Fun fact: The team participating from Spain could've easily been Barcelona instead of Real Madrid. Carlos Pardo, the L'Equipe correspondent in Spain had contacted Barcelona about the tournament. But apparently Barcelona's secretary didn't know about the newspaper& didn't think it'd be a success. Pardo's wife advised him to visit Saporta (Real Madrid vice president & Bernabeu's right hand man). Both Saporta & Bernabeu liked the idea. The lot went to Paris in the following weeks & the European Cup was founded. Source: Fear & Loathing in La Liga:Barcelona vs Real Madrid (written by Sid Lowe)
To add on to this, Barcelona had won a couple of Latin cups which was a tournament between best clubs of France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Barca were along that time better than Madrid and probably would have won a few European cups. They decided to chose the inter cities fair cup which they thought would be the better cup out of the two, talk about a bad decision
Yet Bayern Munich is the 👁🧿 True Big 2 Giant Historicaly that doesn't break our Economy, Paris Ironicaly backed by 0il *like the EPL "is desperate the Win > 66 years after made that Pact to give 👶 to Europe's Holly Grail(#6 ⚪🏆➡️#7🔴)Mi@ S@n Mi@🔵
As a Polish viewer I was surprised to find out that Gwardia no longer existed, but upon checking it turns out that they indeed haven't entered any competition since the end of the 2017/18 season. Not even remotely a fan, but it's always sad when a well-known club ends this way.
One interesting thing is that Partizan was actually 5th in Yugoslavia the previous season (behind Hajduk Split, BSK Belgrade, Dinamo Zagreb and Red Star), but they were invited to the competition because "they played pretty football".
@@sportsjefe I prefer Isaiah 11:6 - Wolves will live with the Rams, and the Leopards will lie down with the Goats; the calf and young Lions and fatling will be together, and a little child will lead them. The Hammers will graze with the Gunners, their young will lie down together, and the Citizerns will eat straw like the Toffees.…
You should do a video documentary about the 1971 European Cup final when Panathinaikos from Greece made it there and the incredible journey they had to get there with Ferenc Puskas as the manager
@Dmitry Zaripov it's the first and only time a Greek team has reached these heights. Also the team was completely amateur and they were massive underdogs. And to top those, it's also filled with controversy as the opposing fans argue that it was succeeded because of the dictatorship in Greece at that time that favoured panathinaikos and paid to get there
@Dmitry Zaripov Yes. When they poisoned Red Star Belgrade in Athens. Red Star beat them 4:1 in Belgrade and then they lost 3:0 in Athens. The Red Star players were very lethargic throughout the game and barely able to run.
PSV was not a 3rd tier team back in 1955. They were competing in Class C, but back then there were 64 teams in Dutch top tier, divided in 4 groups of 16 (classes). The champions of each class competed in the Netherlands Championship. PSV won the Class C and was 3rd of 4 teams in the national championship.
Anderlecht were also in the inaugural UEFA Cup campaign in 1971-72 which, I think (having looked at all the campaigns involved), means they are the only team to have played in the first season of all 3 current UEFA club competitions. Sadly, they weren't in the first Cup Winner's Cup campaign.
Great video! if you ever come to Germany, tell me and I'll invite you to a 1. FC Saarbrücken match! Last Saturday, during the match against MSV Duisburg (another of the several Bundesliga founding members with big history in 3. Liga) which we won 2:0 the audience chanted "Der FCS ist wieder da" ("FCS is back again!") since 3. Liga is already a success for us after 6 years in Regiinalliga (2014-2020) and also 6 years without our stadium (2015-2021). So at the moment it's a great time for our club considering last couple of years
Naja . Ich hab eher den Eindruck dass Elversberg dem FC so langsam aber sicher den Rang abläuft hier im Saarland ... bin aber jetzt auch kein die hard Fan , weder von SVE noch FCS
Swedish teams have a bunch a names due to how we organize things. Clubs are typically active in multiple sports (E.g. Djurgården are very successful in Hockey too), so you have a "parent" club for all sports and "member" clubs for individual sports. Then there are the 168 "kamratföreningar" (IFK), which is an association of clubs in basically every city in Sweden in all major sports (and a few are even in Finland). They all share the same blue-white colors, and the most famous of these in football are IFK Gothenburg and IFK Norrköping. Different clubs, but they are also part of the same parent club, and it is considered to be a "kamratderby" when they play even if they are from opposite sides of the country.
