How The Favourites Performed At EVERY FIFA World Cup
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- From Uruguay at the first World Cup in 1930 to Brazil in 2006 and Spain in 2010, HITC Sevens takes a look at how the pre-tournament favourites to win the FIFA World Cup performed at all 21 tournaments, and what that might tell us about Brazil's prospects in Qatar in 2022.
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The Argentina-Saudi Arabia comment aged well💀
Yup
Also 69 likes nice 😎
Um... This was recorded after the Saudi match, so... 🤷🏼♂️
This video was posted after that win
@@joshuawood101 it was recorded before
Alfie nearly got Argentina-Saudi Arabia right...nearly right.😆
Then Serbia Will Beat Brazil....
@@Dzod500 they did in 2015 u-20 World Cup final surely they can do it again
@@Dzod500 clueless
@@Dzod500 and it ended in serbia being crushed by brazil with a bycicle goal by richarlison
Tell me before the tournament that Argentina would lose to Saudi Arabia and still win the World Cup and I’d ask if you needed a doctor.
Basically: Brazil are always the favorites and sometimes they win.
Exactly 😆
like india in cricket and new zealand in rugby. a sport is defined by certain teams
@@coronaviruskillerforthegoo3353 india in cricket lol good joke
@@coronaviruskillerforthegoo3353 Australia in cricket*
Well, did this comentary aged well or bad ? I mean, they were favourite, but take the L once more
This video needs a new title: How Brazil did at every world cup.
:)
Only country to qualify for every World Cup
So I guess Alfie predicted Argentina losing to Saudi Arabia?
Almost the right score as well. Alfie the visionary.
@@soundscape26 who is Alfie?
@@TheAbinn The guy who runs the channel.
How
Brazil was a favorite for the 2014 Cup just because it was the hoster, the team was completely dependent on Neymar. in 2018, the favorites for me were clearly the euro runners-up french team
The Dutch were definitely the favourites in 1974. They consisted mostly of teh same Ajax team that had won 3/4 champions leagues in the previous seasons. Also amazing that arguably the two most talented teams ever (Hungary 54 and Netherlands 74) didn't win the world cup
dude it was poland if it werent for the weather that day they would've beat germany they had the best team.
Brazil 1970 was the most stacked and talented team ever
Brazil 1982
@@raventho6870 Poland team was very good with Lato etc. But the other semi-final was also a rain festival. Hol-Bra 2-0. (Pol-Bra 1-0) Germany won over all because probably mentally the most complete team in 74.
@@malte.3917 Brazil 82 was magic but their forward was a deception. Italy had Paolo Rossi high on a comeback from disqualified for 2 years!
In 2014 I think Germany were seen as favorites as well and also in 2018 France were also seen as favorites, maybe not over Brazil but definitely they should be joint favorites in my opinion
most of all since germany had been polishing their newest golden generation since 2006 with 3 semis and 1 final at tournaments from that tournament onwards. they were definitely the most deserving team over the past few tournaments combined.
I agree I had picked both Germany and France for those two WC before it even began they were clear favorites
No, bookies and prediction models agreed brazil was the favorite. However, they also thought Brazil was the favorite for the 2010 world cup as well.
I didnt even knew Brazil were the favs for 2018. I believed it was France with Belgium behind. I mean France was the best team in the world at that point, I cant comprehend why they werent the favs.
But he’s not talking about “what should be” this is purely based on the books
Weird, I vividly rememmber that france was considered the favorite for the 2018 world cup, but maybe it was only in Portugal
Nah it was here in germany too.
In most countries seeing as they've had the best squad for 4 consecutive competitions
I'm from Brazil and we definitly consider France as 2018 favorite, but maybe he got the odds from bookies, they always put Brazil as favorites
Yep me too. I’m pretty sure Brazil were favourites in 2002 as well. The hype was about Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Rivaldo
I remember the favorites were Brazil, Germany, France and Spain in that order before it started. for Spain it was a bit rarer to see someone predicting them to win, but I never saw predictions outside of these 4. the first 3 were pretty close though
I think most of the people were saying that France were the clear favourites in 2018.
