7 Football Clubs Who Have Unusual Affiliations With Countries
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- čas přidán 7. 06. 2024
- From North Korea and Middlesbrough to Hearts and Lithuania, HITC Sevens takes a look at a handful of football clubs with unusual affiliations with specific countries.
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Hi Alfie, please make a documentary about the HUGE decline of Bulgarian football, from players like Asparuhov, Stoichkov and Berbatov and 4th place in the world cup to conceding 5 goals to Georgia at home and drawing with Gibraltar and the whole corruption in our football and the fall of Borislav Miihalov as football president and Berbatov trying to overthrow him. Yes, everything is together, unfortunately.
That sounds like a great story I would love to see that as well!
I'm not sure if he would since he already made a documentary on the corruption in the bulgarian league
That would be very interesting viewing
Isnt Bulgaria that super racist country? Like very very racist.
A good one for this would be Burnley and Iceland. It's not necessarily an association, but since Gudmundsson has played at Burnley, there's been loads of Icelandic fans coming to match days, and some telling us that Burnley are now the most supported team there, even that the Prime Minister is a Burnley fan
understandable in my view. as someone who comes from a country whose football isn’t very strong, Vietnam. anytime a vietnamese player move abroad, particularly Europe, the public has the tendency to flock to support the club that player moved to.
@@duykhanghehe Do lots of people follow Ligue 2's Pau now Nguyen Quang Hai moved there? He deserved a move to Europe so much!
@@TristanCCFC yes definitely! a major broadcaster even recently bought broadcasting right for all of Pau FC game. honestly i don’t think he’s as good as he was 1 or 2 years ago but still he’s still quality and is one of our best players nonetheless. give that he’s playing in ligue 2, hopefully he’ll get lots of game time
nobody talkigna bout north korea middlebourugughghg
The relationship between Hearts and Lithuania has become a friendly relationship since the death of our former captain Zaliukas, in fact a lot of Hearts fans have brought Lithuanian flags to Tynecastle and we have a tifo of Zaliukas holding the Scottish Cup in one hand and a Lithuanian flag in the other. 🇱🇹
I heard Big Zal hated the hibs, can you confirm?
@@CraigHamil absolutely ✋-☝️
Didn't expect a mention to Oriental Dragon. The club I support played them last year in the Portuguese 3rd tier, winning at home and drawing away. Oriental Dragon doesn't have any supporters, so when my club (which has many supporters) visited them, they set an absurd ticket price. So I'm not sorry for their relegation.
Love the honesty about the actual story of Ireland Alfie, good for people to know what actually happened!
Well said Connor. Didn't think Alfie would show the murial!!
Alfie, brilliant! One of the very few English voices who are informed enough about Ireland to speak so well. Best video this year (which is a very, very tough competition given your excellent work).
Fun fact #15:The first time the champions of two European leagues met was in what was nicknamed the 1895 World Championship, when English champions Sunderland beat Scottish champions Hearts 5-3.The first pan-European tournament was the Challenge Cup, a competition between clubs in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.Three years later, in 1900, the champions of Belgium, Netherlands and Switzerland, which were the only existing leagues in continental Europe at the time, participated in the Coupe Van der Straeten Ponthoz, thus being dubbed as the "club championship of the continent" by the local newspapers.
Side note: all of Sunderland's starting XI were all Scottish.
@@AS90AS90____ was it for a particular reason ?
@@Hola-rx1jy We were a rich club, one of the first to utilise scouting, with plenty of jobs to offer to Scottish shipbuilders.
Chile and Blackburn is a pretty big one right now, seemed to see around 10 chileans at every home game for the back half of the season due to Big Ben Brereton Diaz turning into a confident and competent footballer seemingly overnight after his chile call up
I’m from Middlesbrough and I’ve got to say how strange this is, especially since North Korea have a bad reputation of war. But then again, it is still a good partnership but as long as it’s going well, it’s fine.
Do you mean a "bad reputation 4 war" being bombed heavily the west?
Same in mom Middlesbrough
Remember that western midia lies about North Korea.
North Korea have a bad reputation of war?
@@Karmaleon666 That being my point,in reply to the comment made about Korea that the west promotes the North, while we imprison journalists, and whistleblowers.
