The Rise, Fall, & Rebirth of Borussia Dortmund

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  • Опубликовано: 13 июл 2023
  • Borussia Dortmund are renowned for being one of the best run clubs in European football - having raised in fortune through the transfers of the likes of Jude Bellingham, Jadon Sancho, and Erling Haaland... but it wasn't always thus.
    Following the club's golden age during the 1990s, in which they won both the Bundesliga and the UEFA Champions League, Dortmund became one of the highest spending teams on the planet, gambling their future on sustained growth and success that wouldn't be forthcoming.
    The end result was very nearly the extinction of one of Europe's best supported clubs - so in this documentary, HITC Sevens takes a deep dive into Dortmund's mid-2000s collapse, revival, and what it tells us about how the club is run now.
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  • @philippjansen7199
    @philippjansen7199 10 месяцев назад +310

    Shinji Kagawa didn't transfer for free; Dortmund paid a 350k compensation fee. That dude had played second tier Japanese football before and immediately became a force in the league. Still one of the wildest Dortmund transfers. Their scouting is just so good.

    • @morganbartman6092
      @morganbartman6092 10 месяцев назад +20

      Christian Pulisic couldn’t get signed by any MLS teams but on his amateur club teams European Tournament an undersized 16 year old Pulisic was signed by BVB after one weekend of games.

    • @Bruno-xz4xj
      @Bruno-xz4xj 10 месяцев назад +13

      Their scouting indeed is good, but they didnt scout kagawa. It was kagawas agency who tried to find a club and offered him to several clubs.
      Kagawa was young and cheap, Dortmund broke and in need, so they signed him without ecpecting anything.

    • @jtaco4101
      @jtaco4101 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@morganbartman6092they should have left him there.

    • @amodghising7615
      @amodghising7615 8 месяцев назад

      Their scouting is just so good.? naaaa WAS

    • @savage239galvan3
      @savage239galvan3 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@jtaco4101levels above sancho 🤣

  • @PH-jv4ik
    @PH-jv4ik 10 месяцев назад +69

    You finally did it shootout to the guy who kept asking for the video. Truly the people's channel

    • @maze1914
      @maze1914 10 месяцев назад +8

      You're welcome. I know I sent him a few emails asking 😂😂😂😂

    • @J-CG
      @J-CG 10 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@maze1914Your persistence paid off my friend 😂 been seeing you comment this idea for ages now

    • @maze1914
      @maze1914 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@J-CG I did for the fans 🤣🤣🤣.

  • @XTheLolX301
    @XTheLolX301 10 месяцев назад +40

    Ppl forget that unlike Arsenal losing the premier to City, Dortmund actually came back from 12 points behind Bayern last season

    • @glencurtis6052
      @glencurtis6052 10 месяцев назад

      Doesn't that just highlight the lack of competition from other teams?

    • @XTheLolX301
      @XTheLolX301 10 месяцев назад +12

      @@glencurtis6052 not really, a lot of teams in bundesliga shared the firstplace for some part of the season, the problem is the quality of bench, which only some like Dortmund or Leipzig can try to compete with Bayern Munich by the end of the season

    • @beenky5692
      @beenky5692 10 месяцев назад +2

      To be fair the reason why they were so far behind was because Dortmund had an injury crisis in the team before the World Cup with 10 players being injured. Add that with the fact that the squad went with a serious rebuild in the summer cleansed out their back line and midfield can give you the picture as to why they had a poor start. Had they been healthy all season I dont think Bayern would’ve had a chance to win. That being said I don’t think Dortmund will win even if they can stay healthy all season this year simply for the fact that Bayern was in complete disarray(by their standards) last season with their squad depth and inconsistent lineups. As a Dortmund fan, I know our club will be better than last season but I don’t think Bayern will be as bad as they were last season as they’re trying to sign Harry Kane at the moment and if they don’t they have the capital and pull to sign a class striker. Hopefully the football gods will put an end to this bs.

    • @DarkarThanBlack
      @DarkarThanBlack 10 месяцев назад

      More like Bayern giving away their 12 point lead.

    • @salbenrosli707
      @salbenrosli707 6 месяцев назад

      Union Berlin was leading last season for majority of the Bundesliga and they finished 4th

  • @EDvonSHRED
    @EDvonSHRED 10 месяцев назад +69

    Thank you very much from a lifelong BVB supporter. Maybe now at least some people get it. We are always compared to Bayern, our signings are compared to Bayerns, our wages are compared to Bayerns. People desperately want competition in the league, I get that. But you just can't compare the possibilities of both clubs. Many people worldwide just don't want to see that and just call us "not ambitious", "not serious", "only about the money". That's so easy to do, but yeah, look what being "ambitious" did to our club. Oh, and thanks for also mentioning the myth that "Bayern saved Dortmund".

