No you're not wrong about South Korea, but isn't that irrelevant to what I was saying? I was just saying that lots of countries who aren't exactly brilliant at football manage to qualify for World Cups...the fact that they're not European doesn't matter does it?

No they won't dominate European football like Germany did, I don't think anyone would claim such a thing as it isn't realistic.

Their performance wasn't startling, but they proved that just about any country can be successful in a tournament with the right tactics and attitude etc, their players aren't great players like Rivaldo (of old...he spent the last season trying to get a club from what I heard) etc, but they were enough to get the job done in this tournament. I'd be excited to get that number 5 defender to join City though, he looked really composed which is exactly what we need at the moment (especially after last season).

I don't think European countries are ALL necessarily too cautious, its just that Germany, Holland, Italy and France all seem to suck these days which gave other countries the chance to progress further...plus Euro tournaments aren't usually known for being pretty anyway so you're right that its probably not for you, thats why I stick to league football in England when possible. You might like Premiership football if you can get that where you live, thats generally much faster paced than other European countries...