[Gorando]

Belgium pre-selection:

GOALKEEPERS: Logan Bailly (Racing Genk), Yves De Winter (Westerlo), Yves Ma-Kalambay (Hibernian/Sch), Simon Mignolet (Sint-Truiden) en Glenn Verbauwhede (Kortrijk)
DEFENDERS: Laurent Ciman (Club Brugge), Wouter Corstjens (Westerlo), Sepp De Roover (Groningen/Ned), Reginal Goreux (Standard), Vincent Kompany (Hamburg/Dui), Massimo Moia (AA Gent), Landry Mulemo (Standard), Sébastien Pocognoli (AZ/Ned), Jason Vandelannoite (Bursaspor/Tur), Anthony Van Loo (Roeselare), Thomas Vermaelen (Ajax/Ned) en Jan Vertonghen (Ajax/Ned)
MIDFIELDERS: Alessandro Cordaro (Bergen), Marouane Fellaini (Standard), Faris Haroun (Racing Genk), Maarten Martens (AZ/Ned), Vadis Odjidja Ofoe (Hamburg/Dui), Killian Overmeire (Lokeren), Gaby Mudingayi (Lazio Rome/Ita), Jeroen Simaeys (Club Brugge), Anthony Vanden Borre (Genoa/Ita), Axel Witsel (Standard)
STRIKERS: Moussa Dembélé (AZ/Ned), Tom De Mul (FC Sevilla/Spa), Stijn De Smet (Cercle Brugge), Tom De Sutter (Cercle Brugge), Roland Lamah (Anderlecht), Jonathan Legear (Anderlecht), Kevin Mirallas (Rijsel), Mbo Mpenza (Larissa/Gri), Giuseppe Rossini (KV Mechelen), Bjorn Vleminckx (KV Mechelen) en Jeanvion Yulu-Matondo (Roda JC/Ned)

Final 22 players will be announced july 15th. 4 over 23 players are Martens, De Roover, Mpenza, Mudingayi. Coach De Sart said De Roover & Martens will surely be in the selection so it will be between Mpenza and Mudingayi for the final spot. Standard & Anderlecht will only allow max. 2 players from their team to go to Beijing.

[F96]

Kompany won't be a part of the team:

http://www.hsv.de/index.php?id=23885

[Gorando]

Originally Posted by Fräulein96

Kompany won't be a part of the team:

http://www.hsv.de/index.php?id=23885

looks like Kompany will go afterall:

Doelmannen: Logan Bailly (Genk), Yves De Winter (Westerlo), Yves Ma-Kalambay (Hibernian/Sch)
Verdedigers: Laurent Ciman (Club Brugge), Sepp De Roover (Groningen/Ned), Vincent Kompany (Hamburg/Dui), Landry Mulemo (Standard), Sébastien Pocognoli (AZ/Ned), Thomas Vermaelen (Ajax/Ned) en Jan Vertonghen (Ajax/Ned)
Middenvelders: Marouane Fellaini (Standard), Faris Haroun (Genk), Maarten Martens (AZ/Ned), Vadis Odjidja Ofoe (Hamburg/Dui), Jeroen Simaeys (Club Brugge) en Anthony Vanden Borre (Genua/Ita)
Aanvallers: Moussa Dembélé (AZ/Ned), Tom De Mul (Sevilla/Spa), Stijn De Smet (Cercle Brugge), Roland Lamah (Anderlecht), Kevin Mirallas (Rijsel/Fra) en Giuseppe Rossini (KV Mechelen)

[Gorando]

Belgium will play a friendly against Holland tomorrow before travelling to China.

Also Kompany was absent from training. Looks like Hamburg is playing hard ball

http://www.sport.be/nl/voetbal/roded...icle_ID=297699

[Paganitzu]

I vote Belgium as "outsider" for a medal. They have a very talented squad with players as Dembélé, Kompany, Mirallas, Fellaini, vd. Borre...

[Gorando]

Too bad we miss Defour, Witsel, Lombaerts, De Sutter, Steppe and also we don't bring an experienced player which is always usefull.

Its sucks we can't even send our strongest team

[Paganitzu]

Originally Posted by Gorando

Too bad we miss Defour, Witsel, Lombaerts, De Sutter, Steppe and also we don't bring an experienced player which is always usefull.

Its sucks we can't even send our strongest team

"We" (Netherlands) neither, shame the EC players aren't selected for the Dutch Olympic team. Sneijder, Robben, Afellay..

Lombaerts impressed me at the Euro U21, but I think your defence wouldn't be much weaker with players as De Roover, Kompany, Vermaelen, Pocognoli, Vertonghen...

[johan neeskens]

Originally Posted by paganitzu

I vote Belgium as "outsider" for a medal. They have a very talented squad with players as Dembélé, Kompany, Mirallas, Fellaini, vd. Borre...

It's a shame that only the Dutch know just how many talented youngsters Belgium has. I really can't understand why their national team proper isn't doing any better, they have more quality than say Germany in my view (seriously!).

[Paganitzu]

Originally Posted by johan neeskens

It's a shame that only the Dutch know just how many talented youngsters Belgium has. I really can't understand why their national team proper isn't doing any better, they have more quality than say Germany in my view (seriously!).

That might be slighty overrated, but I get your point. They play with the wrong players and have the worst manager you can find in this world.

[pablo85]

If the under23 team would play against the senior squad the under23 would win, but in Belgium it is all politics, they never give the youth a chance.