Pep Guardiola's Barcelona: The Greatest Team Ever
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- The title really does say it all.
Rewind the clock back to 2008, and a novice Spaniard in the first year of his first team managerial career led Barca to the promised land. Unprecedented success, unbelievable records and an evergreen legacy would follow almost immediately.
Today, we take a look back at this ridiculous period.
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00:00 - Introduction
02:25 - Cruyff, Dreams and More
04:35 - Joan Laporta: Change on the Horizon
06:40 - Pep Guardiola: The Chosen One
08:45 - The Treble Winning Tactics
15:51 - Blaugrana: The Greatest Team Ever
18:58 - José Mourinho: Over the edge
21:39 - The Aftermath
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The most shocking part of this Barca team is not the fact they were this good but the fact that half of their players and even managers were homegrown. The odds of the worlds greatest ever defenders, Midfielders and Forwards all graduting from the same academy around the same time are astronomically small. Only competitor is probably the 70s Bayern team with Gerd Muller, Beckenbauer and Sepp Maier
Ikr!!
Greatest Defenders?
@@Honeybarbecuepumpum Pique and Puyol are certainly up there
@@iamaheretic7829 absolute bullshit. Puyol is a legend but not pique. Pique is a model t that used the Ferrari next to him to cover his flaws.
@@Honeybarbecuepumpum I dont think being useless gives you a permanent starting place in one of the worlds top teams for nearly 15 yrs but you do you
Pep's Barça wasn't just peak Barça, it was peak football.
🔥🔥🔥
playing 2008 barça and Madrid on pes is the reason why I loved soccer
@@phantacarrytemari incoming comments saying "iTs fOoTbAlL"
@@uselessdegenerate7565 yes because it is football
@@uselessdegenerate7565 did the comments come
I think we’ll never see a team so talented so motivated than this ever again.The amount goals they scored they were just sublime🔥🔥
Mourinhos 2011 Real Madrid team scored the most goals in a la liga season so your point is wrong
@@colin2729 It's not just about the goals scored though.
@@colin2729 Majority of the teams did not park the bus against Real Madrid cause they had a belief that they could win the ball in the mid field and score on a counter. But when oppositions faced Barcelona, they had no other options but to park the bus literally the whole time. Even big clubs parked the bus against them. Real Madrid tried to play an aggressive High line and got smashed 5-0. So naturally Madrid will score more goals (also they had brilliant talent upfront).
@@colin2729 that same team lost 5-0 to this Barça..
@@vismong102 that was in 2011. In 2012 real scored the most goals tho
The fact that Peps Barca have "2 versions" of his teams, one with Etoo and the other with Villa and Pedro, shows how great they are, plus not forget that they put probably the best and most dominant performance in the CL final ever in 2011
2011 final they passed man United to death 75 percent ball possession
Most domainant and one sided UCL final was Milan and Barca 1994 ....Milan won 4-0
That was AC Milan in 1994 who would also cruise this team
Still his tactics were a bit stiff, he could've won ucl in 2010 and 2012 if he was more flexible
THE GREATEST EVER ⭐️💕⚽️
"Take the ball, Pass the ball"
So simple yet such an effective, deadly and revolutionary playstyle.
Never ever will you ever see such a group of players, come together and play the most beautiful football you have ever seen
But in correct English it would be “Receive the ball. Pass the ball.”
‘Take’ the ball would mean tackling for it or intercepting it.
@@patinho5589 Well, technically.
@@patinho5589 yeah but its an iconic quote thooo
Pep is a genius; I love him as a manager.
@@patinho5589 🤓
You should've mentioned that the average possession this Barcelona had in games was never less than 85%. Seeing other teams literally chase the ball around for 90 minutes was astonishing
That is bullshit, but I see your point
@@antusgabori swear these people are pulling facts out of their asses
@@NoaVanSnickgo do your research clown
I am a Madrid supporter since 2009 and I was just in time for one of the great eras in football : Madrid vs Barcelona, Jose vs Pep, Ronaldo vs Messi. The dives, the slaps , the red cards and the drama. 5 El classicos in a span of 17 days we will never see anything like it ever again.
4 clásicos. Not 5, not 4 el classicos. 4 clásicos. You don't say 4 the matches, or four the classics. 4 in 17 days, the other one was in the first leg of the league (el día de la manita). After all they were too much. 6 times in the next season. They faced each other too many times and after all of that most people (myself included) felt exhausted. Even though we felt pretty excited when we knew, all of my friends and acquitances agreed they were too many of them for a couple of weeks.
