Did North Korea Claim They Won The FIFA World Cup?

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  • Опубликовано: 22 авг 2024
  • It has long been claimed that the DPRK propaganda machine doctored footage to show North Koreans that they had won either the 2010 or 2014 FIFA World Cups, or both.
    It's one of a number of sensational football-related claims to have been made about North Korea, Kim Jong Un, and the ruling Workers' Party, but does the evidence back up these pretty outrageous reports?
    In this video, HITC Sevens takes a deep dive into the misinformation surrounding North Korean football, attempting to sort the fact from the fiction, and analysing football in the secretive state more broadly.

Комментарии • 660

  • @vitoravila9908
    @vitoravila9908 2 года назад +374

    The 2014 video was a prank made by the brazilian youtuber 'Cid Cidoso'. The source material is in a fake channel, created for this prank, called "Korea News Backup
    ", and in the last video he explains everything.
    He even received a letter from the PRK embassy saying something on the lines that (and I paraphrase here) 'the international repercussion of this prank is a further demonstration that the western media is a joke"

    • @mikevismyelement
      @mikevismyelement Год назад +59

      They aren't wrong. They will publish anything without verifying sources.

    • @tiramisu7544
      @tiramisu7544 Год назад +19

      You’re telling me brazil trolled North Korea

    • @Whawha96
      @Whawha96 Год назад +84

      @@tiramisu7544 no, Brasil pranked the west and DPRK laughed along them.

    • @Icedsobaka
      @Icedsobaka Год назад +19

      @@tiramisu7544 YES, and I'm sooo disappointed he didn't mention any of that in the video
      Cid Cidoso is considered a King in the Brazilian web, He's been around since the very start, he had one of the biggest humor websites on the internet at the time and he was known for being a S tier troll always making pranks and this whole North Korea thing was BIG
      He has a video explaining everything in his RUclips channel, but unfortunately I don't think it has English subtitles

    • @charles2521
      @charles2521 Год назад +1

      This was thanks to decades of propaganda by the US Agency for Global Media (formerly known as the Broadcasting Board of Governors) and its tentacle Radio Free Asia.
      They have for decades been the primary source of literally all of these racist fake news about Korea, initially with some care taken to mask the truth (such as paying children who have never even stepped foot on Korean soil to make false statements about it). But then they realized that they didn't need that and could make up any absurd lie that all the mainstream media would replicate without checking anything (some of the most recurrent ones were saying that North Korea executed some famous person for a futile reason, and then this same person would appear publicly and they wouldn't even publish a retraction note).
      In case Google is censoring the link, I will post the article on this in the next comment, the original website has been censored but you can still read it via the webarchive.

  • @aobasuzukaze1032
    @aobasuzukaze1032 2 года назад +1330

    Glad that there's still great journalism out there. I'm so sick of mainstream media trying to falsifying evidence or using anecdotal evidence to present their news from both sides. And with Alfie here I still have hope for journalism integrity.

    • @johnsopa5921
      @johnsopa5921 2 года назад +4

      Damn Aoba how's Kou doing? Didn't expect to see you here :^)

    • @aobasuzukaze1032
      @aobasuzukaze1032 2 года назад +1

      @@johnsopa5921 last time I heard she's married to Rin

    • @michaelstrickland4935
      @michaelstrickland4935 2 года назад

      Aye

    • @Thomas_Bergel
      @Thomas_Bergel 2 года назад +13

      Fuck off with that „mainstream media“ bullshit!
      The only times i read about the dprk claiming to have won the wc was on sires like buzzfeed or some sort of obscure youtube video without any sources.

    • @gravejello2331
      @gravejello2331 2 года назад +4

      @@Thomas_Bergel maybe for this specific case but every few weeks a news story about some insane shit going on in Korea goes viral amongst "rebutable" sources. for instance, just last week the news was reporting that North Korea jailed and executed people for watching Squid Game. the only source was Radio Free Asia, a literal CIA propaganda network. RFA only mentioned "an inside source" and nothing else. shit like this just makes North Korea seem like some insane movie shit and detracts attention from actual news about North Korea

  • @Rollface1
    @Rollface1 2 года назад +976

    Don’t you just love when media says ”look can you believe that media in North Korea is lying to their consumers?” when that media is doing the exact same thing

    • @foa0695
      @foa0695 2 года назад +43

      there is a bit of a difference between them.

    • @Rollface1
      @Rollface1 2 года назад +58

      @@foa0695 yeah one of the lies didn’t actually happen

    • @Julian-pw5mv
      @Julian-pw5mv 2 года назад +37

      @@Rollface1 mainly that one is lying for their own benefit and the other is lying for the governments benefit.

    • @GarkKahn
      @GarkKahn 2 года назад +11

      @@foa0695 yes. One of them can say the truth if they actually wanted to
      Does that makes them better or worse?

    • @Rollface1
      @Rollface1 2 года назад +36

      @@Julian-pw5mv I know, I’m not suggesting our media is exactly like the north korean, just pointing out the irony

  • @jonnyso1
    @jonnyso1 2 года назад +302

    The 2014 news video was created by Cid, an entity on the Brazilian internet, he even recieved a letter from the North Korean embassy because of it ahahaah

    • @bmaraujo
      @bmaraujo 2 года назад +75

      He used to have a site called "Não Salvo" and he used to prank everyone with the help of its community. For that world cup he pulled this one, really carefully planned, starting the channel months before the event and uploading real content. He even hired someone from south korea to do the voice overs.

