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Cup successes Italy had in the 1930s. Even prominent Italian writers have questioned some of the methods used at the time. The 1982 success was lucky in my opinion. The best team was Brazil in that tournament and in arguably the best ever international game that I have ever seen Brazil scored two of the greatest ever goals for pure skill and technique that I have ever seen (Socrates and Falcao) and basically gave Rossi a hat-trick. Italy could never play great football like that even in there wildest dreams. There game plan has always been to counter attack or defend a lead. If the British public had to watch football like that the game would go bust in this country our fans just would not accept it.
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Good to be lucky, lucky to be good as they say.
Counterattack is a very accepted strategy, as is your English football of lobbing the ball up field and hoping for the best.
You say defensive football, I say responsible football which entails the whole team fight for a common goal..that goal being to win. To entertain the fans should be left for exhibitions, having said this, I found the final very entertaining, as did many others. The last time I checked, not sure about you, FIFA has reported that the last world cup final was watch by more people and rated higher than the last one. Credit to France, they are hard team to play.
As for Marco and the Zidane incident. The story itself has been affirmed by Zidane himself. Zidane through a shot at Marco first, then Marco retaliated with his insult, then Zidane acted like an idiot and probably cost his nation a world cup. Good for Italy, bad for the losers. Case closed.
One more thing, the 1982 World CUp is the greatest world cup in my opinion. Many people rate this the best world cup.
I agree with you, Italy was not the best team. Brazil, France and Germany had better teams, but Italy had much more heart. I don't think luck had anything to do with it.
They beat Brazil by scoring three goals......if you give up that many, you DESERVE to lose. Not sure how anybody can argue that???
We beat Germany fair and sqaure.
But lets explore this non sense about being lucky further......
If you exclude the world cup wins....
90..third place.
94...final
98...qaurterfinal lost to world champion and host team.
02...out early....terribly officiated world cup, but we did not play as a team..so no excuse.
06..champions.
I see no luck, I actually see consistency.
But I will say this, you do need a little luck to win the thing, but you need a gameplan, committed players and good coach to win.
But being a good team will get you chances at it, something Italy is, judging by our recent record in the tournament.
Something that England doesn't have, and hopefully Capello will fix.