Medway-born Luis Binks on his first call-up to the Scotland squad ahead of Nations League fixtures

Brondby captain Luis Binks described his first Scotland call-up as “a great honour” after being named in Sebastien Pocognoli’s squad for the upcoming Nations League fixtures.

The Medway-born defender, 25, represented both England and Scotland at youth level and has enjoyed an interesting football journey which started in the Tottenham academy.

Former Montreal Impact, Bologna, Como and Coventry centre-back Binks, who qualifies for Scotland through his grandfather, has earned his call-up after excelling in Denmark over the past year.

“It’s obviously a great honour for me and my family. I think it’s different to any other sort of feeling you get within football,” he told Flashscore.

“You’re not just representing a club or anything like that. You’re representing a whole country. It’s another level.

“As a kid, you grow up wanting to play international football for a country.”

Binks was in good form leading up to the World Cup earlier this summer but he admitted making Steve Clarke’s squad for the showpiece in North America was always a long shot.

“Obviously, it was a dream of mine to go, but I wasn’t too disappointed not going to the World Cup because I knew that there were players in that squad that brought them to the World Cup,” he said.

“I’d never been called up before, so for me to have been called up just for the World Cup would have been probably unfair on the players that had put in all the hard work beforehand.

“I knew it would have been difficult to be called up for the first time to go to a tournament, let alone a World Cup. But I’m obviously just buzzing with the fact that I’ve been called up now.”

Binks believes his move from Coventry to Denmark, where he spent time as a defensive partner of current Rangers