We Need To Talk About Germany's World Cup Protest
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- Germany are out of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, following defeat to Japan, a draw with Spain, and a victory against Costa Rica - and, apparently - it is all because of their pre-match protest against FIFA banning them from wearing the OneLove armband.
That is the narrative that is being spun by Qatari officials and journalists, and despite being completely nonsensical, it’s one that a worrying number of people seem to be willing to believe.
So in this video, HITC Sevens takes a look at Germany’s World Cup protest, why they did it, and why it probably isn’t the reason why they were knocked out in the group stage of a second successive World Cup. - Sport
lets not forget my country, Mexico, also protested at the World Cup for constantly losing the round of 16 by not making it past the group stage in the first place.
Ha ha…I mean Ja Ja…yo también soy mexicano…y esta mamada me saco una carcajada.. 😂😂😂
🤣🤣🤣
So brave
Hahaha
Mexico should learn from Italy. Italy hasn't lost a match in the last 2 world cups 😎
Each player could’ve worn 50 armbands a piece, up and down both arms, and it would’ve still paled in comparison to the courage demonstrated by the Iranian footballers, when they chose to NOT sing their anthem in the opening game.
Sure, you have to be brave to support a foreign based coup agaisnt your own government...
@@rayden1387 yeah you do, what’s the point you’re trying to make 😂
@@rayden1387ah yes Iranians standing with the women against oppression is a foreign conspiracy
@@rayden1387 well duuuuuh. What you trying to prove?🤣
@@rayden1387 What an idiotic comment? Are you stupid? Why am I asking? Of course you are.
"Football is a simple game, 22 men run around chasing a ball, and in the end, the Germans win. Unless they cover their mouths, then they lose, obviously." Gary Lineker's quote, I believe.
In fairness Germany have a 0% success rate at world cups when they cover their mouths
its just a fact . their heads are clearly away
@@LauftFafa GEeman team has been absolute shit for 5 years at least
@@mats7492 when you are that weak you dont act that way . maybe france or brazil would have sent a message but am sorry this german team for years is playing worse than asian or north african teams and those are ranked 30 to 20 world wide . so yeah those who are weak but still have a big mouth do have a naming .
even germans hated them for acting this why while being so weak on the pitch . it made peoples think they were ready to fight for a different cause but not for their national flag colors
@@LauftFafa, So you can't stand up for what you believe in because you're not playing good football? What do those things even have to do with each other? The issue they were protesting had to do with human rights. Not anything that went on on the pitch. The only relationship between the 2 is the location. That's it. Their skill is completly irrelevant to their protest.
"It made it seem like they're willing to fight for other causes but not their national colors" They put their hands over their mouths for 5 seconds lol. On the other hand they played 3 games over 90 minutes long for their country at the biggest football competition on the planet. The former could be done by first graders and requires zero effort. The latter on the other hand, requires years of practice and sacrifice, and weeks of pre tournament preparation, as well as a ton of physical effort and being able to mentally cope with loads of preassure.
Germany did not get knocked out of the World Cup because of some minor protest gesture. They were knocked out because they were not good enough to advance. Anyone arguing something else it trying to get the situation to fit a narrative that fits their own views. I do agree that the captains of all the teams that were planning to wear the armband should have called FIFA's bluff and worn the armband anyway and walked off the pitch.
They are good enough to qualify comfortably, at least on paper. They have recent champions league winners in gnabry, muller, rudiger, neuer, kimmich, havertz, etc. And they have a manager who won the UCL. It’s the players’ attitude on the pitch that cost them. They started well enough against japan, but after scoring, they looked lazy, thinking the game was already won. Just look at rudiger mocking asano in the game against japan. They only started threatening after conceding the second goal. Then they managed to concede 2 goals against costa rica, who had a total of 2 shots in the tournament before facing them, before scoring the 3 goals. They have the quality, just not the right attitude.
These are the same people who keep saying politics and football shouldn't mix, yet they say Germany got knocked out cause of politics. Absolute flip floppers
you are trying to reason with people that genuinly think that "sky man said in a book" is a legitimate political argument, you will never win
It is very simple: Germany went to Qatar with an agenda, not to play football.
True but it’s very possible that their focus on these issues distracted them from preparing properly. Also I am not convinced that every single player on the team wanted to do this because people have very diverse political opinions, so it was actually a bullying tactic of them to pressure them all to do this
What's funny is how football fans mostly have been so defensive of Serbia and Hungary's ultras bigoted behaviors as "minor occurances" and even free speech..
Yet they have been very very dismissive of human rights issues like lgbtq+ rights as "No politics in football".