The seven largest European cities who have never featured in the Top Flight. Have since been given a suggestion by konstantin kelekhsaev and by MaxLeC0nkerant to limit this to one city per country as there are a number of large cities in both Russia and Ukraine that have not featured in the Top Flight.So,just to clarify: The seven largest European cities (limit of 1 city per country) who have never featured in the Top Flight.Cheers.
Alfie, I think it would be great if you did a video talking about The Grand Torino team and the Superga air disaster. From the bits I've read there a plenty of people who think had the accident not happened, Torino and not real madrid would've been the dominant team during the early years of the European Cup.
Fun fact: The star of 1955 West German Champions RWE was none other than Helmut Rahn. "The boss" how everyone in Essen used to call him, decided the 1954 world cup final against Hungary with his two goals in the final ten minutes.
Have you done a video about the amazing 1967 Celtic European Cup win where they all lived at most 30 miles away from their home ground Yes im a Celtic fan and love hearing about it every time
We will win Seria A this season Juve is shit Inter is weakened Zlatan is a god And also a great UCL campaign BC the lion and the boys are hungry for some European success
For a couple of years Milan was mediocre. Now you are back and need to proof yourself again (which I hope you do). The draw in CL will be major because you're in pot 4
A little bit of extra info AB, who was invited before AGF stands for Akademisk Boldklub Gladsaxe (Akademic Ballclub - from Gladsaxe in Copenhagen) and currently plays in the 2. division which despite the name is the 3rd tier of Danish football. Also Gymnastikforening means gymnastics union
The exhibition matches played between Wolves, Real Madrid, Budapest Honved were actually the pre-cursor to the European cup. Wolves V Honved was broadcast live on BBC in 1954, Wolves being the first team in Europa (and the world?) to get floodlights.
To be fair their was European competition between European clubs before that game called the Mitropa Cup which started back in the late 1920s. 1st game in England under floodlights was South Liverpool when they played a Nigerian XI
Interesting fact: there were many clubs in Poland called "Gwardia" founded by the communist regime, all under the "protection" of the police (Citizens' Militia was it called than). All of them shared the same colours and name and all of them were equaly hated by the people. Some proper historical clubs like Wisła Kraków or my home town club Polonia Bydgoszcz were forced by the communist goverment to accept police's supervison and many of their former officials were percecuted.
When are people going to stop assuming that Real Madrid and Barcelona are in the same kind of financial trouble? Both clubs have suffered during the pandemic, but Barcelona’s problems run much deeper and well beyond a couple of seasons of having no matchday income. They’ve been severely mismanaged for more than half a decade, which culminated with them not being able to renew Messi’s contract this summer. Real Madrid are no way near in that kind of trouble. Clubs in Spain are usually very reliant on matchday income. During the pandemic there’s been no fans in the stadiums, so Madrid had to find the money elsewhere. They’ve sold a bunch of squad players and cashed in on others who were letting their contract run down. That’s it.
The stadium is quite new, opened in 2013. We haven't really had a good european run since then, and our european games in 2020 were without any spectators due to Covid.
Don't think so, bro'. According to Wikipedia that match was played on 14th September 1955. Sporting Lisbon drew 3-3 with Partizan Belgrade on 4th September 1955 with Sporting's Joao Baptista Martins scoring the opening goal of the match and of the European Cup.
During those times,these were the real respective footballing clubs which graced and glorified the European football together with the South American football and of course,I like all these respective clubs ever,good friends!!!:-D
I don't think there's mismanagement in terms of finance from Real Madrid. The issue with Madrid's finance was they were building stadiums & investing in long term infrastructure, their training ground looks like something from the movie & they invested in facilities for the youths. They also saved in recent years with few signings but this season & next year, they're planning to spend a lot. Seems like Perez didn't buy a lot as he wants to create another team like galacticos or the one like CR7 but now with Mbappe or maybe Haaland.