@@meatiesogarcia6478shut up
I'm the same. Became a Real Madrid fan in 2009 just in the arrival of kaka and Ronaldo. It was beautiful 😍
That Barca team was so good that even the National team tried to replicate the playing style and did so very successfully tbf.
Because the core of the national team was Barça players. They just added a very good goalie and 3 or 4 more guys who had to addapt quick to the Barça playing style. It was pretty much Barça with some additions.
Just to think, that inter won the treble the next season, nobody really talks about that team, barcelona and guardiola really were devasting in those years and the legacy of that tactics continue to impress us
But it was overshadowed by tactical desicion
That inter was a one year wonder. They haven't won Ucl or club wc and serie A again.
But Barca was winning them again and again and again that's why that inter was never talked about it as this much
@@ebinesvthundupurackal7446 BS
Barca won a sextuple, a treble is half the job
Xavi even said similar thing back then about Inter
Best team I’ve ever seen tbh, Messi was unplayable obviously. Xavi and Iniesta bossing the midfield. Amazing team 👏👏
Wdym by unplayable, like impossible to play againist?
@@Janon743 Being so dominant in compared to your opponents level.
Yes. Messi's obviously still very good, but back in that period he was more explosive and quicker. Any time he got the ball in the opponent's penalty area, it was almost certain it'd end up in the back of net.
Snsbeijder beat em with mediocre roaster .
If Barcelona was greatest team then CR7 is the greatest player ❤
Some other things of Pep's Guardiola Barcelona :
- In the final of the Champions League 2009 , due to Dani Alves and Abidal not been able to play , Sergio Busquets played as a right back lol
- Guardiola also rotated Pique with Rafa Marquez at first cuz Pique was not used on playing every single game since at United he was a sub
- Messi was just one more player , he was just a plus. On very tough games Messi was not the hero , they were others showing up
- The thing of this Barcelona of 2008/09 is that they were not the favorites for anything. They started slow , for the Spanish league Madrid was still the favorite , and for the Champions League the Premier Leagues were still the grand favorites to win it all. They became favorites after the brutal wins they have during the season
- Furthermore , he develop a very crucial thing which is to play the ball from behind or from the goalkeeper. Instead of the goalkeeper blowing the ball off , he would pass it to the closest defender , and start playing it from there to the other opposition. This sounds like nothing but it reflects on how many games they won cuz they always keep the ball and dont give any chance for the opposition to have it
- In addition to that , Guardiola change the training style of Barca. He make everyone on the squad to make passes like they were midfielders. This is shown more on Manchester City where even Ederson the goalkeeper , can make amazing passes from his position.
- In all 4 seasons that Guardiola was in Barcelona , he achieved more than 90+ points , in which he won 3 la Liga and one of those was with 99 points
- In comparison his 2008-09 to his 2010/11 season , its that the 2011 season teams were a lot more tougher , teams knew how to play against Barcelona , and Pep came out with new tactics so they can come out on top.
- Also , in comparing 2009 to 2011 , is different cuz in 2009 Pep's Barca was more of an underdog , a Barca that was been "revived" , while the 2011 Barca was more of the "can Barca stayed at the top"
- During those years Guardiola also promoted so many youth players to the main team , making La Masia the best "academy" in the world during that time
- Guardiola's Barca peak was probably in the Club's world cup on 2011 against Neymar's Santos , they blitz and destroy them 4-0 with 9 La Masia players on the pitch
- His Barca was so successful that it lead to Spanish teams leaving behind the 4-4-2 or the 4-5-1 in favor of the 4-3-3 and also leaving a mark on other leagues too
- Because Guardiola won everything on his very first season , he pretty much set the standard so fucking high that I dont think its possible to always achieved it
tl;dr
mancity is also becoming one on what he did in barca,, look at the premie league the standards went up because of his city dominance
Puyol played as RB, Yaya as CD and Busquets in his natural role. Sylvinho replaced Abidal.
To say Messi was one more player is just stupidity.
It is well documented that when Rijkaard increased a young Messi's minutes in the 05/06 season the team clicked and began performing better.
Pep even wrote an article in the local paper that he wanted to build the team around Messi after watching him play in the 2006 World Cup.
And Barcelona would never be where they are without Messi.
And if you really think the guy who won the 4 Ballon d'or in a row during Pep's reign was just another player you might need a health check-up.
