In recent years, the Devils have become accustomed to disappointments in the playoffs, with broken promises. Inflated optimism before every game, I regularly abused my zapper in the 90th. And yet ... and yet we have talent! In 2-3 years, Belgium will be part of the world's best. Advocaat, who is said. After a defeat, you tell me that a coach always tend to value his opponent. Especially a defeat like that, a defeat that suffers no discussions.
In recent years, my soul has to endure a hundred times excited. Whenever a talented black-yellow-red emerged. Eden Hazard, Marouane Fellaini, Moussa Dembele, Vincent Kompany, Thomas Vermaelen, Romelu Lukaku, and so on of the best. Nothing to state that these players have the hair stand. All were successively brought to the pinnacle, the press, fans and columnists of all stripes. All these beads we have suggested that our fellows were walking on top of the world. Mistakes and disappointments.
The talent is not everything, Leekens has understood. First, because he did not. What he did not stop to make a record, thanks to the work, and experience. Because you can carve out its share of the lion with the work and experience, remember Greece in 2004. So if we have talent to burn (Morocco for example), Long Knife knows that is 19,20, 21, one must still learn a lot from the top level. The attempt to return Buffel, and reintegration of Simons are unrelated to this finding.
We have too quickly forgotten that to reach the roof of the world, we must attend the stratosphere for some time. As a diver rises to the surface from the abyssal depths (63rd place ranking in fifa), must comply with decompression. Decompression of egos filled with "I recommended to Florentino Perez," "20 million", to "Drogba future" and letters of Sir Alex.
After the victory of Voronezh, I begin a journey back in time to another Russia-Belgium. At the 2002 World Cup, we have tu Devils for the last time the worlds best. In group H, we had to undo the russkofs to reach the eighth and Brazil. Spotlight on this game, starting with the selection available in De Vlieger cages, Van Kerkhoven, Van Buyten, De Boeck, and Defense Peeters, Goor, Walem, Vanderhaeghe, and Verheyen in the middle, and Mbo Wilmots front. The Devils were out winner of this match, before shaking Brazil. Comparing our team then and Wednesday, we can hardly say that the 2002 version was a bunch of gifted. Instead, the balance of talent looks inexorably towards the 2010 version. And yet, the 2010 version has not yet shown one quarter of the eighth of what the band Waseige has shown us. The tactical intelligence and the accumulation of matches to a certain level gave them a cohesion and experience has no substitute. So today, Vincent Kompany and its 24 spring stands out as an elder in the group in 2002, Big Dan and Mbo were kids with their 24 and 26 years in a team that had that day, an average age of 30.3 years. These two were the only non-thirties of eleven, when 8 years later, Leekens fielded two players under 20 years (Lukaku and Hazard), and only 3 players over 25 years (Gillet, Van Buyten, and simons). The latest version of our fellows is barely to 24.7 years. A difference of 5.6 years.
Time has not erased in my memory disappointment that followed the famous Belgium-Brazil in 2002. But time will not erase either the talent of the team of Voronezh, and 5.6 years, as Dick had predicted, we will beat Brazil in the World Cup.
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