How GOOD Were Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic, Really?
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- čas přidán 16. 05. 2024
- Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic formed one of the most dominant defensive partnerships of all time during their playing careers at Manchester United.
But how good were they, really?
Transcript and Sources: footballiconic.com/how-good-w...
Twitter: / theofficial_fi
Background music by the incredibly talented Lakey Inspired: / i-found-me
0:00 Introduction
01:55 Rio Ferdinand
06:43 Nemenja Vidic
09:34 Nemanja Vidic and Rio Ferdinand at Manchester United
13:13 Achievements
Producer: Tinashe Chipako
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"Strikers win games, defenders win championships." - Sir Alex Ferguson
He wasn't wrong
Yep just look at now we got bruno rashford who scores alot of goals but our defence are not great we win matches when attackers are at their best but we concede way too many goals with maguire and lindelof at the back they just dont work together. they are too simular and they got 0 pace, i think what we should do is buy a couple of cbs that are different than these two, bailly is but sadly he cant go more than 3-4 games before he is out for 3-4 games
He was rarely ever wrong bro..... He was rarely ever wrong.
Which makes his choice naming only four world class players under him, all of whom were either forwards or midfielders- even more baffling.
Mourinho is living proof this quote is facts
@@liampowell5014 wow bro you are just spitting nonesense our united wtm is a living proof of his qoute
Vidic: Puts his head where nobody puts their foot
Ferdinand: casually bullying world class attackers
*Those glory days were a joy to watch 😍*
These two were unreal together!
Until Torres set Vidic back 30 years mentally. :-))
@@migelmagoo5343 dude scored 3 goals in 12 matches against vidic yet these little shits talk like vidic was someone from the championship
@@migelmagoo5343 Torres is the real flop
Torres didn't agree on that
“You can fix a broken nose. But if you let someone score a goal, you can’t fix your pride.”
- Vidic :')
I still miss Vidic, man had more passion for our club than 90% of our players today...combined
True. The Man played with pride and determination. Even our academy players these days act like their career is more akin to a holiday camp.
Couldnt agree more
@@justswah2526 we are much different now, I'm loving Martinez, Casemiro, Varane and Dalots passion especially right now but most of our players are showing passion and its great to see.
I also love ETH, definitely a manager I can get behind and already have.
Best partnership the prem has seen 💯
Yeah except Terry and Carvalho....
@@glowwurm9365 no where near vidic and ferdinand
@@k.davies9135 who did messi score a unmarked header against? Not to mention when Drogba taught them a lesson.
Think Vidic still has nightmares about torres tbh
@@JamesHussain82 I gurantee you can get any defender in the history of football and give me games where he doesn’t sent play well I could give you games where terry our carvalho has shcoker against some random table strikers but I really don’t care that much to do that
@@k.davies9135 in a CL final and an FA Cup final?
Least goals conceded and most clean sheets in prem season. JT and RC
I honestly think Vidic and Ferdinand would’ve stayed at least 1 or 2 years more if it wasn’t for fergies retirement
100% agreed.
When David Moyes makes you watch tapes of Phil Jagielka's defending that's a punch on your face
shows how much u know chump
@@markredford84 huh
@wharsmetoothpicson exactly
That triangle of defense at the back Ferdinand, Vidic and Van der Sar was something amazing. (The work teams would have to put in to get past all three)
One of the big things is that you could see the three of them clearly got on, rio’s essay on Vidic makes that very clear, they expected the absolute best from each other
If CB’s and GK can have this chemistry at the back they will succeed at all times even against top oppositions.
Meanwhile, Messi: "Hullo, who dis?"
@@oskarnogalski8178 I would say barcalona which is I believe the greatest club side ever. United were second only to that team
Yep and it allowed Evra to basically be an extra winger.
Johnny Evans played his part filling in when either was injured. In fact it's clear that getting rid of him was a terrible mistake.
Even City were after him at one point.
always been quality and an underrated player.
Please no evans talk he is the shittest
evans was only good as a squad player.
@@bass9351 He just won a major trophy this year while MU players have fuck all
Vidic was the kind of guy who would dive head first into a brick wall if it meant it could stop a goal.
LOL. This made my day, thank you
@@Saicofake youre welcome 😊😊
You mean Puyol but in much worse version
"u can fix broken nose , but u cant fix ur pride when some1 scores" - vidic
@@sobrevalorado you think Pique was better than Vidic... Stop typing on CZcams as if you have a single ounce of football knowledge 🤡
Not a Manchester United fan but huge respect for this iconic duo. Best combination of silk and steel.
