Mark van Bommel is officially the new Belgium head coach. The Dutch manager signed a contract with the RBFA on Friday that runs through to the 2028 European Championship. Several familiar names will join him as assistants.<\/p>\n
“I am very happy that Mark van Bommel and his assistants have accepted this challenge. They are highly motivated and ambitious, and I am convinced that, thanks to their international experience, both as coaches and as players, they are excellently equipped to help our Red Devils continue to grow, achieve results and fulfil their full potential, both individually and as a team,” sporting director Vincent Mannaert said jubilantly.<\/p>\n
Responding to his appointment as head coach, Van Bommel said: “It is a great honour to become Belgium head coach. I would like to thank the Royal Belgian Football Association for the trust they have placed in me. Belgium have outstanding players and enormous potential. Together with my technical staff, I want to build a team that are disciplined and ambitious, and have the courage to take on the very best.”<\/p>\n
The coach from Limburg added: “Success is never guaranteed, but hard work, honesty and dedication are. We will do everything we can to help this team grow every day and make the Belgian people proud. I am looking forward to meeting the players, the staff and the supporters and starting this new chapter together.”<\/p>\n
Alongside Van Bommel, Boudewijn Zenden, Maarten Martens and Reinier Robbemond will work with the Belgium national team. Martens was still active last season as AZ’s head coach.<\/p>\n
Van Bommel officially starts the job in Belgium on 15 August. Belgium then face, among others, France in the Nations League in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark van Bommel is officially the new Belgium head coach. The Dutch manager signed a contract with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,16449,16511],"class_list":["post-30130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-belgium","tag-m-van-bommel","tag-transfers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116975052153253472","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30130","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=30130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}