“In the end I was right”
Belgium keeper etched against German ex-national coaches
01/31/2025 – 1:46 p.m.Reading time: 1 min.
Thibaut Courtois is one of the best goalkeepers in the Belgian association history. He didn’t want to play under Domenico Tedesco. He wants to explain for that.
In the summer of 2023, Belgium’s number one, Thibaut Courtois, disputed with the then national coach Domenico Tedesco. As a result, the Keeper from Real Madrid waived operations for the Belgian national team. Among other things, Courtois did not play in Germany at the European Championship 2024. Last week there was good news for the goalkeeper: the association separated from the German coach Tedesco, his successor is Rudi Garcia.
There Courtois now hopes for a return to the national team. “I had a short phone call with Garcia. He will come to Madrid in the near future,” says the 32-year-old to the Belgian private broadcaster VTM and added: “I would like to play the 2026 World Cup. I always had this goal in my head, but I had In the end, I had problems with the previous national coach. “
Courtois didn’t say more about the background of the disputes. However, he announced that he wanted to report on a press conference. Courtois was supposedly dissatisfied with the fact that in the absence of the captain Kevin de Bruyne he, but storm tank Romelu Lukaku got the bandage. Now Courtois hopes for a nomination of Garcia to realize his goal of realizing the 2026 World Cup. So far, the keeper played 102 caps for the “red devil”.