San Marino is pretty much the key to global unity - remenber when most of us went crazily happy when they drew a football match or when they won 3 medals in Tokyo 2020(1)?
They may be the worst national team in the world, but most of their team have real jobs and aren't even professional. They travel around Europe meeting world class footballers, you have to respect it.
Yes San Marino is small country with small population, so it does not have big chance to make very good football team, but imagine someone born with the talent of Messi or Ronaldo in San Marino and then start playing for his national team. San Marino would not be anymore as big laughing stock football team, when no longer worst national team in football.
@@jout738 that person would probably find a way to play for another country😅 could you imagine someone with messi/ronaldos talent playing with non league football players?😅
5:15 as an england fan I find it funny that England had to win that game by 7 goals. So despite winning a game 7-1 the fact that San Marino scored 1 meant the team was seen as an embarrassment at the time.
San Marino is just unfortunate to be located in the toughest football region in the world. If you have them face Oceania, South Asian or Caribbean teams, they’ll probably get enough points to climb the FIFA rankings
Fun Fact: In the WC Qualifiers in 1993 San Marino would have drawn with Poland, if Jan Furtok hadn't scored a goal with his hand. The match ended 1-0 for Poland xD It has to be admited that they already had drawn with Turkey, so they could have ended the campaign with 2 points, instead of one.
Absolutely. When England played San Marino in that 10-0 win, I felt so bad for San Marino, even as an Englishman. I honestly wanted San Marino to get a goal or 2
its so hilarious that their goalkeeper is also their bus driver. its as though they had scraped together the team just barely and when they got in their bus they started arguing about who was going to be the goalkeeper and after yelling in the back of the bus the bus driver said "fuck it, i will be the goalkeeper if you just shut up for 5 minutes"
@@rkeogh3467 yeah I remember it well, i was just going on 3 and meself and all my family scrambled onto the pitch, my cousin assisted stephen Ireland with a bicycle kick, shur we all stopped into supermacs on the way home then for a garlic n cheese chip
I don't know how people can call international breaks boring, I always watch my nation games with complete joy whether it's on tv or live at the stadium. Loved that Latvia was included in this video a little bit as well. Another brilliant essay Maqwell and thank you again for your hard work to make this essay. You deserve 1M subscribers and I hope that one day you can reach it.
In England people think the international break is boring because most of the time watching England isn't that exciting. There feels like there's no jeopardy in qualification so people don't really care. I think lots of people would only care if England were in trouble of not qualifying. Therefore, personally I enjoy watching other countries like Scotland and Ireland more than England because there's way more jeopardy.
Because people from small nations like us love our national teams. If Latvia would qualify for an euro or WC y'all would go crazy right? Well England always qualifies so it's not a big deal for them. When my team first qualified for 2016 euros everyone here celebrated and went crazy like we won the World Cup
Bonini is the pure definition of loyalty, massive respect to him to reject Italy for San Marino. I would like my native national team to give a win to them. And my native national team is horrible in results but people want it to be fallen apart as we didn't got a competitive win in more than 2 years and only a friendly win this year's summer in San Marino's style (in that friendly match my native national team was quite unprofessional and without fair play though and even helped by the referee who was from the neighbour country to them)
Absolutely. That man could've been part of a team with the possibility to win a world cup. And yet he turned the offer down. Bonini shows us, that even the smallest country counts.
@@fraeve0145 I mean, when you have a reputation of being called "Platini's lungs" while being a central figure to a Juventus team who was winning every international trophy, of course he could have been called up, even just as a reserve.
Did you know that few months ago, happened Belgium-San Marino. It was the very first time in history that the 1st FIFA ranking nation played against the last one ... My two cents ;)
11:04 after scoring a goal against Poland, Allesandro Della Valle was aproached by polish fallen top flight team Polonia Warszawa, but after coming to Poland and having few trainings and interviews, he stated that is already too old for such career
Teams like San Marino are why I love competitions like the UEFA Nations League. It's fun to see them in world cup qualifying but something about a Liecthenstein-San Marino matchup is just awesome
Now San Marino have its own club in Italy 5th tier, called Victor San Marino, the idea is to get promoted to the 3rd tier which is professional, and have young San Marino players on it (currently they have 4). Edit: they got promoted to Serie D after getting the Eccelenza championship 🎉🎉🎉
@@Maqwell San Marino Calcio became Cattolica Calcio in 2019, Victor San Marino is a brand new club managed by the FSGC. Victor can be considered the successor of San Marino Calcio but they are completely different clubs.
The thing is San Marino seems like it could be a competitive National team if there were in Oceana or Asia, the problem is they’re in Europe so everyone else is Miles above them.
Phenomenal video essay as an international football lover!! For Canada, I really enjoyed my time when we beat 11-0 against Cayman Islands for example not just because we got a new win record, but because I really enjoy learning about the “minnow” Caribbean island nations/dependencies. What ultimately made me fall in love with football is my love to learn about the world. It’s a perfect marriage & you displayed that perfectly!
@@matthewhernandez8342 Dark times that 8-1 defeat… that’s definitely the lowest point of the Canadian mens national team. Glad we’ve gone a long way since then.
@@dedlues Canada 🇨🇦 has definitely done a 180 since then. Nowadays they rival the USA 🇺🇸 and Mexico 🇲🇽 for best team in Concacaf. I’m very proud of you guys for improving so much and so fast. I can definitely see them making next years World Cup.
mate - you should do a video on America Samoa finally getting their first victory against Tonga after losing 31-0 to Australia. There's a great documentary about it, but that's another real tear-jerker story of hopeless team getting a result that meant the world to them...
@@Maqwell There is a documentary about American-Samoa called „First goal wins“. You should be able to watch it, because I already watched it and I live in Germany.
