7 Footballers Who Seemed Irreplaceable But Weren't
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- čas přidán 11. 03. 2022
- From Gianluigi Donnarumma filling the void vacated by Gianluigi Buffon to Brazil and Botafogo having Jairzinho as a ready-made replacement for Garrincha, HITC Sevens takes a look at a number of football legends who seemed impossible to replace, but ended up having very worthy successors.
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interesting, I hope he does this. Chelsea Vs Bayern at the 2012 Champions League Final or Chelsea Vs Barca at the semi finals would be right up there!!!
@@MarkWTK there was no red card in the 2012 ucl finals between chelsea and bayern, what are you talking about
@@franzreyes846 I think he meant the ref
I would give an honorable mention to Mainz 05, who were managed by Jürgen Klopp in the 2nd Bundesliga and ended the following season with Thomas Tuchel as their head coach. Replacing Klopp seemed impossible, but they managed quite well i would say.
Woah and they both went to Dortmund, and somehow they both ended up in England. It's amazing isn't it. Just a couple of weeks ago they gave us one of the best 0-0 match of all time in the Carabao Cup Final. Awesome stuff right that for sure.
Similar, Freiburg replacing Volker Finke, although they landed a Dutt before Christian Streich, so maybe it doesn't qualify for this list.
@@Marcus-ru1ht And both won the Champions League with English clubs, after losing the final previously with another club.
And they are both the best german managers in the entire world 😂
I love that Donnarumma is in the thumbnail...
...anyway, here's Maignan
Was gonna say this if I hadn't found your comment
Nice to meet your nan bro
@@Clxzz At Milan Maignan have performed better. We where very worried when Donna left, but then mike maignan comes in and make us all forget about donna
@@tylerwalker7015 here's a naan. his nan is dead
@@Bubajumba exactly. Even as a Milan fan i wouldn’t even compare Donna to Buffon and it’s safe to say that i don’t like any of the two
Look into the Brazilian youth setup, I think you’ll find some gems there, nominally Fluminense’s famed Xerém. Hoping Marcelo plays his final years in Rio.
I would like to congratulate and thank the channel for the respect with which it treats Brazilian players of the tri-champion generations.
I notice a certain anachronism of people who question why they didn't play in Europe, something that was simply rarely done at the time, especially at a high level.
On the other hand, I also learn the history of several historic players from England whose existence I didn't know.
I mean them staying in Brazil helped build Brazilian football.
I don't think the Brazilian National Team would be world cup regulars if they didn't stay in Brazil.
Dalglish's success at replacing Keegan was not that great a surprise. At the time Scottish football was a lot stronger than it is now. Celtic had reached the semi-final of the European Cup only 3 years earlier and Dalglish himself had played against Atletico Madrid. Dalglish had played all 3 games for Scotland in the 1974 World Cup, when England had failed to qualify, and Scotland went home unbeaten in their 3 group games.
The person who seemed irreplaceable at Anfield and who wasn't was Bill Shankly. Few expected Paisley to emulate Shankly and yet it was Paisley who won European Cups, a feat that had escaped Shankly.
It's hard to say Shankly was irreplaceable when the person that replaced him was in his own coaching staff so there really wasn't a big turnover there. The fact that Joe Fagan, who was also a part of that staff, also won a European Cup kinda shows that it's still more of Shankley's blueprint that gave them the European Cups rather than Paisley surpassing Shankley.
Oh yeah,I had Dalglish posters on my wall when he was at Celtic and even as a twelve year old Aussie I knew he was a top player, I remember hearing the news we had signed him ,I was excited.
@@franzreyes846 You miss the point about the personalities of the two men. Shankly was larger than life. Paisley so understated that he was never considered for the England job despite his achievements. This was the era of big personality managers such as Brian Clough and Malcolm Allison.
As for the Shankly blueprint ... Shankly's best chance to win the European Cup was in his last season. Liverpool however were beaten home and away by Red Star Belgrade, a team who were then beaten in the next round. Under Shankly Liverpool's style of play was very English - hard tackling and hard running with a never-say-die attitude. It was Paisley who took the lessons of the Red Star defeats on board and developed a more possession-based style of play without losing any of the mental or physical toughness. The result was that Liverpool became the top team in Europe for a decade. In England, due to their more economical use of energy, Liverpool won back-to-back titles, something that they had not done under Shankly.
Great video fella
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Great idea hope he makes a video on this
Definitely Spurs vs City 4-4 would be one of them
Roma-Barcellona 4-4 would surely be there
Speaking of Buffon being in the 1998 France World Cup reminded me of something...
