>corner-kick set play goal >open play goal due to non-existent defence >free-kick set play goal >corner-kick set play goal >open play goal due to non-existent defence >penalty goal >open play blooter >corner-kick set play goal >nice goal that started from a throw-in >set play goal >again non-existent defence because the opponent had to risk everything, open play goal >set play goal in the final >draw and win on penalties
They were easily one of the best squads in that world cup. They just started slowly in the tournament and then put in the GOAT performances to cuck Germany and France
Nathaniel Martin
Say that to my face
Lucas Allen
So true That italy shut france in its prime: zidane, henry, ribery, barthez.. And that was one of the best games ever: eary zidane panenka, italy equalizer, zidane headbutt- red card.. controversies...penalty kicks...
Colton Lee
zidane literally had to come out of retirement, how can you even say France were on their prime.
Adam Phillips
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>that Italian feel
Caleb Hall
Back then I was a kraut bandwagoner like most of the world, in hindsight I'm so happy it turned out like it did
Mason Mitchell
2014 Germany
>easy group yet they tied fucking Ghana who the U.S and Portugal both beat
>almost got cucked by fucking Algeria
>won a boring game against an unmotivated France
>easy semifinal due to Huezil on a meltdown and having lost their two best players
>Almost cucked by Argentina multiple times in the final if only Higuain wouldn't >Higuain that day where he was offside and blew an open goal
>typical boring German playstyle.
Only good thing about that Germany were the uniforms
Tyler Walker
that was a GOAT team you despicable casual cunt.
Buffon, Cannavaro, Nesta, Materazzi, Pirlo, Gattuso, Totti, Del Piero, Zambrotta, De Rossi, prime Camoranesi, prime Luca Toni, prime Fabio Grosso.
one of the best ever international teams
Eli Peterson
98 France and 2014 Germany were easily worse
Carter Wood
>Is there a shittier world cup winning team in modern history? No.That title goes to Brazil 2002 that won due Koreans ref killing the best teams and easy draws
Blake Evans
this
Kevin Bell
>b-but it has a lot of regonizible names therefore it must have been good
how old were you when you watched that garbage? want me to list Brazil 2006? names don't mean shit.
Jaxon Cook
>Most succesful Nt in recent history >Shit WC winner
Jonathan Reed
a good team should be able to win against 12-men korea
Jaxon Reed
this
Oliver Cox
b8
Brandon Foster
Spain 2010, not because they were shit, clearly they were full of world class players, but they played like shit, the most soulless robot football imaginable.
Charles Parker
>butthurt chokers lost against south fucking korea >coming from Spain which has never ever reached a semifinal before 2010
Jose Taylor
how many goals did they concede m8? the entire tournament?
was it the lowest number EVER for a winner since it changed to 32 teams?
how many good teams did they beat?
kindly be quiet. you know nothing about football.
7-1.
(brazil 2002 is the worst wc winner ever btw)
Jackson Bailey
>score the most goals in the entire tournament >typical boring German playstyle
every single time
Cameron Collins
>they played like shit Not really.The problem was that most teams just parked the bus against Spain so all the matches were boring as fuck.Paraguay only did 12 passes in Spain's field in 90 minutes for example
Justin Allen
>muhb numbers
damn you're fucking retarded, if you weren't a 10yo faggot back then you'd realize they just parked the bus, relied completely on set plays and physical conditioning to beat the opponents, even against the weak ones.
Nathaniel Hughes
it wasn't even an intelligent counter-attacking team just a set-play baby team
Andrew Russell
You can remove your proxy, Pierre
Levi Gonzalez
>not intelligent >win world cup
Bentley Howard
Damn, people still mad about 2002
Juan King
spain 2010
Levi Wright
Don't ever post on this site again you ignorant cunt
Samuel Cook
ITT: Brazil gets BTFO again.
Check em
Nicholas Foster
That '38 Italy team was awful to watch/
Josiah Reed
learn to read
Jacob Jackson
Spain, pure FIFA marketing.
