Chapter 97 Belgium

Angienis, the head coach of the Belgian national team, actually came to Digan in person?

Digan looked at the old man in front of him and was also puzzled. Of course, he had heard of the news that he could get Belgian nationality before, but Digan never thought about joining the Belgian national team.

Since the 2002 World Cup, the European Red Devils have gradually declined. In the 2004 European Cup, they have not even reached the main competition.

Especially after Wilmot announced his withdrawal from the national team, Belgium's football performance has plummeted, and now it has almost become a second-rate European team and joins the Belgian national team?

After Digan was forced to give up football in his previous life, he never let go of his love for football. Naturally, he also paid a lot of attention to world football.

The revival of the Belgian national team is not far from each other, but their national team has always been poor. The most important problem is the internal consumption of the Dutch and French departments.

The Dutch department has always occupied the mainstream position in the Belgian national team, and even directly gave the previous head coach to River Crab. Azar, the most expensive Belgian star in later generations, is from the French department. Therefore, although his influence in world football is not small, many players in the Belgian national team do not like him.

The famous Belgian football coach once led the Belgian team to create a brilliant saying in the 1980s: "Don't call the Walloons into the national team, no matter how excellent he is."

This sentence is a piece of advice to his successor Van Himster before Tis left the Belgian national team in 1992. Later, Van Himster did not listen to the advice of his predecessors, and not only recruited the Walloons, but also set a precedent for the recruitment of Belgian players of foreign descent. Croatian Weber and Brazilian Oliveira were recruited to the team one after another.

Later, Rikens summoned the Mpensa brothers with Congolese blood, and Vaseji also recruited the Croatian Strupa, but the conflict between Flemand and Walloon players has never been resolved. The Belgian national team quickly split into two groups of players, even in training and living in the national team.

A few years ago, a ridiculous thing happened to the Belgian public TV station RTBF. A fictional news suddenly broke into the program, saying that "the Dutch-speaking Flemander region has declared its independence", "the king has left the country" and "Belgium no longer exists". Although the words "pure fiction" were printed on the screen later, the news still shocked the whole country, and many people gathered to the palace with national flags.

For a long time, Belgium has been divided into Flemish and Walloons. The former speaks Dutch, claims to be smart and hardworking, and has some disdain for Walloons. The latter speaks French and has a lot of complaints about the former.

Belg has always existed. Due to historical development, Brussels, located in the Flemish region, speaks more French in the city center, and all the signs are marked in French and Dutch, which has become a unique scenery in the center of Europe.

As Tis said, his national team is determined not to recruit Walloons. Therefore, the famous Belgian football stars Puff, Selmans, Van der Elster, Predholm and others are all Flemants, while Sifor is of Italian descent, so the Flemishers who only hate the Walloons do not reject him, but can get along well with him.

Both Flemand and Walloon have excellent stars, but it is difficult to unite. In fact, the biggest problem facing the Belgian team is not tactics, not technology, not the lack of talents, but these talents come from Freman and Walloon respectively.

Is it true that the Walloon or Belgium is divided into the Flemand national team and Walloon national team as Tis said?

So the biggest enemy of the Belgian team's poor record is not their poor strength, but Flemand and Walloon.

What can Digan do even if he joins such a team that is used to internal consumption?

In the Brazilian national team, it is already out of trouble just because of the position dispute, but in Belgium's eyes, it is simply a naked racial hatred.

Antiennis came straight to the point: "Rodrigue! I believe you already know my intention. I hope you can join the Belgian national team and play for Belgium in the World Cup qualifiers!"

Sure enough!

Digan looked at Antiennis and said after a while, "I think you should have heard about me. Now everyone is saying that I am a cancer. The current situation of the Belgian national team is already very serious. Aren't you afraid that it will make Belgium more chaotic after I join?"

Antienes didn't seem to worry about what Digan said at all and smiled, "No! Of course, no, I know you are a very character player. There must be a reason for you to refuse to play. That's not what I care about. All I care about is your strength and how many goals you can score for Belgium!"

Digan smiled and said, "You really have this confidence in me and think I can bring victory to Belgium?"

Antiennis nodded solemnly and said, "Of course, in today's world football, I really can't find a better striker than you. I'm very confident that you can bring a qualitative leap to the strength of the Belgian national team. How about it? Do you want to come? I know you want to participate in next year's World Cup, but it's impossible to represent Brazil, but you can still represent Belgium! You were born there, and Belgium is also your hometown!"

