The former Wolfsburg goalkeeper accuses the Belgian association of rolling out the red carpet.
The former Wolfsburg goalkeeper Koen Casteels resigned from the upcoming return of Thibaut Courtois from Belgium’s national team. The 32-year-old announced this in a podcast and justified his decision by the fact that the Belgian Football Association KBVB “rolls out the red carpet of Real Madrid”. Casteels considers this to be “very strange”.
Courtois has not played for the red devils since June 2023. The FIFA World goalkeeper had made this decision from 2018 after not by the then new national coach Domenico Tedesco in the absence of Kevin de Bruyne for the game in the European Championship qualification against Austria, but Romelu Lukaku. Since then, Casteels has stood in Belgium’s goal.
Tedesco was released in mid -June, a little later Rudi Garcia presented as the successor. The Frenchman quickly made it clear that he wanted to rely on Courtois. “Even if we have quality in the goal with Matz Sels and Koen Casteels, we count on Thibaut, which I think is the best goalkeeper in the world,” said Garcia.
The plan not only gets up. “There are many players who think just like me,” said Casteels, who had switched to Al-Qadsiah to Al-Qadsiah after almost ten years at VfL Wolfsburg last summer. The official squadramination for the relegation games in the Nations League against Ukraine is on Friday.