17:55 Rot-Weiss Essen is not pronounced with an "e" it would only be pronounced like that if the team was called "Rot-Weisse Essen". The double "S" or ß is known as a sharp S.
could be wrong here since i dont speak other european languages. like i appreciate ppl trying to pronounce things properly but feel that many times, when it comes to german names, he just says it the way he assumes it is pronounced instead of really checking. again, could be wrong but just the feeling i get sometimes, oh well
Djurgarden are also an ice hockey team. They are named after a park island in Stockholm which was one of my favourite places to visit when we went to the Swedish capital city.
Brilliant video, would love a video exploring the discontinued cup winners cup and intertoto cups. Hear talk of them from time to time but know nothing about them!
Ur doing very well on your mentioning of Hull City in these videos in which they'd have no part to play unless they sold a player to 1 of the focus clubs of the video, I mean let's be honest here, Hull City are about as likely to qualify for a European club competition as I have of managing a professional football club.
I might have one thing to point out is that the Dutch league wasn't like what it is today. Back in 1954/55 season, the first division was contested by 56 teams divided into 4 sectors with the winners of each group going forward into a championship play-off structure. PSV were the top team of Group C, FC Eindhoven were Group D, NAC Breda, Group A and Willem II Group B (don't ask me how they sorted these things out). Of the four teams Willem II were the overall winners with PSV third ahead of FC Eindhoven. What makes this even weirder is that the KNVB wanted to streamline this into two leagues of 18 teams and the winner of the two groups goes head to head to be crowned Champions of The Netherlands. It was only another season that there would be the Eredivisie as we know it today which for all intents and purposes is easier on the heads for the modern day football fan.
@@sahibbhadal Could have been different had we joined up. Same thing for Everton in the 80s who were the dominant force in English football at the time but were banned from playing in the European cup.
While Hibs may have not featured in the European Cup since the debut campaign, they have had many notable nights in the UEFA Cup or Fairs Cup against the likes of Barcelona, Napoli, Liverpool, Leeds to name a few.
@@mariohenriques105 Sporting had more titles and won 8 in 10 championships before it starts ... it was a logical invitation! The biggest club in Portugal: Sporting Lisbon
Would love to see you make a video about the miracle of Madrid, when OB (Odense Boldklub) knocked out Real Madrid in the UEFA Cup (now known as UEFA Europa League), it might have been the biggest display of a danish team in Europe
Madrid played really like crap that match. And was even qualifiying at very the end of the match Luis Enrique (Playing a full-back in that match) lost his shit and went to try to head a corner, and got his back taken. He might be already plotting his move to Barcelona... (Joking). That was the Madrid that couldn't win a European Cup/Champions League in 32 years. Not the superpower it was before, or returned to be afterwards.
Should've mentioned RWE's last seasons cup run where they reached the quarter final beating Leverkusen and Bielefeld. As an Essener who supports Hamburg, I am still amazed and proud by that RWE team. The club is the city's problem child that "no one" supports but everybody cares about.
great work as always, could you do a video on top ten coaches who have had success on the pitch as well as on the sideline as a coach? and a list of top ten coaches who didn't play at a high level on the pitch but still are very sucssesful???
Wolves played Honved in 1954 to mark Molineux new floodlights; this was after Hungary hammered England. Puskas said after the Wolves game that Honved had just played the best team in the World, and a club competition needed organising to pit the best teams against each other.
I suggested this idea in one of your videos, I just can't remember which video it's lol Before 1990s, every countries in Europe got chance to win the trophy, even teams from Greece or Belgium, good old days
Not even a minute in and Alfie admitted he's the Messiah. This will be a banger.
MESSIah
He's not a Messiah, he's a very naughty boy!
