{"id":21044,"date":"2026-06-15T05:56:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T05:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/21044\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T05:56:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T05:56:33","slug":"kevin-de-bruyne-relishes-mohamed-salah-reunion-as-belgium-face-egypt-in-world-cup-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/21044\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin De Bruyne Relishes Mohamed Salah Reunion as Belgium Face Egypt in World Cup Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bruyne, since his international debut in 2010, has seen a lot with the national side. In his debut WC back in 2014, his team reached the quarterfinals after achieving their first qualification in 12 years. <\/p>\n<p>In the next edition, they fell short, but fared better with a third place finish before crashing out in the group stage in the 2022 edition held in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the reporters ahead of the match, Bruyne said, as quoted by Reuters, &#8220;I think I am probably at a moment in my career where I can maybe enjoy it (playing for the country) more.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bruyne, since his international debut in 2010, has seen a lot with the national side. In his debut&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,5429,12681,10450,13119,2196,13122,7904,13121,13120],"class_list":["post-21044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-belgium","tag-belgium-squad","tag-belgium-vs-egypt","tag-belgium-world-cup","tag-egypt-match","tag-kevin-de-bruyne","tag-liverpool-legend","tag-mohamed-salah","tag-napoli-star","tag-world-cup-opener"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116752585983351511","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21044","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=21044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}