The Smallest National Team in the World

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  • čas přidán 6. 05. 2023
  • You know I’m obsessed with national teams, but what national team is actually the smallest national team in the world? In FIFA, not quite, that would be too easy. We need the smallest national team representing a nation on the planet and boy have we found it. How about a country that only has a permanent population of two people?
    That is a correct statement. I won’t tell you the name of the country because come on you have to watch the video for that, but their national team is perhaps the weirdest story you’ve ever hear and they play some truly bizarre teams as well. But, they have played, a lot actually, and could be playing again soon!
    Much Love,
    The Zealand
    Sources
    ► the Athletic
    theathletic.com/4368448/2023/...
    ► the Sun www.thesun.co.uk/travel/21624...
    ► BBC
    www.bbc.com/travel/article/20...
    www.bbc.com/future/article/20...
    ► Lad Bible
    www.ladbible.com/community/br...
    ► Wikipedia
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princip...
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealand...
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confede...
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralf_Li...
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N.F.-Board
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddy_R...
    ► Sealand Media
    sealandgov.org/
    / sealandgov
    🎮 Zealand Playing:
    ► Twitch: / zeaiand
    ► CZcams: / @zealandlive
    🎙️ Podcasts:
    ► 20 Good Minutes: spoti.fi/3CYz4iY
    ► The Zealand Podcast: spoti.fi/3KMMnl6
    ► Armchair History: spoti.fi/3tJJw6O
    📸 Zealand Stuff:
    ► FM Skin: zealand.gg/fmskin
    ► Instagram: / theoldzealand
    ► Twitter: / theoldzealand
    ► Discord: / discord
    ► Reddit: / theoldzealand
    🌟 Gadjet (Editor) & Tomleggosaurus (Animator):
    ► Gadjet’s Instagram: / miloszoric7
    ► Tom's CZcams: / @tomleggosaurus1
    🙌 Thanks for watching & scrolling!
    #FIFA #Football #Soccer #Hashtags
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Komentáře • 131

  • @lucaslonchampt613
    @lucaslonchampt613 Před rokem +208

    Zealand talking about Sealand. Perfect

  • @anthonyodonnell116
    @anthonyodonnell116 Před rokem +131

    As a Lord of Sealand, I am happy to see my nation get the recognition it deserves 😂

    • @Craigc6060
      @Craigc6060 Před rokem

      I can see your nation from the end of my road 😍

    • @hammersbtw1076
      @hammersbtw1076 Před rokem +1

      Is there a way I can win my first senior cap for Sealand?

  • @supydoodle
    @supydoodle Před rokem +322

    you should make your own country ZEALAND and make a national team

    • @kieronparr3403
      @kieronparr3403 Před rokem +27

      Well there's a largest area of the Netherlands is called zealand

    • @NoLuckJKMY807
      @NoLuckJKMY807 Před rokem +45

      Yep, and the squad should only consist of loan players.

    • @WERTYUIO821
      @WERTYUIO821 Před rokem +31

      Yeah, a new country named Zealand... . Let's name it New Zealand. Or perhaps New New Zealand so we don't have any problems with the land of kiwi birds and kiwi fruits.

    • @waynekeebler6755
      @waynekeebler6755 Před rokem +6

      The Zealand Zephyrs and coached by Zidane!

    • @siddkumar8032
      @siddkumar8032 Před rokem +4

      Yes and we will call the team NEW ZEALAND.... wait a minute

  • @tadhgmacdonncha7368
    @tadhgmacdonncha7368 Před rokem +80

    Can someone please make a way that we can play Sealand in the bottom tier of England but also have it a national team where you can recruit players to your country as you rise up the divisions.

  • @waynekeebler6755
    @waynekeebler6755 Před rokem +59

    So this is Zealand talking about Sealand?

