@Trevor Philips With advancements in medicine, coaching and fitness, there's no reason that young whippersnapper couldn't play until he was at least 300 years old...
Frankly, I'm glad not to see him on the team, and I'm a Swede. This team is already going to be dealing with enough internal tension without adding a Narcissist of the highest degree to the team.
Usually from Scandinavian leagues, it takes some time to hone the talent to get a chance in bigger leagues. Denmark, Sweden and Norway have all decent top leagues compared to population, with influx on foreign players competing for places in teams. Even for a good player, it usually takes for their 20's to stand out for their teams and to attract interest from top 5 leagues. There is younger talent (not everyone even at huge teams), have been as heavily touted as Håland, and this is part of the reason Scandivian players might somewhat fly under the radar during the early years.
A documentary explaining why South Africa (men's team) has struggled to become one of the best teams on the continent (having not qualified for a WC since 2002 and shocking qualification record for AFCON) despite having one of the richest leagues in Africa, some of the best teams in Africa and being extremely well funded and having some good facilities.
I would like to see this from Alfie, because I also struggle to understand that We have the richest league in Africa and we never perform internationally
@@yankiefrenz1367 We have teams that are consistently in the CAF Champions League and Mamelodi Sundowns is considered by some to be one of the best in Africa. They literally beat Al Ahly 5 - 2 yesterday
@Yankie frenz by that we mean one of the richest leagues meaning Top 10 in all of Africa.....it wouldn't make sense to say "we have the richest league in Africa +9 others".....secondly Sundown are literally No.1 best team in Africa, and chiefs and pirates are well known
Especially because in other sports the country is somewhat doing well, so it would be interesting to see why South Africa is failing in football. I hope if he does the video he adds that one interview where former sports minister Fikile Mbalula called them a bunch of losers
@@fadhil2831 yeah and croatia has been second once and third twice. Imagine just adding a few class players like Oblak, and strikers as Vlahovic/Mitrovic to that just to name a few. If Yugoslavia was still alive, they would be contenders every year.
Watch out for Victor Kristiansen who just signed for Leicester. He’s a very talented and pacey left back that you can clearly see is missed the second he got injured (like all Leicester fullbacks apparently do). He hasn’t played a ton since he got here in January, but I honestly already think he’s our best left back and he’s only 20 years old.
@@Nillz13 sad to hear that. He was excellent at the last euros, but had an awful World Cup, and because Denmark relied so heavily on his attacking presence down that left side he was perhaps the worst letdown in that team. I hope he figures it out soon at Atalanta.
Denmark was one of most popular ( after all usual names ) choices to make noise & advance far. I had been talking about them for Years. I can’t imagine how disappointed Denmark 🇩🇰 was after they looked great before WC, and then how it turned out. They’re still great team, hopefully make up for it in Euro’s!!!
Can you do a documentary about Boavista FC? One of only two clubs in Portugal who broke the hegemony of the Big Three in Portugal and were crowned champions in 2001. Played the likes of Bayern Munich and Liverpool in the UCL and reached the UEFA Cup semifinal in 2003. They were relegated in 2008 and only came back to top flight in 2014, following many years of judicial cases and financial crisis.
glad to see you putting Jesper Karlsson on the bench. Totally underrated even by our own manager in sweden and doesnt get even close to enough gametime that he deserves. Unreal baller and has a flair about him that you usually dont get from swedish footballers, would really enjoy to see him get more gametime
This reminds me of a premise similar to the British empire team. Creating all time teams from now defunct Kingdoms and empires such as the Tre-Kroner or Austro-Hungarian teams if those entities still existed.
The Håland/Sørloth strike partnership is actually taller than a potential Håland/Isak partnership. Lately Sørloth has mostly been playing on the wing for Norway though.
Aursnes was a brilliant signing to Benfica. He can play literally everywhere in the midfield and you can see in his body language that he knows what he is doing on the pitch.
Great Video as always. Small correction from a Union fan: Ronnow became the starting Keeper of Union last season, dislodging Andreas Luthe and has been the unchallenged number one since then. Absolutely world class as a keeper, he's massively underrated. Love seeing some appreciation for him.
And as I'm watching this Isak scores with his head for Newcastle. Looking really dangerous and there is so much potential in him it's scary. A front 2 of him and Haaland especially in a couple of seasons time would be bloody terrifying.
Wow!!!This Scandanavian XI are capable of getting to at least in the semi final stage of a FIFA World Cup tournament if not the final,good friends!!!LONG LIVES RESPECTIVELY TO THE RESPECTIVE NATIONAL TEAMS AND NATIONS DENMARK,NORWAY AND SWEDEN!!!🇩🇰🇳🇴🇸🇪
Proper comment now: I enjoyed this XI very much, especially taking Isak. He's one of those players who can be absolutely electric, and I can't wait to see what he'll do for the Mags in seasons to come. I do think Sorloth is unfortunate to miss out though, but having him as a super-sub for when Isak's stamina starts to drop off is a very good thing for this team.
Great video! You're generally very good with pronunciations Alfie, Hoever, double A in Norwegian (and Danish) creates the sound of Å, which is like 'aw' in most english accents. Haw-land, Øde-gourd would be approximations.
