Germany’s road to success

Germany became the winner of World Cup football 2014 after 24 years by defeating Argentina by 1-0. This is Germany’s fourth WC win. Before this, 24 years ago in 1990, Germany had won its last WC final in Italy by defeating Argentina. In 1954 for the first time Germany won his Fifa WC against Hungary. They became the winner in 1974 for the second time after defeating Holland and in 2014 WC final history has repeated itself and Germany has emerged as a winner.

In this Fifa WC many unbelievable changes took place, the last WC winner Spain was defeated by Netherlands and was not able to overcome from this shock and were out in the first round itself. Football fans, this time were not able to see world number one player Cristiano Ronaldo’s play as Portugal was out in group match only. Italy and England also failed to adopt the change and were out from the race of WC final and only Argentina, Netherlands, Brazil and Germany survived to reach till semifinal and at last Germany was Lucky to become winner of 2014 WC.

When Germany defeated Brazil by 7-1 in semifinal, then only we could see that it would be really tough for Argentina to defeat Germany, after defeating Brazil they were in final. On the other hand Netherlands was defeated after a tough match in penalty shootout and Argentina was in final. Before this WC Germany and Argentina were face to face six times and Germany had won four matches, one was draw and in 1986 Argentina won the WC final when Diego Maradona single handedly achieved success for Argentina. 

In the starting when Germany played their matches it did not look like they will be the winner of 2014 WC on 13^th of July because lot of aged players were there in the team but there were lot of experience among these players thus they know the value of perfect pass and coordination among the player and thus by giving small passes they emerged as a winner. Germany’s biggest strength was their defense which the opponent team Argentina was not able to break through, till the end. When they started their play on 16^th of June against Portugal they easily won the match by 4-0. In this match the star player of Germany and 2010 golden boot winner Thomas Mueller scored three goals. Starting was very good for Germany but later they had to work really hard to stay in the game. In group match Germany vs Ghana went into draw by 2-2, Germany’s team won the match with great difficulty. The pressure was so high on Germany that they have to bring their star player Miroslav Klose who brought the score equal at the last moment. There was lot of pressure on Germany after the match, they were able to win with very less margin 1-0 against America also. They won the match with Algeria by 2-1, next match was with France it was also a tough match but Germany somehow able to survive by 1-0 and reached semifinal.

In semifinal Brazil was before Germany, the stadium was full of Brazilian fans but as Neymar the star player of Brazil was not playing, the team was in much pressure.  Exciting match with tough competition was expected but the whole match was dominated by Germany and the dream to become the 6^th WC winner of Brazil was broken and a black spot was put on Brazil’s football carrier of losing the match so badly by 7-1. Before this in 1954 Germany has defeated Turkey by 7-2 and Austria by 6-1 in the same year. After defeating Brazil, Germany’s confidence was at its peak which helped them at final against Argentina.

In this WC Germany has played a stable game by slowly coming into their form of playing. The result of strong defense was that before final there were only four goals against Germany and Germany’s players scored 17 goals, out of six matches before final five win shows Germany’s strength. In this WC from Germany’s side Muller and Klose showed extra ordinary performance. Klose became the highest goal scorer in the history of WC by defeating Brazil’s 15 goal score of Ronaldo.

In WC Germany’s performance has always been good. In 1930 when the first WC was organized in Uruguay, Germany had withdrawn their name from competition. In 1934 they have to satisfy with 3^rd position but in 1938 WC Germany was out in the race in first round itself. Due to world war, 1942 and 1946 WC was not held, but after world war Germany was banned from playing WC.

Germany was not disappointed by this banned and in the next WC in 1954 organized by Switzerland emerged as a winner for the first time by defeating Hungary by 3-2, for next WC win Germany has to wait for 20 years. In 1974 they defeated Holland and emerged as a winner for the second time. In this 20 years Germany got many chances to win WC but they did not succeeded. In 1966 England had defeated Germany in the final and they had to satisfy with runner up. In 1982 and 1986 also Germany did not succeeded in winning the final and had to satisfy with runner up. In 1982 Italy defeated Germany by 3-1 where as in 1986 Germany’s dream of WC was broken by Argentina. The match took place in Mexico where Argentina defeated Germany by 3-2.

After losing second continuous win in 1986 Germany had made his mind that they will win the coming WC. In 1990 they won the WC after defeating Argentina for the third time and at the same time they took their revenge of losing 1986 WC on Argentina. In 2002 also they reached final but they were defeated by Brazil. In 2006 WC they were defeated by Italy in semifinal by 2-0 where as in 2010 WC they lost their semifinal against Spain. After 24 years Germany is once again crowned as the winner of WC football 2014 after repeating the 1990 history of WC final against Argentina.