  • @user-en8zc7xk2i
    @user-en8zc7xk2i Před rokem +5

    I suggest you look into a Brazilian team named Santa Cruz FC. Previously had its glory days but now is in Fourth (and last) Division, not playing any national division unless it is promoted, and risking bankruptcy. Oh, and I forgot to mention this team still fills up its stadium with 50k people even in Fourth Division. I figure its an interesting read and good story to tell.

  • @mattjames6349
    @mattjames6349 Před rokem +7

    The thing about it is pirate radio stations is not without precedent in international waters in england. we've been doing it a long time.
    on a simpler note - zealand supporting sealnd? that can't be a coincidence lol

  • @j6154
    @j6154 Před rokem +10

    An interesting story linked to Sealand. The only team Sealand have beaten twice is alderney fc, alderny being a small island in the English Channel who compete in a competition called the murrati every year. And they've been on a losing streak in said competition for over 100 years! Their last win was in the year 1920, since then they've lost every year.

    • @j6154
      @j6154 Před rokem +1

      Shout out to 2017 though when they beat the Falklands 3-0!!

  • @paulmcgreal6392
    @paulmcgreal6392 Před rokem +12

    I went to see them play Chagos Islands in 2014, at Godalming Town. They won 4-2. Ralf Little played for them. They had a bloke dressed as a seal as mascot. Surreal afternoon...

    • @dronesclubhighjinks
      @dronesclubhighjinks Před rokem +2

      I don't know if you're serious, or if it was a dream but somehow, either answer would be equally satisfactory. 😁

  • @lugerry
    @lugerry Před rokem +20

    Can't wait for Sealand to qualify for the world cup

  • @Braddowski
    @Braddowski Před rokem +12

    Why isn't this video called 'Zealand on Sealand'? And when is the 'Zealand coaches Sealand' follow-up?

  • @mafiousbj
    @mafiousbj Před rokem +2

    Nice upload time! It´s 8 am where I live and I get to watch this first thing in the Sunday morning while I work!

  • @iamthebiscotti
    @iamthebiscotti Před rokem +7

    Hoe Z got through this without a single reference to the similarity to his own name is beyond me

  • @jamieandtherandomstuff
    @jamieandtherandomstuff Před rokem +2

    I'm a little bit of a Montserrat fan as we've had several of their players play for my team, Maidenhead United. I'll look forward to your video on them.

  • @nathski22
    @nathski22 Před rokem +1

    This is fantastic!!! So glad you made this video. Hoping my comment on the Marshall Islands video helped 😂

  • @goncalocastronunes9816
    @goncalocastronunes9816 Před rokem +6

    Sealand used to be my fun fact that most people didn’t know about but now loads of more people will know about it 😂 cheers for another great vid Zealand!

  • @alexwallach7683
    @alexwallach7683 Před rokem +2

    I'm a colonist from Sealand I moved to a small island off the coast of New Zealand and called it New Sealand. So now I live in New Sealand New Zealand.

  • @Mosquito_Hunter8
    @Mosquito_Hunter8 Před rokem +1

    Finally, content that I am waiting for

  • @mikegriffiths4636
    @mikegriffiths4636 Před rokem

    Mate, that Sealand fish and chips shop you show has nothing to do with Sealand the principality. Its on Sealand Road in Chester, i used to go there walking down to Chester City games (the team you said you never heard of when doing the Roberto Martinez video, cheers for that lol).

  • @lerendegozer
    @lerendegozer Před rokem +3

    I used to be head of the European branch of NFB, the CENF, when I was 16. Amazing times

  • @JoDyMa
    @JoDyMa Před rokem +11

    I just wanna say, as somebody from Peckham, how incredibly happy I am to see you with an actual Peckham Town shirt.
    And then also how pissed off I am that I didn't know you were less than a mile from me 😭

  • @nhantnt
    @nhantnt Před rokem

    I found this video about a week ago, forgot about it, came back and realizes I just read about it half an hour ago.

