@@sasajankovic840yes, saf said red star was best team he ever seen and played against. And Savićević was pure genius, simply 3 levels above anyone else
It wasn’t a shock that Red Star won the European cup, they were easily one of the top European sides from 87-91, people forget they battered a great Real Madrid side 4-2 in the quarter finals of the European cup in 87, they were unbelievabley unlucky against the brilliant Milan side of Van Basten & Gullit , they were always there an there about in the semi’s or quater finals of the European cup during this period , football was a different beast in those days teams like Steau Bucharest , Hajduk Split, IFK Gothenburg, Anderlecht, Ajax, PSV, Porto ,Dynamo Kiev, were superb the balance was there instead of teams like Man City , Chelsea buying trophies teams had chance to build there youth up, better days, and certainly more exciting.
So crvena zvjezda was the best team of all time during old yugoslavia but its like real madrid and barcelona. They were the best because they had the most money to get the best players. If i recall pancev and prosinecki were playing for them at the time. You know back then capital was Beograd and all the money in yugoslavia funneled thru beograd and there you go.
Stoijkovic played for Red Star and captained them until 91 when he moved to Marseille then ended up losing to them in the final , in 93 Papin who’d played for Marseille up until then ended up playing for Milan and losing to Marseille in the 93 EC final .
I remember when he came to Rapid Vienna in 99. It was like a dream, that such a great player was transfered to my club. Sadly he was injured most of the time, but when he was on pitch he delivered. The team was 50% better when he was playing.
Messi is the product of talent and Barca doctors then the rules changed and he could run freely without fouls The Genie is the product of the jugoslavia streets ❤
No , like the vid said with a better work rate and attitude he would , there are lots like he I was in my teens when he was at Milan barely noticed him
@@yorkshirelad346 You barely noticed that he won two UCLs (almost 3) as the most attractive and the most influential player of Milan and Crvena Zvezda. Can you imagine what would’ve happened if Henry, Bergkamp, Shearer, Ian Wright, Gascoigne or Cantona did what he did?
@@yorkshirelad346 He was such an elegant player. I still remember a CL goal he scored in the final against Barcelona, from an impossible angle. With him on the pitch, you’d be glued to your tv screen. What a delight to watch, but then they talk about Platini. Anyhow, these could be subjective. But I loved watching this guy play, most of the time he was out for muscle injury and Capello would make him play even when he was not fully recovered yet.
Yugoslavian players are something different. Imagine that war never happened. Savićević, Boban, Jarni, Prosinečki, Pančev, Mihajlović, Jugović, Šuker, Mijatović, Stojkovic.. World class, all of them.
Will never forget his 1994 European Cup Final display against Cruyff's Barca " dream team ". Absolutely destroyed them! Romário, Stoichcov, Koeman, Guardiola, etc. Up there with the very best European Cup/ UCL Final performances I've seen. Suarez '64, Best '68, Keegan '77, Xavi '09, Messi '11.
I know I’m biased (aren’t we all?) but there’s no many players which gave me such enjoyment with lucidity and unpredictability on the pitch like Dejan used to do. That enlightening energy and spirituality in motion I have only felt with Maradona, Kaka and Ronaldinho. Not even with (some of my favorites) Van Basten, Gullit, Baggio, Laudrup, Brolin, Signori, Gascoigne, Zola, Cantona, Ginola, Romario, Djorkaeff, R9, Chiesa, Rivaldo, Hagi, Pirlo, Seedorf, Zidane, Totti, Ibrahimović, Messi, Ribery, Quagliarella, Vučinić, Iličić, Muriel, Dybala, Leao… OK, maybe the glimpse of it, but these 4 (and particularly Dejan) will always have a special place in my heart. It is something completely inexplainable, something beyond the consciousness. He wasn’t nicknamed “Genius” without reason. Shame he couldn’t have the opportunity to compete at the World Cup ‘94. I’m sure that he would outshone Baggio, Stoichkov, Hagi, Romario, Bebeto and the rest of the world’s best players that hot summer.
@@zeljkobedenikovic9253 Nemam ništa protiv njih, samo mi nisu među omiljenima. Bobana i Šukera sam više voleo, Rapaić mi je bio simpatičan, Bokšića sam se plašio, Mandžukića poštovao… a najgotivniji od svih kroasana mi je Srna. Šteta što ranije nije došao na Apenine. Od ovih “aktivnih” - Broz i Perišić su privlačili moju pažnju.
Absolutely ran the show against Barcelona in the '94 final and scored one of the competition's greatest goals in that game. He was even better the following season. How Milan missed him in the '95 final against Ajax.
Nicknamed il Genio by Berlusconi, himself. One could write books on how good he was, but that nickname story and Silvio's obsession with Savicevic was just so immense that words might not describe it. Unless you've been watching them live or someone makes a tribute masterpiece like this. The guy literally floated above the stadium and was making his own pace and changing the complete coordinate system of the game. Not many players had this good ball touch and control. The ball was glued to his leg all the time and he was annoyingly unplayable, as you say :) Let's see how many people remember him..
small correction on Berlusconi; it wasn't that he lacked any plan or direction for the club, its that he saw himself as a romantic. He wanted a competitive side, of course, but it wasn't about constant trophies or national domination. For him, he was obsessed with the attacking side of the game and cared more about the spectacle of football and the atmosphere in the San Siro. This is why Milan, for decades, would spend big on forwards/playmakers/fantasisti while relying on youth development or cheap transfers in defence. He would happily break the transfer record for Rui Costa while not putting any money towards replacing a 40 year old Costacurta.
