wilpertti31 Yeah Yari is a living legend in Finland , so i'm not bothered too much with his comment. Know there are a lot of frustrated people out there that need the internet as exhaust for build-up rage :)
Jari was a great player. If he had been from one of the major European countries, he would've been celebrated as one of the world's greats like a Del Piero or Bergkamp.
I think he was seen as a world great. As a Liverpool fan, when we signed him in 2000/01 his reputation was that of an elite footballer. And we got him for free! :)
Let's not fight, let's all come together in aprecciation for Jari Litmanen. He scored many great goals and to narrow it down to ten is hard, you could do a top 50 of Litmanen easily. i really enjoyed this vid, the way he breezed passed Baresi, what a memory. My second favourite player of all time after Edgar Davids. Such happy times.
Ik ben er trots op om naar deze held vernoemd te zijn! Mijn vader heeft toch op het laatste moment de goede keuze gemaakt om mij niet Bart maar Jari te noemen. Ik zal deze naam met trots tot in de eeuwigheid dragen!
40 year and still goin strong! Maybe the best number 10 ever who has played at Ajax. Great respect for such a great sportsmen... a hero for me and lots of other Ajax-supporters. Jari, best wishes and happy birthday.
What an absolutely fantastic player he was ! You could not get a better repertoire of goals than this. Left foot, right foot, long distance strikes, dribbles, dummies, free kicks, volleys, chips, etc, he was a one in a million player, for Finland probably a once in all history ! A sublime first touch and composure as good as you get. Always feared meeting Ajax in those days. What a team as well Ajax was, just looking at very few of so many of those great players they had in that squad in these clips, Litmanen along with Kanu and Finidi George as the three foreigners. Many of todays over-hyped players, especially the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo can't hold a candle to this genius !
There are a lot of players that I call great... But only one that I idolize; Jari. Ever single video of Litmanen gives me goosebumps. I hope that he will return to Amsterdam soon.
That divine touch... OMG, so soft yet so effective! And what about that incredible awareness of teammates?!?! Jari "The King" Litmanen. I loved the Ajax period, especially the Champions League, where he annihilated the opposition with his legendary dutch teammates!
@@rudde7918 The thing with Ajax is, that you just know that sooner or later they will field a great team on the pitch again that will do great in UCL. 18/19 season was worth the wait. :)
I like watching how he simply enjoys playing. Just him and the ball. No looking forward to the payday, no feeling pressure to succeed. Just the enjoyment of making art and goals. He's continued playing until these days, just because he loves doing it so much.
He still be one of the best number 10 ever played at Ajax. In that time he was a predator with a great goalinstinct and scores a lot of important goals. I'll stil hope he once return back to Ajax maybe as coach or do something with the youth.
Without a doubt Jari Litmanen was the greatest -10- in the mid 90's. The incredible young Ajax squad from that era was greatly enhanced by the football intelligence and experience from players like Rijkaard, Seedorf, Litmanen, F & R de Boer, Kluivert, Overmars and Blind. It was modern football by Ajax 2.0 If Jari Litmanen would be a player from today he would have been most certainly top-10 in Europa, he was just magnificent in one of the rarest Cl-winners ever, the Ajax from 1995. THAT young, avarage 24, but incredible well balanced and with the masterminds, van Gaal, first succes. Make that second since they won the EuefaCup in 94, Cl winner in 95 and 2nd place CL 96, allthough they lost from a Juve that was high on blood-enabolics and uppers appearantly, but sadly thats a closed book. Modern day football, only involved in money, is rotten to the core. Barcelona, Real, City, PSG and many others are playing unfair these days. Isn't it sad that these clubs spent hundred of millions on players, all money that could have been invested in their youth-education instead of just a few players. If you spend 100 hundred million on your youth academy, you will get 10 Bales in return instead of one. All it takes is some