The Belgian coach, was sentenced and this could be his replacement

Starting this Thursday, the board of directors of the Belgian Football Federation is studying the future of the coach, the German Italian. Domenico Tedescothat based on bad results and discord among the players lost the support of the fans and the favor of the locker room.

The question in the Belgian sports press is not whether or not the coach should continue, as his departure is assumed, but when it is appropriate to fire him, who will be hired for the position and what money will be paid in his place .

Getting rid of him in 2025 is cheaper

The Federation aims to break up with Tedescoaccording to local newspaper DH Les Sports. But the institution is suffering from financial problems and will probably wait until the beginning of 2025 to make a decision on the coach, because Getting him out now costs 1.45 million euros but in 2025 he will enter his penultimate year of contract and the payoff will drop significantly, according to Sudinfo newspaper.

This same newspaper publishes a non-scientific survey on its website this Tuesday which 86% of the responses advocated firing the coachwhich in 24 games accumulated 12 wins, 6 draws and 6 losses and the team that inherited as No. 1 in the FIFA ranking is about to fall from the top-10 of national teams.

A 2024 to forget

Belgium, who were eliminated from the last European Championship in the round of 16, have lost four of their last five games, all of them in the Nations League, against France (2-0), Italy (2-2), France (1 – 2), Italy (0-1) and Israel (1-0). The team has lost six of its last ten games and in 2024 it scored only 38.1% of possible points.

After Belgium’s last-gasp loss against Israel, Tedesco said he is confident of continuing to lead the team and assured that he trusts his players and they support him.

The relationship with his players

But specialist Belgian media, such as RMC SPORT, maintain that there is a divorce between the technician and the locker room while at the Federation headquarters and at the King Baudouin stadium in Brussels, where the team normally plays, banners with the message ‘Tedesc’out’ appeared.

Last week, the Belgian public radio and television website ran an article with the headline: “Replace Tedesco? Yes, but with whom and for how much?”

The difficult succession of Roberto Martínez

The coach, who is 39 years old, He arrived on the Belgian bench in February 2023, after coaching at Leipzig and Spartak Moscow. He replaced the Spaniard Roberto Martínez, who for five years had very good numbers, but no titles.

With the departure of Roberto Martínezalso began a painful but inevitable departure of players known as ‘the golden generation’ in a small country that had never concentrated so much talent on the field of play, and the national team rose. with third place at the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

Those were the times Belgium got through the group stages without breaking a sweat, arrived as one of the favorite teams in the World Cups and Euro Cups and dreamed, with arguments, of an international title.

Retirements and the Courtois conflict

But years passed and the tables turned. After the failure of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, the eternal Belgian captain Eden Hazard retires adding to a list of famous retirees that also includes footballers who are very good, such as Vincent Kompany, Thomas Vermaelen or Marouane Fellaini.

Tedesco is already on the bench, Thibaut Courtois confronted the coach and announced that he would not return to the national team if the coach did not change; Kevin De Bruyne, at 33, is far from being an orchestra conductor who amazed the world with his insight into the game and precision, and Romelu Lukaku, 31, He lost his efficiency in front of goal.

Young people who are undecided

At the same time, the young people who joined the Red Devils group, such as Jérémy Doku, Alexis Saelemaekers or Loïs Openda, still not giving a level of the efficiency that veterans offered years ago.

In this panorama, the Belgian football ecosystem has designated Tedesco as ‘expired’ and the names of possible replacements are circulating in sports newspapers and social gatherings.

In these lies you will hear names like the former national coach Marc Wilmots; the Ghent coach, Hein Vanhaezebrouck; Manager of Glasgow Rangers Philippe Clement; the former French international Thierry Henry (who knows the scene because he is part of Roberto Martínez’s technical team), or the former coach of Porto Sergio Conceição.