Has Euro 2024 ACTUALLY Been The Worst Tournament of All Time?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ส.ค. 2024
- Ahead of the UEFA Euro 2024 final between England and Spain this evening, a lot of people, particularly on social media, are describing this as the worst Euros of all time - if not the worst tournament, but are they right?
I wanted to take a look at some of the arguments in favour and against Euro 2024, and indeed, modern football as a whole.
So in this video, HITC Sevens takes a closer look at this summer's Euros, the World Cups and Euros which preceded it, and why people have been so quick to criticise this tournament in particular.
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Worst of all time is typical social media hyperbole, but it is pretty much forgettable.
I think that depends if your nation goes out early. As an Englishwoman I've absolutely loved this tournament, might be my favourite ever.
@@Chloethemarxenjoyer because you scammed your way into the finals? your team has been nothing but dogshit, scoring flukegoals in OT and ET.
No one who had seen football in the old days would say that.
@@marcuspoosz2190 It's not a scam, we just scored late goals. We did it, that's the fact of the matter. And yeah I much prefer that to beating every team by five.
2 screamers and a great goal(scored by 2 substitues btw) is luck? Judt say its not entertaining football cus its not attacking(which is completely fair)instead of crediting it to "luck"@@marcuspoosz2190
If Lamine Yamal lives up to even half of his potential, we will all look nostalgically back at this tournament as his breakout campaign
Yes. Nostalgia mind are like that. They hate the now but when something good happens in the future they will come back on this and say "but 2024 was so much better!"
Or he’ll be Renato Sanches at 2016 2.0
Sometimes I watch his goal against Poland and think…. Damn. What might have been.
Broja 2.0
He'll be a disappointment, I'm sure.
@@bazingacurta2567 like you right hahahahhahah
I've actually enjoyed this tournament specifically with the new young generation showing their abilities on the world stage in Musiala, Wirtz, Yamal, Williams, Saliba, Mainoo, Nuno Mendes etc and also the smaller nations in Georgia showing up and beating the odds
Sure... but what did Musiala and Wirtz and others do to excite us? Yamal n Williams awesome tho... and Mainoo skilled.
@@joso7228 musiala and wirtz carried germany
@@Casian291Fullkrug 😅
Arda,Wirtz,Mainoo have been my favourites.
@@TheMarashian musiala and Xavi simmons my favourite
I don’t think it’s been a horrible tournament, but the fact that the 3 most talented teams on paper (France, England and Portugal) have played absolutely awful football hasn’t helped
England is the GOAT of "ON PAPER FC" 😆
As a German from Stuttgart, it's been a great tournament. I've been partying with Scots, Hungarians, Danes, etc. and had the best time of my life. The group stage was great, but the knockouts are forgetful I must admit. But purely for the fact that it was hosted by my country and there have been games played in my hometown, it's been the best month of my life
Igitt ein schwarbe... schön dass es dir gefallen hat, hab von jede menge leuten gehört dass sie echt spaß in Stuttgart hatten
@@babyyoda1898 yuck a hiteler's descndant... but the tourament is fun tho, unforgettable
No one who watched any of Euro 2016 would make this claim- genuinely the most miserable version of football I’ve ever seen
To be fair, as a Wales fan, it was the best tournament I've ever seen.
As a Portuguese I have to disagree( we played dogshit football)
Here here...
I literally had the best summer of my life, and my daughter was conceived while I was in France lol.
Greatest Euris ever!
Euro 2016 was amazing, so many historic underdog stories like Wales and Iceland
This Euro is extremely predictable...
@@EvR18Gaming at least Euro 2016 had many upsets this Euros has been too predictable
Worst ever? no
Completely forgettable? yes
Forgettable ya joking atmosphere insane
@@yippyialeftside8351atmosphere was decent at best, euro 2020 and the 22 world cup were miles better
second this
The tournament was entertaining, it's just the small countries like Turkey, Georgia and Austria braught on the show and were knocked out early and the boring big countries went far
Fortunately an entertaining side (Spai) made it to the final
Still mid
@@mike04574 Can't disagree, it started promising but faded into mid by the second group stage round
Turkey is not a small country, a lot of the people live in what might be considered Asia but it’s still a huge country
@@thatonezoneI think he meant it in football terms
@@thatonezone In terms of footballing success, Turkey is the second largest country in Europe in terms of population
China, India and Indonesia are three of the biggest countries in the world but in terms of football relevance they are all small
Btw I am also not talking about football passion. Turkey is one of the most passionate they are just underachievers compared to size and passion
Spain against Germany was a great match. That's what happens when two offensive teams face each other.
