Domenico Tedesco signs as Belgium team head coach

• He has a contract that lasts through the 2024 European Championship
• He will take charge of Euro 2024 qualifying game against Sweden on March 24.
• Tedesco held his first management position with Erzgebirge Aue.

Domenico Tedesco, a former manager of Schalke, Spartak Moscow, and RB Leipzig, has been named Belgium’s head coach.

The 37-year-old, an Italian-born German citizen, has a contract that lasts through the conclusion of the 2024 European Championship.

Roberto Martinez, who resigned after six years as manager after Belgium’s World Cup group-stage defeat in Qatar, is replaced by him.

“It is an honour to be the new head coach of Belgium,” Tedesco remarked.

“I’m eager to do the assignment, and I’m quite driven. Right after our initial talk, I felt fantastic.”

On March 24, a Euro 2024 qualifying game against Sweden will be Tedesco’s first game in charge.

At the age of 31, Tedesco started coaching the Stuttgart and Hoffenheim youth teams after a quiet playing career in the lower divisions of German football.

Before joining Schalke ahead of the 2017–18 season, he held his first management position for a brief while with lower level club Erzgebirge Aue.

In his first season in charge, he guided them to a second-place finish in the Bundesliga, but he was fired in March 2019 following a stretch of seven games without a victory, which included a 7-0 Champions League loss to Manchester City.

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