Thibaut Courtoius is the Belgium teammate who once had an affair with Kevin De Bruyne’s fiancée, hence scoring a goal past him will always be Kevin De Bruyne’s sweetest goal.
When City defeated Real this season in the Champions League semi-final, winning 5-1 on aggregate, De Bruyne scored past Courtois in the first leg.
Ten years after Courtois had an affair with his fiancée, De Bruyne was able to get the better of him.
After De Bruyne had his own affair with her best friend, Caroline Lijnen said she strayed towards Courtois in 2012. She made this claim in a 2014 interview.
She confessed to Kevin cheating on her to Story Magazine in Belgium.
“Kevin’s parents threatened to sue me if I shared my tale, so I kept quiet for months since I was unable to do so.
“I was under pressure, so I was unable to reach Kevin.
“Everything was respected. But Kevin included a section about my affair with Thibaut in his book Keep it Simple. I therefore made the decision to stop being silent.
“Kevin revealed to me that he had an affair with my former best friend in the summer of 2012. He could choose her or me, I told him. I was willing to give him another chance, but after that, things were different between us.
“[I] went to Madrid after that, and even Kevin approved of the vacation. I questioned him in advance. However, something unexpected happened after that.
“That evening, Thibaut gave me something I hadn’t gotten from Kevin in our three-year relationship. I was able to discuss anything and everything with Thibaut, and he had even made me a delectable supper. Never did Kevin do it for me.
Because Kevin had tricked me, I reasoned, “Why shouldn’t I do that too?”
After the incident, De Bruyne was reportedly “devastated,” but the midfielder and Courtois appear to have patched things up.
Even though Courtois was on loan at Atletico Madrid at the time in 2012, the two were on the same roster at Chelsea.