You forgot to mention that Adebayor celebrated against arsenal like that due to the amount of racial abuse he and his family got. The fans totally deserved it
I’m an Evertonian and even I agree it was a good celebration. Same with the racist cannibal’s diving celebration in front of Moyes (although he didn’t score, it was an own goal)
@@lmads8023 The fact you commented on this video to express your opinion that there is nothing wrong with a Nazi celebration tells me all I need to know about why you don't understand the difference between abuse for personal reasons, and racist abuse. Not condoning the abuse of lampard you mentioned, it's dispicable. However, lampard and his ancestors haven't faced opression and abuse for generations as a result of his mum dying, whereas adebayor and his ancestors have faced oppression and abuse due to the colour of their skin. If you can't see why the racial abuse of a player from Togo (a country which was for centuries exploited for slaves by colonial powers, who used racist attitudes as an excuse and justification for their actions) is worse than abuse of lampard for personal reasons then you need to give your head a rattle.
@@F1BrokeBoys Is he going to claim he stopped taking his medication. That's what the wife of the fired California school administrator, and Roseanne Barr claimed. I mean: no one believed them.
@@ollybostock2 Mate. The misinformation, about Togo " (a country which was for centuries exploited for slaves by colonial powers, who used racist attitudes as an excuse and justification for their actions)" is a revisoinst interpretation. That you believe it says more about you than it does about the facts of history. I wish you peace.
I remember watching that Switzerland Serbia match and it was obvious that game had more going behind it than just a World Cup. Shaq was running around like a fucking madman, I've never seen that much heart before on the field
@@tookwispy2593 i think he thought it's worth it and will do it again if he had the chance. i have bosnian friend who was very young at the time of the war to this day she suffers from PTSD and can't even start to talk about it without shaking she told me how she saw a pregnant woman died and her belly was cut open and her fetus (baby) besides her died. she told me about her serbian neighbor and how at first refused to join the serbian army and kill bosnian but they had to do it after the army threatened to kill them. war is ugliest thing humanity condemned themselves to.
@@shendshillova6872 i understand why fifa would want to stay neutral and would ask players to not get political, but seriously. xhaka’s dad imprisoned and like you said, the serbians hurling abuse and food at them the whole game? that’s more despicable than making a hand gesture that has links to their heritage. they should’ve given them both 20k instead of taking it from them.
@@maximushess5491 well it's a good job millions of people did it in the 1930s and 40s then, inspired by an Austrian. So no appropriation there, dodged that bullet
@@maximushess5491 stop lying. romans didnt salute like that... we have lots of texts and art about roman customs nowhere they mention this... the first time the "roman salute" appears is in a painting in the 18th century...
They are in the lower leagues now, for example FC Hansa, the last winner of the east german league, was put in the first Bundesliga after reunification and is now down im the third league.
There’s been 42 winners so it’d be too long. Plus it’s very hard to rank the likes of Pat Jennings and Liam Brady with Salah and Kante. Also people like Ian Rush, Kenny Dalglish, Gary Lineker, and Cristiano Ronaldo have won this award so I doubt KDB would be in the top five
@@beard6329 depends how you rank them. My point is that these are 42 players of the highest quality, it’s impossible to split them, especially as some played nearly 50 years ago. KDB is world class, but out of the legends on this list i don’t think he’d be in my top 5
@@bluest.9320 You have Ronaldo, Alan Shearer, Dennis Bergkamp, Eric Cantona and Jonh Terry(if we forget what a jackass he was off the pitch) among the contenders. Kevin is a hell of a player but not we dont have to put a top5 without even knowing who he races against.
That's a great suggestion. I'm often amazed when I see players who were prolific but made, say, ten appearances. Often, it's the result of terrible timing, or managers who just decided they hated a player.
Fowler with the two of the best goal celebrations is history, and very opposite in meaning. first, trolling everton fans and sticking up for himself, second showing political awareness and empathy for others with his dockers t-shirt celebration during the liverpool dock strikes. Absolute fucking Legend, God!
Honestly thinking about where he was from it might not be a nazi salute, correct me if im completely wrong here and defend a nazi but isnt/wasnt that a normal way of saluting in greece?
@@danielbergeespe1636 There wouldn't have been the reaction that there was if it was a normal way of greeting people. It's called a Roman Salute, nothing greek about, and surprising nothing Roman about it as well.
@@bri1085 oh well then im wrong, it is roman though when its called a roman salute right? Its funny to see how that many things that the nazis took were common before, like the nazi sign aswell was not controversial at all.
@@danielbergeespe1636 It's not really Roman, it's Roman only in that it relates to the Holy Roman Empire which the Nazis refer to as the first Reich, which was actually German.
@Flaming Skull Yes, but can we call how lucky Sunderland is? I mean winning the Premier League out of nowhere in 2039, then winning the Champions League in 2040 while also being relegated and currently being second in the Championship while beating Milan of Zlatan's 4-3...
@@mrniceguywinkyface1524 It's how you know that we have learned from the despicable mistakes the generations of our parents and grandparents have made, you disrespectful twat
@@mrniceguywinkyface1524 ooooooh, are you triggered becausr people nowadays won't let you get away with displaying racist and downright despicable behaviour?? You need a tissue, you big bad bully? 😢😢😢😢You're over here talking about beta-males while getting triggered because people won't let you be racist. Just gtfo here
I’m not surprised, dont Germany take really strong precautions with that salute and any positive talk about the nazis now? I’m not sure because I’m British but that’s what I’ve heard.
@@2studdxd192 Yeah, doing the Nazi salute, denying the reality of the events of the holocaust or displaying extreme nazism can get you in jail here. We really want to make sure to not let it get as far as it did before the Second World War ever again
At number 7 you get 3 for 1: Lichtsteiner made the eagle gesture too. Controversial or not, nobody should have the right to "boo" a national anthem or a player for his heritage/roots. Justice was served on the pitch.
I'm not writing this to take anyone's side, however it is important to point out that both Shaqiri and Xhaka were heavily booed by the Serbian fans every time they touched the ball. It doesn't make it less controversial, but I just wanna point out that both players did not just do it out of sheer, random stupidity or something like that
@@Ochikrasnye Have you been in one? Even if you can it would be stupid to act based on that sound over thousands others. They wanted to do it, they have been in photos doing the eagl and were probably planning to do it either way. The rest are just excuses.