    • @robfortune6
      @robfortune6 10 месяцев назад +1

      Have you paid off all of your debts and bought back all of your assets yet? I know there was a section about that in the video but I don't think that whether or not you're still in debt or if you still have assets that need to be bought back right now was mentioned (unless I missed that for some reason, sorry if I did lol)

    • @lucas_dr3
      @lucas_dr3 10 месяцев назад +8

      BVB don’t lose the league against bayern though, they bottle against clubs with way smaller budgets

    • @EDvonSHRED
      @EDvonSHRED 10 месяцев назад +6

      @@lucas_dr3 This year yes, and I am perfectly fine to admit that. But in general on long term, you cant compete with Bayern. That's my point.

    • @EDvonSHRED
      @EDvonSHRED 10 месяцев назад

      @@robfortune6 As far as I know we paid our debts and got the essential stuff back, only the stadium name is probably gone forever. We have some new debts due to Covid, because our game ticket sales are relatively important. But overall we are a club who can pay decent wages for quite good players - and are compared to a club who can pay wages for top-stars, has sponsorship deals worth double the amount of ours and continues to grow its bank account for 50 years now as the always richest club of the country. We would have to be irresponsible again to even have the slightest of chances - and Watzke would never ever do that. We make our own stars, that's the only way we can have some - and sell them when they get too big for us

    • @Topav05
      @Topav05 5 месяцев назад

      Dortmund doesn't do enough to maximise its marketing potential as Germany's 2nd biggest club, undisputedly. That's where my problem with Dortmund's ambition is.

  • @seandelap8587
    @seandelap8587 10 месяцев назад +189

    Borrusia Dortmund will always be remembered for their shock victory over Juventus in the 1997 CL final and that was really a massive shock because Juventus were absolutely world class during that period the strongest squad in Europe in fact

    • @bimanatawilaga7509
      @bimanatawilaga7509 10 месяцев назад +14

      Not to say they were go to the final 3 years in a row that time but only won one

    • @adampark4238
      @adampark4238 10 месяцев назад +17

      Paul Lambert was outstanding

    • @christopherr3676
      @christopherr3676 10 месяцев назад +6

      ​@@adampark4238 shackled zidane

    • @adampark4238
      @adampark4238 10 месяцев назад

      @christopherr3676 I'm.always biased he left my team for them.

    • @christopherr3676
      @christopherr3676 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@adampark4238 motherwell fan ?

  • @fabiosiani2887
    @fabiosiani2887 10 месяцев назад +60

    Hey Alfie, I would be absolutely delighted to see a video about my team Borussia Mönchengladbach! Rarely ever spoken about but once a european top club in the 70s, challenging a all-time great Bayern team around Franz Beckenbauer and Gerd Müller for Bundesliga titles. "Die Fohlen" (the foals) as they were called, were a golden generation of mostly homegrown talent coached by later Barcelona Coach Hennes Weisweiler. Big german players who hugely contributed to Germanys 1974 world cup triumph like Günther Netzer, Jupp Heynckes and Rainer Bonhof, but are rarely ever spoken about, were part of the squad. Storys like Netzers self substitution in the DFB Pokal final to score the winning goal in overtime or the can throw against Inter Mailand would also be interesting to tackle!

    • @johnnythemachine6949
      @johnnythemachine6949 10 месяцев назад +2

      you forgot Berti Vogts

    • @he_football
      @he_football 9 месяцев назад

      I know it's not the same thing, but I saw your comment and I made a video about them as I always liked their 70s golden years
      ruclips.net/video/qH4auf2Vakw/видео.html

  • @robingronwald7993
    @robingronwald7993 10 месяцев назад +9

    As a Dortmund fan I am really scared. I am not sure if we are able to keep up but I am always sure that my clubs future is safe

  • @reverendroar
    @reverendroar 10 месяцев назад +132

    It’s crazy how even when they were heading rapidly towards extinction- that Dortmund kept on producing great talents and doing savy deals. I hope we can see teams like 1860 Munich, Nuremberg, Kaiserslautern, Schalke, Hamburg, Hanover, and Cologne become financially stable and win trophies again soon. The Bundesliga needs to embrace competition and help fund teams that can then thrive and compete with Bayern Munich in the near and distant future

    • @franohmsford7548
      @franohmsford7548 10 месяцев назад +16

      The Bundesliga needs to go back to 20 teams!
      A League of that size in a country the size of Germany absolutely needs 20 teams in the top tier!
      No....The Premier League, La Liga and Serie A should absolutely NOT reduce to 18!

    • @lisaruhm6681
      @lisaruhm6681 10 месяцев назад +3

      @@franohmsford7548 how would you handle the increased injury risk and burden on the players due to the increased number of games?

    • @franohmsford7548
      @franohmsford7548 10 месяцев назад +2

      @@GamingEnthusast350 The Bundesliga teams also don't have to play in a second cup competition as like most European nations they've dropped the second cup competition years ago.
      I'm constantly saying {and have been pretty much since the Premier League broke away} that EPL Clubs should NOT be playing in the EFL Cup but they still are!

    • @franohmsford7548
      @franohmsford7548 10 месяцев назад +3

      @@lisaruhm6681 EPL, La Liga and Serie A clubs manage to play 38 games a season, why can't Bundesliga clubs?
      Add to that that there's no League Cup in Germany either and EPL clubs that reach the later rounds of the EFL Cup play quite a lot more games than Bundesliga clubs each season.

