european soccer championship

our national soccer team lost the semi finals in the european championship.
although this has nothing to do with my study. this is some crazy thing with the country i live in. nobody believed they could get this far. because this wasn't the best team we ever had and the practice games really went very bad and the captain, well the captain...

and the fact is when a national team has lost 'they lost'.
should they have won 'we won'.