The Royal Belgian Football Association announced Wednesday that it would not extend the contract of national team coach Rudi Garcia, citing what a federation spokesperson described as “a long-standing institutional policy of only retaining coaches in the period immediately preceding their failure, a window which Mr. Garcia has now closed by succeeding.”
The decision, communicated to Garcia in a three-page letter hand-delivered to his home in Brussels, reportedly spends two and a half pages explaining the RBFA's retention criteria and half a paragraph wishing him well.
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The full article is written, translated, and ready. It will be released in its entirety if and when the RBFA makes the idiotic decision not to prolong Rudi Garcia. Until then, this is as far as it goes.
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