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VfB Stuttgart captain Atakan Karazor said on Friday he was “proud and grateful” to be called up into Turkey’s national team squad for the first time in what is also a decision against an international career for Germany. Karazor has citizenship of his birth country Germany and of Turkey where his parents are from. The midfielder Karazor was nominated by Turkey coach Vincenzo Montella into the Nations League squad for matches on October 11 against Montenegro and three days later against Iceland. Karazor said earlier he had more or less made up his mind, “purely for sporting reasons”, after Sky …

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