  • @Ironhead_HD
    @Ironhead_HD Před rokem +2

    May I recommend making a video about Wellington Phoenix and it’s curious case of being a NZ club in the Australian League

    • @blinkusfishus2052
      @blinkusfishus2052 Před rokem +1

      For anyone interested: It's common place in Australian sports to have teams from our Kiwi brothers competing in our sports comps, especially the Rugby codes. In football, It only really became an issue when Australia joined the Asian confederation, Sadly not being able to qualify for Asian football makes Wellington a poor choice for a long save in FM IMO, Once you've won the A-league there is nothing else to achieve. Wellington/NZ national team duo is a bit of fun though.

  • @lachysims6327
    @lachysims6327 Před rokem +1

    wholesome seeing Zealand wearing the Peckham kit he bought on Ellis' channel

  • @LvM0702
    @LvM0702 Před rokem +5

    This Team surely needs a Goalie. Figure it out...

  • @diegomaloney2712
    @diegomaloney2712 Před rokem +1

    Do a video on CONIFA as a whole and the upcoming 2024 CONIFA world cup, the people deserve to hear its story

  • @haveanice1946
    @haveanice1946 Před rokem

    Never thought my home county of Suffolk would be mentioned on a Zealand video but WAHOOOO

  • @josht7385
    @josht7385 Před rokem

    Zac Alsop did a video going to Sealand a year ago, really interesting watch

  • @Seal1885
    @Seal1885 Před rokem

    Oi, that chippy is from near me lad, not quite the Sealand you were looking for 😂😂

  • @jayer.
    @jayer. Před rokem +3

    Sealand path to glory career in FM24?

  • @zenokada2278
    @zenokada2278 Před rokem

    Loving the Peckham town shirt
    I live like half an hour from there

  • @jacknoble6668
    @jacknoble6668 Před rokem

    Is that a Cleveland SC shirt I spot in the background? Crazy to see a club that plays on my old high school’s pitch on Zealand’s channel.

  • @hammersbtw1076
    @hammersbtw1076 Před rokem

    Please tell me there’s a way to play a game for Sealand

  • @Craigc6060
    @Craigc6060 Před rokem +1

    I saw this pop up on my home feed... i love Zealand. However i can literally see Sealand from the end of my road (i live 100 meters from the beach of Felixstowe. Which was one of the highlighted closest places to there👀)(i can 90% of the time take a pic of the country)
    It's a strange story but it still makes me laugh that Sealand has a national team.
    I love seeing videos of Sealand. And seeing Zealand making a video of a team, from a country 6 miles away from me. It's another video to show people who don't know Sealand, that it exists)

  • @welshwizzard8209
    @welshwizzard8209 Před rokem

    Can see the nation of Sealand from where some of my family now live in Essex , kinda inside british waters now but didn’t used to be

  • @NanobanaKinako
    @NanobanaKinako Před 6 měsíci +1

    My favourite team in Sealand is North Sea United and they've been the champion of 25 out of 40 seasons. They also won the last season of Sealand Premiership. Better than Man City.

  • @twilliamspro
    @twilliamspro Před rokem +1

    I think You've got to declare for Sealand ... Zealand getting Caps for Sealand

  • @jacotaco17
    @jacotaco17 Před rokem

    Zealand, you need to get a Sealand football shirt

  • @ChipThompsonArseCrayonGaming

    I feel like Mr Burns in the supermarket.
    Zealand..
    Sealand....

  • @davefairfull359
    @davefairfull359 Před 11 měsíci

    can see it off the beach at felixstowe suffolk has his own currency and everything lol

  • @GamerNintendo25
    @GamerNintendo25 Před rokem +1

    Adam Hurrey on the channel? When is Zealand going on Football Cliches

  • @Ehk2990
    @Ehk2990 Před rokem

    I don't understand sealand is monsteret?

  • @Lee-bn9eb
    @Lee-bn9eb Před rokem

    I live in Harwich, can see Sealand from my house!

  • @SGMiner21
    @SGMiner21 Před rokem

    If they start back up again they should make you the manager!

