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.
- 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.
- 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
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