@@x-jay8480 I think he meant more like Messi was to Barca as is KDB to Man City now
Best players in their teams, but when in a tough spot they aren't the one pressure is put on, others will step up as well
Even if you weren’t a fan, being able to watch them live back in 2010 was truly a gift. I still remember that 5-0 thrashing of Real Madrid back in November. Arguably one of the best ever team performances of all time.
The most impressive thing was their talent was grown and not bought. Success that was bought is one thing, but to develop it from nothing truely says something about the club and the team
And the myth lives on hahaha why do people keep spewing this BS.
@@mmmunick2996 ??? Not to say that they didn't rely on heavy purchases at times(which they did) a good amount of the team was infact homegrown
So Henry (24m), Toure (9m), Abidal (15m), Alves (35.5m), Mascherano (20), Villa (40m) and Ibrahimovic (69.5) were all home-grown?
Lol. I forgot this was the internet and i have to fully explain every word. Yes they bought some big players...this is unavoidable for any big team in any sport...but lets be real, their stars and real key players were homegrown..infact the "big players" mentioned all came and went but they were successful nonetheless because they retained their youth graduates
@@menandroplan1554 you said their talent was home grown not bought. When it's clearly a balance of both
Not a Barcelona fan, but I sat this one through all the way. You're pretty good at this, dude. Subbed.
Thanks man!!
Yep
Watch all his videos, he always makes them interesting!
Greatest team of all time, only the 1958/62 Brazil or 1970 Brazil come close. Messi in his prime, Barca in their prime, Pep in his prime, greatest football ever played, most successful team. Definitely the greatest team I have ever seen and probably the greatest ever.
Pepsi ain't old ,just he inherited a dream team ,an yet the thief Chelsea an Pepsi didn't had nothing to say at all mafia so don't speak about the Greatest team ever
Pep in prime? What? You mean success wise?
@@lankychild3346 it’s his prime, cause that’s when he was using full tiki-taka, and full unbeatable tactics. I kinda messed up, but either way everything else is true. And I should add that 1954 Hungary also comes close, same with Spain 2008-2012.
@@Majikal.22 Another deceived by the Madrid press
Without crying, blind fan of Madrid, the humiliation that Pep did to Madrid still hurts
I can't believe any national team could compete with Pep's Barca. National teams are always going to be at a disadvantage to the best club teams. @@renatolekaj4790
The fact that these players were not only legendary but also motivated and above all not egomaniacs, tells us why this rate of success was not replicated years later even though a lot of those same players were on their peak with the addition of other players also in their prime.
This is undoubtedly the greatest team to ever touch a pitch. There’s been great teams, the Madrid’s galácticos, the AC Milan with their 3 netherland stars, and United Treble team, but we will never see a team like this, ever again, it was one of a kind
IMO Man Utd in 2007-2009 was a lot stronger than the treble team in 1999, but they were still outclassed by Barca in the 2009 final.
@@vladimirtchuiev2218 United’s treble team and United 07/08 is not better than Chelsea that same period. The 2 top sides then were Chelsea and Barca
This team unfairly won the champions league, they did not deserve it at all. Not the greatest team at all
@Saif Baksh hansi flick's bayern would laugh at this comment
For me 2013 Bayern team who won the triple are up there. Jupps' team was a beast with no real weaknesses, strong defense/midfield/attack, and worlds best gk
The quality of Peps Barca is shown by who they beat. In 2008 Manchester United beat this team in the UCL Semis. United went on to win 3 leagues in a row 07, 08 and 09, win the UCL in 08 and met this team again in 09 UCL Final. Peps Barca were ready this time and were clearly the better team. Probably the best English team ever, who was dominating England in a time England was at the top of Europe, were over shadowed by this Barca, probably the best club side of all time. If not the greatest footballing team ever
Full fit squad united were barcas equals in 09 or a tad better (incl Hargreaves and fletcher). 2011 barca on the other hand were significantly better than man utd in the wembley final
@@Navaneeth475 I think the perfect explanation of Barcas quality was explained by Rene Meulensteen Manchester United first team coach. Rene spoke to Pep about the 2009 final. They were discussing how good both teams were and Pep said "Yes Rene, but I had Messi" and that summed it up for Rene 😂
@@Navaneeth475 2008-2011* Mourinho's Real were better in 2012
91 goals in a single year…it’s truly mind blowing! Especially when you consider he isn’t JUST a goalscorer *cough cough* Ronaldo
you're saying that as if ronaldo only knows how to score
@@Unavailable_Username945 well yeah that’s why he wrote what he wrote 😂
Ronaldo wasn't alway just a goal scorer either you would know if you knew football
@@MH-vp7lf But for the majority of his career and prime career he has just been a goalscorer. And obviously a goalscorer dependent on good players setting his goals up. I mean that is even what the statistics are saying if you don’t believe me.
