Just how GOOD was Pablo Aimar Actually?
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How good was Pablo Aimar actually? #GOAT
New episode of a documentary series where I plan to present all the greatest players of all time and then give them a score so a ranking of the best players can be created. In this episode we take on Wesley Sneijder who played for Benfica, Valencia and River Plate for most of his career, not only one of the greatest playmakers of all time but one of the greatest players of all time. See how Pablo Aimar ranks and just how good he actually was.
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Man I am tired of saying CARLES PUYOL
@@onyekachiadamesegbue5764 j
Do one with Ariel Ortega
Was about it to give a thumbs up to the video until I saw C Ronaldo above Maradona on his ranking.
Lol.
@@goku445 Ces't la vie
The best player I've seen in Benfica. Before he left Benfica, me and a group of friends went to his house and gave him a big Benfica banner with our names. He thanked us and we took a photo with him.what a guy
yeeah me too... #AimarTheGoat
Amazing story ❤️
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de RIVER para ao mundo! Abrazo!
Can you share the photo with us pls
Aimar, Bergkamp, Riquelme and Ronaldinho!
These men made football beautiful for the whole world
and Deco, Guti, Raul, Totti, Del Pierro.... Age of magicians
Riquelme the best
It's a shame, playmakers are a dying breed in modern football... Maybe they'll make a come back one day.
Redondo
Zidane
He's still very loved in Valencia. One of the greatest players of our club. Unstoppable.
Aimar was an absolute wizard. I never really saw anyone with quite his touch and creativity. Very happy to see him be part of Argentina's management this past World Cup.
No, the nickname (a few persons knows it, even in Argentina) it's because his father was known as "El payo" Aimar. So, his son was called soon "El payito" Aimar (diminutive of "payo", that could be understand like something similar to "blonde" meaning). But a TV futbol comentator at that time, confused the 2 words, that are similar, and called him "El payasito" and the public knew him with this name. But originally was "El payito" because of his father "El payo".
Pero acá se lo conoce más como el payasito.
Alla le hablan en ingles 🤣
Thats true. Very common here, just like 'brujita' Berón. In Argentina everyone has a nikname
@@elpatosilva u mean say Sir John Sebastian Veron.
@@franco4469 bué pero está contando una anecdota piola el pibe, yo no la conocia.
Aimar, Saviola and Angel one of the best tridents ever. Also the reason I started to follow Argentina's league.
Add in there Burrito Ortega and it was the quartet of doom, the Fantastic 4.. What times that River Plate team had!
He always looked like he was having a knock about in a park, had a very casual easy style and made the game look ridiculously easy. There is a reason why top professionals loved watching Aimar. It wasn't just what he could do with the ball which in itself was staggering, but he specialised in crafting some of the most intricate and beautiful passing exchanges you'll see in football, it was as if he could see 5 passes ahead. More often than not, he'd start a move then few passes afterwards he'd be there to finish it off. He truly played the beautiful game.
Great post. Just saw a vid on him last night and never realised he was THAT great!
Pablito "Maestro" Aimar.
one of the best ever in the game.
obrigado de Portugal
Mano ele é português
@@Direitoo Suspeito que ele sabia, por isso é que disse "Obrigado de Portugal" em Português :D todos sabemos que ele é tuga logo só pelo sotaque lol o sotaque anglotuga é uma coisa caracteristica que se percebe logo lol
Nahh bro his nickname was pablo el payaso/🤡 Aimar.
Como portista, o Aimar jogava tanto mas tanto, um dos melhores de sempre a jogar em Portugal
@@gby6328 Grande Abraço amigo
Football misses players/magicians like Aimar. He didn't win much trophies but watching him on the pitch being El Mago is part of the beauty of football. Benfica fan's will always be thankful for the years he presented us with his magic on the pitch of Estádio da Luz. Good work with the video, congratulations.
I always used to sign this guy in championship manager 2000.
1998/1999 for me. I would always buy him and Saviola
Haha i played that game 2. The creators of that game later did leave and started to make "football manager."
@@giovannigio3764 it's the same game, just different name
Same!!!. I meant i bought him too!
@@workinginthewell3498 You are almost right. It are the same game creators but it's a different game. So Championship manager did remain for some time after they left. But of course did every smart person buy football manager after this big turn in history.
