Le Belgique

This is where I take over the job of Belgium manager in the hope of taking them to the next level and challenge for internation honours

In a press conference announced earlier today, The Belgian FA have announced their new manager, A total known quantity in 28 year old Englishman Kai Jackson. He played 30 games for England, scoring two goals.

Although the Young Englishman seemed to have a promising career in football before a series of knee injuries forced him into a early retirement. So he took the step into management and his first job role was a big one after Marc Wilmots walked out on Belgium sensationally halfway through the qualifying tournament.

Kai Jackson has some pretty big shoes to fill, and only time will tell how well he does in the international set up.

Jackson will be starting his qualifying campaign with two home games against Andorra and Cyprus, and he will be hoping that big wins will help solidify Belgium's position on the top of the group

Most of the press were expecting a big win for Belgium in Jackson's first game as manager, and in the pre match press conference Kai Jackson was just hopeful of a win for Belgium, he said 'I'm just looking for a positive start, I know how important international games are to the people of the country. So obviously there is a lot of pressure, but you know it's just one game and I'm going to try guiding the lads through it'



The new Belgium manager got off to a great start, with a very big performance, to put a statement out to the group on how Belgium are going to play under the new manager.

With eight goals scored and the debut of Youri Tielemans, who rounded his performance off with a goal.

Jackson was looking forward to the second game against Cyprus and thought it was going to be a lot tougher than the first game, but was still confident of gaining a positive result and making it a qualification campiagn to remember.



The second game didn't get off to a good start with Cyprus taking a early lead but Belgium came back to win well.

There was a major talking point in Jackson's second squad selection, and that was the exclusion of Thomas Vermaelen, and Jackson stated that it was down to lack of appearances, and Vermaelen was not happy about being left out. Jackson stated 'I know Thomas wasn't happy to be left out but it shows how much he wants to be part of the team which shows passion to wear the colours'

Belgium had a tough away trip to Wales in Jackson's third game, and the obvious welsh threat came from the superstar Gareth Bale.



The Belgians managed to keep Bale in check, but was surprised by Tom Lawrence who chipped in with two goals, which denied Belgium the chance to qualify in this game, and that they would have to wait for the away trip to Israel.



Israel got of to a very good start, scoring within 18 seconds but the Red Devils battled back with a ferocity and quality to show that they were not going to be denied with a equaliser in the second minute with a Kevin de Bruyne goal, and from their Belgium took control of the game, and made sure they were going to be travelling to France.

Good to see you have qualified for the European Championships although that was to be expected. Hope you do well in the Euros.

Thanks @Shedender like all the support

Well Belgium had qualified for the Euro's as everyone would expect from such a strong team, but the fans said they would be happy to get out the group stages and the first knockout round.

In the Group Belgium got off to a pretty bad start, because after ten minutes Naingollan decided to lunge in on Pogba which earned him a red card. You could forgive Belgium fans for being pessimistic here when you go down to the home nation, but Belgium battled magnificently and came out the game with a 2-0 win, Eden Hazard and Origi with the goals.

The second win was a more standard 3-0 win against the Greeks, with Lukaku getting himself two goals and making it very hard choice for the Belgium manager.

The final group game ended 4-1 to Belgium with another great performance.

In the Knockout Rounds Belguim were tasked with stopping Ronaldo and his Portuguese team mates, it was a close match all the way through, and finally got settled on penalties with Ciman scoring the winning penalty.

Quarter Final draw place Belgium up against the Germans



The Belgians played absoloutely out their skins against a team which was supposed to be stronger all over, but the Belgians showed up on the day, and led by Eden Hazard, they dispatched the Germans pretty comfortably, which led to the Semi-Finals being played against Spain.



It all ended in heartache, with Belgium dominating the possesion and shots but just wasn't to be with Spain scoring a late goal, from all people Dani Carvajhal.

The Belgians moved up two places in the World Rankings to number 2.

So whats going to happen to the English Manager with Roy Hodgson failing in his job massively.

Will Jackson return home or will he stay with the Red Devils he steered so well to a semi final place

Well in breaking news Jackson has taken over his own Nations team, with the hope of leading them to the world cup and trying to restore some national pride after England's abymsal showing against Iceland. It's going to be interesting showing to see if Jackson drinks out the same poisoned chalice as Hodgson or actually do things differently, well we will see



In the first game against Scotland, it was a very tough fought battle as most people would expect, but England prevailed over the hostile Hampden Park crowd and gained a 1-0 win over the Scots. Danny Welbeck tried to stamp his place in the England team with the winning goal, especially after scoring 8 goals in the Euro's.

England followed this win up with a 1-0 win in their friendly with a totally rotated team with players such as Joe Gomez, Jack Grealish and Patrick Roberts earning their first caps. England dominated play again but just couldn't get more than the one goal, with Danny Welbeck being the saviour again with the winning goal

Englands third game in the Qualifiers was against Lithuania at Wembley and England would need to placate some of the home fans, and England did exactly that with a comfortable win.





They followed up the good win against the lithuanian's with a solid trip away to slovakia, with yet another 1-0 win. England seemed to have built themselves a pretty solid defence but admittedley against pretty poor teams. Theo Walcott was the match winner in this game with a well taken finish from inside the penalty.

England followed these solid results with a win against Malta, winning 2-0 with the goals coming Wayne Rooney and debutant Ravel Morrison, and a draw against South Korea in a friendly.

So far it's looking good for Jackson's first campaign as England manager.