It’s widely known that Belgium is a cycling country par excellence and the latest UCI rankings are there to back it up.
According to the CIES Football Observatory, the Red Devil is currently the third most influential player on the planet.
After Jorre Verstraeten in the -60 kg and Mina Libeer in the -57 kg, Gabriella Willems also won a bronze medal in the -70 kg at the Grand Slam in Tel Aviv.
Viki De Cremer has become the first woman to act as a referee in a professional male football match in Belgium.
The young tennis player has been at the top of the world junior rankings since November 2022. This is a first for a Belgian in ten years!
After a very mixed World Cup in terms of results, a new breath is expected with the hiring of Domenico Tedesco as manager of the Red Devils.