@@frederikklitgaard209 maybe it’s more of a diphthong in Danish. It’s not in the Norwegian names above, nor in (my native) Swedish (except Scanian, but there the diphthong is more au, not ao)
@@Z1m0nN You may be right. I wasn't talking about a diphthong though. My statement was based in the fact that AO preceeds the modern Å, and that for my Swedish tongue it seems to work to combine the vowels A and O to create the vowel Å. I could have phrased my original comment accordingly.
That team with Hjulmand as coach. A true magician of defence. Could surely be in contention for a world cup. No matter which team to be faced. The inclusion of quality offensive players. Into a danish core team would be amazing.
They'd probably be a bit like Real Madrid teams of a few years ago... They'd concede quite a few goals but always have the ability to outscore their opponents with that midfield and forward line. Nice video man 👍
Its annoying as swede because we have been beating denmark alot thanks to Zlatan but without him denmark beats us on basically every position besides maybe Forsberg( he had better potential than he ever fuldilled) ,isak and kulusevski
I think it is great having Norway, Finland, Sweden, and Denmark all unite together as a United Scandinavian Empire Nation. If these four nations all unify together, this new United Scandinavian team might win more champions as possible. The Scandinavian Dollar is the new currency. This is why I believe Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden all work together equally, helpfully, nicely, caring, making this unified nation have the possible strongest economy even as great as Canada and USA unify together.
Still hoping for that Austrian Wunderteam video 😇✌. btw, it's very interesting what is considered "Scandinavia" and what isn't. I thought that Finland was part of it until you mentioned that it seemed not to be. I now looked it up and it appears that it's a somewhat contended topic with different interpretations. The most strict one is that only Sweden and Norway are Scandinavia and the most relaxed interpretation includes the other Nordic countries Finland, Iceland, and Faroe Islands as well. Geographically it's only Norway, Sweden, and the top part of Finland, while culturally Denmark is part of it as well.
The frontline you picked is destroying the Premier League in my current Football Manager game, where I'm playing Liverpool with only British and Irish players. In the 2022-2023 PL season, Isak has scored 29 goals ! But Haaland has scored 47 (!!!) goals for City ! And 71 in all games for City + 12 for Norway. What the hell? I still won the PL invincible with 106 points though. In real life, though it will never happen, your XI would be extremely strong ! It would be pretty much on par with Belgium, the Netherlands, Croatia or Uruguay in pure talent I think. When I saw you put 2 center forwards, I expected Ibrahimovic though. This guy is incredible, to the point he's coming back to play for Sweden at 41 years old. Crazy for a striker You could do a similar video with former Yougoslavia, Maghreb or arabic countries, west africa or France+french speaking belgians, swiss and canadians. That would be great ! Especially Yougoslavia
Denmark is doing something very right in producing players, imo opinion odegaard and haaland are just freak of nature talents that dont happen foten but denmark has so many more players in the top leagues than the others for some reason
Isak and Haaland could be an incredible striker partnership, both incredibly quick and physical and with Haaland providing consistent goalscoring, Isak’s inconsistency on that front would be covered and the focus could instead be on utilising his incredible technical abilities
Could you please make a video about football at the 1919 Interallied games, which (to my knowledge) was the very first intercontinental football competion (even before the Olympics since the first team outside of Europe to play in Olympics was Egypt and that was in 1920).
Im a Swede and I have high hopes for Swedish football. So many young players with huge potential such as Roony Bardghji from Copenhagen who will probably smash the danish league transfer record when he moves to a big club. And midfielders such as Mattias Svanberg(Wolfsburg), Jens Cajuste(Reims)Lucas Bergvall(Djurgården), Yasin Ayari(Brighton) and Hugo Larsson are highly rated in Malmö. I don't need to worry about our future with the attack we have Isak, Kulu and Elanga (once our national team coach finds out who to play them properly) and many others such as Amin Sarr(Lyon), Jesper Karlsson(AZ Alkmaar) and Viktor Gyökeres(Coventry) more who will just become better through the years. In the defence we have of course Robin Olsen in goal from Aston Villa who performs well for Sweden even tho he's a second goalie in villa. He's over his thirties and may have 1-2 years before he maybe decides to retire from the national team. In the future, we have young goalie Leopold Wahlstedt from Odds BK in the Norwegian league who has the potential to be a good goalkeeper same with Jacob Widell Zetterström from Djurgården. When it comes to our back four who our national coach mostly plays. We have Lindelöf the captain mentioned in the vid. But the most promising cb right now is Hjalmar Ekdal in Burnley. Signed in January from Djurgården for a bargain in my opinion. He's done really well even scoring a goal on his debut match and only has conceded 2 goals in his 8 matches. And he'll become a big player and lean our back four in the future for sure. Other than that we have Isak Hien from Hellas Verona who might be in a relegation battle but he has potential once he moves to another club. Emil Holm a right-back from Spezia in Serie A doing well and talks about a move for him to Inter Milan in the summer. And for our right back, we have Gabriel Gudmundsson from Lille. Might not have the best season so far but the potential is there of course. I think the idea of a combined team of Scandinavia would be awesome tho it will never happen. We could make our way to a WC final with that team.