San Marino men's football team may be the worst but they have a mighty heart to keep playing football despite all the poor records over 35 years. It is passion for the sport in a different language. The upper echeleon of Football may never understand this.
Amazing video, I have a few suggestions for other topics I'd love to see you talk about: - Reviewing Maradona's golden age -The Darkest Chapter of German and Austrian Football (1982 World Cup) - Ballon d'or reviews
Some of those island nations that lose to Australia with 20-0 or whatever are probably even worse. I mean if you can hold on with only 10-0 defeats against the best countries in Europe, you're probably better than a team that loses with 20-0 against Australia or New Zealand.
the standard of international football in oceania has improved since that famous 32-0 world record win in 2001. source: 2016 ofc nations cup, where the highest win was 8-0 and not like 20-0
@@JustAnotherRUclipsCommenter wouldn't that largely have to do with Australia fucking off to AFC though? Like NZ is now the best team in Oceania and they're quite a bit worse than Australia I mean, the teams have also gotten better, but that has to play a part
San Marino is literally a story of a bunch of regular lads playing against the likes of Kane and Lewandowski. Also, will wait for your return in January.
Everytime I see a country whether big or small lose by a large margin or just continuous losses i feel so sad for them. The anguish, sadness, and despair they must feel even though they are still supporting their beautiful team through thick and thin. I want them to feel the joy i feel when my team wins, when my team scores, when we win competitively. I just want to share my joy with them because it is such a beautiful feeling
And the main protagonist has Messi and Ronaldo-Like talent playing for San Marino. All other football team managers beg for him to apply for their citizenship but he refuses and plays with San Marino until they win the World Cup!!!
Every nation has the right to play in the world cup, hence the world cup. Doesn't matter how big or small the club is, football is for the world not just select world clubs. Keep dreaming big guys.
The speech about, how the game captures the heart and the emotions you get playing and watching the game is funny, considering that I actually am not a fan of football nor do I know basically anything at all about it. Yet i'm still here watching this video about this team that I love which has never won a game in a tournament and it makes me want to learn about football, lmao. It's such a captivating story to see them "succeed" and be so proud of it when they score 1-7.
Fun fact: A Hong Kong band"dear jane"had make a song"heart of San Marino" 「聖馬利諾之心」to respect the the spirit of the team of never give up. Some of the sentence in it is actually thought provoking The translation of the song: Who can stage fright, loser in love Apathetic and self-abandoned will not be forgiven Despite the difficulties, I still managed to be strong Blood on the brow becomes a medal Obviously difficult to guarantee Infatuated participants will win if they lose enough but i want I'm leaning on crutches for that emptiness still dying I am a person who is afraid of losing and still plays brave Going forward is scary, but going backwards is even more embarrassing The group who often do cannon fodder is probably still attractive Tomorrow or when I turn over Victory will come one day, it doesn't matter if you lose wildly Please remember that someone chased so close The stubborn stone has never become gold, but I still wish to leave footprints on the field To guide the waste wood in the future Repeat the process, tenacious old genes Will not mutate to reverse fate and fate However, I believe in the sincerity of people Can melt the thickest ice I am a person who is afraid of losing and still plays brave Going forward is scary, but going backwards is even more embarrassing The group who often do cannon fodder is probably still attractive Tomorrow or when I turn over Victory will come one day, it doesn't matter if you lose wildly Please remember that someone chased so close The stubborn stone has never become gold, but I still wish to leave footprints on the field In the future, guide the waste wood woo Even if this noble ideal is unstable It's lucky to die from the cold Rather be seen as foolish and brave In the end, the person who is afraid of losing continues to fight To tell the world that I still have that anger People will definitely win every day, they will never be attracted by theorems Stay strong to hit your heart To be a better person and work hard every day Love does not come, life is not dark In fact, surviving in desperation is the life of a long life It may be hard for you guys to see the meaning of it as Google translate doesn't work well sometimes, but i also hope you gays to finish the song, thank you
As one of the biggest fan of San Marino in the world i am proud of seeing videos like this. The problem is that now we made history by scoring in 3 matches in a row. Thanks for doing that Andy Selva GOAT
As a little boy I remember seeing the match report saying that Liechtenstein lost to Macedonia 11-1. Score was quite unique in itself, only 1s and double digit. I then discovered that country named Liechtenstein existed. When they later drew Portugal 2-2 I cheered for them. I find those little teams fascinating and special feat of European football. They have their special place. And I always cheer for them. One game you think you've missed was San Marino against Poland in some quallifying game. Poland was not able to score a goal for like 60 mins. Then San Marino had a penalty. Sadly for them Fabianski saved. Poland won 2-0 but damn, that was close.
I've been to San Marino watching Scotland win there. It was a great trip, the country is beautiful and the people are very kind. If you are one of those people thinking these countries shouldn't play football, go there one day and speak to locals. The Sammarinese people I spoke to are passionate and love their country at least as much as people from big countries do, if not more. The fact that their country is tiny, doesn't mean they don't have the right to support them and dream to play for their country. That was a trip with great experiences.
This is so uplifting, maybe you are german, an english man or italien and not reaching the last of 16 in a World cup is a disaster, but San marino celebrate like they won the damn thing when they draw 2 times in a row. They have the mentality of -enjoy the little things. And thats beautiful.
Still crazy how San Marino only scored a handful of goals in official matches, but one of them happens to be the fastest goal in wc qualifying history, can't imagine the shock that English fans felt after that, given the situation the team was in.
