• MimesAreShite@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    they were still a top team well into the seventies (just checked, and i think the first time they dropped out of the Elo top 10 post-WW2 was 1974).

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      1 year ago

      i mean they had a good team, Florian Albert was European Footballer of the Year in ‘67. Just I think they always tried to compare themselves to the ‘52 team and they weren’t able to

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          1 year ago

          i mean the '52 squad won the Olympics, where they beat Sweden 6-2 in the semi-finals, its really the same squad, just 2 years older. In '54 you also had Puskas injured until finals and such