Euromoney Awards for Excellence 2006
Euromoney Awards for excellence 2006 Off the Record Special
Here are a few of our thoughts. Your comments and suggestions are most welcome.
Brazil – Goldman Sachs
Always the favourites. Enormously talented. But a tendency to concentrate on attack at the expense of their defence.
France – Morgan Stanley
A former great, still a force to be reckoned with, but keep bringing back old players
Germany – UBS
Formerly thought of as staid, dull and predictable but recently developing a bit of panache
Netherlands - Deutsche
Lots of flair, great players, but you feel they could blow up at any moment
Argentina - Citigroup
Flair with a long history of quality but frequently guilty of dodgy play
South Korea - Bank of America
Foreign excursions prove they are only good on home soil
Portugal - Lehman Brothers
Unheard of 15 years ago but now serious contenders
Italy – Merrill Lynch
Great in the 1990s; went through a blip at turn of the century but seem to be getting better again
USA – RBS
Lots of the best talent seems to seek better compensation in other sports
England – Barclays Capital
Imported foreign coach on a multi-million pound salary
Trinidad & Tobago – Ixis CIB
What on earth are they doing there?
Mexico – any of the major French banks
Frequently play an attractive game but never quite make it on the biggest stage
Spain – HSBC
Always disappoint; never quite the sum of their component parts
Russia (failed to qualify) – JP Morgan
Traditional superpower struggling to come to terms with its new circumstances
Greece (failed to qualify) - Dresdner Kleinwort
Flash in the pan – good for a while but where are they now?