Greece players were unwilling to play in Baldock aftermath as they were too trumatised on learning about the incident.
Greece did not want to play their Nations League game against England, according to midfielder Dimitrios Pelkas.
Former Sheffield United defender Baldock drowned in his Athens swimming pool at the age of thirty-one. After being granted eligibility to play for Greece through a grandmother, he earned 12 caps for the country and was last included in the team for their loss to Georgia in the Euro 2024 play-offs.
Greece honoured their teammate following their historic 2-1 victory over England at Wembley, when Vangelis Pavlidis scored the game-winning goal in stoppage time.
Coming off the bench, Pelkas stated that although his team did not want to play, there was no space on the schedule to reschedule.
“It is like this, rules are rules, Uefa don’t have another opportunity to play this game, so we played today,” he said. “We give this win to him. When these things happen in life, football is the second part. The most important thing is that our friend George passed away.
“We will never forget him, I was sure today that he would be with us from upstairs and he would celebrate with us and force us to take this victory. I don’t want to speak about football. Yesterday was very hard for all of us, we couldn’t speak, we couldn’t laugh, we couldn’t eat in the hotel.
“It was a really hard day. I want to send my condolences to his family, for them it is the most difficult period. It was really difficult, it was one of us, he was an excellent guy, it is like he was with us from a very young age.”