    • @Hanna-fn9bn
      @Hanna-fn9bn 2 года назад

      Épico

    • @CJVP99
      @CJVP99 2 года назад +1

      “ahaha”

  • @nikolasqkly7742
    @nikolasqkly7742 2 года назад +169

    New title idea: Alfie absolutely WRECKS Oh My Goal for 25 minutes

  • @raymondngo5643
    @raymondngo5643 2 года назад +522

    As a person who is doing a unit in sports history which includes a section on football, seeing Alfie's documentary style video really brightens up my day and makes me look forward to that unit. Keep up the good work and much love from Australia!

    • @Dan-lg4bs
      @Dan-lg4bs 2 года назад

      Your country is on its way to becoming North Korea if you don’t get on the streets and sort this out.

    • @archstanton6102
      @archstanton6102 2 года назад +11

      @@Dan-lg4bs Sort what out Dan? You actually think Australia is becoming N Korea?

    • @Dan-lg4bs
      @Dan-lg4bs 2 года назад

      @@archstanton6102 Australian government just passed a bill that allows permanent ‘emergency’ pandemic laws. Australia by definition is now a police state.

    • @Dan-lg4bs
      @Dan-lg4bs 2 года назад

      @@archstanton6102 and please don’t think I’m trying to push any kind of political agenda on you here. I’m not anti vaxx at all I’m just genuinely worried for the citizens of Australia.

    • @anthonyguiness9
      @anthonyguiness9 2 года назад +7

      @@Dan-lg4bs There's nothing wrong with emergency laws during the pandemic

  • @jedaye47
    @jedaye47 2 года назад +588

    Well done Alfie, always good to see actual investigations of these outlandish reports on the DPRK.

    • @victorc8855
      @victorc8855 2 года назад +12

      idk if Alfie mentioned it in the video (im 5 minutes in) but the original one was a satire by a brazilian humourist and for some reason people believed in it

    • @jedaye47
      @jedaye47 2 года назад +7

      @Pingu0 Nah, I'll respect their actual name. Same as I'll respect the RoC and PRC's names.

    • @DrAnarchy69
      @DrAnarchy69 2 года назад

      @Pingu0 MEMES the DPRK is an authoritarian hellhole. Sorry but you can be anti State and still realize that North Korea and DPRK are literally the same thing and no one cares which one you use.

    • @tufab3494
      @tufab3494 2 года назад

      @@victorc8855 não, ele não diz no vídeo kkkkkk

    • @Crackparty803
      @Crackparty803 2 года назад +3

      @@jedaye47 I'm playing spot the tankie. One point to me.

  • @mrsomeone846
    @mrsomeone846 2 года назад +52

    The “Vardy the Devon Goat Skinner” picture is the funniest sh*t I’ve seen all week!😂

  • @TravellingTom
    @TravellingTom 2 года назад +120

    When I visited North Korea I was talking to someone there about football. He talked about the 1966 and 2010 World Cups and never claimed they won them. They know more than people over here are led to believe.

    • @mariopayan106
      @mariopayan106 Год назад +2

      It’s prohibited to talk to civilians inside north korea and also I thought civilians where instructed to not talk to foreigners. If im wrong please talk about that visit with more detail.

    • @repashy_
      @repashy_ Год назад

      E

    • @ThisLobster
      @ThisLobster Год назад +3

      @@mariopayan106 You can talk to certain people with certain permissions, or if he went during the Pyongyang marathon, you have free access to talk to the locals

    • @mr.someone6128
      @mr.someone6128 Год назад

      @@ThisLobster of course that North Korea will only allow you to talk to the upper class.

    • @ThisLobster
      @ThisLobster Год назад +2

      @@mr.someone6128 dont want to spread a bad image

  • @bluest.9320
    @bluest.9320 2 года назад +28

    17 hours later…
    “Did North Korea claim that they assassinated HITC Seven’s presenter Alfie?”

  • @hkrohn
    @hkrohn 2 года назад +170

    You should have mentioned that North Korea's national team had a Norwegian manager a couple of years ago. Even though he didn't do very well, he is still very much alive, and has given many interviews about it, describing everything as completely normal.

    • @romiarkan450
      @romiarkan450 2 года назад +1

      Of course he's alive cause even North Korea knows it's fucking stupid to risk getting nuked over the treatment of a fucking football manager of a foreign origin at his job. Even this feels stupid to write.

    • @UXB1000
      @UXB1000 Год назад +9

      And to think that said manager - Jørn Andersen - would later manage Incheon United to the south, and eventually led Hong Kong to its first AFC Asian Cup in 55 years...
      If anything, he must've learnt a thing or two during his North Korean tenure.

    • @mr.someone6128
      @mr.someone6128 Год назад +3

      Lucky for him to be protected by Norwegian laws i guess.