Like maybe just maybe.
They do want politics in football. Just only those which they agree with.
^^
like UEFA's bigoted behaviour against eastern european teams and nations? why are uefa referees so bigoted themselves? and then we're racists and a nation of racists when a romanian referee said "ăla negru" which means "the black one", and he was almost suspended because uefa can't fucking understand that other languages have different terms. very surprising that we're bigoted apparently against you when you are against us and give us all a bad name
or maybe people and children especially don't want to know about two dudes taking it up the ass?
I have nothing against the message that Germany was trying to send, but you really aren’t gonna get anywhere by protesting LGBT rights in a country like Qatar, it’s unfortunate but I don’t see that country changing anytime soon no matter how hard you protest. I’m more sad at the fact that these players and teams aren’t protesting for the migrant workers that died to build the stadiums they’re playing in
@@bababababababa6124 facts like what is the point of protesting it in the Middle East… I know there are LGBT people there but they probably make up about 0.0001% of those countries populations 😂most people there probably don’t even know what it means
9 times out of 10 you’ll just get mocked for it like Germany did
I am a huge Brazil fan so I was ecstatic when Germany got eliminated because of 2014 😬. But not once did it cross my mind that Germany’s performance would in any way be compromised because of a tiny protest they did. Enjoying a giant slaying in sports is natural but giving it such ridiculous reasoning like what some people are doing is just appalling. At the end of the day, players are human beings who have the right to have their opinions. High time people realize they are not robots
But what do footballers actually know about these issues? I bet if you actually asked them to articulate their thoughts all you would get is regurgitated cliches and lots of “eeerrrm”
They should just focus on playing football and keep politics out of the game, they are footballers after all, not intellectuals
greetings from germany! my money is on brazil in winning the cup this time!
👏👏
But germans are robots!
@@hmu05366 Not sure if you need to be an intellectual to think homosexuality shouldn't be a crime, or that women should be allowed to make decisions for themselves. People say keep politics out of sports but sports have always involved politics.
Alfie is one video away from being a wanted man in the gulf region lmao
as he should be,the guy is as annoying as thogden
Then why do you watch his videos gang?? Lmaoo
@@londonisforeverblue1022so why are you watching?
@@archstanton6102 because he has the right to watch whatever video he chooses to watch, you dummy
@@abstraqtphilosophy7357 If you are watching only to whine and complain, them I question the logic of doing that?
Where did I say he couldn't watch or didn't have the right to watch. Perhaps you should focus on comprehending English before commenting?
When Mesut Ozil protested against the oppesion of Ugyurs..the german government warned him NOT to play politics so as not to offend the chinese government and silenced him...And he recived racist abouse by the german fans... WESTERN HYPOCRACY...
Do ur research mate, before spreading misinformation! Özil stepped down as an international after the 2018 World Cup and spoke out for the Uyghurs in China in December 2019. Arsenal were the ones distancing themselves publicly from Özil, due to their connections to China. The DFB and Germany have absolutely nothing to do with. 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
I have a theory about why Germany was eliminated: Japan's team just out-thought and out-fought Germany, defeating them on the pitch. Germany then found themselves unable to defeat Spain or sufficiently run up the score on a Costa Rica team that wasn't going to let it happen twice in 3 games, as any CONCACAF observer might have said ahead of time.
I happen to love this generation of the German team; they're the first team I called as WC winners 4 years ahead of time, based on their youth and performance in 2010, and watching that show they put on against Brazil was among the 3 most astounding things I've ever seen on live TV (along with 1/6 & Lewandowski's 5 in 9).
My 4 years out prediction about Germany this time: Not sure about the team, but I will not be surprised if Joshua Kimmich gets a chip on his shoulder that drives him to get even better, thanks to his sub-par (for him) play in this tournament, and he comes back to win the golden ball in 2026.
What does 1/6 refer to?
man, why are people spreading conspiracy theories about on-pitch performance influencing football results, when it's clearly what the teams do during the team photo that is the defining factor.
@@thecrimsondragon9744 gonna guess he's referring to the Barcelona comeback against PSG
@@1998Cebola Right?! Going around foolishly thinking that complex mathematical theorems predicated on numeric values ascribed to wins, losses and draws will ever be understood by the laypeople. Pffsh! It's like, dial it back a little, Pythagoras, do I look like Will Hunting to you? Just tell me which no-no words they said --- or didn't say --- and we'll get on with our lives.
I am only 2 minutes into this and you are making MORE sense than any of the British media on this.
Probably the American media as well.
