7 Former Stars Who Now Play At A REALLY Low Level (Part 3)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 มิ.ย. 2024
- From two-time Bundesliga title winning Borussia Dortmund legend Łukasz Piszczek to former Premier League and Barcelona star Alexander Hleb, HITC Sevens takes a look at a number of high-profile footballers who now play at a really low level for the third time.
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One correction: Piszczek promised his club that he will finish his football career there. He never planned to retire in 2020 in BVB. He also had offers from other clubs like Legia Warsaw but he wanted to keep his promise, therefore he joined GKS. He also invested in their training base and Youth system.
I heard that gks have partnership with bvb youth training facility but i dont know for sure
Pisczek is a solid dude with a real passion for his hometown club, gotta give him props.
@@lukas1392 you're right. BVB did also sponsored a built of the their new training facility.
If it doesn't say that in Wikipedia then he won't know
@@thedingo117 I don't expect him to know but it is feels right to point it out. Still a good video though
Piszczek's very deserving of number 1 here, but it's wholesome seeing him go back to where he started to help the club.
He Is monumental and he was Monumental for BVB. I hope.he is having a good time over there.
I have seen him in some German football game ad recently
He speaks good German but I guess that was somewhat expected if a Dortmund legend
There are a lot of examples in the German game at the moment.
Sven and Lars Bender both joined their hometown club of TSV Brannenburg, taking part in the eight or ninth-tier of the league system, this year.
Martin Harnik is a former Austrian international who now plays fifth-tier football for TuS Dassendorf.
But why? I mean: they were top player. Are they so bad now that are unable of playing for a second or third tier club?
@@Pedro14ceara "hometown club" thats your reason
@@Pedro14ceara Probably just as a hobby or a way to keep fit. Sounds pretty nice to not have to try hard, be the best player for your team, live close to home and probably get a bit of money.
@@Pedro14ceara they just do it for the fun and as a hobby. Lars and Sven Bender, when fit, were still top and key players for Leverkusen last season and would probably still be if they had continued.
@@Pedro14ceara The Bender Twins deliberately chose to end their pro careers, nobody forced them. Still playing amateur football is more of a Hobby, probably. Toni Kroos' brother did a similar move recently.
There have been suggestions in germany that the pressure from Club, Fans and Media to deliver results means Football isn't fun anymore for many people. Ending the pro career and only playing for the fun of it might come as a relief sometimes.
Woah, I had no idea Mathieu was still playing. Even if it is at a low level, that's still great to hear considering how he left Sporting due to an injury despite still being one of the best defenders in the league.
Yeah even though the 9th tier of French football is literally Sunday league
Piszchek was really good in the last few games of the season for us. He still had it. But he wanted to finish his career there. BVB LEGEND 4EVER
He end it with a bang winning the dfb pokal, amazing season!
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Tbh as an Indonesian myself, seeing what Keisuke Honda is doing for Cambodia NT, I could say that he's slowly transforming them into a new Southeast Asian powerhouse! Give him 5-10 years and I believe Cambodia might turn into AFF champion contender!
That's great to hear! I have a soft spot for Cambodia as a relative of mine moved there, but they aren't sporting giants by any means so any progress is good
Day 8: Do a documentary on Guy Roux, a man who spent 44 years in total at AJ Auxerre as their manager
Honorable mention: Roar Strand.
Over 400 league apps for Norwegian club Rosenborg (16 league titles and 5 cup titles), 127 continental apps (reaching the CL quarter final once), and 42 caps for Norway.
Retired as a player (at age 51) from Norwegian 4th tier side Melhus earlier this year, after spending the last 5 years there as a player/coach.
The Freddy Adu thing never gets old
No, seemingly, does Adu himself.
One who might be a contender for these kind of videos is Taye Taiwo who used to play for Marseille, AC Milan, Besiktas and QPR but just recently signed for Finnish third tier club SalPa.
Omg... Taiwo. Haven't heard someone mention that name in at least 6 years. As an AC Milan fan, I do remember him
Piszczek what a player talk about loyalty he had options but always stuck with Dortmund he had offers in the prem and PSG Barca Real Madrid but stuck with BVB even Lewnandowski tried to get him to Bayern at one point ... nope he stayed loyal to BvB i miss him on the NT was a great leader as well.. great RB always played and gave 100%
Amazing player!!!