Right now we have an active player who was a team mate of Roberto Baggio O.o
He was team mate of Bergomi too, who win 1982 world cup
Wow
It's crazy I'm in my 30s and remember Buffon playing during my childhood 😂
There are people saying Buffon will play until he's 50 - but I must be honest, I think even he realises it'd be a great shame if he cut his career short that early!
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Gianluigi Buffon the GOAT 🐐
but Garrincha fucked the goat 😳
No he isn't
@@jhaych then who is
@@RonnyWelles Schmeichel
@@jhaych Taibi was better for Manchester United.
Kevin Keegan is probably the best example of this with Kenny Dalglish
Do that in reverse as managers ?! Dalglish couldn’t replace Keegan at Newcastle, he come in a sold all the best players and sign all his mates
@@TrevJericho That is not exactly true. Dalglish did not sell Shearer or Tino. The board sold Ferdinand without his blessing.
That was my first thought when I read the title.
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Agüero´s nickname while playing here in Independiente was "Romarito" or "Little Romario"...so if you wanna know how Romario played....just imagine peak Agüero, but with Brazilian flair
They have a similar style of play too. Agüero is like Romario + Andriy Shevchenko in their prime. He reminded me of both when he was playing. And made everything he did look easy, even if he didn't score the flashiest goals ever. I can say I like him more than Lionel Messi and he also is my favorite Manchester City player ever. (Coming from a Man United fan.)
@@spd-kv6sd Shev may have had a bit more of aerial game but you are totally right. Agüero was a scoring machine focused on efficency not flair pretty much like Shevchenko! And also could hold off stronger and bigger defenders while waiting for his teammates to reach him, like a pivot.
Sadly for some reason he was a substitute in our National team for too long when Higuain was playing, even after he had some high profile fails. He deserved some more playing time for sure.
"lost his virginity to a goat".
Wait, what?!
I don't know how much is true or how much is prejudice against people from the countryside (usually poor), but in Brazil it is common to say that many farm boys have their first sexual relationship with a goat.
It's pretty much the same when british people say that someone from the rural areas do that to sheep. It's usually untrue, but can happen. On Garrincha's case, I think he jokingly confirmed it.
@@rodrigoandrade256 Oh so it wasn't true then. It's just a way of making fun of farmers.
@@r4h4al I hope it wasn't, he said that on interviews and it sounded like irony or that he was joking with the stereotype, but it could as well be true, you never know
I know in some town in Colombia they bonk a donkey as a way of becoming a man
Potential mention to Xavi-Rakitic. Don't get me wrong, Rakitic was *NEVER* the legend that Xavi was, but he did manage to, quite comfortably, fill the shoes of someone thought of as irreplaceable for a few seasons. In Rakitic' first season, Barcelona won the treble (league, cup and champion's league), scoring in both the knockout-match against City and the final against Juventus (I know this was Xavi's final season but Rakitic was the first choice starter). In the following seasons: 2016 Rakitic and Barcelona won a domestic double, 2017 they won the cup, 2018 they won a domestic double, 2019 they won the league, 2020 they won nothing and he left.
When you said Torres, I was expecting an explaination of how he was replaced by Suarez at Liverpool. Weird that he was replaced so well twice in his career, and I can't help but think it's part of the reason he seems to be underrated now.
Ronaldo replacing Romario at PSV was more important then in the national team.
irish guy is gonna be on this list
Honorable mention to David Villa in the International Spanish Team. He still hasn't really been replaced yet
Carlos Soler? or his not there yet?
@@MrNinjaboy112 Soler doesn't even brush Villa
Class video Alfie loved it. Would love a part 2, so enjoyable!
In terms of coaches, you could say Bob Paisley replacing Bill Shankley at Liverpool.
Awesome to watch you always.
Im mad you didnt say „When Barcelona sold Dani Alves, they couldnt replace him, until they found a replacement, Dani Alves”
Mr. HITC Sevens I just have to say watching this video was very enjoyable. Your videos are very engaging and I appreciate your writing.
What is wrong with the DStv Premiership in South Africa, we’re one of the richest countries in Africa but our football is so bad, yet our cricket and rugby is so good
Simple high investment in Cricket and Rugby from grass roots , football isn’t really invested in on grass roots level .
Football is also the sport played by mostly black people and South Africa’s history in terms of resource allocation is self explanatory
@@mohaumokhethi8625 you know that south africa have white people right?
