Every World cup fills fans with joy and hopefulness that their country can do them proud and for the top countries there is an unimaginable amount of pressure to win the tournament. The World cup has seen great players like Pele, Franz Beckenbauer, Zinedine Zidane, Diego Maradona and many others grace the tournament and win the competition, but not every world cup goes according to plan as underdogs can rip up the script and ruin what was meant to happen, In this article I will be discussing every top nation most embarrassing moment. These embarrassing results have caused not only a great amount of shock and horror but in some cases, it has revolutionised the play football is seen and caused many changes to solve the dilemmas put in front of
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Arguably the greatest side not to win the world cup, the 1974 dutch side included Johan Cruyff, Ruud Krol, Willem van hanegem, Johan Neeskens and many more they should have won that world cup despite the fact they played a West German side that included Franz Beckenbauer, During the world that dutch side destroyed their opposition with brilliant passing, pressing and incredible rotation of position, they were able to beat tough opponents like Uruguay 2-0, beat Argentina 4-0, and they beat Brazil 2-0 in a scrappy affair , in the world cup final they showed an example of their rotational play was when Johan Cruyff received the ball in the deepest position as the Center back position and dribbled his way into the penalty box and getting fouled and Johan neeskens scoring the penalty kick before the Germans even touched the ball but dutch arrogance allowed the Germans back into the game through a Paul Breitner penalty and Gerd Muller second sealed the Dutch’s lose. The defeat came as a shock because many including the Dutch expected to just roll the Germans
Arguably the greatest side not to win the world cup, the 1974 dutch side included Johan Cruyff, Ruud Krol, Willem van hanegem, Johan Neeskens and many more they should have won that world cup despite the fact they played a West German side that included Franz Beckenbauer, During the world that dutch side destroyed their opposition with brilliant passing, pressing and incredible rotation of position, they were able to beat tough opponents like Uruguay 2-0, beat Argentina 4-0, and they beat Brazil 2-0 in a scrappy affair , in the world cup final they showed an example of their rotational play was when Johan Cruyff received the ball in the deepest position as the Center back position and dribbled his way into the penalty box and getting fouled and Johan neeskens scoring the penalty kick before the Germans even touched the ball but dutch arrogance allowed the Germans back into the game through a Paul Breitner penalty and Gerd Muller second sealed the Dutch’s lose. The defeat came as a shock because many including the Dutch expected to just roll the Germans