Belgium's National Team: A Legacy of Failure 

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Bro, you missed the retarded assistent ref against argentina in 1986. He flagged 2 1 on 1’s that were on

Do a video essay on Scotland on how they went from a consistent qualifier for major tournaments to not qualifying for a tournament for 23 years to now with a young squad of promising potential

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​@@itsalex1364 same as Ur mom

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They’re really tryna tell me that Belgium is better than Croatia, England, Portugal and Morocco lol what a joke

Belgium just wins every qualification game, unlike other big countries. That's why they aggregate so many points. They're the masters of qualifications.

True lol there still rated 4TH IN THE WORLD .

Belgium is a qualifier and friendlies merchant

World Football Elo Ratings are the true rankings

One of their players did get MOTM and their keeper got GK of the tournament

To be fair that France match was such a close fight. Had Belgium won that I think they would have won the Final against Croatia

Watch this video made me realize how many times Belgium lost to France 😂

​@@janpress2384 Belgium vs Croatia final 😭😭😭

Unlucky? France was way better

Was nice to see some respect put on Canada’s name in that game even though we couldn’t get the result we deserved. I remember, though disappointed, leaving the sports bar I watched that game at proud of Canada. Yes, Belgium was underwhelming…but you cannot take away from Canada’s performance in that game. 🇨🇦

Ya but if they were in their golden generation they would have easily score 5-6 goals against them

@@bluecane4722stay mad

You Canucks did good, I’m proud of you guys for making it back to the World Cup. Let’s put on a good performance when we host it in 2 years. 🇺🇸🤝🇨🇦

And just like 2022 lukaku is now lakaka

He's basically impossible to replace even three years after his retirement from football. Dude's the embodiment of leadership and charisma and Belgium lacks this after his retirement.

Kompany should be Belgium coach in the future once he has enough experience at club level. That charisma, grit and leadership seemed to not have toned down a bit since he had great stints with Anderlecht and now promoting Burnley to the PL.

If you saw what Kompany said earlier in his career you definitely wouldn’t rate him as much as you do now

@@yolomaster1492 what he say?

@@thatsjuancooldude9409 HE SAID YOU A B*TCH 😭

Only difference is that Belgium’s team looks like a retirement home

@@bababababababa6124 We still have a lot of promising young talents it's just that martinez didn't pay any attention to them while tedesco has done an impressive wave of renewals.

Dortmund recently won Dfb pokal when haaland is still there. Unlike spurs that hasn't won trophy 15 years from now

i am both so I guess this is accurate

@@uwbollema true germany destroyed

I thought he had? Either way, I really don't think he should. Maybe some people somehow don't know about it but every RU-vidr and their mom has made a chapecoense video and there's literally nothing new to say

It'd probably be solid to check what happened with Chapecoense *after* the plane crash though.

It’s worth a try at some point

None of the teams you mentioned are anywhere near as bad as Belgium

​@@tombo416 I never said they were

Not a bad idea

Come on we need an arsenal one for the cl

​@@yeloe4479 true,and I think maqwell would have a lot of fun making ot😂

@@dante6055 Lol no, even this euro campaign we will have a shot at the trophy... Now we have a good mix between old and young players... A new coach and half a new team with youn energetic players (finally).

@@SL-mj2eq Press X to Doubt

You never know what future generations will bring, in 2000 nobody thought youd end up with the likes of Hazard or De Bruyne

lol as a serbian i promise u ur nation never will have such an team again like 2018

@@serbe3416 what does being a serb has to do with knowing that though

Sounds like a team who has a legacy of failure

@@ajax9923 bro from netherlands the country that cant stop losing finals, sounds like a legacy of failure

@@ajax9923says the dutchie Who has only won 1 final ever

​@@user-vr8fs8gg6h at least we reached finals 🤷

I think when people look at Belgium national team, they only look at the 2014-2022 generation, but overall in their entire history for a small country in Europe what they have achieved is fantastic.