@@DomenBremecXCVI I feel like that's a Monty Python reference
HE IS THE MESSIAH
@@princeofchemotherapy6544 I feel like you might be right
Fun fact: The team participating from Spain could've easily been Barcelona instead of Real Madrid. Carlos Pardo, the L'Equipe correspondent in Spain had contacted Barcelona about the tournament. But apparently Barcelona's secretary didn't know about the newspaper& didn't think it'd be a success. Pardo's wife advised him to visit Saporta (Real Madrid vice president & Bernabeu's right hand man). Both Saporta & Bernabeu liked the idea. The lot went to Paris in the following weeks & the European Cup was founded.
Source:
Fear & Loathing in La Liga:Barcelona vs Real Madrid (written by Sid Lowe)
To add on to this, Barcelona had won a couple of Latin cups which was a tournament between best clubs of France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Barca were along that time better than Madrid and probably would have won a few European cups. They decided to chose the inter cities fair cup which they thought would be the better cup out of the two, talk about a bad decision
Yet Bayern Munich is the 👁🧿 True Big 2 Giant Historicaly that doesn't break our Economy, Paris Ironicaly backed by 0il *like the EPL "is desperate the Win > 66 years after made that Pact to give 👶 to Europe's Holly Grail(#6 ⚪🏆➡️#7🔴)Mi@ S@n Mi@🔵
@Vase of Flowers i just wanna point out that chelsea were offered a place before utd but the FA told them to turn it down…
@Vase of Flowers now u gonna hate Newcastle too?
"Barca board and fucking up" a tail as old as time itself....
As a Polish viewer I was surprised to find out that Gwardia no longer existed, but upon checking it turns out that they indeed haven't entered any competition since the end of the 2017/18 season. Not even remotely a fan, but it's always sad when a well-known club ends this way.
"For the record, I am not saying that I am Jesus..."
"That would be for others to decide"
😭
He isn't denying it
One interesting thing is that Partizan was actually 5th in Yugoslavia the previous season (behind Hajduk Split, BSK Belgrade, Dinamo Zagreb and Red Star), but they were invited to the competition because "they played pretty football".
We need more videos from Alfie where it starts with a verse from the gospels and admission of messianic powers
We need to find a story that lets him open with Ezekiel 25:17 from Pulp Fiction.
"Does Jose Mourinho look like a bitch!"
@@sportsjefe I prefer Isaiah 11:6 -
Wolves will live with the Rams, and the Leopards will lie down with the Goats; the calf and young Lions and fatling will be together, and a little child will lead them. The Hammers will graze with the Gunners, their young will lie down together, and the Citizerns will eat straw like the Toffees.…
We need a video where he doesn't read every sentence like the ten o'clock news
@@TheBatmobeale You’re clearly not a proper fan, that voice is the reason we all watch him in the first place, innit?
@@TheBatmobeale You’re clearly not a proper fan, that voice is the reason we all watch him in the first place, innit?
It's incredible how alfie managed to mention hull city twice in a video about european cup😂😂
He could fit Hull City in a video solely dedicated to his shopping list.
Rot-Weiß Essen by the way is still a relatively big club in Germany despite playing in 4th tier now.
Mad how they gave themselves a PES name
they've just been promoted
It's insane how important L'equipe is to all manners of sport... I wonder how many tournaments and competitions started with them.
You should do a video documentary about the 1971 European Cup final when Panathinaikos from Greece made it there and the incredible journey they had to get there with Ferenc Puskas as the manager
@Dmitry Zaripov All their players were amateurs
@Dmitry Zaripov it's the first and only time a Greek team has reached these heights. Also the team was completely amateur and they were massive underdogs. And to top those, it's also filled with controversy as the opposing fans argue that it was succeeded because of the dictatorship in Greece at that time that favoured panathinaikos and paid to get there
WOO, go Panathinaikos! It does very much go unnoticed a lot this achievement
@Dmitry Zaripov Yes. When they poisoned Red Star Belgrade in Athens. Red Star beat them 4:1 in Belgrade and then they lost 3:0 in Athens. The Red Star players were very lethargic throughout the game and barely able to run.
