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Treeamigo's avatar

That explains their mind control powers - forcing Argentina to change strategy and sub out DiMaria

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Cam Peters's avatar

This essay didn't listen to it's own initial warning: football, and especially knockout football, is hugely prone to variance and people often use ad-hoc rationalizations to support their narrative.

The simplest explanation is France's talent. They have been a top 3 team in talent over the last 6 years.

A country's football success is mainly a function of the country's GDP, population, and interest in football. This is why France has very good players (as well as having many African immigrants).

Good coaching/tactics can improve a team too. But it's generally understood to have a small impact than club football due to the limited time the team has together and the inability to plug holes (if you have a bad left back you can't just go buy one).

Good management will partly be a function of IQ. In general, top coaches seem smart (Gaurdiola, Klopp, Tuchel). Deschamps being from the basque region suggests he may have higher IQ than the average manager. But France aren't generally viewed as playing above their talent level. Also, FYI, Frank Lampard has an extremely high tested IQ and ihasn't done very well in management so far.

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Aporia's avatar

The essay was an excuse to talk about the Basque 😂

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Alan Perlo's avatar

I know the Basque region is the most developed in Spain, but I find the relatively low score of the Japanese in chart enough to make me a tad skeptical of the results. I'd be more interested in hearing about intelligence research among the Basques, but with regard to soccer, the wealth of African talent explains their dominance better. Also, do we know for a fact Deschamps is Basque or of that ancestry? His parents could be migrants from another region of France.

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OldManFlappyNuts👹's avatar

B a s e d Latino’s all around

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