As a proud Englishman I felt pretty embarrassed about beating San Marino 10-0 in the WC qualifiers. I wish them the best, but I'm right behind the idea of having a pre-qualifying tournament because no team can call a massive win competitive
I say if san marino want to play normal qualifiers then let them if they want to play pre qualifying rounds let them we shouldn't be the ones to make the decision for them
I can understand the feeling as I'm an Egyptian and the feeling for the Egyptian team. After 2010, the golden generation slowly retired and began having new players like Mo Salah, El-Neny, Hegazi, El- Shenawy, Tarek Hamad, and many more. It was a hard time before 2017 as we didn't qualify to CAF cup of nations, lost 6-1 agg to Ghana in the qualifiers to World Cup 2014, and adding with corruption the country have since 2014. 2017 came and everything looked way better as we didn't just qualify to the CAF cup for the first time in 7 years, but reached the finals and lost to Cameron in one of the hardest moments in our history. At the same time, 2018 qualifiers was there and we went to Russia after Salah's famous penalty that made the country celebrate for a while. 2018 came and that time where Salah was on fire and destroying records and people got sick from the defensive play we had and the way of relaying Salah which led to him being the second best goal scorer and the best in terms of currently playing. Then, World Cup came and it wasn't very good as we became the 31st and nobody loved that. 2019 and new CAF tournament on the way and it got hosted in Egypt. Yeah, that crap went to shit after getting out in R16 from South Africa. Then nothing was good for a while as we qualified to the next CAF cup with the worst performance ever and went to the second round of the World Cup qualifying in much better performance and new manager as Carlos Querioz came and he's building a new generation while relaying on the best players like Salah and more. Now, they played the Arab Cup and lost to Qatar in 3RD position match in penalty which is burning right now. Let's hope we win the CAF cup this time.
I've been watching your videos for few days now, and damn. Old millenial from Poland (old millenials are young boomers now I guess... ) listening to American gen Z talking about football and I like it a lot. Waiting for more to come, cheers.
VID 83 of waiting for the san marino career mode.... tbh this is a san marino vid, but not the career mode. So I am still waiting, but this is the best video to ever exist.... Thank you
Its actually heartwarming watching a team like San Marino play. They show us what football is really about. Not winning, but playing the game you love.
Its been said the greatest underdog story was Greece in Euro 2004...but to me...the undisputed greatest miracle of an underdog story would be San Marino qualifying to the World Cup and winning it
I think the Marani goal against Irland around 9:37 might be the ugliest goal I've ever seen. But pure determination to get the ball in, that's for sure!
I know Malta have improved a lot in recent years, only lost once in 2020, but they only won once in 2021. So come June, San Marino could have a good chance at getting a smash and grab win when they host Malta in the Nations league. I really hope they do.
Ever since I was a kid I always cheered for underdogs. I grew up watching teams go up against the odds and do the impossible and so San Marino always had a special place in my heart. It's something my uncle who's a huge football fan enjoyed about me growing up because I always went with the underdogs and he joined me in cheering for San Marino whenever we could. We planned to visit San Marino together eventually and for my 18th birthday he got me a San Marino jersey from Italy. 3 years ago he passed away, but I still will visit San Marino for the both of us like we said we would.
I'm of the firm belief that San Marino would absolutely stomp any OFC team (aside from New Zealand obviously and maybe Tahiti) and teams like Guam and Sri Lanka or any small island nation if they played them. It's just tough in the division they play in where a team as bad as them have almost no chance of winning anything.
San Marino's national team is a collection of different things rolled into one and this video did a pretty good job shedding light at them. In all fairness, teams like them are one thing that makes international football fun in right doses. The argument for not playing them has a dose of self-protection but honestly, nobody's stopping anyone from playing reserves if they're ever so worried about one's knee. Shit, the most fun I recall ever having with international football was watching Tahiti try their best in a Confed Cup.
Many professional athletes in my country go thru the same formal academic higher education as most others so that they can have a day job after retiring from sports e.g. accountants, nutritionists, architects (probably so that they're able to remain financially independent) but it also makes them so busy that their risk of burnout increases, & quite a number of them thus end up retiring from sports prematurely after like just 1 or 2 Olympics
Wow this was amazing review I always have a soft spot for the underdogs and hearing this review touches my heart, I hope the best for San Marino 🇸🇲 and hope and look forward to seeing more reviews like this of other countries like Bhutan 🇧🇹 or Macau 🇲🇴 or Any others would be interesting 👍🏻 ps: I subscribed now 😊
Actually SM is way better if they compete in another confederation like OFC or the worst team in AFC, CAF and CONCACAF (ex: Laos, New Caledonia, Madagascar or British Virgin Islands) The reason that the SMNT at the bottom of the FIFA Ranking is they have to face to the giant of world football like Germany, Italy, England,... Another reason is the population of that country is too low to finding good players for their NT If they compete against Laos or Cambodia, it would be a win for San Marino NT
New Caledonia is actually pretty good, but there are dozens of other teams that they could beat. They'd possibly be somewhere around 170-180 in the world on merit (instead of that current P210 in the FIFA rankings).
Who would they beat in other places Comenbol-nobody Concacaf-Anguilla,Turks n Caicos,Bahamas,Bonaire,cayman islands,both virgin islands,monteserrat,both saint martins,saint bartholomy and maybe Puerto Rico,Grenada,Aruba and Dominica Caf-Djibouti,Eritrea,Reunion,Somalia,Cabo Verde,Niger,Chad,Sao Tome and Principe,Burundi,Rwanda,South Sudan,Malawi, Afc-Brunei,Singapore,Afghanistan,Guam,Hong Kong,Northern mariana islands,Macau,Nepal,Pakistan,Maldives,Bahrein and maybe Myanmar,Laos,Cambodia OFC-American Samoa,Cook islands,New Calendonia,Samoa,Tonga and Maybe Fiji and Vanuatu Removed:Seychelles and Saint Lucia because San tied with them(they also tied with Lebanon,Turkey,Liechtenstein,Latvia etc)
One of my favorite national team upsets involves another micro nation, when during the 2010 WC Qualifications Luxembourg, ranked 152nd in the world at the time, beat 43rd ranked Switzerland 2-1
Finally, like for San Marino
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LONG LIVE WEED
San marino 🐐
Much love from San Marino 🇸🇲
Jk lmao but still… I’ll smash like 👍
Si
We all can be from different countries, but San Marino is what unites everyone and we all want San Marino to win their first match😂😂
@@olithestuffedbear5405 I meant an offical match
@@champboy5600 I should had mentioned if you meant competitive match seeing as their Liechtenstein win was brought up
San Marino is pretty much the key to global unity - remenber when most of us went crazily happy when they drew a football match or when they won 3 medals in Tokyo 2020(1)?
