The plan...

From 1982 (Spain) till 2002 (Japan and South Korea), the Belgian football team joined every World Cup football. In 2006 and 2010, the 'Red Devils' didn't make it to the final stage of this great event.
We are born in 1980, and even thoug we were only 10 years old then, we can still remember very clearly the goal of David Platt, who scored against Belgium in the 119th minute of the 1/8 finals on the World Cup in Italy in 1990. We even remember getting up at night during the World Cup in Mexico in 1986, where the Belgian team got the best result ever.
In 2002, we were at university in Leuven. I still remember going to a bar to watch the beginning of the game Belgium-Brazil (1/8 finals) with my suit because at the start of the second half, my oral exam of linguistics started. It is in this period that we made a deal: the next time Belgium joins a World Cup, we are going to the host country to support them. There was only one problem: they didn't join it so far...

That's why we came up with another idea. Why cannot we go to our neighbouring countries to feel the atmosphere when their team plays? So we decided to go to France, the UK, Germany and The Netherlands and to do this in four days:
- June 11 France-Uruguay at 20:30 in Lille (France)
- June 12 England-USA at 20:30 in London (UK)
- June 13 Germany-Australia at 20:30 in Köln (Germany)
- June 14 Holland-Denmark at 13:30 in Amsterdam (The Netherlands)

Because it would be quite difficult to go from one place to another by car, we decided to take trains. We told our story to Eurostar, Thalys and Deutsche Bahn, and those very friendly people supported our idea. They have given us train tickets from one city to another! So thanks a lot to Eurostar, Thalys and Deutsche Bahn!!

We also created a group on Facebook about our project, but if you are not on Facebook, you can follow our story on this blog. The link on Facebook is:
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/group.php?gid=129718223721852

From Saturday onwards, we will try to give you some news about our adventures in the four different countries. Let's find out which supporters are the best ;-)!


Frederik Hoedt, Frederik Allossery and Jesse De Meyer