Belgian defeated Brazil's 5-time champion Brazil 32 years later in the semi-finals

The Belgian team has reached the semi-finals of the World Cup. The 32-year-old team reached the last-four after defeating the 5-time champion Brazil. This team is being called the Golden Generation of Belgium. In the Euro Cup-2000, the Belgian Group was out of stage. Since then, the responsibility of the team's transformation was entrusted to former footballer Michael Sablone. He was made Technical Director Sablone prepared a blueprint for the team's success. He started 3 unique projects, the result of which is

Louvain University was asked to study Belgium's youth football. Werner Helsen prepared the report on behalf of the university. He himself was a footballer and coach. In his leadership, the University team studied 1500 matches in different age groups. Where is the deficiency, it was listed. The following two weaknesses were specially outlined.

1. In the under-8 and under-9 age group, 80% of the players used to touch the ball on an average two times in half an hour.
2. There was too much focus on victory. As a player, no one was interested in development

Belgian first played with 4-4-2 or sometimes 3-5-2 formation. That formation is a fairly defensive strategy, which believes to score a goal at the counter attack. Bob, who coached the Sablon colleague and Belgium's junior team, offered a 4-3-3 formation. This formation was advised by all Youth teams. To develop dribbling, 2-2, 3-3, 5-5, 8-8 players were match-matched. Ranking of junior teams was over. Sabelon gave more than 100 presentations to clubs and coaches to implement the changes