The Belgium olympic squad arrived in Yantai, China today. There the Young Devils will prepare for the upcoming Olympic Games. Two injured players went with the team including Kevin Mirallas and Stijn De Smet. Mirallas’ trip with the young Belgians was doubtful for awhile due to his quadriceps injury. Giuseppe Rossini was supposed to replace [...]

Our olympic squad lost respectfully yesterday to the Netherlands, our neighbor and longstanding rival. The match was played at Cristal Arena in front of 6,859 spectators. It was Belgium’s last preparation match for the olympics. We lost by a score of 0-1 against the U-21 Euro champions. Roy Makaay scored in the 84th minute for [...]

Bundesliga’s Hamburger SV has finally let Belgian international Vincent Kompany play for the Olympics. The 22 year old defender is selected for tonight’s friendly against the Netherlands. Then, Kompany returns to Hamburg. He will stay with his club through the Hamburger/Real Madrid match, which is on August 2nd. After the match, he will fly to [...]

On August 7th, Belgium kicks off against Brazil in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. The match will be played in Shenyang with a kickoff time of 17h00. Brazil manager Dunga selected Ronaldinho, Robinho, and Thiago Neves as the three players over 23 years old. The already talented Brazilians just got scarier. They will give the [...]

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 [...]

Belgian youth coach Jean-François de Sart has announced one of his 38 player preselections for the Olympics. Each nation must select 18 players and 4 replacements for the tournament. Surprisingly, Mbo Mpenza was on that list. de Sart had this to say about him:
“We know that each will be very strong on attack. As I [...]

Tom De Sutter might miss this year’s Summer Olympic football. Today marks four months and three weeks after De Sutter’s knee operation. He has already commenced practicing again with his club, Club Brugge K.V. According to Tom, Lieven Maesschalck says De Sutter could get pre-selected to play for the Olympics but he questions whether the [...]

Last Wednesday FIFA released the updated FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking. Belgium dropped 3 spots in the rankings from 46 to 49. Their recent friendly loss to Italy, which ended 1-3, hurt the Rode Duivels’ rank. Really a good result from that encounter was not to be expected. We faced arguably the best national team in the [...]