BRUSSELS (AP) \u2014 Rudi Garcia is not continuing as Belgium coach after failing to reach agreement with the country\u2019s soccer federation on a contract extension.<\/p>\n
The Royal Belgian Football Association said Monday that it will not renew Garcia\u2019s deal beyond the end of this month, and that it is looking for a successor to the French coach who led the Belgian team to the World Cup quarterfinals, where it was beaten by eventual champion Spain.<\/p>\n
\u201cGarcia has unquestionably played a key role in restoring the Belgian Red Devils,\u201d Belgium sports director Vincent Mannaert said. \u201cHe was appointed national coach in a challenging sporting and financial context. Thanks in particular to his commitment and experience, team cohesion was restored and a strong result was achieved at the most recent FIFA World Cup.\u201d<\/p>\n
Garcia was appointed Belgium coach in January 2025 as the successor to the fired Domenico Tedesco, who failed to revive the team during a relatively short tenure. Garcia, who coached several big clubs including Napoli, Marseille and Roma in his much traveled career, had never managed a national side.<\/p>\n
He touted his achievements in his 18 months as Belgium coach, pointing to the team\u2019s World Cup campaign and improved standing since he took over.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wish Belgium every success as they continue the generational transition that I was proud to help initiate,\u201d Garcia said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
BRUSSELS (AP) \u2014 Rudi Garcia is not continuing as Belgium coach after failing to reach agreement with the country\u2019s soccer federation on a contract extension. The Royal Belgian Football Association said Monday that it will not renew Garcia\u2019s deal beyond the end of this month, and that it is looking for a successor to the … Continue reading Rudi Garcia is not continuing as Belgium coach after reaching World Cup quarterfinals<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1452],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1526392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":true,"date":"2026-07-22 13:07:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[0],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1526392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1526393,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526392\/revisions\/1526393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1526392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1526392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1526392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}