What On Earth Is Going On At Cruzeiro?
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- Cruzeiro are one of the most successful clubs in Brazil, and in South America, having won the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A four times, the Copa do Brasil a record six times, and the Copa Libertadores twice.
The club from Belo Horizonte were crowned champions of Brazilian football / soccer in both 2013 and 2014, and won the Copa do Brasil as recently as 2018, yet they suffered their first relegation in 2019, and are now at threat of dropping down into the third tier.
Now managed by World Cup winning boss Luiz Felipe Scolari, in this documentary video, HITC Sevens takes a look at the rise and fall of Cruzeiro, and how their sudden decline has come about.
Germany: i have one team
Spain: we have 2
Italy: we do have a big 4
England: big four pfff we have at least six contenders
Brazil: hold my beer... *big 12*
they call big 12, because of ones that had one title here and there, and that old 13's Club,
but the reality is that the country has a is big 4-6
Cruzeiro(despite the relegation), São Paulo, Flamengo, Grêmio, Corinthians and Palmeiras...
Santos(despite the history), Inter, Fluminense, Atletico-MG and PR, and others with all due respect are 2 tier teams
@@RafaelSantos_ (eu sou brasileiro)
Italy used to have a big 7, now it' pretty much 6 (juve, inter, Milan, Roma Lazio and Napoli, but now you can maybe count Atalanta as a seventh one)
@@RafaelSantos_ Nah Inter and Santos are big teams
@@bidza5059 they really aren’t
For those who didn't get how serious this is. They tried to hire a guy from a traditional religion in Brazil to bless the stadium and the pre match locker room, but they couldn't pay him and created a debt with him. Fans then organized themselves to raise money and quit this debt.
@Futebol Paranaense ele tá falando sobre a dívida com o pai de santo
@Futebol Paranaense tu esta em um video em ingles e não entendeu o que o cara escreveu ??
Really? This is Serious!?
@@celular-contaprincipaligor9368 sim
@@macacotuberculo9231 ja pagou ja
Corruption man, I am Brazilian and its crazy what they have done to such a great club.
Hopefully Scolari helps then now at the field.
Do you think Orlando(you support them right?) can do well in the playoffs?
@@3dsaulgoodman43 I think so.
We had a good run with this same team at MLS is back tournament.
However winning it all... I am not sure. In my opinion they are not even top 3 favorites.
@@3dsaulgoodman43 how old are you mate
@@pkingglazersout6665 Mid-teens
@@3dsaulgoodman43 ah ok cause I know you live in Malaysia (you have stated that before) and I live in Singapore so just thought of getting to know you better and make friends, nice to bump into you anyways
As a brazilian I think its awesome when you talk about our football, it just feels great to still be recognized in spite of the level that we are compared to Europe
^^
@@Lucas-zu2es I sometimes speak about Brazilian football on my channel too. I use football topics to teach English and English football vocabulary. Please take a look.
The brazilian league is in 14th place in FIFA league rankings, so it is expected to be as popular as nordic football worldwide.
@@sergiowinter5383 which is very, very unfair to be honest. Brazil right now is not anywhere near the European top 5 leagues, but we're certainly better than peripheral European leagues.
The problem is the Ocean away that apparently makes it hard for Europeans to look at us with respect.
@@vitorpavani7125 What actually happens, and you know that, is that every good player in Brazil is haressed and ends up leaving Brazil for a better payment (either in Europe or Asia). And that's what is killing Brazil's football.
Unbelievable. I didn’t know that a Brazilian giant like Cruzeiro are struggling to survive in the second tier of Brazilian football. Impressive!
Things like this are normal here sadlly
@@KartingRules Not exactly normal, but as Brazil has a lot of parity in the top tier division, in parts due to players that succeed being taken away by the more wealthy European clubs, and the fact that every year there is 10-12 clubs with decent odds of winning it all leads to every once in a while one of the big clubs has a shitstorm of a year and may end up spending a year in the second division paying for their mistakes. Cruzeiro however is doing something new, as they had put themselves in such a deep hole financially that they managed to field a squad that if Felipao doesnt do some magic are not only not coming back to the top tier division (which is unprecedented for one of the biggest 12 clubs) but could also end up relegated to Serie C.
@@henriquesoares2343 bro but Cruz is not the only club with shit owners here.
Havent you seen Inter or Botafogo?
The table this year are only moving because Flamengo are not finding a way to win every game and stuff
@@KartingRules teams from the "big-12" being relegated to tier 2? Yes, that is normal indeed. Those same teams struggling, unlikely to be promoted in their first year at tier 2, that is not normal at all. The only case that was remotely similar was Fluminense being relegated to tier 3, but then Série B was not disputed in 38 games.
They are trying to achieve what Fluminense did at 1998. They were relegated to the Série C (tier 3) and then they were promoted directly to the Série A.
Maybe Cruzeiro's goal is even more ambitious, drop to Série D and then be promoted directly to Série A 🤔🤔
What's up Zezé, good morning, dude
Di Zeze, buenos días, hombre
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Two docs in a row. Christmas has come early, my friends.
Indeed.
