Why France Couldn’t Win The 2022 World Cup

What the fuck just happened? That's probably what everyone was thinking in 2002 when reigning

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champions France were kicked out of the group stage without even scoring a single goal... And it's not that they had a very difficult group, they were tied with Senegal , Denmark and Uruguay. To be honest, the stage was set for them to take the glory once again... And to make matters worse, France finished last in their group! And remember, this is a team with players like Zidane, Thierry Henry, Marcel Desailly, etc... Marcel Desailly said after the tournament "It's really a terrible thing because it doesn't happen that

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champions come out at the same time." first round. “We still have the best players, but something broke in the machine.” In fact something broke in the machine.

It seemed like the once best team in the world had been hit by some kind of curse. And since then, this curse has tainted most of the World Cup winning teams... Remember the 2006 World Cup? France had a very good run that year, but ended up losing to Italy on penalties... Everything was looking good for the gli Azzurri... But then came the 2010 World Cup in South Africa... Italy was said to have one of the easiest groups in the entire tournament. Paraguay, Slovakia and New Zealand were their rivals that year... But what happened to Italy left everyone with the biggest surprise...

Italy was eliminated from the group without even winning a single match! This was against some of the lowest ranked teams in the world. They even lost 3-2 against Slovakia, who were playing in their first World Cup! This was like watching Muhammad Ali getting punched by Jake Paul... Absolutely embarrassing! But what happened to the winners of that same World Cup will surprise you even more! If you watched our latest videos, you surely know that Spain ended up winning the World Cup in 2010 with one of the best international teams in history. A sensational goal from Iniesta with only 4 minutes remaining!

Incredible! And this was the same team that won the Euro Cup in 2008 and 2012! They were unstoppable! Or so we thought... Because when the 2014 World Cup arrived... Spain surprised us all... Spain's group was not the easiest. I'll give them that. They had to face Chile, Australia and the Netherlands. But still, the expected result was for Spain and Holland to qualify. But the curse fell again and Spain was expelled from the group stage after a humiliating first match against the Netherlands, where they ended up losing 5-1. By this time, more and more people were starting to notice the pattern and the World Cup curse was starting to gain a reputation.

But one nation showed that this curse wasn't just a random coincidence... Remember the German team in 2014? What a team that was! They dominated the tournament and absolutely destroyed everyone who stood in their way, and their toughest match was against Ghana in the group stage, a match that ended 2-2. Their best performance was against Brazil, where they decimated the Samba boys by seven goals to nil... Germany won the world cup when Mario Götze scored a goal in the last minute against Argentina. Four years later, Germany was in Russia. His group was easy. Sweden, South Korea and Mexico.

Shouldn't be too difficult for a team that beat Brazil by 6 goals! Germany's first game was disappointing. Mexico scored the first goal, after which Germany caught fire and took the game to Mexico's doors. But Mexican goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa stepped up and had one of the best performances of his career. Seriously, it was like he drank some kind of special potion that gave him extra strength... Germany won the next match against Sweden, but their last match against South Korea was the most painful of all. Germany decided to go on the attack in the final minutes of the match, leaving them wide open.

South Korea saw the opportunity, lubricated themselves very well and went in... They scored twice in added time and once again Germany was eliminated... Now the World Cup continues in Qatar and all eyes are on France! But the question now is... is this World Cup curse really real? Are there some kind of supernatural reasons why previous World Cup winners did so poorly in the tournament immediately after? Well, the answer is pretty simple, but it might surprise you a little... Turns out the curse is real but it's also not... Stay with me for a second. Let me explain.

You see, the World Cup curse may have started as a joke. But as time passed people began to believe in them and this creates some kind of psychological effect. Belief in the curse creates a self-fulfilling prophecy that causes people to believe that there is some type of curse at work. Psychologists have also said that many people believe in curses because they are trying to give meaning to events that have already happened. We look for evidence to affirm what we already believe is going to happen... This explains other curses in football like the Drake curse... Should I make a video about that?

Tell me guys!! But all this only applies to fans, right? Or are the players really under some kind of curse after winning the trophy? Well, who knows? Some of them might be, but if we're realistic, the explanation for the players is actually quite obvious... Age When a team wins the World Cup, the players are significantly older when they have to play in the next one four years later. And we all know that four years can make a huge difference in football. Just look at Messi and Ronaldo 4 years ago... They just can't perform at the same level as they used to.

But still, it's one thing to be expelled from the World Cup after having fought and another thing to leave the group stage without winning a game or even scoring a goal. So what exactly is wrong with these players? Well, the best explanation might be that defending the World Cup or any championship title is tremendously difficult. When you win the World Cup once, everyone is watching you. The fans put a lot of pressure on the players and the coach to win the cup again, since now it seems much easier to win it. Sponsors invest a lot of money in the team because they are the favorites.

This amount of pressure will take its toll on even the toughest players. "The amount of enthusiasm, hunger and willingness to suffer to win the World Cup is unthinkable." said Jurgen Klinsmann, a German manager. Kathy Kreiner-Phillips and Terry Orlick of the University of Ottawa conducted research in 1993 called Winning after Winning: The Psychology of Continuous Excellence. Research has shown how difficult it is for athletes to perform at the same level after winning a championship. Since the World Cup is the biggest sporting event in the world, the pressure on the players must be absolutely unbearable. But let me know what you think: Will France prove this whole video wrong?

I mean, they are now qualified for the round of 16, so they broke the first part of the curse, but to all my French fans, I wouldn't celebrate too soon. I have the feeling that the curse is not over yet...