France belgium and Germany that year
Yeah I remember that too, they had such insane depth (and even still do now) that people said their second string team could have won that World Cup.
France’s strength, depth, and eternal youth is terrifying
As a Brazilian, it's interesting to see the expectations placed on our team on some of these World Cups, compared to how we saw those teams ourselves. Of course, we always expect Brazil to be one of the contenders, but being the favorite is a different story. The 1994 team, for example, was certainly not seen that way.
how was the 82 seen
it was my faviourte team ever i was an 11 year old boy who traumatised by that brazil loss and never felt pain like that one
reinaldo should have gone to the 82 World Cup ,its his goal that qualifed brazil for the finals ,he was brilliant in 1981 european friendlies against Germany ,england and france
@@chrisbennett6260 well, I was just a toddler in 82, but usually what you hear from the media and people who followed that World Cup is that we were heavy favorites that year. There are even those who consider the 82 team more talented that the one from 1970. Outside of the 2 cups we hosted, that’s the major heartbreak we had.
And you make me happy bringing up Reinaldo, as a Atlético fan. But I didn’t have much of an opportunity to see him playing, his career ended way too soon
@@chrisbennett6260 My father stopped rooting for Brazil in 1982. That's how disappointing it was. He was absolutely distressed. I was only 4. The 1982 team is still regarded by locals as Brazil's best, both in terms of strength and class.
@@guilessa the most exciting most spectacular team ive ever had the sheer pleasure and privilege of watching was brazil 1982 team ,no Brazil side in terms of enetainment has come close to that 82 Brazil side ,they gave me the biggest highs and thrills i ever had ,it was a rooler coaster of sheer joy and estacy ,go look at the goals they scored in that tournament ,no team has remotely come close to the sheer magic,breathtaking awe inspiring delight of the goals ,tricks, play just mesmeric .the Brazil have never been the same since that 82 world cup, it was an absolute tragedy they didnt win that World Cup,the spanish media said the life and went out of the World Cup when brazil excited ,,i was stunned ,in total shock disbelieve ,couldnt make sense of it ,,i never cried since that day,even the great bobby Charlton a England World Cup Winner was in tears according to jhon motson who was commenting on that epic match .i rember asking my school teacher if she could get me brazilian citizenship so i coulud play for Brazil and she contacted the brazilian embassy ,.by 1986 i was 15 zico was unfit due to injury ,Eder wasnt their neither was Leandro ,falcao came on as a sub but was past it, socrates was 4 years older and didnt have the same sting ,as he did in 1982 ,brazil was still exciting ,Josemar was incredible i think he might have played for botofogo ,check out his long range rocket shots against ireland and poland increadible ,absoutltely spectacular and magnificent mindblowing strikes scoring against ireland great pat Jennings of Ireland one of the greatest goalkeepers who played for spurs and arsenal
from time time to time i check out old clips of Reinaldo for athletico against flamengo ,tohniho Cerezo and Eder all played for Atletico ,so to me reinaldo should have played in 1982,i am convinced brazil would have captured that cup in 1982, serghinho Sao palo was poor in that tournament ,its a shame carecca was injured just before ,they had vasco Roberto on the bench though ,i watch old clips of reinaldo and interviews of Atletico but i carnt understand the language bro ,
lets see how well we do this tournament
Yes I think this is a very western-centric, if not British-centric view of who are favourites. 1994 was a bizarre tournament, with regular stops for players to rehydrate in the high humidity. Most of us were probably assuming Qatar would be similar, but the air-con in the stadiums mean the spectators are getting rather chilly!
