Holy shit. Socrates managed to qualify as doctor while playing FULL TIME. Jesus, I have enough trouble working part-time and keeping my grades. That's freaking amazing.
The fact Bamford isn't on this list is a bit silly. List of credits Patrick Bamford has. Fluent in German and French and learning Spanish Plays violin, saxophone and piano and learning the guitar Spent all of his school days with an older age group. Did GCSE's early. (5 A*, 3 A's, 2 B's) Offered a scholarship by Harvard one of the most prestigious universities in the world. Seems good enough to be on this list don't you think.
Mignolet? He speaks 5 different Languages and has a degree in Philosophy, and Jurgen Klopp said that he is one of the smartest Keepers his ever managed
+Football Daily he should have sacked much earlier.....how the hell he even got a job at a club like valancia!! great player but no coaching experience
+Patrisius Bagus Alvito Really, people have been making Bendtner jokes since he left his mother's womb. Stick to something original because Bendtner jokes are as original as poop jokes.
Wait. So no Flamini? A man that's supposed to reinvent energy as we know it. He owns a biochemical company with 80 employees. He invested a ton of money and energy just cause of the US Department of Energy found 12 molecules that would be just as useful as petrol. If that isn't Intelligent than i don't know what is.
Lampard and Socrates sound like the only 2 on this list who are actually smart. The rest basically got in cause they're a bit more cultured than the average player.
Fsdf Nog He got a scholarship at Harvard.... Doing Mechanical engineering. I knew too many people that dropped out of mechanical. Even I did. I had to switch a different field. Getting a degree in Mechanical engineering, is not impressive?
The Guy Who met your Mum lol most STEM degrees are a joke these days. Read up on what they studied in the late 80s-early90s on those same degrees. Socrates did his stuff in the 70s and Lampard is verified to have a high IQ on a test.
Frank lampard has an IQ of 150. Albert Einstein had an IQ of 160. Which makes Lampard in the 0.5% smartest humans on earth. Thats why for me frank is the smartest footballer ever
anyone whose heard mata in interviews u can tell hes a fucken genius. after 1 year at chelsea his english was almost perfect. now, every interview he does his english is perfect and he writes a weekly blog for united thats extremely well written.
Petr Cech? - Fluent in 5 languages His native language Czech English - Lives in the country and to be able to communicate better with the Chelsea team Spanish - To communicate better with Monreal and Bellerín French - To communicate better with Koscielny German - To communicate better with Mertesacker And he can play the drums
What about Manuel Pellegrini? Civil Engineer, international for Chile, and Barclay's Premier League winner for Manchester City Also, Mexican legend Hugo Sánchez, who won everything with Real Madrid, became champion with Pumas in Mexico, joined to a sport's analysis show, and graduated as a dentist.
You missed Pablo Aimar. He entered med school at 18 but he chose to keep playing football, and if you watch some of his interviews you're going to see what I'm talking about. I strongly advise you to search about this great player, the idol of Messi.
Where is flamini? He owns a mutli-billionaire biochemical company to help reduce the amount of carbon dioxyde and increase the value of trades and markets. He needs to: 1. Know how to manage resources and money 2. Know how to produce the biochemical compounds Conclusion: He's a fucking genius.
+Football Daily Its looks as if you did especially with number 6 there are probably a number of other players that you could have picked rather than Morris.. so yeah he went to Princeton what else he didn't even finish what were his academic achievements.......his only there because of the school he went..if you knew how Uni sports worked with the NCAA lots of school pick up talented athletes it does not necessarily reflect their academic achievement
Lol, they really cheated out Mesut Ozil. List of his Accomplishments: Can Use 8 emojis in one sentence Can imitate other species (bug and fish) Has a lovely grasp of the English language ex. #YaGunnersYa 10/10, should be on the list.