    • @MikoyanGurevichMiG21
      @MikoyanGurevichMiG21 10 месяцев назад

      You either become a Dortmund or you get suffocated to death like Southampton.

  • @xCNapo
    @xCNapo 9 месяцев назад +4

    I am based with 1.FC Köln, but I will always have a special heart for Dortmund. No club in europe raised talent so well with so little money and it's just a delight to watch which young Dortmund players will become World Stars next year. They're like a box of chocolate. ;)
    Mislintat, Tuchel and Klopp definitely helped, though Watzke and Zorc really deserve a medal.

  • @Cancun771
    @Cancun771 9 месяцев назад +10

    To understand the fan culture, it is helpful to know that Gelsenkirchen, home of their archrivals Schalke 04, used to be a traditional coal mining town while Dortmund used to be a steelworks town.
    The infamous manager's name is pronounced "kneebaum" though.
    Fun fact, Ibrox was actually modelled on the Westfalenstadion, which has no athletic track, so the fans are that much closer to the action than in arenas that do, which in turn contributes much to the great stadium atmosphere. Only in Glasgow, they built it with a brick facade which I find a lot prettier than the Dortmund concrete.

    • @texasforever7887
      @texasforever7887 9 месяцев назад

      So, a comparison for an uneducated American here sounds like the Pittsburgh Steelers. A steel town workers team where the players take on the spirit of the town except Pittsburgh is one of the historically best in their league. I like it.

    • @Cancun771
      @Cancun771 9 месяцев назад +2

      @@texasforever7887 They say the steel workers' tempers are quick to flare and even prone to bursts of violence but also quick to simmer down, reconcile and have a beer afterward, while the miners are supposedly more steady and even-tempered but prone to hold grudges for ages.
      Of course that is all kitchen phsychology.
      It is a fact though that when Robert Lewandowski played in Dortmund, the phone book showed _eighteen_ other guys with the exact same name in Dortmund alone since the Ruhr area is home to a huge fraction of Polish-German immigrant descendants from the 19th and early 20th centuries.

  • @yaldabaoth2
    @yaldabaoth2 10 месяцев назад +17

    6:05 I vividly remember this season. It was the first one I can actually remember at all. On the last match day, 3 teams were tied on points at the top. Frankfurt had the best goal difference and everyone thought it would be a certain thing and yet they lost spectacularly against an already relegated team. They didn't get a goal awarded because of offside (which it wasn't!), hit the post, didn't get a penalty when they should have when it was still 1:1 and got scored against 2 minutes later. In the meantime Stuttgart also hit the post, lost a player for complaining (Matthias Sammer of course), but then still scored with 10 men. Until the 85th minute of that match day, Dortmund were champions. Absolute madness.

  • @WaifuVideoGamer
    @WaifuVideoGamer 10 месяцев назад +51

    The Fifa 2005 Dortmund was one of my favorite teams to play as in that game.

    • @Lovecars1218
      @Lovecars1218 10 месяцев назад +1

      Warmuz, Wörns, metzelder, Dede, Kehl, Rosicky, Koller, Ewerthon
      Nice team on paper though

  • @tracheous7072
    @tracheous7072 10 месяцев назад +8

    Thank you for covering this club 💛🖤

  • @-www.chapters.video-
    @-www.chapters.video- 10 месяцев назад +49

    00:00 Borussia Dortmund's success despite lower revenue
    02:03 Dortmund's near-death experience and revival
    12:40 Entertainment and club operations
    13:19 Dortmund's spending spree
    14:21 Transfer rights as collateral
    15:03 Bayern loan to Dortmund
    16:01 Terms of the loan
    17:04 Bayern's intentions and Dortmund's debt
    18:00 Dortmund fans' rally and discontent
    19:02 True extent of Dortmund's debt
    21:12 Dortmund's financial crisis and bankruptcy threat
    25:03 Relegation and struggles of Dortmund, Portsmouth, and FC Nuremberg
    27:40 The appointment of Jurgen Klopp and Dortmund's resurgence
    28:00 Dortmund's change in transfer strategy and financial success
    30:39 Lessons learned from Dortmund's past financial troubles

  • @soundscape26
    @soundscape26 10 месяцев назад +10

    It's the German week at HITC. Thanks for another great video Alfie.

  • @panic_2001
    @panic_2001 10 месяцев назад +14

    Hi,
    ok it's been 30 years now but I think you forgot one important point: Reaching the 1993 UEFA Cup final against Juve. Except for BVB, all German teams were eliminated quite early in all competitions + and because of the TV rules at the time, Dortmund got a huge chunk of money. The German national players could then be brought back from Italy.
    That was the basis for the championships 95 and 96 + CL 97

    • @nd6648
      @nd6648 10 месяцев назад +1

      Well, actually loans the Club could not afford were the foundation of the 97 victory...

    • @panic_2001
      @panic_2001 10 месяцев назад

      @@nd6648 No, the downfall started with the IPO 200
      (Falls Du ein Die-Hard BVBler bist: Freddie Röckenhaus damals Stammtisch war 2003 (?))