    • @Bimmerboyyyyyy
      @Bimmerboyyyyyy Год назад

      @@UXB1000 learn what? They probably have like 3 footballs in the whole country💀💀

  • @ijenslin6292
    @ijenslin6292 2 года назад +138

    I really want to see North Korea at the World Cup again. With social media being so much bigger than in 2010 we’re likely to get some mental stories emerge

    • @meatdepartment8901
      @meatdepartment8901 2 года назад +7

      Unfortunately they "bailed" out of this world cup due to the pandemic

    • @rotua98
      @rotua98 2 года назад +15

      the Arabs is quite good, the east Asia like Japan and South Korea is always gurantee, and the Aussie just steal the slot
      but the other region, south Asia and SEA, is suck, how come good country like India, Thailand, Vietnam (not to mention now the very shit Indoneisa squad my country)
      cant even qualify but North Korea can in 2010
      was amazing to see North Korean can hold Brazil 2-1

    • @refkiriswansyah2830
      @refkiriswansyah2830 2 года назад +4

      @@rotua98 i think he already said the main reason in some other video.
      In most of those countries, their huge population isnt equal to the size of professional athlete population pool. Hence, even if they have more fans, more market, more budget...the amount of player that the national team can choose is still very limited. Most of those fans just watch the games and play amateurly, not many of them want to play professionally. So not many of them train seriously, their skill become very raw, and the same can be said for the professional one. They become complacent and dont have any greed to become better, because by their perspective, they are already good enough compared to most other people and have a long career with their raw skill, so why bother to become better? They dont want to go to foreign country, dont want to develop their skill & tactical awareness, just by their raw skill they dont have any competition already.
      Very little local players debut each year, so the old ones can always feel secure because they literally become irreplaceable even if they dont develop new skill, their experience is more than enough to get the place in starting line up..so why bother to become better?
      Compare it to some "small" countries in Europe. Even if their population is very small, but the amount of professional football player is high. Every small (compared by area) countries in EU have their own top league, each of those have 20 clubs, so they need to have atleast 200-400 pro players for each small area. The must literally search for every nook and cranny just to have a bit of a talent and develop every potential to be the best. In some big populated countries, this just doesn't happen. They are big, their population is huge, so why bother searching & developing? The have more than enough people that want to play, theres no need to burn your money for them....that happen for 30-40 years and you get what you see now. Some small countries like Nederland & Swiss has better player & league than Indonesia & India.

    • @mr.someone6128
      @mr.someone6128 Год назад

      Here's the thing: North Korea are Normally shit at football.
      They don't have the money to fund a proper team. All that money has gone into building ghost buildings almost no one will inhabit.

  • @felipev9815
    @felipev9815 2 года назад +17

    The 2014 video that almost all the newspapers reproduced (and made more than 10m views) is actually a Brazilian joke created by "Cid Não Salvo" owner of one of the biggest blogs in the Country and who has already accomplished unbelievable feats, such as making a practically unknown Brazilian soccer player (Wendell Lima) win the Puskas award in 2015 as the most beautiful goal.

    • @felipev9815
      @felipev9815 2 года назад +3

      At that time the North Korean Embassy sent a letter asking the author to reveal that it was a joke, in order to avoid diplomatic incidents hahaha

  • @rcdf9
    @rcdf9 2 года назад +70

    Actually this rumor began with a famous brazilian on internet, "Cid", he made a channel that simulates a news channel from North Korea months before the cup, Cid even crontract someone who spaeks korean for this, so you can see his effort, and when the cup begun he started to make fake videos about NK winning WC games, Cid is just a big internet troll that fooled the world.

    • @lfm5444
      @lfm5444 2 года назад +9

      É de foder, o gringo faz um vídeo de 25 minutos pra acabar com um rumor e no fim acaba gerando outro.
      Huehue br né kkkkkk

  • @cmd31220
    @cmd31220 2 года назад +47

    The story about Kim Jong Un picking the team comes from Saddam Hussein's Iraq, where after they failed to qualify for the 1998 (I think) world cup finals, Udai Hussein (Saddams son and head of Iraqi sports) tortured the team and then took over selection duties from the manager.

    • @moluther2826
      @moluther2826 2 года назад

      He wanted them to walk back home. This is the full story, as told by one of the players:
      ruclips.net/video/J3lJcwkCfcs/видео.html

    • @cmd31220
      @cmd31220 2 года назад +4

      @@moluther2826 the story I remember is that after a loss, he made the team play a full match using a stone for a ball

    • @moluther2826
      @moluther2826 2 года назад

      @@cmd31220 that was one of the punishments, yes

    • @GarkKahn
      @GarkKahn 2 года назад +7

      And also after saddam was overthrown iraq won the asian cup
      A really big underdog story

    • @farizisharil3598
      @farizisharil3598 2 года назад +5

      "Uday flew into a rage."

  • @nyasha_ish
    @nyasha_ish 2 года назад +186

    Alfie never dissappoints as the video he makes are usually better than the clickbait title of those video tis channel is the best for football knowledge as it covers the gud,the bad n the corrupt side of football while sharing knowledge

  • @alexandrecolautoneto7374
    @alexandrecolautoneto7374 Год назад +10

    This was the biggest prank of a famous Brazilian youtube called Cid, this got a lot of trouble to him, but was cool to show how people will believe on everything that comes from north korea

  • @caratrevoso3347
    @caratrevoso3347 Год назад +45

    A Brazilian almost created a war just because he was bored and wanted to do a prank, I'm so proud of my country.

    • @troybaxter
      @troybaxter Год назад

      Somewhere, out there in the world is a random Brazilian wanted to watch the world burn.

  • @chonksstonks1820
    @chonksstonks1820 2 года назад +25

    Perfectly put Alfie. Truly a brilliant testament against misinformation.

  • @hsavov
    @hsavov 2 года назад +112

    Han Kwang Song was a favorite striker on Fifa Career for me, as he always found his way around the defenders

    • @niccolomainetti6202
      @niccolomainetti6202 2 года назад +12

      He was great in real life for Perugia and Cagliari but for some reason Juve bought him and he vanished from the face of the earth.