That match that relegated Cruzeiro was unforgettable, for about 10 minutes we were watching a game with shots being fired in the background
*Rubber bullets shots
Was in Belo the day they got relegated. Half the city were depressed, the other half celebrating like they'd won the league
Yeah because our rivals have nothing to celebrate besides that
LOL
Luís Eduardo kkkkkk agente ta no topo da A e vcs la embaixo na B e me vem falar uma coisa dessas 😂
@Rafael Nunes Duarte Vcs nao conseguem nem levantar a taça da B...
@Rafael Nunes Duarte serio q vc acha q vao ganhar? kkkkkk
Just a correction, the three titles between 2017 an 2018 are 2 Copa do Brasil and 1 Campeonato Mineiro, instead of 2 Campeonato Mineiro, been the only club to win two Copa do Brasil in a row, making even worse what happened in 2019.
But fantastic video, best football channel on youtube
I love these documentaries, especially about clubs that you I normally wouldn't take an interest in, Alfie you are really doing gods work, keep it up
I'm a Cruzeiro fan since I was born I've been to many games and loved the club my whole life. It's very sad what happened to such a giant club in such a short period of time. The team was criminally run by Wagner and especially Itair (which bankrupted another team, Ipatinga FC from my home town). Now the team is deeply in debt and it seems unlikely to be able to gain promotion this year. We are slowly gaining some confidence that we will eventually return to the top tier, now with Felipão in charge and the new president has been able to make some very good deals for us. We are down but we are not out and hopefully we'll come back stronger!
força pra você mano, sou tricolor e entendo bem como é ter uma má fase fudida dessa
I love the way you pronounce words in portuguese, hahaha. On a serious note, great work here, Cruzeiro has been a bit better now in Serie B with Felipão Scolari but their situation is tough. Something similar happened to my club, Internacional, just a few years back. Corruption in brazilian football is killing the sport.
It wasn't corruption in Cruzeiro's case though, it was just a really dumb president that didn't realize that paying high wages to players is just sustainable as long as they keep winning, the moment that didn't happen the shit hit the fan, as they had dug themselves in deep financial problems
@@henriquesoares2343 it's not "just" anything, it all piles up. Had it not been for the obscure deals and off the books payments, the financial hardships wouldn't have hit as hard as they did. Once the club starts missing salary payments, it's hard to turn things around. Then, on top of all of that, it doesn't help if most main players are all expensive, influent and past their peak.
Caraí olha os brasileiros querendo dar uma de gringo kkkk
@@lucasmanoel2781 Fiz um vídeo sobre os 'Doze Grandes' no meu canal. Sou britânico, mas às vezes faço vídeos sobre a liga brasileira. Eu quero ajudar as pessoas a aprender o vocabulário do futebol inglês. Por favor dê uma olhada.
Cruzeiro continua uma bosta kkkkkkk
Loved the video, also in the late 90's Fluminense was relegated to 3rd division and played, but in a big scandal of competition organization, skipped 2rd tier and got back to elite in the following year.
That could make a great video, need more research of course haha
WTF
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Research seems to be no problem for Alfie haha
So did other clubs...
the famous Big Carpet
Thanks for the video, Alfie! As a Cruzeiro fan, i am skeptical about the club's situation, but i think Scolari will take us in the right direction. Vamos vamos Cruzeiro!🦊💙💪
Me to
Zeeeeeeeeiro 💙🦊
vai nada pô, torço pro cruzeiro tbm mas sou realista, não vai conseguir subir e a situação vai piorar nos próximos anos, não adianta ter história, ter camisa pesada se os jogadores são horríveis, vai acabar se tornando um guarani, bangu, portuguesa...
Série C
@@Flavim_mf tem melhorado
Eu sei que você está procurando um comentário em português. Parabéns, você encontrou!
obrigadu TOLEDU
the amount of corruption in brazilian football is just ridiculous
also love your videos on brazilian football Alfie, keep up the good work mate
Love this southamerican content and would love to see some River Plate academy graduates around the world video or history or something like that!
Even being an Atlético Mineiro fan and enjoying taking the piss off Cruzeiro supporters, i hope they get better(but not too much) so the rivalry can continue, Thanks for making this video alfie
Eu também não ia querer que o atlético acabasse, torcer pra um time e não ter rival deve ser uma bosta
I am from Turkey and I had the chance to follow your transfers this offseason. Yall built a great team.
Berke Eraksoy Yes! We ended 13th last season and now we’re fighting for the title with an almost completely different XI!
@@areisc1390 be careful with that debt or else u guys will be seein us
mishagi!!!!!!!! Pior que sim... 😅😭
Cruziero won there game against botafogo SP 1-0. They play again today (9/11/20) against Guarani who sit 14th, 1 place and 1 point above Cruzeiro.
And as a fun fact, leaders of the Serie B is Chspecoense. 5 points clear after playing 20 of 38 games.
Edit: Also it’s Luiz Felipe Scolari’s Birthday today
Funny fact: Fabio, Cruzeiro‘s club legend and 1st choice keeper in the 2019 fatidic season, is the keeper who conceded the most goals against Rogerio Ceni, one of the 4 coaches that mananged that club on that season, while he was still a professional footballer. Fabio conceded 7 goals against his former coach while, curiously, Ceni was also a goalkeeper.
