the entire history of the Saudi league, i guess
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- We already did MLS so it’s time to go through the history of the Saudi Pro League. It’s understandably complex, but even more so than MLS, the unique nature of the Saudi Arabian league will affect the world of football for years and years to come. So, it’s important to understand what makes the league work.
Thank you so much to Yacov the researcher for helping to put this together. This is the type of video I quite literally could not do without a partner who understands academic research a lot more than me. We used a good number of primary language sources and some excellent books that you can check out below to help put together a unique football history.
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For as much as I love your typical FM videos, THIS kind of content is *chef's kiss*
More please and thank you!
i agree 😀
It's wildly inaccurate
No. He should not even cover it. He should ignore it. You should ignore it. And you should despise CR7 for joining it.
@@empirelee7676 ffs I meant the style of video, not the particular topic. But thanks for telling people how to live their lives...
I like this concept, putting a spotlight on leagues most people may not be familiar with. For your next video I suggest doing Liga MX (with a focus on the Apertura, Clausura, and Liguilla) or the Brasileirão (with a focus on the intrastate competitions)
The Brasileirão and the states competition are 2 complete different things
@@Bielgv1 right, what I mean is that when getting into the history of Brazilian club football, it's instructive to emphasize that nationwide competition in Brazil is a relatively recent phenomenon and that much of Brazil's footballing landscape was traditionally dominated by intrastate competition like the Paulistão and Cariocão, and today those competitions remain just as significant as the Brasileirão. It's a phenomenon I haven't seen in any other country.
@@Bielgv1yes, and I personally would love to see a video on that. It’s not talked enough anywhere. For us westerners the state championships are just a local story that allowed Pele to score a 1000 goals. It would be great to see a vid on how the national league and state championship connect with each other, how it all works and how do players not die from all these matches
This is a great way to introduce your other passion in the channel. History.
@ZealandonYT Note: "Al Wahda Club is considered the oldest club founded in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in 1916, based on what some historians in the Saudi sports media have confirmed." The club was founded in Mecca in 1916. The government only acknowledged the club's founding when they joined the ministry of sports in 1945. It was first founded in 1916 under the name "Al-Mukhtalit," which means Mixed. Later, it was known as "Nadi Al-Hizb," which means The Party Club, and then Al-Wahda, until 1945, when it was officially recognized as a sports club with the General Administration of Sports and Scouting.
Great data bro! That´s why i love FM, it gave us the chance to know better about countries and clubs around the world! Greetings from Bolivia! I´m a Club Bolivar fan!
Then it wasn't Al wehda was it?
Al ittihad is first club in Saudi!!!! ياحراميه
We do have a lotttt of passionate fans thx for putting that out , also al fateh 2013 league win was a fairytale story.
The passion of the Saudis for football always existed and that will always be true
Loving the Peckham Town top. Brings back a lot of fun memories as a kid!!
Excellent. The depth of knowledge and human interest that you bring to the sport are sublime.
The most nuanced, indepth analysis of the the whole thing yet. As expected
I love this format of videos I think you should incorporate these in more but then we wouldn't get to see so much of your livestreams, as time constraints. But when you do these you do them so well!
Watching it while going home from a party at 3am after 26 shots of different stuff and itd the highlight of the night bc zeeland spittin facts and makes it so easy to enjoy and understand
Learned of you from FM but love these type of videos keep up the fantastic work Z!
Great analysis zealand, thanks!
Very informative. I didn't know much about the Saudi League myself. Thanks for making this,
Very very very informative thank you for your professionalism 🇸🇦
Great work Ze!
Zealand’s Saudi check just cleared 🔥
Fantastic video Zea, really learned a lot! Good luck with the comments though
There has been a lot of talk about Saudi football since what haapen in the summer but these video is by far the best
Zealand,
I genuinely enjoyed this video. (As I do with all of your videos.)
Well done!
I'm not gonna act like everyone completely missed the Monty Python reference at 1:10 in the video. Beautifully done sir!
The video is great, I love the Monty Python and the Holy Grail quote you guys managed to sneak in :D
My club AL- ITTIHAD was founded in 1927 , and my grandfathers both on my father side and my mother side supported the team since the 50’s
If you're interested in football history in the Middle East, there's a lovely short film called Maradona's Legs, set in Palestine during the 1990 World Cup, about some kids following along and trying to collect stickers for a football album. It's on Netflix UK and (I believe) US and a few other Anglophone countries
How you managed to miss Saeed Owairan scoring the goal of the tournament at the '94 world cup against Belgium? I think since then they might be the only national team to get knocked out with no points or goals scored twice. By the way Al Nasser should be pronounced An Nasser otherwise a fascinating look into a league I saw on tv when growing up.