@@georgemilinkovic4120 similar to French poisoning Ronaldo before the 98 WC final
"I'm not Jesus Christ. I've come to accept that now..."
- Dr. Rick Dagless, MD
PSV was not a 3rd tier team back in 1955. They were competing in Class C, but back then there were 64 teams in Dutch top tier, divided in 4 groups of 16 (classes). The champions of each class competed in the Netherlands Championship. PSV won the Class C and was 3rd of 4 teams in the national championship.
Alr that makes way much more sense.
Anderlecht were also in the inaugural UEFA Cup campaign in 1971-72 which, I think (having looked at all the campaigns involved), means they are the only team to have played in the first season of all 3 current UEFA club competitions. Sadly, they weren't in the first Cup Winner's Cup campaign.
Great video! if you ever come to Germany, tell me and I'll invite you to a 1. FC Saarbrücken match!
Last Saturday, during the match against MSV Duisburg (another of the several Bundesliga founding members with big history in 3. Liga) which we won 2:0 the audience chanted "Der FCS ist wieder da" ("FCS is back again!") since 3. Liga is already a success for us after 6 years in Regiinalliga (2014-2020) and also 6 years without our stadium (2015-2021).
So at the moment it's a great time for our club considering last couple of years
i will never forget that cup run you guys made.
Spielst du selbst auch Fußball ? Im Verein oder so ?
Naja . Ich hab eher den Eindruck dass Elversberg dem FC so langsam aber sicher den Rang abläuft hier im Saarland ... bin aber jetzt auch kein die hard Fan , weder von SVE noch FCS
I like how you keep finding links to hull city lol
Got to love Alfie managing to include the mighty Tigers in a video about the original European Cup
Solid as ever. Always been a big fan of your historical videos ⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽
Alfie's the man
👍👍👍
Alfie for president
Can't believe I've just seen my beloved Hibernian FC in an HITC Sevens video
GGTTHBS
Mon the hibs 💚🇳🇬
Hearts>Hibs just being honest
Swedish teams have a bunch a names due to how we organize things. Clubs are typically active in multiple sports (E.g. Djurgården are very successful in Hockey too), so you have a "parent" club for all sports and "member" clubs for individual sports.
Then there are the 168 "kamratföreningar" (IFK), which is an association of clubs in basically every city in Sweden in all major sports (and a few are even in Finland). They all share the same blue-white colors, and the most famous of these in football are IFK Gothenburg and IFK Norrköping. Different clubs, but they are also part of the same parent club, and it is considered to be a "kamratderby" when they play even if they are from opposite sides of the country.
I struggled to understand which club he meant at first, since his pronunciation of Djurgården was quite off for someone who knows swedish 😂
The seven largest European cities who have never featured in the Top Flight.
Have since been given a suggestion by konstantin kelekhsaev and by MaxLeC0nkerant
to limit this to one city per country as there are a number of large cities in both Russia and
Ukraine that have not featured in the Top Flight.So,just to clarify:
The seven largest European cities (limit of 1 city per country) who have never
featured in the Top Flight.Cheers.
Most Of Them Probably Russian/Ukrainian
Correction : All Of Them Russian
Maybe with a limit of only one city from the same country
@@konstantinkelekhsaev302 I never thought of that.U r right.
Limit this to 1 city per country.Cheers.
@@MaxLeCnkerant Thanks Max.Will edit my suggestion.Cheers.
For England it's Plymouth at 262,100 inhabitants and Plymouth Argyle never having made the top flight of English Football.
Alfie, I think it would be great if you did a video talking about The Grand Torino team and the Superga air disaster. From the bits I've read there a plenty of people who think had the accident not happened, Torino and not real madrid would've been the dominant team during the early years of the European Cup.
Already Alfie admitted he's the Messiah. Started the video with a bang
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HITC SEVENS is already THE BEST youtube channel I ever seen.By the way,make the next video Alfie:What on earth happened to Sunderland?
Sunderland happened to Sunderland.