To put it into perspective, there were a couple of other CB partnerships at that time, that could easily have claimed to be the best ever, yet these two still stood out. To be considered even better than Terry & Carvalho, and Puyol & Pique, in itself is the measuring stick.
The golden era of defenders imo.
Plse dont say Pique plseeeee
@@yousefalkanderi8620 umm guess someone didn’t watch pique in his prime and only watched highlights and today’s football
@@emericgoat6477 trust me watched every game and i did not say he's bad btw but not the best not even close to be the best ever
How are they better then Terry and Carvalho? They got a record for most cs like they let 14 goals score in PL record that will never be broken.
emericgoat Puyol + Marquez was a sight to behold. Yaya Toure said on English TV that at Barca, when Marquez was fit and playing, he was 10 times better than Pique
To answer the question of how they'd do in the premier league today, simply put. They'd terrorize the prem!! Just like they did back in the days bruv!!!!
I'm sure vidic would get alot more red cards tho
Without shit football is right now Anderson would probably terrorise the league
@@cybermanne nono i think you misunderstood, he would be an absolute beast, but knowing him and seeing the tackles from '07, to now. he'd end up getting 3 red cards a season easily. id still take him for 27-29 bomb games each season
@@aryamankhemlani5214 bruh marking the likes of abraham,firmino,lacazete,magoldrick,mitrovic,jolinton,antonio,watkins,dcl,😂🤣🤣🤣man used to tussle with drogba,owen,toress,anelka,,elmander,santa Cruz,kuyt,rodallega,hendry,v.persie,agbonlahor,c.cole,tevez
A lot of weaker attackers now
Ferdinand is the type of ball playing CB Pep fantasizes about day in day out
His ball playing ability, cross field diagonal passes and his pace and defensive ability are criminially underrated, especially by English fans themselves
As for Vidic, he's the best defender I have seen in 14 years of following football. I could go to war if he's on my team
Lol u wish
Vidic: One of the craziest defenders ever
Ferdinand: Clever and ball playing
they both have good timing ....
That Vidic tackle on Messi in 2011 UCL final...
Still remember it to this day🤌 and it also launched a counter attacking chance for United🔥
I am a Chelsea fan since 2009!! I loved Terry but man trust me these both were on another level!🔥
As a defender growing up watching these two play was something else. Vidic was literally my inspiration whenever I went on the pitch. Still is.
Imagine Jaap Stam and Vidic.
Game over for everyone.
Rio was top level and I wish he stayed a couple years longer at united even as part time as our defence was terrible after. QPR thing didn't work great but I can see he was trying something a bit different.
Yep every attacker is dead
I think he's more implying that they'd turn their half of the field into massacre and scare attackers into submission, rather than be a chemically balanced partnership like Staam and Johnsen or Ferdinand and Vidic. Both of them intimidated opponents where Ferdinand and Johnsen tended to play composed and clean up for their insane friend XD
I think if you combine thoose two, one generation would grow up without 10 and 11-ens. Nobody would wont to be a stricker...
They wouldn't of worked. No good on the ball or organisation
what is really frustrating is that having Vidic, Rio, and Evra to learn from Jones and smalling still could not live up to our hopes (United Fans)
I am not going to slag them off but after watching a backline with Evra, Vidic, Rio and Van der Star, you can almost cry watching Jones and smalling.
Hear hear
but either jones or smalling is still better than hairy maguire
The fact that those three are our options says it all. Then you've for Eric "Mr Glass" Bailly and Victor "The Gentle Man" Lindelof . Our CB's are a shit show.
To be honest Smalling wasn’t that bad! He did pretty good at Roma after.. I must admit I haven’t seen much of Jones though. I must say I’d pick Smalling over Maguire every day…
There's still hope. Varane and Martinez pairing has been phenomenal and I hope it continues like that.
Before I even watch this vid yes
Nemanja vidic is my all time favorite defender and as a Man U fan I was spoiled to watch him
I was a teenager before I really understood football defense the way I understand it now and didn't appreciate him but man do I miss our former captain...
Thank you Vidic for EVERYTHING YOU GAVE US
Dude, these two would still dominate the league today. I'm loving your channel, thank you.
lmfao theyd get bullied
Grew up watching these legends made me fall in love with the art of defensive play
Then Ferdinand-Vidic...
