The deal is done, only the official announcement remains.<\/p>\n
Belgium have found their new manager, with the appointee set to take charge of the Red Devils’ technical operation in the coming period.<\/p>\n
The Belgian federation confirmed the departure of French boss Rudi Garcia after the national team’s 2026 World Cup campaign came to an end.<\/p>\n
Belgium crashed out at the quarter-final stage, beaten 2-1 by eventual champions Spain.<\/p>\n
According to Italian journalist Fabrizio Romano, Dutchman Mark van Bommel will take the reins.<\/p>\n
Writing on his official “X” account, he said: “An agreement has been reached between the Belgian federation and Van Bommel to continue until June 2028, and the manager is ready to replace Rudi Garcia”.<\/p>\n
The former Barcelona and Bayern Munich player brings limited coaching experience to the role, having managed just three clubs: PSV Eindhoven in the Netherlands, Wolfsburg in Germany and Royal Antwerp in Belgium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The deal is done, only the official announcement remains. Belgium have found their new manager, with the appointee…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,16449,5809,116,15661,1849],"class_list":["post-29840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-belgium","tag-m-van-bommel","tag-r-garcia","tag-spain","tag-spain-vs-belgium","tag-world-cup"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116963251611793091","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29840","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=29840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}