4:37 to name france vs portugal as a stand out in terms of boringness as an english person is ridiculous. that game probably had more highlights than england during the whole group stage
Exactly, it was a poor game but better than every single England game except maybe The Netherlands game
France vs Belgium or France vs Netherlands were even worse than France vs Portugal. As a frenchman though, France vs Belgium was really the worst. We won but I was gutted at the end, somehow. What a horrible game that was.
On the english side, England vs Slovenia was truly a terrifying game.
I love this channel, but this bro also said that Portugal was closer to being eliminated in their game against Slovenia, than England was in their game vs Slovakia where they were down until stoppage time lmao
I genuinely fell asleep during the match between France and Portugal. I only woke up for penalty shootouts. And I was like, "Man, at least we'll finally see the ball enter the back of the net".
one particularly atrocious game that I don't see people mention was Ukraine v Belgium. Belgium overall was awful
2 video suggestions for a video "What on earth is going to on"
1.Fluminese from the winner Copa Libertadores in the last and penultimate Braziliero Seria A and Fernando Deniz was fired.
2.Sheriff Tiraspol from a victory against Real Madrid in the 2021-2022 season for the first time in 9 years when they lose the title in Moldova and they lost in the Europa League against NK Zira for Azerbaidjan
Wait, Diniz got sacked after winning the Copa Libertadores with Fluminense? He also had a bad record with Brazil national football team as a caretaker.
Or Blackburn Rovers. The continued downgrading of the club by the owners is the latest chapter of awfulness.
@@ezraezra2928
He did, and got replaced by Mano Menezes. Who... Also had a bad outing with the NT in 2011 and was sacked from Corinthians in the start of the year after poor results.
@@phoneboxchicken4108 Blackburn Rovers had won the Premier League in 1995. It's surprising why this club haven't returned back to the Premier League since 2012.
@@Red_Tsar Can you explain why he got sacked? I think it's obvious poor results for the club, either domestically and internationally.
I still remember how Flamengo went to a downhill after winning the 2022 Libertadores.
You’ll hear about how bad the Euros have been almost only in English media channels. Actually, there have been many exciting games.
Like?
Switzerland v Italy was ok, Spain V Germany was meh, but was one of the better games
Turkey knockout games were great
@@Randomaccount9470 idk, against Austria they were mainly camping in their own goal area, it was a very boring game. Sure, there were some highlights, but most of it was boring af
@@truly_infinitedefinitely wouldn't call that game boring. It was one of the better knocout games and as the rain came down and mistakes started to happen the tension went up when Austria went up and you were waiting for the moment, that the keeper denied brilliantly
@@leeofdoom4452the group games had the best match ups.
Spain's games against Germany and France in particular were the better knockout. I also enjoyed the tension that was Turkey Austria in the lashing rain. But the general knockouts have disappointed
Own goals is the footballer with the most goals in the same way that Vacant is the wrestler with the most titles in Wrestling
When Greece won that thing we were lectured by English media about destroying football. Meanwhile England with 10 times better roster got to the finals having literally half a game of good football against Netherlands.
it can happen portugal won euro 2016 winning one game in normal time anf got out of their group with 3 draws
Not at all. Euro 2016 was much worse, as were many World Cups. I guess you could say that at least some of the most boring World Cups from a footballing POV, like Italia 90 and South Africa 2010, had plenty of drama to somewhat make up for it, which this Euros don't really. Still, we have seen some interesting storylines develop.
That being said, the tournament definitely got less interesting over time after a strong start. I blame the big teams (mainly France, England, Italy, Belgium and Portugal) for playing a brand of nigh unwatchable antifootball but somehow still managing to get far in the tournament. Had the semifinals been Spain v Austria/Switzerland/Turkey and Germany v Netherlands, this Euros might've been among the best ever.
The host Germany did not even have a favorable path as they had to face Spain in quarterfinals, whereas France and England was designed to have a more favorable path to semifinals and would've played each other, such that one of them would have reached the final.
@@jimmyyue238 that's not true at all. How could UEFA have known France would finish second in their group? Had they finished first, they would've been on the same side of the bracket as England. Besides, the schedule is made before the draw is done.
@@BrianStorm742 UEFA assumed France would've won the group with Netherlands, Austria and Poland to have a favorable path to semifinals. With this way, one of the semifinals would've been France v England and France would've reached the final.
Furthermore, UEFA purposely try to award France the Euro 2024 trophy before the Paris Olympics.
@@jimmyyue238 that makes no sense either. England and France were the 2 pre-tournament favourites, so it would stand to reason (if the knockout bracket was in fact engineered, which it wasn't) to have them avoid each other until the final. I also don't think UEFA care about the Olympics.
more like deception from favorites like portugal, france and england. These 3 teams didnt offer the spectacle expected from their overhyped superstars. Spain and Germany are the only favorite that played as favorite.
