I just did and the first three hits were about the men basketball world cup and the next two about the women soccer world cup. What point did you try to make?
Germany went 8-0 in the tournament, becoming the fifth consecutive champion to go unbeaten.
Sounds like that’s inherent to the structure of the games. Either you win all your matches, or you don’t win the world cup.
A notable outlier is Serbia/FR Yugoslavia/Yugoslavia. Serbia is the only team in the last 5 tournaments to go into the final with losses (and then lost). In 2002 and 1998, FR Yugoslavia went into the final with losses, and won. In 1994, the USA was unbeaten. In 1990, Yugoslavia won with one loss. Past that they’re no longer an outlier, in 1986 the USA won with one loss.
That was mostly because the US was so important to the sport. Obviously now that Germany is the centre of the basketball world that will have to change too and the US will have to loan “Korbball” from German.
Additionally the third “Korbball” will be hosted in Germany only and is only accessible to german teams in the NKL, but we still call it the Weltmeisterschaft (World Championship).
I think for this analogy to ring true you have to allow a couple of small teams from your northernmost neighbour to join you. Good news for Sonderborg in Denmark I guess.
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