Nonsense. Hungary '54 and Netherlands '74 lost in final, but are still remembered fondly.
It’s hardly “nonsense”. OP said that Hungary are one of the exceptions. There’s not that many teams who didn’t win a tournament who end up remembered to that extent.
Hungary are unusual too in that they only had a brief period with those players. If they were from a different country and stayed together as a group they would have had another go in 1958.
This Hungary team only had 1 major tournament. Hungary withdrew from the 1950 WC, afaik it was because of the 1952 Olympics (which they won and I have no idea how highly it was regarded back then), then they played in the 1954 WC (there were no Euros at the time, it only started in 1960), and then the 1956 revolution happened.
Yes that’s what I was referring to in my post. It was a brief period where they were the best.
The Olympics was regarded as relatively important then. Not to everyone but much more than now. It’s why the game against England had added prestige as they were arriving as Olympic champions.
Totally disagree, Hungary '54 and Netherlands '74 are remembered even though they didn’t win silverware IMO
Though you just mentioned the same 2 teams as the other reply. Those are the 2 major exceptions (obviously there’s others too)