Update:
Now we lead the Second division and promotion seems inevitable. However, in the three years that we were out things have changed dramatically and the teams in Brasileirão have never been so dominant (ask anyone in South América, If thats not true).
Ronaldo Nazário is now the owner of the club and the future seems brighter. But staying next year in first division will prove to be a hard task.
Great video, even i, a brazillian guy learned things about Cruzeiro that i didnt knew before.
But you missed a point that is interesting. The oldest, most expensive and sucesseful players, that we call "Medalhões" (huge medals) in Brazil were one of the biggest responsables of the relegation. Players like Neves, Fred, Dedé, Egídio and others.
They made Ceni get fired when the team was starting doing better and showed a poor attitude.
Neves was the worst of them all. He missed a penalty in one of the last games that was so off target that the fans thought he did that on pourpouse.
Than he faked an injury to miss the remaining matches. In the game against Palmeiras he wasnt even on the stadium to support. Instead, he was seen doing a popular drug, called lança, in the councert of a famous "pagode" artist
That's crazy and good knowledge to add to the story. (I sometimes make videos about the Brasileirao on my channel. I use football topics to teach English. Please take a look.)
Fala Zezé, bom dia.
Então o Neves bafora lança kkkkk cada dia uma coisa nova que eu vejo sobre o Cruzeiro 🤦🏻♂️ espero que eles fiquem bons novamente
Great Vídeo... Cruzeiroooooo💙💙💙💙💙
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Olê olê olê Cruzeiro serie C
C de Série (C)ruzeiro
Arerê arêêê Cruzeiro vai jogar a série *C*
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O que ele disse?
Do a video about the rise and fall of São Caetano. Two times runners up of campeonato brasileiro in 2000 and 2001, and also runners up in the copa libertadores of 2002, recently they were humiliated by losing for 9-0 in the brazilian 4° division
And, yesterday (11-14-2020) W.Oed a game against Marcilio Dias. They just don't traveled at all.
Good to see foreigns talking about Brazilian clubs, thank you.
As a Cruzeiro supporter, a few notes:
- Wagner Pires de Sa took power in 2018, after the glorious 2017 season when Cruzeiro won Brazil Cup. Here, Brazil Cup is almost as valuable as Brazilian Championship, mainly because there are many big clubs, so it's hard to win anything (except useless state championships).
- In addition to being called the biggest financial crisis from a Brazilian club in history, Cruzeiro was the first one to get relegated without retaining First Division's TV revenue, so it was always super easy for big clubs to return to Série A. In Brazil, money from TV is by far the biggest source of revenue. If the rule hadn't changed, Cruzeiro would earn almost as much TV money as all other Second Division clubs combined. But now the money is equally divided among all.
- Cruzeiro former name was Palestra Italia, just like Palmeiras in São Paulo. Yale was another Italian descendants club from Belo Horizonte, it even played against Cruzeiro (Palestra Italia) a couple of times. When the government banned names and symbols related to The Axis, the name was provisionally changed to Palestra Mineiro (people from Minas Gerais state are "Mineiros"), then the board chose the name Cruzeiro, from Cruzeiro do Sul (Crux), one of the most known constellations, only visible in southern sky. You can see Cruzeiro's stars on almost every Brazilian symbol (including the flag), on Australia and New Zealand flags etc.
Thiago Neves and the penalty
I went to brazil and saw the game flamengo vs cruzeiro in copa libertadores, cruzeiro played beautifully and won, i never would have guessed the team would be relegated, but then again, even river plate and america de cali have been relegated
one big factor too is that the Brazilian league stopped giving parachute payments to clubs that dropped from Serie A to Serie B, which used to be a huge factor for relegated clubs to keep some of their squad and coast back to promotion the following year. Not only is Cruzeiro in huge debt, but they didn't get the extra cash that clubs like Vasco got when they got the drop. But considering Chapecoense's form in the Serie B, it's not much of an excuse.
Also, an even more dramatic fall was Fluminense in the late 90s, the only big club to drop to the 2nd division and then to the 3rd division the following year. They only got back to the 1st division through some unbelievably ridiculous rule changes that pulled them (and pretty much just them) up from the 3rd division straight to the 1st division in 2000, in the aptly named Copa João Havelange. Since then they still owe the Brazilian people at least one season in the 2nd division, having gotten out of that recently through another ridiculous set of off-field rulings.
As a Brazilian, i really enjoyed this video.
Would love to see more videos on our football.
I sometimes make videos about Brazilian football. I use football topics to teach English on my channel. Please take a look.
O que fizeram com meu Cruzeiro :(
I'm brazilian and surprisingly you nailed the pronunciation (for a foreigner)
Tá zoando né cara, ele falou com muito sotaque
5:33 I remember John Lennon! There was a famous picture on Twitter of him being subbed for someone named Adriano Michael Jackson.
Coisas que só o futebol brasileiro proporciona
Sorry, I don't speak Portuguese.
@@saintroddy but your name is very brazilian.... Well, he said that is things that only the brazilian football can show up
Lol I'm Filipino. Thanks for the translation.
Que?
I'm a supporter of Cruzeiro and this video is a good summary of what happened.