    • @nd6648
      @nd6648 10 месяцев назад

      @@panic_2001 i didnt mention the start of the downfall

  • @salbenrosli707
    @salbenrosli707 6 месяцев назад +1

    BvB will always be in my heart - esp their 1997 run in the Champions League - they beat Manchester United and Juventus, both with great players… 26 years on - still a fan

  • @ryannurse2890
    @ryannurse2890 10 месяцев назад +13

    In honour of the England U21s winning the Euros, can you do a "Where are they now" video for the England starting XI at the 2009 Euro U21s final? There's a fascinating mix of future England superstars, players who never quite made the full England team, and players I've genuinely never heard of.

  • @Yakoop22
    @Yakoop22 10 месяцев назад +15

    Love the recent focus on German football Alfie! There has been too little discourse on this region, especially in English. Informative as always and entertaining!

    • @Micfri300
      @Micfri300 10 месяцев назад +2

      Because the Bundesliga is the best alternative to the premier league and so of course they don't mention it.

  • @seandelap8587
    @seandelap8587 10 месяцев назад +274

    If only Dortmund had managed to keep all their star players imagine how much more they could have won

    • @dontmindme6995
      @dontmindme6995 10 месяцев назад +60

      well it's part of the game. They had to give up a lot of talent to Bayern, but you have to add to that perspective that they're doing the exact same thing that Bayern does to clubs below them in the Bundesliga hirarchy. Borussia Mönchengladbach alone had to sell as many players to Dortmund as they had to to Bayern.
      And let's be real players like Bellingham, Haaland and Sancho were signed to be sold for a profit in the first place

    • @havarddalaker5160
      @havarddalaker5160 10 месяцев назад +6

      And still haters call then bottlers😂let see if any club Inn world could doo the same.and fact is noe one can.bvb do it the hard way repect 😊

    • @Nerdmind
      @Nerdmind 10 месяцев назад +7

      Look at the treble winning man city team alone! Haaland (most goals), Gündoğan (captain), and Akanji all played a huge part in this seasons campaign for them.

    • @dontmindme6995
      @dontmindme6995 10 месяцев назад +15

      @@havarddalaker5160 tbf they are the solidified number 2 in germany. Therefore it's also partly their reponsibility to challenge Bayern for the title. And since Bayern winning the Bundesliga year after year is such a big problem for german football as a whole, it's kind of aggrovating when they bottle it in such a pathetic fashion. Even for me as a Schalke fan, I crave for someone else to win the Bundesliga, and Dortmund is simply the best bet

    • @7Siuuuuu7
      @7Siuuuuu7 10 месяцев назад +6

      He said in the video they have the budget of everton. They can’t *just* spend more money

  • @seandelap8587
    @seandelap8587 10 месяцев назад +75

    That absolute bottle job on the last day of the Bundesliga season would make even Spurs blush

    • @isaacfung622
      @isaacfung622 10 месяцев назад +3

      Very spursy

    • @franohmsford7548
      @franohmsford7548 10 месяцев назад +2

      Everyone knew Dortmund would not beat Mainz when a draw was never going to be enough due to Bayern's better GD!
      It was a guarantee!
      Almost like Bayern have leverage over Dortmund so that Dortmund don't win vital games!

    • @glencurtis6052
      @glencurtis6052 10 месяцев назад +5

      Just thought I would mention my team (Ipswich Town) have won the league more recently than Spurs)

    • @LoCoAde87
      @LoCoAde87 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@franohmsford7548I am sure you bet your life savings on it

    • @xxklesx1
      @xxklesx1 10 месяцев назад +1

      That dortmund had the possibility to bottle at the last day was the first miracle. Normaly Bayern has no competition, the have more money than the second and third togther.

  • @briannao9251
    @briannao9251 10 месяцев назад +9

    Please make a video on the following topics:
    -The drama/scandal surrounding Gregg Berhalter and Gio Reyna’s parents during the 2022 FIFA World Cup
    -Ranking all of the goals that won the FIFA World Cup Goal of the Tournament Award
    -The Dortmund bus bombing in 2017 right before their Champions League Quarterfinal against Monaco
    -Breaking down the iconic "Battle of Nuremberg" Round of 16 Match between Portugal and the Netherlands in the 2006 FIFA World Cup where the referee issued a record breaking 4 red cards and 16 yellow cards (Battle of Nuremberg also set the record for most yellow cards in a FIFA World Cup Match and was broken in the 2022 FIFA World Cup when the referee handed out 18 yellow cards during that contentious quarterfinal between Argentina and the Netherlands)
    -Breaking Down the Battle of Bridge game in 2016 between Tottenham and Chelsea that not only secured Leicester City the 2015-16 Premiere League title, but also set the record for the most yellow cards given to a single team (9 for Tottenham (and 3 for Chelsea)

    • @thntte2345
      @thntte2345 10 месяцев назад

      ruclips.net/video/7nRbD1Ivbqg/видео.html&ab_channel=He_football
      I found this video a while back on the USMNT scandal

    • @Caoimhin1909
      @Caoimhin1909 10 месяцев назад

      Yes to all except that ridiculous Reyna story.