I doubt most of the media know anything about football anyway.
@@andyukmonkey Certainly true in America, they only care about football when its the world cup. I assume some people within the media elsewhere (England, EU, parts of africa and south america etc.) support teams and follow football it just depends on their role if they get to talk about it.
Germany had the biggest gap between xG for and xG against of any team in the groups. Their only failing was in desperately poor shooting, which is likely substantially luck over just three games but can also be blamed on playing without a proper striker a substantial amount of the time. It's not the disaster some would have you believe.
Maybe if they were homophobic they’d have scored their chances, totally it’s the lgbtq agenda that made them finish bad😤😤
True... their only and fatal mishap were those 20 minutes where they allowed Japan to score twice and couldn't mount a comeback. The rest of their participation was fine and should've been enough to advance to the knockout stage.
They were pretty rubbish in the first game, after that they looked like a decent team. Don't think they need to panic, just need to grow a decent striker from somewhere...still gutted they pinched Musiala off us, he really does look like the real deal
@@bagpussmacfarlan9008 I disagree completely. They were superb in the first half against Japan, had a dodgy 20 minute spell, and finished just as strongly. They dominated most of the game, created a series of good to great chances, and just missed them all. It was probably their best performance, but for the awful shooting.
this is happening for 5 Years now
This ain't luck anymore
Musiala, Gnabry or anybody would have burried these chances for their clubs teams but for Germany they don't have to confidence anymore
28 minutes of Alfie essentially saying "they're all effing stupid, they're all effing stupid, they're all effing stupid" will never get old
Germany bans protests & demonstrations that support Palestinians or criticises Apartheid Israel.
Ahh you see the problem is, what you’ve just said is bullshit 😂
@@osiand9328 I don’t care either way I think that conflict is stupid. I’m just stating the fact that is his comment is a crock of shite
@@wanderingartifact6087 no but why partial human rights?
Could we get a follow up on the reasons you think Germany actually went out I.E the weaknesses in the squad which resulted in a poorer performance than many expected or just how good are Japan since they did beat 2 European powerhouses. In term of protesting FIFA Japan's second goal against Spain might have been FIFA trying to knock Germany out by allowing the goal to stand but then I am cynical
I can do it for you in 3 words.
No Center Forward
@@96wtfomg One word efficiency > Shite
but the goal stood because the ball didn't actually cross the line.................
Same reason why alot of teams were underwhelming this world cup.
Only 1 week of preparation because it is mid season
Lack of trust from the coach in Füllkrug and a very shaky defensive line
Funny then, that Iran - a nation that was very vocal about its own government, being very political in the process - outperformed what was expected of them and was just a single goal away from reaching the round of 16.
As for Germany's "protest": A team doing something together actually strengthens the team spirit and morale, so it's usually beneficial to do something like that.
What happened to freedom of speech when it came to ozil and being ostracised and criticised by team mates and national leaders the hypocrisy is honestly blinding
What about him?
Whataboutism
freedom of speech is not freedom of criticism, why do self proclaimed free speech warriors not get that?
Ozil never sing the German national anthem while playing for Germany but when he was playing for a Turkish club he sing the Turkish national anthem.
Ozil never saw himself as a German he just wanted to play for Germany because they are a better team.
Ozil disrespected Germany many times but they took it as granted Ozil don't have a brain why he brings religion into football and there are other Turkish players like Gundogan and Khedira who never complaint about such things in Germany
Well he was told not to bring politics into to football which is fucking ironic 😂😂
Another banger Alfie. Your sarcasm is always on point.
Also funny is knowing that Germany national team could beat Qatar over and over whilst doing that protest.
Duh, armbands don't restrict blood flow
I've loved your coverage of this World Cup, both in the build up to and during the competition. Personally, I haven't watched a single second (including the qualifiers), so being provided 20/20 vision to what is actually taking place and the narratives being driven alongside it has been invaluable to me. Thanks for your hard work, as always Alfie.
Well, thanks for displaying your naivety. As a guy who in Qatar for eight days for the WC, I can confidently say that Alfie is full of 💩
What rant! Shame that a huge stage like a World Cup is used to promote ANYTHING but sports.
I think the World Cup promoted football itself in the Middle East.
A beautiful video. I say all this in my head when scrolling through Twitter.
World Trade Order???
@@smittenthekitteninmittens2679 nope, family initials.
Politics and football should not mix Germany has no right to advocate for the gays On the sporting field
Alfie ............YOUR BEST VID and there have been many !!! greetings and merry Christmas from Portugal
I watch about 90% of your videos and this one is one of my most favourite, as I respect nothing more than a huge smartass and this is the perfect video to represent this; let alone how informative it is about why I'm so disappointed that this was the location of the first World Cup that Canada qualified for since 1986.