@@WERTYUIO821 your point is not valid because you are biased against both of these players. I don’t care about who’s wrong and who’s right. What I saw and heard during the game was both of them getting booed every time they touched the ball, to which they responded provocatively. Those are simple facts, and I don’t care about making anyone look bad over some idiotic politics. About the booing: you’re claiming it’s impossible to hear boos in the stadium noise. Well how come people hear stuff like chants and boos during games in general? If no one ever heard them, no one would even know that such things exist. I understand that no one would hear 10 people shouting over a 20k crowd, but during that game almost half of the stadium was Serbian. You are biased, you don’t want to admit that both sides did some wrong, you’re only interested in throwing shade on Xhaka and Shaqiri, so what’s the point?
Albanians and Serbs hate eachother. Serbs thinks Kosovo is still Serbia will Albanians think Kosovo is Kosovo. Its really offensive as Kosovo was a part of Serbia for centuries
He should have gone to play for them, when he had the chance, since he loves his homeland so much! Guess what, the hypocrite refused! He chose to play for the Swiss Nati, so he should shut up and keep his moronic gestures to himself, or else ship out where he came from!
One of my favourite goal celebrations is Luis Suarez dicing in front of David Moyes after the former Everton manager had accused him of diving. Another one - involving Luis Suarez again, was him celebrating Asamoah Gyan missing a penalty after being sent off for a deliberate handball.
I'm Swedish living in England but also have Albanian ancestry so I liked Shaqiri,s and Xaka,s celebration. I'm also a Liverpool fan so loved Fowler's celebration too
Football back in the 70s and 80s, players would go all out to score against their previous club. The only exception was Denis Law, and that because his previous club, Man I, would be relegated because of his goal.
Day 21: the decline of Scottish football how teams like Celtic and Aberdeen went from European trophies to struggling to qualify and why the national team has become so poor
7 of the Best players from each of the Premier Divisons in the UK and Ireland (SPFL, Premier League, Welsh Premiership, LOI Premiership & NIFL Premiership
7 greatest footballers that have been "forgotten" i.e. all time greats that are rarely mentioned in discussions for the GOAT/best in their position I think a list of examples better explains the concept: Miodrag Belodedici (2x UCL winner and star player for the unfancied Steaua of 86 and Red Star's 91 winners), Oleg Blokhin (Ballon D'Or winner), Romario (more goals than Pele), Gunter Netzer (was considered Gladbach's best player even while Keegan was there), Sandor Kocsis, Nandor Hidegkuti (both outshone Puskas in the Hungary national team of the 50s), Enzo Francescoli (one of the greatest dribblers of all time and hardly anyone knows who he is), Des Walker (arguably the best english CB between Franklin's retirement and Terry's debut), Dunga (most underrated World Cup winning captain of recent decades), Mathias Sammer (Ballon D'Or winner), Alessandro Costacurta (The focus is always on Maldini and Baresi but this guy was just as good!) etc. I'd be interested to see your list Alfie :)
Hey man thanks for giving me some new players that are legends ik dunga and romario thats it didn't know any of these players thanks for expanding my football knowledge always appreciated
Sounds as if you could make individual videos about them. Even players like Garrincha and Eusebio don't get incredible amounts of attention. Or what of Just Fontaine and his thirteen goal World Cup? He only played 21 national matches and retired at 28.
@@stevencooke6451 Very true but even when people talk about underrated players, we dont hear much about the guys I listed - especially, imo, Oleg Blokhin and Miodrag Belodedici. I feel like Eusebio and Garrincha still get a *decent (albeit not enough) amount of due plaudits I think it's partly due to the iron curtain effect in the case of Blokhin but it's a curious thing given he was easily the best player in the USSR teams that got to 2 Euros finals across 3 tournaments (and was in a squad player in 72 as well, where they were runners up) and Yashin, who by only actually playing well in one tournament with the USSR is always remembered - both won a ballon dor so i am curious as to why this is the case. Furthermore in the case of Blokhin, he played very similarly to Ronaldinho and players like that - skillful, magical feat, etc. etc. often get romanticised through nostalgia, but the opposite happened to Oleg As for Belodedici he is arguably an even better passer at centerback than Beckenbauer was. Furthermore, this is partnered with the fact he basically played like Vidic when not in possession lead to a very unique defender who was by far the best in the backlines of 2 of the 3 most unlikely European Cup/Champions League winning teams of all time. He was everpresent in both and there's a strong argument to therefore be made that he wasn't just the most important player but almost singlehandedly won the trophies with his defensive performances (especially the Steaua side). He's so forgotten that if you search him up on youtube the ONLY videos you can find are Romanian (where he's from). Literally nobody outside Romania seem to remember him - that's the literal definition of forgotten. Like, there's a very strong argument that he could be the greatest centerback of all time (though I'd still say Beckenbauer and Baresi >). It's the equivalent of nobody outside of Spain remembering Ramos, for example, in about 30 years time. It's just mindblowing It would make for an amazing video especially with Miodrags immigrant and impoverished roots and the fact he was a political refugee in Yugoslavia for 3 years during his career
Yep only retired last year. Absolutely shocking, only did 4yrs for killing 2 children. Its fing heartbreaking tbh. Plymouth and Swindon should be ashamed.
katidis, actually didnt really knew what nazis where, since he stopped participating in school at 13. At the time he did the salute, Xrusi Augi, a neonazi political party, got it the greek parliament with 7% of the popular vote, and a lot of greek comedians did skits satirizing it and doing the salute. He said he saw it there and did it for fun because he saw a lot of people doing it. He was not a neonazi or far right, he was just illiterate.