    • @TOTN17
      @TOTN17 2 года назад +11

      @@niccolomainetti6202 Currently a Free Agent with the most recent club he played for being Al-Duhail in Qatar Former Spurs player Toby Alderweireld now plays for the same club

    • @chaz2705
      @chaz2705 2 года назад +6

      @@niccolomainetti6202 there was an investigation into him sending his wages to the North Korean government

    • @yannick245
      @yannick245 2 года назад

      @@TOTN17 After having a great second half of the season with Perugia, scoring 7 goals and 3 assists, in 2018. He failed to make any progress. After scoring four more goals for Perugia, he never scored again. Not for Juve's under 23 squad, not in Qatar...
      I guess his international career is over. He'll probably go back to North Korea.

    • @drumagus2258
      @drumagus2258 2 года назад +1

      @@chaz2705 you mean taxes?

  • @GamerNintendo25
    @GamerNintendo25 2 года назад +148

    Good video Alfie
    It hits the nail on the head about the general Western propensity for gobbling up half truths and mistruths about places that they want to dislike. North Korea is bad enough as is, there’s no reason to embellish a terrible situation
    As someone that’s lived a lot in the Gulf, I feel like there’s a strong western appetite for the same sort of stuff against a lot of Gulf countries. They are, by no means, perfect places, but there’s no reason to lessen the reality of the actual bad stuff that goes on, like the repression of LGBT people and quite poor conditions for migrant labourers, by drumming up stories about league matches being played under threats of execution, or wild claims of people being rounded up and shot. It also takes away from the inhumanity of it in places where it actually did happen, like Saddam’s Iraq

    • @yannick245
      @yannick245 2 года назад +1

      When Qatar arrested those Western journalists, it was clear to me, that they must have broken a law since Qatar is having such anyway. Seems like I was right. They were trespassing. Not a big crime/misdemeanor but not nothing. They were probably housed in the most comfortable jail in the world.
      But why make a fuzz about such a little thing, since there are still real problems and real stories to report! Why blow up stuff like this?

    • @chrisschaller9547
      @chrisschaller9547 2 года назад +2

      At least journalists could go into Iraq and report whereas they count in North Korea

    • @a.m.armstrong8354
      @a.m.armstrong8354 2 года назад

      @@chrisschaller9547 I thought journalists in Iraq were embedded?

  • @Jack-ht3fr
    @Jack-ht3fr 2 года назад +16

    one tv crew from the Portuguese went the NK and they visited the Pyongyang University where there was a class that taught Portuguese and a lot of the kids were there because they were fans of Ronaldo after watching the match against NK.

  • @langerzzz5652
    @langerzzz5652 2 года назад +15

    One of your best Alfie in my opinion. Cheers mate

  • @yusufkassim8236
    @yusufkassim8236 2 года назад +39

    Day 3: Do a documentary on Guy Roux, a man who spent 44 years in total at AJ Auxerre as their manager

  • @BOABModels
    @BOABModels 2 года назад +22

    Goes to show again that a lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can tie its shoelaces!

  • @DilbertCronicles
    @DilbertCronicles 2 года назад +52

    The dedication and effort to find the truth of something that is so irrelevant and won't change anything in anyone's life is amazing!!

    • @soulspace9088
      @soulspace9088 2 года назад +3

      Video didn’t change my life but it kept me occupied for 25 mins and shed light on a topic I’m interested in. I don’t think you’re being purposely dismissive but don’t devalue Alfie’s work. I value his channel and am grateful it exists.

    • @qstal
      @qstal 2 года назад

      @@soulspace9088 any video that’s 20 + minutes is when I turn the speed to 1.5 to save time and inherit the same information 🤣

  • @s1mtl2mm98
    @s1mtl2mm98 2 года назад +23

    Can you do a "What the hell is happening on SpVgg Greuther Fürth?"
    They are a bundesliga team with 1 point from 14 games, worse than Schalke 04, and set to break Tasmania Berlin's winless run

    • @young_grizzly7948
      @young_grizzly7948 2 года назад +10

      nothing crazy is happening to them, they‘re just woefully out of their depth in the Bundesliga. At least they‘re still 18 ganes away of breaking Tasmania‘s record.

    • @anteveic327
      @anteveic327 2 года назад +2

      update: they won a match

  • @kieranfogarty778
    @kieranfogarty778 2 года назад +36

    I remember reading an interview in a football magazine with Park Ji Sung of Man United and he said the South Korean squad all supported the North anytime they play

    • @TOTN17
      @TOTN17 2 года назад +11

      Both nations support each other in Football when they are not playing eachother

    • @ajaxlewis7664
      @ajaxlewis7664 2 года назад

      He'll shoot, he'll score, he'll eat your labrador

  • @1304pl
    @1304pl 2 года назад +20

    Im a brazilian, some 5 months before the world cup a brazilian internet personality (cid do nao salvo) began a huge elaborate hoax in this sense, even hiring south koreans to pose as north koreans, however this was not done with any ill intent, just as a overly developed joke that would get posted as truth on numerous international news sites

  • @jamaly77
    @jamaly77 Год назад +7

    The fact that they decided to broadcast a game even after a defeat says something imo.

    • @lucassantossj
      @lucassantossj Год назад +1

      They know they aren't up to the WC, so having a chance to enter it is already a victory.

    • @mr.someone6128
      @mr.someone6128 Год назад

      Dosent every nation do that?

  • @bbcmotd
    @bbcmotd 2 года назад +51

    As someone from Russia, this sounds all too familiar, just like when western "experts" online talk about everyone getting sentenced to Gulag and soldiers getting 1 rifle per batallion in the USSR. All true, no bias.