time but it will pay out eventually! Instead of buying one supertalent, clubs should focus on training and educating dozens. Ajax, in fact, has over a 100 million euro's in the bank, but have decided to only invest small ammounts of money on young yet above avarage intelligent football wise players, and train them in the Ajax philosophy and has people like Bergkamp, Overmars, V/d Sar and Frank de Boer under his wings in the organisation, all players from the mid 90's at Ajax, and of course let's not forget Cruyff.... Incidentally there is room for a higher value transfer, like the possibility of E'to last year, but the main focus is educating and expanding young talents, and possible, hopefully, creata a Ajax modern Football 3.0 The footprints are at place at Ajax, the A-youth has some potentially absolute topplayers, now let's hope all the big names will stay at the club, and there will be a new revolution in Football, in a scale that only Ajax could perfom in my humble opinion. The only coach that can do that is Louis van Gaal, please please come back to Ajax. In the last couple of years they have been Champion of the Dutch Eredivisie 4 times in a row, all credits to the coach Frank de Boer, and every year they lost their best players as always, like Luis Suarez, Erikssen, Verthongen, Siem de Jong etc. and in an earlier stage Van der Vaart, Snijder, Maxwell, Van der Wiel and Zlatan. Every year Ajax is buidling back up, letting homegrown and newcomers in a young age know what its like to play in the C.L, and still have had some great results against Barcelona,, City, Milan, Celtic, Man United and away at Dortmund. They've proven and done it twice, in the name of holy soccer, let's hope they can pull it of one more time, for the sake of....football
No man is an island, they say. But, when Litti played at his best form it seemed at least like he's moving on the surface of invisble island and no one never new how to get there and kill his game. No one.
I'm Finnish and I saw one of Jari's last games. He scored an overhead kick against my team and we all clapped because he's a national team legend. Before the restart a guy in the audience yelled "Damn you Jari! Why do you want to be on late night sports news so much!" I think it's a good allegory of the guy. He is my country's best footballer and a really top notch guy too. I've met him.
Jari Van Neyghem so it's not a urban legend that name _Jari_ rose in popularity in Netherlands significantly during his years at Ajax? For a Finn it's kind of hard to understand how hugely popular player he was in Netherlands. 😊
@@Saareem pelle. Et vaan seuraa futista. Litti oli pelipaikkansa paras pelaaja monta vuotta maailmassa ennen loukkaantumisia. Litti on suosittu kaikkialla - ei vaan Hollannissa. Oli maailman parhaan seurajoukkueen paras pelaaja.
Nummer 2 vond ik toch eigenlijk de nummer 1 goal...Jari altijd leuke voetballer geweest om naar te kijken, sportief en zijn interviews waren altijd hilarisch:D
Suomen kuningas Jari Litti Litmanen ❤🇫🇮 Uskomaton pelaaja, peliäly, taito ja halu tehdä maaleja maale ja lisää maaleja❤🇫🇮 The King of Finland Jari Litti Litmanen Unbelievable player, The brain for The game, The skills and The Will to Make goals goals and More goals
There's only one King in the Finnish football. When he returned to Finland, back to a team of his hometown, the name of the game was - The Return of the King. The story of that game was pretty perfect: his team (FC Lahti) won 6-1. I think he scored too, but mainly it was about him being the playmaker - he lead the orchestra, and it was an awesome concert. Well, what do guys with the number 10 do? :)
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And today Litmanen has finally made it
He is now a legend on fifa ultimate team
I noticed that too :)
Haha that's why I'm watching this vid ^^
+xIceman yup
finally! he deserved it
Has Cruyff ever been?
Greetings from Perú. Jary Litmanen was my favourite soccer player when i was a teen.
Jari. Not Jary. I know you don’t mean to disrespect but PLEASE GET IT STRAIGHT. THERE IS ONLY ONE JARI LITMANEN.
I could watch highlights of this man all day. My favorite of all time... and the best player never to make the World Cup Finals.
Was never able to make it to the world cup!
Alfredo Di Stefano
+Greg Benson Cristiano Ronaldo?
jiri jeskanen finals means the tournament
George Best?
