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> one of the reasons they have risen in prominence recently Hmmmm.... From TFA: "West Germany ... won the World Cup in 1954, 1974 and 1990, and reached the fi

• sjm-lbm 8y ago
  Well, there was a really bad period in between then and now. They finished last in their group in Euro 2000, and did quite badly in 2004 (though I don't remember specifics), and those were the results that motivated several changes (or, at least, moved some already-in-progress moves towards centralization forward).