The Hearts/Romanov thing here is not quite right. It was the previous owner who wanted to sell Tynecastle and move to Murrayfield. The deal for this had already been done, and it looked like it could be the end of the club. Romanov came in and cancelled that plan and allowed the club to stay at Tynecastle. This is why he had the support onside. While what came next was indeed mad, there's a reasonable case to be made that Hearts are much better off now than we would have been had we moved to Murrayfield, as Chris Robinson would have had us do.
Yes, great video by this great hull fan, love his vids, But yes I remember George foulkes was delighted romanov stopped hearts moving. I think though it is right hearts use Murray field when appropriate. Plus I think if not for romanov they would have had less money than the dons, so may have not won those 2 cups, I think he was ok, actually the debt was from before him. And all Scottish clubs had huge debts when he arrived except for Celtic. And Inverness.
The Boro joke was easy, but I very much still laughed. Also love the picture of Bob Mortimer and Middlesbrough
Day 7:
A detailed look at the state of Crotone would be nice, going from Serie A in 20/21 with a 20 goal a season striker (Simy) to Serie C by 22/23. Two relegations in a row, something surely has to be wrong at that club.
The owner took the serie a tv money and basically ran away. Answered your question
@irvanCrocs you clearly care a lot since you keep on replying to my comments
In the end it all comes down to one thing: Italy. That's how things are there.
@@romanscerbak5167 what and in czech Republic clubs are squeaky clean🤣🤣
HITC Sevens X Zealand is the crossover I need and desire
Pak Do Ik is a legend in Middlesbrough, isn't he? It's a name I've always remembered anyway x
Can you make a video on the 7 nations most likely to become 1st time World Cup winners by the end of the 21st century
Good idea, belgium netherlands portugal immediately come to mind
YES wanna see this one
I think Portugal or Belgium are the most likely, maybe a new North/South American country too
@@bababababababa6124 Canada
@@lordbendtner6404 yes I was thinking of Canada and the US, maybe even Mexico or Colombia, although the last two might be a stretch
Croatia too I forgot about them
Belgium, Portugal, Netherlands, Colombia, Switzerland, Croatia, USA
As a Belgian it is great to see a Belgian team included. Another fun fact is that you can buy STVV shirts at local football stores in Japan, the last time I was in Osaka the girl working in the store was wearing one 😁.
I had no idea about Drogheda, that is crazy! Also not bad pronounciation of Drogheda either.
Heard plenty of people call it Drog-hee-dah
When I did a shamrock rovers career mode back in fifa 12 I always pronounced it as "Drog-Header". Forgive me I was only young haha
@@danielbeaumont719 forgiven mate, a lot of non-Irish cant say place names! Like Sligo haha
Can you do a video about how Middlesbrough almost went into liquidation before lifting the Carling cup going to the European final and having the best Brazilian to ever Grace the prem and how they are doing now !
Man well done. You did a fantastic job with not just this video but all the work that went into editing and releasing in such a short space of time. Your a fantastic CZcamsr
I'd love to see a part two x
Absolute classic Alfie, only you can such videos
Finally, you could do a whole video on Romanov. He's a very dodgy man indeed x
The Elche section gave me a pretty decent video idea for you Alfie
“Footballers who play and own football clubs”
I’ll send you my invoice in the post
Great video as always :D
Interesting... You're always on point!
The Drogheda and Turkey connection is well established at this point.
Thanks for mentioning The Drogs good sir. Keep up the stellar work.
Wow!!!This is indeed a fascinating topic to watch and Middlesbrough and North Korea have a strange connection but common where the national team played at their old Ayesome Stadium,good friends!!!:-D
A bit hard on the 'gh' in Drogheda but love it! Good vid, as ever!
Middlesbrough and North Korea makes sense when you think about. One is a bleak, hopeless place full of grinding poverty and seemingly stuck in the 1970s and the other is a country in Asia :D.
This should be top comment mate
Thank you for the honesty and humanity in discussing the famine and the British response. I hold no living person accountable for it, but there are still a lot of people acting like it never happened.