Messi is a scorer lol
My fav team from my fav football content creater on this platform makes me happy. I was not their when it was in effect but still whenever i see the old matches it just shows a huge gap b-w them and their opponents unless you are real Madrid.
Much love!
@@FootballIconic well, didn't expected the reply
O//-//O. Thanks for reading my comment 🙂.
It's crazy to me that I grew up watching this Barcelona team. From my young age I got to witness one of the greatest Barcelona and Read Madrid sides ever. Now as an adult I am obsessed with tactics and often analyze players while I watch. Man I wish I could witness that era as an adult. The passion, the hatred and most importantly the amazing movements and tactics of the team.
7:00 Brescia were pretty blessed back then, they had a young Pirlo, R.Baggio and Pep in their team.
Finally I've been waiting for this video for ages because I always heard you say on videos that 2006-2010 barca was unstoppable
As always love the content, keep going big man. (video on barca under xavi PLS? 🗿)
More like 08/09-10/11
It do be spittin facs
2011 Prime Barca.
It is the greatest team of all time no doubt about that it was pure magic and it was heaven for my eyes to watch them play it always bring me a big smile thinking about it :)
Same here, brother
*equals with zinedine zidane's real madrid*
@@Error-ck4jg average vadrid fan
@@kidstar7627 average varca fan
@@Error-ck4jg Zidane's Madrid was defeated by 2017 Barca lol That Madrid team was good but not better than Guardiola's Barca
For me this is the greatest Team of all Time. The Football they played was so nice to watch
I had the pleasure and the privilege to see Barca play at the camp nou. It was in october 2009 vs real saragossa. I was in barcelona visting a friend who doing an internship at a hotel. He somehow manage to organize two tickets for us - I think we paid like 66euros each (A lot of money back then because we were broke students). But oh boi did it paid off... It was the best game I've ever seen in a stadium. Barcelona just played incredibile football. It was football beyond believe, my words cant properly discribe it. I was in my early 20's back then and I still get goose bumps thinking about it now.
The main reason this team succeeded was because they had it all. A good lead, talent, desire, passion, hard work, ambition, understanding and a willingness to push the boundaries of what’s been done before. Combine all these traits together and you have the best football side in the history of the sport.
Messi is the greatest player of all time
Pep is the greatest manager of all time. Barcelona and the la masia academy are a dream factory that produces beautiful football and caused me to fall in love with that beautiful Catalonian football culture. This is what they mean when football is called the beautiful game
The team that made me fall in live with football and the reason I'll forever be a barcelona fan 🙌
As a madridista myself, I would say that this Braca team was terrifying, I remember every "Classico" I will be praying for it not to be a big score for them.
One thing for sure is that Morniho actually didn't only change the mentality of the players but also us as supporters, I actually started to believe with him, he gave us that passion and made more like war than a game. beautiful times looking back at it.
One of the greatest managers of all time, with a great team.
It shows you don't need the best players, because you can make them great, imo.
Yeah, but they have to be the best so you can make them great.
@@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633 I think most players playing in the top league of certain nations (Spain included.) would be considered, the best.
Many of those players never get recognition and those in the lower leagues with more natural talent than some in the above, find it even harder.
If you find a manager with a top system who can spot such players when they're young, use and develop them within his system they'll likely become winners, eventually being considered a great.
Sometimes tho, you get freak players who can adapt to whatever system/team you put them in and they continue to break every record there is (COUGH, Ronaldo, COUGH COUGH...). Such players are VERY rare, which is why the team and manager should always override the individual, no matter how good that individual is. Ronaldo and Messi included. Imo, of course... 🙂I wonder if the Messi fan club will let that slide lol. I love Messi too btw, take it on the chin people. 😛
I really love these videos. I would really like to see a separate video on Henry and other strikers.
How this channel doesn’t have millions of subscribers is beyond me. Keep up the incredible work mate👌
The 08/09 team, and the whole season will be forever in my heart. The 6-2 win agains Real was truly it's highest point!
