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Originally Posted by loveissucide
Euro '96 and WC 2006 had two very strong sets of players if I remember correctly, and organisation and teamwork are crucial in football-something Inter display.
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Inter do have this and are worthy winners and despite having no Italian players in their starting 11, play the Italian way and have some players of great technical ability (Sneijder, Eto`o etc) their style of play is always interesting to watch, despite the emphasis often being on defence.
The organization and teamwork are DEFINATELY essential and Spain, Brazil and Argentina for example typify all these qualities combined with a huge amount of flair and technical ability as well.
My gripe against Germany, is that they don`t have the flair and technical aspect (Lahm probably the best) and they have some highly rated prospects that are now part of the squad such as Kroos. I`ve nothing against Germany but I`d sooner see a more technically gifted and exciting squad reach the latter stages of the WC than the normall dogged displays by the huns!
Ok, 1996 they had a squad that was worthy if not world class but Croatia, England and Czech Republic should have won their matches against Germany. As for 2006, well they had home advantage which certainly hepled them in beating a far superior Argentinian side. I would have far rather seen an Italy v Argentina semi.
Only one hard grafting disciplined side that was short on skill, has actually won a major tournament as far back as I can remember and that was Greece and that was also with a German manager.