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GER lost the most finals damn 😂

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Sounds weird that you separated former Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and Soviet Union, but not West Germany

Collapse of communism moment

New nickname for the Dutch football team: "De blauwballen"

Mexico is such a weird case. They participated in several World Cups, to the point where they got super high up in this graph. But they never got anywhere close to the final.

West Germany is the same country as Germany, that's why it's not on there

The Dutch - always making it out of the Group Stage.

the federal republic of germany is still the federal republic of germany. the union of soviet socialist republics is not the russian federation.

Interesting that the Soviet Union managed to send a team. Someone should really look into this time travel technology they seem to have invented.

East Germany is there at the bottom. West Germany was a totally different country than today's Germany. The point is that fifa appoints a successor for each dead country and that new country owns all the history of the previous one regardless of what you think happened to said country.

Also, England, Wales, Scotland norther Ireland aren't even real countries, so what matters for football is what fifa decided

"How many countries are in this country?"

• Ted Lasso

Not all that weird. They always manage to qualify because no one else in their region (North America) has historically cared about soccer. Once they are in the tournament they cannot match up with South American and European teams.

before the unification, we germans called our country "brd" and east germany "ddr". and right now, we only have "brd". so thats the same as west germany. current germany is west germany.

So if you’re in the group with the Dutch there is just one slot remaining to advance because they’ll always advance.

Turkey has an interesting record.

Some interesting data from this graph.

1. Most group stage elimination - South Korea, Scotland, Mexico (8)
2. Most R-16 elimination - Mexico (7)
3. Most QF elimination - Brazil, England (7)
4. Most SF elimination - Germany (5)
5. Most Final losses - Germany (4)
6. Most WC Winner - Brazil (5)
7. Netherlands never got eliminated in the group stage in 11 appearances.
8. Argentina never lost a semifinal game in 6 semifinal appearances.

I know it's not you, it's the official German point of view, but how can it be BOTH a unification and the same country as before?

If it was the same country all the time, it should be called annexation, right?

yes. i actually think its more like a annexation than a unification.

Because these countries were separated without having a direct successor. The federal republic of Germany is still the federal republic of Germany, it’s just that the eastern part joined us again ~30 years ago.

Yes, but they failed to qualify in several runs. The most recent being 2002 and 2018.