@@gurrenlagannsc8658 Yeah😂😂😂
@@gurrenlagannsc8658 exactly 💪😂
They may be the worst national team in the world, but most of their team have real jobs and aren't even professional. They travel around Europe meeting world class footballers, you have to respect it.
Yeah that is true. Even if they dont get the results they hoped for, they still play against world class teams like Germany and England.
Yes San Marino is small country with small population, so it does not have big chance to make very good football team, but imagine someone born with the talent of Messi or Ronaldo in San Marino and then start playing for his national team. San Marino would not be anymore as big laughing stock football team, when no longer worst national team in football.
@@jout738 that person would probably find a way to play for another country😅 could you imagine someone with messi/ronaldos talent playing with non league football players?😅
@@jout738 they will most likely play for italy
They ain’t the worst team, concacaf teams that regularly lose 6-0+ to other low ranking teams like Haiti beat turks and Caicos island 10-0
5:15 as an england fan I find it funny that England had to win that game by 7 goals. So despite winning a game 7-1 the fact that San Marino scored 1 meant the team was seen as an embarrassment at the time.
Not that it would've meant anything if they didn't concede that one goal since the Dutch won their game
Leave it to the English to be a disappointment,when no one believes in them.
so they won by 6 goals then
Also,San Marino scored their goal FIRST, AND IN 8 SECONDS
SO FOR A TIME SAN MARINO WAS *WINNING*
San Marino is just unfortunate to be located in the toughest football region in the world. If you have them face Oceania, South Asian or Caribbean teams, they’ll probably get enough points to climb the FIFA rankings
it would be good if they were considered italians and could play for italys national team
not really, for 2 reasons, first reason pride for playing for san marino, 2 san Marino would be good enough to play for Italy team.
@@alialiali2228 why though?
San marino would kick half of oceanias ass tbh
@@vincenzofranchelli2201 cap
Fun Fact: In the WC Qualifiers in 1993 San Marino would have drawn with Poland, if Jan Furtok hadn't scored a goal with his hand. The match ended 1-0 for Poland xD
It has to be admited that they already had drawn with Turkey, so they could have ended the campaign with 2 points, instead of one.
Fun fact: There only and first win was leichesten. They beated leichesten 1-0 (there first win)
Damn that’s just unfortunate haha
It was God's hand... Was it...?
@@maciejtadaszak7472 Nope, Maradona scored that
@@champboy5600
Don't know how to reply you without being sarcastic. You wouldn't understand, I presume.
Man the reaction from the San Marino team after scoring in a match that they are losing greatly in shows how much the game means to them 🙌🏾🔥😭
Indeed
You can love your national team as much as you want but deep down when it plays against San Marino, you want them to score
Absolutely. When England played San Marino in that 10-0 win, I felt so bad for San Marino, even as an Englishman. I honestly wanted San Marino to get a goal or 2
@@cell2179 croatia also won 10-0
@@Croat955 Remember Spain 🇪🇸 10-0 Tahiti in the 2013 Confederations Cup?
@@matthewhernandez8342 I remember and necklaces after game.
Yesh I wish they will win their first offical match
its so hilarious that their goalkeeper is also their bus driver. its as though they had scraped together the team just barely and when they got in their bus they started arguing about who was going to be the goalkeeper and after yelling in the back of the bus the bus driver said "fuck it, i will be the goalkeeper if you just shut up for 5 minutes"
Remember this date: September 5th, 2024. San Marino have won a competitive international football match!!!
That 2nd Irish goal was so unfair. Scored by an entire nation, like what smh...?
Can't believe they allowed it
As an irish man I am ashamed of the moment when me and all 6 million of my countrymen stormed the pitch and scored that goal😔
Guess you've forgotten about that Thierry Henry moment vs Ireland
@@rkeogh3467 yeah, that's totally unfair
@@rkeogh3467 yeah I remember it well, i was just going on 3 and meself and all my family scrambled onto the pitch, my cousin assisted stephen Ireland with a bicycle kick, shur we all stopped into supermacs on the way home then for a garlic n cheese chip
I don't know how people can call international breaks boring, I always watch my nation games with complete joy whether it's on tv or live at the stadium. Loved that Latvia was included in this video a little bit as well. Another brilliant essay Maqwell and thank you again for your hard work to make this essay. You deserve 1M subscribers and I hope that one day you can reach it.
In England people think the international break is boring because most of the time watching England isn't that exciting. There feels like there's no jeopardy in qualification so people don't really care. I think lots of people would only care if England were in trouble of not qualifying. Therefore, personally I enjoy watching other countries like Scotland and Ireland more than England because there's way more jeopardy.
exactly. its a time when i get to watch my country play and its amazing to do so
@@theosims-woodhouse2446 tbf prem football is a lot better quality than international so it just watching worst football for a week
Because people from small nations like us love our national teams. If Latvia would qualify for an euro or WC y'all would go crazy right? Well England always qualifies so it's not a big deal for them. When my team first qualified for 2016 euros everyone here celebrated and went crazy like we won the World Cup
@@little_error295 prem football is all artificial. International football has all the feelings and the fun
Bonini is the pure definition of loyalty, massive respect to him to reject Italy for San Marino.