As a brazilian i think that anyone that considered the horrible 2014 squad as favorites is crazy
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You forgot to mention that Austria scored a goal against Italy in 1934 that wasnt given as the referee "Didn`t see it"
oh yeah we remembered 1934 was watching in my living room
Italy really only have 3 stars
@@kerepotchannel8847 i remember this game, I eat too much doritos that day
@@LithningWolf Ahahahahaah 🍇
Best German players in the premier league of all time. (Day 419)
I will not give up until the video is made or Alfie himself tells me to stop. Everyone else telling me that will be ignored.
If you don't believe my number, just go back to the previous videos. I'm at the bottom most of the time, but I'm there.
Somebody should give this commentator a raise for his dedication
you can tell alfie has a lot of fun going on these historical deep dives into football.
btw, I would love to see a video on the yugoslavian national team and the effects of balkanization on football. if you haven't done this already. also, i feel like a case study on an african national team, club team, or player with historical significance would be fun.
one more idea. another hitc sevens list of players from former colonies or exclaves from france or some other countries like the netherlands, uk, portugal would be cool. eduardo camavinga, dimitri payet, thomas lemar, florent malouda, christian karembeu, etc
Nah
How about doing a list of 2nd favourites, would be good to see how the non-Brazilian favourites performed
14:23 The Netherlands were defenitely the favorites. Dutch football won the champions league in 70 71 72 73. And they had the best player of the world at the time.
Germany was definitely favourites in that tournament
The champions league wasn't what it is today. Most people knew nothing about the Netherlands until that world Cup, which was their very first appearance.
@@RasDam Well it wasn't there first appearence, and Germany where not really that hyped either.
@@guus5504 my bad. I overlooked their defeats to Switzerland and Czechoslovakia in the 30s. 36 Years of failing to even qualify plus the whole lack of broadcasted matches globally still meant that people didn't consider them favorites. The world didn't even know what formation they played in. The world Cup was the event that introduced the world to Dutch football.
@@RasDam I guess that could be true, foreign media probably focused more on other countries. But I believe that here in the Netherlands the generall feel I think was that we were the best in the world.
I have a book about the history of the World Cups, the favourites, as pointed by the book, were: 1930: uruguay and argentina; 1934: austria; 1938: italy; 1950: brazil and england; 1954: hungary by a good distance; 1958: unclear, at least six teams had good chances; 1962: brazil; 1966: brazil; 1970: italy, germany and england, brazil had good names but there was uncertainty; 1974: brazil, germany and italy; 1978: netherlands; 1982: brazil and argentina; 1986: france, with mentions of brazil; 1990: italy, brazil and netherlands; 1994: germany and brazil; 1998: brazil; 2002: argentina and france; 2006: brazil; 2010: brazil and spain; 2014: brazil and spain; 2018: germany and france; 2022: argentina, brazil and france. There were second tier favorites, some of them won the tournament, but I tried to only mention the main ones.
You could make a video about controversies about the first world cup in Montevideo. It is really interesting, especially semi final game between Uruguay and Yugoslavia. A goal assisted by a policeman outside the pitch, disallowed goal for Yugoslavia, gunshots from the stands etc.
0:50 One minor point - there is no such word as "talismen". The word talisman is an object, so it's plural form is talismans.
Am I the only one not remembering Brazil as favourites for the 2014 world cup? In my eyes they weren't and I think deep down everyone knew that they had a great hole in their defence in David Luiz and a striker crisis. I don't say I saw this 1-7 coming, but I don't think they were at least the sole favourites.
Brazil's 2014 team was just awful. They were the favorites solely on the grounds of playing at home, which speaks volumes about how the Seleção tends to be wildly overrated.
I felt spain were the favorites that year
@@elliotcoffman2643 I remember giving the edge to Germany over Spain yeah
didn't follow any football pages at the times but I remember Germany and Argentina being my personal favorites too, Brazil were very obviously flawed, and looking back at it now, it might have been the worst Brazil team ever
Dont forget fred the striker.
