World Football

1934 World Cup Finals Please also see my   All-Time World Cup Team Index . Netherlands All-Time Team North Holland   South Holland Dutch Players' surnames starting with "Van" Italy after 1982 ,  Italy between 1938 and 1982 England After 1966 All-Time Team Germany All-Time Team After Beckenbauer Germany All-Time Team before 1972 Brazil All-Time Team After Pele  Brazil All-Team Under Mari Zagallo Brazil All-Time Team before 1958 This is my all-time 22-member for Dutch players before Cruyff "BC".  Before 2002, only 22 players went to a World Cup Finals. During the 1970s, led by the talents of Johan Cruyff, Dutch football invented "Totel Football".  They suddenly made strides, finishing second in two World Cup Finals in the decade.  Their team in the 1974 World Cup Finals is considered to be one of the greatest national team ever.  This blog is about the period before the emerge of Johan Cruyff.   In the Julian and Gregorian calendars, "BC" usual...

Croatia World Cup 2018 Please also see my   All-Time World Cup Team Index . Yugoslavia Serbia   Croatia Slovenia Bosnia and Herzegovina Macedonia/Montenegro/Kosovo Sweden World Cup1950 Austria-Hungary 1954 Argentina World Cup 1958 Scotland World Cup 1970 United Kingdom World Cup 1970 England World Cup 1974 United Kingdom World Cup1982 Italy Euro 1992 United Kingdom World Cup 1994 Yugoslavia World Cup 1994 France World Cup 1994 Germany World Cup 2002 Netherlands World Cup 2002 USA World Cup 2010 If Ronaldo and Messi played for Australia in 2006 Brazil 1982 with Careca,etc Ireland/Northern Ireland Combined Team 1986 World Cup USSR World Cup 2018  Yugoslavia World Cup 2018 Parisian nation team in World Cup 2018 Croatia made history in the 2018 World Cup Finals by reaching the Final before losing to France.  Serbia also qualified for the Finals.  It was not the first time ever that more than one former republics of Yugoslavia to have qualify for the World Cup Finals...

Northern Ireland 1986 World Cup Please also see my   All-Time World Cup Team Index . Ireland/Northern Ireland Combined Team Ireland ,  Northern Ireland Sweden World Cup1950 Austria-Hungary 1954 Angels with Dirty Faces with Di Stefano in the WC 1958 Scotland World Cup 1970 United Kingdom World Cup 1970 England World Cup 1974 United Kingdom World Cup1982 Italy Euro 1992 Yugoslavia World Cup 1994 Yugoslavia World Cup 2018 France World Cup 1994 Germany World Cup 2002 Netherlands World Cup 2002 USA World Cup 2010 If Ronaldo and Messi played for Australia in 2006 Brazil 1982 with Careca,etc USSR World Cup 2018  Yugoslavia World Cup 2018 Parisian nation team in World Cup 2018 The idea of an imaginary combined or unified team for the Island of Ireland in the given tournament came while I was re-working on my Ireland/Northern Ireland combined All-Time Team.  It would be similar to what I did with  what I did with  United Kingdom 1970 .  I do not know enough ab...