Now Lord Maguire...
How the table turned
when you saw an attacker running towards goal and you see ferdinand appear on screen, you know nothing much will happen.
best defender of all for me.
I'm not a United fan but Rio is my favorite defender of all time. He had everything. He was tall, strong, athletic and great with the ball. You could probably play him anywhere. He just became a defender because he was tall and could jump high.
Definitely. He did actually play in the midfield a couple of times early in his united career, funnily enough.
Vvd rio partnership would have been art
I miss this roster much:
Van der Sar
Vidic
Ferdinand
G. Neville
Evra
Scholes
Carrick
Giggs
Ronaldo
Rooney
Berbatov
And I am a Chelsea fan.
Watching the video and remembering the time when our center backs actually stopped goals rather than helping the other team score. The way they understood each other is what we need now in our CB pairing but we got slow pokes and injury prone cb
I completely agree that Ferdinand / Vidic is by far the best center guard pair in English modern football. I think of those who play these positions in the ManUnited team today ... what a distance between them.
I don’t even think Liverpool fans can argue with this. Best defensive duo the prem has ever seen
Hurts to hear that we blew an opportunity to get him
with Rio & Vidic; plus Edwin as GK, Neville & Evra on the full backs, Carrick & Scholesy as midfielders, and Rooney-CR7 .. MU on that era must be one of the best team on the history of football
United had that and only won one cl. There were/are better teams out there. Barcelona were the same era were better as were ac Milan.
A video on how good Eric Cantona was plzz
On it!
@@FootballIconic Please pay special attention to his FA Cup final goal vs Liverpool. He was 2 yards INSIDE the box when he began shooting, 2 yards outside the box when he actually hit the ball.
The man walked backwards 4 yards as he shot. Never seen anything like it
@@disobeytoday4685 one of my earliest football memories! Great moment. Euro 96 soon after.
How good were Rio and Vida? Well, fairly decent sometimes, but mostly fucking brilliant.
Thanks for details. Enjoyed the good work done by you
Absolutely class the two of them. Vidic could get you a goal as well as could Ferdinand but vidic was better in an attacking sense. They had a sixth sense, Ferdinand knew when to drop and cover and vidic would press the player. Excellent players
i still cant believe the fact just 1 red card for Rio. that dude was murder lol
Well he was tough but fair, like Jaap Stam. Unlike Ramos who isn't that tough but really unfair. In short: Rio and Jaap scared strikers but it didn't cost too many games, Ramos scares no striker but missed out tons of games.
Vidic would have been a Warlord of the Steppe in another era
Khal Vidic of the Khalasar
Man I still know my cousin used to support united and that's how I came to know about them, with Ronaldo and Rooney with us it was easy for me to support the team, Spanish football and Italian football were not that much popular in India and premiere league was huge i guess I made the right decision supporting united there's so much memories of them ...Vidic and Ferdinand are no doubt the best defenders duo world has ever seen ❤️🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
You need to do one on pallister and bruce. Without them I dont think we'd even have the United we know
The United we know is a United to forget....
@@davidcarter7337 Best time to be a United fan since early 2010s
Ole's at the wheel
Great job on this video. Loved it. And yes I agree that Rio and Vidic were the best.
From 1 mvp to another, great video thanks for the nostalgia.
You are definitely a South African, Radebe was pronounced perfectly 🇿🇦, Also always great content
@Tyrone Govender you spotted it too eh?
Yeah I think he is
He's definitely South African , probably Xhosa . Trust me He's of my generation i can tell fela nna our English aint nearly as skoen wabona
Dude he's from the Maldives but studied in South Africa hence the accent
Nicely done man! ❤️
Can't believe people compare Vidic to Van Dijk 🙄
Like how tf can you do this?
dude really like your videos, keep 'em coming please !
subscribed.
How are you not on 100K subs yet?? Your content is one of the best quality football documentaries ive ever seen.
most underrated football channel on CZcams 🙌🙌, keep up with the good content 💪💪
Love the vids they’re extremely detailed and fun to watch keep it up
Fr man love this video. Earned a new subscriber.
Damn bro just stumbled on your channel and been binge watching
BRILLIANT VIDEO, HOW DID I STUMBLE ON THIS CHANNEL SO FCKING LATE!!
