National coach Domenico Tedesco does not want to rush the upheaval in the Belgian national football team.
“In a national team, the current state always counts. The players with the currently best quality should play,” said the German coach in an interview with the German Press Agency: “If there were a player that we would suspect that he would be in “If he wasn’t going to perform in a year, but he would help us qualify here and now, then he would have to play now. As a national coach, you also owe that to the football fans in the country. And that doesn’t mean that we don’t do it on the side build someone.”
After the preliminary round at the World Cup in Qatar, many experts suspect that it is the last chance for the title for the aging “Golden Generation”, who had achieved third place at the 2018 World Cup, the greatest success in the association’s history. On Friday, however, Belgium won 3-0 (1-0) in Sweden thanks to a hat-trick by Romelu Lukaku.
German opponent in Cologne
It was “attractive to press the reset button and be able to change a few things at the same time,” said the former Bundesliga coach of FC Schalke 04 and RB Leipzig, who played in his second international match with the Red Devils on Tuesday (20.45 Uhr/RTL) meets Germany in Cologne. At the World Cup, “undoubtedly not everything went well. But it wasn’t all bad either. And before that, for six years, a lot was very good.” He found “good conditions”.
The fact that EURO 2024 is taking place in Germany played a “rather secondary” role in his decision. “It’s not like I said: There’s an EM coming up in Germany, so I have to make sure that I become a national coach somewhere,” said Tedesco: “Not at all. It’s a nice story, but until then there’s still a long way to go.” (dpa)