RMC\u00a0<\/a>network, the 34-year-old reached the decision after talks with Belgium’s new coach, Marc van Bommel.<\/p>\n“I will be available again during the qualifiers for the European Championship, but Marc van Bommel told me that he could not guarantee I would play as a starter,” Courtois said after Real Madrid’s 2-1 win over Inter Milan in the Champions League.<\/p>\n
With Courtois out, van Bommel may hand the gloves to Manchester United’s Senne Lammens or Chelsea’s Mike Penders.<\/p>\n
The Belgian is expected back in the fold for the Euro 2028 qualifiers, where he will look to reclaim his starting place in the Red Devils’ goal.<\/p>\n
Courtois has hit fine form with Real Madrid this season, even as the team blows hot and cold.<\/p>\n
He proved as much against Inter on Tuesday night, pulling off seven saves to secure all three points for the Royal club.<\/p>\n
You can discuss the topics and news in greater depth in the “Kooora” forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thibaut Courtois has decided to put his international career on hold. The Real Madrid and Belgium goalkeeper’s move…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,19945,1313,115,19946,19944,2323,19947,13294,16357],"class_list":["post-37150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-belgium","tag-belgium-vs-france","tag-champions-league","tag-france","tag-france-vs-belgium","tag-inter","tag-real-madrid","tag-real-madrid-vs-inter","tag-t-courtois","tag-uefa-nations-league-a"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/117241676156064743","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37150","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=37150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}