The promising budding star of Ghanaian parentage made his bow with the Dutch youth side during their friendly games with their neighbouring European countries last week
Dutch-born Ghanaian teen Denzel Darko has made his debut with The Netherlands U15 national youth team against Luxembourg and Belgium on Tuesday and Thursday respectively.
The 14-year-old, currently on the books of Ajax U15 youth outfit, was introduced into the game on the 60th minute as PSV attacker Alex Kalokoh bagged a brace for the Oranje U15 side to emerge victorious against Luxembourg at the Juliana Sportpark of FC 's-Gravenzande on Tuesday.
However, in Thursday's encounter against Belgium, Darko was handed a starting berth by manager Maurice Hagebeuk as they witnessed a 1-0 defeat at the same venue at the end of the clash.
Despite the defeat, the Dutch talent nurturing gaffer hailed his budding stars over their performances against their opponent by stating that; ''We tried to execute what we had agreed upon. In attacking, that worked better than in defending. The only thing missing were the goals. We really should have scored four or five more goals today.''
The manager revealed that he and his charges will be seen in action in a similar exercise when they take on Belgium U15 side on May 5 and Germany U15 side on May 7 respectively.
''Two daring opponents. We are looking forward to these two matches in which the maximum will be asked of us again,'' Hagebeuk stated.
Darko together with his Ajax U15 team-mates namely; Mohammed Tatuh , Illai Grootfaam and Eniola Owolabi will be expected to make the cut in Maurice Hagebeuk's squad for the friendly games in May this year.
