A week ago, the German/Italian football manager Domenico Tedesco was fired as Belgium’s national team manager. – The only thing that was unexpected about it was that it took so long. – He fell out with one of Belgium’s great heroes Thibaut Courtois and then tried to get players and fans on board, which made him even more frowned upon.
Well, it also didn’t help that Belgium, which has long had one of the world’s best national teams, is fairly constantly underperforming. The Rudi Garcia year-old has experience from clubs such as Lille, Roma, Marseille, Lyon and most recently Napoli. – At Napoli, he only got 16 games before he was sacked in 2023 after a quarrel with owner Aurelio De Laurentiis, so he should be used to dealing with a bit of everything.
The Belgian Football Federation, presented the 60-year-old who will now be national team manager for the first time at a press conference on Friday afternoon.
Now he will try to accomplish more than Tedesco did as Belgium national team manager for almost two years, which ended in disappointments in the European Championships and in the Nations League.
In this summer’s European Championships, Belgium barely progressed from the group stage, before losing in the last eight to France.
In the Nations League, the team also disappointed, as there was only one win and one draw in the group, which also included France, Italy and Israel. The team finished third in the group and must play a playoff to avoid relegation.
