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As much as I hate numbers, I love people who crunch them to demonstrate a point. For example, the Climbing the Ladder blog shows that World Cup winners throughout history share the common trait of rarely falling behind in matches. I wonder why more teams don’t think of that.

Minutes Behind

Total Pct
1930 Uruguay 31 8.6%
1934 Italy 19 3.7%
1938 Italy 0 0.0%
1950 Uruguay 124 34.4%
1954 W.Germany 99 18.3%
1958 Brazil 6 1.1%
1962 Brazil 39 7.2%
1966 England 6 1.1%
1970 Brazil 38 7.0%
1974 W.Germany 63 10.0%
1978 Argentina 28 4.2%
1982 Italy 0 0.0%
1986 Argentina 28 4.4%
1990 W.Germany 0 0.0%
1994 Brazil 23 3.5%
1998 France 1 0.1%
2002 Brazil 27 4.3%

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