White people are more interested in Cricket and Rugby in South Africa and they help organise it
@@mohaumokhethi8625 Well, there is a longer history of organized cricket and rubgy, South Africa have been superior in those sports than football and the competition in football is a lot tougher.
Money isn't everything either, just look at Everton for example. It is how or who organizes it. Why do you think Bayern Münich dominates german football? They might be the best runned club of all top clubs in Europe, with old Bayern players in top positions, that knows the club, the league and the sport inside out. Even though some players leave them, they replace them wisely, like Lahm with Kimmich or Robben with Gnabry for example.
So it's a far wider question than just about money :)
@@SirLudvigL nope football is older than both of those sports the oldest foot ball club in South Africa is From 1862 the oldest rugby club is from 1875 , don’t bring false information to a public platform do your research. These issues have political influences as well so the people in power control narratives but the facts remain.
It’s just that a the other sports have older formal leagues and it’s only by 5-10 years
When hearing you talk about the Atletico de Madrid situation I actually thought you were going to cover more about the switch from Falcao to Diego Costa, the Torres to Kun example was great and that Kun-Forlan frontline was beyond scary, but going from Falcao, as established as a goalscorer he was, part of world 11 and for a couple of months the best striker in the world and insanely clutch player to the production of an unknown Brazilian player who had a couple of decent seasons in not as good Spanish teams deserves some more talk than just cycling with the insane names they have gotten, cuz those insane names are or were usually good. Also you could talk about how in the long run Benzema replaced Raul, considering one played with the other literally for one season and they are gonna be neck to neck in Madrid goals and accolades, having similar roles in the early stages of their respective careers
Amazing video and story 👏👏👏👏👏👏
Honestly, a great seven! Enjoyed this one more than many from your hand, and I have seen a great deal of them :)
Can vouch Alfie and Buffon are friends. Saw them share a glass of wine in London.
They're always hanging out together.
I saw them sharing a packet of quavers underneath the queensboro Bridge with a grinning hobo who walked away with 18 dollars and his pride undented
@@TrevorParsnips how does this affect the legacy of the mystical chicharito hernandez
Great video As always Alfie🙌
Love this idea, would be interesting to see the same but with managers.
Great video as all ways
Keegan was my hero when I was ten or eleven,and I was lucky,as an Aussie,to go to the UK with my family for Christmas 75 and saw Liverpool play Ipswich at Anfield in early 76, with Keegan Toshack and the rest amazing experience ,saw a couple of games from the kop in 79/80 as well which was fantastic as well . Those experiences were so magical for me, got to meet a few players got autographs, Emlyn Hughes was there getting some treatment,I think he had gone to wolves by then, I will never forget those trips.
Countinho at Liverpool was a player who people said was irreplaceable, but him leaving created an opportunity for a more balanced team. That would make a good list
Can you do a 7 of highest match-winning goalscorers for each position, seemed interesting at first thought
Great Video
As a St Mirren fan, probably Steven Thompson replacing Michael Higdon. Both averaged a goal every three games or so - gold dust for a club seeing off relegation almost every year at the time.
Excellent video.
Hey Alfie, I just thought of a cracking idea for a video you could do on the turbulent recent history of Goztepe in the Super Lig. They’re one of the Super Lig’s most well supported clubs (a bit like a Newcastle United, Sunderland or Strasbourg if you may). In the 2001/02 season, they finished seventh in the top flight, however from 2002 to 2008, they were relegated five times in six seasons, due to their inability to reduce their outstanding debt which resulted in the football club being banned from signing new players during that time. In August of 2007, a business based in Istanbul, vowed to take them back to the top flight making them one of the top five clubs in the country, but they were met with lots of suspicions from the fan base, and then they handed over the ownership to another bloke called Mehmet Sepil in 2014. Anyway, they’re back in the Super Lig as a solid mid table/weaker top half team. Why am I bringing all this up? Because apparently Abramovich is looking to possibly buy the club himself, after being sanctioned from the UK. It’s a crazy crazy story and may you could look into this, not to mention, they are not only a rare example of a club that is considered a neighbourhood club, as well as the fact that they’ve played in 3 different stadiums since 2011, but also in 1969, they became the first Turkish football team to play a semi-final of a European competition.
Seamus Coleman for Ireland is definitely going to be hard to replace.
Nah, we got me, I'm class just you wait
We still haven't replaced Robbie Keane
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@@ronandevine5760 True. Its actually scary seeing the lack of quality coming through the ranks. In the 00s, you could take it as agiven that half the team would be from a club in the top half of the PL.
