It takes a team to win the World Cup title

 

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By Dominic Herzberg, 10 Jul 2010 Dominic Herzberg is a Roar Rookie

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As the World Cup is coming to an end, you can draw many conclusions. But the most important thing we have all learned from the tournament is that it takes a team to win the Cup.

Before the Cup started, everybody was curious about the south American teams.

I read a lot of articles which pointed out that European football is dead and that it’ll be outclassed by teams like Argentina or Brazil.

Now that the last two games are ahead, only one South American team survived, and with Uruguay, it’s not the one you’d have placed your bet on. But if you keep the Suarez incident out of your minds, the Uruguayans may not have played the best football, but they fought like there is no tomorrow.

I also don’t want to say that the Europeans played the best football in the tournament. Technically, the Brazilian team was outstanding. But they were a bunch of star players who didn’t play well together.

But how does that come?

If you have a look at the remaining European teams, they also play on club level together. As many Brazilians play in leagues all over the world, teams like Germany stick to their national league. Also, the Spanish team knows each other well out of the Primera division.

It doesn’t help to have the best players in the world if they’re not able to play with each other. Nevertheless, that problem always existed. At least in Brazil.

But why did it have so much effect in this competition?

I think on one side, you have to blame the character of the players. After the Dutch equalized in the quarter final, the morale of the team was at the bottom. They didn’t work for each other and tried to win the game on their own.

The Argentinians are not to blame.

I don’t know how the tournament would end for them with a decent manager. Maradona was a terrific player, but when it comes to tactics, he hasn’t much of a clue.

I also liked the morale of New Zealand. They seemed to form a unit. They run for each other like hell and tried to win their games with nothing but pure will power.

Much respect to them.

But how can other countries take an advantage out of what the World Cup showed to us?

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