The Belgian striker Romelu Lukaku has openly criticized the management of the Belgian Federation in the management of the confrontation between the goalkeeper of Real Madrid, Thibaut Courtois, and the national coach, Domenico Tedesco.
“The Belgian Federation should have handled this matter better,” said the team’s leading scorer. Red devilss on the “Friends of Sports” Koolcast podcast.
The striker added that the Belgian Federation should have “said in the first press conference: ‘No questions are allowed about Thibautotherwise the said journalist is no longer welcome.’ How it was done Sir Alex Fergusonhe also controls everything in Manchester United. People in the Federation can reduce the pressure on the coach and the Thibaut“.
Courtois32 years old, has given up playing for the Red Devils as long as the coach remains Tedescowith whom he has had a public confrontation since June 2023, when he felt the coach despised him and abandoned the concentration of the national team after not receiving the captain’s armband in the absence of Kevin de Bruyne.
The goalkeeper said he left the concentration because of physical discomfort, but Tedesco corrected that version in a press conference and acknowledged that the problem came from the bracelet.
“We decided that Romelu I will be the captain against Austria and Thibaut against Estonia. Everything is fine. After the game, he was offended by that. I was surprised and shocked. I never expected something like this to happen. An injury? It was easy for me to say that he was injured. But it was a lie on my part,” he said.
Courtoisthat same afternoon it was said that “the coach’s evaluations do not correspond to reality” and the relationship has not recovered since.
“It also happens in other countries, but rarely in Belgium. i know Thibaut, I know the coach and I have talked to both of them (…). The coach said what he said, but then the Federation had to intervene. Today, this matter is still not resolved. In what other country is this happening? Lukaku.
Source: La Verdad
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