The directors board of the club has always been an equivalent to North Korea,
nobody outside knows what is happening until the scandal.
The fact is that the club has had problems since 2004, the representatives of the clube at the time, Perrella's family organized an almost complete dismantling of the 2003 squad (best Brazilian team in this century), selling very talented athletes at a bargain price, they even brought Rivaldo (the same as was at the 2002 World Cup) for 04 season, but unfortunately it was one of the worst signings in the club's history, Zezé Perrella later dedicated himself to politics, becoming a senator, and lforgotting and leaving the club on the verge of relegation in 2011, we didn't fall because luckily the last game was against the rival who is a historic customer (the game ended in a resounding 6x1). In 2012 there was a small change in the presidency of the club, the name was changed, but the candidate Gilvan Tavares received support from Perrela's to take over, after an apathetic first year, in 2013 a very strong cast was assembled and until then without great stars, players like Éverton Ribeiro (today at Flamengo) and Ricardo Goulart (today at Guangzhou Evergrande) came as strangers and left their names marked in history, 2014 the cast became even stronger and almost did repeat the feat of 2003's season, at the end of the year the cast was dismantled again, some promising sales were made, like Lucas Silva's for Real Madrid, but what we saw in the following seasons was the real beginning of the problem, because the money earned in these sales was not used to pay the team's debts, but to bring expensive players that despite the titles in 17 and 18 seasons, brought and still bring problems to the club,
namely Thiago Neves and Fred, although Wagner Pires was the president, the person who commanded everything by the shadows was Itair Machado (my blood boils just having to write the name of that citizen, i hope this bastard burns in the bottom of the hell), a good part of supporters didn't want him to participate in the club, he had already been responsible for the disappearance of another club in the same state, Ipatinga (they still barely exist today), another party of supporters(tehe organizated ones in good part) started supported him because of his speeches, but everyone knew of the growing debts left by previous administrations, what did Wagner and Itair and company do? They doubled the debt, increasing the wages of players to unsustainable levels for the club, and letting them think they do as they want.
I don't like the style of game proposed by Mano Menezes, but it worked on the cups, while the titles and good campaigns came in this type of competition, the Brazilian championship was treated as a side competition since 2015, proof of this that even on the apocaliptic 2019 season the club reached the semifinals of the Copa do Brasil (including a 3x0 against our customer) and was only eliminated in Libertadores by River Plate in the penalty shootout.
But it was felt since February that things didn’t look so good behind the scenes, until the scandal appeared on TV, the managers started using Mano Menezes as a shield and scapegoat, and the players started not wanting to play because of the delay of wages, Mano left, Ceni came and proposed to "remove" the problematic players from the team and bring boys from the base categories (who barely had a chance with Mano Menezes), the supporters agreed with the idea, the problematic players and the board directors didn't, so they dismissed Ceni to bring Abel Braga a friend coach of the problematic players,
and things only got worse until the relegation ...
A board of directors took over to save the club from bankruptcy, followed by a new president, which has been trying to pick up the pieces, but the big problem for supporters today is TRUST, in the work done by everyone there, because despite the reconstruction of what they currently call Novo Cruzeiro and the current president Sérgio Rodrigues has been trying to create ways to pay the debts, strange attitudes like selling promising athletes at a bargain price, remain a problem,
and despite the current reaction with Scolari in charge(who came with a very high severance fine) ,
unfortunately I believe it will be very difficult to return to Serie A this season, which would complicate the club's life a lot in the next year...
Two documentary style videos within two days, brilliant.
Dude I'm Brazilian and I can say that video is so complete and so right, I'm really impressed about you research on every factor of Cruzeiro's crisis, now you've got a new subscriber and fan. Congrats!!!
As a brazilian football fan it's very nice to see foreign content creators talk about the south american game.
Hey, Alfie! Cheers for the very detailed and accurate documentary about my hometown club! I don't know if you regularly follow the Campeonato Brasileiro, but nevertheless it must have taken you a long time to research everything.
I have just two wee corrections:
1- Cruzeiro was actually founded as Società Sportiva Palestra Itália. Some dissidents from Yale (which was also a big club from the city) went on to help in the foundation of the new club. Years later, when the local government prohibited any organizations with cultural ties to Italian, German or Japanese cultures, the name Ypiranga was suggested, given the importance of said river to Brazilian history (it is where D. Pedro I theoretically declared Brazil's independence from Portugal). Still, they ended up choosing Cruzeiro in honour of the Southern Cross constellation (a traditional symbol of Brazil, which is also present in our National Anthem, similar to the Ipiranga river). Hence, the club has only been named Palestra Itália and Cruzeiro.
2- Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe you mentioned that, from that Cruzeiro team which lifted several national trophies a few years ago, only one player was still at the club (Ariel Cabral). But, we still have Fábio! He has been elected Campeonato Brasileiro's best goalkeeper multiple times and has over 800 appearances for the club. He's still our #1 keeper, captain and holds the record for most games played for Cruzeiro. A living legend who refused to leave the club even at its darkest moment.
That's about it! Once again, cheers for the video and keep up with the great content! Best wishes from a heartbroken Série B fan hahaha
*Fala Zézé , bom dia cara*
Neves , Thiago 2019
What’s up JoeJoe, good morning Bro!