  • @lokmansahat6220
    @lokmansahat6220 10 месяцев назад +25

    Alfie, please make a video What the Earth is Going On of Everton, Parma or Hamburg. These team deserve that type of video.

    • @chlcrk
      @chlcrk 10 месяцев назад +17

      Hamburg would be interesting imo - how they went from Bundesliga regulars to first barely staying in the Bundesliga amid a perception of being the league's banter club, but now finding newer and weirder ways to not get promoted back into it

    • @T.E.S.S.
      @T.E.S.S. 10 месяцев назад +3

      @@chlcrk I support the Hamburg idea

    • @franohmsford7548
      @franohmsford7548 10 месяцев назад +3

      Hamburg had a great 6 year span between 78 and 84 when they finished 1st or 2nd every season but they've finished in the Top 4 just 6 times since and in the Top 2 only once since {87 when they also won their second and last DFB Pokal, their first also coming in a season where they finished 2nd in the Bundesliga - 76}.
      -
      You could say their era was 75-87 when they finished 4th, 2nd {+won the cup}, 6th, 10th, 1st, 2nd, 2nd, 1st, 1st, 2nd, 5th, 7th, 2nd {+won the cup} but you've got those 6th, 10th and 7th placed finishes in there.
      -
      It's similar to Gladbach who were great in the 70s but have done very little since.

    • @chlcrk
      @chlcrk 10 месяцев назад

      @@franohmsford7548 Tbf this channel has previously done a video on St Etienne, who were the biggest team in France for years with 10 titles but none since 1981. So wouldn't be unusual to see how such a giant has fallen from grace in such a manner

    • @franohmsford7548
      @franohmsford7548 10 месяцев назад

      @@chlcrk Yes but St Etienne were GIANTS, Hamburg were just a team that had a good decade.
      St Etienne's titles - 57, 64, 67, 68, 69, 70, 74, 75, 76, 81.
      They also won the Coupe de France 6 times between 62 and 77 whilst Hamburg only have the two DFB Pokals total.
      10 League titles and 6 Coupe de France's in 24 years
      You may as well ask what happened to Sunderland or Huddersfield or Derby County as what happened to Hamburg!

  • @dronesclubhighjinks
    @dronesclubhighjinks 10 месяцев назад +9

    This is a really well-researched, and well-pronounced video! Thank you for all of your hard work!

  • @lpatz907
    @lpatz907 10 месяцев назад +4

    Being a supporter of both Portsmouth (hometown) and Nürnberg (wife’s hometown) I felt done particularly dirty around the 26min mark 😂 Can’t argue though, assessment of both clubs was spot on!

  • @MainesOwn
    @MainesOwn 10 месяцев назад +3

    as always a well researched video for a special team. Thanks for not screwing this up! Heja BVB

  • @anzepockaj7675
    @anzepockaj7675 10 месяцев назад +1

    One of your best ever videos in my opinion Alfie! Thank you so much for such a detailed explanation.🙌

  • @giodhuha6771
    @giodhuha6771 10 месяцев назад +3

    Now we need a video about the rise and fall and subsequent downfall of Schalke 04.

  • @dorianr5191
    @dorianr5191 10 месяцев назад +4

    Great content as always! Would love to see a video like this about Atalanta Bergamo. From Serie B, being involved in match-fixing and battling relegation from Serie A a little over 10 years ago, to being regulars in Champions and Europa League as well as being one of the only few Italian clubs that actually make a profit.

  • @MatthiaGryffine
    @MatthiaGryffine 10 месяцев назад +10

    Your recent videos on German football has made me think about if you could do a video on why the Bundesliga has only 18 clubs in their league, while England, Spain and Italy (and until last season, France) all have 20 clubs in their league. Given that Germany has the highest population and the most successful national team in Europe, but it's surprising that their league is smaller.

  • @lalrinlianaadhikari4779
    @lalrinlianaadhikari4779 10 месяцев назад +2

    One of my fav clubs in FIFA since 2010.. In manager mode 👍👍

  • @bambi1611
    @bambi1611 10 месяцев назад +7

    I would love to see a Rise Fall and Rise of Plymouth Argyle. Such a rich history with strong support. Played in the Championship and nearly got relegated out of the football league while being in administration. To rising back up to the Championship 13 years later as the most financially stable club out of all 92 clubs.

  • @conormurray6855
    @conormurray6855 10 месяцев назад +1

    Loved watching this video look into a clubs history

  • @jimmycburfield5997
    @jimmycburfield5997 9 месяцев назад

    Impressive research. Fantastic delivery. High standards of journalism and historical record

  • @mikedolan5541
    @mikedolan5541 10 месяцев назад +3

    Often wondered why fans of the best supported club in Europe(based on matchgoing fans)were content to play for second place or why a club that had bigger attendances than Bayern were getting only half its revenue,but were still considered well run

  • @otaconz1147
    @otaconz1147 10 месяцев назад +10

    one of the most likeable Clubs in Europe!

  • @maze1914
    @maze1914 10 месяцев назад

    😢😢😢😢😢 thank you for putting this together

  • @slokane
    @slokane 10 месяцев назад +1

    tthank you for making a video about my fav team(besides my home team of maribor).