Do you play emotional cards?

If the emotional card is useful, Degan will not refuse to play and make himself notorious because of a moment of anger.

However, if you can play for the Belgian national team, it is indeed a good choice for Degan. Although Belgian football is in a low ebb, what about the future?

Azar, Lukaku and Vertongen are all extremely shining names in world football.

However, these people also belong to three factions at the same time. In the future, when the Belgian national team was most starry, the factional struggle also existed.

Flaimanists: Wilmaren, Wiltongheng, Martens, Gillais, Alderweirelde, Defour, Watson, De Bruyne, Simmons, Meltens, Kurtois, Miolalet.

Walloonists: Hazard, Miralas, Van Bitten, Bolette, Poconioli.

There are also players of foreign descent: Fellaini, Compani, De Camargo, Gonzalez, Bentke, Lukaku, Vitessel, Vandenbole, Dembélé, Chadley.

These people are like fighting for an egg, peeling from that direction, and they keep arguing and bored.

Just thinking about it, Degan feels a headache.

Antienes obviously guessed Degan's worries. His family knew his own affairs and he was a Flemish, but he also felt that those fights were meaningless except for affecting the team's combat effectiveness, so when he was the head coach, he introduced Van Bitten of the Walloon faction and foreign blood. The Mponsa brothers.

However, in order to eliminate Degan's wary, Antienis still feels that Degan should be given greater trust and power, which can also be called **: "Rodrigue! If you are willing to join the Belgian national team, I can appoint you as the captain! Everything in the team, except for personnel composition and tactical arrangements, is up to you!"

When Digan heard the words, his heart suddenly shook, which was not just a trust: "Mr. Antienes! Are you serious!?

Antienes nodded with a smile and said, "Of course, I also know that there are many problems in Belgium now. It's really time to change, Rodrigue! I believe you have this ability. You can bring change to the Belgian national team, unite them, and let everyone unite and move towards one goal!"

Digan has to admit that he is really moved. The ** given by Antiennis is really too big. Antiennis is obviously to make Degan the real master of the Belgian national team!

The scholar dies for the confidant!

As a Chinese, Degan naturally knew that there was such a sentence. Facing the expectant gaze of Antiennis, Degan finally made up his mind, nodded heavily and said, "Mr. Antienes! No! It's a coach! I would like to accept your invitation!"

Let Degan finally agree to Antienes' invitation, not only because of this trust, but also the World Cup**, which is the biggest banquet in the football world, and Degan doesn't want to miss it.

It's definitely a surprise that Antienes didn't expect things to be so smooth. It was absolutely a surprise that Digan could be called into the Belgian national team. Belgium's current results in the European qualifiers are not good. After six games, it has two wins, two draws, two losses and eight points, and only ranked fourth in the seventh group, ranking in Spain and Serbia. After Lithuania, the qualifying situation is extremely gloomy.

However, with Degan, the situation will definitely be different. Antienis believes that Degan can bring great changes to Belgium. With such an offensive weapon as Degan on the front line, then everything will be done.

After sending Antienes away, Digan immediately called Mendes. These days, Mendes has also been under great pressure because of his troubles. The representatives of those sponsors will not open up to him because Digan broke the single-season goal record in Serie A and asked Mendes to eliminate Digan. The negative impact of refusing to appear.

But it's all right now!

"Belgium!?" Mendes pondered for a while and said, "This is a good choice! Although Belgium is far inferior to Brazil in terms of influence, Belgium is a European team, which is enough!"

Digan said, "What do you think I should do!"

Mendes suggested: "Contact Antiennis immediately, let him communicate with the Belgian Football Association, call you to the Belgian national team with great fanfare, and then we will hold a press conference to announce this!"

Degan knew about this, and Mendes was more professional. Naturally, these things had to be left to Mendes to do, and Mendes also complained a lot about this.

"Rod! I'm not your agent alone, but now it looks like I'm just like your babysitter!"

Degan smiled and said, "Don't complain! Dude! This is good for you too!"

Antiennis agreed happily, and the Belgian Football Association naturally has no opinion. They don't want an organization in China to care so much about their face and call Degan to the national team. This is itself a great opportunity to enhance the influence of Belgian football. There is no reason not to agree.