@@bumblethebeadle3504 The start of it was dumping all that money into a signing from AJ Auxerre.
Fun fact: The star of 1955 West German Champions RWE was none other than Helmut Rahn. "The boss" how everyone in Essen used to call him, decided the 1954 world cup final against Hungary with his two goals in the final ten minutes.
It was more like the ref who decided that match.
Have you done a video about the amazing 1967 Celtic European Cup win where they all lived at most 30 miles away from their home ground
Yes im a Celtic fan and love hearing about it every time
You mean the team that lost the Intercontinental Cup to the eternal Racing Club of Avellaneda?
Forza Milan. We're still one of the greatest teams in the world even though people are sleeping on us
Yessir
Fikayo is solid💪🏽
We will win Seria A this season
Juve is shit
Inter is weakened
Zlatan is a god
And also a great UCL campaign BC the lion and the boys are hungry for some European success
For a couple of years Milan was mediocre. Now you are back and need to proof yourself again (which I hope you do). The draw in CL will be major because you're in pot 4
@@1337menno thank you
This might be my favourite concept for a video in a while Alfie! Well done!
Fascinating stuff. History and sport melded well tonight.
Great to see some of the teams back on European adventures at the Conference League.
This is the greatest intro in TH-cam history
A little bit of extra info AB, who was invited before AGF stands for Akademisk Boldklub Gladsaxe (Akademic Ballclub - from Gladsaxe in Copenhagen) and currently plays in the 2. division which despite the name is the 3rd tier of Danish football.
Also Gymnastikforening means gymnastics union
The exhibition matches played between Wolves, Real Madrid, Budapest Honved were actually the pre-cursor to the European cup. Wolves V Honved was broadcast live on BBC in 1954, Wolves being the first team in Europa (and the world?) to get floodlights.
To be fair their was European competition between European clubs before that game called the Mitropa Cup which started back in the late 1920s.
1st game in England under floodlights was South Liverpool when they played a Nigerian XI
Interesting fact: there were many clubs in Poland called "Gwardia" founded by the communist regime, all under the "protection" of the police (Citizens' Militia was it called than). All of them shared the same colours and name and all of them were equaly hated by the people. Some proper historical clubs like Wisła Kraków or my home town club Polonia Bydgoszcz were forced by the communist goverment to accept police's supervison and many of their former officials were percecuted.
When are people going to stop assuming that Real Madrid and Barcelona are in the same kind of financial trouble? Both clubs have suffered during the pandemic, but Barcelona’s problems run much deeper and well beyond a couple of seasons of having no matchday income. They’ve been severely mismanaged for more than half a decade, which culminated with them not being able to renew Messi’s contract this summer.
Real Madrid are no way near in that kind of trouble. Clubs in Spain are usually very reliant on matchday income. During the pandemic there’s been no fans in the stadiums, so Madrid had to find the money elsewhere. They’ve sold a bunch of squad players and cashed in on others who were letting their contract run down. That’s it.
7:41 kind of cool looking stadium for a team I don’t think I’ve heard of before.. I miss the stadium videos.. this video was great though as always
The stadium is quite new, opened in 2013. We haven't really had a good european run since then, and our european games in 2020 were without any spectators due to Covid.
Fantastic. Thank you so much.
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Hibernian also scored the cups first ever goal, Eddie Turnbull scored to put Hibs 1-0 up against Essen, in Essen.
Don't think so, bro'. According to Wikipedia that match was played on 14th September 1955. Sporting Lisbon drew 3-3 with Partizan Belgrade on 4th September 1955 with Sporting's Joao Baptista Martins scoring the opening goal of the match and of the European Cup.
Literally first match was played by Sporting Lisboa and Partizan Belgrade and it ended in 3-3 result...
I don't mind the longer videos. The content is always enlightening.
Any AIK Fans here? Great video BTW HTC sevens
During those times,these were the real respective footballing clubs which graced and glorified the European football together with the South American football and of course,I like all these respective clubs ever,good friends!!!:-D
I don't think there's mismanagement in terms of finance from Real Madrid. The issue with Madrid's finance was they were building stadiums & investing in long term infrastructure, their training ground looks like something from the movie & they invested in facilities for the youths.