I would like my native national team to give a win to them.
And my native national team is horrible in results but people want it to be fallen apart as we didn't got a competitive win in more than 2 years and only a friendly win this year's summer in San Marino's style (in that friendly match my native national team was quite unprofessional and without fair play though and even helped by the referee who was from the neighbour country to them)
Absolutely. That man could've been part of a team with the possibility to win a world cup. And yet he turned the offer down. Bonini shows us, that even the smallest country counts.
Italy has way better players lol.
Not like he would of played for Italy lol
@@fraeve0145 I mean, when you have a reputation of being called "Platini's lungs" while being a central figure to a Juventus team who was winning every international trophy, of course he could have been called up, even just as a reserve.
@@fraeve0145 the video literally said he repeatedly rejected called up by the Italian FA, can you pay even a little bit of attention?
Fun Fact: While Being bad at Football, San Marino is VERY GOOD in Baseball, even being actual Champions of the Main Italian League
Well that’s good for them
But are there only san marinos in their team? I don’t think so
@@HerrZeus 99% of team is
@@superninja252 most of them are Italian
@@HerrZeus people who live in san marino... are italian.
Did you know that few months ago, happened Belgium-San Marino. It was the very first time in history that the 1st FIFA ranking nation played against the last one ... My two cents ;)
What was the score?
@@Christiangjf 4-0 for Belgium
@@Christiangjf or 9-0 there was an away and home game. I think both played while they were first and last
@@gatheringmoments I mean 4-0 isn't that bad against Belgium. My country (Indonesia) would've probably lost 6-0.
If you ever feel hopeless just remember Harry Maguire did the "silence the haters" celebration against this country.
To be fair it was more against the English press at the time rather the fans 😅
Thought that was against Albania
@@Maqwell it was Albania
@@Maqwell he did it against both 😭😂
@@piekarz2550 No it was just Albania
11:04 after scoring a goal against Poland, Allesandro Della Valle was aproached by polish fallen top flight team Polonia Warszawa, but after coming to Poland and having few trainings and interviews, he stated that is already too old for such career
Polonia warszawaaaaaaa!
Teams like San Marino are why I love competitions like the UEFA Nations League. It's fun to see them in world cup qualifying but something about a Liecthenstein-San Marino matchup is just awesome
Now San Marino have its own club in Italy 5th tier, called Victor San Marino, the idea is to get promoted to the 3rd tier which is professional, and have young San Marino players on it (currently they have 4).
Edit: they got promoted to Serie D after getting the Eccelenza championship 🎉🎉🎉
Was this formerly San Marino Calcio?
@@Maqwell San Marino Calcio became Cattolica Calcio in 2019, Victor San Marino is a brand new club managed by the FSGC.
Victor can be considered the successor of San Marino Calcio but they are completely different clubs.
Love you bro
Andorra also has something like this. They currently play in the laliga smartbank
I absolutely love how the San Marino GK drove them to the game
Goal keeper trying to carry them
The thing is San Marino seems like it could be a competitive National team if there were in Oceana or Asia, the problem is they’re in Europe so everyone else is Miles above them.
Andy Selva was such a cult hero in the 2000s, you almost wanted him to score against you just to see how far he could take the record.
Now he is training the next generation
We got San Marino winning before Maqwell uploading the San Marino Part 2 video 🙌
I'm from San Marino and yeah...I want my national team to win at least a second time 😅🇸🇲
Italys grand son
Oceania Football Confederation would be a perfect fit for San Marino 🇸🇲
Si vinca o si perda
Forza San Marino
LIECHTENSTEIN 💩!
@@Prowamfordihno it would be the opposite actually San Marino is far older than Italy
@@giulianopisciottano8302 ik
Say what you want, but imagine being a regular dude having the chance to meet the world strongest footballers every couple years on the field.
Every single goal for San Marino seems like winning international championships
The best part is that their goalkeeper would drive the team to games. LMAO
Phenomenal video essay as an international football lover!!
For Canada, I really enjoyed my time when we beat 11-0 against Cayman Islands for example not just because we got a new win record, but because I really enjoy learning about the “minnow” Caribbean island nations/dependencies.
What ultimately made me fall in love with football is my love to learn about the world. It’s a perfect marriage & you displayed that perfectly!
Do you remember when Honduras 🇭🇳 beat Canada 🇨🇦 8-1? That was back in 2013 I think. (;
@@matthewhernandez8342 Dark times that 8-1 defeat… that’s definitely the lowest point of the Canadian mens national team. Glad we’ve gone a long way since then.
@@dedlues Canada 🇨🇦 has definitely done a 180 since then. Nowadays they rival the USA 🇺🇸 and Mexico 🇲🇽 for best team in Concacaf. I’m very proud of you guys for improving so much and so fast. I can definitely see them making next years World Cup.
Congrats on qualifying!
@@perrondenais684 thank you so much!! It still feels surreal if I’m being completely honest 😅
mate - you should do a video on America Samoa finally getting their first victory against Tonga after losing 31-0 to Australia. There's a great documentary about it, but that's another real tear-jerker story of hopeless team getting a result that meant the world to them...
I have been desperately trying to find the documentary because everywhere I look it’s region locked :/
@@Maqwell There is a documentary about American-Samoa called „First goal wins“. You should be able to watch it, because I already watched it and I live in Germany.