The incident of Degan's refusal to play was still making a lot of noise, but more powerful news came out that the head coach of the Belgian national team was actually going to recruit Degan to join the Belgian national team.

"Rodrigue is a very good player. Any football coach will be proud to have such a player. I'm glad that Degan is more able to agree to our invitation. In the Belgian national team, Degan will gain more trust and take on more responsibilities. I have discussed it with Gul, and he is also very Welcome Degan to join us and is willing to give up the captain's position!"

Digan! Is the proportion of the captain of the national men's football team?

The world is so crazy!

But is all this really true?

Soon Digan held a press conference and announced his decision: "Coach Antiennis did find him. He felt that I was suitable for Belgian football style and told me his dream. I was very interested in future plans, and he showed his trust in me, so I decided to agree. His invitation!"

There were also reporters from Brazil present and immediately asked, "Does it mean that you have abandoned your country by making such a decision?"

Abandoned the country!?

This hat is too big!

Digan sneered and said, "It was Brazil that gave up me, I didn't give up Brazil, and Deco was also selected for the Portuguese national team. Can you say he is a traitor? Don't be silly. That's because Brazilian football has never really paid attention to us. If I had to turn my back on Brazil, I wouldn't have been fooled by Pereira's bastard like a clown!"

After the refusal to appear was exposed, Degan fired at Perey for the first time.

"I don't think my strength is as good as Adriano. In fact, the conflict on the training ground is not caused by me. If you interview those players, you will know the truth of the matter. Of course, I also respect the authority of the head coach, but this does not mean that I will silently accept and ignore and fool. At that time, there were less than two minutes left in the game. Pereira asked me to warm up and play. Am I God? Am I Superman? And he didn't tell me what to do when I was on the court. He just wanted me to make a fool of myself!"

Degan really wished Pereira to say so, but it doesn't make sense to say anything now. Since Pereira directly put a big label on Degan's head as "unpatriotic", Degan can't be polite.

This incident immediately shocked the whole world's football world. If he is a nobody, people will naturally not care. In the football world, there are many people who suddenly change their nationality and play on behalf of other countries, but Degan is not a nobody. He is the hottest star in world football.

The Brazilian media quickly protested and even wanted to bring this matter to FIFA, because FIFA has a rule that players who participate in a team can no longer represent another country.

It's a pity that Digan's appearance record for the Brazilian national team is zero. Once he watched Brazil beat Peru in the stands, and once he sat on the bench for 90 minutes and witnessed Brazil's defeat to Argentina. Therefore, Degan is fully qualified to represent the Belgian national team.

Digan made a decision that in Brazil, after the cancer, he was accused of being a traitor, and Degan's family was also very disgusted.

"Rodrigue! I order you to withdraw your bad decision immediately. You can't betray your motherland!" Bosco went straight to Bergamo and was furious at Degan.

I have seen the ghost motherland!

Degan said indifferently, "This is impossible. I have made a decision and will not change it again!" And I don't think this is a betrayal. Since the Brazilian national team looks down on me, why can't I make a new choice!"

Of course, if the Brazilian national team had not recruited Degan before, Degan would change his nationality, and no one else could say anything, but now this matter is so big that Bosco has also been under a lot of pressure.

"You don't have to say any more. My decision will not be changed. Just say whatever others like! I don't care!"

Digan can't care, but his family can't care, especially Kaka. When he learned that Digan was going to join the Belgian national team, Kaka was stunned.

Originally, Kaka pleaded for Degan after the influence of this matter was eliminated, but he didn't expect Degan to make a choice in advance, and it was so fierce.

"Rod! Have you really decided?" Kaka didn't come directly, but called Degan.

Digan said, "Yes! Rikado! I think we really have to be opponents in our lives. I'm sorry. I know you want to fight with me in the national team, but I messed things up!"

Kaka knew that it would be useless to persuade Degan again at this time, so he could only accept the reality: "No! Rod! I know it's not your fault, okay! This is also a good choice. I hope you can make it to the World Cup, but Rod! I want to remind you that in the Belgian national team, you have to restrain your temper. It is more chaotic than Brazil. I heard that you are already the captain. Now that you are the captain, you have to travel well. I know you can do it!"

After listening to Kaka's words, the cloud that was originally shrouded in Degan's heart also disappeared in an instant, laughing and said, "Of course! I know, I can do it well, Ricado! You should always believe me!"