The underdogs offered better spectacle than the favorite.
That is true but looking at those... They have 1 thing in common, coaches without balls.
Portugal didnt play bad, they just didnt finish
France always played like this during Deschamps era
England has always been overhyped by people but their coach limits everything
I think social media plays a huge part. Groupthink whinging skews perception and whips people into a false sense of misery.
In the old days, the average fan at home wasnt exposed to ridicule from rival fans when we drew with smaller teams so now it seems disastrous.
I'm still struggling to accept England were booed in the final warm up game just before they left for a tournament. To see the manager and players' families being pelted with beer cups after a win and a draw from the first two games was just insane.
Social media has made people watch football for the ego of their team winning rather than the joy of enjoying the beautiful game
@@APsGTG absolutely. And when they don't win, they have to face other fans giving them stick online. In turn, they look to attribute blame for what has happened. The amount of crap that Southgate received was ridiculous and didn't happen in previous eras.
Social media is just toxic in general. But yes you’re right.
the group stage of this euros was one of the best ive seen, the knockouts less so
I agree. Seeing Georgia, Albania and Romania getting good results were amazing to see
@@Somyjay Albania?
The group stage was FIRE. The knockouts ... not so much. Basically, the small teams were dope and the big ones were crap to watch this year, the exception being Spain.
First round of the groups were fire. Started to fizzle out after that as good matches started to get fewer. There were still good matches in the knockouts (mainly involving Spain) but not a tournament that will go down in history
2000, 2004 and especially 2008 were all terrific tournaments with wonderful football. The expansion in 2016 marked a huge decline.
2012 was great too
16 teams was perfect for the euros, i'd even argue that before they switched to 24 teams it was much harder to win the euros than a world cup. euro 2004 had so many golden generations with iconic players ranging from portugal, sweden, czech, england, netherlands, france, germany and italy while the winners being greece.
As a slovenian, no it has been one of the best 😅
And taking my slovenian hat off, the 2016 euro was way way worse.
(Besides Wales making a deep run and the hungarian GK wearing sweatpants of course.)
Iceland???
You guys put up a great game against Portugal. Very defensive and Oblak is an amazing goalkeeper.
Euro 2016 was great I’ve never seen this said before this comment section. There were big notorious players back then unlike now, huge upsets, wales beating Belgium (never forget that Hal robson Kanu turn), Iceland making a name for themselves and going on to play a 5-2 vs France (we haven’t seen that many goals in a game at this tournament) and Ronaldo winning an international trophy. There were actual stories and upsets and excitement back then… AND GOALS. This 2024 has none of that.
2016 is so clear of the worst tournament. Also 1990 happened. My dad says that it was the worst tournament he watched.
As someone mostly immune to nostalgia, this Euros has been solidly middle of the pack.
Spain, Turkiye, Georgia, Austria, and Germany have all entertained. And if Spain win the Euros, it will be the greatest Euros run at all time!
Apart from a couple of matches like turkey vs georgia or netherlands vs austria the only two teams that delivered entertainment were spain and germany (arguably the two best teams at the tournament)
Austria Switzerland and Romania had fun games too
Statistically, it is fair to say that Euro 2024 has not been the most entertaining international tournament in the 21st century, but it has by no means been the dullest.
It would perhaps be fairer to say that good performances and entertaining clashes have almost been overshadowed by the lacklustre displays of major nations such as France and England, who despite the talent at their disposal have bored fans with their risk-averse playstyles.
However, entertaining performances from teams like Spain have in some ways redeemed the competition and salvaged it from being labelled as the most boring tournament this century.
Its been dull and low scoring lol
Not as boring as Italia 90 and Euro 2016.
Same Spain that got away with a blatant handball
Spain who spent most of the time on the floor wasting time
@@t-rod4456are you blind? Spain was by far the most entertaining team
For me it's Euro 2012. All I remember from it is the Ballotelli memes and Spain thrashing Italy in the finals.
from 2012 to now, Euro is absolute rubbish compared to World Cup, which was terrific from 2010 to now
You always remember just the highlights of the past, which is why every tournament will be the «worst ever»
No one said the 2022 World Cup was the worst ever when it was happening. A more accurate statement would be that every tournament will be underrated to what their actual legacy will be in the future.