Shakhtar have had such a humongous amount of Brazilians that imo, in case Ukraine lose the war, the club probably needs to be part of Brazil’s new breakaway league
That would be very costly for other Brazilian clubs to travel all the way to Eurasia on a weekly basis
@@diegogalvan1810 each club would only have to travel to eurasia once a season, not on a weekly basis lmao, shakhtar would be the ones making a huge costly trip every other week
Tbh
Shaktar have so many Brazilian footballers that the club should probably be in the Brazilian league
@@David-qq9bk I meant that every week a Brazilian club would have to travel but you’re right too, that and there’s the question if they then become a part of conmebol and compete in the libertadores or do they stay in uefa with UCL and UEL
Fellow hull city fan here, exited for next season for use with our crazy transfer window, loveing the content lately mate
Cheers!
Great Video!!
Hey Alfie, love the content. I'm sure others have mentioned it, but Araujo is pronounced like Uhr-OW-ho
no doubt this is one video i found really interesting
Drogheda is pronounced Draw-head-ah but you give it a good try! Great content as always, keep up the great work!
Exeter City and Brazil or Wigan and the 3 Spanish amigos in the 90s. Keep up the good work!
Italy banned foreign players from playing in its league in response to that humiliating defeat against North Korea in the 1966 WC before relaxing that rule during the early 80s.
What is it with Italy and both sides of the Korean border??🤣🤣
@@matthewnorthcott3232 No with all foreigns countries
I appreciate the zealand shout. Nice to see fm creators be noticed
Definitely looking for a part 2! I’m Peruvian and FC Emmen are my favorite team in Netherlands bc of that fact. I’m glad someone else noticed the connection. Also, Miguel Araujo’s name is pronounced Ah-Rau-ho lol not sure what you were saying 😅
probably saw a Portuguese/Brazilian player with the same last name and assumed it's pronounced like in Portuguese
2:09 this joke legitimately made me laugh out loud, instantly earned a like for the video
Don't know if this has been done, but I'd love a video on the MK Dons - AFC Wimbledon history. It's fascinating for people who don't know about it, and there actually isn't a lot on it out there. I feel like Alfie could give a balanced view on it.
Day 31 - The Fall and Rise of FK Velež Mostar
From a Club that has beaten Borussia Dortmund, Twente, Derby County and many others to a club that was forced from their own stadium, reduced to nothing during the Bosnian War, becoming a mediocre top-level team in the 00s to nearly being forced into folding in 2016 to its amazing comeback to European competitions in 2021 seeing the early exit of Greek giants AEK Athens in a sensational win in Athens!
Good to see drogheda united feature and Irish football feature in general
Australia and Leeds United are a small, more unnoticed one. Leeds United have had most of Australia’s greatest players (Viduka, Kewell etc.) That’s why when Leeds came down under to play a friendly, all of the football fans in Aus went mental.
There's a similar bond with Norway, although I think that's just because the fan base over there became massive, rather than the quality of players signed. Haaland and Bakke did well though.
Fun fact, the kid on the left at 0:47 is a weird Turkish Hull superfan afaik who piles in on twitter against anyone who dares to predict Hull won't storm the championship next season
Hope he didn't watch us last night then 😂 I gave up and watched the lasses 👍
@@stepheng8779 everyone seems to be shitting the bed. Everton lost 4-0 to Minnesota Utd. My team Sunderland lost 2-0 to Bradford
I thought you said it was a fun fact.
If you ever look at doing one of these again, Swindon Town have recently struck up a deal with Karachi FC where they’re looking to develop Pakistan’s footballing talent. It’ll be interesting to see where it ends up going
I remember a few years back Sunderland linked with Ghana and possibly Tanzania...
Was back in about 2012 or thereabouts
Celtic and Australia of late. Ange Postecoglou as manager with Harry Kewell as an assistant and also signing Aaron Mooy formerly of Brighton. Also had Tom Rogic on the books for the last few seasons.
Fleetwood Town and Uzbekistan is another interesting one that should be looked into closer. You can even see a Uzbekistan flag at Fleetwoods stadium
More of a Celtic FC & Japan now. Ante Postecoglu just loves to sign Japanese players :)))))))))))
Day 4: Best XI with only trophy-less players. (Similar idea to "7 best players without trophies" but that was outdated and a XI would definitely be more intriguing.)
