and they'll continue to choke when it comes to the world cup

You mean the second most successful team in the history of the World Cup?

Not to say they won't always be the big movers but German football will never be a true powerhouse of Europe again while the Bundesliga is financially crippled compared to the big 3 (La Liga, Serie A, Premiership).

First of all the Bundesliga is the only finanical healthy one in Europe. Spain's clubs are completely debt-ridden, so are Italy's. Secondly how goos the national leagues are means nothing towards international titles. Otherwise England would have won every European and World title

Should be - fear the english soccer empire, levy.

I'm talking about national teams, npot club football

Then you're delusional. Just because you played a good qualifying group for once doesn't mean you're actually gonna be able to survive a tournament

Beating Russia twice is no small feat. Especially on home soil. So there's nothing to contradict my statement yet

spain are probably the favorites at this point along with brazil, but unfortunately their game is very boring and has no character, it is robot football with cogwheel players like xavi and iniesta who can't be liked and rooted for or hated and rooted against because all they do is play their thing and nothing else; it is very technical and precise, but lacks any individual movement and playing and emotion, it's more like watching a game from the ea sports fifa series played by a good player, very effective and successful, impressive for a little while, but boring very quickly because the human element is missing almost completely. but i have to say this problem is not only applying to spain it is a general problem nowadays, just some teams have good ea sports fifa players controlling them, others have bad ones, but the principle is general.