Pablo Aiimar was my idol 20 years ago. At that time football ment a lot for me. Pedro from Poland
I had the luxury of watching Aimar take on Riquelme in Valencia. It was Valencia vs Villareal. 3-2 Valencia won and I got to see them both score!
An immensely talented, skilful, and creative offensive playmaker, with exceptional flair and an eye for goal, who was wonderful to watch at his best, and who obviously served as an inspiration for Messi. He had an incredible spell with Valencia at his peak, dominating in La Liga, the Champions League, and the UEFA Cup, and had some good runs with Argentina, even though he also struggled under pressure and to win a title, like many other number 10s since Maradona retired. His career could've been even greater though in hindsight, and his peak didn't last a long time unfortunately, even though he still had some decent performances elsewhere. But he probably deserved to be a Ballon d'Or finalist at some point throughout his peak though in my opinion. I feel like he is underrated at times and isn't remembered to the degree of other players who probably weren't at his level.
That Valencia was such a great team! They would excel in modern football so much, pretty much perfect midfield!
Mendieta, Roberto Ayala, Baraja, Albelda, Kily Gonzales, John Carew and so on...
Baraja was amazing! That team made me fall in love with football
Claudio Lopez... Same era ?
@@CharlesOffdensen jouquin?
@@jigggro a very good player loved him at Valencia and Lazio
Never heard of aimar till I saw my dads closet and saw his jersey there. Glad I found this video
Aimar is a LEGEND
A pity that Argentina couldn't win anything with him in spite having World's Best Lineup for almost 10 year's
It happened, finally. And Aimar was there :) :) :) Along with Scaloni!
@@ernstschloss8794 Sorry,
It won't compensate ARGENTINA being under whelming with that array of LEGENDS in its Arsenal and after sending arguably STRONGEST TEAM'S across many WC's
The one which ARGENTINA send under BIELSA had the WC for the taking but they crashed out in the first round itself
For me a Batistuta, A Veron, A Crespo, A Ortega , A Ayala , A ORTEGA , A AIMAR not lifting a WC with the Class of player's around will always be a lowest ebb
@@SAFFRONINFERNO Trust me Bro, the WC for Messi more than compensates for all that. It's Tango nation Here Down South: No happines comes without suffering and Drama first! But you are right: Bielsa's was such a letdown.
@@ernstschloss8794 SORRY AGAIN
I am India and have been a HARD CORE ARGENTINA Supporter from eternity
I have watched all ARGENTINA CAMPAIGN'S closely and it was always Painful for me
Everytime I had hopes real high with those squads they send out
I have watched MAGICIAN ORTEGA ( One of my all time Favourite) running rabid on the pitch only to be denied by biased referring and that great Dennis Bergkamb goal
I still remember Bielsa's team getting knocked out by Sweden
And many such more
This victory does gives great joy but for me it would always be one "WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN" of many such WC TRIUMPHS for their taking
@@SAFFRONINFERNO Burrito was a Legend :) Great knowledge from your part Brother, I really Hope you are still celebrating too as We are :) !!!! Greetings from South to South!!!!! Stay strong
It still haunts me today that I can't find it anywhere one of the coolest goals ever scored, it was in La Liga when Aimar scored for Valencia, way out on the right side, haters will say he was trying to cross it but it was obvious he was trying to chip the keeper but the beast part was the ball hit the bar, left post, ground, right post and in. I've watched countless of Valencia's best goals and Aimar's goals and highlights but this goal seems to be lost in the archives.
Maybe this will put your mind at ease a bit. Aimar!!!!! czcams.com/video/JbI4hrJvKWw/video.html
If Messi idolized him then we know that he's good, at least in some way.
He was the only player Messi ever asked for a shirt at the end of a game, in a Benfica vs Barcelona for champions league.
@@davidrodrigues9127 no he asked Zidane shirt as well
@@davidrodrigues9127 shows how arrogant he is!!!
@@mrpk188 and Chris kamara
@@marcusfranck9088 the fuck?
He was amazing. There's a reason why he's my favourite player of all time. Before his injury prone, his speed is probably most underrated. He was really fast and also his football techniques was just second to none. His vison was amazing, at times he scored some amazing goals but ofc his ball movement always been his strength.
It was beautiful to see Aimar playing. You knew that sometihng special would happened. Great player!
He was a beast in my PES 4 Argentina team back in 2006.
Best free kicker by a mile.
What about Juninho? He was a beast at freekicks
Saw this guy at Anfield in around 2003 and was amazed at how good he was.
