The Netherlands were the team the beat in the 1970s. Their brand of soccer—dubbed “total football”—revolutionized the game, and for a while not a single team on the planet could really keep up with them. They dominated South America’s great powers (Brazil and Argentina) and ran circles around the Germans for most of the 1974 World Cup final. They only lost when they got too cocky and tried too hard to embarrass their opponents. After this “tragedy” (in the eyes of the Dutch), they learned their lesson and played with less cockiness. But legend has it they were royally screwed by officials at the 1976 Euro and again at the 1978 World Cup. So they never won a major championship.
Despite this lack of victories on the game’s biggest stages, the Dutch team from the 70s has to be considered one of the greatest ever.
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