F**k the league.
@@empirelee7676Oh another crybaby who cant stand arabs being successful
cry elsewhere kid@@empirelee7676
@@swat2788 If the Saudi League teams were indeed successful, they wouldn't need to give the players 10 times the money they were going to get anywhere else...
@@The_Guy_You_Love_To_Hate Oh yeah so The US didnt just get Messi. And the UK didnt get other players from outside. Keep yapping bud. Its about management and getting good players not national players necessarily. If u want that watch the World Cup and Asia Cup
I was, in fact, honestly avoiding everything to do with the Saudi Pro League out of principle and disgust. But I knew a @ZealandonYT video would be fair and well researched, and I was not disappointed. Thank you for taking the time and effort to cover this!
Why? Isn't premier league donig the same thing since the 90's? they've driven player fees up, agents fees up, wages are at an all time high. shit players are bought and sold for 20-30mill. how can any club outside the top 5 compete with those prices? And isn't premier league also stealing young kids from other clubs? All the same as saudi league... Also if european clubs are against muslim money they shoulld stop taking money from muslim sponsors. muslim money is bad when they buy players but when u get muslim money from sponsors its okay... very hypocritial.
Still, any reference to this league will just serve their purpose. Despise and ignorance are the only things they deserve.
You know, Saudi people are passionate about football too.
@malconsak Yeah. And he talks about that. Doesn't change the problems with sports-washing, the unfairness of throwing unfathomable amounts of money at players, and the level of egocentric greed by the players leaving for the league under the tissue thin guise of "spreading the sport". I'm likewise bothered by MLS's disregard for the US Open Cup in their pursuit of fatter wallets. That doesn't mean US fans aren't passionate or even that I think such a thing.
Given the clearly divisive nature of the situation, most sources on the SPL are incredibly biased one way or the other. Therefore, I appreciate hearing information from someone that I know executes quality research and has a track record for fair and unbiased commentary.
@mosaabtwice3999 dude you are just swinging wildly and without foundation. You aren't here for a conversation, you just want to fight. This isn't how you make a point, this is how you lose people. If you really care about this, calm down and show me what's wrong with what I said and stop beating a strawman with a baseball bat.
Love that Peckham Town shirt!
Something can be highly manufactured and still have passionate people in its communuty. Just look at kpop
well done sir
Hi Zealand I moved to Saudi Arabia 1 month ago from the UK. My closest club is Steven Gerrards Al Ettifaq and from the compound I am on there are quite a few that go to games, I will be going as well, so if you ever fancy coming here, I would love to help you out :-)
Al ittifaq is not fan based club.
The league is literally at its Zenith at the moment, it can only go downward. I think because of the lack of passion for their local clubs, with like 99% of people following 3 clubs
There are 5 big clubs with millions of fan base in Saudi Arabia: Alnassr, Alhilal, Alitihad, Alahli, AlShabab. Many other clubs had huge fans in the past such as Alitifah. The passion has been there since the beginning, if you could search on youtube a game in 1994 between Alnassr and Alhilal and see the fans search: النصر Vs الهلال (1-0) المربع الذهبي دوري 1994م | مباراة كامله
Agreed. I strongly believe the bubble will burst and the Saudi Pro League will go the way of the Chinese Super League.
I went to an Ettifaq vs Hilal game a couple of years ago & despite being the away team, Hilal had more than half the stands with the green Ettifaq supporters not even reaching a third.
@@ecstasycalculusbut Chinese football can become huge easily, Saudi Arabian will not. Its just a gsme of numbers. They have a population similar to Poland, which national league is barely relevant despite being its nr 1 sport, but with 7x its size km2.
Theres simply no market for such huge players to play there and make bazillion dollars a month and be even remotely profitable. And a national league HAS TO have national audience, as international fans might watch a game or two on TV but if its not top 5 international league skillwise they will drop it as soon as the hype dies out.
Seems like Saudi prinxes just wanted to flex their money getting big players with no hope of long team popularity, or they were just clueless qith their investment, but thats what happens when you have a country rulled by an absolute king and his princes and extended family is so rich they xan just decide to hire biggest sport stars on earth with 0% chance of making the money back, just because they can...