Javier Saviola was an amazing, but never enough appreciated and now forgotten player...you should fix it and show people how good he was.
Thank you
Saviola is very good player
Remember he did dropped off quite soon tho, but at his peak he’s very good!
That’s a bit of a throwback for me.
Pablo Simar was a tentalizing and very skilled footballer. Remember him playing against Cameroon in a friendly match before the 2002 WC ending in a 1-1 draw with Aimar scoring for Argentina.
Aimar is my futbol idol... his nickname came because his smile... even when he got fouled he was smiling... he smile all the time... el payaso... but he did not like that nickname or any nickname at all... he said it in a interview on ESPN Simplemente Futbol
Es q su verdadero apodo era el PAYITO , el cual lo heredó de su padre , así le decían cuando jugaba , sino recuerdo mal un relator ( Araujo ) le modificó ese apodo inicial desvirtúandolo a payasito
@@sergiolabruna7048 ésto
Nice, love seeing more of the Argentinian icons I grew up watching! I feel it was a fair ranking, it's hard to really understand what made him such a beautiful player to watch just by his history though. He was just as symbolic as Riquelme for a time.
I believe there's even a picture of both of them walking on the pitch holding each other that was used to quell tension and violence in the super clasico matches, considering they were good friends.
That's really wholesome
Not going to lie, ai completely forgot this man existed and I appreciate you for reminding md
Amigo felicidades por hablar de nuestros grandes jugadores Argentinos. He notado que somos varios Argentinos comentando y viendo el video, sería muy bueno que pusieras subtitulos en español, te aseguro que ganarías muchos más seguidores de habla hispana... like y nuevo suscriptor!
Pablo Aimar what a legend
i am so glad to see a video mentioning aimar..
And now he became world champion alongside Messi! VAMOS ARGENTINA!
I love this guy’s portuguese accent
Thanks, means a lot
@@DailyDoseOfFootballYT you’re welcome man, your narrations are great !
Yeah, i could tell he was a Tuga within 30 seconds.
@@josecunha8782 more like 2 seconds
Sounds Spanish to me...🤷♂️
He was one of the best at the turn of century, i loved every minutes when he played for Valencia in CL, even if i'm not spanish, when he showed up at the start of the calendar year, he was out of nowhere, fearless with great skill and a smile on his face as he enjoyed the game. Who wouldnt love him? As a Lpool fan i was sad, he havent turned up at our team.
I'm a Liverpool fan and i remember when Rafa Benitez signed as our manager the paper talk was very heavy towards us signing Pablo Aimar (as some managers take former players with them)..I remember being so excited at the prospect of Aimar and Gerrard together..It never happened but he was a world class talent without question but he never really realized his full potential which is sad really
Yeah it would have been epic
As a Liverpool fan,I can imagine if Aimar-Gerrard-Alonso-Mascherano combine.BOOM!!!
At the start I was “Aimar sounds familiar but can’t place him” then as you said he moved to Valencia it clicked I have an Aimar Valencia shirt (even though I’m a Juventus fan). My parents went to Barcelona in 01 or 02 went round Camp Nou and when my dad called he asked if I wanted a Real Madrid or Barcelona shirt and I said no get me a Valencia shirt with Aimar’s name on it
Football manager 2004 ….dear God his dribbling was amazing
He is one of my favourite players for sure !
great leader with a great vision and spirit to the game
he always knew how to step a side and give the spotlight
but always give everything he got to get the ball, and that's why he got injured so much
i really hope to see him as a coach in the big teams soon !
Ahora como parte del plantel técnico argentino es campeón del mundo junto a Scaloni, Walter Samuel y Roberto Ayala
Aimar was one of my fav players back in 00s. He overwhelmed La Liga with Valencia!
as a sporting fan I will say watching Aimar was always a treat what a baller he was.
Thanks bro. I can say the Dame about another great Sporting Playmakers like Balakov, João Pinto, Pedro Barbosa (i know he was more a wide Midfielder), Matias Fernandez and more recently Bruno Fernandes!
Congrats on the league title. From Benfica fan.