  • @flyr17101710
    @flyr17101710 10 месяцев назад +2

    One has to have a certain glutton for punishment to support us. And yet I'm ready again for this upcoming campaign

  • @1draigon
    @1draigon 4 месяца назад

    The fact that sancho, Bellingham AND Haaland used to play at the same club will never stop amazing me

  • @welbz2330
    @welbz2330 10 месяцев назад

    Another quality vid from alfie👏

  • @redchampion
    @redchampion 10 месяцев назад +3

    Very good video could have not said it better myself❤🔥

  • @johnwhittaker311
    @johnwhittaker311 10 месяцев назад

    Interesting video, I had no idea about any of this

  • @dd-uf9nw
    @dd-uf9nw 10 месяцев назад +2

    Alfie is on fire these days , unloading good videos now and then.

  • @matthewdeniran5836
    @matthewdeniran5836 9 месяцев назад

    Great work 💯👏🏾

  • @brycewilson1909
    @brycewilson1909 10 месяцев назад

    good video Boss, thanks

  • @patrickdematosribeiro1845
    @patrickdematosribeiro1845 10 месяцев назад +1

    Great video. Only minor point: Saying that Nuremberg did not recover from their financial problems in 2003 is a bit of an overstatement. Yes, histoically they were very succesful. But in the 90 they had already been relegated a couple of times. After 2003 they returned to the Bundesliga several times and won the DFB Pokal in 2007. They just never managed to stay in the Bundesliga for long, but this didn't start in 2003.

  • @paulmartin3420
    @paulmartin3420 10 месяцев назад

    Really eye opening video, particularly the subconscious aspects of "expert commentary". If you say Javier Mascherano ever provide a final ball your comments should be disregarded, but even still!

  • @Dagpar
    @Dagpar 10 месяцев назад +2

    I renew my petition for you to include international subtitles for your videos, so as to improve viewership and spread your more than valid and important points and messages to non-English speakers. I volunteer for Spanish, but just having the subtitles would be fantastic for me and my football loving, non-English speaking family.

  • @mr.alldays
    @mr.alldays 6 месяцев назад

    Well done 👍🏼

  • @annip5573
    @annip5573 10 месяцев назад

    great video!

  • @k.f.z.318
    @k.f.z.318 10 месяцев назад +1

    My Club my Religion ty for the video!

  • @michaelay4900
    @michaelay4900 10 месяцев назад +4

    Day 4: 7 footballers who got rich from playing football but then went poor again (Financial difficulties, etc.)

  • @terryhsiao1745
    @terryhsiao1745 10 месяцев назад

    Thank you for this video and Bayern is always a good club in many ways. Including how it helped gerd muller.

  • @smonge98
    @smonge98 10 месяцев назад +2

    „if only they kept their star players“ is such a moronic argument. The purchases made from the money of these big sales are the backbone of the team, which is steadily improving. People focus on how Dortmund wasn’t able to keep haaland for example, which was totally unrealistic from the start, but no one talks about how they got the second best scorer of that CL season, in his absolute prime, from a direct CL competitor as a replacement.

  • @BALHAM69
    @BALHAM69 10 месяцев назад +8

    No more me asking “a documentary of Borussia Dortmund and how they were extremely close to bankruptcy in 2002 time and how Bayern had to save them. The extreme difficulties the club has had to manage within to get back to where they are #thepeopleschannel”
    #thepeopleschannel a video on the Bangladesh premier league and the rise of Bashundhara kings would be good
    A team who went into the top flight after promotion and won the last four league titles now!
    Are they the next Newcastle? Are they a team to keep a eye on next few years? Thanks Alfie 😊

    • @arsenalfan798
      @arsenalfan798 10 месяцев назад +1

      It’s the guy himself

    • @BALHAM69
      @BALHAM69 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@arsenalfan798 i try to support the channel by suggesting good documentary ideas he can do 😊

  • @luisheller7624
    @luisheller7624 10 месяцев назад

    You nailed the pronunciation of Stuttgart, very good!👏

  • @Joe-MT
    @Joe-MT 10 месяцев назад +1

    Thank You Alfie. Can we have a video about Maltese football please?

  • @limjahey9302
    @limjahey9302 10 месяцев назад +1

    15:57 "what's more" without Duncan Watmore, what the hell man

  • @reneluu9651
    @reneluu9651 10 месяцев назад +1

    Fortuna Köln in an HITC Sevens Video, now i can rest in peace😅

  • @Samuel-vv3dw
    @Samuel-vv3dw 10 месяцев назад

    would love a few more scottish videos. Bonus points for any mentions of St. Johnstone (won the double at 10000-1 in 2020/21)

  • @patrickomeara3700
    @patrickomeara3700 10 месяцев назад

    Never thought I’d see X2 at Six Flags Magic Mountain on an HITC Sevens video lol

  • @maxegerer2157
    @maxegerer2157 10 месяцев назад +2

    hey,
    love your vids
    on that note, i would humbly suggest to look into the former powerhouse 1.fc nuremberg (the club wich dominated german football, and got relegated the season after winning their last title :D).
    1.fc nuremberg has still more championships than bvb dortmund. but be warned, it's a rabbit hole and the story of the club will fell made up.
    thank you for your great content :*
    (take 2)

  • @hulbertosolano1378
    @hulbertosolano1378 10 месяцев назад +1

    Aston Villa's former owner, Dr Tony Xia, wanted to build a theme park around Villa Park as well!

