{"id":37014,"date":"2026-09-09T08:13:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T08:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/37014\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T08:13:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T08:13:14","slug":"courtois-takes-a-break-from-belgiums-nations-league-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/37014\/","title":{"rendered":"Courtois Takes a Break from Belgium&#8217;s Nations League Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thibaut Courtois, Belgium&#8217;s star goalkeeper, will not be participating in the upcoming Nations League campaign, according to Belgian media reports.<\/p>\n<p>The experienced 34-year-old made this decision following the World Cup, emphasizing his need for a rest this season. Despite this break, Courtois assured fans that he is not retiring from international football and remains committed to the European Championship qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement following Real Madrid&#8217;s recent Champions League victory over Inter Milan, Courtois indicated that Belgium&#8217;s new coach, Mark van Bommel, understands his choice. Courtois expressed his readiness to compete for his position within the team for upcoming engagements.<\/p>\n<p>(With inputs from agencies.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thibaut Courtois, Belgium&#8217;s star goalkeeper, will not be participating in the upcoming Nations League campaign, according to Belgian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,19886,16547,19885,506,16182,1583,19887,2323,3721],"class_list":["post-37014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-belgium","tag-break","tag-european-championship","tag-goalkeeper","tag-international-football","tag-mark-van-bommel","tag-nations-league","tag-qualifiers","tag-real-madrid","tag-thibaut-courtois"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/117240083690853343","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37014","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=37014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}