Nainggolan angrily blasts Martinez: He doesn’t understand football at all and is a terrible coach

Recently, Nainggolan, the former Roma midfielder who currently plays for KSC Lokeren, accepted an interview on Vertonghen’s YouTube channel and severely criticized the former Belgian coach Roberto Martinez. He bluntly stated that Martinez was an important reason for the failure of his national team.

Nainggolan said: "I did not have the impact I should have, I admit it. But it is not entirely my fault. Former Belgium coach Wilmots did not start me in the 2016 European Cup, although I performed very well in that game. After that, Martinez had no reason to He kicked me out of the team. His reason seemed ridiculous to me, because in my eyes, he didn't understand football at all and was a bad coach."

"Anyone who says he is a good coach does not understand football, and under Martinez's coaching, Belgium has never had such a system. Whenever we were in trouble, it was De Bruyne, Hazard or Lukaku who solved the problem individually. We've never had a set style of play, that's just the way it is. "

"Belgium has never really had a good coach. De Bruyne clearly wanted to play as a midfielder, but was assigned to play as a forward, but the coach still insisted on his own opinion. I believe if Belgium had had a really good coach at that time we could have won the title. "

Since Martinez stopped recruiting Nainggolan after 2018, the relationship between the two has completely broken down. At that time, the former Roma midfielder announced his retirement from the national team after being excluded from the 28-man preliminary list for the World Cup in Russia by Martinez.