@@6BfMV2 here is an interview with katidis in greek for anyone who wants to see i t if you understand greek :ruclips.net/video/636Si-6tBAc/видео.html and heres a video satirizing the far right party that got into parliament(and using the salute): ruclips.net/video/eKu_fnXHWG0/видео.html
i think it's worth mentioning that the swiss national team has had issues with half albanian players doing the double headed eagle as a goal celebration before. it happened quite often, so the teams leaders decided together with the players, that they would not perform this kind of celebration while in the dress of the swiss national team (which makes sense). so shaqiri and xhaka (as our captain) performing that celebration against serbia anyway was even more controversial than just that, but we also kind of expected this to happen if they scored against serbia
Im albanian from Kosova And That celebration Made people in Kosova so Happy , even serbians heard us screaming, We couldn’t not hear them crying tho , Interesting 🧐 😂🇽🇰🇦🇱♥️
As an Ipswich that wasn’t born yet back then I have never heard of or seen that David Norris celebration but now I have and that’s disgusting that he thought that would be ok
Galatasaray, Besiktas, Fenerbace, Al Ahli, Al Nassr, Al Ittihad, Al Hilal, Guangzhou, Shanghai SIPG, Zenit St. Petersburg, Lokomotiv Moscow, Spartak Moscow, PFK ZSKA Moscow, Dynamo Moscow. Just to name a few.
@@da8s galatasaray, besiktas fenerbache, zenit st petersburg, lokomotiv moscow, spartak moscow, dynamo and cska moscow are all at least technically european (since Istanbul and moscow are in Europe
i support plymouth and have watched their games for years. i didn’t know that about mccormick, and i always thought he was pretty cool. a lot of kids who go to the games say that mccormick is their favourite. if only they knew
He was later made club captain by Roy Keane, say no more, disappointed at the sad lack of ex Yugoslavs and Italian fascists ( yes I know there was one )in the list,
If you drink and drive then kill two kids I don't think you should worry if I call you a flawed human being. That's probably on the nicer side of what I would say.
@@tookwispy2593 The upper management in both the Albanian and Kosovar football federations is unfortunately really inept and therefore incompetent in creating new talent in their countries, with only very few exceptions like Amir Rrahmani for example, who currently plays for Naples (as a defender, btw).
One of my favourite controversial celebrations was done by a colombian player who played for Rosario central against boca in which he made a sash gesture across his body referencing the sash on the river plate jersey because he used to play for river and river is Bocas greatest rival. That caused a near brawl in the field and a red card for the player. But whats confusing about the celebration is that he was generally unliked when he played at River and was let go because of his poor performance so people were confused why he was paying homage to a club that didn't like him very much while playing for a completely different team. It came across as "please like me again River!" While also being disrespectful to his current team at the time. In short that celebration managed to piss everyone off including his own team which is an amazing feat. He was also controversial for bringing a loaded pistol to the locker room one time. Another more mild controversial celebration i remember was by a DC united player versus the newly renamed Red Bull New York in which he celebrated by miming opening a red bull can, taking a sip, then spitting it out in disgust and throwing the can away. I believe he only got a yellow card for that but for mls standards its pretty controversial if not the most controversial mls celebration ever.......mls is pretty family friendly lol. And in a much deeper analysis, because mls is a single entity where the league owns all the clubs and players so he was in a sense making an insult to the league itself. Idk lol but I do remember it being pretty controversial at the time
Paul Gascoigne did that celebration twice. Idk why there's this idea that he didn't know what it meant but I've heard that lie before so I will quote the man directly. "The second time I knew... the Celtic fans were harassing us and so I did The Sash thing" (The Sash is what he was mimicking with the flute) He knew what it means, what it's called and what would happen. He was irresponsible in firing up sectarian tension. Absolute dimwit.
You said that David Norris' celebration was linked to a murder conviction, but then go on to describe a situation involving his former teammate that does not come close to meeting the threshold for murder.
Xhaka's and Shaqiri's celebrations were not controversial in any way. They are Albanians and they celebrated their goals doing the national emblem of the country. Serbians often celebrate similarly with their own hand sign version (see Albania vs Serbia in 2015). If the national symbol of a country is controversial, then singing the anthems before games is equally controversial.
It is controversial, because that sign means "great albania" which contains also part of Serbian territory. Plus, they not play for albania, but for fucking Swiss. Stfu
@@imanuelcaushi4711 Yeah, u're gonna tell me, as Serbian, what does that mean 🤣🤣 U're Analbanian, of course, u protect your nation, I'm Serbian doing the same. That's the sign of "great analbania" which analbanians also use to provooke Serbs when they left Kosovo and Metohija. 🇷🇸☦
@@josiahvoisin7991 Dont be so sure... I personally have watched it once or twice and saw the 2019 women world cup on TV, but it is not something that many people watch.
As a Rangers man I loved having Gazza play for us but I am am not convinced that he knew exactly what he was doing at any time or indeed what day of the week it was...having said that he was a genius on the pitch and that is why he was and always will be adored by Rangers fans.
Which is really odd, because Shaqiri claims to be a fierce patriot for his country of origin, while Arnautovic once insulted a North Macedonian player (It was Egjzan Alioski, who's an ethnic Albanian) during a UEFA Euro 2021 match between Austria and North Macedonia.
I listen to an interview with a guy on Vaush who was a scholar on Nazi movements and fascism in Greece, particularly Golden Dawn. Holy shit I had no idea it was so prevalent. I remember those fascist salutes, particularly Di Canio's, because here in Campania everybody knows he knew what he was signaling. There's still kids christened Benito here and there in Italy. Everybody knows about that element of Lazio and their supporters. Till that Greek kid threw his salute, I had no idea it was as bad in Greece too.
It's still bad but neonazis are mostly shunned by people. There are many that try to downplay their fascist and nationalist views but they fail miserably. Slowly but surely, things are trying to get a bit better
There was one celebration in the mexican soccer league u surely missed.. some years back football club Santos was playing a match when a shootout started to happend and prompted everyone to run into the pitch .. a couple of weeks after two soccer players celebrated by acting like they were shooting at the supporters
You forgot to mention that Adebayor celebrated against arsenal like that due to the amount of racial abuse he and his family got. The fans totally deserved it
That celebration was hilarious!
I’m having PTSD flash backs from that
they sung the same song Tottenham sung about him. Funny that he also played for Spurs.
It was Spurs fans who racially abused him more than Arsenal fans, yet he went on to join them
@@Ese96Agoaye I laughed so hard when I saw it XD
I kinda like Fowler's celebration. That was super creative to be honest.
completely agree. I never understood why he got suspended.
