Chris Hu said:
vivster said:
Chris Hu said:
Winning a European Champisonship is not the same as winning the World Cup. Even the Soviet Union one it once and was runner up three times but they never did much in the World Cup either. Another good example is Greece they won one 2004 historically even the US has done better in the World Cup then Greece.
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The problem with the Euro is that there aren't many teams. You need a lot less luck to win it. I don't think it's possible to win a WC by a fluke. I also don't think you can win the 3 biggest tournaments in a row by a fluke. Spain played a lot of games like shit but they still earned their victories because the other teams always played even shittier. It's less that Spain were lucky to win and more that their opponents didn't have their shit together.
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Each game in the emliation round the won by the score of 1-0 if its not a fluke then they won it by extreme luck instead. Also with the Euopean Championship its probably a lot like the FIBA Basketball World Cup/Championship where not every country that qualifies sends their best squat the US pretty much would have won all of those if they always would have send their best squat but they put a higher importance on winnig the gold medal in basketball in the Olympics.
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It's the exact opposite in football though. Olympics is utterly unimportant and the Euros are the next best thing to the World Cup.
No player would voluntarily leave out playing the Euros.