This is really interesting and has sparked a new competition in mind. What if there was a FIFA Regional confederations cup? Where the regional confederations create superteams and compete. UEFA and Conmebol don’t seem to have any so probably there would be a Nordic-Baltic confederation, Western European confederation, British Isles confederation etc. In South America perhaps a southern cone confederation, and a northern Latin American confederation
15:38 Funny enough, the 3 strikers Norway named for their squad in the upcoming games against Spain and Georgia is: Erling Haaland (6ft 5in), Alexander Sørloth (6ft 5in) and Jørgen Strand Larsen (6ft 4in) at Celta Vigo. They are all aged 22-27 as well, and similar build. Exciting times as a Norwegian honestly, praying for a spot in the next Euros and World Cup. As the squad should be more than good enough, expect for in goal, and we really could use a decent winger
Great video, just want to point out one mistake after 50-60 seconds; Norway won the bronze medal in Olympics Berlin 1936, that should qualify for a big tournament.
Would be intereting to see what you think a United Kingdom World Cup team line up would look like. A topic my old man constantly during World Cup season brings up in bafflment why we don't enter World Cups as The United Kingdom lol
The official reason we don’t play together is that its nations, not countries, that matters. The unofficial reason is that, if we’re being honest, it would be mostly just the England team with at most two players from Wales and Scotland, and none from Northern Ireland
You should do a video on players with the most appearances but least minutes kn the pitch for example if a player has made 100 appearances for a club but they where all substitute appearances with 10 minutes left meaning they'd only played 100 minutes over 100 appearances if that makes sense
Maybe do a documentary on Dunajska Streda, best supported team in Slovakia even though they’re from a town with 22k population. Never won the league in their history, but top of the league right now! And there’s some backstory about Hungarians in Slovakia. Alfie type beat
I would actually put Aursnes ahead of Hojberg or Eriksen. He is being unbelievable at Benfica. He is definitely the signing of the season for me. When he arrived, we didn't think that much of him, but now he is one of our best players
@@naedot.9779 nah we’re fine with just Scandinavia, with stadiums in Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm, Trondheim, Gothenburg, Aarhus, Malmo and Bergen it would be all set.
i would play Ødegård on the right and Eriksen on the left, and i would maybe play Østigård on LCB, but i'm biased since i'm norwegian, but otherwise good team
Yeah... Østigård could comfortably have joined this list... if it wasn't for that he plays for a Napoli, who is crushing in serie-A atm. They are about 17 points ahead of the 2nd.
you could do this but with Iberian Nations like a Spain-Portugal combined XI
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Could you do a video doing a combined Nordic XI that could or would have won The World Cup at its time. E.g. 94 when Sweden finished third place and Norway qualified at the expense of England but fell out of the group stage although levelling with Italy. Players such as Brolin and Andersson from Sweden, Björneby from Norway, Laudrup brothers from Denmark, and Litmanen from Finland and even from little Iceland Toddy Orlygsson.
Hi Alfie, would love a video discussing the Gary Lineker/BBC situation. I don't know if its too far removed from the football bubble - but I know with your research it would be an interesting tale.
Yes, a What On Earth Is Going On The BBC. The situation is volatile atm so the video could be a bit outdated when it comes out but still... interesting.
Pretty easy the chairman on the BBC was giving the position by Boris Johnson , Richard sharp is a massive Tory donor and banker who is close to rishi,Boris and others, he recently in a scandal for loaning nearly 1m to Boris for the job at the BBC. BBC is basically funded by Tory's but if your a Tory supporter like Alan sugar you can be racist or defend tax evasion like Fiona Bruce
I'd say this hypothetical team could win an Euro or be in a high place in a World Cup. If everything would go well for them, they could be a rough team for anyone
This 11 and in the Squad are also Emil Forsberg, the one and only Zlatan, Sorloth, Rasmus Hojlund, Joakim Maehle, Simon Kjaer, Norgaard, Jensen and a whole lot of other class players!
If Scandinavia had fielded a combined team at the 1994 World Cup, they would probably had the strongest squad at that tournament. Consider Sweden's bronze winning team enhanced with players such as Schmeichel, the Laudrup brothers, Bratseth and Mykland.
Really hope Norway qualifies for the Euro's. They should have probably come second in their world cup qualifier. If their coach doesn't qualify for the Euro's he should really be replaced. As they are not just Haaland and Odegard. With also Schjledrup, Aursnes and Ajer etc.
Hey Alfie. As you Like Football, the Finances involved with it and scandals (as it seems), i think you might Like the History of SV Mattersburg and its Former President Martin Pucher. Maybe you wanna Look into it.
a documentary on the afc Wimbledon on the nine promotions in eleven years, how they’re a fan own club and how they have a stadium in plough lane now. The story of they lost the club, how the F A allowed that and won’t allow that anymore. How they were very close to moving to ireland How they went up the English football leagues. It would be a good documentary video if you can do this. #thepeopleschannel
Denmark is already a dark horse and could theoretically win a WC. But the important word here is could. A lot of countries could win the WC but only one country does. Regarding the past years I would assess a Scandinavian team the same as England. Yes, they *could* win. But there's still a lot of other shit that has to happen.
