With the World Cup group draw settled, the major football giants have found their own goals in the Qatar World Cup, let's take a look at the winning index of the giants of the World Cup participating teams.
Group A: Netherlands
Giants Index ★★★
Championship Index ★★★☆
Dutch fans
The Dutch team in Group A was able to draw the most satisfactory draw, and there was no opponent in the same group who could threaten the first place in their group. They can devote more attention to the knockout rounds. The Netherlands are the most tragic team in the World Cup, not one of them. The title of uncrowned king is far less fascinating than a real championship trophy. The Netherlands have reached the World Cup final three or two times in history, and they have missed the championship, especially in 1974, which is an unsolved mystery for the history of world football, that is, why the greatest teams in history – Cruyff, Van Hanehen, Nesskens, Kroll, Ali Han – lost to West Germany?
Netherlands
The Netherlands' recent best result was the 2010 World Cup runner-up and the 2014 World Cup runner-up, and now, van Dijk, a strong contender for the 2019 Messi Ballon d'Or, has taken over the Dutch captain's armband, will he become the new leader of the Netherlands?
The New Generation of the Netherlands
The new oranges, led by Van Dijk, Depay, Frenkie De Jong, De Ligt and others, are undoubtedly leading the Orange Army on the road to revival. This World Cup, the Netherlands is worth looking forward to!
The Netherlands has an excellent record in the 21st Century World Cup: 2010 runner-up, 2014 3rd place
Group B: England
Championship Index ★★★
England fans
The United Kingdom as the birthplace of modern football, England is the world's most developed football market today, the most economically powerful region in the world, England has always been the center of professional football in the world, but on the stage of the World Cup, the England national team only had one championship experience in the 1966 World Cup held on its home soil, which is also the only time England has reached the World Cup final experience, England's best record in the recent World Cup is the 2018 World Cup.
England
According to unofficial statistics, England is the only team with a total value of more than 1 billion euros, surpassing the defending champions France's 970 million and five-star Brazil's 850 million.
But England have never won a major tournament outside their home country, can Harry Kane lead this England to break through themselves?
England's best 21st Century World Cup record: 2018
Group C: Argentina
Giants Index ★★★☆
Championship Index ★★★★☆
Argentine fans
Argentina's first world cup success was in 1930, and in the first World Cup in history, they reached the final final, losing 2-4 to host Uruguay and finishing second. And when the team flashed again at the World Cup, it was already 1978, in the local competition, the Argentine team led by coach Menotti and ace striker Kempez won the World Cup. 1986 Maradona's emergence pushes Argentina to a new peak in World Cup history.
Argentina
Argentina has reached the final four times in history, and the best record in recent years is the runner-up in 2014, and now Argentina, under the leadership of the new king Messi, has set a record of 30 consecutive unbeaten games. It is the team with the longest unbeaten record today, and such excellent form makes Argentina's road to the World Cup full of expectations.
Will Messi achieve the undisputed status of the first man in history because of this World Cup? We'll see.
Argentina World Cup best record of the 21st century: 2014 runner-up
Group D: France
French fans
The French national football team was already one of the strongest teams in the world as early as the 1950s. He finished third in the 1958 FIFA World Cup under Fontaine, Piantoni and Raymond Copa. But the French team did not rise again in the World Cup until the 80s, and in the late 1990s, the French team led by Zidane regained its prestige, first defeating Brazil in the 1998 World Cup final to win the first World Cup in the history of French football, and France reached the final again in 2006, but because of Zidane's "amazing top", France hated it. At the end of the 2018 World Cup in Russia, France finally defeated Croatia 4-2, and lifted the Hercules Cup again after 20 years.
Texture map of France
France's recent World Cup record does not need to be repeated, as the defending champion of the World Cup, and mbappe and other most expensive popular superstars to lead, I believe that France must have ideas about the laurels of this World Cup.
France attacking line
Will Mbappe, will he reach the top of the new king because of this World Cup?
France's 21st Century World Cup record: runner-up in 2006, 2018 champion
Group E: Germany/Spain
If you want to talk about which group is the most eye-catching in this World Cup, it is group E, which brings together two major World Cup winning teams.
German fans
The first is the German team
Giants Index ★★★★★
Germany has reached the World Cup finals 8 times in its history, won the championship 4 times, and advanced to the final four 13 times, if you point according to the record, Germany is only slightly inferior to Brazil in the World Cup, ranking second in the world. The German team leads the trend of world football with its profound heritage, excellent and stable results and advanced football concepts.
Germany
German football into the 21st century has rarely appeared superstars, Beckenbauer, Geide müller, Klinsmann, Mateus... Once a glorious name is still imprinted in the soul of this team, although there is no absolute superstar, but the overall football is breathtaking, speaking of German football, the most often heard nickname is the chariot, the whole German football is like the chariot, that is, precise and intimidating. Germany's best recent result was the 2014 title, and the top three in four consecutive editions since the 21st century, which is very stable, but the last World Cup was surprisingly out of the group.
Neuer now takes over the banner of Kahn and becomes the captain of Germany as a goalkeeper, quite like his predecessors. I believe that the German chariot will fight for honor to the end.
Germany's 21st Century World Cup record: 2002 runner-up, 2006 3rd, 2010 3rd, 2014 champion
Spain
Spanish fans
Before the 21st century, Spain had an awkward nickname, known as the king of qualifiers. Spain is one of the top two teams in European qualifiers. But its World Cup results have been sluggish, reaching the final four only once in the distant 1950s this century ago. With the advent of the 21st century and the rise of La Liga giants Barcelona, Spain, with the peak Barca players as the basic team and tactical core, is finally no longer only in the qualifiers, and finally in the 2010 World Cup.
