TulliusDetritus
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ORIGINAL: TulliusDetritus My bet is 1 - 2, Italy winning. "Italy is always Italy". Along with Brazil and Germany they are always there, goes to show they are 100% professionals 100% professional actors? Come within 3 inches of an Italian player, he falls down in what appears to be agony, rolls 4 times around the field, only to jump up either to cheer or yell at the ref, after the ref has given a free kick one way or another. LOL No comment Now seriously the Three Big Ones deserve a lot of respect. Because here it is not only about what they have won. It is about what they did when they lost (ie they failed to win a WC). Somehow they consistently manage to get to the finals or semi-finals (again, which they lose). That is the mark of the great (along with the titles they managed to bag). The others? You have a special case, the Argentinians. Their most hardcore fans think they belong to this aristocracy. Well, I'm sorry but they don't. Just like -oh coincidence, oh luck- England, France and Spain, they managed to gather a Golden Generation (from 1978 to 1986). The objective fact is that except in that concrete case, they do NOT regularly get to semi-finals or finals (to lose them). Once that Golden Generation faded away, back to reality... unlike the Three Big Ones, always there near the goal. And of course Uruguay. They won the first WC (before WW2) and then the first WC after WW2. After that they basically disappear from the map.
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