Senderos is fluent in seven languages I think, as well as wenger who can speak English, French, Italian, Spanish and Japanese. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Sport is still really divided by class in the UK and a lot of the middle class kids are playing cricket and rugby. A large part of the reason football on the continent produces more sophisticated types of players and eloquent managers is because that isn't the case, there. By contrast a lot of English players and managers are about as articulate as dock workers (no offense to dock workers..)
I think that the Fulham player Matt Smith deserves a mention, he completed his A levels at one of the best grammar schools in the country and had a far better and more extensive education than most of the people on this list. However he is at a much lower standard of football than the people on the list and I think that a lot of this is based on intelligence on the pitch.
So A levels from a good grammar school trumps a scholarship to the most prestigious university in the world? Or qualifying as an actual Doctor while playing F/T football?!
I'd put Luis Suarez on this list. Suarez is not a top bloke, but he is the ultimate opportunist with a sharp mind. Just look what he did with Liverpool and the way he still manipulates and plays tricks on defenders with his ball control. The WC quarter final against Ghana handball incident - he made the decision to either lose the game fairly or sacrifice himself and potentially get a semi final spot. Uruguay wins. He is the classic mad genius. Just because someone speaks five languages and studies business doesn't give them an intuitive mind with natural abilities. Often being so well spoken has to do with your surroundings and being forced to.
"If you have a name like Socrates, you better not be an _idiot_."
LMAOOOOO
+GiveMeMyPotato Haha!
R.I.P Johan CRUYFF YOU WERE A GREAT FOOTBALLER AND YOU WILL BE REMEMBERED
Yohan😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂☺️
+TheDemyDan XDDDDD
Don't you mean yohan cabaye?
apparently barcelona fans dont care
Yes defined
Holy shit. Socrates managed to qualify as doctor while playing FULL TIME. Jesus, I have enough trouble working part-time and keeping my grades. That's freaking amazing.
+Lucas Cabral An amazing achievement!
Plus, he is also a philosopher and an economist! Crazy, right?
+Mental Practitioner (T) *was unfortunately
The Doctor! Captain of the best brazil not to win a Worldcup!
In Brazil the only requirement to be a doctor is to know how to swallow a pill.
"If you have a name like Socrates you better not be an idiot"
The fact Bamford isn't on this list is a bit silly.
List of credits Patrick Bamford has.
Fluent in German and French and learning Spanish
Plays violin, saxophone and piano and learning the guitar
Spent all of his school days with an older age group.
Did GCSE's early. (5 A*, 3 A's, 2 B's)
Offered a scholarship by Harvard one of the most prestigious universities in the world.
Seems good enough to be on this list don't you think.
definitely
Yeah I was about to comment this!
Are you his boyfriend or something
How do those gcse grades get u into Harvard, those grades r pretty shit
same
Gary Neville may be smart but he's just been sacked from Valencia. Correct decision?
you should do a top ten ex player managers
Mignolet? He speaks 5 different Languages and has a degree in Philosophy, and Jurgen Klopp said that he is one of the smartest Keepers his ever managed
Top 10 ex players who became managers
+Football Daily he should have sacked much earlier.....how the hell he even got a job at a club like valancia!! great player but no coaching experience
javier hernandez or chicharito
Where the fuck is arsene wenger? He can speak almost 5 languages and have a master in economy and engineer
+Kristoffer Olsen He's a manager...
l
+Football Daily he used to be a footballer, just like cruyff?
+Football Daily used to be a player
+Football Daily He used to be a player (just like most managers. apart from Mourinho and ABV, I don't know any manager that wasn't a player before.
Do the ten stupidest footballers
Yes!
Great idea
+patrick McCrum N°1: Balloteli
+LM 😂😂😂
#2 pique
Rest in Peace to one of the smartest football players to ever live - Johan Cruyff
+Luke Evans RIP
+Luke Evans RIP Johan
A doctor AND an athlete WHO smokes....WHAT?
smart people don't have addictions, quite a stupid pick for #1 lol
He was an alcoholic as well.
lampard only nbr 9?? he has a 150IQ
LORD BENDTNER ??? HE IS SMARTER THAN EINSTEIN !
funny...