@@riquetc0060 BUt it was... The final was good the rest was just boring and mediocre
@@dretx7688 so you're telling me Argentina v Netherlands and Brazil v Croatia were all boring games
@@riquetc0060exactly. Everybody said the wc final was the best one ever at the time it happened. It’s not always nostalgia, sometimes we can actually see reality in front of us
No way. The quarter finals were the best collection in a long time. And the final descended into a beautiful chaos. There were also plenty of entertainment in the groups to jave made it the best W/C since at least 2006 @@dretx7688
To be fair, I would have sort of enjoyed France winning it without ever scoring in open play. I would have expected an "achievement unlocked" message plop up on the screen.
They won two World Cups without their centre forward scoring in either.
Should do a video about what is happening at Jeonbuk Hyundai Fc. Gone from one of the best teams in Korea to near the bottom of the league potentially getting relegated
That was also shocking, but the match fixing scandal in 2016 shortly after winning their last major continental trophy really started a major decline for this great club.
This
Im really happy England lost a second final in a row this brutal defeat really saved this tournament from being absolute garbage
I'm 49, and I do have that BMW. HELP!!!! Even the nostalgia was better in my day.
listen to you how can A dribbling confined to a wheelchair spastic drive a BMW?
Lol
France were truly dreadful at this Euros. England may have been poor at times, but at keast scored some spectacular goals
It’s interesting that this is a European perspective this summer. In Latin America, we compare the Euros to the shitshow that is copa America and wish we had the same quality and professionalism of that tournament
So funny how AFCON and Asia Cup are routinely mocked by Europeans yet their competition isn’t really any better than those two
Maybe not, but the teams are by far better
It depends what constitutes good. For pure entertainment the best tournament is probably the world cup but for quality the UCL is the best. Subjective too.
Mate honestly. Give me AFCON coverage anyday of the week 😂😂
@@TheMuldoonFellathe drama is unforgettable and the entertainment is unmatched 😂❤
Its miles better then both of those tournaments combined, if you wanna be entertained watch Bolivian or Bulgarian football
I think I will always remember this Euro as smaller countries playing very well but getting knocked out and bigger countries playing just okay but always passing to the next round. With the exception of Spain that played very well all throughout and should have played Germany in the final.
Spot on
I would say that it was one of the most entertaining with respect to the small countries. Eurocup is not just about Germany, Spain, France and Italy.
The sad part is that all the Cinderella runs have ended already, unless we consider England one (for which there is a case, taking into account how bad they usually play), but it was good for quite a while.
The favourites since before the Euros started cannot be cinderella.
they probably meant that England is always named as a favourite, but has been terrible at delivering on that promise historically
England, should they win, would basically become Greece ‘04 but with better players.
Edit: England didnt win but I did get a Cucurella assist and Palmer golazo. I left with something.
but not better performances in this Tournament
England's play as been as good to watch as France, absolute dire, I noticed this has not been mentioned in this video
@@johnfagan3489I think you might be dead
@@johnfagan3489That’s because he’s made an entire video on why England have looked so boring this tournament. I don’t think it’s been conveniently overlooked or something
Or Portugal 2016. Sorry, Ronaldo 2016, as he carried them on his own.
The only boring teams were France and England 😅
What people need to understand is the simple fact that with this format, you can lose your first game and then play for a fricking draw in the second, putting hope and risk into the third exclusively. Think about it: teams need a draw and a loss after two games, no more. It doesn't make matchday three worse, it makes matchday two horrible.
Good points about revisionist history fuelled by nostalgia.
Most people don't even remember that Zidane was pretty pedestrian compared to his later years for almost the entirety of France's World Cup winning campaign in 1998.
And knowing English fans, we will NEVER hear the end of it for the rest of our lives.
but we did see the emergence of Thierry Henry
@@joso7228 Emergence in name only to be fair. The real Henry came a year and a half after at Arsenal.
Don't get me wrong France were solid. Very solid and experienced spine. But a lot of people's memory fail them in terms of their ceiling back then.
I've heard ppl say that Zidane was captain in '98 lol
@@joso7228no lmao
France wasn't great in 1998, they were just lucky. Golden goal against Paraguay, 0-0 against Italy in the worst match of the tournament, narrow 2-1 victory over Croatia, and then Ronaldo collapsed hours before the final and Brazil played its worst match in decades as a result.
But football fans have memories of goldfishes and only remember who won, and will just invent a fake history about how awesome the winner must have been.
I wonder how many remember the ‘98 World Cup for France winning or for the first one we got to see ronaldo. Damn, most people remember the ‘02 one for his comeback. It’s hard to remember matches and how they went, so we just remember the star power. ‘06? Zidane headbutt.
There is actually an old song about nostalgia gilding inaccurate memories by a German pop group called BAP. It's called *_Bunte Trümmer._*
It's in the Cologne dialect though, so go down _that_ particular rabbit hole at your own peril.