My guy is so CLOSE to that glorious number LES GET IT
Haha let's gooo
Man I couldn't stop smiling while watching this vid, what an era.
Awesome work man really like your channel
This team was the definition of the ball moves faster than the player
You don’t know how long i’ve waited for this video from you. Thanks a lot legend!
Great video, it popped up in recommendations and decided to watch it since it goes down memory lane. And I had a smile across my face the whole remembering those times
Genuinely the pinnacle to football. I remember watching their games and actually being bored to death because of how much they held the ball and kept on passing till the end of time. But now I can accept that their game was the epitome of domination
Bored to death? I can watch these games only on video as I was not aware of them at the time. Most exciting beautiful football I've ever seen. Messi was beyond belief.
@@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633 You're watching compilations. Seeing intricate passing plays at their most exciting is not the same as sitting there for 90 minutes filled with lots of slow passing, often sideways and even backwards.
Barcelona was so exciting back then, but trust me, watching their dominance got boring quickly.
@@perman07 I don't think their system got boring until opposing teams started parking the bus in front of the goal or when squads with lesser players attempted to play like they did. Spain's national team can be boring since thay don't have that kind of players but insist with the same style nevertheless: loads of passing the ball sideways and backwards but attempting very little, creatively poor. BTW I always hated the name “tiki-taka”. reminds me of a clock, a monotonous tic-toc, tic-toc... I like Cruyff's name “total football” much better
@@alexmarques4432 Well, parking the bus is not a new idea. This type of football has been done since forever. Maybe the rate of parking the bus against certain comps increase once you see what works, but parking the bus is and has been a normal default option against significantly stronger teams since forever. Even when you don't plan for it, you wind up back there when you face a dominant opponent since they keep having the ball close to the goal.
Barcelona faced this strategy regularly every single year they played tiki-taka.
Fair assessment. Their game was both mesmerizing and boring at the same time lol. Strange.
I'm very glad that I lived all of this. So many good memories of this time! Thanks a lot for a great video and ... 100k (soon) is very well deserved! Cheers mate!
Your Persona, editing and content are 10/10. definitely subscribing
2012 it the year where I watch football the most. I follow almost everygame of top 4 leagues. And I always drag my college friends to watch el classico and Liverpool's game.
For the el classicos 2012, it's truly the highlight of the year. The best football matches we ever watch. Even my non enthusiastic friends will shout and celebrate with us each time Messi did something out of this world. The guy is an Alien.
Greatest team ever won the League title 3 times in a row 2009,2010,2011 first team to win six trophies (2009) won 5 trophies in 2011 and played the best football i’ve seen that season like the 5-0 against Mourinho’s Madrid for example. The way Utd got outclassed in the 2011 UCL Final was insane they looked like a mid table side even tho they were premier league champions at the time. Mourinho is a genius with his brilliance tactic in the 2010 semi’s stopping that Barca side from 3 peating the competition he also broke their league dominance in 2012 he deserves way more credit he’s the only coach that could’ve done that imo
Mourinho egged his players on to take down the best players, esp. Messi. They committed horror fouls bc they could not compete with their skill. It was brutality v beauty. Still, Barca won.
Haters will say you‘re wrong. But it’s fucking facts. Winning CL 3 times in a row will likely never happen again.
@@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633 The fuck you're talking about? You have whole compilations od barca players just falling down after even a slightest touch and swarming referees every time they were displeased with their decisions.
@@SwoleakhulTheBlind ?????
Man, these years were magical for me, always watching every el classico with my dad, biggest Barca fan, it was awesome. I think I literally cried when I heard that Pep Guardiola was leaving, it was like a family losing a father in my eyes.
I think we need a video about the contender with the Luis Enrique team, that team was so much fun to see.
A young, passionate, absolutely talented, and arguably one of the best CZcamsr and chills distributor at his prime.
What a pleasure to watch your content!
As a barca fan I adore this video so much. Thanks for bringing up good memories
Hey bro great work as usual! Would love to see a video on pep's evolution in the PL. I feel like people forget how frustrated he was early on but like the great manager he is, he figured it out.
I've watched this video like 3 times already. Can't get enough of it.
Brilliant content man.👍👍👍
Wow. . . the way you present all this amazing info is brilliant to say the least. Enjoyed every second.
This video made me very nostalgic. Pep build a monster. One of the best period of football we'll ever see.
What a time to be alive to witness the art and greatness of this team.
