Belgium vs. England: Civil war of the students with the 'oven'

It's time to talk about a famous quote: "A strong national team needs to have a strong national championship."
Belgium vs. England: Civil war of the disciples with "furnace"
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So far, that statement has been wronged by the time and circumstances of the "flat football world" (perhaps only in the third world football nations). Since European championships have found abundant supplies from South America and Africa, and have received support through European and domestic labor laws, the European clubs with strong money have drawn the best in countries such as Brazil, Argentina and even the Netherlands.

This makes the championships in those countries are degraded and no longer rivals when placed next to the Premier League, La Liga or Serie A again. But never dare to say that Brazil is not strong because of Ronaldo, Rivaldo kicked in Spain. Similarly, it can not be said that England is stronger than Brazil because the Premier League is stronger than the Brazilian national championship.

The explanation for this is because in the context of "integration" there has been the opposite phenomenon, when the local players were foreign players occupy the place in their own country. Beside bring attractive, foreign players also block the development of young players in that country. That is what the Premier League and Serie A footballers have been crying out for over the past decade. But the problem of balancing the interests of developing young players and performance pressure, or trading the image of foreign star players is always a difficult math problem.

Tonight, Belgium meets England as the mirror of the problem itself.

There is a statistic as follows: in the list of 23 English players to the 2018 World Cup, all are playing in the Premier League. This is the only team in the 2018 World Cup with 100% domestic players. And, a statistic about England tonight - the Belgian team: this is the team with players in the Premier League ... many of the 32 teams in the 2018 World Cup (just behind the UK) .

The ominous thing is that the Premier League's best players are in Belgium, not in England (except Harry Kane). Belgium's three brightest stars are also the three most important stars of the top three of the top six teams in the UK. It's Kevin De Bruyne - the best player in Manchester City, the 2017/2018 Premier League champion, is Eden Hazard - the best player in Chelsea, the 2016/2017 Premier League champion, is the Romelu Lukaku - the tree Manchester United's No. 1 goal. Not to mention the Thibaut Courtois or Jan Vertonghen.

It means that the battle of Belgium against England tonight is the battle of the boys in the martial arts school, usually to learn a teacher, and to the festival, whoever goes back to the country, to compete in the live-longer. It is bad luck for him and the martial arts, when the best students are not in his hometown, but the hometown. Tonight, if Belgium beat England, it would be an unforgettable speech of the land of fog known for self-esteem.