dominique:
Why were the Belgian boys wearing France shirts? France and Belgium are just like Nigeria and Ghana except that they actually share borders. It's a no brainer who the Belgians will support at the Brazil vs France 1998 world cup finals.

oyoni:
Am I the only one looking at their before and after Hair color?

dominique:
Why were the Belgian boys wearing France shirts? France and Belgium are just like Nigeria and Ghana except that they actually share borders. It's a no brainer who the Belgians will support at the Brazil vs France 1998 world cup finals.

ebuka10box:
awww,so cute
they never knew they were destined for greatness..
can our super eagles player post a picture taken during this era and look this young maybe most of them would be rounding up with secondary education by 1998... uzoho Abeg show your face plus your pictures

Orpe7:
Oyinbo and memories sha
They always have either a video or picture of their past linking them to their present

Onechancearmy:


Ignorance. Belgium does not have as much in common with France as it does with the Netherlands. Indeed, once upon a time Belgium and the Netherlands used to be the same country.

oyoni:
Am I the only one looking at their before and after Hair color?

honestivo:
can we see the picture of Nigeria goal keeper as of 1998 I mean the one that celebrated his 17 yrs old child birth day at 19

AreaFada2:


Not entirely. Both Holland & Belgium once came under French control under Napoleon.

The history is much deeper. Belgium's history is very closely linked with Holland, France, Germany as all were part of the Caroligian empire.

Belgium was united by the House of Valois-Burgundy (a French Noble Family), part of the Capetian dynasty. What is now Belgium were ones different small states/counties or Duchies like Burgundy, Artois, Flanders, even including Luxembourg at some points, Brabant (now mostly in Holland). Their national anthem "La Brabançonne" written by a Frenchman Mr Jenneval in 1830 still alludes to it. Various European treaties adjusted boundaries and created various states. The Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 being an important one.

honestivo:
can we see the picture of Nigeria goal keeper as of 1998 I mean the one that celebrated his 17 yrs old child birth day at 19

VanjoshIII:
at 27? Okay

mosefin19:



Yep it can from 27-33 how many word best did cronaldo collect it doesn't mean if he his 27 or not

Onechancearmy:


True. But long before and even after the Napoleonic annexation to the French throne, both countries had a shared history as the two so called "Low Countries". Even the Benelux trading zone (Belgium Netherlands and Luxembourg) is more or less an economic consequence of those historic ties.

AreaFada2:


Low Countries = Netherlands. Being lower than sea level technically. It's more geographical than nationality historically. In theory wide areas that include Northern France/Picardy, Belgium, Luxembourg, Holland, Westernmost part of Germany were all low countries. It was Holy Roman Emperor Charles V's Pragmatic Sanction of 1549 that really united the SEVENTEEN PROVINCES that were more or less autonomous in Burgundian Low countries. Then came the 80 Years War from 1568 to 1648 that split it again as concluded by Peace/Treaty of Westphalia. The Split created Spanish Netherlands in the South and again changed to Austrian Netherlands after France annexed Calais from the South. If you know the Habsburg history in Spain, Burgundy & Austria in that era you will know.

Few countries have been so vastly and frequently changed by competing regional powers in Western Europe than Benelux.

Imagine today, Brussels is in Flanders (a Dutch/Flemish speaking region normally) but you will notice that French is the real language of Brussels despite claiming to be bilingual. Many historical curiosities in that country.

ebuka10box:
awww,so cute
they never knew they were destined for greatness..
can our super eagles player post a picture taken during this era and look this young maybe most of them would be rounding up with secondary education by 1998... uzoho Abeg show your face plus your pictures

dominique:
Why were the Belgian boys wearing France shirts? France and Belgium are just like Nigeria and Ghana except that they actually share borders. It's a no brainer who the Belgians will support at the Brazil vs France 1998 world cup finals.

Onechancearmy:


That explains why every so often, there is talk about the Wallonia and Flanders going there separate ways. I've always found it odd that the capital of such a divided country became the bureaucratic headquarters of the EU.

kirchofff:
real followers or bot?

theoldpretender:


Belgium is a country with three ethnicities...French, Dutch/Flemish with a German minority

And there are issues between the Dutch/Flemish and French speaking parts (a bit like Nigeria, but more serious like...separatist parties are actually part of the government).

Like Nigeria, the Belgian National football team is one of its unifying factors.

Hazard and his bros are from the French speaking bit of Belgium...so backing France makes sense when your country is not playing.(Of course, if Belgium was playing...na belgium shirt dem go wear).

Fun fact...Vincent Kompany, the Belgian skipper speaks French, Dutch, English and German...so is kind of acceptable to everyone

Randy100:
The oldest among the three.

theoldpretender:
Hazard and his bros are from the French speaking bit of Belgium...so backing France makes sense when your country is not playing.(Of course, if Belgium was playing...na belgium shirt dem go wear).

AreaFada2:


Not entirely. Both Holland & Belgium once came under French control under Napoleon.

The history is much deeper. Belgium's history is very closely linked with Holland, France, Germany as all were part of the Caroligian empire.

Belgium was united by the House of Valois-Burgundy (a French Noble Family), part of the Capetian dynasty. What is now Belgium were once different small states/counties or duchies like Burgundy, Artois, Flanders, even including Luxembourg at some points, Brabant (now mostly in Holland). Their national anthem "La Brabançonne" written by Frenchman Mr Jenneval in 1830 still alludes to it. Various European treaties adjusted boundaries and created various states. The Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 being an important one.