    • @ThreeRunHomer
      @ThreeRunHomer 2 года назад

      Kleptocracy

    • @chrisschaller9547
      @chrisschaller9547 2 года назад

      You’re committing a genocide against Ukraine and that’s a fact

    • @mr.someone6128
      @mr.someone6128 Год назад

      Gulags existed and there's no denying that lol. Unless you are a Commie with those "Everyone was a Nazi" theories.

  • @balham5606
    @balham5606 2 года назад +16

    Can you do a documentary on the afc Wimbledon on the nine promotions in eleven years, how they’re a fan own club and how they have a stadium in plough lane now.

    • @ajell86
      @ajell86 2 года назад +2

      Think uve just covered it pal

  • @AviLOrkQ
    @AviLOrkQ 2 года назад +37

    I love these "political" videos you do related to football. You're really great at that. Very interesting and it's a side of the game very few other youtubers talk of.

    • @DrAnarchy69
      @DrAnarchy69 2 года назад

      Everything is political. But even with that being said, football is definitely the most overtly political sport in the world. Alfie is great because he doesn’t pretend to be “apolitical” and his videos are some of the most interesting on football RUclips because of it. Completely agreed, Alfie has the integrity to not only own being political, but proudly shines the light on the very troubling politics in world football.

  • @ianmacfarlane1241
    @ianmacfarlane1241 2 года назад +7

    There's not much joy to be had in seeing anyone cuffed 7 - 0 in a World Cup game.

  • @raistormrs
    @raistormrs 2 года назад +14

    And the morale here is, only ask him a "simple question" when you are prepared to watch a 25 minute video as a answer ;)

  • @GrahamMilkdrop
    @GrahamMilkdrop 2 года назад +12

    If only North Korea's media was as honest and as far beyond the reach of political manipulation as the free press here in the west!

    • @gatosapotomate1372
      @gatosapotomate1372 2 года назад +3

      Literally the video flew over your head

    • @bertboddin6311
      @bertboddin6311 2 года назад

      @@gatosapotomate1372 ye maybe the shit about football isnt true, but north korea's press is manipulative

    • @GrahamMilkdrop
      @GrahamMilkdrop 2 года назад +13

      @@gatosapotomate1372 Perhaps you don't recognise sarcasm?

    • @GrahamMilkdrop
      @GrahamMilkdrop 2 года назад +4

      @@bertboddin6311 The press is a tool for manipulation all over the world.

  • @TheDominofreak999
    @TheDominofreak999 2 года назад +17

    I know that this is prolly a video idea which would gain exactly 6 views if you made it, but I really enjoy your back-in-the-day videos a lot, and I would love to see a more-detailed video about the entire Bert Trautmann story from you which goes beyond "he played a FA-Cup Final with a broken neck"

    • @SC-bc6tz
      @SC-bc6tz 2 года назад +2

      As a city fan it’s an awesome story, my grandad was actually at the game, quite a lot of fans weren’t huge on him because of the war but the fact he was so committed to the club made the fans love him anyway

  • @pedrosabino8751
    @pedrosabino8751 2 года назад +4

    Actually, a brazilian guy called "Cid cidoso" trolled all the world, he who invented all that "North Korean journal lie to people abour NK winning the world cup" stuff

  • @thatguywayoverthere4726
    @thatguywayoverthere4726 2 года назад +35

    Lol. Kim himself won the ballon d or 15 times in row. Scored the most goals in history with 1255 goals. He is the undisputed GOAT!!

    • @ianmacfarlane1241
      @ianmacfarlane1241 2 года назад +2

      His Dad was a better golfer though.
      11 holes in one in his first ever game.

    • @TheNoirAlien
      @TheNoirAlien 2 года назад

      Did you just insult our Dear leader?

    • @nickmaclachlan5178
      @nickmaclachlan5178 2 года назад

      @@ianmacfarlane1241 Which is a specular effort seeing as there are generally only 3 or 4 par three holes on an 18 hole championship course.........unless he was playing crazy golf that is?

    • @ianmacfarlane1241
      @ianmacfarlane1241 2 года назад +1

      @@nickmaclachlan5178 As far as I remember the claim was something like a 29 - 11 holes in one, 3x twos and 4x threes.
      Not bad going for a guy who'd never played 😂.
      Presumably the four threes were all eagles at the par fives.
      There's something suspicious about his claim, but I can't quite put my finger on it.

    • @shawnferguson5681
      @shawnferguson5681 2 года назад

      Yeah, ok, sure, but how does he do at miniature golf?

  • @gabrielson1956
    @gabrielson1956 2 года назад +6

    The video about "North Korea won the world cup" was made by a brazillian, his name is Mauricio Cid and actually has a youtube channel named Cid Cidoso. In this video you can see him announcing about the fake video "from" north korea ruclips.net/video/eSkYMMku9GU/видео.html . I can't find any video with english subtitles, but basically him and some friends did the video and the fake channel to post it

  • @sixspeed4889
    @sixspeed4889 2 года назад +6

    “the incredible reason why luke shaw is so scaly” is so fucking funny

  • @markolitvic6981
    @markolitvic6981 2 года назад +15

    Oh my Goal! is just a bunch of Americans either saying basic things 80% of football fans already know about or making some shit up for views.
    I think one of their videos is something like "Why don't all goalkeepers wear number 1?" or something

  • @vaggelis911
    @vaggelis911 2 года назад +35

    Finally someone who follows actual journalistic tactics and doesn't follow "mainstream" claims about north korea, without mentioning "communism". You don't fall into the trap and you don't proceed into messing around/blaming ideologies. And in other videos too I have noticed that your work and reaserch is absolutely flawless. Keep up the great content!!!

