Greece celebrate record-breaking Wembley goal with touching George Baldock tribute

Greece opened the scoring against England successful the Nations League connected Thursday nighttime and their squad paid tribute to the precocious George Baldock successful their celebrations, a time aft his tragic death

Greece celebrated their first-ever extremity astatine Wembley by holding up a garment bearing George Baldock's name.

They had travelled to Wembley to instrumentality connected England successful the Nations League connected Thursday night. The crippled came a time aft Greek planetary Baldock was recovered dormant successful the swimming excavation astatine his villa successful Athens.

Baldock earned 12 caps for Greece earlier his tragic drowning connected Wednesday. As good arsenic a infinitesimal of silence, some sets of players were wearing achromatic armbands successful tribute to the 31-year-old.

And aft dancing past Trent Alexander-Arnold, John Stones and Cole Palmer earlier slotting his changeable past Jordan Pickford, Greece striker Vangelis Pavlidis ran to the country emblem portion pointing to his armband. He past held it successful the aerial arsenic helium was embraced by his team-mates.

They past besides held up a achromatic Greece garment which bore Baldock's sanction and his number. Pavlidis' onslaught was his country's first-ever extremity astatine Wembley.

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