When we learned that Roberto Martinez would be the new coach for Belgium, Everton faced Manchester United in Wayne Rooney. Romela Lukaku was replaced after an hour of play. When he joined his teammates, they already knew who would become the new mentor of the striker in the national team.
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The moment they shared the news with Lukaku was caught on camera, and the reaction of the big striker instantly spread throughout the world. It was obvious that he was not happy with this choice. Lukaku has already worked with Martinez at Everton and it seems that this experience was enough for him.
Martinez left their camp earlier that year and Lukaku reacted like this: “The team was not playing well. We won 2 of our last 11 matches. When a discord arises between a coach and a footballer, it becomes difficult to play. “
Since then, five years have passed, and relations between them have improved. Under the leadership of Martinez, Lukaku scores on average more goals per game, and not without his help, the “Red Devils” took the first line of the world national team rating.
Everything seems to be fine, but again and again we ask ourselves whether the appointment of Martinez was correct. We’re still talking about a team for which stars such as Lukaku, Kevin De Bruyne, Eden Hazard, Toby Alderweireld and Thibaut Courtois played. With such a squad, it would be a sin not to get through and win the World Cup final, but the Belgians never got beyond the semifinals. Can you be proud that everything was limited to the semifinals of the League of Nations, or that they made it to the Euro quarterfinals? Are these results worthy for such a team?
When Marc Wilmots was fired from his post as head coach of Belgium, it happened after a significant event – Belgium lost to Wales in the quarterfinals of the European Championship. A committee of three had to find a new specialist who would do what Wilmots could not do. The decision was critical – when else will there be such a set of outstanding performers in Belgium?
The Football Federation took an unexpected step and posted a vacancy announcement on its website. Then a period of speculation began: some believed that Antonio Conte would be convinced, while others believed that Louis you Gal, Rudy Garcia or Ralph Rangnick would get the job. All of them had very impressive resumes, but at some point the committee for choosing a new coach began to think about a completely different specialist. He himself consisted of three people: technical director Chris van Peivelde, former vice-president of the Football Federation Bart Verhaege and future president Mehdi Bayat. As an experiment, they wrote on a piece of paper the name of the candidate they liked best. All three wrote Martinez’s name.