And at his peak arguably the best right back in the world altogether
@@juliusuflacker4339 ya he's very humble and blushfull they kept saying he was the best RB in the Bundes and i think top 5 in the world and he was like nahhh nahh ! and they kept saying he was and he was just so blushfull he's an amazing player and Person!
Goczałkowice Zdrój are pronounced something like "Goh-chau-ko-vitse Zdrooy". Piszczu plays to help the club advance and I reckon a little bit for marketing reasons, since he builds an academy there with association with BVB. It's quite cheap to see him play now, which is a huge bonus for his fans ^^
Very weird video suggestion. But did you know that the Sultan of Brunei’s nephew Faiq Bolkiah is captain of the country’s national team and has played for multiple academies in England. He currently plays for Maritimo’s B team in Portugal but is considered the richest footballer on the planet because of the family he comes from.
I know you often like looking at the less talked about regions of the world and Brunei has definitely got to be up there.
He has just ended is contract with Marítimo
wasnt qaddafi's son a "footballer" too? i think he went on trial at juventus for a bit lmao
7 players who started declining after their club forced them to stay
eg. Kane, diego costa
Ozil
It's been 6 months since the Kane fiasco let's not jump to conclusions lol
poor Freddy Adu, i mean he is currently the rock of my Scottish Lowland League Berwick Rangers save in FM22
Please do a part four of this and Can you do 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 went up the English football leagues.
Still going there mate 😉
@@FozzQuaker up to Alfie if he wants to make a video such as that as a documentary
The fact maicon who plays for tre penne in San marino isn't on here is kinda surprising
yall have no idea how weird it was hearing Honda was coming to play in Lithuania. everyone was like "ok, but why?"
You start the list and it's already painful
Honda got me into football in 2010
Also I expected to know the answer as I researched his whereabouts earlier this year and found out that he was in Azerbaijan, I however did not expect that he has left the shores of the Caspian for Lithuania
Im Lithuanian and he is the most known footballer to play in Lithuania ever, maybe on par with Akinfenwa
@@augustas8173 Akinfenwa :D well Paulinho is definitely more famous than Akinfenwa
@@NT-re9wt no he isn't, what are you smoking??
Mirassol
I am from Lithuania and the fact that you noticed K. Honda move is amazing! Everyone was surprised by his arival here!
Btw it would be amazing if you looked into Lithuanian football since it is in very very bad place. We don't even have a proper stadium and the one who was never finished is standing near the one of biggest Lithuanias mall. We had insane corruption scandals and it would be nice if it was exposed to the world.
Same here in Latvia. Our highest tier football league “virsliga” is also a mess, mainly in financial terms.
I follow the league in Lithuania and Latvia. I find it ok
Any chance of a story on legia Warsaw? Saw today that they are bottom of the polish top flight after winning it last season and can't find anything about what's actually going on.
i'd love to see HITC do a video on Legia Warszawa too
Incredibly stupid owner in short
The Layer of problems in Legia is massive,
-Terrible Owner
-They had a good start in Europa League this season so there was a group of party animals
-No coach lasts more than a year
-Instead of developing homegrown talents such as Pogoń Szczecin for instance that is rising, they sign some Segunda Division flops that flop there too
-Thick atmosphere, players getting beaten up every now and then.
That's it really, Legia are basically somewhat of a Polish equivalent of Barca with Bartomeu, thing is Legia always succeeded with this terrible management because the competition was also terrible, but recently the Polish League has been improving as a whole because of better managing, for instance a club Raków straight after promotion got 2nd place in the top flight because of a young, Polish billionaire that manages the club finances smartly and even though he's stingy, he's smart with his money. Pogoń another one, heavily invested in youth academy, their city, heck not even city, ENTIRE region has academies set up all over the place and they have an amazing youth squad good enough to compete with teams such as Deportivo. So basically it's not even a case of Legia being that bad, more just that the competition started improving, I'm in Szczecin and have like 10 friends in Pogoń's (2nd place team rn) academy, some of them ain't even that good, the thing is Pogoń will accept you even if you are 15 and just started because they are a factory and have produced alot of prospects because they know talent takes time, they also sometimes export to clubs such as Real Madrid. So yeah, Legia lacks the things that Raków and Pogoń for instance got and they fell off.