Even with their key injuries the strength in depth of the French squad is insane and they will surely be thereabouts by the tournaments end
As an Argentinean... They sure gave me a scare at around 81'
Don't know of anyone who predicted Brazil in 2018. France were the clear favourites
Not if here in Brazil we saw ourselves as one of the favorites... Don't know that either.
Huh, I definetely expected Germany to have been THE favorites in 2014. I know at least I considered them the most likely to win the Cup before it started.
Also in 2018 I remember France being the lead favorite, but that might be some post-Cup bias as I wasn't really paying attention to that Cup.
the manager of brazil said it best in 1994 'why are we always the favourites based on only the days of Pele & Garrincha' and he is right. Brazil are always the favourites yet they aint won a world cup in 20 years
Argentina just won the final
Here in Brazil we consider the 94 team an underdog. Nobody was expecting the victory. Also, we considered Germany the favorites in 14 with Brazil only having any chances due to being the host, which proved to be useless lmao.
Also I wouldn't say 2018 we were the favorites, at least France and England had equity in chances.
The Saudi Arabia call is perfect
Just for curiosity: Here in Brazil, we mourn the 1982 cup loss a lot more over the 7x1
No we don't
Why?
@@kimmolaine8069 the 82 squad was deemed to be the best team since the 1970 team. They're the next generation on their peak, and everyone here was pretty sure the 82 world cup would be ours. There's some ppl that even said that particular team was even better than the previous title winners (for Brazil).
Get over it
Who do you think you're fooling
Just to add something on 1954.
In Hungary's 8-3 against Germany in group stage the Germans played without many of their first team players. To Germany's coach Sepp Herberger it was pointless to let his best players take a risk of injuries in a match which was unlikely to be won anyways. He rather rested his players to have them fit in the deciding game against Turkey, which they won 7-2 to qualify for the quarterfinals against Yugoslavia.
So to sum it up, the German team that faced Hungary in group stage was completely different to the team that played the final.
I looked at it a year ago, for a similar conversation, but from what I remember only 2-3 players were different between the loosing and later (unfairly) winning teams. That wouldn't explain such a different result. However the rain, Germany having studs and Puskás being unfit does.
France, Brazil and Spain look the best teams so far and I wouldn't be surprised if the winner comes from one of those 3 but I wouldn't put it past Germany and Argentina to pick up momentum if they get out of their groups respectively which i believe they will overall its an open tournament and there for the taking for any number of teams
Spain or germanys gonna win i bet
Would anyone bet against Portugal and Ronaldo given that it is so open?
@@kennywilkinson913I think Ronaldo’s performance is one of the reasons why Portugal are not expected to win it. A very good side but probably not on par with the top3-4
@@thesnackbandit 2 wins playing badly, almost sounds like utd when the was winning everything
@@kennywilkinson913 I'm sorry?
That's why I'm very skeptical of how everyone says that Brazil will win this World Cup. They are the favourites almost every time yet since their last win in 2002 they always disappointed, getting eliminated by the first major European nation they meet every single time.
exactly
The difference is that for Brazil not winning is a disapointment. For most teams its about how far they can go.
Major european nation? How is Belgium a major european nation in football? They have zero World Cup or Eurocup titles! And Brazil has already beaten Serbia and Switzerland, two decent European squads so far!
@@educarvalho6516 Dude, that 2018 Belgium squad was world class, with a solid defense and one of the best attack trios in the world with those 3 players in peak form. Belgium might not be a juggernaut but that team was far better than, let's say, Netherlands in 2010.
@@educarvalho6516 not major historically, major as in strong at the time. Belgium had a great team in 2018. Brazil is looking good so far but they haven't played a very good opponent yet, and even the Swiss managed to slow them down for a long time. I'll believe in Brazil if they beat Spain in the quarters.