  • @kindmulberry7196
    @kindmulberry7196 2 года назад +2

    Been waiting for this one for a very long time! This may be one of your best videos yet

  • @jacqsault2544
    @jacqsault2544 2 года назад +5

    I applaud you for your pursuit of truth. It's a rare sight these days and there wouldn't be justice in this world if I do not like this video.

  • @VPTurnerBR
    @VPTurnerBR 2 года назад +4

    the 2014 video was a prank done by a brazilian comedy site called Nao Salvo. He later revealed the prank and released a video showing that many news outlets around the world posted the video as fact

  • @mitchellsmith300
    @mitchellsmith300 2 года назад +14

    Day 44: Best non-FIFA affiliated national teams

    • @All_About_the_Benjamins
      @All_About_the_Benjamins 2 года назад

      Martinique
      Catalonia are two good teams that I can think of off the top of my head.

  • @elliotcoffman2643
    @elliotcoffman2643 2 года назад +6

    Could you do a video ranking every player of the year from each of the top 6 clubs over the last 5 years basing it on the season they won it? So going back to 16/17, the top 6 club's poty, going through to last season

  • @djremster3755
    @djremster3755 2 года назад +20

    The most tragic thing about this video is that it will probably get less views than some clickbait horse shite spat out by a corporation.

  • @freddiesay4002
    @freddiesay4002 2 года назад +3

    HITCSevens, please do a video about the best XI in the Premier League since 1992 in each position e.g Schmeichel, Cech in goal, Neville, Azpilicueta, Walker at right back. It would be brilliant.

  • @sage6336
    @sage6336 2 года назад +3

    The UK media claimed England won the WC in 1966 :-) .if you believe that you can believe anything

  • @Soho_Minos
    @Soho_Minos 2 года назад +2

    No way you people haven't found out that the videos of KPR winning the world cup was made by the biggest Brazilian meme blog back then lmao

    • @iakadayrneh
      @iakadayrneh 9 месяцев назад

      North Korea did win a World Cup though.
      2x U-17 Women World Cup Champions.
      2x U-20 Women World Cup Champions.

  • @bentn13
    @bentn13 2 года назад +2

    Liedson on the video!! Had forgotten about him. Thanks ☺️

  • @estuardoalpirezbock121
    @estuardoalpirezbock121 2 года назад +6

    I'm not a fan of OH MY GOAL. Their videos are very sensationalist and exaggerated

  • @javierinicorralini2559
    @javierinicorralini2559 2 года назад +3

    Oohhh I can't wait for the Oh My Goal! Video dissing Alfie and HITC! Cat fight!!

  • @rockinalan123
    @rockinalan123 2 года назад +3

    Id love you to go over more of Oh my goals! content. They really produce some awful stuff

  • @tk9839
    @tk9839 Год назад +1

    Their football team in the '66 WC England made it to the semi-finals and wee quite popular amongst the locals..

  • @user-ju3ox2ir7f
    @user-ju3ox2ir7f 2 года назад +2

    I used to get pissed off about oh my goal in my recommended as they were chatting utter nonsense on every vid that I blocked them so this is usual for them

  • @rimram3250
    @rimram3250 2 года назад +23

    i love this kind of content alfie! Im a journalist and i love your work so much. It makes me sad that all these stupid rumours are so mainstream in western media.

  • @alexpotts6520
    @alexpotts6520 2 года назад +2

    12:00 Hitchens's razor: "anything asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence"

  • @DGAMINGDE
    @DGAMINGDE 2 года назад +50

    North Korea might claim that they were good at the world cup but as I am as competent as the North Korean government I also claim this to be a good video idea.
    Day 3: Top 7 football clubs that have similar logos (FC Barcelona and Consolat Marseille, Benfica Lisbon and Hamm Benfica).

    • @jorg7765
      @jorg7765 2 года назад +3

      Your are right with Benfica and Hamm Benfica but you should know that both clubs are working together. Luxembourg where Hamm Benfica is competing has a huge portuguese community and therefor also a huge fanbase of portuguese football. You find several clubs in Luxembourg which are in a relation with a portuguese footballclub. All 4 big clubs of Portugal have a "farmersclub" in Luxembourg. Benfica, Porto, Sporting and Braga

    • @DGAMINGDE
      @DGAMINGDE 2 года назад

      @@jorg7765 This doesn't seem to be the case as Benfica Lisbon actually went to court with Hamm Benfica and there are talk of Hamm Benfica merging with another club.

    • @andrew7taylor
      @andrew7taylor 2 года назад

      @@DGAMINGDE According to the club's own site, they are called Benfica since 2006 when they became an affiliate. And they merged with FC Blue Boys Muhlenbach in 2020 already. Primary sources are pretty useful...

    • @DGAMINGDE
      @DGAMINGDE 2 года назад

      @@andrew7taylor I meant the failed merger with RFC Union Luxembourg not the Mühlenbach merger.

    • @jedaye47
      @jedaye47 2 года назад +2

      How many countries have you rebuilt after utter destruction in 50 years despite international sanctions? I feel like you're a lot less competent than they are

  • @10mibrahim
    @10mibrahim 2 года назад +6

    You're so good at editing

    • @ianmacfarlane1241
      @ianmacfarlane1241 2 года назад

      Probably his editor who does the editing.

    • @xeno8147
      @xeno8147 2 года назад +1

      Putting still images every 10 seconds is not quite incredible editing

    • @HITCSevens
      @HITCSevens  2 года назад +8

      Sadly, I am the editor, Ian. Researcher, writer, narrator, editor, and everything else. I even make the thumbnails, as you can probably tell.