I'm gonna put in another request for a hypothetical starting XI for the East African Federation, a proposed federation (big surprise there) of Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. None of them are exactly what you'd call powerhouse footballing nations, with the exception of the DRC, but with plenty of players from those nationalities in the French and German leagues there's bound to be some diamonds in the rough. I did actually send Alfie a Twitter DM detailing my own attempt at an EAF first team, complete with a kit design and a subs bench, but since that didn't get a response I can only assume it got lost in the post. It's not like he'd ignore an unsolicited private message about putting together a national football team for a country that doesn't exist, right? Right? This is request number 8; calling it a streak feels a little disingenuous considering I miss days a lot of the time due to my health. I intend to go for as long as I can until Alfie either makes the video or tells me to bugger off. I'm sure you have your own opinions about which is more likely. =]
I can't believe he skipped future star Zlatan Ibrahimovic. The AC Milan wonderkid deserved at least a spot on the bench.
Nah, it'll be at least another 20 years until he peaks...
@@Wainy16 but he’ll be 36
@Trevor Philips With advancements in medicine, coaching and fitness, there's no reason that young whippersnapper couldn't play until he was at least 300 years old...
@@Wainy16 I can see that happened he’ll go through 30 generations of football
Frankly, I'm glad not to see him on the team, and I'm a Swede. This team is already going to be dealing with enough internal tension without adding a Narcissist of the highest degree to the team.
Alfie recognizing the difference between Nordic and Scandinavian is an instant like from this Finn 👍
He mixed them up?
Some people think that way not only because of geography but also the similar flags. Can't blame them.
@@soundscape26 yeah but it gets frustrating when some Nordic folks don't know the difference
Iceland and Finland are also Scandinavian tho
@@arsenihohlatov9270 Yeah they aren’t Nordic they’re Scandinavian.
This team would actually be really good. It has youngsters with high potential like Haaland and Schjelderup.
Isak and Kulusevski isn’t that old either.
Usually from Scandinavian leagues, it takes some time to hone the talent to get a chance in bigger leagues. Denmark, Sweden and Norway have all decent top leagues compared to population, with influx on foreign players competing for places in teams.
Even for a good player, it usually takes for their 20's to stand out for their teams and to attract interest from top 5 leagues.
There is younger talent (not everyone even at huge teams), have been as heavily touted as Håland, and this is part of the reason Scandivian players might somewhat fly under the radar during the early years.
Schjelderup is really good?
Hope he performs well with my beloved Benfica!
And of course Ibrahimovic
@@abelmeszlenyi77 Never to old for Football to play Zlatan
A documentary explaining why South Africa (men's team) has struggled to become one of the best teams on the continent (having not qualified for a WC since 2002 and shocking qualification record for AFCON) despite having one of the richest leagues in Africa, some of the best teams in Africa and being extremely well funded and having some good facilities.
I would like to see this from Alfie, because I also struggle to understand that We have the richest league in Africa and we never perform internationally
you are not the richest league in Africa, secondly you are not the best teams in Africa
@@yankiefrenz1367 We have teams that are consistently in the CAF Champions League and Mamelodi Sundowns is considered by some to be one of the best in Africa. They literally beat Al Ahly 5 - 2 yesterday
@Yankie frenz by that we mean one of the richest leagues meaning Top 10 in all of Africa.....it wouldn't make sense to say "we have the richest league in Africa +9 others".....secondly Sundown are literally No.1 best team in Africa, and chiefs and pirates are well known
Especially because in other sports the country is somewhat doing well, so it would be interesting to see why South Africa is failing in football. I hope if he does the video he adds that one interview where former sports minister Fikile Mbalula called them a bunch of losers
I am pretty sure combined Scandinavian team could win WC medal at least. Combined Balkan team could be interesting too!
Tbf, Yugoslavia were actually a really strong team in the past and a balkan team would certainly be dark houses like a Denmark are nowadays
@@keithprice4711 their best world cup record are semifinal twice and euro final twice
Combined Balkan team would seem to be stronger than combined Scandinavian.
Combined Balkan team would implode before the first practice session. Strong team for sure but volatile as hell.
@@fadhil2831 yeah and croatia has been second once and third twice. Imagine just adding a few class players like Oblak, and strikers as Vlahovic/Mitrovic to that just to name a few. If Yugoslavia was still alive, they would be contenders every year.
Watch out for Victor Kristiansen who just signed for Leicester. He’s a very talented and pacey left back that you can clearly see is missed the second he got injured (like all Leicester fullbacks apparently do). He hasn’t played a ton since he got here in January, but I honestly already think he’s our best left back and he’s only 20 years old.
How could you leave Mæhle out of the starting 11? he is absolutely class
Kulusevski over him is crazy
Kulu over him is crazy when he's not even a fullback
Danish Spurs fan here, putting Kulu there is madness, he should play though. Mæhle is a perfect fit.
Insane actually
@@rasmusjensen4838 Kulu shoulf play but I have no idea where to put him
Joakim Mæhle surely could play LWB
Yeah but you have to get Kulusevski in the team somehow. And Maehle isn't even that good for Atalanta
@@Nillz13 sad to hear that. He was excellent at the last euros, but had an awful World Cup, and because Denmark relied so heavily on his attacking presence down that left side he was perhaps the worst letdown in that team. I hope he figures it out soon at Atalanta.
I'm from London , I have lived in Copenhagen since 1994 and it's a fantastic country to live in. Plenty of good footballers here the Danes love footy.
Denmark was one of most popular ( after all usual names ) choices to make noise & advance far. I had been talking about them for Years. I can’t imagine how disappointed Denmark 🇩🇰 was after they looked great before WC, and then how it turned out. They’re still great team, hopefully make up for it in Euro’s!!!