+MonkeyBale 847 and original...
+Patrisius Bagus Alvito Really, people have been making Bendtner jokes since he left his mother's womb. Stick to something original because Bendtner jokes are as original as poop jokes.
+G Spyder its not a joke -_-
And he is greater than GOD!
That background Song is annoying
ikr
Tony Hibbert - very good at fishing
lol
+Harry Forster haha
You forget to add Pep Guardiola. Speaks fluently on 6 languages (English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Catalan), a true Cruyff descendant
Lampard Mata 😍😍😍
Gay
+Isaac Drysdale how's that gay mate?
+UnderatedGamer I'm pretty sure he was talking about himself 😉
+UnderatedGamer I didn't understand the meaning of being Gay
how i miss them 😣
How is lamps #9, the guy is literally a pure genius.
Wait.
So no Flamini?
A man that's supposed to reinvent energy as we know it. He owns a biochemical company with 80 employees. He invested a ton of money and energy just cause of the US Department of Energy found 12 molecules that would be just as useful as petrol.
If that isn't Intelligent than i don't know what is.
1:50 you really had to jinx it XD......
Where is Petr Cech he learned every language of any players nationality who came abroad to Chelsea
There is no need to be upset
Goutham I'm not XD
You also forgot to mention Zvonimir Boban. He also speaks several languages, has graduated and is a great pundit on Italian television
Mignolet speaks English, French, Dutch and German and has a degree in political science.
I know
But he's bloody stupid on the pitch
Meh. Everyone in Belgium speaks English, French, Flemish, and German. They've got a lot going on over there.
That is why Kompany has a big head lol cause of all that knowledge
+Officer Tenpenny lol
wow! Very impressed by Socrates! and Lukaku
Brilliant lads.
Lampard and Socrates sound like the only 2 on this list who are actually smart. The rest basically got in cause they're a bit more cultured than the average player.
Fsdf Nog
Shaka Bishop?
lol no
Fsdf Nog
He got a scholarship at Harvard....
Doing Mechanical engineering. I knew too many people that dropped out of mechanical. Even I did. I had to switch a different field.
Getting a degree in Mechanical engineering, is not impressive?
The Guy Who met your Mum lol most STEM degrees are a joke these days. Read up on what they studied in the late 80s-early90s on those same degrees. Socrates did his stuff in the 70s and Lampard is verified to have a high IQ on a test.
4:13 RIP Johan Cruyff 😔
R.I.P Johan Cruyff
+Tweetster RIP
Matheiu Flamini has secretly being developing a business to revolutionize the fuel industry for the past 7 years and is set to become a billionaire.
Frank lampard has an IQ of 150. Albert Einstein had an IQ of 160. Which makes Lampard in the 0.5% smartest humans on earth. Thats why for me frank is the smartest footballer ever
Sick video
+Mahamed Bob Cheers!
I like all your videos there all good,entertaining and high quality
Thanks
3= RIP
+The English Filmer A sad loss for football.
+The Wideamen one of the best
+Football Daily what a player
Iniestan Messi, Guardiola, Kums, Matias Suarez, Bergkamp, Nagatomo, Nedum Ouoha, Mignolet, Seyi Olofinjana, Jean-Alain Boumsong, Duncan Watmore, David Wetherall, Iain Dowie, ...
Phillip Lahm should be there. no more needs to be said
anyone whose heard mata in interviews u can tell hes a fucken genius. after 1 year at chelsea his english was almost perfect. now, every interview he does his english is perfect and he writes a weekly blog for united thats extremely well written.
where is Lham ?
Dr. Socrates, the Legend
what about mignolet?
+charlie kelly He's eating pears.
Exactly. Where is he -.-
mignolet knows 5 different languages and has a degree in politics
He plays for Liverpool... Not smart.
