Not everyone affiliated with FIFA spends the World Cup sipping champagne in a luxury suite, angling for a photo with Bill Clinton or Mick Jagger or telling people where they're not allowed to go. Some are supposed to actually watch the games.
Those people comprise the Technical Study Group, a collection of 15 soccer experts who know far more about the sport than the rest of us and who are charged with identifying the important tactical trends and nuances that shaped the 32-team, 64-game tournament. The TSG also is supposed to tell us why the good teams were good, why the lousy ones were lousy and why World Cup referees can't tell if the ball has crossed the goal line.
Among the TSG's members this time around were former France and Liverpool (and perhaps future Aston Villa) coach Gérard Houllier, newly-appointed Australia coach Holger Osieck (who led Canada to its improbable 2000 CONCACAF Gold Cup title), 1998 World Cup and two-time UEFA Champions League winner Christian Karembeu, Peruvian legend and famed Fort Lauderdale Striker Teófilo Cubillas and former Scotland coach and UEFA technical director Andy Roxburgh. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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