Bro im a massive football fan, i know most of the info in your videos but its your presentation and narration that keeps me coming back. Keep it up.
Madrid fan here. That team was an absolute nightmare, every classico I just thought: "just don't get steamrolled". I remember how happy I was in 2010 that Barca didn't lift the CL trophy at the Bernabeu. Real had great teams over the years, but the flashes of brilliance were too short in comparison.
What a team that was! I'm a life long Man Utd supporter and I can honestly say that even SAF had no answer to Pep's Barca. Though, I think things might have been different if they'd been playing each other in the league.
It was a match made in football heaven. Everything just seems to work flawlessly during that time. They were just light years ahead of everyone else and its the whole team that did that.
I grew up watching them (im 25 now so you know why I can never forget about them). They were the reason i became a fan of football. At the time I thought it was normal. Just a bunch of world class players under a world class coach. Man I was wrong.
Its obvious to me now, that Barça was the greatest team ever that played the game. Leo in his young blood days, Xavi and Don Andreas dictating the game their way and Puyi, a captain the world will never see again at the back.
Goosebumps every single time I think or talk about them and knowing how many people, especially non Barça fans and even rivals acknowledging the fact that they were the very best football they has ever seen. Makes me proud and very happy.
As a Barça fan that grew up in Pep's era. We only want absolute domination. Not our fault. We were just used to that.
Visca Barça and still, come back Leo. We miss you and our arms are always open wide and warm for you.
He's coming
this video put tear in my eye, beautiful as always man. you know what i love the most? the start of every video. the beginning music just tells me im going to watch some superb deep dive.
Fantastic video. Solid research. Well put. What many forget is that very detail you mentioned - 7 players from barcelona that won Spain the WC. Barca during that time were unreal.
That decade was one of the best in football history
Would have been a possible 3 CL's in a row if it were not for that semi-final against Mourinho's Inter. He claimed Barca were "fixated" on getting to the final, as it was being held in the Santiago Bernabéu that year. It seems a pragmatic, defend for your lives counter attack way of playing football was one of the few methods of getting a result against Barca in that era. Chelsea did the same in 2012 with those Ramires and Torres goals.
For me, there are definitely "teams of an era" and the Barcelona one is definitely the team of the early 21st Century. AC Milans team of the late 80s/early 90s and the Arsenal team of the late 90s/early 00s are the only teams in my lifetime that were exciting and enchanting to watch. They had an aura different to any other teams I've seen.
Pep Barcelona team was different breed peak football one of best teams I ever watched.The talent was mix of academy players that were homegrown
Cruyff basically created a monster without knowing that it would come haunt his own country
Damn you Cruyff you brilliant legend😭🇳🇱🧡
I've been waiting for this for a long time thx ,mate!
Forca el barca 💙♥️
Man Utd, Barcelona, Real Madrid and AC Milan are the only contenders for the best football team ever.
With the way Man United is looking now it's pretty easy to forget, I still think that with the momentum they were at, Man United could've at least rivaled Real Madrid and Barcelona in the early 2010s if the glazers didn't buy Man United
Bayern instead of man u
Since man u won only two ucls.
League wise maybe man u is better but in European level there are not even better than Juventus
@@ronaldolawyer3865 Selling Ronaldo was when United has killed their chances of being the very best in the whole world. Don't get me wrong, I like how we dominated the league until SAF's last dance, but it seems most United fans are content with just that and barely talks about Ronaldo moving as a very huge mistake for Europe domination
@@Raver-1601 yeah but I still think if we at least got something from Ronaldo's signing we would've held a candle to both these sides, because if you look back at Man United's transfers, no world class signings to replace Tevez and Ronaldo, De Gea was a good one, but can't say much other than him, now I wonder where that Ronaldo transfer money went
@@ronaldolawyer3865 idk about that really. Ronaldo at Real Madrid was just a fucking beast and I always wondered what he would've achieved with us had he stayed with us
Thank you for this video, sir. Never cried again for a team, be it for joy or sorrow. 👏👏👏
This is a breakdown of the soccer I watched while growing up. So many memories as I grew up and learned to play the game.
Thank you so much, Tinashe!
*I was a Madrid fan.
One of those teams that it almost felt unfair to play against, or even support.
When you were listing Cruyff's key players, Ivm surprised you didn't mention Stoichkov, he was the heart and soul of Barcelona back then.
