{"id":394956,"date":"2022-12-01T20:47:20","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T01:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=394956"},"modified":"2022-12-02T08:57:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T13:57:43","slug":"belgium-coach-martinez-quits-after-world-cup-exit","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/belgium-coach-martinez-quits-after-world-cup-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgium coach Martinez quits after World Cup exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Belgium coach Roberto Martinez has announced on Thursday he is stepping down from his role after the team&#8217;s poor performance at the FIFA World Cup in Qatar.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Roberto Martinez has announced that he will stop as national coach of the Belgian Red Devils. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l7EBqiOAeD\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/l7EBqiOAeD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Royal Belgian FA (@RoyalBelgianFA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RoyalBelgianFA\/status\/1598377664456364085?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 1, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Belgians arrived in Qatar second in the FIFA rankings but a shock defeat to Morocco and a goalless draw against Croatia saw them eliminated in the group stages for the first time since 1998, having scored just one goal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My situation is very clear. This is the end for me,&#8221; Martinez said at the post-game press conference. &#8220;Whatever the result of this tournament, I took the decision before the World Cup. It&#8217;s all about long term. Since 2018, I could have taken many jobs. I don&#8217;t resign; it&#8217;s just ending like this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Martinez, who has been in charge since 2016, previously led Belgium to their best ever World Cup, a third-placed finish at Russia in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>They ended the tournament as top scorers with what has been considered a &#8216;golden generation&#8217; for the country including Kevin De Bruyne, Romelu Lukaku and Eden Hazard in their prime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belgium coach Roberto Martinez has announced on Thursday he is stepping down from his role after the team&#8217;s poor performance at the FIFA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":394957,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16866,17030],"news_category":[16671,14235,14236],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"\u0422he Red Devils were eliminated in the group stages for the first time since 1998","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394956"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394956"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=394956"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=394956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}