And he loses that penalty heheheheheheh
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Eu me pergunto pq o RUclips me indicou um vídeo em inglês e pq eu tô fritando o crânio pra entender sendo q eu vi essa merda toda acontecer.
Vou deixar o like e me inscrever por educação e pelo trabalho q o cara teve pra fazer o video
I would love to see more vídeos about Brazilian football, i am from Brasil and your work os fantastic
As a fellow brazilian and cruzeirense, I gotta say, great video. And also, I would say this is probably one of the, if not the, the biggest crisis in a football club.
I am brazilian and I'm an Atletico Mineiro fan so I'm Loving this
😆😆😆😆
Também sou meu caro, tomara que o galo ganhe o brasileiro pra só melhorar a situação
He should make a video about how Galo fans are actually Cruzeiro haters more than anything lol
eu tambem gosto do galo eu ate fiz um video sobre eles hoje!
@@luizcorrea4415 Ah tá.
Day 13: Suriname XI if all eligible players declared
Seedorf
pretty much every non-African black player in the Netherlands squad.
van Dijk
Seedorf, Kluivert, Davids, van Dijk, Rijkaard, and Gullit. Would be a class team
Wijnaldum
Do a video on Viettel FC, Alfie. They were once The Cong FC, a giant of Vietnamese football in the 90s however they disappeared into the lower leagues in 2010 before being reincarnated into Viettel FC, who worked their way back into the top flight in 2018 as Vietnamese second tier champions of that year. Two years later, they literally won the 2020 V.League 1, the Vietnamese top flight. What a story that could be!
English translation:
Copa do brasil: FA cup
Libertadores: South American Champions League
Copa Mineira: county competition, they dont have that in england
The Copa do Brasil tittle give to the winner a place in the group stage of the Copa Libertadores. So it's kinda worthy more than the FA cup's Europa League group stage place
I'm a Fluminense fan and I know how it feels dropping from so high to so low, hopefully my friends are Cruzeiro can bounce back
I'm brazilian and Vasco da Gama supporter. RUclips brought me here. I wanna congratulate the channel for bringing worldwilde with some much accuracy the rise & fall of Cruzeiro in these last years. Great.
being a fan of Cruzeiro,
its so impressive how one of the strongest teams in Brazil go down so fast in just one year
its disgusting,I really lost my hopes on the team
It's crazy how fast in can all fall apart - teams like Leeds, Manchester City, Newcastle know the feeling too - but they are lucky as they have returned to the Prem unlike teams like Sunderland. (I help football fans learn English football vocabulary on my channel. Please take a look. I sometimes make videos about the Brazilian league.)
What an excellent content! You really put a lot of effort here! As many viewers are commenting, it's great to know that people from Europe are treating Latin-American football with such respect. Unfortunately not all of us from the South spend our time supporting local clubs anymore, although many of these clubs are as great or even greater than a lot of European ones that we are following on TV nowadays...
As a Cruzeiro's fan, however, I'm compelled to make some notes. Cruzeiro's first name was Società Sportiva Palestra Italia, not Yale. Founded between 1909 and 1910, Yale Atlético Clube was another football club created by Italian immigrants in Belo Horizonte, and some of its dissident members actually took part on Cruzeiro's establishment in 1921. In 1942, as you correctly said, the club changed its name under war policies made by our government at the time, since Brazil had allied itself with anti-Axis forces in the World War II. Since then Cruzeiro is called Cruzeiro Esporte Clube, and the new colours of our jersey pay a tribute not to Yale, but still to Italia, whose national team, as everyone knows, also wears a blue and white uniform. So, strictly speaking, we embraced a different name only once in our history, and our first and current main jerseys celebrate the birthplace of the club's pioneers.
Anyway, I really hope to watch other videos focusing Cruzeiro at this channel - in circumstances much better than these, of course.
I’ve been very curious about the whole Cruzeiro situation. I don’t even need to ask for a video and you make it! You are a legend Alfie
Which club you support?
Amazing video! I'm brazilian (from Rio de Janeiro, and a Fluminense supporter) and It's so cool to see a english language Football channel putting this much effort and research in talking about our domestic Football (even though we're not living our best days in terms of quality in the last years).
Cruzeiro's situation is really dreadful, but I believe they can still rise above this, cause after all, it's a giant. If that board did that to medium-size club, they would've detroyed it forever...
Great video as always. I am a Cruzeiro fan and you covered pretty much everything. The club is in shambles, its debt is piling up on more than 100k euros and, even if the club wins the promotion (what's unlikely to happen), there are no signs that it is able to maintain itself on the 1st tier.
Cruzeiro Will become a Nottingham forest! Great history but no money compared at others clubs from their country
@@elviscassemiro9139 ??? Cruzeiro está de volta a 1° divisão e se manteve na 1°
I'm a suporter of Cruzeiro's rival (Atlético Mineiro), and I can say that seen Cruzeiro in this situation is making me very happy
Sim, unico título do atlético é o rebaixamento do cruzeiro
@@ajota2288 kkkkkkkkkkkkk pse
As a Corinthians supporter, part of me wants to laugh at Cruzeiro misery and another part wants to cry because my team is “following the blueprint” of Cruzeiro and i am scared of relegation
Relaxa, ninguem supera esse time horroroso do Cru🅱️eiro. Torço pro Corinthians até porque a metade do time ja foi Atléticano 😂
Felipão didn't leave 7x1 behind, the arrival of foreigners head coaches made very clear that the Brazilian ones are not in the same level. The Brasileirão title of 2018 was not because his genius tactics, it was because Palmeiras squad were very superior due to the high value sponsorship.
