Werder’s Milos Veljkovic gave his all for Serbia until the very end of their European Championships journey, yet narrowly missed out on reaching the round of 16 in his first time competing at the tournament. “Unfortunately, we weren't able to pick up any points against Denmark and couldn’t get the ball over the line,” admitted the 28-year-old after the goalless draw. Nevertheless, Veljkovic was a…

Romano Schmid and Marco Grüll are through to the second round at EURO 2024 after a 3-2 win for Austria over the Netherlands, which saw the former score his first international goal. Group favourites France could only manage a draw against Poland in Dortmund, leaving Ralf Rangnick’s side as group winners. Elsewhere, Milos Veljkovic and Serbia were unable to progress in Group C.

Two of our globetrotting Green-Whites have been able to celebrate their first points of EURO 2024 in the last couple of days. Milos Veljkovic’s Serbia scored a last-gasp equaliser to rescue a draw against Slovenia, while Romano Schmid made a cameo appearance in Austria’s 3-1 victory over Poland.

Despite putting in strong performances to kick off this year’s tournament, both Milos Veljkovic’s Serbia and the Austrian side with Romano Schmid and summer signing Marco Grüll fell to narrow defeats in their opening matches of the European Championships. Serbia were beaten 1-0 by a strong England XI on Sunday evening, with the Austrians also losing by the same deficit against Didier Deschamps’…

Werder defender Milos Veljkovic gets his European Championship campaign underway on Sunday, when his Serbia side face EURO 2020 runners-up England in Gelsenkirchen at 21:00 CEST. On Monday, a similarly tough task awaits Romano Schmid, SVW new boy Marco Grüll and the rest of the Austria team as they take on France (also 21:00 CEST).