Germany lost against japan because they underestimated japan. Japan was great in that game, but germany allowed them to be. Look at rudiger clowning asano with that stupid run and then laughing about it. I like germany, but that attitude is unacceptable, and they rightly lost the game. The other players might not show it, but they were equally guilty of underestimating japan. Musiala was the only one who seemed to work hard in that game. I dont believe the hand in mouth thing caused them to lose, but if they’re preaching love, they should start by respecting their opponents.
Germans too focused on "One Love" and get a "One two" then eliminated by a "One Two" too.. lol
Dead joke
@@OliverLivesey28 Keep crying gays 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
i genuinely don't think i've ever disagreed with anything in a hitc sevens video, best football channel by a million miles
I haven't either, aside from the part in this video where Alfie paints Japan's LGBTQ record a bit too favourably.
Agree. This discussion about One Love etc is ridiculous. It's here to divide the society. I have been socialized 40 years ago, we gave a shit about gay or whatever.
Maybe you are living in a social media bubble, just saying
He thinks homophobia is wrong (which yeah, it is) yet fails to mention the elephant in the room: Islam and homophobia go hand-in-hand. His outrage feels fake AF until he states clearly that Islam and Western values are simply incompatible and clearly cannot co-exist.
Go outaide, alfie isnt laying out anything abnormal or groundbreaking. Once you see a couple of vids you realise its all colored and extremely biased towards his political/social/life views and its defenitely not TRUTH OMG HES SPITTIN FACTS
Thank you, that was necessary Great video!
There's no Germany no more
I see only Gayrmany on map 😏
THANK YOU 😭😭 I hate when people say that about Germany it was a five second protest it didn’t cause any player to randomly play horribly so much excuses other CZcamsrs have been saying that the hand thing literally caused the whole team to crumble 🤦🏾♂️
You keep dropping banger after banger of a video. Never stop, Alfie!
Your videos since world cup started skyrocketed in quality so much that you easily became one of my top favourite youtubers and the only one whose videos I am actually sharing with friends. Well done mate, keep it up 👌
Nail on head stuff! Well played Alfie!
Gotta say I have been loving your handling of this World Cup. While it’s been a thrilling set of games and it’s so easy to just ignore the underlying reality and enjoy good football, at the end of the day we can’t just pretend like the pitch hasn’t been a stage used by fifa and footballers for political protest. Having that privilege taken away in favor of satisfying the ultra wealthy is honestly disgusting. Thank you for making this video.
I love your content Alfie
Please don’t ever stop🙏🏼🙏🏼
“Haha Germany should have focused on football”
Meanwhile fully focused on football homophobic countries like Saudi and Qatar made it to the next round right? Right?
Lol is that supposed to be sarcasm. Because it was poor one . I mean Morocco, Senegal etc did qualify or are you dreaming ?
Germany : 4 times wold champions being compared to Qatar and Saudi Arabia... Stay off the weed
@@ASK-ko9qxno that was supposed to debunk the point that a small act against discrimination is somehow the reason for Germany’s failure.
Anyways Germany played pretty well, just bad at finishing. Were among highest in xG stats in the group stages even
I'm sorry to tell you pal but 80% of all countries are homophobic.
How about wearing an armband that just says CAPTAIN on it? Just saying...
thats too normal for these weirdos,they rather prefer supporting two dudes taking it up the ass
That would be redundant.
Thank you for restoring my faith in humanity Alfie
Holy crap, this video broke my sarcasm meter machine
The sarcasm from 11:00 to 12:12 had me cracking up 😂 brilliant video Alfie!
Absolutely! Players, teams and local FA's need to realise that they give FIFA the power that it wields against them. They have the upper hand in the long run.
Deutschland is the laughingstock of this World Cup 😂
Everything Alf said about the ridiculous allegations against Germany for their small protest was so correct, but especially what he said about the clowns at FIFA - the biggest clown of all of course being Infantino (doesn't his name mean "childish" ? Spot on, Karma!).
Him cheerleading at rhe FIFA congress in Qatar, by demanding "Qatar, Qatar, Qatar" and "FIFA, FIFA, FIFA" from the delegates, was so unbelievably moronic I just couldn't believe what I was seeing and hearing! Talk about selling your soul for money - he has sold his brain as well !
One of your best videos mate. Love the harsh cynicism and downright brutal analysis of these clownish arguments.
