sne Posted June 17 Share Posted June 17 5 minutes ago, StefanAVFC said: Mangala over Tielemans is certainly a choice He's been in and out of their starting 11 in the last 2 years. This time it's likely because he's been injured. Missed a couple of the last games for us and the 2 friendlies before the tournament Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted June 17 Share Posted June 17 2 minutes ago, Giro said: This Belgium team is so average Maybe reverting to the mean. It was really random they got a bunch of world class players all in one generation. I don't think they had any special youth development programme or anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted June 17 Share Posted June 17 Looks like Castore made these Belgium kits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BleedClaretAndBlue Posted June 17 Share Posted June 17 Lukaku doing Lukaku things 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tegis Posted June 17 VT Supporter Share Posted June 17 1 minute ago, The Fun Factory said: they got a bunch of world class players all in one generation And put Martinez in charge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted June 17 Share Posted June 17 (edited) 7 minutes ago, The Fun Factory said: Maybe reverting to the mean. It was really random they got a bunch of world class players all in one generation. I don't think they had any special youth development programme or anything. They did actually. They were quite early with a national youth academy project from what I remember. Edit: Quote Belgium’s blueprint that gave birth to a golden generation For the federation, the watershed moment came in 1998 when Belgium were eliminated at the group stage at the World Cup finals in France. Bob Browaeys, who has coached Belgium youth teams at every level and played a major part in putting together Sablon’s blueprint, says there was “no unified vision on youth” at that point. He remembers 30 federation coaches, drawn from the Dutch- and French-speaking parts of the country, meeting to discuss a radical change in approach. “You have to know that at the end of the 90s in Belgium, they all played with individual marking, sometimes with a sweeper, it was 4-4-2, it was even 3-5-2, we got a lot of results with our A team, because we played very organised. But it was defensive, a culture of counter-attack,” Browaeys says. Tapping into philosophies and training methods in the national setups in Netherlands and France, their neighbours in the north and south, as well as at clubs such as Ajax and Barcelona, Browaeys and his colleagues proposed that every Belgium youth team would play 4-3-3 and that work should begin on producing a totally different type of player. “It was a massive shift but we believed that 4-3-3, at that moment, was the strongest learning environment for our players,” Browaeys says. “We felt that we had to develop dribbling skills, we said at the heart of our vision was 1v1, the duel. We said when a boy or girl wants to start playing football, you must offer first the dribble, let them play freely.” By the time Sablon took over as acting technical director in 2001, there was a playing philosophy but little in the way of structure. Sablon provided that and more. His arrival was also well-timed. Belgium had just co-hosted Euro 2000 with the Netherlands and, although they played poorly and failed to get out of their group, they made a tidy profit off the field. https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2014/jun/06/belgium-blueprint-gave-birth-golden-generation-world-cup- Edited June 17 by sne 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Vive_La_Villa Posted June 17 Share Posted June 17 3 minutes ago, Tegis said: And put Martinez in charge. Now Portugal have done the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted June 17 Share Posted June 17 1 minute ago, Vive_La_Villa said: Now Portugal have done the same. Come on the man is charge is basically Ronaldo for the last 15 years. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheepyvillian Posted June 17 Share Posted June 17 10 minutes ago, The Fun Factory said: Maybe reverting to the mean. It was really random they got a bunch of world class players all in one generation. I don't think they had any special youth development programme or anything. It seemed like a case of too many chiefs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted June 17 Share Posted June 17 33 minutes ago, Rustibrooks said: Courtois and De Bruyne have beef apparently and it’s largely the reason Belgium don’t do that well With a woman of course in the middle of it all 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted June 17 Share Posted June 17 Just now, villa4europe said: With a woman of course in the middle of it all 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted June 17 Share Posted June 17 (edited) I thought the divide was always between the flemish and french speakers? The goal looked clearly off in realtime Edited June 17 by The Fun Factory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted June 17 Share Posted June 17 Was that going in before Lukaku touched it? Didn't look like it but funny if it was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBlack Posted June 17 Share Posted June 17 3 minutes ago, sne said: Was that going in before Lukaku touched it? Didn't look like it but funny if it was. Fairly sure it wasn't. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted June 17 Share Posted June 17 The more ypu watch other games the more you realise how tactically inept and boring Southgate is. They are enjoyable to watch, much more than England. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBlack Posted June 17 Share Posted June 17 2 hours ago, MrBlack said: Belgium might live up to the hype one of these years. I have a sneaking suspicion they'll go a long way this time. Lukaku, De Bruyne, Doku, Trossard, and our very own Youri. It's an outrageously potent front line that should score for fun against most opposition. As always, their defence lets them down, but I have a feeling this could be their year. I seem to have cursed them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trekka Posted June 17 VT Supporter Share Posted June 17 44 minutes ago, stewiek2 said: You've got to hand it to PP, they do have quite a funny social media team. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Django_Zooms Posted June 17 Share Posted June 17 50 minutes ago, Vive_La_Villa said: Looks like Castore made these Belgium kits. Yes. Belgium's Adidas shirts are far more sweat-soaked than Villa's Castore shirts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted June 17 Share Posted June 17 Not sure why bakayoko came on before openda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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