We may never have made it passed the R16, BUT we have never lost to Brazil!🇧🇻
Luck 😂
Imponerende lol.
Neither did san marino
@@romaingrenier3424 because they havent played against brazil, while we have.
@@marcuspoosz2190 Norway have beaten Brazil. The Norwegian suporters still live off on it
I support the unification of Scandinavia. We are so similar and together we are stronger. We practically speak dialects of the same language
Can you do a documentary about Boavista FC? One of only two clubs in Portugal who broke the hegemony of the Big Three in Portugal and were crowned champions in 2001. Played the likes of Bayern Munich and Liverpool in the UCL and reached the UEFA Cup semifinal in 2003. They were relegated in 2008 and only came back to top flight in 2014, following many years of judicial cases and financial crisis.
No
O Valentim não fugiu para Vigo 😅
glad to see you putting Jesper Karlsson on the bench. Totally underrated even by our own manager in sweden and doesnt get even close to enough gametime that he deserves. Unreal baller and has a flair about him that you usually dont get from swedish footballers, would really enjoy to see him get more gametime
This reminds me of a premise similar to the British empire team. Creating all time teams from now defunct Kingdoms and empires such as the Tre-Kroner or Austro-Hungarian teams if those entities still existed.
The Håland/Sørloth strike partnership is actually taller than a potential Håland/Isak partnership. Lately Sørloth has mostly been playing on the wing for Norway though.
isak is way better than bot sorloth lmfao
In 6 years that should be Højlund/Haaland
*Haaland, not Håland.
Yeah, but Isak is a much better overall player than both the others
@@MultiJejjeHis name is actually Håland in Norway, most people just call him Haaland outside of Norway as they don't have the letter "å".
Aursnes was a brilliant signing to Benfica.
He can play literally everywhere in the midfield and you can see in his body language that he knows what he is doing on the pitch.
He was great at Feyenoord last year too.
Great Video as always. Small correction from a Union fan:
Ronnow became the starting Keeper of Union last season, dislodging Andreas Luthe and has been the unchallenged number one since then. Absolutely world class as a keeper, he's massively underrated. Love seeing some appreciation for him.
And as I'm watching this Isak scores with his head for Newcastle. Looking really dangerous and there is so much potential in him it's scary. A front 2 of him and Haaland especially in a couple of seasons time would be bloody terrifying.
As a Dane I have felt we recently have had a good team but really just lacked consistent and really dangerous attackers.
We can trade Haaland for Fyn if you'd like?
@@fyivid no less than Seeland would be accepted. We like Copenhagen
@@fyivid deal!
Højlund?
@@stylebreaks757 Good shout, bagged a hat-trick today
My head tells me Ibra shouldn't be in this XI but my heart tells me he should💔
Prime Ibra and Haaland together up front would scare any opposing team.
@@Windkin1983 They would destroy. DE-stroy. Both just karate and bicykle kicking in the ball from middle of the field.
@@Windkin1983 Hahaha now I really want to see prime Ibra and Haaland play together
Something wrong with your head then
@@HankyPanky44 Hahah I think you're right mate
Wow!!!This Scandanavian XI are capable of getting to at least in the semi final stage of a FIFA World Cup tournament if not the final,good friends!!!LONG LIVES RESPECTIVELY TO THE RESPECTIVE NATIONAL TEAMS AND NATIONS DENMARK,NORWAY AND SWEDEN!!!🇩🇰🇳🇴🇸🇪
Aursnes is an amazing player, who can fit in any midfield position. Outstanding.
Love that you mentioned Aursnes. Absolutely class midfielder, and really unlucky to miss out.
Proper comment now: I enjoyed this XI very much, especially taking Isak. He's one of those players who can be absolutely electric, and I can't wait to see what he'll do for the Mags in seasons to come. I do think Sorloth is unfortunate to miss out though, but having him as a super-sub for when Isak's stamina starts to drop off is a very good thing for this team.
Great video! You're generally very good with pronunciations Alfie, Hoever, double A in Norwegian (and Danish) creates the sound of Å, which is like 'aw' in most english accents. Haw-land, Øde-gourd would be approximations.
Worth mentioning is that Å (or AA) is created by mixing the vowels A and O.
@@axllbk The mixing of A and O? Not really, it’s a stand alone vowel in its own right. And it’s not a diphthong.
@@Z1m0nN If you think about it, Å does sound like a mix of A and O
@@frederikklitgaard209 maybe it’s more of a diphthong in Danish. It’s not in the Norwegian names above, nor in (my native) Swedish (except Scanian, but there the diphthong is more au, not ao)
@@Z1m0nN You may be right. I wasn't talking about a diphthong though. My statement was based in the fact that AO preceeds the modern Å, and that for my Swedish tongue it seems to work to combine the vowels A and O to create the vowel Å. I could have phrased my original comment accordingly.
That team with Hjulmand as coach. A true magician of defence. Could surely be in contention for a world cup. No matter which team to be faced. The inclusion of quality offensive players. Into a danish core team would be amazing.
ok slap af hjulmand
Great video Alfie. A combined West Indies XI would be cool taking inspiration from the cricket team
A video like this just reminds me of how much sweden has fallen behind Denmark in football😔
10 years ago we overhauled the youth talent system and changed the league structure has changed to encourage a few good teams. This has helped a lot.