"It's your memory trying to fool you,
gilding the things that were somewhat OK,
burying all the rest."
As a portuguese, I must say... I enjoyed more watching Copa America with their entertaining football, more tecnical and less tactical. Europe has adopted this boring defensive game, especially the underdog teams, and it is annoying. Underdog teams always did play defensive football but never like this. Football needs some rule changes to prevent this 11 at the goal defensive style or else, no tournament will ever be fun to watch, this prevents any team to even try and make a play! Spain were the ONLY national team that actually managed to beat this park the bus style by tiki-taka around, but we all know that no other national team managed to replicate this play-style in many years. Kudos to spain tho, they were amazing to watch in this euro, deserved the title more than anyone else!
Just the fact that some people are calling this the worst tournament tells you that some people haven't seen that much football outside videogames anyways 😂
It honestly has been. 2.08 goals per 90 is just embarrassing. Only two contries actually played quality football and one of them was knocked out in QF itself. No underdog stories, no upsets in Knockouts. England being one of the worst teams to make the Euro finale. It has been abysmal to watch.
@@samizayn5666the Dutch played good football
@@samizayn5666 Worst tournament? No.
Which tournament was worse than this?
Chelsea are currently planning a 100 million bid for own goals according to Fabrizio Romano
2010 South Africa World Cup was arguably worse out of pure match quality.
I've watched every world cup since 1974.
2010 was by far the worst.
@@SirAntoniousBlock Interesting take. The 2010 World Cup only had good vibes but very poor match quality. It was also really bad timing especially after 2006. The Jabulani was an abomination of engineering.
@@senorpython2262it wasn’t the ball as much as those bloody vuvuzelas droning on for 90 minutes
They ruined the tournament
Of course, there were some worst referee calls during that tournament. Remember Frank Lampard's ghost goal vs Germany?
It's been really entertaining at least for me, ofc it hasn't had no historical result or performances, but this Spain team is amazing, beating a really good Germany, a mediocre France but still with certain star power, and a final against a pragmatic England. Nice performances from smaller nations like Turkey, Georgia, Austria, Slovenia. Good level in Portugal as well.
**adjusts glasses** um, actually Alfie, there won't be a euro tournament in 2074, as 50 isnt divisable by 4, boy I hope someone got fired for that blunder.
In all seriousness, nostalgia is quite the drug, I was at a pre season friendly yesterday and was talking to someone else in the crowd and we were talking about how good Serie A was in the 90s, based on the old highlights show on Channel 4, very much confusing his two boys. We acknowledged, even just chatting like that, that becuase we were only seeing the highlights and it was so different that it blew our young minds, that completely warped our perception, and if we were seeing the full 90s it would have been a different story.
nah you just didn't take into account leap years 👌🏿🤣
You people would say anything to hide the reality that football as a spectator's game is now in the worst shape in the last 60 years. And the 90's going into the 2000s were arguably the most beautiful years in football history. It's when the sport reached its peak, balancing tactics with speed, technique, and pure magic. Today's it's just force and tactical hogwash, no heart, no beauty.
Only the english would say the tournament was the worst while every other nation loved watching spain beat bottlejob kane and co lose....
in the group stages there were tons of people online saying that this tournament was the best international competition ever amongst world cups, euros and other confederation tournaments. Thats only my perspective but it seemed to be the general consensus. Football fans just have incredibly short attention spans and opnions are almost always based entirely on the last game they watched
But the change in perception also matches the reality. While it was true at the time. you'd have to be truly deranged to say this tournament was amazing solely because of the first 2 matchdays (which were admittedly quite good). Everything afterwards ranged from pretty good to horrendous. Nothing spectacular. No true Cinderella runs, no nail-biting 3-3 or 2-2 draws and impossible comebacks. The best games this tournament were probably Spain-Germany and Austria-Turkey, but they wouldn't even enter my top 10 knockout games in major tournaments since 2012.
i think the first week of this euros was great. then it went downhill
The only way 2024 could be condemned if FIFA, IFAB and UEFA decide to implement a new rule that only 10 consecutive passes can be completed before a team must progress the ball into the opponent's final 30 yards (final third) of the pitch. Once the ball goes into the final third of your opponent's side, it cannot be backpassed outside the final third unless your opponent intercepts and clears the ball out.
Like the backcourt rule in basketball?
If England had won, people would be raving about how good the tournament was - such as the last minute equaliser against Slovakia. Much of it sounds like sour grapes.
Mind you, had Slovakia won, the tournament might have been labelled brilliant (or not).
The main issue was the flop-sided knock out stages which put all the good reams in the same half.
