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TulliusDetritus -> RE: European Championships (6/19/2012 9:07:22 PM)
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ORIGINAL: warspite1
As for the rest, depends on what is your definition of exceptional. Sorry, but you discounted Denmark as "standard" but they had the Laudrups, Vilfort, Larsen and another person you may have heard of...Schmeichel.
You discounted the Czechs but they had Panenka, Nehoda and Masny.
You got excited a little bit as regards Denmark methinks [:D] The only exceptional players I see on that list are Laudrup and Schmeichel... Larsen? Before that Euro Cup he played in Italian Serie B and after that beautiful victory he played in Bundesliga Second Division apparently... That Danish squad had therefore two exceptional players surrounded by standard AND mediocre players... That makes them sort of underdog on my book.
Re Messi as this is the perfect example. The last WC. The guy was surrounded by some standard and a lot of mediocre players! Don Quixote vs the Windmills comes to mind!
As for the Czechs, my bad, I was convinced they had won on the 90s. And obviously no exceptional Czech generation at that time [;)]
Perhaps that's the big difference between the Greatest (Brazil, Germany and Italy) and the rest. They almost always manage to produce minimum a team with standard players. When you add to this an exceptional player (and this is pure luck as no factory can produce talent) that makes them almost unstoppable. It's not only the WCs they have won... It's the finals and semi-finals... Regularity that is.
Whilst the other teams produce [perhaps] one (or two if you're lucky) exceptional players + some standard players + mediocre players...
But in the end the best players must play. Always [8D]
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