@@frysknj it was the 90s people were a lot less open to any mention of drugs
Maradona after scoring at USA 94😂 Ran to the camera clearly ripping off his chomp on he yayo🕺Instant ban, priceless memories
Same 😁
I’m an Evertonian and even I agree it was a good celebration. Same with the racist cannibal’s diving celebration in front of Moyes (although he didn’t score, it was an own goal)
Are we not going to mention the fact that the adebayor celebration was in response to racist chants?
@@lmads8023 The fact you commented on this video to express your opinion that there is nothing wrong with a Nazi celebration tells me all I need to know about why you don't understand the difference between abuse for personal reasons, and racist abuse. Not condoning the abuse of lampard you mentioned, it's dispicable. However, lampard and his ancestors haven't faced opression and abuse for generations as a result of his mum dying, whereas adebayor and his ancestors have faced oppression and abuse due to the colour of their skin. If you can't see why the racial abuse of a player from Togo (a country which was for centuries exploited for slaves by colonial powers, who used racist attitudes as an excuse and justification for their actions) is worse than abuse of lampard for personal reasons then you need to give your head a rattle.
@@ollybostock2 he has deleted his comment in embarrassment
Didn't even know if that is really true he deserved to do whatever
@@F1BrokeBoys Is he going to claim he stopped taking his medication. That's what the wife of the fired California school administrator, and Roseanne Barr claimed. I mean: no one believed them.
@@ollybostock2 Mate. The misinformation, about Togo " (a country which was for centuries exploited for slaves by colonial powers, who used racist attitudes as an excuse and justification for their actions)" is a revisoinst interpretation. That you believe it says more about you than it does about the facts of history. I wish you peace.
I remember watching that Switzerland Serbia match and it was obvious that game had more going behind it than just a World Cup. Shaq was running around like a fucking madman, I've never seen that much heart before on the field
you should google kosovo and serbias history, itll make it pretty obvious why he felt he needed to win and did the albanian eagle
@@tookwispy2593 i think he thought it's worth it and will do it again if he had the chance.
i have bosnian friend who was very young at the time of the war to this day she suffers from PTSD and can't even start to talk about it without shaking she told me how she saw a pregnant woman died and her belly was cut open and her fetus (baby) besides her died.
she told me about her serbian neighbor and how at first refused to join the serbian army and kill bosnian but they had to do it after the army threatened to kill them.
war is ugliest thing humanity condemned themselves to.
Serbia should have gotten that penalty
@@tookwispy2593 you are stupid
@@AP-ec8os Serbia got so unlucky in that game
The look on AEK Athens/Giorgos Katidis captain's face says it all.
He didn't mean it tho
This is a break salute you idiot
@@gamergamer1296 nah you stupid
@@gamergamer1296 ...
It was just in the moment
"Not to be confused with David Norris who was convicted of the racially motivated murder of Stephen Lawrence".....who was making that mistake??!
A twitter user might have swung by .. they get their knickers in a twist over anything
Also, neither are related to McLaren Formula One driver Lando Norris... he just has the unfortunate situation of sharing the same surname
Nor are any of the three mentioned, related to the infamous Mrs. Norris. She may perhaps be the greatest Norris.
Adebayor's was justified, Norris' was straight up despicable
Xhakas and shaqiris are also justified. The serbian fans insulted and threw food at them the whole game. I would've reacted the same tbh
I'd argue xhaka and shaqiri are also fully justified
@@shendshillova6872 exactly! believe me as a person with kosovan friends, they could’ve done a whole lot worse and still have been justified.
@@melodiclogic9904 yeah agreed, yet both xhaka and shaqiri got fined for it and had to pay like 20k each
@@shendshillova6872 i understand why fifa would want to stay neutral and would ask players to not get political, but seriously. xhaka’s dad imprisoned and like you said, the serbians hurling abuse and food at them the whole game? that’s more despicable than making a hand gesture that has links to their heritage.
they should’ve given them both 20k instead of taking it from them.
"One Nazi salute is enough for any video"
Words to live by, Eggsy
It's a Roman salute stop culturally appropriating my history... just cause some guy did it in the 1940s doesnt make that salute german !
@@maximushess5491 well it's a good job millions of people did it in the 1930s and 40s then, inspired by an Austrian. So no appropriation there, dodged that bullet
@@adamdickinson2894 nazi and comunism is the same garbage. Don't use soviet flags. Russian revolución killed millions of people too.
@@maximushess5491 stop lying. romans didnt salute like that... we have lots of texts and art about roman customs nowhere they mention this... the first time the "roman salute" appears is in a painting in the 18th century...
@@lucattsur the tsar killed and famined far more.
Day 19: Final East German First League teams, where are they now?
Hey can you please do me a favour and watch some of the videos on my channel
@@worldfootball2923 can you do us a favour and stop self promoting yourself
They are in the lower leagues now, for example FC Hansa, the last winner of the east german league, was put in the first Bundesliga after reunification and is now down im the third league.
@@cleogjurovski19 TURN DOWN FOR WHAT!
The good players of East German clubs were bought by West German clubs like Leverkusen, Bayern, Dortmund, Frankfurt.
The David Norris one is despicable. How out of touch can you be??
yip fooking twat of a man
footballers are very much out of touch.
I think we should bring back handshakes, "Jolly good assist chap"
Absolutely sniffing goal, old bean!
Day 69 (Final Day) : Ranking every barca signing since Neymar's sale
I fought, I lost and now I rest
Continue man. I’d love to see this video
At this point i'm pretty sure he must alredy have it on his list. Maybe waiting for more signings to happen
NICE
Hey can you please do me a favour and watch some of the videos on my channel
If you wanna foght
Ranking every PFA Players' Player of the Year winner since the award started based on playing ability.