And San Marino is the worst team in the world, right? 😂😂
@@martinusv7433 sab marino just european country, ngl they will have chances to win games against oceanian teams
POV: *San Marino scores a goal*
Everyone: 😭😭😭
16:09 damn,i respect these San Marino footballers after those losses and didnt quit,it made me cry
San Marino men's football team may be the worst but they have a mighty heart to keep playing football despite all the poor records over 35 years. It is passion for the sport in a different language. The upper echeleon of Football may never understand this.
True Humility boot camp
San Marino officially promoted to Nations League C after registering their first 2 competitive wins!
The wait is over!
184 games
1 win
6 draws
177 losses
Numbers are comical to look at
Will look back at this when San Marino go on a 500 game winning streak winning multiple euros and world cups. First win since 2004
When I hear San Marino, the first thing I think of is "Hey didn't Flo Rida represent them in that yearly song contest for Europeans?"
A legendary moment
@@MortanAMrk Adrenalina was kinda a big bop
Serhat’s performance 2 years ago was peak tho I can’t lie
@@Maqwell Didn't know you were a Eurovision fan too
Amazing video, I have a few suggestions for other topics I'd love to see you talk about:
- Reviewing Maradona's golden age
-The Darkest Chapter of German and Austrian Football (1982 World Cup)
- Ballon d'or reviews
I legit find minnows attempting to get as far as they can in qualification way more interesting than most international games to be honest
Another great video Maqwell! Possible video suggestion: How Latvia qualified for the 2004 Euro's? Would be great to see a video on my home country! x
crazy how a country like latvia tied germany and scored on czech republic isn’t remembered because greece won that tournament
Going through the research I stumbled upon a couple Latvia euro 04 articles, i wouldn’t be opposed to the idea next year
@@Maqwell love it Maqwell :)
Some of those island nations that lose to Australia with 20-0 or whatever are probably even worse.
I mean if you can hold on with only 10-0 defeats against the best countries in Europe, you're probably better than a team that loses with 20-0 against Australia or New Zealand.
the standard of international football in oceania has improved since that famous 32-0 world record win in 2001. source: 2016 ofc nations cup, where the highest win was 8-0 and not like 20-0
@@JustAnotherRUclipsCommenter wouldn't that largely have to do with Australia fucking off to AFC though? Like NZ is now the best team in Oceania and they're quite a bit worse than Australia
I mean, the teams have also gotten better, but that has to play a part
@@illasra i don't think so. if australia was still in the ofc, they wouldn't be demolishing teams 20-0
San Marino is literally a story of a bunch of regular lads playing against the likes of Kane and Lewandowski. Also, will wait for your return in January.
Everytime I see a country whether big or small lose by a large margin or just continuous losses i feel so sad for them. The anguish, sadness, and despair they must feel even though they are still supporting their beautiful team through thick and thin. I want them to feel the joy i feel when my team wins, when my team scores, when we win competitively. I just want to share my joy with them because it is such a beautiful feeling
This is a harsh training in humility and self motivation
You need to make another video on San Marino!!!
they should make a anime bout San Marino...being the underdog, slowly rising through the ranks...ahh it would be so goddamn cool
Captain Tsubasa would like that story.
And the main protagonist has Messi and Ronaldo-Like talent playing for San Marino. All other football team managers beg for him to apply for their citizenship but he refuses and plays with San Marino until they win the World Cup!!!
@@thecousindeci1103 yeah and each match takes seven episodes and goalkeepers do sommersaults to catch the ball
That gives me vibes from a book a like about a kid who never played chess and then he wins the youth UK championship or somthing like that
Every nation has the right to play in the world cup, hence the world cup. Doesn't matter how big or small the club is, football is for the world not just select world clubs. Keep dreaming big guys.
The speech about, how the game captures the heart and the emotions you get playing and watching the game is funny, considering that I actually am not a fan of football nor do I know basically anything at all about it. Yet i'm still here watching this video about this team that I love which has never won a game in a tournament and it makes me want to learn about football, lmao. It's such a captivating story to see them "succeed" and be so proud of it when they score 1-7.
September 5th 2024: The Day San Marino Finally win a football match! Remember this date ❤! Congratulations San Marino!
The way they celebrated their goals is so wholesome that I want them to win so badly. PLEASE LET THEM WIN! 🥺
This is so much better than a San Marino career mode episode 2! Also Nicola Nanni was robbed for the ballon d'or...
Music choices and references on this channel are so good, like little trips down memory lane
Fun fact: A Hong Kong band"dear jane"had make a song"heart of San Marino" 「聖馬利諾之心」to respect the the spirit of the team of never give up.
Some of the sentence in it is actually thought provoking
The translation of the song:
Who can stage fright, loser in love
Apathetic and self-abandoned will not be forgiven
Despite the difficulties, I still managed to be strong
Blood on the brow becomes a medal
Obviously difficult to guarantee
Infatuated participants will win if they lose enough
but i want
I'm leaning on crutches for that emptiness
still dying
I am a person who is afraid of losing and still plays brave
Going forward is scary, but going backwards is even more embarrassing
The group who often do cannon fodder is probably still attractive
Tomorrow or when I turn over
Victory will come one day, it doesn't matter if you lose wildly
Please remember that someone chased so close
The stubborn stone has never become gold, but I still wish to leave footprints on the field
To guide the waste wood in the future
Repeat the process, tenacious old genes
Will not mutate to reverse fate and fate
However, I believe in the sincerity of people
Can melt the thickest ice
I am a person who is afraid of losing and still plays brave
Going forward is scary, but going backwards is even more embarrassing
The group who often do cannon fodder is probably still attractive
Tomorrow or when I turn over
Victory will come one day, it doesn't matter if you lose wildly
Please remember that someone chased so close
The stubborn stone has never become gold, but I still wish to leave footprints on the field
In the future, guide the waste wood woo
Even if this noble ideal is unstable
It's lucky to die from the cold
Rather be seen as foolish and brave
In the end, the person who is afraid of losing continues to fight
To tell the world that I still have that anger
People will definitely win every day, they will never be attracted by theorems
Stay strong to hit your heart
To be a better person and work hard every day
Love does not come, life is not dark
In fact, surviving in desperation is the life of a long life
It may be hard for you guys to see the meaning of it as Google translate doesn't work well sometimes, but i also hope you gays to finish the song, thank you
The song:
ruclips.net/video/06DLtL10XdA/видео.html
The former CT really appreciated it "it made for years of hard work"
His words
As one of the biggest fan of San Marino in the world i am proud of seeing videos like this.
