We should never underestimate the effect playing at home can have. In 17 tournaments, the host nation has won 6 times.
Interestingly, in the same 17 tournaments, it has only been won 3 times by a team not from the continent on which it was being played, and two of those were tournaments held in N America and Asia, continents from which there are no teams capable of winning it. The only real exception was Brazil's victory in 1958 when it was held in Sweden.
6 out of 17. That's quite a statistic. Gawd though, I wonder sometimes at the trouble some of the teams seem to have in motivating themselves to give their all. They're professional athletse, they shouldn't be pouting around like sulking girls not really caring that much.
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Date: 2006-06-28 11:40 am (UTC)Interestingly, in the same 17 tournaments, it has only been won 3 times by a team not from the continent on which it was being played, and two of those were tournaments held in N America and Asia, continents from which there are no teams capable of winning it. The only real exception was Brazil's victory in 1958 when it was held in Sweden.
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Date: 2006-06-28 07:05 pm (UTC)no subject
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