Well its 100% amazing for a country with 11mil people reaching 3rd place but Coatia had much less money,way worse infrustructure,almost no hype and a population 3 times smaller, a worse and less experienced coaching staff, no centralized system for youth production and way smaller pool of quality players to choose from and achieved way more. So population wise Belgium always overachieve by almost constantly qualifying through the extremely tough european qualifiers but considering the level of quality and depth you guys had? Expectations must have bee through the roof! Still happy for you guys though. Greece has the same populations and apart for euro 2004 they never even qualify for anything...

@@Alev-ri9lr exactly!

Gotta admit Belgium had missed the impossible shoots last world cup,even I thought when lukaku was about to score was like,dang it here we go home,but he somehow missed that,like tf

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I feel you bro. Got emotional in the vid where he talks about the US not making the 2018 WC

You almost won nations league. This year, Croatia (my country) has a shot at winning that. I hope we do but there are strong nations like Spain and Netherlands in there.

Thanks man!

Wait Chile is actually having its rise?

Now we're on the falling part. The rise was in 2010- 2017. The fall started on the now late Confedarations cup

@@MaxT4zaChile definitely fell off after that confederations cup, but Germany… All those “Germany’s D team is better than everyone else’s A team” memes did not age well.

​@@MaxT4zathe Confederations Cup should have never been abandoned.

2014**

@@somethingwithultra7231 I wouldn't count the 2014 team as a Golden Generation. Maybe you could see it as a sort of Last Dance of the remaining players from the 06-10 generation, but the Big 4 were already in decline and Van der Vaart even missed the tournament. On top of that some crucial players around them, like Van Bommel, Van Bronckhorst, even the unfancied but solid enough Heitinga and Mathijsen, had retired and been replaced by lesser players. We also had to resort to playing Kuyt wingback because we had zero competent options in that position. As much as the success of that World Cup was overblown, with Mexico still being angry at the manner we got our victory over them and only getting past Costa Rica on penalties, it was still a good tournament for that mediocre side, and I'll never forget the way we caused Spain to collapse.

@@thomasvrielink299 I suppose that's very fair, I guess it just goes to show how one big match like the one with Spain could reignite alot of hope and faith for a team, though. And I truly hope we get to see such similar matches again in the future, since right now we seem very 50/50 even at our best.

Definitely eyeing something to do with the Dutch and their World Cup failures in the future

@@Maqwell Hey no shoo, none of that in here! Not today! 🔫

And it’s an hour long ☠️ that’s how bad they are 😂

@@bababababababa6124 surprised he could fit all their failures in one video

@@oskarchomicz1517 I was expecting it to be 5 hours

@@bababababababa6124 its just because he talks about the entire history and every tournament they were in lmao nothing to do with ‘how bad they are’

@@user-vr8fs8gg6h bro don’t cry I was joking. They are bad though 😂

Me too. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Also were coming in right after some other generations like Spain and the Netherlands' were fading out/not participating at all in the latter's case.

@@dante6055 what ?

But Belgium 🇧🇪 is better than Croatia 🇭🇷 😏

@@dante6055 Whats your prediction with Belgium? Will they win any titles in the foreseeable future?

@@dante6055 Hahaha im joking as well, I really hope we get a World Cup trophy one day :)

​@@dante6055 as a dutchman I'm hopeful but sceptical we had 3 chances to win it

That’s not true bro

Yeah looking back it woulda at least been good to mention that tournament

Thank you bro!

@@Maqwell No u! You're my favorite football youtuber and you have good takes on twitter ✌

Australia is starting to look good. 2022 was by far our best team since 2006. And the current rankings are australias best since the late 2000s. Not to mention the amount of talent we have now aswell, Kuol, irankunda, jordy bos

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Well thats dumb idea. Many videos can be done on teams who could've won the world cup as the possiblities are endless hypothethically speaking. Whether you have the better players isnt always guaranteed you'll win otherwise netherlands wouldve won it plenty of times and belgium as well amd so on. The world cup as many others have said requires a bit of luck as well. Also if youre a country that started in thr world cup or got into football earlier then pthrr nations you'll mot likely be better. No suprise Argentina is great or better then the US my country because thr Argentinians have been playing in the world cup for a lomg time whereas the US only just recently even started to take football seriously. Needless to say football here or soccer is not even pur top 4 biggest sports. Theres actually a video on that . The teams who started to play football earlier amd participate in the world cup longer have better results overall then Nigeria or morocco or US and so on. More experience. Its like if a brought baseball to Argentina and excpected them to do well against the US. We would win easily for obvious reasons