2002 Brazil/France/Germany/Italy
2014 Germany/Argentina/Spain
2018 France/Portugal
terrific clip..
great research
1974 also had a favourite to win in Poland, a team that beat England in qualifying and many other strong sides. They finished 3rd.
and the game between West Germany and Poland wouldn't happen today since the pitch was tragic because of terrible weather. And because of how Poland was playing back then that really make their strategy useless.
The Dutch were definitely one of the favourites in 1998 too.
To be honest, they are huge favourites in 1974, 1978, and 2010, but none of them ended as a winner after reaching the Final.
@@ezraezra2928 They weren't favorites in 2010. Everyone thought they'd go out to Brazil.
@@RasDam Netherlands were destined to win that World Cup because of Robben's crucial moment during the Final. He wasted it all when the ball hit Casillas.
Great video, mate! 👏👏
8/21 = 0.38, = 7/4 are the pre tournament odds required to be profitable if you backed all favourites for every world cup so far.
Thanks mate pretty cool math
8:10 first time that I hear "match of the century" as a name for that game - as a German I must assume that is an English thing, as when we Germans say "match of the century" we refer to Germany vs Italy in 1970.
I’ve never heard anyone say that about Ger vs Ita 70.
@@remmidemmi496 what country are you from?
To me France are the favourites. They have a solid overall side and are the only team with a generational talent in his prime (Mbappe).
They are lacking their two best midfielders tho
@@deeznoots6241 I think they mostly miss Kante, Pogba they can do without.
But the replacements are also world class and are young and eager. Maybe it's been a blessing in disguise even.
If Benzema, Kimpembe, Pogba & most of all Kante weren’t hurt I’ll be with you just believe those injuries will hurt them in the knockout although they’ve been great so far
@@daarom3472 Kante is pretty irrelevant at this point, he's also a spent force
@@NoonyJW I think they'll be fine. Mbappe plays better alongside Giroud and Benzema hasn't been as good this year as he was last year anyways. They got good back-up at CB and I don't rate Kimpembe that high anyways (good in 1 on 1, bad positionally). Pogba is an overrated diva who plays a few good games each year (happened to be last time around those were during the WC) so hit and miss.
im brazilian and things i agree are: 82 we were favourites by far, and lost. 86 we werent favourites, 90 and 94 either. We got a unexpected win at 94. WE were favourites in 98 and lost in final to frace. we had no expectations also in 2002 and did a miracle run. 2006 we had a stacked squad, favourites by far and lost again to france. 2010 i knew since begin that spain would win, same as 2014 germany and 2018 france. I have high expectations now in 2022, our team looks the best. lets watch what the future holds for us
Se for como no passado vamos ser decepcionado pelo jeito :/
Well researched 👏
even though i wasnt around at the time, but all ive ever heard about the 1974 world cup was how the netherlands were the favorites to win it.
even the eventual german world cup winners said they were miles behind them. The dutch players were celebrating the cup win in their locker room,
before the final even started.
i dont want to discredit your research and the hard work put into this, its just interesting hearing it this way around
That was during the tournament. Going into it most people had never seen the Netherlands play. It was the first time they qualified after all.
Would have to take issue with the 1978 favourites pick. Brazil went on a tour of Europe in March I think it was and played England live on BBC on a Wednesday night (1-1 draw )and recall it being said that they were favourites for the WC having beaten West Germany in Munich 2-1 just a week previous. In fact can recall an ITN news sports report of the film of the goals saying “surely a result like this means that West Germany’s grip on this trophy is fading”(it’s amazing the things that stick in the mind when more important things are forgotten!). The sense watching that tournament as it started was def that Brazil were the team to beat with Holland, Italy and W Germany after; Argentina surprisingly lower…
Surely Brazil wasn't one of the favorites in 2018?