  • @christophercopley6474
    @christophercopley6474 10 месяцев назад

    I'd like to request a video on each current premier league teams won't signing in the last 10 years and what made it so bad ie impact on finances or what it did to the team like disruption in the dressing room or general poor performance on the pitch

  • @briannao9251
    @briannao9251 10 месяцев назад +6

    Alfie, would you consider make two separate videos that go more in-depth about
    1.Corrine Diacre’s controversial/toxic tenure as the manager of France’s Women’s National team which lead her to get sacked last month
    and
    2.The alleged attack on Kheira Hamaroui by her own former PSG Teammate Aminata Diallo) into this video

    • @soundscape26
      @soundscape26 10 месяцев назад

      He doesn't cover women's football I think.

    • @ezraezra2928
      @ezraezra2928 10 месяцев назад

      This channel is only open for the men's football.

  • @OpaSpielt
    @OpaSpielt 10 месяцев назад

    6:50 Julius Caesar (Veni, vidi, vici)
    Nice one 👴👍

  • @BALHAM69
    @BALHAM69 10 месяцев назад +4

    Nice video Alfie 😮
    Leipzig could be the best chance of a new Bundesliga winner it seems 😅

    • @AblemanSy
      @AblemanSy 10 месяцев назад +4

      A Bundesliga title for Leipzig will be the final nail in the coffin of German football.

    • @dinohermann1887
      @dinohermann1887 10 месяцев назад

      @@AblemanSyThey already won the DFB-Pokal against Frankfurt recently.

    • @AblemanSy
      @AblemanSy 10 месяцев назад

      @@dinohermann1887 I know. Was basically a national tragedy. But the Pokal isn't that important. My personal interest in the Bundesliga has ceased since their promotion. Great clubs like your (by me much hated and ridiculed, but they are kind of the enemy that I need!) HSV are starving in the 2. Bundesliga (seriously, I want my Nordderby back!), while this sad excuse of a "football club" is allowed to fuck all the rules. Disgusting!

  • @friendlybane
    @friendlybane 10 месяцев назад +2

    2:55 "Following a number of requests..." My favorite part of the video. You gotta love YT comment sections. Such a rich tapestry of characters on there.

    • @BALHAM69
      @BALHAM69 10 месяцев назад +2

      i am a supporter of the channel and like to suggest good documentaries for Alfie to do 😊

  • @nene1397
    @nene1397 10 месяцев назад +5

    Now do one on how Rangers did die

  • @mortelinho3618
    @mortelinho3618 10 месяцев назад +1

    22:57 Gute alte Lohrheide! ❤

  • @ngjiherhn4034
    @ngjiherhn4034 10 месяцев назад +2

    Who was here when the video was titled "How Borussia Dortmund Almost Died" xD

  • @wbbartlett
    @wbbartlett 9 месяцев назад +3

    81,000 capacity ground, always full. Sure, underdogs.

  • @adrianbrett5746
    @adrianbrett5746 10 месяцев назад

    Rise, fall and rebirth of Jamaican football please. As they risen in the mid 90’s, fell off from after the 98 World Cup to the mid 2010’s and now on a renaissance.

  • @andreichiriac7823
    @andreichiriac7823 10 месяцев назад

    I'm not giviing up (yet)
    The story of Farul Constanța romanian champions this season winning their first (or maybe second?) title.
    Club owned, run and managed by romanian legend Gheorghe Hagi, a native of the city of Constanța.
    Youngest champions in Europe this season (average players age), important contribution (some of the vital) from: 2 players born in 2005, one in 2006,
    1 in 2003 and 3 in 2002 - all products of the club academy.
    Came back from 2-0 down to win 3-2 in the decisive match against Gigi Becali's team FCSB(who has a claim to Steaua Bucharest history).

  • @T.E.S.S.
    @T.E.S.S. 10 месяцев назад +1

    Video about Barry Venison please

  • @MadKieranM
    @MadKieranM 10 месяцев назад

    Cracker of a video as always #thepeopleschannel

  • @69JMAN420
    @69JMAN420 10 месяцев назад +1

    I think the best football player with each of the 25 most common male names seems fun. You can up the number, or lower the number.

  • @williamcross210
    @williamcross210 10 месяцев назад

    I think Osasuna's predicament with respect to getting into Europe would make a good video

  • @lewiyonas3255
    @lewiyonas3255 10 месяцев назад +1

    Man really changed the title in under two hours 😭😭😭😭

  • @chriskeddie4226
    @chriskeddie4226 10 месяцев назад +4

    Hopefully Dortmund will be able to find enough young players to win the title soon

    • @nd6648
      @nd6648 10 месяцев назад

      Impossible

  • @haydonbunter7407
    @haydonbunter7407 10 месяцев назад

    Can you do a video on Gibraltar team Bruno's magpies?