The 2006 team should’ve gone further. 2010 and 2018 were some of the worst, and in 2014 they played a lot better than anyone expected. It was a miracle they got to the final, and almost beat Germany. That team was so weak compared to the 2022 team

​@@chrislouis7913 2006 every national team was stacked as hell sweden,portugal, Germany,france,spain,italy, Ukraine,brazil, Czech republic, England

As a dutchman I'm getting my tissues

No, it hasn't. Football is BY FAR the most popular sport for young players to play in Belgium. This means that the best young athletes there all play football. China is the only one of the three you mentioned that is fair. They have invested tons of money and made improvement of their national team a national priority...only to have the team get worse. Even there, football isn't actually the most popular sport basketball is. In India, they are crazy for cricket and field hockey...and dominate both. The best athletes there play those. As for the US...well, there is American football. The biggest, strongest and fastest athletes play that. Add to this basketball and baseball take more of the best athletic talent. Those that are left play soccer (a sport played by those too small, weak and lacking in hand/eye coordination to play American football, basketball or baseball)...then are expected to compete on International level at football. Not a good combination.

​@@brianeleighton didn't read

​@@brianeleighton the US is a country of 330mil for ffs. It produces plenty of gold medalists in all sorts of obscure ass sports each Olympics That USMNT is terrible at soccer runs much deeper than just "oh just not the best athletes"

@@marcofujimoto Yes, it shows the priority of people in the US. Those obscure sports in the Olympics get more resources than soccer does at every rung of the grassroots level. Also, many of the medals the US get come from the events like track and field. Why? Because there are plenty of American football players that also run track in the offseason. They go to college on a football scholarship and compete in track to stay in shape. Look at the sprint speed of wide receivers who go into professional football in the US. Now, bear in mind if a player is super fast but doesn't have the size or hands to be a professional player, they can try out for the US Olympic team. The fact is that the kids who are the best athletes do not play soccer in the US. The tiny kid who can't play American football, basketball, baseball or ice hockey does. They are then expected to compete with football mad nations where it is literally the only major sport and every kid dreams of growing up to be a footballer. The cream of the crop get trained at the youth level and so the men's team is literally the best athletes your country has to offer. The US has every kid dreaming of playing in the NFL, NBA, NHL or in MLB. Those sports get the cream of the crop of young athletes, soccer gets the dregs. The men's team then has 3rd or 4th tier talent at best. The thing a lot of the obscure Olympic events have in common is they are largely individual sports, not team sports. There are many very good athletes who have absolutely zero interest in participating in a team sport where they have to deal with teammates. For those athletes, they would have zero interest in football even if it was the primary team sport in the US. Edit: Also, American football even poaches talent from American soccer. Pat McAfee is a perfect example. He was actually a very good soccer player growing up. He competed in a punt/pass/kick competition, won it and was offered a scholarship to the University of West Virginia as a kicker/punter. He then got drafted into the NFL and played a professional career as a punter.

@@brianeleighton you're not wrong but there's zero reason the US shouldn't be able to field a top 5 men's soccer team. Athleticism is an easy but cheap excuse. The (shitty) development program in this country is a bigger factor, imo

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FIFA has to help reserve hotels for the teams, since they have to cover part of the cost. That’s likely why Infertino was there

@@m.c.martin good to know

Uruguay is mega tiny and has 2 World Cups, only excuses remain for the Belgian lie

@@MrRanaVenenosa uruguay is still bigger than belgium and they won it in 1930 and 1950 when the world cup was way smaller than it is now

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Potentially, but nonetheless thank you for the nice comment!

Much love man! Yeah mexico has been highly requested for quite some time so I’ll definitely conjure something up in the future

That’s hilarious lmao

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As a broncos fan living in NC, I never let people hear the end of it lol

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Welcome to the channel man! Also definitely excited to see what the new crop can do in 2026

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