The problem is that now we made history by scoring in 3 matches in a row.
Thanks for doing that
Andy Selva GOAT
Now Is four goal back to back.
feel good to get this recommend again after they finally won a game
As a little boy I remember seeing the match report saying that Liechtenstein lost to Macedonia 11-1. Score was quite unique in itself, only 1s and double digit. I then discovered that country named Liechtenstein existed. When they later drew Portugal 2-2 I cheered for them. I find those little teams fascinating and special feat of European football. They have their special place. And I always cheer for them.
One game you think you've missed was San Marino against Poland in some quallifying game. Poland was not able to score a goal for like 60 mins. Then San Marino had a penalty. Sadly for them Fabianski saved. Poland won 2-0 but damn, that was close.
I've been to San Marino watching Scotland win there. It was a great trip, the country is beautiful and the people are very kind. If you are one of those people thinking these countries shouldn't play football, go there one day and speak to locals. The Sammarinese people I spoke to are passionate and love their country at least as much as people from big countries do, if not more. The fact that their country is tiny, doesn't mean they don't have the right to support them and dream to play for their country. That was a trip with great experiences.
Great video. Fun fact: In Euro 2010 qualifier San Marino - Poland, Lewandowski scored his debut goald for the national team :)
This is so uplifting, maybe you are german, an english man or italien and not reaching the last of 16 in a World cup is a disaster, but San marino celebrate like they won the damn thing when they draw 2 times in a row.
They have the mentality of -enjoy the little things. And thats beautiful.
THEY’VE ONLY GONE AND DONE IT
Still crazy how San Marino only scored a handful of goals in official matches, but one of them happens to be the fastest goal in wc qualifying history, can't imagine the shock that English fans felt after that, given the situation the team was in.
i just clocked the anri shirt, and playing we finally landed. my man has elite taste in music
As a proud Englishman I felt pretty embarrassed about beating San Marino 10-0 in the WC qualifiers. I wish them the best, but I'm right behind the idea of having a pre-qualifying tournament because no team can call a massive win competitive
I say if san marino want to play normal qualifiers then let them if they want to play pre qualifying rounds let them we shouldn't be the ones to make the decision for them
I can understand the feeling as I'm an Egyptian and the feeling for the Egyptian team. After 2010, the golden generation slowly retired and began having new players like Mo Salah, El-Neny, Hegazi, El- Shenawy, Tarek Hamad, and many more. It was a hard time before 2017 as we didn't qualify to CAF cup of nations, lost 6-1 agg to Ghana in the qualifiers to World Cup 2014, and adding with corruption the country have since 2014.
2017 came and everything looked way better as we didn't just qualify to the CAF cup for the first time in 7 years, but reached the finals and lost to Cameron in one of the hardest moments in our history.
At the same time, 2018 qualifiers was there and we went to Russia after Salah's famous penalty that made the country celebrate for a while.
2018 came and that time where Salah was on fire and destroying records and people got sick from the defensive play we had and the way of relaying Salah which led to him being the second best goal scorer and the best in terms of currently playing. Then, World Cup came and it wasn't very good as we became the 31st and nobody loved that.
2019 and new CAF tournament on the way and it got hosted in Egypt. Yeah, that crap went to shit after getting out in R16 from South Africa.
Then nothing was good for a while as we qualified to the next CAF cup with the worst performance ever and went to the second round of the World Cup qualifying in much better performance and new manager as Carlos Querioz came and he's building a new generation while relaying on the best players like Salah and more.
Now, they played the Arab Cup and lost to Qatar in 3RD position match in penalty which is burning right now.
Let's hope we win the CAF cup this time.
Of course, a salah penalty. Pen merchant himself
@@cell2179 cry more i like ur tears
You guys Also got eliminated from the semi final with probably the worst own goal I've ever seen in the last minutes of the match...oof
@@Love_Lazlo yeah, I don't want to remember that.
you can't really understand their feeling, Egypt have won the african nation cup several times, San marino never won a game period
THEY HAVE DID IT AND DONE IT
I've been watching your videos for few days now, and damn.
Old millenial from Poland (old millenials are young boomers now I guess... ) listening to American gen Z talking about football and I like it a lot.
Waiting for more to come, cheers.
Haha thank you my man!
This reminds me wen I usted to play with my school friends in a football league and even if we lost most of the game we always had fun.
VID 83 of waiting for the san marino career mode....
tbh this is a san marino vid, but not the career mode. So I am still waiting, but this is the best video to ever exist.... Thank you
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Its actually heartwarming watching a team like San Marino play. They show us what football is really about. Not winning, but playing the game you love.
Who's here after san Marino won
Its been said the greatest underdog story was Greece in Euro 2004...but to me...the undisputed greatest miracle of an underdog story would be San Marino qualifying to the World Cup and winning it
I think the Marani goal against Irland around 9:37 might be the ugliest goal I've ever seen. But pure determination to get the ball in, that's for sure!
