You don’t have to look far to find Belgian footballers in England at the moment. With the Premier League’s second weekend underway, it’s Everton and Chelsea fans that have been the most affected by the ‘Wonder of Belgium’ syndrome. Eden Hazard is seen as someone who could rival Messi and Ronaldo, Marouane Fellaini is thought… Read More »
Temperatures in Belgium on Saturday night were the second highest ever recorded and it showed. As in many countries, all games were stopped half way through the two halves for a drinks break. It was tough for all clubs but even tougher for those teams that found themselves playing with 10 men for lengthy periods… Read More »
The Belgian FA asked the fans to get behind the team and they did at a full and noisy Roi Baudouin stadium. The Red Devils also played their part by defeating an experimental Dutch side 4-2. It was only a friendly but Marc Wilmots will be mightily pleased as the World Cup qualifiers get ever… Read More »
Chatting to a Dutch friend last night, I said tonight’s match was only a friendly; to which he replied, when the Netherlands play Belgium, it’s never a friendly. That’s true to an extent and we should hope for some serious football. The result almost certainly won’t match that of the friendly in 1999, Robert Waseige’s… Read More »
Tonight, the Belgium U21s face Scotland in a friendly match in Dunfermline. It’s the first match for the new U21 coach, Johan Walem and is ahead of Belgium’s two European Championship games. It’s unlikely that they’ll qualify from their group and the truth is that this age group does seem to lack a bit of… Read More »
Although there are no major surprises in the squad, the fans are not happy that Nuremburg’s Timmy Simons is still there. He’s been excellent for many years but the general feeling is that it’s time to move on. Coach Marc Wilmots said that he hadn’t selected either Gaby Mudingayi (who recently signed for Inter) or… Read More »
A different story about Matias Suarez appears every day. Last Thursday he was on his way to CSKA Moscow for the sum of €16 million, with €11 million going to Anderlecht and the rest being shared between several of his agents. On Friday, it was all off; medical tests had shown a knee problem (not… Read More »
A new season so here’s my idea about the ‘Top Ten Talents’ coming through in the Jupiler League. I’ve changed the criteria so that now they must be younger than 20 and currently in the first team squads. That means I can’t include a couple of players I really like: Anderlecht playmaker-to-be Fernando Canesin and… Read More »
It’s the Belgian first division’s big fight; representing Belgium is Georges Leekens, now firmly of Club Brugge, and representing the Netherlands we have John van den Brom and Ron Jans of, respectively, Anderlecht and Standard Liege. The recent invasion by Dutch coaches in Belgian soccer means that five of the 16 first division clubs are… Read More »
La Dernière Heure today reported that Eden Hazard’s 19 year-old brother Thorgan is about to join him at Chelsea. Has the world gone mad? I could just about understand why Chelsea took Lamisha (20) and Tika (18) Musonda when they wanted to sign 15 year-old Charly Junior; to be honest, their father was probably insisting… Read More »