Why is the Latin style of soccer so dominant in the world cup tournaments?
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Anonymous
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1974 West Germany 1978 Argentina 1982 Italy 1986 Argentina 1990 West Germany 1994 Brazil 1998 France 2002 Brazil 2006 Italy 2010 Spain 2014 Germany 2018 France Going back to the past 50 years 10 of the last 13 world cup tournaments were won by Latin Countries. What is it about the Latin style of soccer that makes them so dominant? |
Anonymous
| Is this the Tiki-taka style or are we referring to other elements? |
Anonymous
| Remind me the last time a team from South or Central America finished in the top 3 of a WC. |
Anonymous
Of that list, the only Latin countries are Brazil and Argentina. 5 of the last 13 winners were Latin countries. 8 of the last 13 were European countries. I am not sure the point of your question, but let’s at least frame it correctly. |
Anonymous
Latin countries live, eat, breath, sleep, and sh$t soccer. It’s an obsession, it’s intertwined with their culture, it’s funded by the Goverment, it’s for the most part free for players. |
Anonymous
Bruh, you are ignorant, you are referring to Romance languages but trying to lump catennaccio in with jogo bonito and tiki taka. Tripping, bro |
Anonymous
| Futbol is life |
Anonymous
Italy, Spain and France are not Latin countries? Are you really that ignorant? |
Anonymous
Here are the names of the coaches of the 2002 and 1994 Brazil teams. Luiz Felipe Scolari and Carlos Alberto Parreira. 1986 and 1978 Argentina teams. Carlos Salvador Bilardo Digiano and Cesar Luis Menotti. They are just as Latin as anybody from Spain, Italy or France. |
Anonymous
Soccer is a European sport. Europeans are generally better at it and their Western European domestic leagues are generally better than those of non-European countries. When speaking about South American culture, colonialism is just part of the conversation, it cannot be avoided. Although a few South American countries have embraced the soccer as their national pastime, it is not the case for all. Note Venezuelans are more inclined to follow baseball than anything else, Peru and Paraguay are not seen as soccer hotbed. Namely Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay in South America are the most dominant countries and produce soccer stars as well as sought after players in all positions. While each of these countries has won the WC and are consistently expected by their countrymen and pundits to make deep seeded runs in global and continental tournaments, to say Latin countries as a whole are "so dominant" in world soccer is ignorant at best. |
Anonymous
Italy, Spain and France are not Latin? Let me call my friends in Brazil and Argentina who are of Spanish and Italian heritage and inform them of this. |
Anonymous
Italy, Spain and France are very much Latin countries. The country with the most world cup tournament victories is Brazil which is also very much a Latin country. |
Anonymous
Tracing soccer style to the Roman Empire? Give me a break. I am Latino, and the general definition of a Latino is someone from Latin America (South America, Central America and the Caribbean). I am pretty sure the Census defines it the same way. Spain, France and Italy are not Latin American countries. |
Anonymous
The term Latin America did not apply to the region until AFTER THE ARRIVAL OF A EUROPEAN NAMED COLUMBUS WHO WAS AN ITALIAN. The Spanish, Italians and the French are very much Latin. |
Anonymous
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