Sometimes in football, real miracles happen. For example, you can get into someone else's team and play against your own country if you send an e-mail video with your beautiful goal. It was such an incredible story that happened with a young player from Germany, Pau Babot, who became the football player of Andorra.

16-year-old Babot lives in Frankfurt, where he plays as a midfielder for the youthful composition of the local Carbenera and is even one of the two captains of the team. Every weekend, he participates in matches of the regional league of Hesse, where he fights with peers from neighboring cities. Thousands of promising, but little-known players can be found all over the country, and all of them dream of succeeding one day.

Babot is still different from most of them. His mother is from Andorra, and sometimes she goes with her to visit relatives in this country. This circumstance allowed the young footballer to hope that if he couldn’t succeed in joining the German national team in the future, he would at least be able to represent Andorra at the international level.

However, Babot could hardly have imagined that the debut for his motherland would take place now. Everything changed after the match with the Kickers from Offenbach in the youth championship. In that game, Babot picked up the ball in midfield, moved forward a bit and powerfully shot from 30 meters. Goal came out for a sight for sore eyes.

Then Babot decided that it was time to act. With the help of a friend of his aunt, he found the email address of one of the employees of the Andorran Football Federation. Babot wrote a letter, telling a little about himself and attaching a video with his goal to it. And soon the answer came - he, a young German footballer, was invited to view the national team until the age of 17.

“Pau knows how to play as a team. He is restrained, talented in terms of technology and plays well “on the second floor,” was how his coach from Carbeneer Torsten Dor described the newly-born Andorran.

But miracles did not end there. Immediately after the first training, Babot was offered to join the national team of players no older than 19 years old! She was about to play in the qualifying tournament for the European Championship, but the whole team was not recruited. Coach David Rodrigo called several younger players, including making a choice in favor of Babot.

Soon, the Andorrans and their new midfielder went to Scotland to compete. Ironically, the German team fell into the same group with the dwarf principality. It was with her that Andorra had to spend her first match. Babot remained in reserve for this game, but still appeared on the field for three minutes, when his new team was losing with a score of 0: 3.

“I was very nervous before entering the field, I really did not want to make mistakes. But in the end, I even managed to win the fight for the ball in the air once, ”said Babot afterwards, who had to face former compatriots, among whom were even players from the Bundesliga clubs.

In the next match against Scotland, Babot did not play, but in the final meeting with Belarus he spent another 15 minutes on the field. He did not distinguish himself by effective actions, and the Andorrans suffered a third defeat in a row. But for Babot this experience can be called positive - after all, a month ago he could not even think that one day he would play for the national team, and even with older football players.

Andorra is now seriously considering that Babot will help the national team get rid of the status of an eternal outsider and will play for his new homeland.

“We invited Pau to a training session and immediately saw that he was fully in line with the style of our game. I hope he will play for us for many years, ”Rodrigo said after the matches.

In November, another qualifying tournament will be held, this time for the European Championship for players no older than 17 years old, and Babot will also be able to take part in it. Andorra will play in the same group with Ireland, Israel and Montenegro.

If the midfielder still decides to represent Germany, then he will still have the opportunity to return. UEFA rules do not prohibit changing teams as a teenager, and then debuting as an adult.