LFC have nuts skill in replacing forwards, my mind goes through Keegan, King Kenny, Owen, Torres, Suarez, Coutinho, Salah
One possible honourable mention I think you forgot was Valencia’s Gaizka Mendieta. Our talisman, captain, thought he was irreplaceable. Turned out that the season after he left, with Rufete more or less slotting into that right-winger role, we won the Spanish liga for the first time in 31 years, and would win the UEFA and La liga again shortly afterwards. But when Gaizka left everyone thought he was irreplaceable.
I love the Romario mention. It’s nice to see someone who recognises just how good that guy was.
The Donnaruma one didn't age that well
Donnaruma is literally the regen of Buffon
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what was that ast graphic supposed to mean? suggesting that karius seemed unreplacable before alisson arrived?
Yo I just realized that the end of an era Buffon FIFA card is gonna be a goddamned beast of a get
I'm not hating on the two, but I find it interesting
Both Buffon and Donnarumma have made mistakes that partly caused PSG's capitulation in the UCL
To be fair, Buffon was like 40 at P$G. Donnarumma was just poor lol. And also starting over Navas which is a bit silly. Not hating on Donnarumma too much. It’s just that Buffon at his age perhaps wasn’t as sloppy.
@@jepe4537 yea I have nothing against anyone
Its just
Interesting
Or maybe PSG capitulating is funny
I'm amazed that Cafu -> Dani Alves is not on this list (Cafu retired for Brazil 2006, the year Alves made his debut). Replacing imo the greatest RB of all time seemed impossible, so to do it immediately with one of the very best of all time was pretty incredible.
I mean, it wasn't that immediate. Maicon was ahead of Dani Alves as the first choice RB for Brazil after Cafú retired, and he had the position for like 4 or 5 years.
@@GhostHPM Hmm have to admit that I just saw how many games he'd played 07-11 and that he scored in the Copa america final in 07 and thought he was the starter. How do you get 50+ caps in 5 years as a back-up XD
@@mentalmike i think he played a lot on the left too
Nice vid
“And I don’t just say that because we are close friends” lmao Alfie is the best
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Romario is one of the most respected players in psv history so yes mostly South America but psv fans love him so much he is in the chant with a most club legends
This video is superbly written
6:34 that shirt design is cleannn
We need a version of this for coaches
Undoubtedly, 1 is Sir Alex
But neurer has to be on this list ,I'd never think kahn could be replaced that man was such a great gk
The story of West Auckland F.C winning the first World Cup beating Juve in the 1900s
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Legends
After North Macedonia vs Italy, Donnarumma should be out of this list.
I don't know why it is still a thing that Lahm was not a great RB and decent LB. No midfielder. Actually, once Loew put him back from DM to RB, Germany played much better and went ahead to win that tournament. And Kimmich is a great DM, not a RB
Yep just like Phil Neville, is just as effective in either role.
Exactly !
Kimmich is a world class cm/dm but an average RB.
Lahm was the exact opposite.
Lahm was a great DM. Germanys problem was the center defense. When Schweinsteiger filled the DM role again, after his injury, Lahm moved to RB and Boateng to CB. The Boateng/Hummels pairing worked great, Mertesacker/Hummels were painfully slow.
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Mourinho must be No 1, followed by Allardyce
@@archstanton6102 hopefully we'll see
3 weeks after this video was posted, I would disagree in that Donrumma is capable of replacing Buffon.
well Donnarumma has replaced Buffon at PSG at least (mistakes in Champions League that cost PSG)
Dude don't even compare Donnarumma to Buffon yet 🤣
13:38 when alfie was listing the atletico madrid strikers who tf did he say between hassekbaink and torres??? i heard bellesta but after looking him up he doesnt exist....
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In Peru we were afraid what would happen when Paolo Guerrero gets older but now we have Gianluca Lapadula so he isn't missed anymore
Nobody knows who any of these 2 guys are tho
@@Weirdflex99 Maybe, just wrote this because Alfie has talked about South American football in the past
im happy to hear your opinion about Romario. I am 38 and Brazilian and ive never seen a better striker than Romario. His composure was nothing ive never seen and he carried that 94 team to a World Cup. Ronaldo was a genius (especially before the injury), but INSIDE the box romario might have been the best player ever.
yea donna definitely did replace buffon 😭💀
Picturing Buffon trying to convince Alfie that Mussolini was "just misunderstood" whilst picnicking together.
Gerd Muller replaced by Karlheinz Rummenigge at Bayern and West Germany. I'm not claiming that Rummenigge was Muller's equal as a striker, but he showed that Der Bomber wasn't irreplacable.
