Tedesco was unbeaten in his first year with Belgium: last achieved over 50 years ago

Vertonghen: Want to “win” the European Championships

Not only Romelo Lukaku with his four-pack, Belgium’s national coach Domenico Tedesco also achieved a historic mark with the 5-0 (4-0) win against Azerbaijan in Brussels on Sunday. The 38-year-old former Bundesliga coach remained completely undefeated with the “Red Devils” in his first year as coach. That succeeded according to association information most recently Raymond Goethals 1968/69.

The football teacher, who died in 2004 and won the Champions League with Olympique Marseille in 1993, achieved an average points average of 1.89 in 44 games with Belgium between 1968 and 1976. This is the best of all Belgium coaches up to the trio that has looked after the much-quoted “Golden Generation” and their successors since 2012: Marc Wilmots (2.16), Roberto Martínez (2.26) and Tedesco, who has an outstanding rate of 2.60 in ten games.

Tedesco doesn’t reveal Belgium’s European Championship ambitions yet – Vertonghen wants to “win”

The Italian-born Tedesco said about the ambitions for the 2024 European Championship in Germany (quoted via “Het Nieuwsblad“): “We are happy to be in pot one. We are happy for the fans. That’s a small advantage. At least in the first round we avoid Germany, France, Portugal, etc. But it will be difficult at the European Championships. I have always found a European Championship to be more difficult than a World Cup. There are many good teams at the European Championships. I have no wishes regarding the opponents. I don’t know what status we will have. Top favorite, candidate, underdog, hopeless, …. You have to choose.”

Defense chief Jan Vertonghen (36) became clearer: “We are not the top favorites, but they don’t always win either. We are capable of doing it. Can we do better than the Golden Generation? I think so, I have a good feeling about it. In Russia (at the 2018 World Cup, editor’s note) we were third. Now we want to win.”

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