BRUSSELS \u2014 Rudi Garcia is not continuing as Belgium coach after failing to reach agreement with the country\u2019s soccer federation on a contract extension.<\/p>\n
The Royal Belgian Football Association said Monday that it will not renew Garcia\u2019s deal beyond the end of this month, and that it is looking for a successor to the French coach who led the Belgian team to the World Cup quarterfinals, where it was beaten by eventual champion Spain.<\/p>\n
\u201cGarcia has unquestionably played a key role in restoring the Belgian Red Devils,\u201d Belgium sports director Vincent Mannaert said. \u201cHe was appointed national coach in a challenging sporting and financial context. Thanks in particular to his commitment and experience, team cohesion was restored and a strong result was achieved at the most recent FIFA World Cup.\u201d<\/p>\n
Garcia was appointed Belgium coach in January 2025 as the successor to the fired Domenico Tedesco, who failed to revive the team during a relatively short tenure. Garcia, who coached several big clubs including Napoli, Marseille and Roma in his much traveled career, had never managed a national side.<\/p>\n
He touted his achievements in his 18 months as Belgium coach, pointing to the team\u2019s World Cup campaign and improved standing since he took over.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wish Belgium every success as they continue the generational transition that I was proud to help initiate,\u201d Garcia said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRUSSELS \u2014 Rudi Garcia is not continuing as Belgium coach after failing to reach agreement with the country\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,3934,1953,1849],"class_list":["post-29580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-belgium","tag-soccer","tag-wires-bot","tag-world-cup"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116952776202401835","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29580","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=29580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}