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Four figures in Belgian football have been charged with organised crime and corruption, and a fifth with money laundering, following a series of arrests on Wednesday in a vast fraud investigation,
Police have raided several top football clubs across the country in an investigation into money laundering and match fixing, with two leading agents arrested.
Belgium’s Red Devils are the number one football team in the world for only the second time in history.
The Red Devils' head coach, Roberto Martinez, has been made an honorary citizen of Waterloo - and has thanked locals for their hospitality, adding that he has "ambitions to understand Belgium a li
Belgium's World Cup campaign prompted 150,000 people to try online betting for the first time, according to new figures from the Belgian Gambling Commission.
An estimated 40,000 fans lined the streets of Brussels and filled the Grand-Place on Sunday to cheer the Red Devils on their return from the World Cup in Russia.
The Red Devils will return to Belgium on Sunday for a homecoming open-top bus tour through Brussels, finishing with a big celebration in the Grand-Place, it has been confirmed.
A whole two weeks after they last met, Belgium and England will play each other again on Saturday to decide who comes third in the 2018 World Cup.
The Red Devils’ World Cup campaign is evidence of the growing use of English in Belgium, “and it’s very important that it happens”, according to Belgian economist and philosopher Philippe Van Pari
