It was a great job for Belgium and the devil is always better off in hell. As Canada presented Belgium with a beautiful soccer paradise, things became difficult for those accustomed to temperatures near the center of the earth who found themselves caught up in a bit of Toronto’s winter chill. Ideas were frozen. If it weren’t for Michy Batshuayi dressed as the Human Torch, no Belgian would emerge unscathed from an unexpected skate.
Qatar thrives on oil, but it was with a golden generation that Belgium reached the World Cup. But gold in this case also oxidizes. Lukaku (who missed the game due to injury), De Bruyne and Hazard will not last forever and they are already beginning to be ripe fruit to finally hold out in the next World Cup. Therefore, the red devils have, in 2022, the opportunity to achieve something better than what they already have.
On the other hand, another reality: when you miss something, it is best to bring to the present what you have experienced in the past. But nostalgia is a feeling that you have to learn to define. In Portuguese, we are lucky to have only one word to classify this anxiety. Other languages need a whole expression so that the people who use them can express something that they rarely like to feel. In the Canadian team, the Portuguese nationality of Stephen Eustáquio and Steven Victoria helps colleagues define what is in their soul. After all, Canada hasn’t been to a World Cup since 1986, in what was the team’s first and only participation in the competition.
For someone who had not been to these places for a long time, there was no difficulty in finding the environment. Quite the opposite. Canada seemed like the team that hasn’t missed a World Cup in recent times, when Belgium has shone for those championships abroad.
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Source: Observadora