I know Malta have improved a lot in recent years, only lost once in 2020, but they only won once in 2021. So come June, San Marino could have a good chance at getting a smash and grab win when they host Malta in the Nations league. I really hope they do.
THEY´VE DONE IT!
As an Irish man I look back on the game against San Marino and Cyprus as our darkest days... brutal time we still haven't really recovered from.
We have all been waiting for this day.
Ever since I was a kid I always cheered for underdogs. I grew up watching teams go up against the odds and do the impossible and so San Marino always had a special place in my heart. It's something my uncle who's a huge football fan enjoyed about me growing up because I always went with the underdogs and he joined me in cheering for San Marino whenever we could. We planned to visit San Marino together eventually and for my 18th birthday he got me a San Marino jersey from Italy. 3 years ago he passed away, but I still will visit San Marino for the both of us like we said we would.
I like San Marino and I like how Nations League give them a chance to play more competitive games (even possible will be their first victory ever)
Is it crazy how this is the first maqwell vid that i ever watched
I'm of the firm belief that San Marino would absolutely stomp any OFC team (aside from New Zealand obviously and maybe Tahiti) and teams like Guam and Sri Lanka or any small island nation if they played them. It's just tough in the division they play in where a team as bad as them have almost no chance of winning anything.
Not any other OFC team, but they would obviously crush the likes of Samoa, which loses 0-7 to New Caledonia and 0-8 to Papua New Guinea, lol.
Whos here after San Marino won their first game?
i am Peruvian and im happy we got 5 place we are a team that fights to the end and we never give up Vamos Peru
San Marino's national team is a collection of different things rolled into one and this video did a pretty good job shedding light at them.
In all fairness, teams like them are one thing that makes international football fun in right doses. The argument for not playing them has a dose of self-protection but honestly, nobody's stopping anyone from playing reserves if they're ever so worried about one's knee. Shit, the most fun I recall ever having with international football was watching Tahiti try their best in a Confed Cup.
Update: Their record is now 1-7-184 with 27 goals for and 797 goals against
They almost drew against Denmark LMAOO
I’d pay good money to see Maqwell vlog at a San Marino match day
I’d love to go to a San Marino match man haha
Who’s here after they won their first competitive match!!! 🎉🎉🎉
San Marino finaly won there 1st match in over 20 years, 1-0 against Liechtenstein
Many professional athletes in my country go thru the same formal academic higher education as most others so that they can have a day job after retiring from sports e.g. accountants, nutritionists, architects (probably so that they're able to remain financially independent) but it also makes them so busy that their risk of burnout increases, & quite a number of them thus end up retiring from sports prematurely after like just 1 or 2 Olympics
Wow this was amazing review I always have a soft spot for the underdogs and hearing this review touches my heart, I hope the best for San Marino 🇸🇲 and hope and look forward to seeing more reviews like this of other countries like Bhutan 🇧🇹 or Macau 🇲🇴 or Any others would be interesting 👍🏻 ps: I subscribed now 😊
Hey Maqwell I’m finally off school so I can finally relax and watch ur videos lol
Enjoy your break man!
Actually SM is way better if they compete in another confederation like OFC or the worst team in AFC, CAF and CONCACAF (ex: Laos, New Caledonia, Madagascar or British Virgin Islands)
The reason that the SMNT at the bottom of the FIFA Ranking is they have to face to the giant of world football like Germany, Italy, England,...
Another reason is the population of that country is too low to finding good players for their NT
If they compete against Laos or Cambodia, it would be a win for San Marino NT
New Caledonia is actually pretty good, but there are dozens of other teams that they could beat. They'd possibly be somewhere around 170-180 in the world on merit (instead of that current P210 in the FIFA rankings).
they’d probably beat puerto rico
Who would they beat in other places
Comenbol-nobody
Concacaf-Anguilla,Turks n Caicos,Bahamas,Bonaire,cayman islands,both virgin islands,monteserrat,both saint martins,saint bartholomy and maybe Puerto Rico,Grenada,Aruba and Dominica
Caf-Djibouti,Eritrea,Reunion,Somalia,Cabo Verde,Niger,Chad,Sao Tome and Principe,Burundi,Rwanda,South Sudan,Malawi,
Afc-Brunei,Singapore,Afghanistan,Guam,Hong Kong,Northern mariana islands,Macau,Nepal,Pakistan,Maldives,Bahrein and maybe Myanmar,Laos,Cambodia
OFC-American Samoa,Cook islands,New Calendonia,Samoa,Tonga and Maybe Fiji and Vanuatu
Removed:Seychelles and Saint Lucia because San tied with them(they also tied with Lebanon,Turkey,Liechtenstein,Latvia etc)
Yakuza, Eva music, calcio you are a legend!
Great content mate - respect to any internal football team especially for the minows
Your gonna make me cry, what a gift, thanks again Maxwell.
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One of my favorite national team upsets involves another micro nation, when during the 2010 WC Qualifications Luxembourg, ranked 152nd in the world at the time, beat 43rd ranked Switzerland 2-1
Not today,Luxembourg is in 92nd near Armenia and Benin
@@ederbcdos yes, that's why I said at the time of their match, back in 2008
You earn a new subscriber, the way you did this vid of a bad team was honorable. People forget about the love of the sport.
Who's here after they broke the winless streak?
well there are barely 40k people in san marino, it's like a random small town vs the world
i havent watched the video yet but i hope he wont mention how they scored a goal against Poland in these qualifiers bc that was painful
Hehe
One of my favorite parts of your videos is the choice of music. Always amazing and it goes well with the flow. Best Football content creator 👏
I love the music aspect of the editing process as a whole. So I’m glad you enjoy it man :)
Atleast san marino have been scoring recently, against Denmark, Kazakhstan and Finland and they were pretty good results.