{"id":15786,"date":"2026-05-15T13:34:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T13:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/15786\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T13:34:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T13:34:17","slug":"belgiums-veteran-line-up-eyes-world-cup-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/15786\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgium&#8217;s Veteran Line-Up Eyes World Cup Glory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Romelu Lukaku has officially been named in Belgium&#8217;s World Cup squad, marking his return from a challenging bout with injuries. The Napoli striker rejoins his teammates, bringing his wealth of experience as Belgium&#8217;s campaign kicks off in Group G.<\/p>\n<p>With stars like Kevin de Bruyne and Thibaut Courtois also set for their fourth World Cup appearances, Belgium aims to capitalize on their veteran presence. Injuries have been a hurdle for the team, with Lukaku playing only five Serie A games this season and Courtois missing recent national team call-ups.<\/p>\n<p>However, the squad also includes young talents like Jeremy Doku, adding fresh strength to their attack. Belgium is determined to improve upon its 2018 third-place performance as it prepares to face Egypt, Iran, and New Zealand in the group stages.<\/p>\n<p>(With inputs from agencies.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Romelu Lukaku has officially been named in Belgium&#8217;s World Cup squad, marking his return from a challenging bout&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5424,7,5429,10450,10451,5419,2196,2195,1265,5400,3721],"class_list":{"0":"post-15786","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-belgium","8":"tag-axel-witsel","9":"tag-belgium","10":"tag-belgium-squad","11":"tag-belgium-world-cup","12":"tag-group-g","13":"tag-jeremy-doku","14":"tag-kevin-de-bruyne","15":"tag-napoli","16":"tag-premier-league","17":"tag-romelu-lukaku","18":"tag-thibaut-courtois"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116578855496616330","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}