At the end of this month the Rode Duivels will play a World Cup 2010 Qualifier against Bosnia-Herzegovina. The match will played in Genk, Belgium and kickoff is at 20:45 on Saturday, March 28th. So the encounter is several weeks away. Our opponents lie fourth in European Group 5 with six points (just one behind [...]

The new FIFA rankings were released for January 14, 2009. Belgium basically stood still in the table by maintaining its ranking of 54. Fellow World Cup 2010 qualifying nations, Estonia and Armenia were the only nations to move up in the rankings from Europe Group 5.
Rank Country Points
1. Spain [...]

The Rode Duivels finished 2008 with a draw in an international friendly against Luxembourg. It was a very disappointing, frustrating, and angering (understatement) result. Prior to that fiasco, Belgium was having a nice journey in the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifying. Belgium tied Turkey 1-1 and just lost by one goal against Spain with a [...]

Last Wednesday, Belgium faced Euro 2008 winners and world #1 Spain. It was a FIFA World Cup 2010 qualifying match. The match was played at home at Stade Roi Baudouin/Koning Boudewijnstadion (King Baudouin Stadium) in Brussels, Belgium. Going into a match against such a formidable opponent isn’t easy. Anxiety and stress must have been on [...]

Belgium played their first World Cup 2010 qualifying match yesterday. They played against Estonia in Liege at Sclessin Stadium. The Rode Duivels were without Tchité (didn’t qualify) and Dembele (injury). We opened the match offensively with several chances. In the first half, Stijnen only had to make two saves. Eventually, we scored the first goal [...]

The new FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking show that Belgium dropped 9 spots from the 0-2 loss to Germany. Yesterday, FIFA updated the rankings:
Rank Country Points Movement
54 Lithuania 545 Up
55 Belgium 530 Down
56 FYR Macedonia 519 Down
Top 10
Rank Country Points Movement
1 Spain 1565 Equal
2 Italy 1339 Up
3 Germany 1329 Down
4 Netherlands 1295 Equal
5 Croatia 1266 Equal
6 Brazil 1252 Equal
7 Argentina 1230 Equal
8 Czech Republic 1134 Equal
9 Portugal 1120 Equal
10 Turkey 1033 Up
Belgium’s upcoming 2010 World Cup Qualifying opponents, Estonia, are ranked 128.

The country vs. club battle continues in football. Hamburger SV won’t let Belgium’s Vincent Kompany play in the Olympics. Their sporting director said:
“We have discussed the situation with Vincent and we mutually decided that the best thing for him is to practice with Hamburger.”
The Belgium FA had this rebuttle:
“We sent a fax to Hamburg [...]

Belgium moved up in the new FIFA rankings to 46th. We moved up 3 spots from the last release. The rankings were just updated today. The Rode Duivels haven’t played any matches lately so the move has to be due to other teams shuffling around in the rankings.
Belgium’s Ranking
Ranking Team Total points Change in [...]

According to Goal.com and numerous other sources, former FIFA President João Havelange claims that the 1966 and 1974 FIFA World Cups were fixed so that England and Germany would win. João Havelange was FIFA President from 1974-1998. His comments:
“In the three matches that the Brazilian national team played in 1966, of the three referees and [...]

Belgium referee Frank De Bleeckere was picked today to referee the second Euro 2008 Semi-final match Russia vs. Spain. The match will be played this thursday at Ernst Happel Stadium in Wien. The kickoff time is 20:45 H. Frank De Bleeckere has already reffed two other Euro 2008 matches: Croatia vs. Germany and Russia vs. [...]