The Wunderteams of football history and why they never won a title in their prime
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From: Abubakr on 23 Nov 2009 23:55 On 24 Nov, 13:27, Enzo <s_debgu...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > On Nov 23, 2:39 am, Abubakr <deltara...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 23 Nov, 13:34, Enzo <s_debgu...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > > Still Argentina are one of the few teams ( couple of Africans and > > > > Russians are others) > > > > Argentina produce unmitigated trash nowadays. The latest example > > > is their friendly against Spain. They are rubbish, from top to bottom.. > > > No matter, they were still the best side at the last WC and many more, > > which Spain have yet to achieve in all their years of trying (though a > > case could be made for 2002). > > Beside the point. I am quoting you, both in this thread ( emphasis > mine ). > > "Still Argentina ***are*** one of the few teams ..." > "No matter, they ***were*** still the best side ..." Not beside the point because they could still play the best football in the next WC. > My point was made in response to the first of the above. A bad year does not a tradition break. Don't be so pedantic. > Besides, they were emphatically not the best side in 2006. > They were outplayed by Mexico. So what? There was no team that wasn't outplayed in 06 at some point.
From: Mark on 24 Nov 2009 04:19 On Nov 22, 11:20 pm, "ken.over...(a)gmail.com" <ken.over...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Nov 22, 12:11 pm, Static Void <s...(a)ticvoid.com> wrote: > > > Abubakr wrote: > > > You forgot Brazil in 82, one of the last truly great teams to play in > > > the WC. > > > They were a hell lotta fun to watch, the total sum was even greater than > > the sum of its parts as great as they were individually - Zico, Falcao, > > Socrates, Cerezzo. > > I was thinking of the 82 team as well, but what about Brazil in '50? > They were the hosts, they pasted everybody's ears back until the final > when Uruguay sucker-punched them in the Maracanazo. Brazil did win a title in that era. Brazil won the Copa America in 1949.
From: Abubakr on 24 Nov 2009 06:00 On 24 Nov, 20:19, Mark <Pammieshe...(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > On Nov 22, 11:20 pm, "ken.over...(a)gmail.com" <ken.over...(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > > > On Nov 22, 12:11 pm, Static Void <s...(a)ticvoid.com> wrote: > > > > Abubakr wrote: > > > > You forgot Brazil in 82, one of the last truly great teams to play in > > > > the WC. > > > > They were a hell lotta fun to watch, the total sum was even greater than > > > the sum of its parts as great as they were individually - Zico, Falcao, > > > Socrates, Cerezzo. > > > I was thinking of the 82 team as well, but what about Brazil in '50? > > They were the hosts, they pasted everybody's ears back until the final > > when Uruguay sucker-punched them in the Maracanazo. > > Brazil did win a title in that era. Brazil won the Copa America in > 1949. Come on, man, get with the program. Only the World Cup counts.
From: Benny on 24 Nov 2009 08:06 > Subject : The Wunderteams of football history and why they never won a title in their prime > From : malte.zander(a)madcynic.com > "Still Argentina ***are*** one of the few teams ..." > "No matter, they ***were*** still the best side ..." > > My point was made in response to the first of the above. > Besides, they were emphatically not the best side in 2006. > They were outplayed by Mexico. Italy, Germany and France were the best sides. Argentina were also outplayed by the Ivory Coast. Argentina did what they usually do. Arrive at the tournament over hyped, shot their load early and crashed and burned just as they did in 1994, 1998 and 2002. Their reputation as one of the best sides in the World and perennial World Cup contenders is totally without merit. Have you seen their defence? They haven't had a decent defence since 1998, let alone one good enough to win a World Cup. -- http://soccer-europe.com Rss feed : http://soccer-europe.com/RSS/News.xml
From: Alessandro Riolo on 24 Nov 2009 14:04
On 23 Nov, 00:30, Abubakr <deltara...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Still Argentina are one of the few teams ( couple of Africans and > Russians are others) who still uphold their traditional game .. Does that means we will finally end to read about Italian catenaccio? :p Apart the joke, but ever since I have been seeing football matches at NT level, that would be 1978, the Italian NT has ever played in the same way (with some atrocious peak, like during Sacchi tenure). -- ale http://ale.riolo.co.uk |