In western media, I have seen more news about the LGBT flag invader than the Palestinian flag invader. I have seen less people in support with that too.
It seems People really wants to drag politics into sports but only the things that they like it 🙄
Lgbt is a bigger topic in every day western world, than Palestine. Why wouldn't it get more attention?
@@gb2983 exactly, because for the west, lesbians and gays not being able to makeout in public and drink alcohol is much more important than children dying in plaestine for no reason.😂
Fucking hypocrites man😂😂😂😂
@@aligatore9214 I dont make the rules man. Lgbt rights is western culture. Being anti lgbt is an attack on that. Human kind throughout history (all of it not just the west) values its culture, generally above its people, and even moreso people outside of it. In that sense its only as hypocritical as everything anyone else has ever believed in over something else.
that wasnt even an lgbt flag, it was a peace flag
@@gb2983 Yea man, establishin the rights of 2 guys fukin each other is more important than people getting killed. Why y'all were so sympathetic with Ukraine then?
Shakhtar Donetsk's owner even wanted Iran out because of their countries government. But the Iranian players gave the bravest protest in this World Cup
The best video on the internet, Alfie you managed to put all my thoughts into one video. Well fucking done.
One of your best Alfie.
Holy crap, dude.
I was already enjoying the content lately, but this video was just savage.
How savage? I watch yt mainly on Xbox. I got out of bed, opened my laptop and came here to like, comment and subscribe.
Thank you.
They protested so hard they left the World Cup early💀
WE NEED TO TALK WHAT HAPPENED TO MESUT ÖZIL!
Mesut Ozil x Germany, discuss
Germany are signing a 15yr deal to buy energy from Qatar.
That’s all you need to know.
Two very unrelated things, but ok
Which player on the pitch was part of negotiating Germany's deal to buy natural gas from Qatar? People are not their country's government.
What an incredibly dumb comment
German Hypocrisy.
Qatar should punish them and stop selling to Germany any gas
Dude there is no such thing as LGBT children.
Obviously there is? When did you start fancying people? 12? Its the same for LGBT people
Of course there are. The LGBT community were children once
An awful lot of Qatari and Arab people are slamming Germany and using the argument that the local culture and laws should be respected.
I can only assume these same people are more than okay if European countries implement laws to restrict the use of hijabs, niqabs and burkas, because in European culture it’s important to show one’s face and hair.
Freedom of speech and expression is also part of the culture in many Western countries, so next time someone makes insensitive remarks about Islam, defaces a Koran or insults the Islamic faith in some other way, I don’t expect to hear a peep out of these people.
If Middle Eastern countries want to host global events and be a part of the world, they have to accept the scrutiny which comes with it.
My country, Australia, along with New Zealand will be hosting the FIFA Women’s World Cup next year. No doubt some media agencies may run features on indigenous disadvantage and the plight of asylum seekers. As far as I’m concerned they will have every right to do so.
Western countries claim to be multicultural and have conceded any sense of "our culture" through their rampant colonisation. Qatar is a strict Islamic state that while having mostly expats (altho not citizens), does not acknowledge itself as a multicultural state. Hence it is stupid to ban such items of clothing.
i’ve never even thought about it like that, thank you. that’ll be an argument i’ll bring up when people try to justify their blatant homophobia by masking it with religion
@@cbh14 I am wondering why religions evolve in the ways they do and why certain religions always seem to get defensive about clearly wrong actions. Anti LGBTQ and womens rights for Islamic faiths and Invading everybody they view to be inferior and forcibly converting/demonizing other religions and peoples for Christianity.
The thing is half of the people in Western countries think their own rules are racist and shouldn't be respected. It's not a one to one comparison when the values of one culture are deliberately being undermined by idiots.
Belgium, Germany and Denmark all attempted protests and all had terrible world cups lol
Correlation doesn't mean causation
@@arturoflash exactly, but it is a funny coincidence you have to admit 😂
@@arturoflash keep politics at home.
@@jutsu1 pls shut your mouth when you don't know what you're talking about
@@jutsu1 sport, especially international sport, doesn't exist in a bubble. Sport has always been political. You must have hated it when Denmark won the Euros
Let’s be honest, most of the ones complaining about the protest were people with conservative or far right sympathies
your point?
One of the things that people loves to see more than seeing an underdog rising, is seeing a Titan falling. Germany is the unfortunate one here, and probabbly their act of protest is going to be overshadowed by their failure in this worldcup, let alone, people overblowing the fact that they lost because they covered their mouths in protest (even thought that's a very stupid argument since Germany has been in the gutter for years when it comes to their NT performance).