Actually he was injury prone, but his character prevented him to play more games as well. However, his biggest obstacle is a fact that he was born in a “wrong” country so he missed 3 major international tournaments (in his prime) because of politics and wars. Football history could be much different if he was allowed to play at EURO 92, World Cup 94 or EURO 96.
Great video about one of my favourite players. One small quibble though, unless I'm mistaken Fillipo Galli wasn't an inexperienced youngster in 1994, in fact he was much older than Maldini and had been a regular starter for Milan for a few seasons before Costacurta came and was a regular substitute after that. The inexperienced member of Milan's defence in that final was Christian Panucci.
sorry, 1 more error, lentini scored the overhead kick not van basten against pescara . Great goal though and well worth showing. Brilliant video - thank you for making it and bringing that era to life@@flashbackfootball1367
@@flashbackfootball1367 One more factual error (in the same sentence): Capello hasn’t moved Maldini in the midfield but Desailly (another great defender) to put more pressure on Barca midfielders and to provide more freedom for Savićević as well. That was his touch of genius and a coaching lesson to arrogant Johan Cruyff.
@@andjelkozlotvor Yea but that means Savicevic was used to not Vietnam.... But some world war 2 type of football scenarios. They just stunned the team.
These players are forgotten they are just ignored by the modern low football IQ narrative... It's sad to see because when I was young, my father would tell me about players he had seen growing up, maybe not even the biggest names like Gigi Meroni, and this made me love football even more. I have been a Milanista since 88 and one of the great debates of whether Donadoni, Savicevic and Gullit could play together as there were always two strikers...
I'm from Belgrade, Partizan fan and I never cared about other clubs, but I loved watching football. Anyway, Serie A matches were regularly broadcast on our TV and AC Milan got on my nerves because they were unbeatable in the early 90s. I only liked van Basten because he was a world class striker and because he had the same name as me. And then I watched THAT final in Athens in 1994 and fell in love with Milan. I was 10 years old and I think I still remember every detail of that night. I still think those white jerseys are the most beautiful in the world. Then the World Cup came and of course I supported Italy when Yugoslavia couldn't participate. I was visiting relatives in another city and my cousin took me to the hairdresser, when asked how I wanted my hair cut, I immediately said "Like Massaro!" I cried when Baggio missed that penalty in the final...
@@vanderpant2116Yes, unbelievable... he made him play on the right wing in a 4-4-2 system😢😢😢 And beside that, at the beginning Dejan sent Capello to hell (Boban was the translator at the time of their encounter 😂😂)
He is maybe forgotten in Milano but not in Red Star Belgrade.His nickname Genious is from the Red Star era.And we wil never forget what he did for our club,especially in 1991 when Crvena Zvezda won the champion league. Also,we respect everything what he done after leaving Red Star.And he did a lot!
Great video and I always love retrospectives of 90's Yugoslav players. A bugbear of mine is when people call the European Cup the Champions' League though. Red Star won the European Cup, not the Champions' League, Not the same tournament. Great video, and wonderful to be reminded of a great player. I love your inclusion of his philosophy on dribbling too. Fantastic stuff.
@davidferguson1785 Yea, thats big of a deal, that name is so important to mention, its all about name of that competition, not clubs that played in it.😂😂😂 To be honest, winning that Cup was much harder then winning CL in this years. In that time, it wasnt all about money, and eastern clubs could compete against western which is not the case today. Now, its all about money and players are spoiled so much. Clubs are money printing mashines but, that is some other subject...
it was a cup that included only actual first division champions of all european countries which was a truly fair deal there were also cup winner’s cup with all country’s cup winners & uefa cup for the clubs from 2nd to 5th place in previous season & that was the europe of truly equal now it’s the europe of predominantly money oriented competitions from inclusive to exclusive in 30+ years
The Red Star is engraved on the cup. The Champions League exists in this format only for money. Liverpool have won several CLs and have not been champions for almost 30 years. Is this normal? Of course it is not. The competition is the same, the format is not. Are the trophies less valuable before the CL? Not in my opinion. As far as I'm concerned, the best example is Liverpool. They were not able to win the title in England and they played CL. Funny
His best performance was the 1994 Champions League Final but he might have been known earlier if he did not miss those chances for Yugoslavia against Argentina in 1990.
Btw banning the 3 foreigners max rule killed European football. Porto still the last non big 5 league club to win the champions league in 2004, who lost Mourinho to Chelsea ASAP
Wasn't untill i read a book about AC Milan takeover and manager's talking about how he was a nightmare especially cappello but he had to admit he was world class once he got a chance
A great, great player - with a pure, smooth style, natural quickness and superb balance. He's right up there with Zebec, Sekularac, Dzajic and Stojkovic in the list of classic technicians who represented Yugoslavia.