Can we get a part 2 to this?
Exeter city and Brazil have a good story behind it and would make a great vid
Please try to make video about FK Karabakh of Azerbaijan. A club who haven't played at home for 30 years. Managed to qualify to Group Stages for 8 years running including the Champions League groups, Europa League groups and finally Conference League groups (qualifying from the group stages). You will be surprised. Thank you in advance.
My club Oxford United has had an interest history, the first club to win a major cup only to end up in the non league, mainly down to Robert Maxwell, which could make a video all on its own. However, for this video I would put forward Oxfords 2004 season when Ramón Díaz became our manager and end up with half a dozen Argentina players. The story is like something about of Eastenders, with officials locked out of the stadium, accusations of no one being paid and Mateo Corbo play a dozen matches and ended up with the same amount of cards.
really disappointed you didn’t talk about the relationship between Palestine and the Chilean club Club Depertivo Palestino arguably the most intresting relationship in this list
Well they don't have much of a relationship,the club was built on Christian Palestine immagrants , which Christians were starting to get forced out the country. Pretty much both Israel and Palestine don't want Christians so there zero relationship
My MLS team the Columbus Crew has somewhat of a connection to Ghana mainly because Columbus has a sister city in Ghana and we’ve had a few Gahanna players especially our club captain Jonathan Mensah
In Romania, Sepsi St. Gheorghe it is owned by the Hungarian gov., the town beeing an important center for the hungarian community from Romania. The prime minister of Hungary, Orban, even attended, on thursday, the match in the 2nd round of qualification in the UEFA Conference League.
Part 2 please
One of my favorite ones is the relationship between El Salvador and Cadiz. Magico gonzalez really was so amazing that he made a country fall in love with a team for giving him a chance
Yippee, another mention of North Korea and Turkey!
Speaking of Turkey, when will you release your documentaries on Turkey's Big Three (Fenerbahçe, Galatasaray, Beşiktaş)? I remember you teased them back in your Süper Lig video.
Danubio FC, who are 4 time Uruguay champions and have kick-started the careers of players such as Edinson Cavani and Diego Forlan, is affiliated to Bulgaria. They are named after the Danube river, which runs through most of our North border, and they even have a kit with the colours of the Bulgarian flag, which they wear on special occasions. The reason for all that is because in 1932 the club was founded by two Bulgarian immigrants, brothers who moved to Uruguay with their family.
PS. Their stadium is named after Maria Mincheva, the mother of the two men that founded the club.
It may be a recent joining of team and country but Leeds and America is definitely happening right now
Elche also has an unusual rival in La Liga/Segunda Division given that Elche and Eibar are hundreds of miles/kilometers apart with Eibar being a small city of 32K in the middle of Basque Country that is the hometown of Mikel Oyarzabal. Elche in comparison is the 20th largest city in the whole of Spain.
Edit: Eibar is the smallest municipality in Spain officially given the title of city. In the US, it'd be like having a superstar come from Midland, Michigan or Brownsburg, Indiana given Eibar's geographical position in Spain and small population.
Also, first time I remember seeing yuan since I left China (after a few years living there) exactly a year ago x
Fulham has a pretty big affiliation with the USA. So many Americans have played for fulham, such as Clint Dempsey, Brian Mcbride, Carlos Bocanegra, Kasey Keller, Eddie Lewis, Tim Ream, Antonee Robinson Etc. The owners also own the NFL team, Jacksonville Jaguars and an American wrestling championship called All Elite Wrestling
I was eager to know about what Christian Bragarnik does after watching him with Martinez- Is he an agent or club owner ? how he managed both.
glad to know ans
My first thought on hearing the Oriental Drangons
"Ah, Zealand"
Then Alfie busts out the Zealand name and he immediately went up in my estimation
Day 58: Considering that the last player who played in the miracle of Bern died about 8 months ago, I would really like to see a video about the whole story between Germany and Hungary, especially because it meant so much to at least the German population
Please make a video with Zealand.
