How Belgium dig talents
How Belgium dig talents
Bohm, a suburb of Antwerp, is half an hour's drive from Lille. Clay quarries, adobe factory and a stadium with blue and white facade is the place. It started way in the big football one of the most powerful strikers of modern times.
Roger Lukaku kicks 3 years at local club Rupel, where leads and their 6-year-old son, whose name contains the first letters of the full name of the father - Menam Roger Lukaku, Romelu. Old Toyota's father constantly deterioration and Romelu often late for practice, but all waiting for him - the other children refused to start without him. Among them was Niels, blue coach of child team Rupel Bohm - Erwin Voski who own rebound to the home of Romelu when was late more than half an hour.
"Lukaku came to us in 1999 narrowing, only barely uttered a word, so at first we all thought that says Romeo, not Romelu - tells Voski said on" 7 Days Sport ". - Imagine quietly, not we understood, and he was ashamed to correct us. " His real name becomes clear when Roger Lukaku brings to the club on the birth certificate of his son
Brought it, tired of shouting parents opponents Rupel Boma what bully e small that two years older! In fact Romelu Lukaku turns two years less than most children.
Ten years later Romelu son of his first coach Nils Voski faced in the match between Berhshot and Liers that strengthens Lukaku at Anderlecht. Romelu won another fight for the ball and runs without noticing that it holds Nils incidents, and subsequently hangs on it. Runs through ten meters, twenty, thirty - and scoring. "Romelu come to us for 12 years - talked about in." The Guardian "Jean Kindermans, boss of children's school of Anderlecht. - He was strong and fast player, but not particularly proficient in technical matters. I smelled it."
The initiator of the massive development of young Belgians in the late 90s became the new technical director of the local football federation, Michel Sablon. World in Italy he was part of the coaching staff of Belgium, who draw up the list of performers penalty shootout after extra time of the match with England second round. Almost running out when England midfielder David Platt scored a gorgeous goal by Michel Prud'homme, and Sablon - as James Stewart says of "The Guardian" - crushed paper and throws it.
The Belgian Football Federation felt bottom beneath him after eight years: failing to jump the group stage of the World Cup, missed forward Netherlands and Mexico and did not register a single victory. Then Sablon received orders to draw up a plan for the reorganization of the Belgian football and he takes as assistant coach of the youth teams of Belgium Bob Brovays. "In the late 90s youth teams coped better - tells Brovays to the" Guardian ". - Some were playing 4-4-2 with Libero, others 3-5-2 with an emphasis on defense." Sablon and Brovays offer coaches of all youth teams to reorganize a 4-3-3 because this scheme perfectly develop the abilities of young players. Also Sablon and Brovays want to step in Belgian players appetite dribbling and improvisation, so call children's coaches not tired novice players with tactical frameworks, allowing them to start playing as children want.
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In early youth coaches dutifully perform, but then begin to resent. "We adopted the 4-3-3, but lose. Soon the country will be held European Championships. Do you want to follow the system without struggle out of the band?" "Yes, that's what I want" - says Sablon.
From 1998 to 2002 the Belgian Federation together with the Government found throughout the country eight schools for further football education for children from 14 to 18 - ie To deal there instead, then training in their clubs. In the system of two editions workouts pass Kevin De Bruyne, Dries Mertens, Thibault Kurtua, Moussa Dembele, Stephen Defur, Axel Vittsel and Nacer Chadli.
Moreover, in 2007 Anderlecht puts into the program from Deep Purple Talents: two Brussels schools introduce special classes to develop technical skills. Such classes attend brothers Romelu and Jordan Lukaki. Soon scheme Anderlecht and Genk perceived (Defur, de Broglie, Kurtua).
Sablon recommendations are not followed blindly. For example, the Academy of Anderlecht children under 14 play 3-4-3 rather than 4-3-3, so that defenders find themselves in worse conditions and more efficiently to progress. Early Belgium reaches desperate 66th in the world rankings, and missed five major tournaments in a row - to take off sharply to head the rankings from October 2015 to April 2016 (currently second only to Argentina).
Euro 2016 after false starts in Lyon Vilmots team won two games with a total score 4: 0. And once smashed Hungary 4: 0 The Red Devils are already in the quarterfinals, where they will argue with Wales and have a wonderful chance to fly to the semifinals.