+Calum Howell Liverpool has a very rich history and a promising future with kloop not a dumb choice at all
REST IN PEACE JOHAN CRUYFF! YOU'RE ETERNAL!
This explains Kompanys big head
R.I.P Yohan Cruyff. Real legend.
Johan cruyff*
+ImGhxstz if u want to be real dick it should be johan cruijff
Guys I spelled his name wrong but i know now thanks for correcting me
Goirgio Chiellini, Andrea Pirlo
Yes Chiellini completed a masters degree only like two years ago
R.I.P Johan cruyff you will always get rememberd
I thought David Silva was the most intelligent player. EPL commentators always praise him for his intelligence of the game.
u got trolled
Diego Cervero from Real Oviedo, medicine graduate, and Petr Cech, knows so many languages and such a high IQ
Where is Balotelli?! LOL
You've really motivated me
Now Ik what to do thanks
Mate you missed joey Barton 😂😂
Petr Cech? - Fluent in 5 languages
His native language Czech
English - Lives in the country and to be able to communicate better with the Chelsea team
Spanish - To communicate better with Monreal and Bellerín
French - To communicate better with Koscielny
German - To communicate better with Mertesacker
And he can play the drums
Where is Flamini?
HEck I was thinking Socrates all along being sure you'd forget about him! Nice =D
RIP Cruyff :(
+Sami Barakat RIP
Matt Smith - Fulham striker - International management with American studies degree at Manchester University
mignolet? 5 languages and a degree in politics
His languages consest of rubbish,s#*t,goal let in,suck and simon (migo) let in goals
Clearly why he's so shit.
What about Manuel Pellegrini? Civil Engineer, international for Chile, and Barclay's Premier League winner for Manchester City
Also, Mexican legend Hugo Sánchez, who won everything with Real Madrid, became champion with Pumas in Mexico, joined to a sport's analysis show, and graduated as a dentist.
Where's Patrick Bamford?
+Samuel Gilbert Norwich last we heard.
+Football Daily where's bestian schensteiger
+Football Daily bants
You missed Pablo Aimar. He entered med school at 18 but he chose to keep playing football, and if you watch some of his interviews you're going to see what I'm talking about. I strongly advise you to search about this great player, the idol of Messi.
Where is flamini? He owns a mutli-billionaire biochemical company to help reduce the amount of carbon dioxyde and increase the value of trades and markets. He needs to:
1. Know how to manage resources and money
2. Know how to produce the biochemical compounds
Conclusion: He's a fucking genius.
but he is shit at football and that's his job
'Owning' and 'being a part of are 2 different things
+Kritical SkillZ he owns it you dumbass
+TheRealNick read my comment again
+TheRealNick read my comment again
Neuer is also pretty smart, just dont know if he is smat enough for the list, atleast i hope he will be in an updated version or something
Gary Neville is smart?!? OOOOHHHHHHHHH
+Zain Rahman Gary Never
Leonardo, from Brazil, ex-Milan, São Paulo and PSG. He's more intelligent than all of them.
OMG this list is stupid.Did you just pull the names out from a hat?
+dnero TheBigBatina We did! How did you guess? After the names we pulled a rabbit out.
+Football Daily LMAO
+Football Daily HAHAHAHAHAHA
+Football Daily Its looks as if you did especially with number 6 there are probably a number of other players that you could have picked rather than Morris.. so yeah he went to Princeton what else he didn't even finish what were his academic achievements.......his only there because of the school he went..if you knew how Uni sports worked with the NCAA lots of school pick up talented athletes it does not necessarily reflect their academic achievement
Not stanfo
all i need to do is play pro football and i'll be on this list next time
I thought that Xavi would be on this list
+Sebastián Caris Yes they missed a lot of others
You forgot Carlos Bilardo. Player for Estudiantes de La Plata, managed Argentina to a World Cup victory in 1986, and also a licensed gynecologist.
I mise Philipp Lahm...
Mise?