Nice to see him get referenced
Pre-Watch: I hope South Africa and wherever Percy Tau is, is on the list 😂
Mid watch: Wow I love the story of Drogheda and Trabszonspor
😂😂😂😂
A much more recent and smaller scale one is Toronto FC and Italians. It looks like a trend that won't die down anytime soon.
Pompey had a link to the former Yugoslavia when owned by Croatian American Milan Mandaric from 1998 onwards - Prosineki, Stefanovic, Zivkovic, Krancjar and Begovic amongst others all came from the former Yugoslavia.
Mandaric hiring former Yugoslav international footballer Velimir Zajec as director of football damaged the relationship with manager Harry Redknapp causing him to resign.
Midtjylland has an academy in Nigeria and brought loads of players from there also
Ghana as well
Please do a video on the 7 best women's players in the world right now. Or just something with women's football (I want to say soccer so bad, I'm American)
I don't know if there's enough, but 7 players who played for clubs they owned would be interesting. Drogba for Phoenix Rising is the only one i know of
The way Alfie says drogheda is killing me its soooo funny
My family is from Dundalk and Drogheda.
Alfie, can you please make a video on the rise and fall of Bursaspor. I have asked for it twice now. People that do not know they won the league over a decade ago and now have been relegated to the 3rd division. They also have one of the most unique stadiums in Europe.
You are aware of how many people want him to do videos just because you asked twice doesn't mean that you are entitled for him to listen to you
@@Vintagehitman2018 such is life, he probably won’t hear me but it’s worth a go
It personally aggravates me in pain to see such great clubs suffer terrible dooms. In case of Bursaspor, you might find really intruguing stories behind such well-supported clubs in Turkey, managed horribly by idiotic boards in the past, such as Sakarya,Kocaeli,Eskişehir,Ankaragücü,Göztepe,Altay and etc.
@@ibarboo I agree, just think its worth a video to be made on them, considering they are one of 6 clubs to win the league
Quick correction: friendly game Hull vs Feberbahce was not in Istanbul, it was in another city, part of the summer tour for Fenerbahce fans outside istanbul
I'm Irish had zero idea about that...thanks for my new pub facts
Would love to see a video of Rangers going from 3rd division of Scottish football in 2012 too europa league final last season.
A weird one because it's not about the club signing players from that country is Bohemians in Czechia and Australia
As a Smoggie, I'm howling at that initial joke
5:06 jordan reference, W
Glad to see HITC Sevens is still doing as good unlike HITC Sports which has been going downhill since the Irish Guy left and the channel's name changed to HITC Football.
The *Boro-N.Korea* Joke Was Brilliant😉👍
😂😭😭😂😭😂😭😂😭
Please put the video about the rise and fall of Philippine football including the Philippines men's historic qualification to the 2019 AFC Asian Cup and the Philippines women's qualification to the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup.
Many thanks.
Allie. We need a what on earth is going on at Barcelona.
KSK Beveren of Belgium used to have many Ivorians (including Yaya Toure) in the 2000s. Iirc it might be because they had an affiliation with ASEC Mimosas in Cote d'Ivoire.
Pogon Sczeczcin had more Brazilians than Polish players in their team in the mid-2000s since their owner think that having a lot of Brazilians could improve the team. Didn't work out in the end.
7:27 Great name that is...
Ezequial Ponce
The Middlesbrough - North Korea connection is at first, weird. But after explanation it seems like a pretty normal reason to have a connection.
I never thought i'll hear Cristian Bragarnik name here
Toronto FC and their signing spree of Italian internationals would have been a good addition
Ayersome park didn’t host all six group four matches they hosted three all North Korea games but roker park hosted the other three matches!
Hi Alfie, heres another one: The Danish Vejle Boldklub has a very strange connection to China, in 2017-2018 they signed multiple unkown (and very bad) chinese players, whose first, and last club was Vejle.
Zealand would be the guy who brought up Oriental Dragon. It's because of FM Manager that I know about this channel so it's only right that an FM streamer makes it into a video.
You mentioned @Zealand !!!!!! LETS GO!!!!!!! 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
Middlesbrough when north korea successfully conquer the world:im a businessman doing business
Elche have a link to Argentina? thats weird, my argentine player on FIFA 22 Career Mode ended up on loan at Elche