And what’s more, they don’t answer journalists’ questions… We’re exaggerating, of course. The Red Devils took their responsibilities well, following the meeting, to answer questions from the audiovisual and written press. Courtois, Mertens, Onana, Vertonghen and the Hazard brothers thus appeared in front of the microphones of RTBF and VRT, the rights holders.
Later, in the mixed zone where interviews are planned with the written press, radio and television not having the rights to broadcast the matches, Onana, Castagne and Courtois stopped. Witsel and De Bruyne also passed, without answering any questions, but since FIFA requires the presence of at least three players in the mixed zone, they were not bound by media obligations.
On the other hand, each player must pass through the mixed zone, whether or not he speaks to the press. And no other Red Devil than the five cities has crossed the area. Obviously, they had found a way out to join their bus and return to the hotel. A representative of FIFA will write a report, and the Belgian federation might be fined, to punctuate a bad day, definitively.