I know for sure one that you missed was that Niall Quinn plays for an over 35s team in county Kildare in Ireland. I met him one random Sunday playing against my step dad, he is know a goalkeeper though
Can you do another clubs that own other clubs part 2, that video was incredibly interesting and did pretty well?
He can’t stop with the Djibouti jokes can he🤣
Cissokho was a best in Porto, still one of my favourite left back to play at my club
the jokes in-between so so good @ aly cissokho's tackling technique
My favourite iteration of the series so far and I’m sure if you wanted you could keep going forever with these great lists!
Please do a dive into CS Lebowski! That seems like such an interesting story.
I am extremely so happy for all of them to be playing for their respective lower league teams and ever,good friends!!!:-D
Alfie said "shaken ja-booty" like we won't notice.
Keisuke Honda's current situation is bizarre. Lithuania and Cambodia. I wonder if he's been able to forge an unlikely friendship between the two countries.
I love these type of videos
My life is complete with this instalment of hitc sevens. Knowledge...
LIKING IT FOR THE RESEARCH YOU'VE DONE....EARNED MY RESPECT
Great video. Keep it up.
Hleb & Song ruined their careers when they joined Barca.
Keisuke Honda played for my team: Melbourne Victory for like 1 year. I watched him score a few times in the stadium
Łukasz Piszczek literally retired. He kinda retired. Well what Łukasz did is that he made a youth system there and tried to help the team. The team doesn't have a stadium it hink. This reminds me of Sunday League
What about Maicon at Tre Penne in the San Marino league?
We demand part 4!!
Do more of these ones, very interesting
You could expand on the Borja Valero theme of players from Europe who flopped in England as youngsters before going on to success. I'm think maybe Suso, Enzo Maresca, Nicola Kalinic, Peter Gulacsi, Serge Gnabry
Good plug. And yes it was a good vid.
You gotta do more of these
I would've suggested former Aussie international Danny Allsopp, but IIRC he retired as a player about 5 years ago, after playing 3 seasons at the club where he (and another former Socceroo, Paul Wade) played his junior football, Croydon City Arrows (6th tier of football in the State of Victoria, 7th tier in AU). He played for Manchester City for a couple of seasons (and West Ham Utd?) and in a few different clubs around the world. Was glad that I got to see Allsopp in the twilight of his career at Croydon City, as well as at Melbourne Victory, playing alongside another AU international, Archie Thompson. That was a very formidable strike partnership. Memories...
Please could you do a vid regarding Union saint-gilloise. Currently top of the Belgian league and on course for their first league win after nearly 50 years of being in lower league football.
I’m a Brighton fan who’s chairman also owns USG so I know abit of their history but it be interesting to get your thorough research in to them.
Also I hope Ryan Longman is doing well on loan at Hull 😉
Seems like Suzuki Honda has a lot of miles in him, n still running like a well oiled machine...
A big shout out to Oumar Niasse, who went from starting in the Premier League at Everton, your beloved Hull City and the Senegalese National team just five years ago to playing in the Northern Premier League for Macclesfield this year.
Im glad i was part of this monumental hitc occassion.
Stunned at Pizchek!!!!!
The former AC Milan and Marseille defender Taye Taiwo is playing in Finnish 3rd tier in SalPa
Would love to see a part 4 in a year or 2
I enjoyed it again, part 4 soon?
1:24 that Freddy Adu joke always makes me laugh 😂
HITCSevens, please do a video about the best XI in the Premier League since 1992 in each position e.g Schmeichel, Cech in goal, Neville, Azpilicueta, Walker at right back. It would be brilliant.
Video idea - weirdest reasons transfers fell through.
Seeing Cissokho stirred something in my mind that I think he was set to join Milan but then it fell through because of a problem with his teeth?
