Congratulations to my Iberian neighbors, Spain! The Cup was well deserved. The Spanish played amazing soccer and were the best team in the tournament. Their smooth passing, tactical awareness, aggressive defense, and deadly offense were too much for all other teams who seemed to be intimidated by the Spanish.
Hopefully Portugal will have learned their lesson. The Spanish won this World Cup for many reasons, but one of them is that the players had confidence in themselves, there were no locker room problems, no players complaining publicly in the media, and by the way, all of them were born in Spain, unlike other nations in the World Cup.
They had a very humble coach, Vicente Del Bosque, who adjusted his tactics to fit the players that he had, unlike Queiroz.
It is possible to imagine Portugal adopting the Spanish way of playing, a lot of Portuguese players make their living in La Liga clubs, and the Portuguese system is very similar to the Dutch system, which is the system that the Spanish use. Keeping possession of the ball, quick passing, attacking through the wings, total football.
Who am I kidding, the Portuguese are too stuborn to learn from the Spanish. They will probably say that the only reason we did not win the World Cup, was that it was because we lost to the best team in the World. If only..............
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