http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2014/jun/22/spain-world-cup-what-went-wrong"No one consciously decides not to win, no one ever thinks that they don’t much fancy winning the World Cup, but this was a team who were mentally fatigued and subconsciously lacked something intangible: conviction, necessity, intensity, concentration, joy, enthusiasm, unity. Maybe even humility and a sense of responsibility." “You can look for this reason or that reason but the reasons are purely footballing ones,” Del Bosque said. “All of the players were well below their normal level – all of them, from the first player to the last. We were almost trying to get rid of the ball. There was a nervousness, a timidity. We were not ourselves.” He did not entirely convince and nor did he explain why, but there was something in that." What a bunch of tuggers. Finally giving in to the opinion they play shit unsportsmanlike football. Prolly getting heckled by all the south american fans for their tricky taca boring calculated unspontaneous stand around football
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