Who is the best international team ever? I'll take Hungary 1954. Before 2014 they had the highest Elo rating ever.
Hungary definately in the discussion. Brazil 70, France 00, France 84, Brazil 86, Holland 78, Germany 74, Spain 08... Those are the main ones IMO (surely I'm forgetting some team).
Who is the best international team ever? I'll take Hungary 1954. Before 2014 they had the highest Elo rating ever.
Spain 08-12
Only team to win three consecutive major tourneys, and did so in dominant fashion
A dominant-best team ever don't win games 1-0 all the time in a very weak era.
Hungary54 Holland74
That's a pretty bs argument imo
They won three major tournaments in a row, their opponents barely could touch the ball against them, let alone score a goal.
At the WC they shut out everyone in the knockouts, that includes Ronaldo's Portugal, the Netherlands with Robben/Persie/Sneijder at the top of their game, and a Germany team featuring the all time topscorer in World Cups.
Won the 2008 EURO shutting everyone out as well in the knockouts.
Then again in the 2012 EURO, only conceding once in the entire tourney before destroying Italy in the final (largest win ever in a EURO final as well).
I'm not a fan of surveys like this, because Hungary54 would have been eaten alive by a mediocre team from 74 and so on.
There were teams back in the day nobody here is even aware of (me included) that were dominant. Or has anybody seen Uruguay30 for example?
The Dutch 74 team were better than Germany, no doubt. Little bit too cocky, tho.
Love the hipster revisionist history, so the best teams in history are the ones that lost their WC finals to Germany and thus didn't even win anything.
That German team was no worse than the Dutch team on talent even if Holland played the more innovative, attractive football. And while the semifinal was highly irregular, it's pure speculation that the Polish win that on a decent pitch.
It's not like Germany hadn't won the European title in highly convincing fashion just two years prior or that the bulk of their team was made up of players of two of European football's most dominant clubs at the time.
Love the hipster revisionist history, so the best teams in history are the ones that lost their WC finals to Germany and thus didn't even win anything.
That German team was no worse than the Dutch team on talent even if Holland played the more innovative, attractive football. And while the semifinal was highly irregular, it's pure speculation that the Polish win that on a decent pitch.
It's not like Germany hadn't won the European title in highly convincing fashion just two years prior or that the bulk of their team was made up of players of two of European football's most dominant clubs at the time.
There were teams back in the day nobody here is even aware of (me included) that were dominant.
Cruyff retired from international football in October 1977, having helped the national team qualify for the upcoming World Cup.[7] Without him, the Netherlands finished runners-up in the World Cup again. Initially, the reason given for missing the 1978 World Cup were political reasons given a military dictatorship was in power in Argentina at that time. In 2008, Cruyff stated to the journalist Antoni Bassas in Catalunya RÃ dio that he and his family were subject to a kidnap attempt in Barcelona a year before the tournament, and that this had caused his retirement. "To play a World Cup you have to be 200% okay, there are moments when there are other values in life."