Hajduk's 19-year old star Jean Evrard Kouassi has received a call-up for the U20 Cote d'Ivoire national team. He will be joining his teammated in France already today. Jean has had a morning training session at Poljud, after which he left for Nice where the Francophone Games open on Saturday.

Kouassi's head-turning performances have thus attracted the national team coach's attention. This is his first call-up since joining Hajduk in January. Jean is expected to return from France the following Wednesday and join Igor Tudor's other charges in the preparation for the derby against Dinamo Zagreb on Saturday, September 14.