A successful world? "Success, yes, but we want more!"

Bart Verhaeghe, Vice President of the Belgian Union, appeared before the press on Wednesday in Dedovsk, at the Red Devils Training Center. He drew a positive balance from this start of World …

Bart Verhaeghe said it before the competition and did not change his mind: a quarter-final is a success for Belgium ("and for Belgian football, "he repeats). "To say that it is not better than four years ago is a simplistic reflection, neither do we compare the 1970 World Cup with that of today, and in just four years the football has evolved enormously, "said the vice president of the Belgian Union.

"Look at the teams that are not in the quarterfinals: Portugal, Germany, Spain, Argentina … And I tell you: if we had worked today as there is four years, we would not be in quarters either, this is not a criticism of the work done at the time: football has simply changed, and that is noticeable in all teams, even the most modest, "explains -t it. "Everyone is better prepared."

Are we satisfied? Yes. Satiated? No!

But no question of being satisfied with a quarter-final: "We are satisfied, but certainly not satisfied, these are two different things: hunger is always there," says Verhaeghe. "It would be unbelievable to beat Brazil, I believe in it and I know we will play a good game, but will it be a failure not to?" No, either ".

The mentality is also different today: "It is a great advantage to have a foreign coach in this sense, as well as many players in foreign leagues," says Verhaeghe. "And we have to be proud of what we achieve, be less critical, behave a bit more like the Dutch, who have always been chauvinistic, look at all those countries that are absent from the last eight qualifiers of the World Cup: they will all want to do better than Next time, they are watching us, envying us, for which I say: the World Cup is already a success. "