australia and Tunisia.
On 23 March 2011, Zamir made his debut for the Israel under-21 national football team in a friendly tournament against Georgia in the Austrian town of Sankt Veit.
He was the unused member of the Italy Olympic team that won the 1997 Mediterranean Games.
Coelho was capped for Portugal at under-19 level, appearing for the nation at the 2006 UEFA European Championship and the 2006 Lusophony Games.
He made his U21 debut on 11 October 2005 against Moldova U21, he received his second cap for the Olympic team (de facto U21 team) at 2008 Toulon Tournament.
After his great work in Georgia, in December 2008 Germany's leading sports magazine Kicker announced that German Football Association choose Petar Segrt as one of the candidates for taking over Germany U21.
Rui Jorge played for the Portuguese U-21 side which lost the 1994 European Championship final to Italy (1–2) and the Olympic team who finished fourth at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
Ujkani received an Albanian passport in summer 2007 and started playing for the Albania U21.
Kuvvatov played against England under-21s on 10 August 2010 at Ashton Gate.
Reto Zanni who played for the Switzerland national under-21 football team and now plays for FC Basel and Christophe Lambert who currently plays for FC Luzern.
On 6 February 2013 Grether made his debut for the Swiss U-21 team in the El Madrigal stadium in Villarreal, Spain, being substituted in in the 79th minute.
He played in all five of the matches and earned a penalty for his team (which was converted by Andrei Voronkov) in the 2:0 group stage win against Iceland U21.
Väyrynen scored a hat-trick when Finland U21 beat Wales U21 5-1 in Bangor 14 August 2013 in UEFA U21 qualifications.
He started to play for the Croatian under-21 team and eventually progressed to his country's senior national team, for which he soon made his debut in the friendly match against world champions Italy on 16 August 2006 in Livorno, Italy.
He scored on his U21 debut after coming on as a substitute against San Marino in a UEFA U21 European Championship Qualifier, and earned his first senior cap in a 6–0 defeat to the Netherlands in a friendly on 2 June 2012.