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ELI5: The difference between European-style football and South American-style football, and what I should look for in the final game of the World Cup.

I heard on NPR recently that Brazil (and other South American teams) play a different style of football (soccer) than European teams. I'm not savvy enough to notice the difference all by myself. 

So what are the differences, and when I watch Argentina vs. Germany, what should I look for to see the differences for myself?
gpt
I would say that's incorrect from NPR. It's more that most nations have a traditional playing style e.g. Italy: deep defensive line and counter attacking, brazil: attacking with lots of flair, England are stereotyped as playing long balls up to a target man. Recently Spain have been defined by their possession based short passing tiki-taka game. You could vastly generalise by saying European teams are more defensive than South American teams but as football has globalised all the styles have kind of merged and styles have become less nation specific. Changes in style nowadays are more depend on the managers mentality rather than the origin of the team.