My favorite Ajax player ever , he brought me so many great moments and he is such a gentleman outside of the pitch !
***** Go annoy someone who would get upset, enjoy your life hating :)
Silverhazed im quite sure he is trolling, he is like the icon of football in finland
wilpertti31 Yeah Yari is a living legend in Finland , so i'm not bothered too much with his comment. Know there are a lot of frustrated people out there that need the internet as exhaust for build-up rage :)
Finland sucks at football so he is a shitty icon.
Manga Man go back to your cave virgin
One of the most underrated talents in Football
like if litmanen is best finish football player ever
Yes he is, there's no promising player to fill his shoes
sausagefinger12 Saku Ylätupa
Kuka vittu on Saku Ylätupa?
@@sausagefinger12 Pukki is great
Pukki is great mutta ei tule koskaan voittamaan mestarien liigan maalipörssiä ;)
What a ball control and vision he had. One of the greatest players ever, definitely.
Jari was a great player. If he had been from one of the major European countries, he would've been celebrated as one of the world's greats like a Del Piero or Bergkamp.
I think he was seen as a world great. As a Liverpool fan, when we signed him in 2000/01 his reputation was that of an elite footballer. And we got him for free! :)
J.Litmanen taitaa olla paras jalkapalloilija,joka ei ole pelannut koskaan MM-kisoissa tai EM-kisoissa
+vesitie Hyvä pointti. Eric Cantona on toinen kovan luokan pelaaja, jolla ei juuri arvokisakokemusta ole. Mutta on sentään pari peliä pelannut.
+Anssi Koskinen litti kyllä kuuluis pelen ja maradonan rinnalle
+Anssi Koskinen Myöskään George Best ei ole arvokisoja kokenut.
Unohit Ibran.
Jerkku Levonen pelas vuoden 2004 ja 2012 em kisoisa
One of the greatest mid fielders there ever was/is. Tactical genious!
we all know how "good" finnish football is but we still got King Litmanen! One of the greatest players of that that time and no one can deny that! :´)
yes
We Also have Liverpool legend Sami Hyypiä
ุ KarstaLokki We don't have to. Just wait around 5 more years from 2018. You will maybe see a youth that can break the meta
And the code word being "maybe"
ุ KarstaLokki hradeckysta voi tulla
Let's not fight, let's all come together in aprecciation for Jari Litmanen.
He scored many great goals and to narrow it down to ten is hard, you could do a top 50 of Litmanen easily. i really enjoyed this vid, the way he breezed passed Baresi, what a memory. My second favourite player of all time after Edgar Davids. Such happy times.
Ik ben er trots op om naar deze held vernoemd te zijn!
Mijn vader heeft toch op het laatste moment de goede keuze gemaakt om mij niet Bart maar Jari te noemen.
Ik zal deze naam met trots tot in de eeuwigheid dragen!
Ben je niet goed ofzo kerel?
40 year and still goin strong!
Maybe the best number 10 ever who has played at Ajax.
Great respect for such a great sportsmen... a hero for me and lots of other Ajax-supporters.
Jari, best wishes and happy birthday.
What an absolutely fantastic player he was ! You could not get a better repertoire of goals than this. Left foot, right foot, long distance strikes, dribbles, dummies, free kicks, volleys, chips, etc, he was a one in a million player, for Finland probably a once in all history ! A sublime first touch and composure as good as you get. Always feared meeting Ajax in those days. What a team as well Ajax was, just looking at very few of so many of those great players they had in that squad in these clips, Litmanen along with Kanu and Finidi George as the three foreigners. Many of todays over-hyped players, especially the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo can't hold a candle to this genius !
oh idiot
You think Cristiano Ronaldo is overhyped? You clearly know nothing about football.
What I remember from him was his intelligence on the pitch. Totally agree with you on the overrated players, especially the one you cite.
There are a lot of players that I call great...
But only one that I idolize; Jari.