Čitam neke komentare da je bio prosek, ti ljudi verovatno igraju fudbal samo na video igricama.., Dejo je bio zmaj s loptom, nije znao rečima objasniti svoj dribling ni zašto ne želi trenirati. Trenera Kapela je psovao i omalovažavao, a ovaj ga je izabrao u svojih Top 11 svih vremena
With a attack minded coach that would’ve let him roam free in attack dejan savicevic would be one of the all time greats, in the 90s series there were so many great players like him but unfortunately most coaches had a very defensive mindset
That’s right. Late 80s and 90s were horrible years for classic 10s in Italy. That’s why Savićević’s worst decision was to join Milan. On the contrary Maradona chose a smaller side of Napoli which provided him less pressure and more space for dribbling and creativity.
Zubizareta, nakon toga su potražili drugog golmana. Ja sam navijač Partizana, ali obožavao sam Deja, a i taj tim Milana, čak sam i navijao za Italiju na SP 94, imao sam 10 godina, ali se kao juče sećam kako sam tražio frizeru da me šiša kao Masara i kako sam posle plakao kad je Baggio promašio penal u finalu.
Dragan Stojkovic - Piksi !! Since you mentioned him is an excellent video material!!! He did tricks on the pitch way before many greats that came up in 90's evan 2000's , just remarkable talent.
This generations of athletes from Ex Yugoslavia were the elites of the world in almost every sport in the 90s. They pretty much came from the same sport schools, knew eachother and competed against eachother in their respective top tier Yugo leagues. They all ended up in the top tier of world leagues whethere they dominated There are so many forgotten players that only people from ex Yugoslavia remember.
I was in attendance twice in the mid 90s at the San Siro. Dejan was a generational talent. The best playmaker of all time alongside Michael Laudrup. Capello stifled his genius. His career and legacy would have been significantly stronger under am attacking coach.
What that man did on the field, that cannot be learned in training, pure talent, a natural 10, if Yugoslavia had stayed together with him, they would have had convincingly the strongest players at that moment in the 90s.
@@tomwalker389 I linked the video with the interview but You tube canceled the comment. You can check yourself, look for Pellegatti Savicevic and of you speak Italian you'll decide for yourself
@@tomwalker389Sorry for this late reply... I didn't see it at the time 😢 I don't know, there's a recent interview where he says that he was unfit, but they didn't want to tell anyone about that. He could tell another story, after all these years, that's why I think he's honest about that episode
Caro genio sono un grande tifoso del milan e ho sempre pensato che sei stato uno dei giocatori piu forti ceh abbiamo avuto..saltava sempre l'uomo con i suoi dribbling le sue finte geniali e i suoi gran gol.. il genio della lampada della champions del 1994 e di tanti altri successi.. uno alla robben per intanderci con un sinistro magico.. giocatore che faceva la differenza.. giicatori cosi ti cambiano le partite
Robben era un'ala molto efficace e veloce, ma niente di paragonabile con Dejan. Non aveva un minimo di genialità. Savicevic era un Kakà più tecnico che è stato costretto da Capello a giocare sulla fascia, ma lui era un 10
Greatest dribbler that football has ever seen, kind of Messi before Messi... What a fabulous player Dejo was, a pure magician, sort of Ronaldinho/Messi/Zidane, but more gifted than any of them. Lack of stamina, lack of discipline and too much strong will for his own good...but a great career nevertheless.
Lay down the pipe Sasha c'mon 😁; first of all Dragan Stojkovic was a better dribbler than Savicevic (although Savicevic was a better overall player than Stojkovic in my opinion but not a better dribbler). His flair and ability to beat numerous opponents was great but nowhere near guys like Ronaldinho, Messi, R9, Henry etc.
I watched this video, still waiting for the dribbling part. He seems like a decent overall player but absolutely not a dribbler. I could compare him to Kaka (maybe), but Messi or Ronaldinho?😅
@ferencnagy1205 Yeah, because you watch shorts clips. Probably 2-3 years in his career, the best footballer in the world.And believe me , best goals , passes and dribbling not even showed. But Messi have 10-12 years, and that is a fact.And , believe me he is the only player on thet time who received the ball on your own half and all stadium get up on feet. Different time
I grew up watching Savicevic wouldn't say he was forgotten, just maybe isolated because of the drop in quality of the eastern european clubs after Dynamo Kiev in the early 2000s. But a great shout out.
Dejan Savicevic was maestro, but Dragan Stojkovic was even better... These two beside Robert Prosinecki were magnificent world class, all from Red Star Belgrade team.
My favourite moves from him was his self wall-pass, thats brilliant and genius.. Surrounded by 2 players, savicevic often knock the ball to one of them so the ball will bounce back to him behind another defender, self wall pass i called it.. He doesn’t need another team mates to do one two pass, so freaking genius..
