Written by: A.Beganovic on June 21, 2016.
France 2016
France 2016: What about the favorites? Who are those favorites? What about the good games and hooligans? The dream situation: Germany and Italy in the final tournament.
When people follow the European and World championships in soccer they expect to see some special teams as winners. What about the favorites? Who are those favorites? Looking at how the players manage the team game we can see different situations in different teams. Some teams, or we can also say nations, are better than others even though it can go bad for them too.
Some of the favorites are, as I can remember, Brazil, Argentina, Netherlands, England, France, Italy and Germany. They have had good results during the last 30 years in World championships. In European championships we have Netherlands, England, France, Italy and Germany. That is at least my own experience of the good soccer nations. You can read little bit more about the good teams in this short article about the
Netherlands vs Argentina semi final game in the World Cup in Brazil 2014.
For some of them the success has gone up and down and that is nothing wrong because no one can play perfectly whole time. My favorite nation since 1990 is Germany. Why?
1990 it was a World championship in soccer in Italy. At that time the former Yugoslavia was participating and unfortunately they lost against Germany. Germany was the winner with 4-1 and also Germany won that World championship.
Germany became my favorite team then. I can explain that so simple:
They were playing very good, very active and they had great cooperation in the team while Yugoslavia had good players without good cooperation in the team. Their all good players tried to become winners as individuals and not as the team. That is why I begun to love Germany as a soccer nation.
Since 1990 it has gone up and down for Germany but it has not changed my opinion about them. Their game has remained good and very inspiring.
The image showing us the stadium map is found at transfer-lbc.com website.
Now, if we take a look on the beginning of the European championship in France 2016, we can see how everything has began. My favorite nation has shown how good and willing to win they are comparing to Turkey and Russia who appeared to be very inactive thinking like:
We do not actually know why we are here.
Sweden has shown one more time that their game is not good enough even though they have one of the "best" players in the world. Italy won against them and that is one more reason why I dream about to see Germany and Italy in the final game.
The last German game against Poland was heavy. When they were playing I was thinking something like this:
Two giants are playing against each other.
Both of them are good and strong and they both have good defense and good attacks. Good work! Poland is strong as my favorite team!
The wild and crazy Croatian supporters & hooligans threw flares onto the pitch. The image is found at www.goal.com
The wild and crazy Russian supporters & hooligans fighting against the English supporters.The image is found at www.telegraph.co.uk
At the end of this article I just want to emphasize that the Croatian hooligans disappointed me. I mean, this team never meant anything to me but watching at their last game I just have to express myself on this way:
Shame on you Croatia and your hooligans. And of course England and Russia with their hooligans.
That's it folks, enjoy the last part of this European championship in France. Let the best team win!
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