They should’ve just lobbyed uefa to get into the champions league, only way people would care about the league
Hey Z, do a brazil and argentina story. Would be fun to know how a non european country have a religion around the British sport
Hello im from Saudi and we actually love this sport its the sport of or country and what we do is the same as Europe I don’t think that’s football is only for Europe, and they only can spend money. We genuinely love the sport. And thanks to the vision 2030 and MBS we now can live our dreams🇸🇦🔝. Thank u for ur video 🤍
A little tip. Make sure to turn off sponsor block.
Wish I could play this league in game without mods
Wish this league wouldnt exist in real life.
@@empirelee7676cry more 😂😂😂
I’m from Saudi and I do agree it’s held with lots of passion with locals
10:53 it’s a tongue twister in English only but in Arabic when we say it IN ARABIC it’s actually really simple and it has a deeper meaning beyond football that’s it’s hard to explain
There was couple of small errors but in general the video is a masterpiece i wished that you would talk about the top teams and i don't mean only the top 4 but the teams who surprised all of us in Saudi either nowadays or in the past and wished you talked a little bit more about the whole project of making all Saudi tams owned by companies
But thanks for this dive to our beloved league
Wheeeeeey Peckham town is my local team
wow never knew my small little country of Singapore were runners up for the asian cup
Z to the Ealand, never apologize for bringing in some history. I prefer it over adding more memes.
One slight annoyance: The background music (again), I prefer none but if you must have it: please, let it take a proper backseat (aka turn the volume down).
Your material is good enough to grab and hold the attention, no need to pad it with music.
(I did lie though, its a major annoyance not a slight one :P)
Great video but not very accurate.
For example the 8 foreign players rule has been in place since 2018 and was reduced to 7 then the club members voted to take it back to 8 again.
Also i need to point out that saudi league has been the best league in Asia since 2004 ahead of japan, australia, south korea and others.
i love you zealand
What is with all these bots in the comments with pics of butts? Otherwise, great content as usual dude!
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FYI, the Saudis didn't have control over Hijaz (Mecca, Jeddah) till the 1930s. At the time they played football in that region, it was ruled by the Hashimi King Hussain (currently ruling family of Jordan)
The first club established in Jeddah was Al Ittihad (United or Union) the club was merger between 2 clubs in Jeddah because the ritch kids had a club but the working class weren't allowed to join them so established their own club. They had a meeting between the club owners and decided to have a match, if the working class club won they would be able to join the Rich club. The workers won and established the new club Al Ittihad .
Are you gonna do a video on the recent news about the MLS? I’m extremely disappointed with the league and Garber.
Is anyone else having issues with the newgan manager since the update?
The only but at the same time the most important piece SA is missing in their football is culture. Recently, there was published a video about football in the Faroe Islands by Zealand, and he said that semi-professional football inside that place felt more real than fully professional one in the top leagues. Not only do I agree with that, but it brings an important reason, why even with these enormous spendings SA will never make it as a respectable country in football.
Culture makes the country to produce talents, money comes only after talent becomes a legend. And with no talents, SA is left to spend huge quantities of money on legends. It can bring the iron fans of these legends but will never bring the fans of culture, and, consequently, of the game itself.
I don't quite agree with your point. Well, the part about the enormous spending, I don't think you're wrong, but the part about football culture in Saudi.
For decades, football has been the only runaway from life for many youngsters and adults, it's rooted in most families, and it has passed on for generations. Also, many footballers back in the day used to be Semi-professional, and didn't play football as their main source of income, that's until the beginning of 2000s.
Using Faroe Islands as an example of football culture is not wrong, but what I think made you think Faroe is a good example is because they are European. There has been many examples where a small club from a small city in SA wins the league of the cup, or even the arabian gulf championship, such as Al-Fateh from Al-Ahsa back in 2012. The contrast between the these two examples are, when you hear news about a Saudi club succeeding while being the underdog of something, most wouldn't care. Unlike any European, or even East Asian club, where people will praise it and view it a sign of "Football culture".
@@ibra5760 I am not talking about underdogs winning something, I am talking about culture. Underdogs sometimes win something everywhere, not only on Faroe or in SA.
The minimum time football match requires you to spend on it with you being at the stadium is 90 mins. Highlights are max 10-20 mins depending on the match intensity. There has to be something which would challenge you to sit there with your favourite team for another 70 mins without wanting to leave or thinking about this time as spent wrong.