Maybe a bit biased as he is still my favourite player ever, but he was the best player in the world in 1991, fair play to Papin who had a couple great seasons but he was just a pure goal scorer, Savicevic was an absolute magician. Capello really held him back, but still I remember whenever he played he was almost guaranteed to do something magical. He would have made a big difference in the 95 European cup final, but was not meant to be. Sad these types of players are missing in the modern game.
Dragisa Binic from that Red Star team was also a world class player who played at some small clubs before and after Red Star but would today worth like 150 million. And unlike Savicevic who could be "argumentative" Binic was a real bad boy who did crazy things. Different times. Savicevic did make it big in AC Milan in mid 90s but I think he should have go to Spain where game was not as strict and demanding as peak 90s Serie A
I think that Vladimir Jugović refused to drink champagne from the cup when he won the CL with Juventus. On that occasion, he said: "If they knew what Dragiša Binić was doing with that cup, they would never think of drinking anything from it!" Of course, Dragiša peed in him! That was Dragiša Binić!!!
Ah ah Balkan Le Tissier . It's about one of the best european players ever, and you talk about Le Tissier (who was a genius on his own, I know...but there are levels in football)
Genio was in his prime when he went to Milan and Capello took 2 years to understand how great was Deajan. His awful 4-4-2 was a shceme where there was no space for improvisations, which Dejo was all about. He would play in every other great team and would be remembered much more if it was not for Capello... and his injuries, of course ...
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I was at Old Trafford when he produced the best performance I have ever seen from anyone.
That good?
@@TeamDogFanYeah..Sir Alex Said that MU had luck that night and that Red Star over played them.
@@TeamDogFan He terrorised Paul Ince. No mean feat.
super cup
@@sasajankovic840yes, saf said red star was best team he ever seen and played against. And Savićević was pure genius, simply 3 levels above anyone else
It wasn’t a shock that Red Star won the European cup, they were easily one of the top European sides from 87-91, people forget they battered a great Real Madrid side 4-2 in the quarter finals of the European cup in 87, they were unbelievabley unlucky against the brilliant Milan side of Van Basten & Gullit , they were always there an there about in the semi’s or quater finals of the European cup during this period , football was a different beast in those days teams like Steau Bucharest , Hajduk Split, IFK Gothenburg, Anderlecht, Ajax, PSV, Porto ,Dynamo Kiev, were superb the balance was there instead of teams like Man City , Chelsea buying trophies teams had chance to build there youth up, better days, and certainly more exciting.
it's a shock for the internet generation tho.
@@nilianstroythey did park the bus and play for pens against Marseille in the final though
@@MrSupplementScene Which happens pretty much every single cup final, right?
So crvena zvjezda was the best team of all time during old yugoslavia but its like real madrid and barcelona. They were the best because they had the most money to get the best players. If i recall pancev and prosinecki were playing for them at the time. You know back then capital was Beograd and all the money in yugoslavia funneled thru beograd and there you go.
Stoijkovic played for Red Star and captained them until 91 when he moved to Marseille then ended up losing to them in the final , in 93 Papin who’d played for Marseille up until then ended up playing for Milan and losing to Marseille in the 93 EC final .
milan fan here and would like to thank you for this video. severely underrated magician
He will never be forgotten 💪😎 i got he's AC Milan Dress i hold it in honors ❤️
do you sleep with it ???
I remember when he came to Rapid Vienna in 99. It was like a dream, that such a great player was transfered to my club. Sadly he was injured most of the time, but when he was on pitch he delivered. The team was 50% better when he was playing.
Messi is the product of talent and Barca doctors then the rules changed and he could run freely without fouls
The Genie is the product of the jugoslavia streets ❤
He was amazing. If he was French, English or German he'd be hailed as an all-time great.
No , like the vid said with a better work rate and attitude he would , there are lots like he I was in my teens when he was at Milan barely noticed him
@@yorkshirelad346 You barely noticed that he won two UCLs (almost 3) as the most attractive and the most influential player of Milan and Crvena Zvezda. Can you imagine what would’ve happened if Henry, Bergkamp, Shearer, Ian Wright, Gascoigne or Cantona did what he did?
@@yorkshirelad346
He was such an elegant player. I still remember a CL goal he scored in the final against Barcelona, from an impossible angle. With him on the pitch, you’d be glued to your tv screen. What a delight to watch, but then they talk about Platini. Anyhow, these could be subjective. But I loved watching this guy play, most of the time he was out for muscle injury and Capello would make him play even when he was not fully recovered yet.
@@yorkshirelad346yes you have point but berly notice DS it is more than funny.
Oh come on man
Nothing special
Absolutely nothing
For that time just a good player
You got to be an idiot to compere him to Messi
Yugoslavian players are something different. Imagine that war never happened. Savićević, Boban, Jarni, Prosinečki, Pančev, Mihajlović, Jugović, Šuker, Mijatović, Stojkovic.. World class, all of them.
Ibra too!
and Susic...Susic the best
Alen Boksic
They could have won Euro 92 and World Cup 94 with that dream team.