I will riot if KDB is not in the top 5
There’s been 42 winners so it’d be too long. Plus it’s very hard to rank the likes of Pat Jennings and Liam Brady with Salah and Kante. Also people like Ian Rush, Kenny Dalglish, Gary Lineker, and Cristiano Ronaldo have won this award so I doubt KDB would be in the top five
@@orlandothompson5861 KDB is better than Rush Dalglish and Lineker tho
@@beard6329 depends how you rank them. My point is that these are 42 players of the highest quality, it’s impossible to split them, especially as some played nearly 50 years ago. KDB is world class, but out of the legends on this list i don’t think he’d be in my top 5
@@bluest.9320
You have Ronaldo, Alan Shearer, Dennis Bergkamp, Eric Cantona and Jonh Terry(if we forget what a jackass he was off the pitch) among the contenders. Kevin is a hell of a player but not we dont have to put a top5 without even knowing who he races against.
Fowler’s celebration was absolutely genius. 😂
Iconic
The fowler one is my favourite. Still remember it fondly. Was a great way to shut people up
Do a video about forgettable football trivia that helps your viewers to cope with the never ending dread that is to live in the modern world. Cheers!
Hey can you please do me a favour and watch some of the videos on my channel
fucking LOL
Make an 11 of the most talented players since 2000 who were uncapped by their national team
That's a great suggestion. I'm often amazed when I see players who were prolific but made, say, ten appearances. Often, it's the result of terrible timing, or managers who just decided they hated a player.
There's some top players you'd have in there. Cuddicini being one of them
Robbie Fowler’s was hilarious
I still can't believe cavani got a red for doing a celebration he does all the time
Day 12: A Reunited Ireland XI
Republic of Ireland xi with johnny evans
@ThexNex oliver norwood? 🤣🤣
@ThexNex are they all catholic?
@@jackfinn144 that means nothing if we're united again theyll play no matter what
@@ja1295 what if we aren’t united
Fowler with the two of the best goal celebrations is history, and very opposite in meaning. first, trolling everton fans and sticking up for himself, second showing political awareness and empathy for others with his dockers t-shirt celebration during the liverpool dock strikes.
Absolute fucking Legend, God!
10:05 RIP monetization
RIP my recommendations
Honestly thinking about where he was from it might not be a nazi salute, correct me if im completely wrong here and defend a nazi but isnt/wasnt that a normal way of saluting in greece?
@@danielbergeespe1636 There wouldn't have been the reaction that there was if it was a normal way of greeting people. It's called a Roman Salute, nothing greek about, and surprising nothing Roman about it as well.
@@bri1085 oh well then im wrong, it is roman though when its called a roman salute right? Its funny to see how that many things that the nazis took were common before, like the nazi sign aswell was not controversial at all.
@@danielbergeespe1636 It's not really Roman, it's Roman only in that it relates to the Holy Roman Empire which the Nazis refer to as the first Reich, which was actually German.
Heck yeah, I'm part off the 'first comments' crew!
Shout out to my mom!!
Go fun ur self
Shout out to Victor’s mom too.
Yo shout out to his mom
Shout out to the homies mom
4:00 - I'm really confused, Plymouth have played Real Madrid??
They played a pre-season friendly in 2006 vs Real Madrid. Madrid won 1-0
@bradley PAFC nice
@@hannesp3493 would’ve expected Madrid to thrash them
@@jackfinn144 probably played their third string players
@@vincehackl3789 prob
Who's here in 2041
Just planning for the future
@Flaming Skull Anything interesting from 2040? Would MLS be a great league?
@Ben Buckley 😂😂
@Flaming Skull
Yes, but can we call how lucky Sunderland is? I mean winning the Premier League out of nowhere in 2039, then winning the Champions League in 2040 while also being relegated and currently being second in the Championship while beating Milan of Zlatan's 4-3...
@Flaming Skull Pity. I thought the MLS was starting to phase out of its retirement home status and grow into a youth-development league.
Well yes but actually no
When the greek guy at the end would have done that in germany he would've gone to prison
And thats how you know that Germany is a puppet of Israel
@@mrniceguywinkyface1524 It's how you know that we have learned from the despicable mistakes the generations of our parents and grandparents have made, you disrespectful twat
@@mrniceguywinkyface1524 ooooooh, are you triggered becausr people nowadays won't let you get away with displaying racist and downright despicable behaviour?? You need a tissue, you big bad bully? 😢😢😢😢You're over here talking about beta-males while getting triggered because people won't let you be racist. Just gtfo here
I’m not surprised, dont Germany take really strong precautions with that salute and any positive talk about the nazis now? I’m not sure because I’m British but that’s what I’ve heard.
@@2studdxd192 Yeah, doing the Nazi salute, denying the reality of the events of the holocaust or displaying extreme nazism can get you in jail here. We really want to make sure to not let it get as far as it did before the Second World War ever again
I'm a Man United fan for this very reason. Liverpool has Shaqiri and Arsenal has Xhaka. I can't stand them.
Both are hypocrites! They had the chance to play for their beloved countries and they refused, so much for being proud Albanians! All talk, no action!
At number 7 you get 3 for 1: Lichtsteiner made the eagle gesture too. Controversial or not, nobody should have the right to "boo" a national anthem or a player for his heritage/roots. Justice was served on the pitch.
I thought Lichtsteiner was like the prince of Lichtenstein
@@bri1085 No... just a player and Captain of the football team at the World Cup
Both had the chance to play for their countries, guess what, they refused! So much for their national pride! All talk and no action!
Ranking every Barcelona centre back since puyols debut
"Fowler a record ban for the time..." Well...tell us what that was then...
I'm not writing this to take anyone's side, however it is important to point out that both Shaqiri and Xhaka were heavily booed by the Serbian fans every time they touched the ball. It doesn't make it less controversial, but I just wanna point out that both players did not just do it out of sheer, random stupidity or something like that
You know that the game, didn't happen in Serbia right? With all of those sounds, it would be practically impossible to hear booing
@@WERTYUIO821 So you're seriously trying to tell me you can't differentiate boos from the rest of the noise at a football stadium?
@@Ochikrasnye
Have you been in one? Even if you can it would be stupid to act based on that sound over thousands others.
They wanted to do it, they have been in photos doing the eagl and were probably planning to do it either way. The rest are just excuses.
@@WERTYUIO821 your point is not valid because you are biased against both of these players. I don’t care about who’s wrong and who’s right. What I saw and heard during the game was both of them getting booed every time they touched the ball, to which they responded provocatively. Those are simple facts, and I don’t care about making anyone look bad over some idiotic politics.