Hence, I am talking about something which WILL make you feel about these 70 mins as spent right. May it be the fact that among the players is your friend or the friend of your friend, or you just enjoy hanging out with other people watching different people to kick the ball - name it as you want, but this is what is called culture. This has nothing to do with being "European", it is more about how people tend to spend their free time.
More to the point: www.essentiallysports.com/soccer-football-news-despite-cristiano-ronaldo-neymars-move-seats-empty-in-saudi-pro-league-as-they-fail-to-fill-stadiums/
They fail to fill the stadiums even with all these stars because people just do not understand, what to watch there.
Dude as a Saudi please, please, please do NOT speak on us at all when it comes to football cuz yall don't know shit honestly and it piss me off.
I assure you Saudi are obsessed with the sport and ppl play it in the streets literally. We have street and school leagues. We have so many talents in the streets and throughout history, the reason you don't see them playing in Europe bc they get paid alot of money here so they would rather stay close to their families, not bc lack of talents.
Btw my club (al ittihad) averaged 40k attendance last season.. this season the sports ministry took our stadium to do a little bit of work on it for the club wc that happened this month so we had to play in a stadium that has a capacity of 25k, we still averaged 23k. We're returning to our 50k stadium in January... in general the big 5 club have good attendance average, the others not so much, but have potentials and there's reasons why they don't have that much....
1st: We're still building the infrastructure for these clubs, meaning the small clubs have really bad stadiums and that's why alot of ppl in other cities don't attend as much as the others bc the game experience is really poor..
2nd: alot of ppl complain about heat in the summer which mean we need stadiums that can have AC... so MOST of the problems is about the stadiums environment. And we're working on them..
3rd: we're not like England in the sense that ALL teams can full their stadiums and there's no shame in that. We're not the only country.. but overall the small teams have crowds just need to work on infrastructure and make the people believe in their teams in the other towns other than the big 5 in big cities.
So you saying that we don't "understand what's there to watch" is completely ignorant and not true and it's honestly offensive cuz I guarantee you there are young people in Saudi that are more PASSIONATE about the sport than you and more talented on the field. People just won't give them a chance.. but it doesn't matter cuz they're adding fuel to the fire that will explode in the next decade. 2022 wc was just a very small taste to whats to come.
Btw to finish this off we have a BIG academy called mahd academy that will help create the next generation in all sports especially football. They excepted kids born in 2007 and up. Also a school leagues.. So we care about our youth too.
We are the youth world cup 1989 winners what you talking about
Mate they won more than 4 AFC Asian cups and a lot of their clubs have won the champions League and the people their are obsessed with football. What more culture do you want ?
Is it available on fm24 now?
Not in the vanilla game, but you can have it with mod files
Zealand history channel when?
whats the name of the last song?
you forget the crown prince cup and the super cup
Just a small thing, at the time Aramco was US owned but is now 100% Saudi owned.
This was shown in the newspaper article he displayed.
Changed the thumbnail
The story of the SAUDIIIIII PROOOOOOOO LEAGUEEEEEEE
If Saudi's were smart they would invest that money into National Player Development Academies and Teams, instead of just buying other teams and old expensive players.
Thank you for this Zealand. This is a great video and I appreciate you doing your research about a league I have followed religiously long before its current fame. But, I realised something.
Fans complain too much about how Saudi is using money to make a better league. But almost no one watches football leagues around the world because the football is good or interesting. Most are stuck to the Premier League, which literally did the same thing Saudi is doing right now: bringing in the best players.
I think it says more about football fans complaining about Saudi football, that eventually end up watching Saudi football because of players they know, than Saudi football being “a bad league”. I mean, they’re using a format that is clearly the best way to garner attention, but neeeds to be implemented correctly to succeed long-term.
Point is, if you’re going to talk about how pure football should be, watch the Brazilian league - the most interesting title and relegation race in 2023.
Follow the Moroccan League, filled with talented players and some of the best fans in the world.
Follow the Dutch or Portuguese League, competitions that give the Premier League its best talents and have interesting seasons from time to time.
the Saudi League (like the Chinese League) is just an easy target to criticise.
But if the league successfully implements its project and has some of the best teams in the world, people will watch it. No one is going to watch it because of a “great grassroots system and wonderful local talent”
Only real OG’s know the original thumbnail and title for this video😌
Bro not mentioning al ahli which won 13 “fa cups” and 9 league titles is disrespectful
saudi arabia national team didn’t join the afc until 1978 as a protest against israel being in the federation
That’s so cool! I never knew the history of league in my country that’s interesting
I’m from Saudi if there are any questions I will answer all of them
Whats your team that u support?
