{"id":29716,"date":"2026-07-21T13:50:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T13:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/29716\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T13:50:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T13:50:19","slug":"official-belgium-part-ways-with-rudi-garcia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/29716\/","title":{"rendered":"Official | Belgium part ways with Rudi Garcia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Royal Belgian Football Association has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rbfa.be\/en\/news\/rbfa-and-rudi-garcia-dont-extend-their-collaboration\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:announced;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;announced&quot;}\" class=\"link \">announced<\/a> that Rudi Garcia will leave his position as Belgium national team manager. The French head coach replaced Domenico Tedesco last year. Garcia led Belgium to the 2026 World Cup quarter-finals, where the Red Devils have been eliminated by eventual tournament winners Spain. Belgium were the only team to have scored a goal against Luis de la Fuente\u2019s World Cup winners.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia\u2019s contract was to expire on July 31st. The former Marseille and Lyon head coach says that, after discussions with the RBFA, they have decided not to extend their partnership. \u201cI leave Belgium in League A of the UEFA Nations League and among the top eight teams in the world\u201d, Garcia said. \u201cI would like to thank my outstanding group of players, Sports Director Vincent Mannaert, and the fans who supported us throughout this World Cup. I wish Belgium every success as they continue the generational transition that I was proud to help initiate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsfrance.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:GFFN;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;GFFN&quot;}\" class=\"link \">GFFN<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BastChev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bastien Cheval;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Bastien Cheval&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Bastien Cheval<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Royal Belgian Football Association has announced that Rudi Garcia will leave his position as Belgium national team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[1312,7,16401,15649,5407],"class_list":["post-29716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-2026-world-cup","tag-belgium","tag-domenico-tedesco","tag-luis-de-la-fuente","tag-rudi-garcia"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116958293036549936","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29716","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=29716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}