As after the Euro, the question of dismissing the coach is on the table. We are talking about 1.45 million… that the Federation no longer has in its cash. A penalty to be combined with the salary of a future coach. Which is very far from being an established fact since at the Federation, we take the time to think about and prepare the evaluation of Tedesco based on quantitative analyzes and the feelings of the core.
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Deputy head of the Sports division and head of the football unit
By Frédéric LarsimontPublished on 11/18/2024 at 6:26 p.m.
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JI’m always the right guy in the right place. » Domenico Tedesco doubts nothing. He has fiercely stuck to his positions since the first wave of criticism which swept away his illusions of unity in the country around the cause he embodies and defends. The Euro had sent him a first message, the Nations League has just sent him a second. And as if that wasn’t enough, the figures from the most disastrous calendar year for a Belgian coach since 2009 refined the message. That year, the trio of successive coaches composed of René Vandereycken, Francky Vercauteren and Dick Advocaat, had painfully collected 36.1% of the points at stake (13 out of 36 with 7 defeats). For a fall in the Fifa ranking from 54e at 66e world place. Fifteen years later, Domenico Tedesco’s record is barely better, with 38.1% of points (6 defeats), closing a 3e consecutive loss Sunday against Israel.
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