@@SK-io2no Al nasser with Ronaldo
@@saudalsaqri2866 have you supported them all your life?
"Amnesty International can shout all they want" is crazy 😂😂
Bro is against Amnesty International now. $$$ talks
Why is this above 2 minutes?
Did you know that there was a football club in artica in 1898 snd ppl kicked a stone from on side to the other.
Now there is a billionaire king. Anyway, this country has a big football culture.
9:37 little freudian slip there
Why you sound like joe rogan 😂. Nice vid
11:29 how can every title be won by four clubs? Surely only one club can win each title? Did they do some kind of four way share every year? Each club gets the trophy for 3 months?
Portugese league is won by 4 teams only
Yo, Indonesian bring football to saudi arabia? Didn't see that coming
I'd just like to say that as a life-long Newcastle United fan, the people you showed waving the Saudi flag in the stadium do not represent me nor the wider fanbase. I'm a season ticket holder and in contrary to what you implied, that is not a regular sight on match day. Our celebrations are in line with our love for our team and a club that we lost hope of being successful a long time ago, not for those that currently own it.
Great video btw.
You could just organise with other fans and demand your clubs owners to be expripriated but in fact English football fans lost the fight a long time ago against the capitalist because most of them are little "...."
Its harsh but true.
I cant even imagine being a English football club fan nowadays. Its the most loser-like thing I can imagine.
We just need global ffp to save football. But I guess the stars play there a few years until they get to know the country and get bored to play in front of tens if not hundreds of people. Just like it went in China.
why can’t you do this for the MLS? explain the mls it’s so complicated
he did a couple months back
All a WC pr stunt
w8 w8 w8 , did we just enter a new era of content on ur channel? i like it !
i got a question: next week u will be the ceo of Fifa. yeah u . imagine u could change one thing. u can add or change one law. what rule or specification would u implement ?
in other words what would u change about european football ?
ARAMCO IS AN SAUDI COMPANY, OWNED AND OPERATED BY SAUDI PEOPLE 🇸🇦🇸🇦
They bought it
@@ZealandonYT in the video you said its an American company, and that’s highly malicious misleading statement. You are misleading the viewers to Aramco present success is due to Americans. And that’s totally wrong, yes we the Saudis have bought it when it was NOTHING and WE have made it the third BIGGEST company in the world TODAY, we made the company’s success not the Americans.
Highly malicious misleading statement, and I’m not at all surprised typical American behavior.
@@ZealandonYTI like how you left all delusional comments and came to this.
Wait till 2034 and you will see what developments will happen there.
Sick youtube videos
@@swat2788 Whether you like it or not, it is true. And no need to wait till 2034, you can already see the great developmental rate which surpasses many major european nations and most definitely the fallen united states.
The future is Saudi 🇸🇦
Wait till you see their faces when they see a non western country on top. I bet they will keep whining.@@Abdul-mn5nb
Where is our & asia greatest achievement: Youth World Cup 1989
Zealand you forgot to mention Al-Ahly got promoted just last season. So they weren’t a top club lately.
They’re but the the relegation was shocking it’s like when Santos in brazil got relegated this year
as an al-ahli fan, I am really upset he didn't mention the club although we won the King's Cup 13 times and the Saudi Pro League 3 times, we were the only club to win a treble in a season in the history of Saudi football, and many other significant achievements in Saudi sports in general
This comment section is about to get interesting
Bro how did you forgot about AlAhli its the best saudi team 😢
0:15
Well, i have a problem with that quote because non of this has actually happened (and its doubtable they will have a lasting effect before someone stops being willing putting those sums of money into it). They have spend alot of money but there is no sporting success and certainly no gained political legitamacy.
Saudia Arabia is way more able to sportwash them with basically any other sport they invite than with football.
Them paying F1 or WWE is indefinetly more accepted than them paying CR7.
Give three years and it will hopefully end just like the Chinese Superleague
لن يكون كذلك لعدة اسباب واهمها الشعب هنا شغوف بكرة القدم + التوقيت مناسب وقريب من اوروبا + اهتمام كبير بشأن الرياضه من الحكومه لنجاح رؤية 2030 السياحيه والاقتصاديه للبلد
not going to lie not sure about this video Z
They can do whatever they want with their money but in my eyes the Saudi League will always be a superficial, sportswashing project with no future. Especially now that they took the opportunity for Japan to host the world cup in 2034.