Tá falando merda. Palmeiras com o mesmo elenco estava em sexto com o moderno Roger Machado até a chegada do Felipão.
They need me
Absolutely.
Brazil is hot so they could do with a complete fridge to keep the halftime drinks cool.
No thank you, we already have manoel
@@luiseduardo4748 We already have Ramon
@@luiseduardo4748 no you need me
@ Not a chance.
Unless this is a joke and I didn't get it.
Great to see a foreigner making a video about my club,even being in a sad situation like that is good to know that we are still relevant.
man I respect you for covering teams from different places, respect for that keep doing the good work ....
Great review. Me, as a cruzeirense, feel a weird feeling watching this, since it shows we are still relevant at the same time it shows that this sad times will still last for a long time.
PS: Yale and Ypiranga weren't official names. It was founded as Societá Sportiva Palestra Italia in 1921. Then, due to WWII, brazilian government were prohibiting the use of any refference to the Axis. It was changed then to Palestra Mineiro. Then Cruzeiro Esporte Clube.
Yale was the name of a another club founded by italians, from which many migrated to Palestra. Ypiranga was a filler name and it didn't last for one week.
Hats off to you, man. As a Cruzeiro fan, I am impressed that someone coming from another background is able to deliver such an accurate doc about the club. Unless you tell me you're actually from Brasil hahaha. Either way, I'm subscribing for more great content.
Two years have passed and cruzeiro's situation has greatly improved.
After hiring coach Paulo pezzolano,they went on to have the best season of série b's history.
They had a difficult start of season this year,starting out winning against patrocinense at the campeonato mineiro,but then tying twice and losing twice.
After a tie against their rivals atletico mineiro however,they seem to have greatly improved their game.
After watching this I think you should do one about river plate that season they got relegated I did a quick search and found nothing but I enjoy your videos saying hi from chicago !
Haven't even finished the video, but I'm so glad you're making these. In Brazil, they've become kind of big news since relegation, especially given how poorly they're doing... Thank you for bringing this up to english speakers!
"Time grande não cai"
-Cruzeiro's fans, 2019
lembro muito disso kkkkk
Foram querer imitar o SP e se ferraram kkkk
Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
Kkkkkk
The effort to pronounce Cruzeiro is really impressive. Portuguese can be really tricky and you've done it superbly!
In the same day as this video was released, both Internacional and Flamengo lost their foreign managers, one being fired (Spaniard Domenec Torrent, former Guardiola´s assistant coach) and the other leaving for Spanish Side Celta de Vigo (Argentine Eduardo Coudet). Another sign that the Brazilian league and football is not for beginners! You could also produce something about it !
Excellent video ! Great to see south america showing up!
Hey! I´m brazilian and a Cruzeiro supporter... I really liked your video, it explains a lot of my club's situation, one of the biggest in Brazil, but now suffering the worst financial crisis in brazilian football history. The team will get over it, wish us luck!
Do a video on atletico mineiro (cruzeiro city rival) reascension
2005 - Relegation from the Brasileirao
2006 - promotion from serie B
(A lot of relegation battles)
2011 - Relegation Battle
2012 - Ronaldinho joins the club and rips apart the league
2012 - 2nd place in the Brasileirão
2013 - last minute penalty save (quarter finals)
They bounced back from 2-0 losses in the semis and the final's 1st leg (the final used to be 2 legs) with amazing last goal minutes to win the libertadores (south american ucl)
2014 - In the Copa Do Brasil bounced back twice (quarters and semis) from 2-0 in the first match and conceded 1 at home in the second leg, with the away goal rule, and with last minute goals turned it to 4-1. The final was against their biggest rivals, Cruzeiro, which they won
2020 - Under Sampaoli, they are one of the title contenders
Its amazing how a ""decadent"" Ronaldinho was able to do such things, him on the pitch was the most insane thing ever (apart from fitness) but almost every week he scored wondergoals, beatiful assists and the most insane dribbles
Kkkkkkk o futuro do atletico n é muito diferente do cruzeiro n
@@miguelm9190 que isso fi nadave
No comeco eu ate achava que sim mas mano é o Rubens Menin dono do banco BMG que ta bancando os trem
Tb o cruzeiro tinha corrupcao pa carai galo n tem isso n
@@crgl100 E c acha que o banqueiro ta dando dinheiro? kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk não seja inocente, obviamente ele vai querer algum retorno, banco/banqueiro não da dinheiro!
@@crgl100 Fora que a PF tava investigando esse banco BMG tem pouco tempo, daqui a pouco sai maracutaia ae. Vai vendo...
because nobody knows, who? Atle- atletico, wait you mean, that team that lost from a team of Marrocos clubs world cup? :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D (just kidding)
I literally was googling “cruzerio news in English” to try to find out what is going on there. THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO!!!! They play tonight actually and I’m looking forward to the game. Love cruzerio a lot and I miss the days of them at the top
who you support pal?