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"There is no great genius without some touches of madness"
Will never forget his 1994 European Cup Final display against Cruyff's Barca " dream team ". Absolutely destroyed them! Romário, Stoichcov, Koeman, Guardiola, etc. Up there with the very best European Cup/ UCL Final performances I've seen. Suarez '64, Best '68, Keegan '77, Xavi '09, Messi '11.
Rivera '69
En esa final destrozó a uno de los mejores equipos de la historia del barsa. Fue sencillamente intratable, no había manera de pararle
herrera's coffee , no suarez merduarez !
WOW! What a brilliant video!! Thank you for putting this together 👍
You're welcome. It was my pleasure really, he's such a fun player to watch.
I know I’m biased (aren’t we all?) but there’s no many players which gave me such enjoyment with lucidity and unpredictability on the pitch like Dejan used to do. That enlightening energy and spirituality in motion I have only felt with Maradona, Kaka and Ronaldinho. Not even with (some of my favorites) Van Basten, Gullit, Baggio, Laudrup, Brolin, Signori, Gascoigne, Zola, Cantona, Ginola, Romario, Djorkaeff, R9, Chiesa, Rivaldo, Hagi, Pirlo, Seedorf, Zidane, Totti, Ibrahimović, Messi, Ribery, Quagliarella, Vučinić, Iličić, Muriel, Dybala, Leao… OK, maybe the glimpse of it, but these 4 (and particularly Dejan) will always have a special place in my heart. It is something completely inexplainable, something beyond the consciousness. He wasn’t nicknamed “Genius” without reason. Shame he couldn’t have the opportunity to compete at the World Cup ‘94. I’m sure that he would outshone Baggio, Stoichkov, Hagi, Romario, Bebeto and the rest of the world’s best players that hot summer.
A nek u tom nabrajanju top veznjaka nisi našao mjesta za Prosinečkog i Modrića......🤣
Inače da, Dejo je znao s loptom sve, samo tako
@@zeljkobedenikovic9253 Nemam ništa protiv njih, samo mi nisu među omiljenima. Bobana i Šukera sam više voleo, Rapaić mi je bio simpatičan, Bokšića sam se plašio, Mandžukića poštovao… a najgotivniji od svih kroasana mi je Srna. Šteta što ranije nije došao na Apenine. Od ovih “aktivnih” - Broz i Perišić su privlačili moju pažnju.
Good post but don't talk about outshining Baggigoal and (Super) Romario (my nicknames ; ) that's silly talk, lol. x
A Monster on the Pitch!!
Great U mention him Brother! Greetings from Germany 🙏❤️
Fury
I remember him. He was a talented beast.
I was at Old Trafford that night, he was unbelievable
Yugoslavia 1990 was one of the best teams ever assemble.
I remember him well when I used 2 watch football italia on a Sunday afternoon brilliant memories
Channel 4, great memories
Channel 4, great memories
Absolutely ran the show against Barcelona in the '94 final and scored one of the competition's greatest goals in that game. He was even better the following season. How Milan missed him in the '95 final against Ajax.
He was injured.
This was a blast from the past, when football was without the money and pure! Top top player, silky and sublime.
My childhood hero
Good job on the video by the way 💪
Nicknamed il Genio by Berlusconi, himself.
One could write books on how good he was, but that nickname story and Silvio's obsession with Savicevic was just so immense that words might not describe it.
Unless you've been watching them live or someone makes a tribute masterpiece like this.
The guy literally floated above the stadium and was making his own pace and changing the complete coordinate system of the game. Not many players had this good ball touch and control.
The ball was glued to his leg all the time and he was annoyingly unplayable, as you say :)
Let's see how many people remember him..
And that goal vs Barcelona, though...
small correction on Berlusconi; it wasn't that he lacked any plan or direction for the club, its that he saw himself as a romantic. He wanted a competitive side, of course, but it wasn't about constant trophies or national domination. For him, he was obsessed with the attacking side of the game and cared more about the spectacle of football and the atmosphere in the San Siro. This is why Milan, for decades, would spend big on forwards/playmakers/fantasisti while relying on youth development or cheap transfers in defence. He would happily break the transfer record for Rui Costa while not putting any money towards replacing a 40 year old Costacurta.
What's funny is that the defensemen are usually the ones people remember in Italy.
Italy had it all ......
90s Serie A was something like football NBA
Now I know why he was always on the bench, I thought he was injury prone back then.......Such a skillful player.
Actually he was injury prone, but his character prevented him to play more games as well. However, his biggest obstacle is a fact that he was born in a “wrong” country so he missed 3 major international tournaments (in his prime) because of politics and wars. Football history could be much different if he was allowed to play at EURO 92, World Cup 94 or EURO 96.
Big thank you for this video and story. I enjoyed every second. Dejan was one of my favorite players to play the game.
Red star winning european cup wasnt a shock team had some alltime yugoslav greats...
Great video about one of my favourite players. One small quibble though, unless I'm mistaken Fillipo Galli wasn't an inexperienced youngster in 1994, in fact he was much older than Maldini and had been a regular starter for Milan for a few seasons before Costacurta came and was a regular substitute after that. The inexperienced member of Milan's defence in that final was Christian Panucci.