They also saved in recent years with few signings but this season & next year, they're planning to spend a lot. Seems like Perez didn't buy a lot as he wants to create another team like galacticos or the one like CR7 but now with Mbappe or maybe Haaland.
It's amazing how many teams mentioned in the video were knocked out by Benfica at some point lmao.
These videos are really useful for me. I watch one on my drive to work and one on the way back home. Hahaha. Please make 2 videos everyday.
Another excellent video
17:55 Rot-Weiss Essen is not pronounced with an "e" it would only be pronounced like that if the team was called "Rot-Weisse Essen". The double "S" or ß is known as a sharp S.
On a similar note, the Wien in Rapid Wien is not "V-N" but just "Veen". Great vid though.
Let me tell you about Djurgården. 🤣
ˈjʉ̂ːrˌɡoːɖɛn
@@theswedishchopsnake Isn't Å pronounced like "oooh"?
could be wrong here since i dont speak other european languages. like i appreciate ppl trying to pronounce things properly but feel that many times, when it comes to german names, he just says it the way he assumes it is pronounced instead of really checking. again, could be wrong but just the feeling i get sometimes, oh well
Hibs in the thumbnail of a HITC Sevens video. Peace be upon you on this great day.
Just one fact.
Sporting won the UEFA, cup winners cup, against Mtk Budapeste in 1964.
An Eastern European video on Derby matches would be interesting
Hard to believe how good Benfica was in the 1960s with Eusebio. Once defeated Real and Barca in the finals two consecutive years to win the cup
Thanks for the career mode ideas 👍
This was such a good vid and thanks for giving me a presentation idea for my final exam german
Djurgarden are also an ice hockey team. They are named after a park island in Stockholm which was one of my favourite places to visit when we went to the Swedish capital city.
Ok Alfie, now it’s time for the teams from the first UEFA Cup outing!
Brilliant video, would love a video exploring the discontinued cup winners cup and intertoto cups. Hear talk of them from time to time but know nothing about them!
These intros are getting more and more grandiose each week 🤣
Big up Alfie for putting effort into Hungarian pronunciations. 👌🏻💪🏻
Love this channel thank you so much for the continued content :)
Ur doing very well on your mentioning of Hull City in these videos in which they'd have no part to play unless they sold a player to 1 of the focus clubs of the video, I mean let's be honest here, Hull City are about as likely to qualify for a European club competition as I have of managing a professional football club.
Hearing this man having to pronounce dutch words brought a smile to my face😊
Same with German 😂
Having to pronounce words, full stop.
Great video.
I am requesting that 10 years from now you make a video on the inaugural conference league teams: where are they now
I might have one thing to point out is that the Dutch league wasn't like what it is today. Back in 1954/55 season, the first division was contested by 56 teams divided into 4 sectors with the winners of each group going forward into a championship play-off structure. PSV were the top team of Group C, FC Eindhoven were Group D, NAC Breda, Group A and Willem II Group B (don't ask me how they sorted these things out). Of the four teams Willem II were the overall winners with PSV third ahead of FC Eindhoven. What makes this even weirder is that the KNVB wanted to streamline this into two leagues of 18 teams and the winner of the two groups goes head to head to be crowned Champions of The Netherlands. It was only another season that there would be the Eredivisie as we know it today which for all intents and purposes is easier on the heads for the modern day football fan.
Smashing vid!
8:30 1952 Winter Olympics were held in Norway, _Summer_ Olympics in Finland.
Day 139: Barcelona 2011 vs 2015 Combined XI
Chelsea should have been in it that season if it wasn't for the FA.
FA gotta FA
And they say we have no history.
@@areebsiddiqui758 that was your only season before the 1998
Shoulda done what United did and joined anyway 🤣
@@sahibbhadal Could have been different had we joined up. Same thing for Everton in the 80s who were the dominant force in English football at the time but were banned from playing in the European cup.