About the booing: you’re claiming it’s impossible to hear boos in the stadium noise. Well how come people hear stuff like chants and boos during games in general? If no one ever heard them, no one would even know that such things exist. I understand that no one would hear 10 people shouting over a 20k crowd, but during that game almost half of the stadium was Serbian.
You are biased, you don’t want to admit that both sides did some wrong, you’re only interested in throwing shade on Xhaka and Shaqiri, so what’s the point?
@@Ochikrasnye
The booing is usually right next to the TV cameras.
I don't really understand how shaqiri showing support for his country is so wrong, can anyone explain?
Albanians and Serbs hate eachother. Serbs thinks Kosovo is still Serbia will Albanians think Kosovo is Kosovo. Its really offensive as Kosovo was a part of Serbia for centuries
He should have gone to play for them, when he had the chance, since he loves his homeland so much! Guess what, the hypocrite refused! He chose to play for the Swiss Nati, so he should shut up and keep his moronic gestures to himself, or else ship out where he came from!
Morale for the video : "Don't be a dick"
Bale copyrighted the heart celebration? Surely it’s gotta be in the public domain by now
Lol, bale thinks a lot of himself, people were doing that heart gesture along time ago.
One of my favourite goal celebrations is Luis Suarez dicing in front of David Moyes after the former Everton manager had accused him of diving.
Another one - involving Luis Suarez again, was him celebrating Asamoah Gyan missing a penalty after being sent off for a deliberate handball.
I'm Swedish living in England but also have Albanian ancestry so I liked Shaqiri,s and Xaka,s celebration. I'm also a Liverpool fan so loved Fowler's celebration too
"It's not uncommon not to celebrate a goal against your former club"
Ngl mate, that was a few too many negations for me...
No, that wasn't not too many negatives, not at all.
Football back in the 70s and 80s, players would go all out to score against their previous club. The only exception was Denis Law, and that because his previous club, Man I, would be relegated because of his goal.
You could easily swap out “controversial” for “wildly inappropriate” for most of these.
Day 10: Suriname XI if all eligible players declared
Xi of polish players descent who are eligible
Bergwijn
@@olliedixon2305 and many more
@@olliedixon2305 half the Ajax team that won the CL in '95.
Diego Maradona screaming directly into a camera against Greece at WC 1994 moments before being kicked out of the WC for cocaine abuse
Day 21: the decline of Scottish football how teams like Celtic and Aberdeen went from European trophies to struggling to qualify and why the national team has become so poor
Rangers won European trophy too
Money
@@robbie8194 before they died
@@adam3079 just won 55 pal, keep crying
7 of the Best players from each of the Premier Divisons in the UK and Ireland (SPFL, Premier League, Welsh Premiership, LOI Premiership & NIFL Premiership
0:05 Oscar scoring against Germany in the world cup 2014: Are my feelings a joke to you?
Do teams that have fell of in the past 5 years
Arsenal
@Ben Buckley yea
Stuttgart :(
Bolton
@Ben Buckley true but they've only been below the championship for a few years
7 greatest footballers that have been "forgotten" i.e. all time greats that are rarely mentioned in discussions for the GOAT/best in their position
I think a list of examples better explains the concept:
Miodrag Belodedici (2x UCL winner and star player for the unfancied Steaua of 86 and Red Star's 91 winners), Oleg Blokhin (Ballon D'Or winner), Romario (more goals than Pele), Gunter Netzer (was considered Gladbach's best player even while Keegan was there), Sandor Kocsis, Nandor Hidegkuti (both outshone Puskas in the Hungary national team of the 50s), Enzo Francescoli (one of the greatest dribblers of all time and hardly anyone knows who he is), Des Walker (arguably the best english CB between Franklin's retirement and Terry's debut), Dunga (most underrated World Cup winning captain of recent decades), Mathias Sammer (Ballon D'Or winner), Alessandro Costacurta (The focus is always on Maldini and Baresi but this guy was just as good!) etc.
I'd be interested to see your list Alfie :)
Hey man thanks for giving me some new players that are legends ik dunga and romario thats it didn't know any of these players thanks for expanding my football knowledge always appreciated
Sounds as if you could make individual videos about them. Even players like Garrincha and Eusebio don't get incredible amounts of attention. Or what of Just Fontaine and his thirteen goal World Cup? He only played 21 national matches and retired at 28.
@@stevencooke6451 Very true but even when people talk about underrated players, we dont hear much about the guys I listed - especially, imo, Oleg Blokhin and Miodrag Belodedici. I feel like Eusebio and Garrincha still get a *decent (albeit not enough) amount of due plaudits
I think it's partly due to the iron curtain effect in the case of Blokhin but it's a curious thing given he was easily the best player in the USSR teams that got to 2 Euros finals across 3 tournaments (and was in a squad player in 72 as well, where they were runners up) and Yashin, who by only actually playing well in one tournament with the USSR is always remembered - both won a ballon dor so i am curious as to why this is the case. Furthermore in the case of Blokhin, he played very similarly to Ronaldinho and players like that - skillful, magical feat, etc. etc. often get romanticised through nostalgia, but the opposite happened to Oleg
As for Belodedici he is arguably an even better passer at centerback than Beckenbauer was. Furthermore, this is partnered with the fact he basically played like Vidic when not in possession lead to a very unique defender who was by far the best in the backlines of 2 of the 3 most unlikely European Cup/Champions League winning teams of all time. He was everpresent in both and there's a strong argument to therefore be made that he wasn't just the most important player but almost singlehandedly won the trophies with his defensive performances (especially the Steaua side). He's so forgotten that if you search him up on youtube the ONLY videos you can find are Romanian (where he's from). Literally nobody outside Romania seem to remember him - that's the literal definition of forgotten. Like, there's a very strong argument that he could be the greatest centerback of all time (though I'd still say Beckenbauer and Baresi >). It's the equivalent of nobody outside of Spain remembering Ramos, for example, in about 30 years time. It's just mindblowing
It would make for an amazing video especially with Miodrags immigrant and impoverished roots and the fact he was a political refugee in Yugoslavia for 3 years during his career
Enzo francescoli is the greatest player in River Plate's history, he is pretty well known here in Argentina.