Pablo Aimar is the smartest football player I've seen, he had full vision on the field, great playmaker. He was my favorite player
This guy was so good that he won a La liga and Champions League with Valencia during a era where players like Zidane and Ronaldhino were at the peak of theirs powers. 2000-2002
Valencia never won Champions League went two finals but lose both
@@peterwest1830 crazy how Valencia used to be champions league finalists now they're a mid table almost bottom table team but I don't blame them they've had many issues recently
@@peterwest1830 my bad but he won LA liga so not so bad in my book
Legend 🙌 loved watching him growing up
He was really cool
Anyone else love the fact he says otamendi and shows a picture of cambiasso haha
He made Valencia an all time great club in my eyes. That team made fans internationally way before social media, I was one of them.
Awesome documentary dude! Well done!
One of my fave Argentine players of all times
I actually liked Pablo Aimar. He was one of my favorites alongside Javier Saviola. They were great for River Plate.
Aimar and Saviola at Benfica played their best football ❤ Their own words ❤ and facts ❤
Aimar was amazing. Got wrecked by injury. Real shame
An absolutely lovely video, like always. Thank you for doing this
Remember standing on the kop watching Aimar play 1 2s in Liverpool’s 6 yard box as Valencia destroyed Liverpool 2 0. Think that was the game that convinced Liverpool to get benetiz
Como sempre, espetacular vídeo. Continua assim. Forte abraço
Pablo Aimar, uno de los mejores jugadores que diò el fútbol argentino!!! Yo vi jugar muchas veces a su padre, Ricardo Aimar, también un jugador de lujo! Gracias por compartir la historia de este gran jugador argentino, excelente persona
At 14:23 that is Esteban Cambiasso not Otamendi. I always enjoyed watching Valencia in La Liga for Aimar, wonderful player to watch.
Credit should also go to benitez for making him play in central attacking position where his relentless pressing and connecting passes revolutionalized that role and still relevant today. Before that era classic players like Rui Costa would drop deep and pick strikers. But Aimar was everywhere connecting wingers , midfielders and striker.
Benitez is a top top manager but underrated by many. People say he is defensive but defense wins you title. Look at Tuchel, Pep in PL with great defense and clean sheet. In Serie A you have Conte. They all prioritise defense first. Even Gerrard says he learn and applied what he learnt from playing under Benitez.
He played there in River Plate before. And that's why he didn't have minutes in the national team, Riquelme was allways the 1st option. They played together tho, and they complimented each other
He started at thr River Plate club in Argentina.
Of de many great players that River brought out.
A great video keep it up
Really love him and Riquelme
Pablo Aimar is one of my football icons, loved to wach the guy and his eye for play, his passing, deadball and shooting skill and all over easy going style and how he made up for his shortcomings with his footballing intelligence is a masterpiece that would make him more appreciated in todays football...
A master of his trade
Pablo Aimar is one of the best midfielders in Argentina squad.
I'm waiting for the Dennis Bergkamp episode. Definately top 20 material in my book :)
Young Ronaldo rubbing young Messi Lingards head👌🏽🤣🤣
He secretly cursed him to not reach the level as Ronaldo in Man u
Grazie per Video 👍. Always interesting and good narratives. Fantastic accent grande. I will call you The VOICE 😎. If you can do Rossi,Scirea,Bergomi,etc. For Aimar he was a very intelligent and good player probably deserved more recognition and trophy wise very unlucky, maybe at a bigger club a bigger trophy cabinet but can't take away the fact he's was a champion.
your Portuguese accent ffs 😂 nice vid man, amazing player, glad to see him playing at my team and also in what he has done in Europe!
What about it?
@@DailyDoseOfFootballYT eles acham piada como nós achamos piada o dos zucas, não ligues
@@enzo-yw9ph nah he doesn’t think like how we look at Brazilians he thinks he just stands out especially when he say players names
@@enzo-yw9ph Don't put "Portuguese" and "Brazilian" in the same line when it comes to English speaking or reading fluidity. I mean it's not even close. The general Brazilian population simply can't read or speak English. In this case, the author has what some might say an almost perfect English accent. There's only some instances where he sounds Portuguese, like when he spells certain words or spelling people's names or clubs, which is actually the correct way of spelling them.
@@DarkFoX750 what the fuck are you talking about lmaoo??? I'm saying that english speaking people (english as first language) find his accent funny like we portuguese find brazilian accent funny.
I really love this channel. Keep it up
Thank you for the retrospective I really like the part about ral Zaragoza I really enjoyed them in 2007 in la Liga with Diego Melito and also Herrera was on that team you really was a great player
I remember using Benfica alot on FIFA and this guy was AMAZING
I literally transferred this guy to every team i was playing in fifa 04 because I always wanted him in my squad
Love your channel
Great videos. Keep up the great work
Cuper's Valencia were so exciting to watch. This was a time when sides played with the diamond and your most gifted player and creator was the no.10, in Valencia's case none other than Pablo Aimar.