Thought the group stage and round of 16 were excellent. A group with all teams on equal points for the final game, Croatia getting knocked out by Italy in the last minute, Georgia qualifying, and Austria topping their group, as well as Switzerland knocking out Italy, England's goals against Slovakia and Turkiye v Austria were all really entertaining for me. Spain Germany was exciting but apart from that the other final games weren't as good
The final will be Football vs anti-football
edit: The final will be ref's favourites vs. ref's favourite anti-footballers.
@@Bornevalesh who were you supporting
And? Euro 2016 was anti-football vs anti-football as was 2004
@@silvesta5027 and it was shit Back then and it is shit now
True ppl think saying it was shxt before excuses it from being shxt now
@@NeroPiroman
I mean, of course football gets more boring over time. That's such a weird criticism, because it's a natural progression of the sport. The more time passes, the more people realise what works and what doesn't, and what universally works across most sports is making less mistakes than your opponent, therefore conceding less goals and overall playing more conservatively.
I blame France, England, Portugal and Belgium for playing some boring ass football. At least Spain got in the final
13:56 - you say that this tournament has lacked "star power", this tournament has had a star player, none other than Mr. Owen Goal - 0 goals total!
The Italian side is possibly the worst I've seen coming from that country. How they beat England in the last Euros Final is beyond me. Plus, they've never qualified for two successive World Cups. I'd like to add Euro 1984 tournament was great.
People who say this is worst euro are those that watched mostly England and France. They should rather head watched Slovakia, Austria, Turkey and other high intensity teams.
2010 World Cup was the worst football tournament of all time. Here's a couple of things you should know:
The Netherlands with the good talent played an "anti-football" against Spain.
The football pitch quality was poor.
Jabulani's quality was poor. None of good players, except Diego Forlan, were able to take control of the ball more efficiently.
Stupid Vuvuzela around the stadium.
Big teams like Brazil, England, France, and Italy flopped heavily.
Diego Maradona, as a coach, turned Lionel Messi from being the alien of football as one of the greatest Barcelona player to simply a regular human with Argentina.
Stupid referee decisions such as Frank Lampard's ghost goal and Luis Suarez's handball.
Exactly
vuvuzelas were legendary
The only positives about this World Cup is obviously underdog run such as Paraguay and Ghana. Ghana should have deserved to be in the semifinal without that Luis Suarez hand ball. The other positive was Germany, who were still inevitable with the young Thomas Muller (he won the Golden Boot of that tournament).
True
@@ezraezra2928agreed
2010 world cup was pretty awful, those Vuvuzela were even banned half way through it, cant remember any football only the sound.
The big teams were boring, but the underdogs were amazing. Romania toping the group, Austria toping the group, Georgia making it through beating Ronaldos Portugal, Slovenia and Slovakia were playing exceptionally with Slovakia almost kicking England out. Switzerland defining the odds and beating Italy.
France and England were sooooo boring.
The majority of own goals conceded at this tournament would not be counted as own goals few decades ago.
I'm old enough to remember a couple of weeks ago when some people were saying Euro 2024 was the best tournament ever because all the minnows were exclusively scoring screamers
If you say tha this Euro Cup was "the worst of all time" is just because you didn't want Copa America which only had ONE good match!
the way football is played rn where everything is just about statistics is just boring to me i still follow the games but it‘s more background noise than me actually being tuned in, not even my country or favorite teams can keep my attention for 90 minutes it‘s just 100 crosses and one team parking the bus every game (ofc i know it‘s not completely like that and it‘s just me not caring about football so much anymore but still something about the way the game is played today feels so robotic)
International football aside, the most fascinating (and chaotic) game I've watched since Qatar was probably that calamitous Chelsea v Spurs 4 - 1 game last year.
Or Chelsea & City’s 4-4 draw, Poch’s Chelsea were box office 😢
4-3 against United had pretty much everything in a football match.
May go under the radar but as a coventry fan I have to mention the fa cup semi final
Liverpool Man U games
Italia 1990 and Euro 2016 were the worst tournaments of all time.
Oh no 1990, Not again!! (Collapses, body starts shaking while saliva foam is coming out of my mouth).
The quality of football on display is hard to watch.
Everyone would respect Southgate by letting his team play football - which is normal due to the quality of his players and how they would play together… but that guy thought: no man, I’ll be playing catenaccio for 20 years
Come on guys let’s be honest here… I love the Euros but Copa America, AFCON, and even Asian Cup were all more exciting than Euros this year. Just admit it
Don’t tell Europeans this truth they’ll start hurling slurs at you 😳
The Euros is looking like AFCON tbf...
Why is the euros inherently more likely to be entertaining?