    • @ianmacfarlane1241
      @ianmacfarlane1241 2 года назад +1

      @@HITCSevens Sorry Alfie, I do apologise.
      I was under the impression that there was an HITC team producing this outstanding work.

    • @ianmacfarlane1241
      @ianmacfarlane1241 2 года назад

      @CFCMoi11
      Sorry, it would appear that you were correct, and that I wasn't.

  • @azura4866
    @azura4866 2 года назад +17

    refreshing take and well made as always but I feel you could've gotten into the US governments' network of outlets (Radio Free Asia mainly) role in creating these goofy stories, but maybe that would've made the video way too long lol

  • @philipglover3295
    @philipglover3295 2 года назад +5

    Great video Alfie can you do one about the story that the CIA fixed the 1958 World Cup to counter the USSR or what happened to the Saudi Arabia team that lost 8-0 to Germany at the 2002 World Cup

  • @nikolaschelucci8388
    @nikolaschelucci8388 2 года назад +2

    The Cid effect still goes on 🤣🇧🇷

  • @alvaroxex
    @alvaroxex 2 года назад +2

    It was a joke started by a Brazilian comedy blog 9gag style, called Nao Salvo.

  • @QuestishBen
    @QuestishBen Год назад +2

    Fun Fact: North Korea was second in qualifying for the 2022 World Cup Qatar before they pulled out of qualifying due to COVID concerns.

  • @nate_kang
    @nate_kang 2 года назад +6

    I'm Korean American, and I've always been curious about this topic. Great video!

  • @PH-jv4ik
    @PH-jv4ik 2 года назад +5

    Oh my goal has been dodgy for a long don't understand how so many people watch it

    • @naphataliheimann9281
      @naphataliheimann9281 2 года назад +1

      Little kids use it at excuse to share football opinions

    • @ditik2795
      @ditik2795 2 года назад +1

      Ye.. really hate them

    • @bri1085
      @bri1085 2 года назад

      Same reason those list videos are popular, it's fast food content, clickbait thumbnails and titles, with fairly easy to consume content

    • @bluest.9320
      @bluest.9320 2 года назад

      All of them are 11

  • @mirismirilis6184
    @mirismirilis6184 Год назад +1

    As a Brazilian I've to say, that was the biggest troll of the legend Cid Cidoso aka Cid do não salvo

  • @donovanch462
    @donovanch462 2 года назад +20

    Day58: Every professional seasons of one player ranked from worst to best ( Messi, R9 , Pele , Ben Arfa whoever you want)

  • @RowanSomething
    @RowanSomething 2 года назад +3

    Kinda sad there was no mention of Radio Free Asia, even as a joke. Thought we might get an ironic HITC Sevens tankie arc.
    Nevertheless, good video.

    • @lladimirvenin7473
      @lladimirvenin7473 2 года назад +3

      Alfie leads the immortal science of Marxism-Leninism-Hull citiy-ism towards power in Britain , tories getting mowed down !

    • @RowanSomething
      @RowanSomething 2 года назад +5

      @@lladimirvenin7473 *insert the Soviet National Anthem with lyrics rewritten to be about Hull City here*

  • @shawnferguson5681
    @shawnferguson5681 2 года назад +3

    Allie, you did such a good job clearing up this story, maybe you could shed some light on the rumors that the 1998 Iraqi team were punished by Saddam Hussein for something or other, probably losing. It would be easy to simply accept whatever everyone else is saying, but I suspect you would have more credible information.

  • @lagrasta666
    @lagrasta666 Год назад +1

    A very good investigative video.....this is real journalism. Weldone.

  • @hayderal-shemmari661
    @hayderal-shemmari661 2 года назад +4

    Can you do a video on the norwegian team Bodø/glimt? They recently beat roma 6-1

  • @frankunodostres473
    @frankunodostres473 2 года назад +1

    brilliant doc m8
    one of your best so far

  • @GoobyEstPresent
    @GoobyEstPresent 2 года назад +2

    Honestly, is the DPRK wants to say that portugal won the world cup, I wouldn't be against that.

  • @cpt_nordbart
    @cpt_nordbart 2 года назад +1

    Fan parks, eh? In Germany we call it "public viewing" which is a great misunderstanding of what this words mean. I mean it's public and everyone is looking at something so it kinda makes sense. Oh boy.

  • @MikeP2055
    @MikeP2055 2 года назад +9

    You're a good man, Alfred. I really appreciate your distinction between being an apologist for the truth rather than an apologist for the DPRK. I live in Utah in the States where many people are LDS (Mormon), and I've worked in tourism for almost 30 years. I get much more upset by people talking nonsense-trash about Mormons than I do by people actually having thoughtful criticisms about the church. (For the record, I am not LDS, but most of my family and many of my friends are.) I've long said, "The more you know about something, the more you can legitimately disagree with it." Just as you said at the end, one needn't make up lies about a bonkers state. We already know!! If anything, these false reports merely serve to fuel the North Koreans' distrust of Western media.
    Love y'all. ✌️⚽️

  • @thepotatobredrblx1404
    @thepotatobredrblx1404 Год назад +2

    Why cant Kim Jong Un accept he has skill issue?

  • @Spenelo
    @Spenelo 2 года назад +1

    This is again, such a good video man, keep it up!

  • @stephenkoshy3127
    @stephenkoshy3127 2 года назад +2

    Wait, when did I get unsubscribed to this channel? The video came up as a recommendation rather than in my sub feed.