Sebastian Foster
>4 goals against 10 man Portugal who were awful
>7 goals against a broken Brazil
If you looked at the other games where the opposing team wasn't handicapped or shit, Germany averaged 1.4 goals a game.
Bentley Taylor
Go to bed grandpa
2002 worst ever case closed
Jaxson Morgan
>memes like Cannavaro have a wc while GOATS like Van Der Sar, Raul, Gerrard, Kahn don't
shut up clown. you sound like a crying child who cant take getting beat
Jordan Reed
>Gerold >GOAT
lel you angloscums are funny
Cooper Sullivan
>slippy g
Lucas Carter
So they played football their own way, with no ilegal or not allowed things and won.
Souns unfair m8.
Ethan Cooper
who said anything about fairness? I'm talking about the quality, it was the lowest football had gotten in ages
Grayson Walker
>Van der Sar >GOAT
Connor Lee
Winning prizes > quality
Michael Hill
No it wasn't.Which WC did you watch?
Josiah Edwards
Yes it was. When half of the goals of the winning team comes from freaking corner-kicks you know something is off. Watched 1998-today.
Brayden White
>elite defense and keeping >lose Nesta, Materazzi did what he did >literal who fullback Grosso comes out of fucking nowhere to win games >undoubtedly one of the 5 best midfields to ever grace the WC >0 (zero) goals allowed from open play >10 players score 12 goals >beat hosts Germany in the semifinals in a stadium they'd never lost in >troll the fuck out of Zizou and Les Bleus in the finals
OP, go away.
Austin Bailey
Karma because Italy was the strongest in 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002 by far, yet they always got the title stolen by walking memes.
Cooper Russell
Real successful the way you guys got BTFO in Rio.
Gavin Brooks
and went out in the Ro16 this year.
Party's over, Spain.
Chase Phillips
>france in its prime three of those four were at the end of their careers
98-00 was a far superior side
Nathan Thompson
>being too young to remember 5pa1n are the greatest World Cup chokers of all time
If you think it's the Dutch, your age is showing.
Ryan Baker
which one was worse for the Euros, 2004 Greece or 2016 Portugal?
Mason King
>Real successful the way you guys got BTFO in Rio. Krusty fielded a team with an average age of 30.He chosose to lose the WC >Hasn't win a title in 20 years So are we in the same group now Losertina? Spain was shit.The team wasn't full of chockers.The Netherlands managed to lose a WC with Gullit,Rijkjaard and Van Basten or lose 2 finals with Cruyff
Julian Cooper
meanwhile sassuolo is losing to fucking Genk
Jordan Foster
>comes from freaking corner-kicks Nothing wrong with set pieces.Italy was a pretty efficient and extremelly good tactically
Adam Long
wrong thread oops
Hunter Gonzalez
>Raul's World Cup record
You should be ashamed of yourself.
Thomas Williams
>You should be ashamed of yourself. Why? Our team in 2002 was decent but got totally refballed and our best midfielder in 2006 was out of form due injuries.Spain hasn't really had great NT's unlike the Netherlands.
Isaiah Powell
>a Brazilian saying winning on set pieces is bullshit
FUCKING WEW LADS
How many World Cups has Brazil won on PKs?
Colton Perez
1 out of 5
Aiden Cruz
>1998 >eliminated in groups over Nigeria and Paraguay
What's your excuse for 1998? 1994? 1990? 1986? 1982? 1978? 1974? 1970?
Thomas Young
>What's your excuse for 1998? 1994? 1990? 1986? 1982? 1978? 1974? 1970? Shit teams.The team in 86 was nice though.They just lost on the PK's.We havent have had lots of good NT's.Other countries had way better players than us
Christopher Evans
>Brazilians STILL fucking salty about their greatest team EVER getting BTFO by an Italian manlet who'd been out of the game for over a year
Carter Phillips
>Raúl
>slippy
Daniel Barnes
>first WC winner with an offensive play style since Argentina 86 >soulless
They were just to superior to other teams
Dominic Howard
too*
Angel Morris
Italy were great to watch, all dat heart & passion. That game against the krauts was magic
Tyler Bell
>best goalkeeper of all time >best cb of all time >best rb of all time >best play maker of all time >best number 10 of all time
yeh bro, shit team
Evan Diaz
>brazil 94 >brazil 02
What now cunt
Owen Green
>Brasil 94
topkek
Austin Roberts
>brazil 94 You didn't watch them for sure >brazil 02 They were sloppy as fuck and played very mediocre football
Jayden Foster
>7 goals against Brazil
Xavier Gutierrez
Portugal. Greece actually qualified properly and beat good teams along the way.