Japan never made a bid so cope.
@@malconsak They wanted to but FIFA is so corrupt that it would've been pointless because Japan can't compete with the amount of money Saudi Arabia is willing to put into FIFA pockets to force its way to a World Cup that no one will care about.
Don't care about the Saudi league and never will
bro you had mistakes and didn't mention important moments honestly i wish you made better research.
i will never touch this league in fm
You won’t sell your players to any of its clubs?
hehe , i didnt thought about that. never got an offer yet@@frieza2235
I think most Westerners (including myself), have no interest in Saudi football and regardless of what superstars go over there, will continue to consume the product that our domestic leagues and European competitions provide. That said, I don't think that we are the Saudi's targeted demographic. The African and Asian markets follow the stars and clearly, bringing in such stars is on the agenda. These markets are for the taking. Can't see the league rivaling Europe anytime soon, but who knows? Infinite money can be useful for sportwashing endeavors
What sportwashing? Saudi Arabia does not need washing like the west's full of blood hands.. SA is a country of peace and has not been in many conflicts and have actually been a huge moderator in many global and regional conflicts.. educate yourself if you are a truth seeker or go f yourself if you have agenda against my nation
That's what as a Saudi i been saying! The arab people (400M) have always watched the Saudi League and supported its big clubs its just that we want to spread it to the rest of Asia, Africa and South America alot of people and channels there and watching it now.. also Europe one day who knows.. we're definitely not there yet but we're always going to keep improving the league (infrastructure, youth & academies, the big clubs trademarks and popularity world wide, tv rights and the TALENTS playing here). Saudi people are very passionate about the game.. and we're only going to improve.. people should like that the game is growing around the world. 😅
its for us not for you.
@@o2edahoom if by us you mean the Saudi government and it’s sportwashing ventures, then you are correct
@@Dench999or911 you're pathetic and a hater
No matter how many superstars and money they throw at it, the league will always seem fake, like someone playing Ultimate Team in real life
This is probably exactly how Uruguayans felt about the English Premier League 50-60 years ago when they were a football powerhouse and English football was mid. However, it turns out, money changes a lot of things.
so that would mean Man City is fake? PSG? It's just how the money works
@@Sibiriuss yes they are… fake and cheating
@@giannis.ioannidis.1995 dude english football was never mid. National team was not mid it was super bad. But football as a hole has been huge since then. 60 years ago bobby charlton was already playing… so… what you on about??
@@rodrigogavaldon6606 i know. that's why i never liked them and never will. But not many people will agree :)
In that region the main religion is not football , unlike the rest of the football world ....
Bit too heavy on the positives on this one chief.
He's actually not biased. Which i respect. I know... its hard for yall not to be when talking about Saudi.
You’re American brother call it soccer with conviction!
Saying that saudi blew up the US is a very poor choice of words😂
You did the research but you clearly are not familiar with Saudi football, talking to a local or old fan would’ve helped
I like that you didn't mention Germany match in 2002 :)
Something is not right when you have a full sentence for a name. They need nicknames badly. Even abbreviations would be too long.
Imagine prononucing that cup dude's name. Could they not just shorten it to Jeff and be done with it? At least for the public. Jeff Cup. There you go. Sounds better already.
So only alhilal are good
The Saudi bots are here 🙌
A country who's human rights record is only comparible to North korea having such a large presence in football genuinly makes me question whether I can keep following it
Newcastle fans waving a flag of a regime that executes children, gay people and journalists genuinly sickens me
That they will passionately defend the government of Saudi Arabia because it bought them Alexander isak is genuinly disturbing
What about the usa and uk and Canada or just double standard
Those governments aren't directly involved in their countries professional football, indeed FIFA demands independence for individual countries football associations (see Belize being disqualified from World Cup qualification in 2011), but they are using PIF as a convenient smokescreen to let them turn a blind eye to Saudi Arabia. As an absolute monarchy (one of only a handful in the entire world), Saudi Arabia can at any time, tell it's clubs anything it likes, and FIFA has to put up or shut up, and the cash helps them shut up.
@@samamv9893 In a world, where people know how the worst defense is to just throw around whataboutisms, you literally start your reply with "What about..."? How is anyone supposed to take you serious?
As a Saudi who has ever lived in Saudi, this comment makes me doubt anything is happening in North Korea.
Soccer or football, pick one and stick to it. No need to say both! It’s infuriating
The Saudi League has a history besides signing Cristiano Ronaldo?