Rasmus Hojlund deserves a shout on the bench. Been very good for Atalanta this season and looks a promising young player.
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Thank you!
Please make another in 2 years, it's not fair to let us wait so long next time.
Also, make a video on your analysis on the BBC melt down!
I love watching Lindelof play, so greatly appreciate you giving him the nod over Kjaer 🙂
They'd probably be a bit like Real Madrid teams of a few years ago... They'd concede quite a few goals but always have the ability to outscore their opponents with that midfield and forward line. Nice video man 👍
Respect for you managing to not just make this the Danish national team with Haaland up top haha
Why do I keep thinking Haaland is a Dane, ffs!
Haha, could easily be all-Danish (+Odegaard and Haaland).
@@fbaalliedus danes would love it since Denmark really just need a lethal striker to an incredibly dangerious side
Its annoying as swede because we have been beating denmark alot thanks to Zlatan but without him denmark beats us on basically every position besides maybe Forsberg( he had better potential than he ever fuldilled) ,isak and kulusevski
Yeah thats how it would be tbh
I think it is great having Norway, Finland, Sweden, and Denmark all unite together as a United Scandinavian Empire Nation. If these four nations all unify together, this new United Scandinavian team might win more champions as possible. The Scandinavian Dollar is the new currency. This is why I believe Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden all work together equally, helpfully, nicely, caring, making this unified nation have the possible strongest economy even as great as Canada and USA unify together.
A combined Belgium/Holland could be a serious contender too 🙂
Btw... I laughed a bit too hard at that "Without further ADU" joke :'D
14:05 Made me chuckle, love little details like this 😄
Still hoping for that Austrian Wunderteam video 😇✌.
btw, it's very interesting what is considered "Scandinavia" and what isn't. I thought that Finland was part of it until you mentioned that it seemed not to be. I now looked it up and it appears that it's a somewhat contended topic with different interpretations.
The most strict one is that only Sweden and Norway are Scandinavia and the most relaxed interpretation includes the other Nordic countries Finland, Iceland, and Faroe Islands as well. Geographically it's only Norway, Sweden, and the top part of Finland, while culturally Denmark is part of it as well.
its only sweden denmark and norway and we can understand eacother while finnish and icelandic is not understandable
Balkan XI vs Scandi XI would be a fantastic game
The frontline you picked is destroying the Premier League in my current Football Manager game, where I'm playing Liverpool with only British and Irish players. In the 2022-2023 PL season, Isak has scored 29 goals ! But Haaland has scored 47 (!!!) goals for City ! And 71 in all games for City + 12 for Norway. What the hell? I still won the PL invincible with 106 points though.
In real life, though it will never happen, your XI would be extremely strong ! It would be pretty much on par with Belgium, the Netherlands, Croatia or Uruguay in pure talent I think.
When I saw you put 2 center forwards, I expected Ibrahimovic though. This guy is incredible, to the point he's coming back to play for Sweden at 41 years old. Crazy for a striker
You could do a similar video with former Yougoslavia, Maghreb or arabic countries, west africa or France+french speaking belgians, swiss and canadians. That would be great ! Especially Yougoslavia
Alfie was Isak's lucky charm as he scored and put in a Man of the match performance for Newcastle today 🔥
I’d love to see a one off friendly match of Scandinavia vs Great Britain or something
Maehle seemed to be a better fit for left wingback
Yeah i just think he wanted to put Kulusevski in because it is Kulusevski. Really hard to bench him
Denmark is doing something very right in producing players, imo opinion odegaard and haaland are just freak of nature talents that dont happen foten but denmark has so many more players in the top leagues than the others for some reason
Norway is and have always been a winter sport country
@@daginn896 Sweden a bit also, we are more into Ice hockey and Norway are better at all skiing almost
Isak and Haaland could be an incredible striker partnership, both incredibly quick and physical and with Haaland providing consistent goalscoring, Isak’s inconsistency on that front would be covered and the focus could instead be on utilising his incredible technical abilities
Could you please make a video about football at the 1919 Interallied games, which (to my knowledge) was the very first intercontinental football competion (even before the Olympics since the first team outside of Europe to play in Olympics was Egypt and that was in 1920).
Im a Swede and I have high hopes for Swedish football. So many young players with huge potential such as Roony Bardghji from Copenhagen who will probably smash the danish league transfer record when he moves to a big club. And midfielders such as Mattias Svanberg(Wolfsburg), Jens Cajuste(Reims)Lucas Bergvall(Djurgården), Yasin Ayari(Brighton) and Hugo Larsson are highly rated in Malmö. I don't need to worry about our future with the attack we have Isak, Kulu and Elanga (once our national team coach finds out who to play them properly) and many others such as Amin Sarr(Lyon), Jesper Karlsson(AZ Alkmaar) and Viktor Gyökeres(Coventry) more who will just become better through the years. In the defence we have of course Robin Olsen in goal from Aston Villa who performs well for Sweden even tho he's a second goalie in villa. He's over his thirties and may have 1-2 years before he maybe decides to retire from the national team. In the future, we have young goalie Leopold Wahlstedt from Odds BK in the Norwegian league who has the potential to be a good goalkeeper same with Jacob Widell Zetterström from Djurgården. When it comes to our back four who our national coach mostly plays. We have Lindelöf the captain mentioned in the vid. But the most promising cb right now is Hjalmar Ekdal in Burnley. Signed in January from Djurgården for a bargain in my opinion. He's done really well even scoring a goal on his debut match and only has conceded 2 goals in his 8 matches. And he'll become a big player and lean our back four in the future for sure. Other than that we have Isak Hien from Hellas Verona who might be in a relegation battle but he has potential once he moves to another club. Emil Holm a right-back from Spezia in Serie A doing well and talks about a move for him to Inter Milan in the summer. And for our right back, we have Gabriel Gudmundsson from Lille. Might not have the best season so far but the potential is there of course. I think the idea of a combined team of Scandinavia would be awesome tho it will never happen. We could make our way to a WC final with that team.
