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Brazil and Germany (this article specifically refers to the men's football team), the two top teams in world football, they are not only numerous honors, but also distinctive characteristics, captured a group of hardcore fans. So who do you think is the best national team in history?
Brazil team
Important honors: 5 World Cup titles, 9 Copa America titles, 4 Confederations Cups
Description: The representative of art football, as well as the most ornamental play to dominate the world football world. For a hundred years, the land has been full of stars, and you can write down the shining names of Didi, Garrincha, Zico, Romario, Ronaldo, and of course, the most important thing is Pele.
Best Player: Pele
Pele is generally considered to be by far the most perfect set of the game. He possessed superior technique and high tactical attainment; he was both a talented shooter and a superb conductor.
The king of the ball has scored more than a thousand goals, a sword to seal the throat abounds, many times it is a long-distance attack, with super physical fitness and technology to continuously get rid of the opponent's entanglement, send the ball into the net. Such a style of play in the "barbaric era" when the red and yellow card system has not yet been promoted requires great courage to face the "killing tactics". In the 1966 World Cup, the opponent finally seized the opportunity to kick Pele injured, and Brazil's dream of three consecutive championships was shattered. But four years later in Mexico, the king of the ball has made a comeback, the style of the ball has become more mature and atmospheric, and the selection of the pass belt is wonderful.
In addition, Pele's football career has won so many honors that it can be described as "flooding", he represented the national team in the World Cup four times and won three titles, and his long-term Santos team was the super-hegemon of the Brazilian league in that era. So, purely utilitarianly, none of the superstars who have achieved great success at the same time as the national and club teams can surpass Pele, Stéfano can't, and Maradona can't. Pele caught up with a good time when the whole of Brazil was full of geniuses, such as his partners Didi, Vawa, Zagaro, Garrincha, Rivilino and Tosten. In this regard, he is luckier than maradona, another king of the ball.
Tactical innovation: 4-2-4 formation
The formation on the football field was originally invented by England as the W-M, but was subsequently improved by Hungary to 3-3-4. In 1958, the Brazilians changed it into a new 4-2-4 formation.
Brazil shined in that World Cup, the forward line followed the four-forward play created by Hungary, and the defender line changed the weakness of the three-back who was difficult to defend the four forwards, withdrawing one person from the midfield to make up for the center-back position, and staring at the opposing four forwards with the four-back, so as to stabilize the defense, and then break through the opponent's three-man defense with the advantage of the number of four forwards. If there is a weakness in the 4-2-4 formation, it is that it has too few midfield personnel, but due to the superior ability of Brazil's two defenders at the time, Didi and Zagallo, the midfield did not seem to be difficult.
Defeating host Sweden in the final, Brazil lifted the haze of eight years ago to become the only non-European team on the continent to win the World Cup. Since then, Brazil has become the super team in world football, and their first 4-2-4 play has been emulated by each team, which is called the second tactical "revolution" of modern football.
World Cup Best Battle:
1970 Fifa World Cup Final Brazil 4:1 Italy (previously written, here is a link to Conquer the Light - a brief description of the 1970 Battle of Brazil and Italy)
Germany team:
Main honours: 4 World Cup winners, 3 European Cups, 1 Confederations Cup
Introduction: A model of "will football". They are usually able to achieve the "maximization comprehensive effect" of will, physical fitness, tactical rules, overall attack and defense and other factors on the pitch, and have repeatedly created the victory of "mortals" against "geniuses". In addition to the record of winning the championship, they rarely easily fall out of the top eight in the competition, which is a typical winner and loser. In addition, they have contributed "free man" tactics with important tactical significance to international football. They were the best team in the world in the 20th century in the British World Football awards.
Best Player: Franz Beckenbauer
Looking at the world football world, there are two who can be called "ball kings" - Pele and Maradona, but the only one who can be called "the emperor of football" is Franz Beckenbauer. Beckenbauer ushered in an era of his own, with Beckenbauer ranking third in the List of the Greatest Players of the 20th Century by the International Association for the History and Statistics of Football (IFFHS), behind Pele and Cruyff. "Piggy" Schweinsteiger said it best: "In Germany, any active player praises Beckenbauer as an honor. ”
The tactical concept of "scavenger/free man" was vaguely proposed by the Italians of the 1960s who regarded defense as their life, but Beckenbauer took the "free man" to the extreme. As the world's best player in German football, Beckenbauer made 103 appearances for the national team, participating in three World Cups and two European Championships. Noble leadership temperament, elegant playing style, comprehensive technical ability, people are known as "Julius Caesar". As head coach, Beckenbauer led West Germany to the 1990 World Cup, becoming the second person in football history to win a World Cup as both a player and a manager. (The first is Zagallo)
At the club, Beckenbauer won five Bundesliga titles, three North American Football League titles and many other honors, and helped Bayern Munich achieve three consecutive European Champions Cups from 1974 to 1976, and was twice honored as "Europa Footballer of the Year" in 1972 and 1976, becoming the first defender in international football to receive this award.
Tactical Innovation: Free Man Tactics
When it comes to Germany, especially Germans, most people's first impressions are discipline, timekeeping, and even somewhat rigid, but in any case, it certainly does not have anything to do with the word freedom. The same is true of the German national team, where the entire team is disciplined, each player performs his or her duties, has a clear division of labor, and seems to be pursuing a gothic perfection like Cologne Cathedral from the inside out. However, the word free man in football tactics is famous for the German team.
The free man is the development of a scavenger, which has the nature and characteristics of a scavenger, can read the game in the fastest time, organizes and commands the back line, and is always ready to take action to defend when the defense line is breached. In addition, the free man is more advanced than the scavenger in that he can play the role of initiator or even terminator of the offensive organization, that is, the free man is not only responsible for the defense, he is also a powerful complement to the midfield.
2014 FIFA World Cup Semi-Final Germany 7:1 Brazil (previously written, here put the link sad against the river - a brief description of the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil Germany battle)
So do you think, these two world giants, who is the first national team?