...There wont be in the WORLD CUP Final any of Germany,Italy, Brazil or Argentina. Football has evolved
Interesting fact, but in the end the final features the top 2 powerhouses that were waiting on the line to enter the small club of World Cup champions. It's still a very selective, difficult tournament, and the fact that it's never a total 'outsider' who wins it helps to make the World Cup so prestigious.
Football has evolved because teams who, for the most part, consistently play well aren't participating in the final? Makes sense.
True. And Spain is the first new finalist since the Netherlands in 1974. But these are two old powers with a history of putting together great teams, that for various reasons fell short in the past. Whoever wins was long overdue. I guess by evolved you mean that there are new world powers. If so, then I disagree. When, for example, Ivory Coast plays South Korea in a final, you can tell me that football has evolved.
You forgot France in WC1998. They have never been in a final before, but then again they were already an old powerhouse.
Good point, I forgot about France. For some reason I thought they'd been in one of the early finals, but they haven't.
It is interesting that the big teams always seem to make the finals, but it is not unusual to have smaller clubs in the semi-finals. It is only one game difference and with such a small sample size you would expect eventually for one outsider to break through. I generally kind of think that once a club has made the semi-finals they have proven, maybe not that they are the best club, but that they are a good club and one that with a little luck could win the whole thing. Just hasn't happened, though. Are clubs like Turkey and South Korea (2002) and Uruguay this year (although not an outsider their time as a big team has clearly passed) not good enough or is it just a sample size problem and at some point an outsider will break though? I tend to think the latter.
Futbol certaintly has evolved in Spain.. They did put good teams teams in the past but they were never this good.. My prediction was always Brazil vs Spain in the final .. I got 50%..