English Carribean XI if all players declared e.g Sterling Rashford Delph Smalling
I find fowler's celebration absolutely hilarious
The fact Luke McCormick is still allowed to play football is a disgrace
Yep only retired last year. Absolutely shocking, only did 4yrs for killing 2 children. Its fing heartbreaking tbh. Plymouth and Swindon should be ashamed.
Katidis back to football ⚽
katidis, actually didnt really knew what nazis where, since he stopped participating in school at 13. At the time he did the salute, Xrusi Augi, a neonazi political party, got it the greek parliament with 7% of the popular vote, and a lot of greek comedians did skits satirizing it and doing the salute. He said he saw it there and did it for fun because he saw a lot of people doing it. He was not a neonazi or far right, he was just illiterate.
Yep, he does sound like an idiot
Where did you get this informati on from? Can't find it anywhere...
@@6BfMV2 I'm from Greece, there have been a lot of interviews with this player , cause there was a lot of drama at the time
@@6BfMV2 here is an interview with katidis in greek for anyone who wants to see i t if you understand greek :ruclips.net/video/636Si-6tBAc/видео.html
and heres a video satirizing the far right party that got into parliament(and using the salute): ruclips.net/video/eKu_fnXHWG0/видео.html
@@alexdownfeet882 I may have a Greek name, but I don't understand it. Thank you anyway 👍🏻
i think it's worth mentioning that the swiss national team has had issues with half albanian players doing the double headed eagle as a goal celebration before. it happened quite often, so the teams leaders decided together with the players, that they would not perform this kind of celebration while in the dress of the swiss national team (which makes sense). so shaqiri and xhaka (as our captain) performing that celebration against serbia anyway was even more controversial than just that, but we also kind of expected this to happen if they scored against serbia
Don't worry of scoring, they won't. mamu cemo vam j. u kataru ! :)
Turkish national team saluting in military fashion didn't make the cut?
I dont know how thats a bad thing, it seems fairly normal for a national team from turkey
Di Canio should have made the list, with his infamous "celebration".
hes just showing how tall his corn crop grew that year
Davor Suker and his goose step. Didn’t Di Canio do the salute in a Sunderland shirt too? Or am I making that up?
Enunciate please... You're swallowing away the ends of sentences that makes understanding it a little difficult 🙏🏻
Day 66: 2012-2013 and 2019-2020 Bayern Munich Combined XI
Im albanian from Kosova And That celebration Made people in Kosova so Happy , even serbians heard us screaming, We couldn’t not hear them crying tho , Interesting 🧐 😂🇽🇰🇦🇱♥️
i was in albania at the time and everyone went insane
Albania and Kosova make Serbs mad 🇦🇱🇽🇰
😂😂😂😂
As an Ipswich that wasn’t born yet back then I have never heard of or seen that David Norris celebration but now I have and that’s disgusting that he thought that would be ok
Good luck on getting back to the championship
@@grassy141 thanks
james McClean when he had a shirt that said free derry, true Irishman.
That's not controversially
Day 16: 7 Asian or African teams that could compete in a big 5 league
Zero!
Define "compete" do you mean that they would be challenging for titles, or just staying up and not getting relegated ?
Galatasaray, Besiktas, Fenerbace, Al Ahli, Al Nassr, Al Ittihad, Al Hilal, Guangzhou, Shanghai SIPG, Zenit St. Petersburg, Lokomotiv Moscow, Spartak Moscow, PFK ZSKA Moscow, Dynamo Moscow. Just to name a few.
@@da8s You've listed 2 Asian teams and then a bunch of European and Middle Eastern teams
@@da8s galatasaray, besiktas fenerbache, zenit st petersburg, lokomotiv moscow, spartak moscow, dynamo and cska moscow are all at least technically european (since Istanbul and moscow are in Europe
Day 1: Ranking every English player to play overseas since 1960
i support plymouth and have watched their games for years. i didn’t know that about mccormick, and i always thought he was pretty cool. a lot of kids who go to the games say that mccormick is their favourite. if only they knew
He was later made club captain by Roy Keane,
say no more,
disappointed at the sad lack of ex Yugoslavs and Italian fascists ( yes I know there was one )in the list,
Surprisingly Di Canio only got a passing mention
What the hell did we do
I’m glad you cleared up what a goal celebration is.... 🤔👀
I wish people would stop using terms like "flawed human being" when describing addicts, alcoholics or those with mental health issues.
Why
It's not just about his addiction, he admitted to beating his wife and is accused of racial abuse that lead to him getting his ass kicked
If you drink and drive then kill two kids I don't think you should worry if I call you a flawed human being. That's probably on the nicer side of what I would say.
0:15 That looks like Jack's combover is blowing in the breeze
When I saw xhaka and shalqiri did the double headed eagel as a Albanian I felt great
kinda sucks the good albanian and kosovar players are marked as swiss and play for the swiss teams
@@tookwispy2593 The upper management in both the Albanian and Kosovar football federations is unfortunately really inept and therefore incompetent in creating new talent in their countries, with only very few exceptions like Amir Rrahmani for example, who currently plays for Naples (as a defender, btw).
One of my favourite controversial celebrations was done by a colombian player who played for Rosario central against boca in which he made a sash gesture across his body referencing the sash on the river plate jersey because he used to play for river and river is Bocas greatest rival. That caused a near brawl in the field and a red card for the player. But whats confusing about the celebration is that he was generally unliked when he played at River and was let go because of his poor performance so people were confused why he was paying homage to a club that didn't like him very much while playing for a completely different team. It came across as "please like me again River!" While also being disrespectful to his current team at the time. In short that celebration managed to piss everyone off including his own team which is an amazing feat. He was also controversial for bringing a loaded pistol to the locker room one time.
Another more mild controversial celebration i remember was by a DC united player versus the newly renamed Red Bull New York in which he celebrated by miming opening a red bull can, taking a sip, then spitting it out in disgust and throwing the can away. I believe he only got a yellow card for that but for mls standards its pretty controversial if not the most controversial mls celebration ever.......mls is pretty family friendly lol. And in a much deeper analysis, because mls is a single entity where the league owns all the clubs and players so he was in a sense making an insult to the league itself. Idk lol but I do remember it being pretty controversial at the time
man i love this channel 🤠🤠🤠🤠 i hope alfie makes videos forever
Quick hug and kiss... swift dry root... those were the days.