This video is great I remember watching the sarbrucken video so glad I found this
While Hibs may have not featured in the European Cup since the debut campaign, they have had many notable nights in the UEFA Cup or Fairs Cup against the likes of Barcelona, Napoli, Liverpool, Leeds to name a few.
8:28 I never knew we hosted Winter Olympics, too! I always thought the 1952 Winter Olympics were held in Oslo.
You forgot to mention that Partizan played 1966. Champions Cup Final where they lost to Real Madrid.
I'm a Sporting CP fan, and I didn't knew we were participants in the first European Cup
And the portuguese Champion at the time was the neighbor,but everyone always forget that
@@mariohenriques105 Yeah, right. How's your former president doing, btw?
@@mariohenriques105 Sporting had more titles and won 8 in 10 championships before it starts ... it was a logical invitation! The biggest club in Portugal: Sporting Lisbon
Oh god honestly thought this channel took a new turn
This is an incredible idea!
"I'm not a goat but I fit the description" - HITC Sevens
My grandad used to play for Gwardia Warszawa no cap🚫🧢
no shit man....
Would love to see you make a video about the miracle of Madrid, when OB (Odense Boldklub) knocked out Real Madrid in the UEFA Cup (now known as UEFA Europa League), it might have been the biggest display of a danish team in Europe
Madrid played really like crap that match. And was even qualifiying at very the end of the match Luis Enrique (Playing a full-back in that match) lost his shit and went to try to head a corner, and got his back taken. He might be already plotting his move to Barcelona... (Joking). That was the Madrid that couldn't win a European Cup/Champions League in 32 years. Not the superpower it was before, or returned to be afterwards.
Partizan played European cup final 1966... You could mention that.
He would easily mention if red star was here,figures
Day 97: Indonesia XI If All Eligible Players Had Declared For Them
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Keep dreaming bocah
Would be dead 🤣
The people's channel,ladies and gentlemen👏👏👏
😂😂😂... "... that would be for others to decide" was so expected, yet unexpected.
Finally something about hibs 🤝
Should've mentioned RWE's last seasons cup run where they reached the quarter final beating Leverkusen and Bielefeld.
As an Essener who supports Hamburg, I am still amazed and proud by that RWE team. The club is the city's problem child that "no one" supports but everybody cares about.
Nur der RWE ..
Lovely Richard Herring reference in the intro :D
great work as always, could you do a video on top ten coaches who have had success on the pitch as well as on the sideline as a coach? and a list of top ten coaches who didn't play at a high level on the pitch but still are very sucssesful???
PSV’s only European cup was in 1988 when they beat SL Benfica 0-0 (6-5 on penalties)
I just like Alfie’s intros although they can sometimes be unnecessarily long
Holland Sport has merged in 1971 with ADO from The Heague to form FC Den Haag, today known as ADO Den Haag
Really should have put your face on the Jesus picture. It would be hilarious
Would also be wrong
Nobody expected that from Biden
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Can you do a video on the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup and / or Cup Winners' Cup?
Most ridiculous start to a video about football ever. Love it! :-D
5:30
Me, who played mtk budapest in FM20 and won 6Cl with them: lets gooooo
What on earth is going on at Vale of Leithen?!? 7 matches, 1 goal, 34 allowed. 😳
Sporting Clube de Portugal won the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup in 1963-64
Video suggestion: Ranking the Seven best balloon d'Or winners.
Wolves played Honved in 1954 to mark Molineux new floodlights; this was after Hungary hammered England.
Puskas said after the Wolves game that Honved had just played the best team in the World, and a club competition needed organising to pit the best teams against each other.
Day 17: where would a team of Alfie Potts Harmer lookalikes finish in the premier league?
Nobody expected that from Biden
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23:50 aged really well
Real Madrid not being the biggest team in Madrid is so odd to think about these days
I suggested this idea in one of your videos, I just can't remember which video it's lol
Before 1990s, every countries in Europe got chance to win the trophy, even teams from Greece or Belgium, good old days