Real Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois made an explosive speech in an exclusive interview this week, not only personally announcing his withdrawal from next year's European Championship due to injury, but also angrily slamming the national team coach Tedesco, and by the way, alluding to a wave of national team teammates. And the cause of all this starts with the friendly match with the Austrian team half a year ago.
Courtois angrily slammed the new national team coach Tedesco in the interview
Before that match, Belgium arranged a belated ceremony for Courtois for the national team 100 games (Courtois's real 100 games were in the World Cup). However, in the absence of Kevin De Bruyne due to injury, coach Tedesco handed the captain's armband to Romelu Lukaku, who is also the team's vice-captain, without communicating with Courtois.
A small armband can make such a huge splash
Although Tedesco also gave him the captain's armband in order to comfort Lukaku, who lost in the Champions League final, and has arranged to hand the armband to Courtois when facing Estonia a few days later, Courtois did not buy it, not only blackface during the 100 ceremonies, but also insisted on leaving the national team after the game despite the retention of the coach and team leader.
Courtois, who was already very unhappy at the hundred ceremonies
Thibaut Courtois later issued a statement saying that he had left the club due to a knee injury, but Tedesco went back and exposed the pantyhose lie in his pre-match press conference with Estonia, which brought the relationship between Real Madrid and the Belgian national team to a freezing point.
There's a good chance that Courtois won't play for Tedesco again
So whose responsibility is this farce of infighting? It can only be said that neither side is a fuel-efficient lamp. Courtois's personality fans know that whether it is the story with Kevin De Bruyne or the unpleasant experience when he left Chelsea, I believe that no one except Real Madrid fans will be particularly interested in him.
In addition, according to Belgian media, Courtois even sprayed his teammates who play for Leicester City, because he believes that the players of the relegated team will not play against the wind at all. Such remarks of contempt for teammates will also make many fans turn black.
Courtois had a rough spell with Chelsea before his move to Real Madrid
However, Tedesco actually has a history of picking up the captain's armband to give himself a precedent, and in the 17/18 season, when he first became the head coach of Schalke, he removed the captain of the team's old minister Hevedes, and informed that Hevedes was not in his plan, forcing people to close the transfer window before the outpost to loan Juventus, and the good story of one man and one city was ruined by Tedesco himself. However, he quickly won over the fans of the sand mines, finishing second in the Bundesliga that season and the classic 4-4 in the Ruhr derby was also played by Tedesco.
In his first season in charge of Sand Mine, he brought the team back to the Champions League
It is unlikely that such an experienced coach could not have been unaware of how much Courtois would like to wear the captain's armband against Austria and the consequences of handing it over to Romelu Lukaku. But why did he choose to detonate the bomb himself at the cost of losing the best goalkeeper in today's football?
That is, he wanted to be angry with Courtois.
All of this may be in Tedesco's calculations
While Courtois's quality and performance in front of the goal-line are unquestionable, he has become a ticking time bomb in the dressing room. According to the Belgian national team's reporters, Courtois, who considers himself the most successful player in the history of the Belgian team, often gives dressing room speeches when the team does not win, and feels that only he deserves to be the captain. Add to that his past with De Bruyne, and his very presence is a factor that divides the dressing room. Last year's World Cup group exit was a sign that there were a lot of problems in Belgium's dressing room, but no one put this well-known secret on the table.
Even after two clean sheets in the World Cup last year, the team was still out of the group
So Tedsco decided that instead of playing dumb until the end of his term, as his predecessor Martinez did, he would better detonate the time bomb and start over completely. After all, Courtois, De Bruyne, and Lukaku are almost 100 years old, and they can no longer continue to eat the old roots of the golden generation.
Tedesco's move is likely to be supported by the upper echelons
Although Belgium's historic dressing room problem will not be completely solved by the departure of Courtois, Courtois's remarks against the relegated players will make the team more united, because there are not many players in the Belgian team today, except for Leicester City players such as Tielemans and Castagne, goalkeeper Kaminski who plays for Luton, Burnley defender Idahiel, Nottingham Forest midfielder Mangala, Sevilla striker Luke Baggio and other players will have to fight for relegation this season.
The Belgians also have their own Uchiha Itachi
Even if it's just to fight for yourself, we have to unite and slap Courtois in the face with results at next year's European Championship. Coupled with the fact that next year is Romelu Lukaku and Kevin De Bruyne's last chance to compete for national team glory, it is only natural that they will do their best to win the title.
Will Kaku, who has accumulated a lot of character in last year's World Cup, break out at the European Championship?
So no matter what the final result is, Tedesco can proudly say: after solving the problem of Courtois, the European Red Devils Belgium team has really officially entered my era!
Extra handsome inner OS: Kaku, I'm counting on you!