DAY 37: Hey Alfie, could you do a video on the life, career, controversies and tragedy of Justin Fashanu. It'd be your best video yet and it's a criminally underheard story. ❤️
1930 - Uruguay (Champions)
1934 - Austria (Semi Finals)
1938 - Italy (Champions)
1950 - England (Groupe stage)
1954 - Hungary (Runner-up)
1958 - Brazil (Champions)
1962 - Brazil (Champions)
1966 - Brazil (Group stage)
1970 - Brazil (Champions)
1974 - West Germany (Champions)
1978 - West Germany (Second round)
1982 - Brazil (Second Round)
1986 - Brazil (Quarter finals)
1990 - Italy (Semi finals)
1994 - Germany (quarter finals) & Brazil (champions)
1998 - Brazil (Runner-up)
2002 - Argentina (Group stage) & France (Group stage)
2006 - Brazil (Quarter finals)
2010 - Spain (champions)
2014 - Brazil (Semi finals)
2018 - Brazil (Quarter finals)
2022 - Brazil (?)
74 was holland
Brazil was certainly not the favourite for 2018
Quarter finals
Feance was the clear favorite in 2018, and the 2014 one didnt really have a favorite, it was between brazil, argentina, spain and germany
I don't agree on Brazil being favorites in 2018. France and Belgium were favorites. France reached the finals of the Euros and had the best team on paper. And Belgium's golden generation were at the peak of their powers with them being ranked 1 in Fifa rankings
well done video 🙏🏽
New Update:
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The last time most people didn't think Brazil would win the world cup was in 2010
France may have been favourites in 1958. I'm certain that England were favourites in 1970, they had a better side than they did in 1966. 1974 was a toss up between West Germany, Netherlands and Poland, yes Poland, Olympic champions and this was their golden team.
This was Poland’s golden team for sure
24:34 I'm gonna be *that guy*
I can officially confirm that Brazil did not, in fact, win the 2022 World Cup.
The international pundits just pick Brazil as a lazy-choice favourite.
In the Brazilian media, few would have thought they were favourites in 1994 or 2018 (both were considered particularly sub-par squads). Even in 2014, I thought people in Brazil were more hopeful than confident.
I don't know how anyone had Brazil as favorites in 2014 and 2018 world cups. 2014 was obvious that Germany was going to win considering that Pep Guardiola was developing a lot of German players.
Brazil did beat spain 3-0 an the confederations cup but that might be a sign of the World Cup cursé 😂
Here after argentina reached the finals
Here's an idea for one of your videos... Watching Morocco playing the semifinals... You should do a video indicating the Cinderella team... What was the expected finish and their final results with their performance for each world cup.. another example besides Morocco is Ghana at the world cup 2010 who made it to the quarter finals... Or maybe the top 7 of Cinderella teams at the world cup...
Who's here after the Brazil-Croatia penalty shootout 😔
No idea why the betting odds had Brazil as the favourites in both 2014 (especially, it was a weak squad) & 2018. Germany, Spain, and Argentina should've been favoured more in 2014 as well as France & Belgium in 2018
In 2002 italy was the favourite
i hope the brazilians ignore the favioutes tag and concentrate on each game at hand
as a Brazilian, 94 we where not favorites on our eyes, I was just a kid but the feeling was like we where going there just to lose another one with a good team.
98 cannot count because not just ronaldo was bad that day, some players also suffer just by seeing him like that.
2002 Ronaldo came with a broken knee, europe barely knew Ronaldinho. Rivaldo was supose to have a surgery but denied to play the world cup, we lost Emerson that was on the main team and Brasilians wanted Romario added to that list. I think that winning this year was not a miracle but the most against all odds team we ever had.
2014 Brasil cannot be favorite if the team didnt played the qualies, the qualification to the world cup is the best way for the trainer to put a team together, 2014 we didnt had that, as you sayd a subpar team.
2018 the Brasilian team was not good, my personal opnion, I was wrong before, like in 2002, but this time I was right.
2022 I do belive we are the favorites today, same so as young me belived at the 98 and 2006 teams....
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There is no way France weren't favourites in 2018...