Ever single video of Litmanen gives me goosebumps.
I hope that he will return to Amsterdam soon.
A Legend......I was so happy when he signed for Liverpool. One of the greatest players in my opinion.....loved his penalty routine
That divine touch... OMG, so soft yet so effective! And what about that incredible awareness of teammates?!?! Jari "The King" Litmanen. I loved the Ajax period, especially the Champions League, where he annihilated the opposition with his legendary dutch teammates!
I really like Ajax's history, would be fun to see them have a team like that again instead of selling their players after one good season
bof but they sold their whole team again. Won’t happen again for a good 4 yrs lol
That's globalization for you.
@@rudde7918 The thing with Ajax is, that you just know that sooner or later they will field a great team on the pitch again that will do great in UCL. 18/19 season was worth the wait. :)
Its not them selling the team, its more that the players want to go to a bigger club, and ajax cant stop them after the contract
David Neres still world class Ajax man and in contract with Ajax. Sooner or later they will sell him too i guess :(
I like watching how he simply enjoys playing. Just him and the ball. No looking forward to the payday, no feeling pressure to succeed. Just the enjoyment of making art and goals. He's continued playing until these days, just because he loves doing it so much.
He still be one of the best number 10 ever played at Ajax.
In that time he was a predator with a great goalinstinct and scores a lot of important goals.
I'll stil hope he once return back to Ajax maybe as coach or do something with the youth.
This Ajax was the best Team i ever Seen!Hajduk Split fan!
Best player I know from my youth...my god what a hero and still the best I ever saw! Jari, you are Amsterdam...you are Ajax in person 🤩
Jari is best ever Finnish to play the beatifull game. Legend
Jokainen voi miettiä kuinka hyvä pelaaja oli, kun teki sopimuksen Barcelonan kanssa ja pelinumero oli 10.
Yksinkertaisesti oli paras.
Niinpä.
Yesssss
Parhaimmillaan valittu maailman 3.parhaaksi
@@joonaslehtonen1141 ?
Myös liverpoolissa
Underated player
Absolute magician. I remember him at Liverpool....he was exceptional.
Without a doubt Jari Litmanen was the greatest
-10-
in the mid 90's.
The incredible young Ajax squad from that era was greatly enhanced by the football intelligence and experience from players like Rijkaard, Seedorf, Litmanen, F & R de Boer, Kluivert, Overmars and Blind.
It was modern football by Ajax 2.0
If Jari Litmanen would be a player from today he would have been most certainly top-10 in Europa, he was just magnificent in one of the rarest Cl-winners ever, the Ajax from 1995.
THAT young, avarage 24, but incredible well balanced and with the masterminds, van Gaal, first succes.
Make that second since they won the EuefaCup in 94, Cl winner in 95 and 2nd place CL 96, allthough they lost from a Juve that was high on blood-enabolics and uppers appearantly, but sadly thats a closed book.
Modern day football, only involved in money, is rotten to the core.
Barcelona, Real, City, PSG and many others are playing unfair these days.
Isn't it sad that these clubs spent hundred of millions on players, all money that could have been invested in their youth-education instead of just a few players.
If you spend 100 hundred million on your youth academy, you will get 10 Bales in return instead of one. All it takes is some time but it will pay out eventually!
Instead of buying one supertalent, clubs should focus on training and educating dozens.
Ajax, in fact, has over a 100 million euro's in the bank, but have decided to only invest small ammounts of money on young yet above avarage intelligent football wise players, and train them in the Ajax philosophy and has people like Bergkamp, Overmars, V/d Sar and Frank de Boer under his wings in the organisation, all players from the mid 90's at Ajax, and of course let's not forget Cruyff....
Incidentally there is room for a higher value transfer, like the possibility of E'to last year, but the main focus is educating and expanding young talents, and possible, hopefully, creata a
Ajax modern Football 3.0
The footprints are at place at Ajax, the A-youth has some potentially absolute topplayers, now let's hope all the big names will stay at the club, and there will be a new revolution in Football, in a scale that only Ajax could perfom in my humble opinion. The only coach that can do that is Louis van Gaal, please please come back to Ajax.
