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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
hey pokkeherrie, nice posts.
if it's any consolation (or the contrary-- not sure anything can work), spain probably owes its victory to johan cruyff & the dutch team from 1974:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/sp...upfeature.html
there was another article, i cant' find it now, where the writer, alluding to this influence in spanish football, said something like "if i want spain to win, it's because i like dutch history so much" (or something of that sort). |
Yeah, seen it mentioned a lot. Blabla, Cruyff, Van Gaal, Rijkaard, Barcelona managers, yadda yadda... No, that doesn't help at all, sorry!
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does help is that Spain were better and had Holland won it, it would've been incredibly controversial because of their, uhm how to put it nicely, "physical approach". Nobody would've mentioned Italy 2006, Brazil 1994 or Germany 1990 as negative football anymore. Holland winning the 2010 World Cup final would've been the new example of ugly anti-football for decades to come.