You are indeed not mistaken. Well spotted! Glad you enjoyed the vid despite the small error.
sorry, 1 more error, lentini scored the overhead kick not van basten against pescara . Great goal though and well worth showing. Brilliant video - thank you for making it and bringing that era to life@@flashbackfootball1367
@@flashbackfootball1367 One more factual error (in the same sentence):
Capello hasn’t moved Maldini in the midfield but Desailly (another great defender) to put more pressure on Barca midfielders and to provide more freedom for Savićević as well. That was his touch of genius and a coaching lesson to arrogant Johan Cruyff.
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Yea but that means Savicevic was used to not Vietnam....
But some world war 2 type of football scenarios.
They just stunned the team.
One of my favourite players, absolute baller!
These players are forgotten they are just ignored by the modern low football IQ narrative... It's sad to see because when I was young, my father would tell me about players he had seen growing up, maybe not even the biggest names like Gigi Meroni, and this made me love football even more. I have been a Milanista since 88 and one of the great debates of whether Donadoni, Savicevic and Gullit could play together as there were always two strikers...
I'm from Belgrade, Partizan fan and I never cared about other clubs, but I loved watching football. Anyway, Serie A matches were regularly broadcast on our TV and AC Milan got on my nerves because they were unbeatable in the early 90s. I only liked van Basten because he was a world class striker and because he had the same name as me. And then I watched THAT final in Athens in 1994 and fell in love with Milan. I was 10 years old and I think I still remember every detail of that night. I still think those white jerseys are the most beautiful in the world. Then the World Cup came and of course I supported Italy when Yugoslavia couldn't participate. I was visiting relatives in another city and my cousin took me to the hairdresser, when asked how I wanted my hair cut, I immediately said "Like Massaro!" I cried when Baggio missed that penalty in the final...
Matt Le Tissier/Peter Beardsley/Paul Gascoigne,all brilliant players who need episodes.
seeing a young maldini and desailly was heartwarming. lovely video
But Capello would later name him in his all-time XI.
And he still put him in the wrong position 😂😂
@@vanderpant2116lol. True.
@@vanderpant2116Yes, unbelievable... he made him play on the right wing in a 4-4-2 system😢😢😢
And beside that, at the beginning Dejan sent Capello to hell (Boban was the translator at the time of their encounter 😂😂)
He is maybe forgotten in Milano but not in Red Star Belgrade.His nickname Genious is from the Red Star era.And we wil never forget what he did for our club,especially in 1991 when Crvena Zvezda won the champion league.
Also,we respect everything what he done after leaving Red Star.And he did a lot!
One of my fave players of all time. So under rated imo by most people. Thanks for this video.
Мій улюблений гравець🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
What an amazing vid.May God bless you!!!!
The fans of Rapid Vienna love him til today.
Great player.
Great video and I always love retrospectives of 90's Yugoslav players. A bugbear of mine is when people call the European Cup the Champions' League though. Red Star won the European Cup, not the Champions' League, Not the same tournament. Great video, and wonderful to be reminded of a great player. I love your inclusion of his philosophy on dribbling too. Fantastic stuff.
@davidferguson1785 Yea, thats big of a deal, that name is so important to mention, its all about name of that competition, not clubs that played in it.😂😂😂
To be honest, winning that Cup was much harder then winning CL in this years. In that time, it wasnt all about money, and eastern clubs could compete against western which is not the case today. Now, its all about money and players are spoiled so much. Clubs are money printing mashines but, that is some other subject...
it was a cup that included only actual first division champions of all european countries which was a truly fair deal
there were also cup winner’s cup with all country’s cup winners & uefa cup for the clubs from 2nd to 5th place in previous season
& that was the europe of truly equal
now it’s the europe of predominantly money oriented competitions
from inclusive to exclusive in 30+ years
The Red Star is engraved on the cup. The Champions League exists in this format only for money. Liverpool have won several CLs and have not been champions for almost 30 years. Is this normal? Of course it is not. The competition is the same, the format is not. Are the trophies less valuable before the CL? Not in my opinion. As far as I'm concerned, the best example is Liverpool. They were not able to win the title in England and they played CL. Funny
that's a wonderful video! I love Dejan, my first AC Milan shirt was his no. 10
I'm glad that I have found and subscribed at such an early stage of this channel which will inevitably 100K subs. Fantastic, interesting work
Here's hoping! And comments like yours motivate me to keep going in what can be a slow process, thanks :)
He sounds remarkably like the Balkan Cruyff in the way that he trained and his outlook/attitude....great video!
His best performance was the 1994 Champions League Final but he might have been known earlier if he did not miss those chances for Yugoslavia against Argentina in 1990.
Btw banning the 3 foreigners max rule killed European football. Porto still the last non big 5 league club to win the champions league in 2004, who lost Mourinho to Chelsea ASAP
Not just football, it killed basketball also and sport in general
Unbelievable video mate, your class
Wasn't untill i read a book about AC Milan takeover and manager's talking about how he was a nightmare especially cappello but he had to admit he was world class once he got a chance
A great, great player - with a pure, smooth style, natural quickness and superb balance. He's right up there with Zebec, Sekularac, Dzajic and Stojkovic in the list of classic technicians who represented Yugoslavia.