Aaron Foster
It's not about names, they were unbeatable as a team. MSN wouldnt be able to score a goal against them
Cooper Rogers
you should go back to eating burgers and raising your colesterol level you stupid medicine ball
Carson Wood
Not really modern but Argentina 78 were below par
Ryder Carter
no only 2 Henry was 29, generally considered the peak age for a striker
Owen Hernandez
All these players performed well in CL around 2006.
Brandon Cooper
tfw the 2002 italy team was even better but got fucked over by fifa wanting to take care of host nation...
litteraly 5 goals were disallowed for various reasons and there was no reason for doing so...
tfw the ref who screwed Italy vs South Korea got busted a decade later for pushing heroin thru an airport
Luke Cox
> lose 2 finals with Cruyff > spaniard knowledge of football
kek go watch some Pelota Vasca paco bandwaggoner
Kevin Rodriguez
>29, generally considered the peak age for a striker You've been misled
Matthew Hernandez
>You've been misled Yeah pacebabbies go to shit by then while true world class talent (Ronaldo, Suarez) starts to shine
Camden Hill
Ronaldo was riddled with injuries by the time he was 30. He was a much better player at 20 than at 29. Suarez definitely peaked later, think Aguero is headed that direction. But Henry, Trezeguet, Owen, Rooney, Shearer, etc all peaked around 26. I think most people would consider this the peak age, if you had to apply a peak age. 29 is more typical of centerhalves.
Ayden Brooks
lol
They only beat fucking Australia because they cheated
Daniel Wright
Cruijff didn't play 1978 WC
Jose Clark
>the assblasted aussie still mad about 2006
Like clockwork
Aiden Flores
tbf I'm still assblasted about Torsten Frings handballing a for sure goal on the line and nothing being called and no one in the world caring. Then Henry does a casual handball against the Irish and everyone thinks it's genocide.
Carter Martinez
>muh 1/129th Italian-American
Like clockwork
Blake Morris
Lol, you hyper-fag
Cannavaro and Buffon are a dynamic duo of defence. And Pirlo is the best set up man of the tourney.
Italy deserved it more than anyone.
Elijah Phillips
>going to ground, ever, in that situation
Aussies deserved to get beat. Stick to rugby.
Robert Wilson
Father born in Toscana. Mother born in Malta.
Got to witness the glory of th Azzuri as well as the Habs. Soooo many good times.
John Edwards
Ive always wondered what its like being retarded. So go ahead and tell me
Parker Wilson
>Amerilard education Rugby is even less popular in Australia than soccer
David Kelly
what are you a Saputo
Daniel Rogers
thanks brazil, that was the point
Jacob Taylor
and yet you're still worse than garbage at it.
Julian Reyes
>this flag >this post oh i am laffing
Joseph Bailey
Fuck these cunts if it wasn't for shitty refball we would have knocked them out. Diving fucking cunts.
Grayson Stewart
>undeservedly up a man for 40 minutes >create zero chances
Yeah Australia really had the game won.
Nicholas Baker
Henry was still at his peak in 2006. The 05/06 season was one of his best seasons, and he was in the running for the ballon dor that year. It was 2007 when things went south, after he had some back and knee injuries.
Jonathan Bell
woulda won penalties ez you fat fuck
Jeremiah Cruz
Asian Champions you spastic
When's the last time the USA achieved anything in divegrass?
Bentley Mitchell
Grosso and Zambrotta were the GOAT pair of full-backs, and Pirlo should've won the tournament MVP.