FoG

Argentina were the oldest squad at this years World Cup and the final pitted them against one of the youngest squads.  Indeed 7 of the German squad weren't even born the last time that Germany won the World Cup in 1990 - including the goal scorer tonight Goetze and Schurle who set up the goal.  Argentina had 8 players over 30 on their squad to Germany's 3.  Maybe it was the toll of a long tournament on the old tired legs of the Argentinians, especially considering that they had one day less rest than the Germans.  But in the end youth won out over experience. Or did it? If you look a little deeper Germany's youthful team have experience way beyond their years.  They are the fourth most capped squad in the tournament.  Young players like Muller not only have seen it all before but excelled - young Muller (only 24) was involved in 2010 when Germany beat Argentina 4-0 in the World Cup and he also was the top scorer in that tournament.  Youth and exp...

There have been 20 World Cups over all time, competed among 80 different nations but only 8 different winners.  In those times there have been some teams that have come close but not close enough. Hungary  made the final match twice, first time in 1938 and then in 1954 arguably one of the greatest teams in the world.  They had gone unbeaten in all matches from May 1950 to July 1954 - winning 22 out of 25 games and scoring 118 goals.  They even beat Germany by 8-3 in the group stage before going on and losing in the Final to the same German team. Czechoslovakia and Sweden  also made the final but never won, Czechoslovakia, like Hungary got there twice.   But the best team at being great but not the best is Netherlands .  In terms of win percentage they have a better record than former champions Spain, France, England and Uruguay.  They have also made more finals than each of those teams.  They are runners up three  times, this...