That would be a sick team.🔥
Could you do a combined celtic nations one, would be interesting to see how strong it would be
Now that's a team I'd like to see!
This is really interesting and has sparked a new competition in mind. What if there was a FIFA Regional confederations cup? Where the regional confederations create superteams and compete. UEFA and Conmebol don’t seem to have any so probably there would be a Nordic-Baltic confederation, Western European confederation, British Isles confederation etc. In South America perhaps a southern cone confederation, and a northern Latin American confederation
The fifa continental cup 😂 would be interesting…
15:38 Funny enough, the 3 strikers Norway named for their squad in the upcoming games against Spain and Georgia is: Erling Haaland (6ft 5in), Alexander Sørloth (6ft 5in) and Jørgen Strand Larsen (6ft 4in) at Celta Vigo. They are all aged 22-27 as well, and similar build.
Exciting times as a Norwegian honestly, praying for a spot in the next Euros and World Cup. As the squad should be more than good enough, expect for in goal, and we really could use a decent winger
Viktor gyökeres in sweden ( 18 goals championship) is a big lad as well
Great idea. Considering how small these countries are compared to all the previous winners it would be fair too.
4:33 doesn’t sound like an achievement to me💀
Bro i love those videos with combined teams❤
Please do one bout Czechoslovakia 🇨🇿🇸🇰!!
Nice goalkeeper choice!
Video idea:
Alfie talking about analytics in association football.
Great video, just want to point out one mistake after 50-60 seconds; Norway won the bronze medal in Olympics Berlin 1936, that should qualify for a big tournament.
I’ve waited 4 years for him to make more of these
Do the Slavs next!
Bruh, Joakim Mæhle on left back, the man is a beast, at least when playing for Denmark
Would be intereting to see what you think a United Kingdom World Cup team line up would look like. A topic my old man constantly during World Cup season brings up in bafflment why we don't enter World Cups as The United Kingdom lol
I am interested in your UK XI now....what would it look like?
The official reason we don’t play together is that its nations, not countries, that matters. The unofficial reason is that, if we’re being honest, it would be mostly just the England team with at most two players from Wales and Scotland, and none from Northern Ireland
@@johnwhittaker311 I would still rather have UK host world cup and Scotland England Wales and Northern Ireland automatically qualify
You should do a video on players with the most appearances but least minutes kn the pitch for example if a player has made 100 appearances for a club but they where all substitute appearances with 10 minutes left meaning they'd only played 100 minutes over 100 appearances if that makes sense
Maybe do a documentary on Dunajska Streda, best supported team in Slovakia even though they’re from a town with 22k population. Never won the league in their history, but top of the league right now! And there’s some backstory about Hungarians in Slovakia. Alfie type beat
I would actually put Aursnes ahead of Hojberg or Eriksen. He is being unbelievable at Benfica. He is definitely the signing of the season for me. When he arrived, we didn't think that much of him, but now he is one of our best players
Alfie you once made an off handed joke about a combined Mongol Empire XI but I would genuinely like to see that video.
I want a World Cup to be held in Scandinavia !
There has been a World Cup there
Think it would have to be joint with Finland who could provide two stadiums too.
@@naedot.9779 nah we’re fine with just Scandinavia, with stadiums in Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm, Trondheim, Gothenburg, Aarhus, Malmo and Bergen it would be all set.
@@SjomalingPhotography A euros maybe.
Not a world cup.
@@SjomalingPhotography Only Gothenburg, Copenhagen and Stockholm have big enough stadiums
i would play Ødegård on the right and Eriksen on the left, and i would maybe play Østigård on LCB, but i'm biased since i'm norwegian, but otherwise good team
Yeah... Østigård could comfortably have joined this list... if it wasn't for that he plays for a Napoli, who is crushing in serie-A atm. They are about 17 points ahead of the 2nd.
That's a pretty scary squad. It would be hard to beat I reckon.
Thanks for telling the difference between Scandinavian and Nordic
you could do this but with Iberian Nations like a Spain-Portugal combined XI
Could you do a video doing a combined Nordic XI that could or would have won The World Cup at its time.
E.g. 94 when Sweden finished third place and Norway qualified at the expense of England but fell out of the group stage although levelling with Italy. Players such as Brolin and Andersson from Sweden, Björneby from Norway, Laudrup brothers from Denmark, and Litmanen from Finland and even from little Iceland Toddy Orlygsson.