Good content mate! Enjoyed the video :) You've put a lot of effort in it. Keep it up
Just subscribes and liked , great video ,I found the way the information and facts were presented kept me watching , good stuff man🙌
Subbed because you made vids of the team I've been supporting past 25 years
4 reds against the Livershit??? I fucking love that man Vidic!!
Man this was so satisfying to watch gj
They were amazing; Ferdinand is my personal all time favourite defender. So privileged to have gotten to enjoy their partnership at the club
Great triangle. Vidic ferdinand and evds. Vidic was the best centre back to play in premier league. Wont see a player like him again
Very informative video
They were perfect. There were a lot of great defensive pairings at the time, in and outside the premier League. But none worked so perfectly with each other than these two. As a united fan, watching them playing in the back really gave us a sense of safety.
Also shout out to Edwin Van dar sar for being the most consistent footballer I've ever seen. Hardly ever saw him make a mistake or fumble, which is often harder than even flashy saves.
Digging the channel, keep up the good work.
To have these two in the same league is excellent, but to have them at the same team is just insane.
Rio was great on the ball, good vision and great leadership that lifted the dressing room with his fun antics. Vidic was a monster strikers hated going up against, winning almost every ball in the air, winning so many tackles, and was not afraid to put his body on the line to keep a clean sheet. Great partnership and one of if not the best defensive duo in premier league history.
Your videos are really good mate :)
Good video man, really enjoyed it. Subbed!!!
They were the G.O.A.T duo defenders, we had the privelage to play and own both titans.
If you don't include Italians these might take the cake yeah
Oh, I didn’t know Les was his cousin, good to know! I just thought he was only related to Anton all these years. Thanks for the vid, Rio and Vidic are legendary 👌
Banger keep it up mate.
Rio and Vidic were one of the Rock of United during SAF 's era, before that , there were Steve Bruce and Pallister too, hardly had any real issue with CB till SAF' s retirement .
late for the party but bro Tinashe please do more defensive type players i love this
This channel is gold
I'm glad I found it
And I'm glad I found you, friend
Great channel bro
Quality content my bro. Great for an up and coming youtuber 🙏🙏 well deserved sub from me
A little late to this video but the “frank lampard is Frank lampard’s father” line got me good
This channel is really doing great.
I'd love if you make more videos on topics like this❤
My recommendation-
Just how good was Tony Adams.
Rio Ferdinand+ Namenja Vidic, the Great wall of Manchester United. Miss those days these two play together
Nemanja
Great vid I am so happy u uploaded today 🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮. Keep up the great work!!!
Thanks man!!
found this gem of a channel SUBBED!!!
Just liked the video! Hope my team gets good luck for 10 years
yesssss i was waiting for this :)
I still have my Manchester AIG AON Chevrolet jerseys.. this was the team I grew up watching And the team that became my favorite Manchester united.
I miss Vidic and Ferdinand.
Someone needs to invent a time machine...
Best central pairing the premier has ever seen Rio and Vidic
I completly agree. They where as good as i can think off in any era together
This channel is brilliant
Please do a Terry , Carvalho video. Great content as usual.
Great credit at the end! Fair enough.
U deserve more subscribers.
Rio was some defender but seeing him coming out of defence was a sight, the man seemed to gilde from his own box to the centre in a couple strides, could pick a pass too, gotta be seen as one of the greats
Top quality video as usual. How about one on Schmeichel and Van der Saar?
Vidic = Sith Lord
Rio = Jedi Master
Ferdinand : Rolls Royce
Vidic : Brick Wall
Name a better defensive duo....I'll wait!!!
I ALSO FANCY THEM BETTER AT LARGE....YET I WOULD CONSIDER THE ITALIANS NESTA-CANNAVARO AND THE URUGUAYANS GODIN-GIMENEZ AS STRONG COMPETITION.
maldini and nesta
Love the content 🤙 I think a vid on Puyol would be sick
Thanks bro, Legend!
Anyone can say anything but for me they are the greatest ever CB pairing the Premier League has ever seen & don't compare their partnership to the others
Love the vid could you do a vid on Patrice evra plz or Ji sung Park
Best partnership for me. The only thing better would be to be able to have had these two and Stam in a back 3. Stam was just as immense for me.
Sir alex finally found the perfect pair that he needed on united deffense after the iconic pallister-bruce. It sad tbh dat jaap stam only hv short season on man u back then
And just like that. Liked and subscribed
Wish we had them now...
Ferdinand - Vidic!!!!👍💕 Thankyou for this video.
World class defensive duo. And Europe's Elite