However... my respect goes to the Iran's player that refused to sing their national anthem while the Iran govertment was more than willing to harm their family members if they refused sing it again. Those guys has more bravery in their toes than the entire teams participating in this tournement.
German here. While it was not undeserved we are out (albeit kind of unlucky regarding the Spain:Japan match), it is funny how Qatar and Belgium (well, Hazard) made and make fun of the protest, while one team is one of the worst if not the worst performing host nation ever and the other is out as well.
Love that Hazard has to eat his words now. That was really assholish of him make such a dig against Germany especially Belgium performance getting knockout.
The Nazis can now go back to Gaymany and suck anything they want. Nobody cares.. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 The rest of the normal world is happy you mentals are out.
@@theredlineonepiece9811 Very good, did you come up with that yourself or did your stepdad tell you this after he left your bedroom?
@@Namorat Sorry, but we are a normal family. I am not an abused gay like you.. Nyahahahahahah!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Qatar is bad team even qatari know that but compare this to germany who become literal fuilare
Germany become a meme and laughing stoke espicially in eastern countries eastern europe even in w. europe and america 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
People also say that Japan won through the power of anime and friendship. Why not make a whole video on that
It’s almost as if it was mocking because people expected Germany to win too.
lol, and you believe that do you?
@@kevinb9830 r/whoosh
"We need to talk about Germany's protest." No we don't. Qatar have done nothing wrong.
Except being the worst team on the tournament.
except the thousand dead immigrant workers, the humuliation of basic human rights... yeah did nothing wrong those qataris didnt they
@@soundscape26 touché 😂
They have silenced Mesut Özil for standing up against Uyghurs, of course you don't mention this in the video
Standing up for Uyghurs is not so trendy, unlike standing up for LGBTQIABC+- people apparently
Then guess why he didn’t mention it. Because it’s bs. Arsenal where the ones publishing a statement in which they distanced themselves from Özil, because of their strong connections to China. This incident took place in December 2019. But Germany or the German FA have absolutely nothing to do with it, because he already retired from the national team after the 2018 World Cup. Do your research and use the internet for sensible purposes, bozo! 🤦♂️
@@Darwinek people with mental disabilities are more important than people who die because of religion, and that's a problem
Never happened. You’d think a Chelsea fan wouldn’t be for misinformation.
@@drsurtur3240such a clear case of double standards… 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
Players "protesting" in the same WC they gain millions from it, Hyprocasy at best
Knocked out at group stage twice in a row, from a world champion to memes.
they won it 4 times...how many times your country won it?
Italy didn't even show up, so there's always worse.
Another fantastic comment! Well said!
Thank you for this video 👏🙏
Sadly, the narrative pushed by Qatari officials surrounding the protest are very much deliberate (They feel their Shariah laws are being mocked lol, the irony) and this is fuelled by far right extremists/ homophobics. And I say this confidently cause I am from Islamic background living in a muslim majority country and unfortunately, we can ignore even the most violent crimes but when it comes to LGBT issue, all hell break loose
It's not that they felt their Shariah laws were being mocked, its because they felt germany didn't respect thier laws by staging a protest, so they thought of sharing how they felt about it when germany got knocked out. I mean, wouldn't you feel offended if you thought someone didn't respect your way of living?
11:33 I just want to imagine Flick telling Kimmich and Goretzka to watch Broke Back Mountain a night before the game
That whole sequence in the video was top sarcasm.
Goretzka was too busy doing steroids cause he's such an upstanding young man.
Video idea:
Ranking the Premier League Walkouts (songs and what not) from worst to best.
Great video!
There is news already about German players not welling to protest but they were pressured by Neuer and Goretzka
Take it how you want but that German team was devided imo, specially against Japan.
Also it doesn't help when the fans booing you every game.
What are you on about fans boo footballers all the time and given i suspect they were not expecting the crowd to be in the majority regardless of the opponent in qatar you are talking out your behind.... i guess you are right the fans booing England at the Euros did nothing to help them win the final....so you must be right, pull your head in numpty! LOL
@@caseycoggan Now read my full comment before you answer I said "it doesn't help" I didn't say it was the only reason. Why do we have home and away games then? You answer me 🤷🏻
Can you do a video on if you think modric should have gotten the ballon dor or if somebody else should
Thanks for the great content you have me used to in this channel!
Another great video Alfie. FIFA are a completely corrupt organisation and the protests from the Iranian and German players should be applauded . The spineless responses of the National FAs to FIFA's sporting sanctions threat shows that words are cheap but "meaningful" actions (however minor) are too much to ask.