+Noah Baker he meant miss jez
Daniel Akbar Of course...
was thinking the same
+Daniel Akbar jez jez jez jez jez jez
Henrik mkhitaryan speaks in 7 languages (English German Russian Ukrainian French Armenian and Portuguese )
Where's the arsenal players? 😂😂😂
Lol, they really cheated out Mesut Ozil. List of his Accomplishments:
Can Use 8 emojis in one sentence
Can imitate other species (bug and fish)
Has a lovely grasp of the English language
ex. #YaGunnersYa
10/10, should be on the list.
+Erik Lindgren haha
+Erik Lindgren Harsh but funny.
You may want to consider Costacurta who amassed series of degrees while championing Italy and Europe with Milan.
3:09 do you mean 2012 instead of (20 2) +Football Daily
RIP Johan Cruyff 1947-2016
Senderos is fluent in seven languages I think, as well as wenger who can speak English, French, Italian, Spanish and Japanese. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Do thickest players next?
Hi guys,the video is great but you left out a very very intelligent player I think should be on the list & that is Thierry Henry.
Slaven Bilić, Luka Modrić, Davor Šuker. Croatia got a whole bunch of smart players
Gary Neville got fired today kind of sad but it's part of life
Seedorf should be on the list. He speaks 6 languages fluently! His nickname is "il professore" ("the professor").
Johan Cruyff R.I.P
2:20 Drogba took Chelsea to glory, he scored both winning goal
Wow, really surprised by some of the people here. For some reason I thought Mata was thick :D Lukaku and Hislop also surprised me...
I remember something about Duncan Watmore from Sunderland. Maybe.
Sport is still really divided by class in the UK and a lot of the middle class kids are playing cricket and rugby. A large part of the reason football on the continent produces more sophisticated types of players and eloquent managers is because that isn't the case, there. By contrast a lot of English players and managers are about as articulate as dock workers (no offense to dock workers..)
I think that the Fulham player Matt Smith deserves a mention, he completed his A levels at one of the best grammar schools in the country and had a far better and more extensive education than most of the people on this list. However he is at a much lower standard of football than the people on the list and I think that a lot of this is based on intelligence on the pitch.
So A levels from a good grammar school trumps a scholarship to the most prestigious university in the world? Or qualifying as an actual Doctor while playing F/T football?!
R.I.P. Johan Cruyff, you'll be missed.
Where are the footballers from other leagues such as Serie A, Bundesliga, La Liga, Eredivisie etc.?
Could you do most unintelligent players and put Michael Owen at #1(because of his commentary)?
Slaven Bilic- House MD
R.I.P. Cruyff
Duncan Watmore has become only the second Premier League player to receive a first-class honours degree at university.
Gary just got sacked but he's still a genius
I'd put Luis Suarez on this list. Suarez is not a top bloke, but he is the ultimate opportunist with a sharp mind. Just look what he did with Liverpool and the way he still manipulates and plays tricks on defenders with his ball control. The WC quarter final against Ghana handball incident - he made the decision to either lose the game fairly or sacrifice himself and potentially get a semi final spot. Uruguay wins. He is the classic mad genius. Just because someone speaks five languages and studies business doesn't give them an intuitive mind with natural abilities. Often being so well spoken has to do with your surroundings and being forced to.
Lampard is a legend
What about Seyi Olofinjana, Ex super Eagles of Nigeria?
3:09 Vincent Kompany joined in TWENTY TWO"!!
+Bryan Santos at 22
van bronckhorst studied 2 years psychology at the university while footballing at Feyenoord
Vincent Kompany is world's best!!
Bilic was a real good decision. Add Javier Zanetti. Philip Lahm. Frank Rijkaard.
iain dowie has to be one of the smartest footbalers ever. he got a masters in engineering and then worked for british aerospace.
Was expecting Lahm somewhere in this list. But maybe he's just smart with football. :p
Iniesta and Philip Lahm may be very smart;))