@@KartingRules I just follow teams closely and cruzerio is one I have liked since I have become a fan
@@wewayouthere Oh nice! I like Cruz too :)
But im a Athletico supporter.
@@wewayouthere and where you from?
@@KartingRules USA Charleston South Carolina
Should be noticed that the reporter responsible for breaking the story was from Rio de Janeiro- the press in Belo Horizonte already knew about it, but kept quiet because they were cozy with the board.
Most importantly, the club had, even for Brazilian standards, had an absurd amount of political influence, both from the political groups of former governors Aécio Neves (from PSDB, a center-right politician) and Fernando Pimentel (from PT, a left-wing politician), both of whom notoriously corrupt and used the club for political points.
i used to just skip past your documentaries, but i watched one of them and now i am in love, great job Alfie!!
even though I support atletico mineiro, a rival club to cruzeiro, I still hope for their return to the 1st division. It's really weird going a full year without a derby to light things up at the city.
Colé
@@hebi8115 mano é impossível de fugir de brasilero
tamo em td lugar
@@luccasouza5572 vdd kkk
Nah, deixa que os clássicos aconteçam no Mineiro e que eled continuem na segunda divisao por um bom tempo pra aquietarem a arrogância
@@Lucas66393 acontece que de certa forma isso atrapalha o Atlético também mano, prefiro que subam e tenha muitos clássicos do que não ter mais essa rivalidade foda...
Bruv, im brazilian and im really suprised aat how much u know about our culture, and how much knowledge u have on brazilian football, amazing vid. Becoming an even bigger fan every vid!
Oh, and ur pronunciation was actually pretty impressive ngl, its not perfect, but u gon get there i promise lmaoo
Thanks Gabriel.
It is interesting to explore a little about the context of Rogério Ceni's resignation. He's actually a great coach, but when he arrived, he tried to give more opportunities to young players in the club! But the older Cruzeiro players revolted because they were staying on the bench, which created a lot of animosity within the team, and when they entered, they played unwillingly, so Rogério Ceni was fired!
I'm a atlético mineiro fan (cruzeiro's biggest rivals) from Brazil and I really enjoyed the video! It's really cool that you guys are doing more south american football related stuff, hopefully you can do one about galo(atlético mineiro's nickname) someday 🤪
Sem bi
It's mad how much I giggle at these videos. "The club even brought in a RB called John Lennon, so it was all starting to come together..."
Alfie you're a funny fucker.
Awsome video! As a Cruzeiro supporter I dont really enjoy the content itself, but your work is amazing!
8:46 "A man who's had more clubs than Tiger Woods" is a great line !
Great to see one of the most infamous cases of mismanagement and club financial crisis in South America, you're have of the the best YT Football channels.
I wish you could make a video of current Colo-Colo Crisis, or from our fellow rivals Universidad de Chile, there is enough material to do another banger.
great video keep covering all leagues, thank you
Great video guys! I'm a Cruzeiro supporter and I can tell you that it hasn't been easy. One of our star supporters, a lady by the name of Dona Salomé (that was a fan of the club since the foundations of it) died in the day of our relegation to the Serie B, such as the sadness that impregnated everyone, even her, to see a club that se loved so much, been treated the way that it was, and culminating in that result. But with Scolari, things are looking way better and the spirit of the team finally is being revived, so high hopes for what's coming! And just adding something: Cruzeiro not only won both of Brasileiros in '13 and '14, but won both of the Copa do Brasil in '17 and '18! Just to show how what happened caught us by surprise, to think that our club was doing great and winning, and then everything falls apart and now, 2 years later, we're fighting for the relegation to Serie C... Anyway, great video again, hope to see more in the future!
Can you please make a video on Bosman's ruling in europe in the mid 90s which changed the trajectory of the transfer market and resulted in transfers like Steve McManaman to Real madrid
On my God I have been a fan of this channel for the longest time and being a Brazilian American and fan of Cruzeiro this has been great. I have a lot of faith in our new president and hopefully, there will be changes in the structure of the club to come. Felipao (Scolari) has had an impressive run of games so far and hopefully, they win tonight. Even in the club's darkest days, we have hit a corner when we got a new president, and going forward believe we will recover and come back stronger.
Would love a video on the best players to have never played in the “top 5” leagues. Players like Hulk, Tagliafico etc
Good idea
As a Cruzeiro's Fan since I was a child, I can say its imcreadibly hard to actually believe that all this really happened, and its not easy seeing your fav team in the whole world pass through that kinda of thing.
Yay more non European football content, you should do some on african football too
I am from Brasil and this vídeo ia awsome you really do an awsome work, continue with the great work
Let me add more to this story.
18 of the 20 clubs that play brasileirão seria A is going to follow Cruzeiro sooner or later (that includes my club as well)
Santos is almost bankrupt
Botafogo General Manager says that the club have no more money(even before buying Keisuke Honda and Kalou)
Corinthians and São Paulo have debts that are Impossible tô be paid that are almost in the billions..
