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Why South America Is So Good at Football

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Are they? European football is the highest level.

  FIFA World Cup finals
  Founded 1930; 96 years ago

  Current champions  Argentina (3rd title)
  Most championships  Brazil (5 titles)

~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_FIFA_World_Cup_finals

The article's dek is relevant here:

> The region isn’t the world’s richest, or its most populous, or the one that spends the most on sport. Yet in men’s football it has spent decades performing far above what its economy would predict.

Please remind us who the current champion is?

Cheers

3 of the 4 semi-finalists are European countries.

Spain

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