One reason you did not mention was Spain throwing the game against Japan. You saw how they started running once Costa Rica was up 2-1 for a few minutes.
Class video
MESUT ÖZIL!
Sorry to upset you but a one love armband means NOTHING for football. Get it outta here.
I so miss the days when the only thing that mattered was the damn football and you didn't have these pointless political gestures dominating everything can things return to just being about the game itself please
So… what days are you talking about? Because politics has always been deeply involved in football.
Another great and informative video 💙👍
Ok I think I'm going to piss off most people on here, but - the right place and the right time to protest against quatar was when they won the bid. Now it's too little too late. Quatar perceives westerners, as was to be expected, as meddling outsiders who ostracize them. Which is counterproductive for genuine social change that has to come from inside the culture - as has been the case in Iran for the last couple months.
"No politics in Football" also doesn't necessarily mean "no politics I dislike in Football" as you and other commentators try to insinuate. It Just means "talk about the Game, disregard everything else" .
Yes! All that its just PR move, to win naive minds
I think it’s shocking what Germany did. I bet they were practicing that for hours when they should’ve been training. Maybe then they might’ve made it out the group!
For clarity, in case there is any doubt (which I would hope there isn’t), this was sarcasm
It's always a good thing when virtue signallers fail.
Sarcasm dial tuned to 11, love it 🫡
I think your direct and honest approach were always gonna make this a good video.
the attempt and failed protesting by certain UEFA nations was absolutely embarrassing. i dont know what else you can describe it as considering the noise that was made about making a statement in Qatar, even if I strongly supported it. 2026 will see players be able to freely protest if they choose to
Fifa threatened to ban them from the tournament easy enough to make the m behave with red cards for captains and yellows for players for wearing it and thats only whats come out
@@simplesimonhadapie the players and teams should have called FIFAs bluff and worn the armbands anyway. It would have made FIFA look even more of a joke than they already are if they were shown to be booking players for supporting the LGBTQ community.
@@ethandalton6480 thats what i was trying to get at. as correct as i think their stance was on these issues, they ultimately still buckled when actually faced real consequences. it just makes it look like they dont actually care and were just being pretentious
Fifa threatening to fine Mexico for homophobic chanting seems somewhat hypocritical.
They won't, will they?
Lets here more virtue signaling from the morally superior and always right alfie.
Yes, his views are consistently good from a morality point of view.
@@soundscape26 Am bad at writing sarcasm, the comment was meant to be sarcastic. He's views are mostly European hypocrisy and frankly sound like they are being said by someone who knows nothing about the world except the one where his country are the morality police. yeah the righteous brits.
@17:05 So Alfie is from the Scilly Isles...I thought he was from Hull...
whats your stance on the ozil issue
I already wondered why I get this video recommended specifically after I've watched a video about the US becoming more and more facist. The first 1:30 explain a lot of things lol.
Edit: As a German I'm actually quite glad we went out already. I was boycotting the WC either way, now with Germany out I at least don't even have to pretend I care. Also this was a nice reality check that not everything is sunshine and roses already, just cause we now have Hansi Flick instead of Löw, and a semi-young Squad. From here on out it can only go upwards, looking forward to 2024 when the Euros are here in Germany.
People seems to love saying the gesture are useless but that 5 second gesture lives rent free in their head and causing them so much distress lmao
Who's actually "not focusing on football" now?
Perhaps guys like you. No one around me in my country even remember that cheap move by Germany lol.
It is useless. Its more like a pat on the back for people who believe they should have rights. For the rest of the world they just see a heirchy of value and convenience. For instance it was more convinient for the Germans to protest in the the name of LGBTQ+ than the migrant workers. It is what it is.
My think it is not useless, but its fake, just a PR move, if the teams/players really support this, they wouldnt agree on the event with 12 years on advance, on even gain money with that, they dont care about, just want get 'good image' while doing the completely opposite
@@RoyMatzem Exactly. To alot of people, even if they are all for LGBTQ+ rights they just see selective outrage. Convinient outrages. Not saying gays dot exist in Qatar, or anywhere, but why did the Germans not do that for migrants instead. Its a hierarchy of victimhood based on convinience. Everyone just patting themselves on the back.
Wdym? German medias keep talking about this bullshit even after multiple days. Lmao they wanna make propaganda but idiots like you are too blind too see that. Germany will be enjoying that sweet Qatari oil tho 😂
DAY 43: Hey Alfie, could you do a video on the life, career, controversies and tragedy of Justin Fashanu. It'd be your best video yet and it's a criminally underheard story. ❤️
Great video
how can a child be lgbt? I don't really understand
I think people don't like the idea of children/teenagers developing self identity and sexuality. But people don't just develop sexuality at 18 believe it or not... Think about it, I'm sure you started fancing people aged around 8 or 9. Why would it be different for gay people?