When you said in 1994 Germany and Brazil i was expecting more to be talked about Bulgaria, anyway great video it became
20 years after Argentina & France were favorites and bottled they face off in the final 😮
Netherlands were favorites in 1974
Video idea - where would every previous World Cup winner finish in the 2022 world cup
I don't remember Brazil being favorites in 2014. I swear it feels like since 2010 Germany and Argentina have been higher ranked favorites at all World Cups except for this years (2022).
I have an idea for future video.
Whether teams play significantly better in the World Cup that were hosted by country in the same continent than otherwise ?
They do look at South Korea, South Africa and all the world cups hosted in Europe. Home nations always do better than expected
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I guess Brazil wont be favorites in 2026, right? In fact, it's kinda shocking they've been favorites in recent times. Outside of 2014 (where they were hosts, so everyone expected them to coast and win the trophy) they've been underperforming since at least 2006. Currently, it doesn't even look like they have top talent like they always used to.
Italy were favorites in 2002. I've still got the fifa record book.
2022 Brazil: QF
I want to go back in time and force England to go to all the early world cups and olympics and not piss about. Wonder how many we would have probably 2 or 3 right?
1938 would have been a real possibility.
I wish we worked out how to play Scholes, Gerrard and Lampard in the same team together😂.
If we had turned up at 1930, 34, and 38 we would probably have won the latter two.
Had we taken 1950 seriously, we would have probably won that one as well.
I give you England, four times champion of the world (1934, 1938, 1950, 1966)
Curse my complacent snobbish countrymen.
16:18 proud kiwi here 🥹
At 1978 Poland was also one od the favourites
1974 it was probably the Netherlands the favorite.
1982 was Argentina (Kempes and Maradona together).
Brazil are usually the favorites but in some of these they weren't, like 2014 and 2018.
in 1994 Argentina was favourites as well. The team played amazing but collapse after Diego was removed from the tournament.
And sorry but Brasil wasn't favourites in 2014, they didn't have the squad. Especially with THAT Germany team.
Small correction at 11:04
Brazil couldn't have beaten México by a 2-1 score because México have never scored against Brazil in all of their World Cup encounters. I have this fact very present in my mind LOL
Nice Brazil WC recap 👍
I’m very upset that Hungary never won the tournament. They were such a golden generation, and they really deserved it.
Argentina the second favorite? The first two favorites were France and Brazil if I recall correctly. Argentina didn't even manage to beat any powerhouse, they draw both matches and only advanced by penalties.
Literally beat World Cup finalists 3-0
We’re far better than France and Netherlands
Argentina shot themselves against them by choking their lead
But they were by far the better team
@@BrotherBernard-yy4ydBoth matches were a draw. 9 out of 10 matches is gonna be a victory for France and the other a draw. Argentina doesn't have what it takes to defeat an European powerhouse in a World Cup, last time it happened was in 1986.
The last South American team that defeated an European powerhouse in a World Cup was Uruguay, they beat both Italia and England.
Looking at the facts the only European teams that Argentina was able to defeat was Croatia and the almighty Poland, then draw both matches against Netherlands and France, not even a single tough rival defeated in 90 or 120 minutes.
In 2018: France defeated Belgium (which was a far better team that it is now), Uruguay and Argentina.
In 2014: Germany defeated Argentina, Brazil, France and Portugal.
In 2010: Spain defeated Netherlands, Germany and Portugal.
In 2006: Italy defeated Germany.
In 2002: Brazil defeated Germany and England.
In 2022 Argentina defeated no one.
@@DTNenforcer France we’re still shit that day
And history will remember Argentina as winners , not France 😂
@@BrotherBernard-yy4ydYet they were this close to shatter your dreams. If it weren't for all the help Argentina would have never reached the final at all. That World Cup will always be surrounded by controversy, favoritism and corruption just like the one in 1978, and guess who was handed the World Cup both times.