Thats true…Degeas move to Madrid falling through because of a fax machine is another one😂
You should make a video of the last dark horses to actually win a tournament thatd be interesting
Congrats on the threequel!
I saw former Chelsea and England star Joe Cole playing in the USL back in 2018 lol he’s still a beast
That Valero story is brilliant, he was a really good player as well
11:04 he would be the superstar in that team because of the most well known player there.
I would love to see piszchek join BVB as a staff
Ok a team called after the greatest comedy of all times The Big Lebowski?
I've got a new favorite team! 🤷♀️
Probably the closest i can phonetically write LKS Goczałkowice Zdrój is LKS Gochaukoviceh Zdrooj nonethenless massive respect for making an attempt as we Poles know its hard to say some words with our language shenanigans 🤣
I think a full video is needed on how so many once-great players ended up at a Thai second tier side
the commentary on Cissokho's pictures was hilarious
Day 184: Indonesia XI If All Eligible Players Had Declared For Them
Keep it up, really hoping it happens one day
moga dibaca ama mas alfie
Keep dreaming bocahs
Demba ba could be a good shout,he used to play for Chelsea and he ended his career at some team is Switzerland
Part 4 please
😂 "That's not him, those are elephants"
Same footballing ability as him though
when honda played at vvv venlo, he was so good. venlo was so bad,, always got in behind, but honda's trademark there was that he would bang one in, at the end of the game to get venlo a draw. always from so far away the perfect curve. realy a underrated player
Can you do a video on 7 3 way transfers or 7 best underdog UEFA youth league runs please
Has anyone ever said you sound like thoughty2, I thought you were the same person and it was a bit weird that dude knew so much about football but I was like whatever and watch your videos for like 2 weeks before realising 😂
Just wanted to mention, that Kevin Großkreutz, who was part of the German World Cup Winning squad in 2014 (even though Jogi Löw refused to let him play) and competed in the Champions League Final 2013 (just to point out, that there was literally no reason to play Mustafi at the time, which almost made "us" lose against Algeria... anyhow) is now playing for TuS Bövinghausen in the 6th league...
sneaking in Dylan was brilliant
Huntelaar now plays in the 6th team of his local club HC’03
Starting XI that plays for non-popular clubs. Thank you.
Daley Blind should be on this list - he's now playing for Ajax Amsterdam which is at such a low level, it's below sea level....
Carlos Kameni now plays in the Andorran league.
Mathieu played in Spain, as I am aware. Good thing you are a guy who has his fact right before making a video!
Both Ricardo Fuller and Lee Hughes are playing in the Midlands Premier Division (Step 5)
Never really considered to be potential stars tho bang average at best
Just another one to consider. Jordan Holt now plays Sunday league for wigginton grasshoppers
getting closer to 500k by the day
I'm calling it, if there is a part 4 then one of the seven will be Ben Foster playing for hashtag United
Can you do a "What happened to Hamburg" video?
No one:
Alfie: Key-Ski Honda 😂
can you do a video on the differences between the leagues.
Can you do a video on wrexhams downfall to non league, close administration, and subsequent recent Hollywood takeover
3:45 LOL even you pronounced Keisuke wrong in that clarification
Kay - su (as in super) - ké (not kee)
Alfie, ouch with the spurs comment!!!
I really liked Keisuke Honda when he joined the A league as an Australian
Some players play at a low level. However this suggestion is not:
Day 9: Top 7 football clubs that have similar logos (FC Barcelona and Consolat Marseille, Benfica Lisbon and Hamm Benfica)
there is Eyong Enoh who plays for Ajax Amateurs in the Dutch 4th division
Most of these seem like players that want to keep playing for their local sunday league side and have some fun
The one about heleb is so obscure that I'm from Bahrain and I don't know the club nor that he is contracted to them 😆😆😆
Do Part 4
The nickname of Lamphun Warriors comes from the cattle breed, the Lamphun White. Also, you did nail the pronunciation.
Back in '01 Freddy adu was the biggest wonder kid on Earth ..
I thought I saw you in Brentford last week. It might have been someone who looked a lot like you.