In the last couple of years they have been Champion of the Dutch Eredivisie 4 times in a row, all credits to the coach Frank de Boer, and every year they lost their best players as always, like Luis Suarez, Erikssen, Verthongen, Siem de Jong etc. and in an earlier stage Van der Vaart, Snijder, Maxwell, Van der Wiel and Zlatan.
Every year Ajax is buidling back up, letting homegrown and newcomers in a young age know what its like to play in the C.L, and still have had some great results against Barcelona,, City, Milan, Celtic, Man United and away at Dortmund.
They've proven and done it twice, in the name of holy soccer, let's hope they can pull it of one more time, for the sake of....football
Yes, yeess! Hi from Finland! Thanks Jari, I learned in a young age, what's the core of football. It's something what Ajax do. That's it. Period.
laitikas torilla tavataan
Merijn van keulen And after Litmanen retired I think the same again.
u should write a book m8 :)
No man is an island, they say. But, when Litti played at his best form it seemed at least like he's moving on the surface of invisble island and no one never new how to get there and kill his game. No one.
My favorite Ajax player when I was a kid. Deadly in the 18 and he had some amazing Jack Lord hair.
Sad thinking he could've been even better if he wasn't injured so much :/
vanha lasipolvi
TerryFGM. Isäs on Lasipolvipaskiainen
vrzz gg sitä vähä minäki
Markustaja good english
Mörkö Peikko yes it is
Happy, birthday, Litti! 44 years and still going strong!
Jari Litmanen 50 years today, happy birthday, Litti!
wat een superheld was deze man, en dat muziekje geweldig.
When ı was kid ı was Litmanen My classmate was overmars 😆 it was amazing and natural football days theyre legend
Grande Jari.. eterno craque, um dos grandes meias que vi jogar...
A legend called Jari.
ALL HAIL LITMANEN! Thanks for this great video from a Sporting Lisbon fan.
2:35 players today would have fallen down
***** I agree but getting a penalty is easier than finishing that shot from a tight angle. That will go in once every 50 shots.
iamlatsku Suomalainen ei kaadu
Suomalainen on yhtä jämäkka kuin muumien talo
Got his prime moments. Really liked and now I’m here
One of the best Ajax players
Wonderful player
Wonderful player❤❤❤
I'm Finnish and I saw one of Jari's last games. He scored an overhead kick against my team and we all clapped because he's a national team legend. Before the restart a guy in the audience yelled "Damn you Jari! Why do you want to be on late night sports news so much!" I think it's a good allegory of the guy. He is my country's best footballer and a really top notch guy too. I've met him.
Wished he was better used at Liverpool. He was truly a great player-respect !
I am juventus fan but i love litmanen
When Ajax was still a international force to be reckoned with.
Ben een echte feyenoordfan maar toen litmanen bij ajax speelde was het echt genieten als toeschouwer. Great player!!
Happy Birthday King Litmanen!
behoort tot de beste speler die ajax ooit gehad heeft
Magic Jari!!!
50 years old today! Happy birthday KING🇫🇮❤️
Litmanen ooh ooh. An Ajax-icon. This man shall never be forgotten by the Ajax-fans, he is a fucking LEGEND.
Jari had that same touch of genius as Dennis Bergkamp.
Number #4 my favorite! ☺️👏🇫🇮
Jari Litmanen was an underrated player. He also got an injury setback though in Barcelona.
Jari Litmanen And Hyppiä 🇫🇮
JARI 50 years today. King of Finland!
Ajax loves Jari, and Jari loves Ajax. He is one of us♥️
Very Great pleayer J. Litmanen, honor to him and to his goals!
Litmanen voor altijd mijn held!
Jari, simply the best!!