@@ChloethemarxenjoyerMuch better average quality of team. You'd assume that better teams translates to more entertaining football, but it mostly doesn't
You European are out of your damn minds. The Copa America has been a waste of everyone's time. Half the time they're stomping the seams of each square of grass. The only good thing was Mexico once again not getting out of the group stage. If South American countries didn't actively try to ritual sacrifice themselves every few months it would be much better
This was better than quite a few Euros I've seen. Will agree Asian Cup was fun, and we didn't get AFCON here unless we put a mortgage on the entire block.
I never compare tournaments with previous ones, first of all because my football memories really begins from 2006 and also because nostalgia is a hell of a drug.
England lost another final.
Best tournament ever.
It started well but fizzled out. I wouldn't say it was one of the worst though.
If I had a time machine, I'd go back to the 1800s, make the goals bigger, and make the pitch smaller. Football can be inherently boring.
Arsenal had one of the smallest pitches in the League when at Highbury. Boring Arsenal, as they were known.
I remember Greece winning a Euro while playing like crap and having infinite luck. So yeah, people remember if a certain team played really bad but still won the Euro. Even more than teams who deserved it.
If England wins it will be the worst tournament of all time, the ultimate death knell of international football.
It’s not a great tournament, the 2020 Euro was so much better and more thrilling. Yes there have been good stories like Georgia making the round of 16, and España’s Lamine Yamal being impressing at 17 years of age. But the games have become stalemates with many teams parking the bus and preferring to defend rather than score. It hasn’t been the best tournament but also it hasn’t been the worst.
At twice your age, I can confirm that the 1990 World Cup in Italy was probably the worst tournament in modern football ever. However, you had Diego, though most sadly, he was eclipsed by Klinsmann diving again and again. If I had a time-machine, I would just show him straight red cards in every game Germany played and show Lineker at least two. 2014? If you watch the game Germany against Ghana, you will probably think twice about calling this a great tournament.
There is one tournament that I cannot judge, because the games were always broadcast in the middle of the night here in Switzerland. However, people tell me that Argentina's road to the final in 1978 was absolutely fraudulent: like in 1974, every screw was turned, so that the hosts would win.
@ygrbooks totally agree italy 90 was foul
I sense some anti german mindset
@@fatmanwalking8610 In 1982 there was this rumor making the rounds in Germany: since the team finished 2nd in the World Cup, they were entitled to get the Order of Merit 2nd class from the government for their achievement. However, they had not covered themselves in glory - far from it - so more and more people in Western Germany asked for the Italian team to be given the Order of Merit 1st class for saving football from utter disgrace. And if you look at how they won their four world titles, all of them have left bitter memories. 🤮
It was booring thanks to England and France.
Germany vs Spain was the peak Euro 2024. It went downhill after that.
Euro 2016 was by far the worst tournament I ever witnessed since I began watching football (during WC 2010). The expansion of teams was done 1 tournament too soon and all the mid-level teams combined with only needing about 3 points to advance from a group made for a significant drop in quality. People remember Wales & Iceland's runs and Portugal's unlikely win but everything else (including every game Portugal played) was forgettable. Classic 2016 bias tho lol, it was a pretty wild year in terms of sports highlight moments but as a whole, the tournament sucked a lot.
It's going to be forgettable in a few years just like all the Euros since the 24-team format expansion. World Cups will be like that too from 2026 onwards.
2020 was okay
2016 was meh
2024 was boring af
@@RakanRabih I think we can agree the Euros overall were better when just 16 teams were competing in them.
@@tarik6990 absolutely, was saying the same thing for my friend at work today XD
@@tarik6990 i find it also stupid that starting 2026 3 teams can qualify per group… while only 1 team can qualify per group in the qualifers!! For UEFA
National teams while second plays playoff…
So they make the finals easier and qualifers harder
Stupid rules
@@RakanRabih Qualifiers will lose their meaning and purpose very soon, you will have teams who will be by default be guaranteed qualification right from the start with the expanded format.
Horrible tournament, on par with 2016. Spain's deserved title just saves it. But to see teams like France, England and the Netherlands reach the semis doing the bare minimum is a terrible indictment of this tournament. People can scoff at Greece and the Czech Republic teams of 2004 but these played at a much higher level.
The while tournament was shit except for any Spain game. They made fun games every other game was shit
So, was Copa America 2024 better than Euro 2024?
yes
Unfortunately, Copa America is much worse than the Euro. Look at Marcelo Bielsa's brutal rant after Uruguay's loss in the semifinal. The country's organization, security system, and even the pitch quality were met with the harsh critics.
No. Didn’t even have proper pitches. And shambolic refereeing.
These people who say this was a bad tournement never saw Italia 90.
USA 1994 wasn’t much better. The final and semifinals were totally unwatchable.