Čitam neke komentare da je bio prosek, ti ljudi verovatno igraju fudbal samo na video igricama.., Dejo je bio zmaj s loptom, nije znao rečima objasniti svoj dribling ni zašto ne želi trenirati. Trenera Kapela je psovao i omalovažavao, a ovaj ga je izabrao u svojih Top 11 svih vremena
Brilliant video! Thank you so much!
With a attack minded coach that would’ve let him roam free in attack dejan savicevic would be one of the all time greats, in the 90s series there were so many great players like him but unfortunately most coaches had a very defensive mindset
That’s right. Late 80s and 90s were horrible years for classic 10s in Italy. That’s why Savićević’s worst decision was to join Milan. On the contrary Maradona chose a smaller side of Napoli which provided him less pressure and more space for dribbling and creativity.
Great video. Enjoyed every second of it.
Loved loved loved this man what a talent. Should have so much more recognition he has. In todays terms he’d be up there in the best around bracket
najljepši i najbolji gol ikada ... finale LP MILAN - BARCA ... Savićević sa ruba 16 m loba golmana, a golman na svojoj gol liniji....
Zubizareta, nakon toga su potražili drugog golmana. Ja sam navijač Partizana, ali obožavao sam Deja, a i taj tim Milana, čak sam i navijao za Italiju na SP 94, imao sam 10 godina, ali se kao juče sećam kako sam tražio frizeru da me šiša kao Masara i kako sam posle plakao kad je Baggio promašio penal u finalu.
He will never be forgotten!🇲🇪
It was a crime that Papin won ballon dor over El Genio
Another amazing video mate keep it up
Finally a quality video about this football genius.
A+ for productions!!!
There were some unbelievable talents out of Eastern Europe at that time
And then, Western Europe created EU & UCL to kill their competitiveness. Legit, but sad.
Phenomenal player. Absolutely amazing to watch.
It makes me so sad to see footage of players representing Yugoslavia in the 90s. What a horrifying and depressing end to a great country.
Dragan Stojkovic - Piksi !! Since you mentioned him is an excellent video material!!! He did tricks on the pitch way before many greats that came up in 90's evan 2000's , just remarkable talent.
Bloody amazing player 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
This generations of athletes from Ex Yugoslavia were the elites of the world in almost every sport in the 90s. They pretty much came from the same sport schools, knew eachother and competed against eachother in their respective top tier Yugo leagues. They all ended up in the top tier of world leagues whethere they dominated
There are so many forgotten players that only people from ex Yugoslavia remember.
I was in attendance twice in the mid 90s at the San Siro. Dejan was a generational talent. The best playmaker of all time alongside Michael Laudrup. Capello stifled his genius. His career and legacy would have been significantly stronger under am attacking coach.
У мене теж лаудруп та деян ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
What that man did on the field, that cannot be learned in training, pure talent, a natural 10, if Yugoslavia had stayed together with him, they would have had convincingly the strongest players at that moment in the 90s.
Capello left him on the bench for the 1995 European Cup final.
What a fool.
To be fair, Dejan in a recent interview admitted he was injured. I think he told the truth
@@davidemaglio5745
Then why let him suit up at all?
Or maybe sub him on at the 86th minute and hope for a miracle?
@@tomwalker389 maybe you're right.
But I was only reporting what he said in this interview ruclips.net/video/_WPCQ6gBwuM/видео.htmlsi=DOqp9ABgtHOtXoJX
@@tomwalker389 I linked the video with the interview but You tube canceled the comment.
You can check yourself, look for Pellegatti Savicevic and of you speak Italian you'll decide for yourself
@@tomwalker389Sorry for this late reply...
I didn't see it at the time 😢
I don't know, there's a recent interview where he says that he was unfit, but they didn't want to tell anyone about that.
He could tell another story, after all these years, that's why I think he's honest about that episode
We called him GENIJE/GENIUS
Caro genio sono un grande tifoso del milan e ho sempre pensato che sei stato uno dei giocatori piu forti ceh abbiamo avuto..saltava sempre l'uomo con i suoi dribbling le sue finte geniali e i suoi gran gol.. il genio della lampada della champions del 1994 e di tanti altri successi.. uno alla robben per intanderci con un sinistro magico.. giocatore che faceva la differenza.. giicatori cosi ti cambiano le partite
Robben era un'ala molto efficace e veloce, ma niente di paragonabile con Dejan. Non aveva un minimo di genialità.
Savicevic era un Kakà più tecnico che è stato costretto da Capello a giocare sulla fascia, ma lui era un 10
@@davidemaglio5745 il sui soprannome era genio.. non lo ho inventato io
@@daniele.P7277 parlavo di Robben, che di geniale aveva ben poco.
Non di Savicevic
More flair than Messi is wild bro 😂
Greatest dribbler that football has ever seen, kind of Messi before Messi... What a fabulous player Dejo was, a pure magician, sort of Ronaldinho/Messi/Zidane, but more gifted than any of them. Lack of stamina, lack of discipline and too much strong will for his own good...but a great career nevertheless.