Excelente conteúdo no teu canal. Parabéns. Deixo só uma dica, se apagares/cortares a respiração da narração fica ainda melhor, às vezes parece que estás cansado e a correr e causa alguma ansiedade ao ouvinte. De resto, top, parabéns mais uma vez. Continua
Good enough to be the idol of Leo Messi. I think this is more than enough to describe how good Aimar was in his peak form.
That Valencia team is how I remember them, as I watched them growing up. Even if i'm not a fan, Valencia is one of those clubs you just like, they will always have my respect.
One of my favourite players of all time. I learned about him during his River days thanks to Championship Manager 3, where he's one of the only players in the game with a perfect 200 potential ability every time, and consistently turns into one of the best players in the game. I followed his career intently after that, to the point where my love of him became an in-joke with a few classmates for many years.
Though he never quite hit the heights he was predicted to, he produced more magical moments than so many who won more trophies and played for bigger clubs. An icon, and was so happy to see him involved in the backroom staff with Argentina during their 2022 World Cup campaign, finally seeing the international success I always hoped he would have in a different way, and being there for arguably the greatest moment in the career of the kid who idolised him. There's such a beautiful poetry to football at times.
Can you do Javier Saviola? Looks like all modern Barca fans don't know him.
He went to play for Madrid, he betrayed Barcelona
You right .saviola is great player too
@@elvecinodeltio5960 So did Ronaldo (fenómenô) Luis Figo and many more
Im a benfica fan and pablo is my favourite player that played at the club after rui costa and eusebio
I still remember aimar, D'Alessandro, Ayala and diego milito playing together
amazing video and of my favourite all time player so thank you!! and how about D'Jalmnha!!?? he was sooo good that while playing for Deportivo against Real Madrid they called that game D;Jalminha against Real Madrid, very magical player but with a not so good attitude x
One of great young players during youth world cup in Malaysia, Aimar was really good but unfortunate for him at higher levels in Europe
He totally dominated that tournament mate, and what a crack Argentina squad at the time!
We malaysian had the chance to watch his magic when he plays for johor darul takzim a few years ago before he retired . What a joy to watch him back then
I always used to put him in my Argentina side in fifa 05, I wonder why Riquelme started getting more calls/starts in the national team
Seedorf that low score. How strange
Waiting for Rui Costa episode
“El payaso” the clown is said to be his nickname because every time he played you could see a smile in his face.
What an amazing player he was.
I remember seeing him playing for Valencia at the Mestalla in 2002. He and Vicente were the best live performances I saw in the games I attended when I was in Europe...
Please do socrates ( the doctor). Love your channel so much. You learn a thing about football everyday
Tuga á distancia , Bom trabalho bro
This was my suggestion. Thank you so very much for making it. I forgot to thank.
He was really good
Amazing, over looked for the national team and I will never get why!
One time Maradona anointed him as his successor
I loved this guy on the old pro evo games.
He was class in the old pro Evs.
Litmanen is still loved in Amsterdam, don't forget he is one of the type of players we love to see in the AFCA !
You know what I love that 2 of the best players to ever played the game admired 2 players that played for Benfica. Both number 10s Rui Costa and Pablo Aimar! I do love my club the mystic and the history I hope we can still bring players like Aimar and saviola and rui Costa now. I would say Otamend is in tha category too the man is amazing! These amazing players that have prove themselves in major leagues and come to us to try to make history by playing at their highest level even if the league is not the top league. Mad respect for them and a massive thank you to them! You are all legends to us! You will always be welcome back you will always have a place with us benfiquistas we don't leave our own behind
Valencia vs Liverpool is all you need to know lol
Rafa benitez got the Liverpool job because of that game
@@adyh7028 right!
He is the reason why i started to play football
Obrigado maestro
Minute 14:22, That's not Otamendi in the picture, its Cambiasso. Nice vid!
I remember him from my PS1 days. Winning Eleven soccer
omg, the team he had at benfica was my favourite in football manager. cardozo 9 , aimar 10, coentrao left back i think, di maria right wing. cardozo was the best striker back then. memories
I was so inspired by him and wanted to play like he does.