Italia 90 was way worse than USA 94 by a margin.
I don't think Alfie was sober watching Portugal - France match..
This was a terrible tournament, I'm English & I still can't wrap my head around how we got to the final. We were atrocious, we didn't look like a football team 1 full game . Our captain was a passenger, meaning we played every game with 10 men until he was taken off. But the tournament was that horrendous he was one of the joint top scorers. He didn't even look like a footballer. The only bright spot in the whole tournament was Spain. They thoroughly deserved to win it. They were the best team by miles. Thank God they beat us yesterday because we would be stuck with Southgate if they didn't. I keep comparing it to the 2018 world cup in Russia. Every single game was entertaining. I'm in my 50's & I've seen a lot of tournaments. I haven't seen one worse than the 2024 Euro's & I've not seen better than the 2018 World Cup. In the space of 6 years the difference was unbelievable.
Well done Spain you deserve to be Champions.
Football has become chess where endgame is a draw
Thats actually a great comparison!
Damn that's just perfect can't really add to that
Stopped watching full matches years ago, this final and the game vs Netherlands are the only full games I've watched since I was about 14. The sport is fundamentally boring to watch if were being honest it always has been. The real joy comes from actually playing, not being sat there watching others play it for 90 minutes.
@patrickbatman141 with all due respect. Knockout have always been cagey. The final in 2010 was the worst game I have watched. We remember the great games and forgot the bad ones.
Guardiola tax
I watched the 1974 World Cup which could be seen as boring as many games seemed to be 1-0. But it was actually high quality football where teams had to battle to outwit their opponent and get the result. And Total Holland too.
Football is nothing like baseball
A sport where the playoffs are a crapshoot (regular season success has a NEGATIVE correlation to playoff success since seeding was introduced) has expanded its postseason three times in 30 years to the point where the teams with the largest “advantages” are claiming they are at a disadvantage BEFORE playing a game (so not even sour grapes)
A 24 team Euros can never be anything other than boring, but the next 48-country World Cup is likely to set a new benchmark in tedium. Less-is-More Fifa/Uefa.
Somehow it seems that the rules were made to make football as boring as possible! 😴
Slow motion and sensors that tell you exactly whether a ball or a player has crossed a line or not. Offside is also intended to prevent too many goals from being scored. Worst of all are disallowed goals...pure frustration!
It seems as if UEFA wants every game to end 0:0 or 0:1? 😴
It's a bad tournament, but Euro 2016 and 1996 were worse than this
Of all the favourites only Spain played to expectations.
Worst of all time
Italia 90: "Hold my beer"
Italia 90 was great compared to this shite.
Milla Huigita Ireland Platt Schilachi!
Italia 90 was overrated because of the great pavarotti
@@SirAntoniousBlockEngland had 5 games that tournament which ended 1-1, 1-0 or 0-0 btw
@@silvesta5027 Yeah I've watched every World cup since 1974.
@@tyciol9543what a stupid statement
Ngl only underdog nations were fun to watch
Must've been England fans lol. I thought it was a great tournament. Though I did think it was crazy how a couple great teams on paper could get to a semi final without barely scoring.
I remember Italia 90. It was godawful. At least we got the back pass rule out of it.
Euros 2020 was by far much more entertaining
Yeah with empty stadiums, Euro 2020 was the worst Tournament ever. 0 hype, only 1 good match, France vs Switzerland.
Euro 2020 was quite literally the best one in the 21st century
@@RazvanBolo56 That was the only issue in the tournament
And tf you mean only one match was good
The group of death matches were fire
Except for few matches ro16 was fire
2 good quarter finals
Both semis crazy
Final was good
Which makes the tournament greatest of all
Thing is, if England win, it won't be like Greece playing the way they did because they were the underdogs in 2004. It'll be because they had a manager who set up defensively. Southgate apologists can come for me if they want. Doesn't change the fact that if they win, it wasn't a great story that'll be remembered as a fairy-tale
Lmao this is the most boring team I’ve every seen play - nationally and internationally - if they want praise for that, they are truly pathetic and sad
The criticisms will be swept away in time if they win, give it 20 years
@@ninjabiscuit1095 Give it 20 minutes......Foden,Palmer,Bellingham,Rice,Mainoo,Saka,Khan,Watkins are not boring players but attack minded as they demonstrate every week..
@bodelieriwan2773 you have not seen a lot of football then lmao. They were by far the most offensive team in the semis, way more than Spain, and that alone disqualifies them from your description.
England were the hot favs to win this before a ball was kicked. Only a room temp IQ person would equate this to a fairy tale. If they win they have done exactly what the sport market expected them to do.