Since 2006, there have been four World Cups, and each has been won by a European side. Indeed, this is the case for five of the six World Cups in the last 24 years. France in 1998, Italy in 2006, Spain in 2010, Germany in 2014, and France again last time around. Each of the European winners from 1998 to 2014 not only failed to retain its title in the following competition but failed to even make it out of…