If any footballer is granted the honour of captaining their country, it is arguably one of the proudest days in their careers.
Yet when former Everton star Romelu Lukaku was granted such an honour by Belgium manager Domenico Tedesco the striker inadvertently became embroiled at the heart of an unsavoury exchange between his international boss and team-mate Thibaut Courtois.
Lukaku, who has 75 goals from 108 caps for his country, donned the armband for the first time for a friendly against Greece back in June 2021 in the absence of Eden Hazard, Jan Vertonghen and Kevin De Bruyne.
