The 10 Greatest Teams Who Failed to Win a World Cup

During the weeks and months leading up to the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, we will drop a weekly article that chronicles the history of the most prestigious football tournament on the planet. This series of articles will also allow you, the readers, to revisit all 21 previous editions from different angles and perspectives. We also hope these review pieces will help build up expectations and excitement for the upcoming tournament. Therefore, without further ado, we present to you the first installment of the series.

We call them “Unfinished Symphonies” or “Beautiful Losers”. What skeptics see as flaws and failure we gloss over as originality and innovation. We make up excuses to explain away their shortcomings and we use the aforementioned euphemisms to refer to them because we subconsciously cannot bear the harsh truth that they lost the crown jewel and collapsed at the most crucial moment of the tournament.

Some of them are even more talked about, heralded, and even written about than the team that beat them or won the tournament. One of the reasons they conquered our hearts and minds is unmistakably because they boasted some of the most iconic players to ever grace a football pitch.

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