    • @HITCSevens
      @HITCSevens  2 года назад +5

      I'm being cancelled, Stephen. I knew there was a reason why I hadn't hit a million subs yet.

    • @mattdrake2065
      @mattdrake2065 2 года назад

      Why would you be getting canceled Alfie mate?

  • @R_xt
    @R_xt 2 года назад +2

    I bet that they don't know what or where or who is Brazil

  • @nitiratp
    @nitiratp 2 года назад +3

    I really like your point that we shouldn't help the North Korean government with their propaganda machine by telling lies and spreading misinformation about the state. That's the kind of thinking that belongs in top-level negotiations with them, not a video about their football team :)

  • @SPINJALUUM
    @SPINJALUUM 2 года назад +9

    The best team from every European country that’s never won a ucl

    • @mysteryman3963
      @mysteryman3963 2 года назад +1

      Well some are pretty obvious like from england it's city and from spain it's atleti

    • @franohmsford7548
      @franohmsford7548 2 года назад +13

      @@mysteryman3963 You what? I can't stand Arsenal but they'd be the choice from England not Man City!
      13 League Titles
      14 FA Cups
      2 League Cups
      16 Charity Shields
      1 Cup Winners Cup
      1 Fairs Cup {precursor to UEFA Cup/Europa League}
      vs
      7 League Titles
      6 FA Cups
      8 League Cups
      6 Charity Shields
      1 Cup Winners Cup
      And it's not even close!

    • @SPINJALUUM
      @SPINJALUUM 2 года назад +2

      @@franohmsford7548 yeah based on history and overall performance

    • @franohmsford7548
      @franohmsford7548 2 года назад +3

      @@SPINJALUUM England - Arsenal
      Spain - Atletico Madrid
      Italy - Torino {Sorry Roma and Napoli}
      Germany - Schalke O4 {Borussia Monchengladbach just miss out}
      France - Paris St Germain {14 French Cups to St Etienne's 6 certainly outweighs the one League title St Etienne is ahead by, at least until the end of this season}
      Portugal - Sporting Lisbon
      Netherlands - AZ Alkmaar
      Belgium - Club Bruges
      Scotland - Rangers
      Romania - Rapid Bucharest
      Every other nation hasn't won it {Red Star Belgrade won when Yugoslavia still existed - I'm not going to even try to guess which post Yugoslavian club outside of Red Star is the biggest to not win it}

    • @andrew7taylor
      @andrew7taylor 2 года назад

      @@franohmsford7548 Agreed with most. Although it's peculiar that you've gone with Leverkusen in Germany. They are always up there, but a single Cup and a single UEFA Cup to their name. Nürnberg, Gladbach, Werder, Stuttgart and Köln are far more successful than them.
      Belgium is weird too. Anderlecht has twice as many league titles, a UEFA Cup and two Cup Winners' Cup. They so much bigger than Bruges.
      They club you're looking for in Serbia is Partizan. Since Yugoslavia have dissolved they're actually more successful than Cverna Zvezda.

  • @shanewright2772
    @shanewright2772 2 года назад +1

    In my home town, a newspaper published its 2010 World Cup results for "Nice Korea" and "Naughty Korea". They got away with it for one day.

  • @andysmith5997
    @andysmith5997 2 года назад +1

    Nothing wrong with claiming to win the World Cup. England did the same thing . Crossed the line my eye.

  • @thabiso5792
    @thabiso5792 2 года назад +3

    The USA and South Korea do want to undermine juche though

  • @bentn13
    @bentn13 2 года назад +1

    It’s weird to have pictures of a female Asian flight attendant with a male Portuguese name.

  • @Xth3Z
    @Xth3Z 2 года назад +2

    Are you trying to tell me, that North Korea hasn't won every World Cup so far? 😱

  • @nichhodge8503
    @nichhodge8503 Год назад

    I’m from Plymouth so I can confirm we see Vardy here every summer skinning goat like clockwork

  • @shawnferguson5681
    @shawnferguson5681 2 года назад +4

    It is refreshing to hear what is verifiable as opposed to what is preferable. I think truth is more useful than rumor, regardless of one’s ideology. Thank you. And it was heart warming to hear that the two Koreas support each other’s teams whenever they weren’t directly opposed.

  • @luizdaniel316
    @luizdaniel316 2 года назад +2

    You’ve killed oh my goal

  • @michaelay4900
    @michaelay4900 2 года назад +9

    Plot twist: Alfie is actually a North-Korean agent.

  • @VitsDoxes
    @VitsDoxes 2 года назад +3

    The 2014 video is Cid Não Salvo creation. Brazilians go hu3hu3hu3.

  • @JamesLee-on1yb
    @JamesLee-on1yb Год назад

    Here is a fact, 2022 World Cup wasn't broadcasted live but heavily edited out some advertising at the side and also with a commentary with no hype at all.

  • @Diddy007
    @Diddy007 2 года назад +2

    A Werder Bremen update would be cool since in Bundesliga 2 their coach was sacked for faking Covid vaccine certificates

  • @MegaKapo12
    @MegaKapo12 2 года назад +3

    The pronunciation of leite, is hilarious.
    its more like late.
    And I wish Portugal won the World Cup.

  • @Hogan213
    @Hogan213 2 года назад +1

    Thanks for calling oh my goal out lad 👏👏👏

  • @teodorosantos3525
    @teodorosantos3525 Год назад +1

    Cid, parabéns cara, Muito lindo sua zoeira chegando até aqui!