{"id":22666,"date":"2026-06-21T07:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T07:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/22666\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T07:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T07:52:09","slug":"tv-presenter-apologises-after-criticising-jeremy-doku-for-leaving-belgium-squad-to-to-see-birth-of-first-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/22666\/","title":{"rendered":"TV presenter apologises after criticising Jeremy Doku for leaving Belgium squad to to see birth of first child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The controversy began on Friday during a debate on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lequipe.fr\/tv\/collection\/lequipedechoc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-affiliate-type=\"NONE\">L&#8217;Equipe de Choc<\/a>. Doku, currently playing for Belgium in the 2026 World Cup, revealed that he might leave his team-mates in July for the birth of his first child. This choice was met with incomprehension by Pierron, who emphasized the unique nature of such an international competition.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You have to realize that it&#8217;s truly a privilege to participate in a World Cup, it&#8217;s an incredible joy. There are hundreds of footballers who would kill to be in your place; it might never happen again in your life. It&#8217;s truly a special moment, a childhood dream come true,&#8221; she said on air before adding: &#8220;And you&#8217;re going to leave all that to be present for the birth of your child, which is a disgusting moment, excuse my language, where the father is useless, he&#8217;s just an extra.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The controversy began on Friday during a debate on the L&#8217;Equipe de Choc. Doku, currently playing for Belgium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,12878,1849],"class_list":["post-22666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-belgium","tag-j-doku","tag-world-cup"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116787016304674016","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22666","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=22666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}