Map of Spain
Although Spain's performance began to decline gradually as the main players of the Barça Dream Dynasty faded out of the main squad of the national team, the spirit of Spanish football has been re-established by this group of players.
The best World Cup record for the Spanish national team in the 21st century is the 2010 champion.
Now that Busquets is captaining this Spanish team, I don't know if this will be the last glory of Spain's golden generation.
Group F: Vacant
Group G: Brazil
Championship Index ★★★★★
Brazilian fans
Speaking of the World Cup, it has to be said that Brazil, Brazil is the only team in the world to participate in the final stage of the Previous World Cup. Brazil is the most successful team in world cup history. As a soccer kingdom, Brazil has not missed a world cup final stage match, and in the 50 years until 1964, Brazil has lost only one World Cup group stage. In 1958, 1962, 1970, 1994 and 2002, he won the championship five times, ranking first in the world in terms of number of championships, and Brazil won almost all the honorary championships of the football cup and was the leader and maintainer of almost the total number of major cups.
Brazil
Brazil has Pele, the king of football recognized by FIFA. Pele has helped Brazil's Santos club win 19 major honors, and pele has the title of the greatest athlete of the entire 20th century, winning 3 times in 4 World Cups, scoring up to 8 goals in a single game, and the myth of 9 people.
Neymar celebrates victory
Today's Brazilian team seems to have no superstars to hand except Neymar, not only does not have the leader of Pele I, but also does not have the frightening combination of "3Rs". But whoever dares to underestimate Brazil is bound to humiliate himself.
Brazil's 21st Century World Cup 2002 champion and 2014 champion
Group H: Uruguay
Championship Index ★★☆
Uruguayan fans
Speaking of the World Cup, how can uruguay be missing? The first World Cup was held in Uruguay, and uruguay has a brilliant record in the World Cup, as of 2018, they have participated in the World Cup 13 times, winning two championships and three times. Although Uruguay's last victory was already far away in 1950. But it is undeniable that Uruguay is also one of only eight countries in the world to have won the World Cup.
Map of Uruguay
Although there have always been "two mountains" in South America, Brazil and Argentina, Uruguay has stubbornly grown into the "third pole" of South America. Geographically, Uruguay is also sandwiched between Brazil and Argentina, so Uruguayan football has also absorbed the essence of the two major South American giants in style, both the agility of Samba and the passion of Pampas.
Suarez is the soul flag bearer of this Uruguayan team, and I look forward to the veteran's wonderful performance on the stage of the last World Cup of his career.
Uruguay's best result in the 21st Century World Cup: 2010
Of course, in addition to the above-mentioned giants who have won the World Cup and the "uncrowned king" of the Netherlands, there are other teams that also have certain strength and are considered to have a certain possibility of winning. For example, Croatia, the runner-up of the last World Cup, the European Red Devils Belgium, which has occupied the first place in FIFA for many years, and Portugal, we will temporarily classify them as the top candidates. Let's take a quick look.
Alternate Powers:
One. Croatia
Giants Index ★★
Championship Index ★☆
Reason for the alternate: Last runner-up
A team that can reach the final of the World Cup cannot be a weak team. Croatia, led by 2018 Golden Ball Mr. Modric, reached the final in the last World Cup and finally lost to France. Magic Flute can be the first to break the monopoly of The Merlot in the era of Merrow's monopoly of the Golden Globe Awards, which shows that its ability is unique in the world, and we have reason to believe that under the leadership of Magic Flute, they have the ability to replicate this wonderful experience again.
Croatia's best World Cup record of the 21st century: 2018 runners-up.
Two. Belgium
Reason for the candidate: The last third place, the perennial national team ranked first in the world
It is not necessarily a weak team that can reach the final, so how bad can the team that finishes third place make? As the third place in the 2018 World Cup. The "Red Devils of Europe" Belgium has always been a rival in Europe that cannot be ignored. Although Belgium has never reached the Final of the World Cup, without two brushes, Belgium would not have been able to occupy the first place of FIFA for a long time in the european continent full of giants. I believe belgium now, led by De Bruyne, the number one midfielder in Europe, is sprinting towards heights they have never reached.
Belgium's best World Cup record of the 21st century: 2018 3rd place.
Three. Portugal
Giants Index ★☆
Reason for the candidate: Quite a few people are optimistic about them
Portugal's golden age, which was the turn of the century, when the Portuguese "Golden Generation" led by Figo upgraded Portugal from the role of "playing soy sauce" in the qualifiers to a Regular World Cup. And in the 2006 World Cup, Portugal was brought to the peak of the World Cup - the palace army. The golden generation, led by Figo and Rui Costa, has thus completely sublimated Portugal into a strong team that can break the wrists of the giants. Unfortunately, as the golden generation faded out of Portugal and retired, Portugal never broke through the round of 16 at the World Cup. But the Portuguese team has C Ronaldo, the world's largest number of fans. Under the influence of Ronaldo's huge popularity, many people expect C Ronaldo to lead Portugal to win the World Cup to counter Messi's influence. Although C Ronaldo was still a fledgling young general when Figo led Portugal to create the peak, many people believe that C Ronaldo has completely inherited the characteristics of the golden generation. We also wish them a good dream come true.
In that year, Ronaldo scored a penalty made by Figo in the World Cup to achieve the first goal of the World Cup
Portugal's best World Cup record of the 21st century: 2006.
Finally, the author's prediction for the final four of this World Cup is: Brazil, Argentina, France, Germany, as to who can win the championship. I really can't see it at the moment. There is no qualitative gap in the strength of the first few teams. Who are you more optimistic about? Welcome to the exchange and discussion.