[From “Germany Learns the Hard Way”]

An African team has never won the World Cup

And Germany had never lost a penalty shootout in the World Cup until yesterday. But although the media prefers not to discuss it, everyone in football knows that Africans are notoriously poor at taking penalties

And now both Germany and Holland are out of the World Cup in the first knockout stage, defeated by football powerhouses Paraguay and Morocco

It’s almost as if relying upon people who have never won the World Cup when playing for their own nations to win it for your own is a suboptimal strategy