Talk:Belgium national football team
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The captain now is Timmy Simons, not Bart Goor —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.190.253.147 (talk) 10:19, August 24, 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Team colours
The home colours for the team is all red. Which is why the team is nicknamed "Les Diables Rouges", "The Red Devils".
The person who keeps changing the colours to red/black/yellow is mistaken. There are photos around where the players are, only exceptionally, wearing the normally never worn red/black/yellow colours, but those are exception. Here are some counter-examples :
http://footenbelgique.ifrance.com/images/Bel-Est11102003.jpg http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38065000/jpg/_38065688_belgiumreact_300x300.jpg http://www.sporting-heroes.net/files_footballworldcup/VERCAUTEREN_F_19860615_JM_R.jpg http://www.handicapinternational.be/photo/344061-424709.jpg ... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.244.167.61 (talk) 08:48, August 24, 2007 (UTC) Well mabye the (Red,black,yellow) kit was alternate,i did remember seeing them were that kit.
The combination of red shirts, black shorts and yellow socks is actually correct as of 2006 - you can blame Nike for going all "retro" for that when they made the kit, possibly due to the fact that Belgium wore this combination of kit when they reached the final of the 1980 European Championships. From the 1980's through to 2006 they did wear all red. Jonzi9 (talk) 17:20, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Qualification record
I checked on Italy national football team page, and it looks like that Italian national team qualified for 7 consecutive times ('62-'86). This means we should remove the record claim, at least up next qualifiaction ends. --Panairjdde 10:14, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- no, actually, as 1982 champions, they automatically qualified for the 1986 edition... so they only had to play qualifiers for 1962-1982 --LimoWreck 20:19, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
- Extract from [1] : Belgium successfully went through qualifying without a free pass or a walkover for the sixth consecutive World Cup, the only team ever to do so. (An asterisk for Italy here: they qualified six straight times from 1962-82, but got a partial walkover in 1962, needing only to beat Israel to go through.) --LimoWreck 13:39, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] rv incorrent qualifying record streak
LimoWreck, what was incorrect about (1982-2002)? I'm quite sure they were there, I saw all the games. Please explain when you revert. Piet 10:47, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
- Hmm, 1982-2002 was correct, sorry, that got lost in the edits. It was the phrase "behind italy's seven" that was incorrect, but seems something got lost because i actually restored a part of a previous version. Seems to be correct now ;-) --LimoWreck 10:50, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
- No problem. Piet 10:58, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Current squad
Since it not updated since October, the November, and February squad missed. I just change squad to only the current squad for last match. Matthew_hk tc 09:44, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Red Devils
I believe the name was invented earlier. Camille Jenatzy had the same nickname at around the same time, because of his red beard.
