Why were Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and the USSR so good at fooball

Poland was never good and still isn't

It has to do with the countries splitting into many countries

>>74846153
Poland had a good team on the 70s.
Lato is still remembered

>>74846153
You what? Poland has more WC podiums than England. All of them before the 90s

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>Rating capitalism

>>74846153
>Poland was never good
Is this bait?

>>74846124
chemistry, drugs, better sports industry in general, use of sport in ideology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doping_in_East_Germany

>>74846124
nobody does outside sports anymore we spend our time as kids inside playing vidya
thats why we're the whitest ppl in the world, while the rest of the world spend their time running around chasing balls we keep our masterrace pasty complexion

>tfw to smart for cammunism

>>74846153
At the 1974 WC we needed to make it rain heavily in order to beat them 2bh

They were the most technically gifted team of the tournament back then.

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>large state fractures into smaller states
>pool of players goes from excellent to merely good or even average

it's not hard to figure out

>>74852273
This. Also leagues split, money pools split, youth academies split, football associations split, coach base split, it just leads to shit

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>>74846153
>Poland was never good
>mfw

>>74846153
Literally two times top 3 in the world (1974 & 1982). Not to mention in 1974 we only lost to Germany after a tight game, played in terrible conditions.

As to answer OPs question: Government pumping moniez into sport system as a way of boosting national pride, easing the tensions (remember how you beat England in 1986 and you felt much better, even though you lost the war against them?) and all the best players being forced to play in a handful of clubs.

Teams like CWKS Legia, CSKA, Dynamo and Partizan, which were affiliated with armed forces would conscript all the best players and give them a choice of either serving as an infantry or playing for the team. That obviously helped players to build some chemistry, rather than having almost everyone play in a different western club.