>>>Don't they always blame the coach of the losing team?
>>Yes, and perhaps he formulated the goals too high.
>>But you would have to swap all couaches except for the winner ;-)
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>>I tend to believe that it is partially symptomatic that Bayern München
>>took second place this year quite often. Coach has only so many weeks to form them...
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>I was stunned to hear during the Spain-Portugal semi that between the two teams, 11 guys played for Barcelona. And Chelsea actually beat them in the recent European club tournament.

Imagine such tournaments having the players not sorted via current natinality but depending on country the players work in each year.
England going from castrated state to state on steroids jsut by changing the rules ;-)
And you could argue that each nations soccer fans payed for it via TV rights and ticket cost...