  • @saltmerchant749
    @saltmerchant749 Před rokem +1

    Sealand is more of a lifestyle and mindset than it is a physical place.

  • @rongamble8930
    @rongamble8930 Před rokem

    A Peckham Town kit? Gee, where ever did you get that? (Yes, I did see content from another CZcamsr. I should feel shame, yet I do not.)

  • @louielouie95
    @louielouie95 Před rokem

    Sealand Play Home Games At Portman Road

  • @EnforcerX71
    @EnforcerX71 Před rokem

    Right someone needs to create Sealand in FM and give them max youth rating, see what Sealand Superstars will show up.

  • @KingFahtah
    @KingFahtah Před rokem

    YES!
    I feel vindicated.

  • @sciencesofaheretek6973
    @sciencesofaheretek6973 Před rokem +1

    Funnily enough Germany actually recognises Sealand as an actual nation and has sent diplomats in the past, pretty sure they are the only actual nation(not another micro-nation) that does

    • @vanlandings7466
      @vanlandings7466 Před rokem

      It doesn't recognise it. It only sent diplomats so as to negotiate a release of a German subject that was being held hostage there.

  • @Tuck3tt
    @Tuck3tt Před rokem

    They also have an American Football team - the Sealand Seahawks

  • @Thatboymeher
    @Thatboymeher Před rokem

    It’ll only be fitting if you become a Duke…PLEASE do it

  • @kjw9221
    @kjw9221 Před rokem

    I wamt to take this oppurtunity to declare myself available for the Sealand national team

  • @fivefive1646
    @fivefive1646 Před rokem

    you should make a video on India vs Nigeria 99-1 game

  • @wibblewobble85
    @wibblewobble85 Před rokem

    Amazing

  • @romlemmon
    @romlemmon Před rokem +1

    Someone reads The Athletic!

  • @dlewis1701
    @dlewis1701 Před rokem

    Zealand on Sealand? 👍

  • @bertb6913
    @bertb6913 Před rokem

    You should make a video about fc groningen. It's the the club i support and they got relegated this season with still 4 games to play😢😢😢. It's something nobody saw coming at the start of the season. Because they are ranked around 7th place if you look at the finances from all the clubs in the netherlands
    Edit: forgot to say. We play such terrible football this whole season long without the players fighting for fit(that's how it seems to me) that we pretty much deserve it. Also there are contionously problems at the club, the list is to long to summarize for a f*cking season...

    • @dronesclubhighjinks
      @dronesclubhighjinks Před rokem +1

      Sorry to hear that. You have my sympathy.

    • @MrTrampo123
      @MrTrampo123 Před rokem +1

      some of the players to come through Groningen are insane. VVD, Suarez, Robben, Koeman, Kostic, Tadic...

  • @Luuka988
    @Luuka988 Před rokem +1

    Admit it, you just made this video because it would be funny for a man named Zealand to talk about Sealand. I was just waiting for you to call their players as Seamen :)

  • @jbx5709
    @jbx5709 Před rokem +1

    The baldness of adam hurrey,,,, a shining light on football,,,,

  • @SoulWipes
    @SoulWipes Před rokem

    Where are the live channel updates?😭

  • @tostitosgaming
    @tostitosgaming Před rokem +2

    Wait is does have a national team?

  • @HCMCDrives
    @HCMCDrives Před rokem

    Great video, but very weird/annoying background music.

  • @gezblair
    @gezblair Před rokem

    The video fails to answer my most important question? Where can I get a sweet Peckham Town shirt? Nothing on that there Google

  • @plc20100
    @plc20100 Před rokem +1

    They cannot even build a stadium ...

  • @louielouie95
    @louielouie95 Před rokem

    Do A Video On San Marino
    The Worst UEFA National Team In The World

  • @julianleibo
    @julianleibo Před rokem

    You should ask them for a nobilty title, you are practically giving them publicity by calling yourself zealand lol

  • @hydromic2518
    @hydromic2518 Před rokem +1

    Sealand more like Zealand

  • @FlyingSandile
    @FlyingSandile Před rokem

    Please Zealand try to play for Sealand

  • @eduardotorres6108
    @eduardotorres6108 Před rokem

    Now we know where Peter Griffin got that idea

  • @charlesbonali5180
    @charlesbonali5180 Před rokem

    I'm a Baron of Sealand.