So in resume,this could be one of the last years o Brazilian football.
What will the government do about it?
@@bri1085 Besides the Profut,nothing.
Profut is a law/club that clubs need to pay at least R$3000 of debts to stays in Government "guardianship" and not suffer because of Debts(Cruzeiro already is out of the guardianship and could be suffering in the court for their debts)
I’m from Brazil and very happy to see my country represented in your channel, keep it up lad 👏🏻👏🏻
Você está feliz sobre o que está havendo para Cruzeiro? descuple para meu português
@@bri1085 eu não estou
@@bri1085 Eu to feliz pelo meu país estar sendo representado num canal lá da Inglaterra, aprender um inglês eh bom mano
@@rodrigolyra7312 Ok
On the "too big to fail" point - Santos, Flamengo and Sao Paolo have never played outside the top division!
It's São PaUlo
Not São Paolo
@@pauloluciomachadodebrito8107 When correcting someone's spelling it's a good idea to proofread your own post. the "u" shouldn't be capitalised :)
Eventually they Wil go to second division too
@@FelipeMarques0809 Possibly but eventually could mean next year, 10 years time or 100 years time {by which time none of us will care either way}.
@@franohmsford7548 u cant be that dense
Just to remember: Fluminense had a similar (perhaps worse) situation happen to them in the 90s. They were relegated to the second division in 97... and to the third division in 98. If I'm not mistaken they won the third division in 99. Then the league was reformulated in some weird way and they were invited back to the first division.
Props on shoehorning those Beatles songs in! 😂
O CRUZEIRO É UM CLUBE DE FUTEBOL GIGANTE QUE DESPERTA INTERRESE NO MUNDO INTEIRO , QUEM ENTENDE DE FUTEBOL SABE O A GRANDEZA DO CRUZEIRO E SUA IMPORTÂNCIA PARA O FUTEBOL MUNDIAL , ALÉM DISSO OS FÃS DO CRUZEIRO SÃO ESPETACULARES , UMA TORCIDA MUITO FORTE E MUITO FODA , APOIAM SEMPRE O CRUZEIRO EM QUALQUER MOMENTO DO CLUBE , UMA TORCIDA QUE SEMPRE AJUDOU E ESTÁ AJUDANDO O CRUZEIRO E SEMPRE AJUDARÁ !
Make video on schalke they are in a similar situation
Good idea 💯
more like Hamburg though... Schalke are still in the first division (even though this might be their last season)
@@Luckymag-if4dw sad to see schalke fall man i hope they get by somehow theyve got so desperate for money
I'm brazilian and I can say that Cruzeiro is only one of many brasilian clubs that the presidents spend the money they don't have just to win championships and show off to the fans that they are bringing glory to the club. Cruzeiro was the first to go down, but Botafogo, Vasco, Corinthians and Santos are bankrupt as well, and seems that Cruzeiro's greatest rival, Atlético Mineiro, is going to the same path.
It was a great video. Good work.
The standard and amount of research you put into your videos vs Irish Guy spouting flavour of the week nonsense is staggering. Jokes, if you’re paid similar wages
Irish guy gets more viewers. So would be a joke if he got the same as Alfie 🤣🤣
But he still got A LOT of things really wrong. I'm a cruzeiro fan and i can tell. Ariel cabral wasn't even a key man for cruzeiro, he wasn't even a starter. Denilson signed in 2016, 2 years before wagner took over. Cruzeiro actually won 2 brazilian cups between 2017 and 2018. Wagner took over in 2018 after the club finished 5th and won the cup. He said that scolari had 4 games before the game against botafogo, but he actually only had 3. He also only mentioned briefly the rogerio ceni era, which was one of the most important moments' of our relegation, since he only got sacked because some players didn't like him. If he didn't, we'd stay up. He barely mentioned Thiago Neves, the player most responsible for our relegation, and that even missed a penalty on porpouse
@@luiseduardo4748 yep, definetly. I feel like he should ask his subs from different countrys for help in those docs, in the Brazilian vids there's always small stuff kinda wrong, but its difficult for him to get that info in the UK. If he could have someone who saw the events unfold in real time, It could be a big help to him.
@@luizeduardogueths8255 yeah i know. He could even ask subs to help him
@@luiseduardo4748 The only thing is it would spoil the video
More premium long form content from Alfie. I'd love to see what you'd do with your own channel. Thanks again for making these.
Alfie! Man those Lennon puns!😍😂😂
Other club that you could do a video of it is Botafogo. A great club from Rio de Janeiro who is fighting against bad administrations and lack of money. People here say if Botafogo being relegated again will mean they official bankrupcy. Sad.
I'm a Flamengo fan, Botafogo is one of our rivals. Sometimes is funny to see your rival struggling but here in Brazil is just sad. Because if it happens with big clubs, imagine how worst is in the medium or little clubs.
Great work and dont worry about your Brazilian Portuguese, you did it well. Cheers.
Boca Juniors 1 x 2 Cruzeiro. La Bambonera, 1994. Ronaldo "phenomenon" change that game.
Congratulations on the video! I loved to know about your view on the topic and would like to see more videos on South American football :) (there was no problem with your pronunciation btw, congrats on that too, friend!)