Lay down the pipe Sasha c'mon 😁; first of all Dragan Stojkovic was a better dribbler than Savicevic (although Savicevic was a better overall player than Stojkovic in my opinion but not a better dribbler). His flair and ability to beat numerous opponents was great but nowhere near guys like Ronaldinho, Messi, R9, Henry etc.
I watched this video, still waiting for the dribbling part. He seems like a decent overall player but absolutely not a dribbler. I could compare him to Kaka (maybe), but Messi or Ronaldinho?😅
@ferencnagy1205
Yeah, because you watch shorts clips. Probably 2-3 years in his career, the best footballer in the world.And believe me , best goals , passes and dribbling not even showed. But Messi have 10-12 years, and that is a fact.And , believe me he is the only player on thet time who received the ball on your own half and all stadium get up on feet. Different time
One of the greatest to ever play the game!! Dejane Dejane Dejane!!!!:)
Great channel. Will only grow. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for the support!
Dejan était un joueur fin, élégant, aérien et doté d'un pied gauche de soie
Elegantnes🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
One of the greatest of all time.
That Milan 92-93 squad is insane. maldini,baresi,boban, savicevic, van basten, guillt, papin rijkaard.
Savicevic was a genius. I still remember that 1994 Champions league final against Barcelona.
People don't understand how Godly he was
One of the greatest ever
I grew up watching Savicevic wouldn't say he was forgotten, just maybe isolated because of the drop in quality of the eastern european clubs after Dynamo Kiev in the early 2000s. But a great shout out.
Dejan Savicevic was maestro, but Dragan Stojkovic was even better... These two beside Robert Prosinecki were magnificent world class, all from Red Star Belgrade team.
@@miloskonjovic7501 I made a vid on piksi as well - wonderful player
Genius thanks for this
Great player. Would win ballon dors in this era. Very comfortably
His performance vs Bayern in Belgrade in '91.... world class!
Messi doesn't have flair. He just gets it done better than anybody. He doesn't have time for flair.
My favourite moves from him was his self wall-pass, thats brilliant and genius..
Surrounded by 2 players, savicevic often knock the ball to one of them so the ball will bounce back to him behind another defender, self wall pass i called it..
He doesn’t need another team mates to do one two pass, so freaking genius..
It was a Pelé and Kurt Hamrin (a Swedish footballer playing in Italy in the 50-60s) copyrighted move
@@davidemaglio5745 i know, but savicevic more often does that move
@@hendipray1016 yes, I didn't mean to lessen Dejan, who's one of my favourite players ever.
Dejan wahr brutal gut und seine team kollegen wahren die besten der besten in dieser Zeit
You forgot a short return to Red Star where he scored the same goal as against Barcelona in the final.
Genie
THE Magician. Still our best dribbler.
Пластичніше та елегпнтніше за Марадону❤❤❤❤
Maybe a bit biased as he is still my favourite player ever, but he was the best player in the world in 1991, fair play to Papin who had a couple great seasons but he was just a pure goal scorer, Savicevic was an absolute magician. Capello really held him back, but still I remember whenever he played he was almost guaranteed to do something magical. He would have made a big difference in the 95 European cup final, but was not meant to be. Sad these types of players are missing in the modern game.
Dragisa Binic from that Red Star team was also a world class player who played at some small clubs before and after Red Star but would today worth like 150 million. And unlike Savicevic who could be "argumentative" Binic was a real bad boy who did crazy things. Different times. Savicevic did make it big in AC Milan in mid 90s but I think he should have go to Spain where game was not as strict and demanding as peak 90s Serie A
I think that Vladimir Jugović refused to drink champagne from the cup when he won the CL with Juventus. On that occasion, he said: "If they knew what Dragiša Binić was doing with that cup, they would never think of drinking anything from it!" Of course, Dragiša peed in him! That was Dragiša Binić!!!
Ehhh il calcio di una volta....😢
Che fantastici giocatori
I remember a story I read about how on his bad days he'd even demand his teammate hand him the remote control which was sitting right next to him
Cheers for this video. I literally never heard of him, sounds like the Balkan Le Tissier
Oh much much better, more agile and faster, deff more like vintage Messi
Ah ah Balkan Le Tissier .
It's about one of the best european players ever, and you talk about Le Tissier (who was a genius on his own, I know...but there are levels in football)
A lot better than that.
Volim sto je Mihajlović ispravio ledja Papenu iz slobodnog udarca!!😂
Savićević vs. Bayern in Munich, thats real beauty.. 😍
If not for that Milan coach, he would of achieved great heights
What's the famous track you play at the beginning of the video?
After win the Champions League 91 my son born three month later i give him name Dejan
Genio was in his prime when he went to Milan and Capello took 2 years to understand how great was Deajan. His awful 4-4-2 was a shceme where there was no space for improvisations, which Dejo was all about. He would play in every other great team and would be remembered much more if it was not for Capello... and his injuries, of course ...
Definitely an exceptional talent but better than Messi is a stretch😅
The master of the dribbling and poor discipline! A unique player, a unique great guy!