Kids making videos probably wasn't alive back then lol recent biases when kids making videos their football knowledge is lacking
Pep is almost the perfect coach. He brought Barcelona, Bayern, Manchester City to an entirely new level. The only problem was, that he makes himself enemies and is often asking the players to do more than their bodies are able to. During his time at Bayern, his players often ended up being injured by the end of the season, which is also why Bayern didnt win the Champions League even they were probably the best team in europe back then.
Man yet again Football Iconic has delivered an extremely well presented video. Thank you so much for making videos about the world's sport for everyone to ejoy (btw I've already watched this video three times)
I've stopped actively following football in the last 4-5 years. However, any one of your videos about the 2000-2015 era (and in some cases older eras too) are always putting a smile on my face and keeping me company during some meal or chill moment. Superb analysis, great content! Thanks!
That music in the beginning sounded so melancholic and sad...
Since you said this video is about Guardiola I think the influence Bielsa had on him should have been discussed.
11:52 btw...I would also put Philipp Lahm in contention for that "title". Lahm was not only a right back, he was also a left back and a 6 and he was world class on all of those positions.
Don't be sad that it's. Be happy that it happened :')
your videos are really good, you do a good job on it, keep up the good work!
By far the most underrated Football channel on youtube.
I’m a Real Madrid fan but i agree this was the GOAT team even 100 points was not enough to win the league
This team was GOD LIKE
As a madrista this team bothered me mentally when we met in the UCL or league …Mourinho did his best as well in the end just look at his inter with the same eto pep pushed out .Another vid for you growing catalogue of intriguing video essays
I’ve been binge watching your videos and your easily the best football content creator in my my opinion thank you for keeping me entertained while studying 😭
A great video as always. As soon as I saw the title I had to watch this. I remember the hype and the fact that they were recognized as great at the time. By the Champions League 2011, we were told to simply enjoy them - exactly right! I had the pleasure of watching Barca in 2012 during Messi's crazy year. They won 5-1, Messi scored 4.
Can you please make video about Lord Bendtner. I know he is a meme and was incosistent in some years of his career.
But in you look on the Bright Side there are 30 goals for Denmark, danish player of the year, very mich trophies and a lot of unforgetable stories.
I think he deserves a video at least for the 1st April.
But know I watch this piece of art. Tanks for the great content
This all spanned from Johan Cruyff. The greatest footballing mind ever.
Only 2nd vid I watch from you and I am really impressed. This is super pro work. 👍
The sheer dominance of this team is unmatchable. The core, the philosophy, the players executing.... It isn't even a wonder that the 4 years of Guardiola's Barcelona overlap with Spanish Dominance in world football, who also played with a similar tiki-taka philosophy.
These team was out of the world
Uefalona ya they were
@@colin2729 uefalona destroyed ur team for sure
Love the content bro keep it up
Favourite type of football videos - Great content
What great time to be a Barca fan in those years 🥲 Some of us got spoiled and thought it was going to last forever. I hope we can compete again soon 😀
Greatest team greatest manager greatest player simply unreal.
I love your commentary man and the work you put in on your videos... I'd really love to see what you'd put out of your magic hat when you do a Pisto Mosimane compilation.
Oh my word I’ve never been more excited for a video.
Let’s also not forget we played against the best inter team of all time in 2010.. and the wrongly given goal and is hitting post and slushing chances made us unable to win 3 in a row.. we had harder UCL campaigns.. we faced harder teams..
Inter also had some poor decisions against them too.
The team that made me love football
From the 2008 Euro to 2012 Euro Barcelona and the golden Spanish generation which was built around Barca were probably the greatest set of players ever assembled in football and I say that as a Real Madrid fan,it was both frustrating and amazing to have witnessed that time period.
Great vid bro
Even as a Madrid fan i have to agree that Pep's Barcelona was something else!!!
You skipped over Rüştü transfer in 2003 but he snubbed invincible Arsenal squad to join Barcelona. He was the third best goalkeeper in 2002 World Cup and selected to Fifa 100 list. In 2002 Oliver Kahn and Iker Casillas was ahead of him in performance. He was not consistent at that level as we see it in his career later on, but as a new transfer it was a coup imo.
I like the atmosphere around this kind of videos, as i'm living the journey in a dream
I liked the idea of making videos much more because of those here
I freaking love this channel
man you make me feel emotional with this team. one the glory of Barcelona will
0:02 This man evidently watches too much FNG
Inspiration comes in many forms, lol