Does anyone know the name of the song used in the video? It really reminds me of Backstreet Symphony by Thunder.
And no, it is not Sandstorm.
Thank you Jari litmanen. He is legend!
This music fits like a charm!
My name is jari
Yes, I can see! Compilation of his greatest assists would be cool to see also.
Jari Van Neyghem so it's not a urban legend that name _Jari_ rose in popularity in Netherlands significantly during his years at Ajax? For a Finn it's kind of hard to understand how hugely popular player he was in Netherlands. 😊
@@Saareem pelle. Et vaan seuraa futista. Litti oli pelipaikkansa paras pelaaja monta vuotta maailmassa ennen loukkaantumisia. Litti on suosittu kaikkialla - ei vaan Hollannissa. Oli maailman parhaan seurajoukkueen paras pelaaja.
God bless you
@Rebeca Freitas de Reus That's Really Really wonderful news. He is our ambassador meaning Jari
MASTERCLASS
Jari Olavi litmanen!!!!!!😍😍😍
Nummer 2 vond ik toch eigenlijk de nummer 1 goal...Jari altijd leuke voetballer geweest om naar te kijken, sportief en zijn interviews waren altijd hilarisch:D
The intelligence of a central midfielder, the killer instinct of a striker and the first touch of a world class winger. A brilliant player.
You write this comment 11 ywars ago wtf
@@pussianotapinaldopenaldoga9848 so?
@@mattihp You are fck old now
@@pussianotapinaldopenaldoga9848 as is Jari
@@mattihp Eikö 11 vuotta menny nopeesti
Beste nummer 10 die Ajax ooit gehad heeft!
*Wow: 'The King of Goals!'*
I love this guy
only true legend of Finnish football
Entä mixu paatelainen? Kaveri kenellä pallo pysy hallussa ainoastaan pelikassissa 😅
our king Litmanen
Oh boy wat mooi!
jari litmanen "el principito", gran jugador.
Who’s here after the icon swap
Yea mee
LaPulgaAngelo noo he’s insane he’s a tiny bit slow but his shot is insaneee. He’s perfect at CAM
@@tropicalstorm1209 i use him st 4-1-2-1-2 a beast
LaPulgaAngelo he is good if ur new
LaPulgaAngelo I would save ur swaps to get someone better
Mooi dat de onsterfelijke Jari Litmanen nog steeds voetbalt.
Best finnish player of all time! Jari won basically everything he could, except he didn't get to play Euros/World Cup.
Yet. He hasn't officially retired from the national team and there's Euros coming. :-D
Jari Litmanen
Finish king🇫🇮
Fantástico
The Pelé from Finland!!!
His farewell goal at Ajax should have been in the top 10. the header in left top corner.
beautiful player to watch, intelligence and techical abbilty.
Amazing
Thank you !
absolutely
jari is a football king
Suomen kuningas Jari Litti Litmanen ❤🇫🇮
Uskomaton pelaaja, peliäly, taito ja halu tehdä maaleja maale ja lisää maaleja❤🇫🇮
The King of Finland Jari Litti Litmanen
Unbelievable player, The brain for The game, The skills and The Will to Make goals goals and More goals
Un jugadorazo!🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮
Litmanen... First class!
King of volleys
Great player! Makes me proud, too bad he was made from glass
hi i'm from finland like a Jari Litmanen
This man is my idol.
We love you Jari!! We Do!!
There's only one King in the Finnish football.
When he returned to Finland, back to a team of his hometown,
the name of the game was
- The Return of the King.
The story of that game was pretty perfect:
his team (FC Lahti) won 6-1. I think he scored too,
but mainly it was about him being the playmaker
- he lead the orchestra, and it was an awesome concert.
Well, what do guys with the number 10 do? :)
Ahh it feels good to be in the family :)
Um dos melhores que tive a oportunidade de ver jogando!
Zäri Litmeinen :3 Greetings from Finlandie!
what a goat, love him
litmanen and nedved are my favorite player ever!!