EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France (AP) -- From sixth-tier football to the European Championship while bypassing all of Germany's youth sides, Jonas Hector's remarkable rise has caught most people by surprise. The 26-year-old Cologne defender, who only made his Bundesliga debut in 2014, is the only member of Germany's squad at Euro 2016 not to have played for one of its under-age teams, his talents hidden while playing for hometown team SV Auersmacher until he was 20. ''You can tell it's something different when it's the European Championship, when it's such a big tournament,'' Hector said Thursday at the team's base in Evian-les-Bains.
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