I feel that Joachim Andersen is a chronically-underrated defender. Also, oddly, my friend is friends with Simon Kjaer x
As a Swede , I’m a bit sad that Forsberg wasn’t considered here, but it’s still cool to see that the Scandinavian team is actually this strong.
Feel like Ryerson deserved a shout for the rwb position. Other than that I agree with the entire team
Hi Alfie, would love a video discussing the Gary Lineker/BBC situation. I don't know if its too far removed from the football bubble - but I know with your research it would be an interesting tale.
Yes, a What On Earth Is Going On The BBC. The situation is volatile atm so the video could be a bit outdated when it comes out but still... interesting.
Pretty easy the chairman on the BBC was giving the position by Boris Johnson , Richard sharp is a massive Tory donor and banker who is close to rishi,Boris and others, he recently in a scandal for loaning nearly 1m to Boris for the job at the BBC. BBC is basically funded by Tory's but if your a Tory supporter like Alan sugar you can be racist or defend tax evasion like Fiona Bruce
Please do a video on Greenland at some point.
I'd say this hypothetical team could win an Euro or be in a high place in a World Cup. If everything would go well for them, they could be a rough team for anyone
This 11 and in the Squad are also Emil Forsberg, the one and only Zlatan, Sorloth, Rasmus Hojlund, Joakim Maehle, Simon Kjaer, Norgaard, Jensen and a whole lot of other class players!
Forgot about Jesper Lindstrøm. One lf eintracht frankfurts best players and he is a true baller with a lot of talent
You should do an all time Scandinavian team
I figure it would be interesting to see a Gran Colombia (Colombia Ecuador and Venezuela) combined XI
If Scandinavia had fielded a combined team at the 1994 World Cup, they would probably had the strongest squad at that tournament. Consider Sweden's bronze winning team enhanced with players such as Schmeichel, the Laudrup brothers, Bratseth and Mykland.
Really hope Norway qualifies for the Euro's. They should have probably come second in their world cup qualifier. If their coach doesn't qualify for the Euro's he should really be replaced. As they are not just Haaland and Odegard. With also Schjledrup, Aursnes and Ajer etc.
Hey Alfie. As you Like Football, the Finances involved with it and scandals (as it seems), i think you might Like the History of SV Mattersburg and its Former President Martin Pucher. Maybe you wanna Look into it.
You should do an SeneGambia all time XI
Can you make a video on the 7 current longest tenured manager in Europe’s top leagues?
Be lucky to find any long serving ones in the money era
Simeone, Klopp and Guardiola should be there.
a documentary on the afc Wimbledon on the nine promotions in eleven years, how they’re a fan own club and how they have a stadium in plough lane now.
The story of they lost the club, how the F A allowed that and won’t allow that anymore.
How they were very close to moving to ireland
How they went up the English football leagues.
It would be a good documentary video if you can do this. #thepeopleschannel
Sounds very interesting !
@@zuesnastrio3062 up to Alfie if he wants to do that 😊
Good video about Scandinavia countries in football
Now I want to see this team actually play! And a joint Scandinavian World Cup would be absolutely epic! Big up Deki! 🤍
Glen Kamara is really sick, by far the best of his team as I´ve seen him during Lyon vs Rangers & France vs Finland. he could make it
Finland is Scandinavian
yep
@@petesmart1983 No It´s not. Finland is a nordic country and not a part of Scandinavia.
Completely forgot about Meahle who can play lwb
Højlund from Atalanta should get a
shout - good team though.
These team is insane
Denmark is already a dark horse and could theoretically win a WC. But the important word here is could. A lot of countries could win the WC but only one country does.
Regarding the past years I would assess a Scandinavian team the same as England. Yes, they *could* win. But there's still a lot of other shit that has to happen.
This is a very strong team
Alfie would love to know what's going on at Birmingham City... Seems pretty weird
17 years ago this XI would have been 100% swedish. But incomptence from Svff has really killed us.
Fr such a shame. We have all the capabilities to be clear of Denmark and any other Nordic nation. Yet atm I’d say we’re the worst
@@leifixan_1961 ja det är en skamm verkligen fattar ej hur. Något är fel inte minst Janne måste finnas bättre coachar där ute nu.
If you're looking for an XI that's a little lest pasty, picking from players at clubs in sub-Saharan Africa would be a great place to start!
This really puts into perspective what Norway's main issue is: defence.
Yeah, it sucks. What traditionally Norway has been good at, defence, has gone down heavily when our midfield and attack has gotten pretty capable.
I'm gonna put in another request for a hypothetical starting XI for the East African Federation, a proposed federation (big surprise there) of Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. None of them are exactly what you'd call powerhouse footballing nations, with the exception of the DRC, but with plenty of players from those nationalities in the French and German leagues there's bound to be some diamonds in the rough. I did actually send Alfie a Twitter DM detailing my own attempt at an EAF first team, complete with a kit design and a subs bench, but since that didn't get a response I can only assume it got lost in the post. It's not like he'd ignore an unsolicited private message about putting together a national football team for a country that doesn't exist, right? Right?
This is request number 8; calling it a streak feels a little disingenuous considering I miss days a lot of the time due to my health. I intend to go for as long as I can until Alfie either makes the video or tells me to bugger off. I'm sure you have your own opinions about which is more likely. =]
No Jesper Lndstrøm, even on the bench😟