Re: no3, il fenomeno was also in that world cup winning 94 squad. He just never got a game, what with him being 16 and Romario and Bebeto being just that damn good.
well this age well about italy just lost to nort macedonia,lol
The gulf in quality between this channel and the god awful HITC Sport never ceases to astound me - love your work, Alfie!
It's completely different styles in all fairness
I would love to see a list of Teams That Are Good Enough To Win Their Domestic Leagues But Always Fall Short
Borussia Dortmund? Or Napoli?
@@AdanyKai c'mon Dortmund has never been good enough to beat Bayern ever since Klopp's titles
Pep eye for a player is very good
My name is Mohammed, i play at RW.
Now…idk what the chances of my playing at liverpool as my starting team but replacing Mo.Salah would be crazy!
How was Del Piero considered? Baggio was sold on specifically because Del Piero was better! Not a surprise at all how well Capitano did afterwards.
Idk bout the Buffon one now 😳
ALFIE YOU DESERVE BETTER THAN HITC you should follow Irish guy and start your own channel. I’m sure I speak for everyone when I say we’d all follow you. You work so hard on these vids you deserve 100% revenue
Totally true,good friend Alfie Potts Hammer!!!🙏
after this prem season, it’s easily a great one to say haaland for agüero, even pep said agüero was irreplaceable, and then haaland had one of the greatest premier league seasons for a single player ever, and it was his debut.
Forlan was a superstar for Atletico he scored 32 league goals one year
An other intresting one or actually 2 is Marco van Basten replacing Johan Cruijff and Dennis Bergkamp replacing van Basten at Ajax
well most germans will disagree with you on that one. while kimmich is undoubtedly a great player, he was heavily critisized for underperforming at both the 2018 world cup and the euro2021. also he got a lot of crap for being an anti vaxxer so there's that...
most germans that are not bayern fans don't really like him especially compared to lahm
True
I never understood why low and played Kim much as a RWB and played gundogan alongside kroos.
Pulisic trying to be a replacemant for Hazard can be one
Donnarumma and many young talents killed their career joining the non football team
donna rums can not even afford buffon shoes ,ship them and put them on
Alfie, you can't lie to us, the first two minutes of Buffon's segment were just you realizing that a two minute introduction was too short for your own standards and feeling compelled to double its length.
I am only here because of the thumbnail. Donnaruma seemed like a good replacement for Buffon, but recent events proved otherwise
4:43 was that a dig at football pundits? I mean we all know that Buffon and Alfie hang out at the Park sometimes, but it still sounded like that
Haven’t watched yet, what number is Joe Hart?
George best should be on here. Footballs first superstar
Port Vale, Scott Brown... oh no we F-d that up!!!
You can also say Marcel Desailly replacing Frank Rijkaard at AC Milan.
Donnarumma career at PSG is not his fault!!!
Meanwhile, any team that Ronaldo leaves does equally as good or even better once he's gone.
How did Dani Alves taking over Cafu's position at right back not in the 7 man?? And how is Navas so disrespected that he doesn't even get a shout for the honorable mentions after he took the mantle Casillas left after that old gaffer Perez ousted the saint of a man?? C'mon now
Casillas was not irreplaceable. He's one of the greatest and most successful keepers ever, yes, but you're just delusional if you think that the biggest club in the world (even as a Messi fan, I can admit that) is not going to develop or buy another great keeper, c'mon man. I mean look at how fast they replaced Navas with Courtois.
Bruh c'mon, it's just paying respect to my idol having been a goalkeeper myself. And a small correction if you will, that old gaffer Perez didn't have faith in Navas despite the man having brought a La Liga Title and 3 successive Champions Leagues to the Bernabeu. And yes Courtois is younger, and now better, but anyone who was and is a Madrid fan knows my guy Navas didn't deserve to be done dirty and isn't getting the respect he deserves; even now in PSG
@@franzreyes846 I don't think what you say is entirely true, since if Navas had replaced Casillas, say after the 2012 season we would be talking something. Even if I think Casillas was amazing and underrated good his last season at Madrid, he wasn't the I win games by myself goalkeeper he used to be. A good example for Mark Anthony to this is how Madrid have as of today seamlessly replaced Ramos and Varane in their backline, even if those two played together as starters at least for 5 years and had been together for 9. big clubs can often do this, but it is that mantra and aura of greatness that replaces greatness that I think makes the difference here
Athletico just have a talent of replacing keepers and strikers