Best teams in the word if every team could use only and any academy graduates
Switzerland and Serbia are in the same group again.
Paul Gascoigne did that celebration twice. Idk why there's this idea that he didn't know what it meant but I've heard that lie before so I will quote the man directly. "The second time I knew... the Celtic fans were harassing us and so I did The Sash thing" (The Sash is what he was mimicking with the flute) He knew what it means, what it's called and what would happen. He was irresponsible in firing up sectarian tension. Absolute dimwit.
What a boring video, at least you would have put the footage of te celebretions
He's a copyright pussy
lmao when did plymouth play real madrid 3:58
In 2006
In 2006 in the pre season. Real Madrid won 1-0
amazing video from the lad again
You said that David Norris' celebration was linked to a murder conviction, but then go on to describe a situation involving his former teammate that does not come close to meeting the threshold for murder.
Do opposite of this video, the most impressive celebration you ever seen
Imagine Di Canio got a lifetime ban from Italy national team like Katidis with Greece lol
He didn't get called anyway.
Ikr the man can make Nazi salute anytime he wants lol
We don't care about someone speaking, we want to see the celebrations
2:18 entirely justified
I knew about lacrosse, but I didn't know sterling archer liked football
As a hongkonger, I am still tryna find the dentist chair Gazza got pissed in
@Eight Francs a place called China jump nightclub in wan chai, but closed down more then a decade ago ffs
LOVE YOUR CHANNEL
Xhaka's and Shaqiri's celebrations were not controversial in any way. They are Albanians and they celebrated their goals doing the national emblem of the country. Serbians often celebrate similarly with their own hand sign version (see Albania vs Serbia in 2015). If the national symbol of a country is controversial, then singing the anthems before games is equally controversial.
it shouldnt be controversial, but with the serbian fans and all the history, it was
It is controversial, because that sign means "great albania" which contains also part of Serbian territory. Plus, they not play for albania, but for fucking Swiss. Stfu
@@DarkAngel-yz9zi So you are telling me, an Albanian, what that sign means? Go to sleep kid.
@@imanuelcaushi4711
Yeah, u're gonna tell me, as Serbian, what does that mean 🤣🤣 U're Analbanian, of course, u protect your nation, I'm Serbian doing the same. That's the sign of "great analbania" which analbanians also use to provooke Serbs when they left Kosovo and Metohija. 🇷🇸☦
@@DarkAngel-yz9zi Ok buddy hugs and kisses xoxo
Here in the USA, Alex Morgan’s “tea drinking” salute was made a big deal at the Women’s World Cup 2019. How was it received in the UK?
I dont think much people cared i forgot that even happened
It honestly was fake outrage
I don't think anyone cared much about the women's football so they probably received it as "Who is Alex Morgan?"
@@WERTYUIO821 im pretty sure they know who she is bruh.
@@josiahvoisin7991
Dont be so sure... I personally have watched it once or twice and saw the 2019 women world cup on TV, but it is not something that many people watch.
Gazza knew exactly what he was doing against celtic
It wasn't against Celtic, knowing the little I do know about Gazza, I doubt he knew.
Ian Fergason told him 2 do it he admitted it.
It was against Ajax on the pitch and I think he done it while warming up against celtic.
As a Rangers man I loved having Gazza play for us but I am am not convinced that he knew exactly what he was doing at any time or indeed what day of the week it was...having said that he was a genius on the pitch and that is why he was and always will be adored by Rangers fans.
This man is so unintentionally funny
Alan Shearer used to do Nazi salute all the time, actually 260 times he scored in the league but NEVER once banned!
Its actually a Roman Salute
French Caribbean XI if players declared e.g Martial Lacazette Coman Varane etc 🙌
Im Serbian and also an Arsenal fan and I can't stand the dissrespect of Granit Xhacka
I just can't stand that guy 😤😤😤
🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇽🇰🇽🇰🇽🇰❤❤❤
@@tralala2244 Ok boomer...
@@pekar43 :3
I'm surprised shaqiri and arnautovic managed to co-exist at Stoke they seemed to like each other
You can hate a country’s government and not the people
Which is really odd, because Shaqiri claims to be a fierce patriot for his country of origin, while Arnautovic once insulted a North Macedonian player (It was Egjzan Alioski, who's an ethnic Albanian) during a UEFA Euro 2021 match between Austria and North Macedonia.
Anyone else remember Anelka's quinelle gesture but completely forget that he was playing for West Brom at the time? Completely took me by surprise.
feels like ive seen this thumbnail for the 20th timr
I listen to an interview with a guy on Vaush who was a scholar on Nazi movements and fascism in Greece, particularly Golden Dawn. Holy shit I had no idea it was so prevalent. I remember those fascist salutes, particularly Di Canio's, because here in Campania everybody knows he knew what he was signaling. There's still kids christened Benito here and there in Italy. Everybody knows about that element of Lazio and their supporters. Till that Greek kid threw his salute, I had no idea it was as bad in Greece too.
It's still bad but neonazis are mostly shunned by people. There are many that try to downplay their fascist and nationalist views but they fail miserably. Slowly but surely, things are trying to get a bit better
Fowler also had another super controversial one with his Free the Dockers shirt from the dockers strike in 1997 and he was fined for that
There was one celebration in the mexican soccer league u surely missed.. some years back football club Santos was playing a match when a shootout started to happend and prompted everyone to run into the pitch .. a couple of weeks after two soccer players celebrated by acting like they were shooting at the supporters
So look bro...
Absolutely criminal (for real this time) that Luke McCorprick is still making a living out of football. Genuine bastard.
Yep hope he rots in hell. Shocking that he only did 4 yrs. Swindon and Plymouth are a disgrace tbh.
Robbie Fowler is the reason i'm a Liverpool fan since 1995. I treasure his old '96 Liverpool shirt.
I remember anelkas celebration like yesterday time passes quickly