They did well because they have more heart and are hungry for the success.
We have underperforming starboys.
FF.yes they having a good tournament and playing a nice brand of ball, but 3 good games does not equate success.
I am happy for them and I wish them well in this tournament.
Let me share with you a lil something from my studies..........
So why, in so many places, has the path of development so often sloped downward?(Economics here but it can be equated to football)
Historically, the poor fortune of resource-rich countries was attributed to sloth. As the 16th-century French political philosopher Jean Bodin put it: ''Men of a fat and fertile soil are most commonly effeminate and cowards; whereas contrariwise a barren country makes men temperate by necessity, and by consequence careful, vigilant and industrious.''
That fellow forumites is the difference between "us" and "them"