This is true but in a way I have always found the pattern to be odd, after all the majority of the soccer players of Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, which are the only three Latin American teams which have won the world cup, play at Europe or some other country with a different time zone, so they should suffer the same kind of jet lag and problems to adapt that any other player may suffer, so this is the result of some psychological boost they get by playing on their continent or the support of the fans is so influential that it is enough to change the outcome on some tight games.