U really need to attend some sort of psychology workshop or something to learn about psychosexual development. A quick research on the internet does the job too 😉
@@lollipopsaresmelly that makes sense. im not hating lgbt or anything. I've just never met anyone knowingly from the community. its not common where im from and not really talked about in a positive light. you are right you don't just develop overnight so I don't see why it'd be any different based on your sexual preference. thank you
I always come back to this point, won’t it be a better protest if the the countries didn’t show up to the World Cup and instead play friendly against each other or act like they’re no World Cup and continued their league system. It’s a bit idiotic to show up to the thing youre protesting. As Qatar wins, they wanted eye balls on their country for hosting the World Cup, imagine if country didn’t show up or refuse to play qualifiers, fifa would be more selective with their wc host. FIFA now knows if the select a controversial host, they will have to deal with little protest but the viewing numbers and fans engagement will be around the same levels. You can’t have it both ways, you hate watching something still counts as a view, it’s not like there’s a different category for hate watching or your view doesn’t count. The only way change happens if you let your money and time do the talking.
I agree completely, but I think most fans want to watch the matches no matter how much they don't like Qatar or any one individual issue.
The true heroes are the likes of Italy, Chile and Colombia. Boycotting this corrupt tournament altogether
This channel only gets better, keep up the good work mate.
I know Alfie is ranting here but; didn't he actually big up the Qatar team (not country) because of who they brought in and the training and all that stuff and said they might actually be okay. But you're letting anger get the better of you. You're just like the rest of, you've let your anger at this idiocy make you grief the footballers of that country. Yes, you're a hypocrite and so am I and everyone on the planet, but mate you're a public figure (to a certain extent) so you have to actually be careful about this stuff.
😂 hahaha...brilliant... keep it coming
I can always count on Alfie to talk about the most important topics of football. 😂Seriously though mate, thank you for bring light to a lot of this shit that is going on a this world cup. I feel bad for whoever wins it...
I can imagine though that the rightful attention in the media discussing all controversies of the tournament, especially peaking around a day before the game because of that last minute attempt of FIFA to stop the statement, can distract from your top focus at a World Cup. Of course not the protest that they did at the game, but the lead-up can be distracting right? It’s not the sole reason they went out (the ones you mentioned and also just dumb lack of luck with two offside goals and that japan goal against spain), but it probably also doesn’t help.
I find it hypocritical that Europeans tell migrants to follow their culture when they come to Europe yet they don't want to respect the culture of countries they go to. this has been an issue in the UAE for years. if you don't like it don't go there. it's called the world cup and you're not the only ones in it.
Agreed. Instead of talking about it so much, be true to your values and do t go to Qatar. Because everything else has just been empty words and protest. Nothing will change in Qatar
@@rexmfalme9781 but why do you even want to change someone culture to conform to yours ? that's my issues with those protests. all I kept hearing is them whining about gay rights and alcohol in stadiums while there was a lot of things wrong even by the cultural standards of Qatar like the treatment of the workers and corruption. it only make sense that if a place does not align with your values to keep away, not go and make them conform to you.
@@chawkichalladia1812 You're missing the point where you share a planet with the "other", so of course you want them to be more familiar. Alcohol I couldn't care less about but the other issues even if some were introduced by England and Christianity should be done away with like the kafala or completely criminalizing people who have no choice in what they are despite what some people would prefer.
Heck, I can understand the difficulty of changing a tradition based society to whatever its natural next step is, especially if your leaders are being propped up by the same people criticizing you. Ideally and the world is not ideal and never has been, accepting the existence of LGTBQ even while not in any way supporting or condoning it would make a difference.
@@phightinphil25 that only works if it's both ways. right now a women wearing a hijab can't find a job in a lot of European countries. also you can stay 3 weeks without the need for public sexual activities which is banned for everyone not just gays. if that's too much to ask then stay home the same way a lot of people don't go to other countries because they're uncomfortable with their culture or way of life. as for the kafala system, I already said that it was the real issue and they were put aside for rainbows and booze.
What I find most shocking is Japan losing to Qatar in the 2019 AFC Final.
Japan sent an Under-23 side to the Asian Cup.
@@paulorocky That explains it.
They did also beat South Korea to be fair, with from what I gather, was a full strength team, Son included.