  • @WolfbitPlays
    @WolfbitPlays 10 месяцев назад +1

    Can you cover the restructuring of Hertha? Former Bundesliga winners and just got relegated at 18th place

  • @Misfits89
    @Misfits89 22 дня назад

    At the end of the day all those crazy spendings brought in championships

  • @StrongKickMan
    @StrongKickMan 10 месяцев назад

    Uli Hoeneß and FC Bayern did not save Dortmund, but they helped in a time, when the clubs already have been rivals.
    So it was a good move, and I actually believe him when he said that he did it, because he is a fan of tradition.

  • @icetredotnet6473
    @icetredotnet6473 10 месяцев назад

    Pain

  • @forestgrumpy119
    @forestgrumpy119 10 месяцев назад

    do best position changes in football

  • @rockangel1603
    @rockangel1603 10 месяцев назад

    I know that one commentator is pumped asf

  • @moneelbambino
    @moneelbambino 10 месяцев назад

    Lately these videos have been putting me to sleep

  • @maze1914
    @maze1914 10 месяцев назад +2

    Also, the stock market is a reason why we cant or won't spend because they have to turn a profit to keep the stockholders happy

  • @PeterPan-ht6yl
    @PeterPan-ht6yl 9 месяцев назад

    Supercup is not a real title in Germany… Love your stuff, cheers bro

  • @Misfits89
    @Misfits89 22 дня назад

    2009 I discovered enternal happiness

  • @markuskoster2580
    @markuskoster2580 10 месяцев назад

    The city was basically on fire against the management, when they sold the rights to the stadium. Everyone knew something was off. The fanbase would've walked away if they had gone through with Niebaums plans. He singlehandedly drove half a generation from being football fans in Dortmund. Well, good for the local handballers, I might add.

  • @joevalley7591
    @joevalley7591 8 месяцев назад

    As a Bayern fan, I respectfully disagree, Dortmund are not underdogs. They have one of the largest supporters group in the world, in the heart of the most industrial and economically important region of the EU. Regardless of how they have been run, there’s absolutely no reason they can’t try to compete with Bayern. For a real underdog look at Union Berlin

  • @RyuzakiTaiyou
    @RyuzakiTaiyou 10 месяцев назад +2

    Best German players in the premier league of all time. (Day 521)
    I will not give up until the video is made or Alfie himself tells me to stop. Everyone else telling me that will be ignored.
    If you don't believe my number, just go back to the previous videos. I'm at the bottom most of the time, but I'm there.

  • @chahineboudemagh9596
    @chahineboudemagh9596 10 месяцев назад

    I am once again asking for a video about Algeria's unofficial FLN national team (1958-1962)

  • @marco_1909
    @marco_1909 10 месяцев назад +10

    Theyve had 6 coaches since tuchel left the club and got rid of him for some ridiculous reasoning from the hierachy after the bombing. This frequent change of coaches hurt them alot, imagine how far they would have been with Tuchel there.

    • @franohmsford7548
      @franohmsford7548 10 месяцев назад +6

      Tuchel isn't that great - 2 titles with PSG and a single title with Bayern were expected, it's only that Champions League win with Chelsea that stands out and cups are much more based on luck than league titles.

    • @marco_1909
      @marco_1909 10 месяцев назад +4

      @@franohmsford7548 I get that100%, its more to do with that stability. Tuchel is no klopp or pep but he is better than the coaches theyve had since he left.

    • @DukeSkylocker
      @DukeSkylocker 10 месяцев назад +2

      ​@franohmsford7548 He took PSG all the way to the CL final, something no other coach has managed and they were very close to winning it (which you can either blame on Neur pulling world class saves or Mbappe scuffing some golden one on one chances, neither of which is Tuchel's fault). That season was also the first time PSG showed themselves to be mentally strong, repeatedly coming back to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. He also took Dortmund to a point tally in the Bundesliga that in almost any other season would have won them the title but was unfortunate that he did it when Pep was coaching Bayern.
      The only team I'd say he hasn't impressed with has been Bayern, but to be fair coming in so late in the season was going to be hard. Let's see how he handles a full season with them.

    • @franohmsford7548
      @franohmsford7548 10 месяцев назад

      @@DukeSkylocker He didn't impress with Chelsea.
      Remember that Di Matteo won a Champions League with Chelsea and Avram Grant took them to the final so Tuchel's Champions League win isn't that impressive.

    • @profkluk
      @profkluk 10 месяцев назад +2

      There was no possibility at all to continue with Tuchel. Tuchel had fallen out not only with the Dortmund hierarchy, but also with half the team.

  • @itsjohnnyr8560
    @itsjohnnyr8560 10 месяцев назад

    Hey! Sankt Pauli name drop!

  • @androtchitchinadze3450
    @androtchitchinadze3450 10 месяцев назад +2

    Although a great club, in recent years, they have been known for nothing but Chocking and being bottle jobs. Saddest part is that their captain Marco Reus has only 1 year on his contract left and this year was probably his last chance of winning the Bundesliga.

  • @zanos4122
    @zanos4122 10 месяцев назад

    There's one thing having great scouting then if you don't win anything how exquisite is that?