  • @ruttedbobcat
    @ruttedbobcat Před rokem +1

    Fun fact, I am a Lord of Sealand

  • @finplayer7026
    @finplayer7026 Před rokem

    petition to enter FC Sealand into the English football pyramid

  • @Middagetten
    @Middagetten Před rokem

    Zealand shall we reinvade sealand again

  • @LordWay
    @LordWay Před rokem

    Zealand the manager of Sealand? 🥸

  • @samsativa245
    @samsativa245 Před rokem

    This is one of the most British things ever

  • @wesleysmith7431
    @wesleysmith7431 Před rokem

    Go Hokies!!

  • @kezleven8755
    @kezleven8755 Před rokem

    Do they own surrounding water could they expand there borders.

  • @joshualiley
    @joshualiley Před rokem

    Let's he honest, you only found this out because you were googling yourself and made a typo 😂

  • @Moshyv2
    @Moshyv2 Před rokem

    He thought he was slick making up a country for a video and calling it Zealand with an S

  • @Jose-qu9qk
    @Jose-qu9qk Před rokem

    Hi Zealand
    Day two of asking if you know about Jorge "Mágico" González :>

  • @CatalcaXD
    @CatalcaXD Před 10 měsíci

    bro dafuq💀

  • @shahir1395
    @shahir1395 Před rokem

    zSealand

  • @tostitosgaming
    @tostitosgaming Před rokem +2

    Third

  • @kinglizardwizardry763
    @kinglizardwizardry763 Před rokem +1

    Fist ✊

  • @zmad1913
    @zmad1913 Před rokem +1

    How tf is that a country 😂

    • @Alex58399
      @Alex58399 Před rokem +2

      Legally, it's not

    • @farhi411
      @farhi411 Před rokem +6

      @@Alex58399 it is, well atleast before 1987 when the UK extended their territorial water

    • @Jose-qu9qk
      @Jose-qu9qk Před rokem +1

      It's not.

    • @alexmiddleton2276
      @alexmiddleton2276 Před rokem +3

      @@farhi411 that’s why he specified “legally”

    • @farhi411
      @farhi411 Před rokem

      @@alexmiddleton2276 that's why i said it is before 1987 ong

  • @djcomplain
    @djcomplain Před rokem +1

    If Israel can declare as country by ilegal mean so Sealand its a country period

  • @TheRadPlayer
    @TheRadPlayer Před rokem +17

    It isn't a national team, it's not a nation, it's a radio broadcaster who planted a flag on a WW2 naval tower, and people keep funding his family "for the memes".

    • @piotrleligdowicz5027
      @piotrleligdowicz5027 Před rokem +11

      Why u salty lmao

    • @mattsmith5421
      @mattsmith5421 Před rokem +2

      If it's not a nation why did Germany send diplomats there

    • @mattsmith5421
      @mattsmith5421 Před rokem +4

      Oh and for the memes in the 70s? Ok yeah sure

    • @louquole
      @louquole Před rokem

      Oh you must be sooooooo fun at parties, as fun as drinking chlorine

    • @vanlandings7466
      @vanlandings7466 Před rokem

      ​@@mattsmith5421 Sending a diplomat there to negotiate a release doesn't automatically mean that it is recognised as a nation. I used to work in the foreign services and such stories are actually quite common where someone would lay claim over a large land or island and then proclaim sovereignty and ask for recognition from other nations or international bodies.

  • @adzter96
    @adzter96 Před rokem

    Eh, that's like me just saying my house is it's own nation, it's like the family guy bit (but at least in that there was a legal loophole in the show). That isn't a nation and it doesn't have a football team.