Real Madrid goalkeeper is ready to return after almost two years of absence. And the colleague gets angry with the Federation
After almost two years from the last appearance, it seems practically certain The return of Thibaut Courtois to the Belgium national team. The news aroused many controversies and the colleague Koen Casteelswho became the goalkeeper owner of the diables Rouges after Courtois, announced for protest the farewell to the Belgian selection. “I want to officially announce that from today I will no longer be available to the national team. First of all I find a little strange that Thibaut Courtois can decide alone if he can return,” Casteels explained during a released interview At Podcast Midmid in Play Sports. The extreme Belgian defender, under the Arabs of theAl-Qadisiya at the club level, he took it mainly with the Federation: “I find it very strange that the federation is back in this way, draining the red carpet and welcoming it with open armswhen the action has remained the same and nothing has changed. My decision is not so much towards Thibaut, but above all towards the Federation. It does not correspond to the values and standards that I have on what a team sport should be or a sports organization“
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Courtois and the national team: from the dispute with modest to the return with Rudi Garcia
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The story between Courtois and Belgium has often developed between ups and bases. Despite the goalkeeper of real Madrid has always been one of the most representative players in Belgium, His relationship with the locker room had several negative moments. First the great frost since 2013 with Kevin de Bruyne. In fact, the then girlfriend of the midfielder of Manchester City He had a parallel sentimental relationship with Courtois. Then, years later, in June 2023 The goalkeeper quarreled with the Belgium coach, Domenico Modesto, after the latter had assigned the captain’s band a Romelu lukaku. Following the Alteco Courtois, he was no longer convened in the national team. And his place has often been occupied by Casteels. But now the new coach of Belgium, Rudi Garciaseems intent on recalling the extreme defender of Real Madrid. “The federation probably thought that enough had passed, “-Ist Casteels added.” I am able to demonstrate that it is not so and that there are many players who think like me“
The response of the Belgian Federation to Casteels: “We take note, but we are surprised”
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There Royal Belgian ago took note of Casteels’s decision, But the sports director Vincent Mannaert expressed his surprise: “Koen called me this morning after his appearance at the Mid-Mid podcast to let me know that he had announced the withdrawal from international football there. For me, however, it was partly a surprise, since I had had one last positive contact with him after Guy Martens had been appointed interim goalkeepers coach. But I fully respected his decisionabove all now that he made me know that he is in another phase of his career e He wants to concentrate completely on his club in Saudi Arabia, to whom I wish any success“.
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