a) a team that's been consistently good for most, if not the whole, year long winning champs
OR
b) a mid/trash team that everyone thought would be a waste of a slot figuring it out mid tournament and going on a cinderella run to win champs
everyone remembers the world cup winner, not how they qualifed/how was their run/how they were the whole 3-4 years before that
so yeah,
also our day to day life is like that - not everytime the most deserving one gets the deserving prize, it's about luck,timing,co-ordination, overworking, underworking, willpower, hard work, skill and everything.