Teenage defender Debast gets first Belgium call-up

BRUSSELS : Belgium coach Roberto Martinez named uncapped teenager Zeno Debast in a 30-man squad for this month’s Nations League matches against Wales and the Netherlands.

“It is no surprise because of the impressive way he has started the season,” he told a news conference on Friday. Martinez also picked Jason Denayer but he will not play either game because he has not found a new club since leaving Olympique Lyonnais at the end of last season. Instead he will only train, Martinez explained at a news conference on Friday.Top scorer Romelu Lukaku misses out because of injury but Martinez said he had no concerns over the Inter Milan striker’s availability for the World Cup in November.Belgium take on Wales in Brussels on Sept. 22 and the Dutch in Amsterdam three days later.

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