@@DTNenforcer people can come to conclusions like rigged in every World Cup
But until you have factual evidences , nobody will believe you
You really recorded this before the Saudi game? 😅 Damn bro. Should’ve had a bet on that one. I wanna hear your other match predictions now!! 😂
why would he put out the video now? he obviously just recorded it but acts like he predicted things
Thank you so much for this brilliant video. An old man, I just wish Brazil had won in 1978, 1982 and 1986. 1978 was an Argentinian fix, the games in 1982 against Italy and in 1982 against France just very, very unlucky - Socrates forever, though. Only consolation is Garrincha in 1962: a handicapped man (sorry for this politically incorrect term) who performed what is still the most incredible stint. Yep, Maradona and Messi are way up there, but of all the little birds (Iniesta and Xavi included) I still cherish the man whose legs were 7cm apart. What a feat!
"[...] you could actually describe them [Brazil] as major underachievers." Honey I can't hear you from behind my 5 stars, what did you say?
Video idea: 7 best nations never to have qualified for the WC. Both historic and current teams
Aaah WC 86 is the 1st one I truly remember watching and a certain player destroying England's hopes . Plus I remember trying to get the mascot toy out of kinder surprise eggs
Brazil as major underachievers definitely made me laugh. I know it was tongue in cheek but still!!!
would be interested on your take on how Bale ranks in terms of British players !
Great idea for a video. Wonder why other people did not do it before.
i think argentina were clear favorites this time and they won it too
it was messi's last wc so it was presumed messi will show his best performance this time
they won the copa america in 2021 defeating brazil in brazil
they had a 35 match unbeaten run before coming here
surely the match against saudi was an upset but eventually they were clear favorites
They were one of the favorites but france and brazil both had better odds
Brazil were the favorites dawg
@@izzybar9470many predicted Argentina would face brazil an the semis of couse that didnt happen since brazil lost to croatia Argentina beat brazil copa america 2021 final too
Won Finalissima too
@@caliboy09 yup
I do not want to diminish your amazing research, but wouldn't looking at the wikipedia entries of the world cups have been easier and still tell you a lot about the history leading up to it, who the favorites were, etc.?
And now that you mentioned Austria in 1934, I would love a video about the Austrian Wunderteam of that era :).
Well, wikipedia is known to be unreliable at times, and Alfie likes to do more than that, likes to be thorough. Wikipedia as the only source is questionable.
For example the wikipedia entry for the 1954 world cup states 'Hungary' were the favourites without actually linking the source material so yeah, wikipedia is unreliable.
I am not saying it should be the only source, but many wiki articles have links to to other sources and that can be helpful. Also, Hungary *were* the favorites in 1954, so there's that :D.
No way, Germany and France were not the absolutely favorites to win 2014 and 2018, man. They were unstoppable teams. Plus, Argentina is way more favorite to win 2022 than Brazil.
19:21 they misspelled the Colombia banner and had to fix it by putting a line over the U 😂😂😂😂🤣, as a colombian i see this happen so often
Haha, that is hilarious.
There's United States' famous geography knowledge for you
I have correctly predicted the winners of the 2010, 2014, and 2018 World Cups
This time I think Brazil will win
It's pretty impressive to predict the winners of 3 world cups correctly, good job
I just realized that EA Sports made a prediction for 2022 World Cup and Argentina had actually won.
The last 3 editions of World Cup was won by a team that were the World Cup winner in FIFA video games!
ur a man city fan, you can't be tht old
You got your prediction wrong this time but you still did a very good job to correctly predict 3 world cups in a row before getting 2022 wrong
This aged well..
Good video
5:37
Leonidas was benched by his coach at the semis in order to rest for the final.
Sadly it never comes 😓
I always presumed the netherlands were big favourites in 74
1994 Brazilian team had a 7 named Bebeto. Have you done his player profile at all? Don't know much about Bebeto except he played a big part with Romario in Brazils win that year