The Forgotten Nation That Shaped European Football Forever
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- The likes of England, Scotland, Italy, and Hungary are the countries that we tend to think of as having shaped the European game, along with the likes of Manchester United, Real Madrid, and Bayern Munich within the club game.
One nation and one team that rarely gets a mention is the short-lived Saar Protectorate and the former Bundesliga side FC Saarbrucken, whose impact upon the sport, and in general, has largely been forgotten.
So in this short documentary, HITC Sevens takes a look at the German state of Saarland, its impact upon the world's most popular sport, and how without them, we may not have a Champions League final to look forward to later this month. - Sport
Hate the comments asking for all different videos and no one saying anything about the video, great video all the same
I totally agree
Me too they flood the whole comment section. Almost no one comments on the actual video
That's the beauty/issue with being the people's channel - they've done many a video based on submissions, so it enables people to ask for things.
I'm not saying its bad nor good - its just been part and parcel of this channel for as long as I can remember.
To be fair, there's quite a few comments about this video compared to others.
I'm actually torn between posting my own suggestion for a new video and the desire to not contribute to the suggestion clutter.
@@piotrekn3127 Im the same. I want to have him make a video based on my suggestion, but I don't want yet another "Day 17 of ... video suggestion"
Well...it seems like I've won my cause on the long occasion ^^ thank you very much for that video, as usual it was very well documented!
thanks for the suggestion :) btw, are you from Saarland? greetings from Malaysia
@@MarkWTK no, but I'm from Germany. Some family lives in the Saarland, that's where I have that connection
pro trick : you can watch series on flixzone. I've been using them for watching lots of of movies lately.
@Odin Francis definitely, been watching on flixzone for months myself =)
@Odin Francis definitely, I have been using flixzone for since december myself =)
This is so interesting for me as most of my family is originally from the Saarland. And The goalkeeper of their 1954 team was the neighbour of my grandparents! He had the most amazing oldschool football stories.
Do tell some :)
@@edsal467 Yah yah.....
Where from the Saarland exactly...?
My dad's a Saarländer. It's a special little region with a special little accent and a culture just between German and French. The oldest people still sometimes call the rest of Germany "the Reich" because of the political separations of the past ("Dahemm" (at home) vs "das Reich" (Germany but abroad)). But I really didn't know about the footballing history...
Speziell, dat stemmt.
It is like Elsass but inversed
Saarland is also the region where French troops invaded Germany in 1939, while the Nazis were busy attacking Poland in the East.
Although, upon conquering a couple kilometers and stumbling upon a lone MG nest, the French thought that'd be enough war for today, and retreated back to get crispy baguettes (and to get invaded by the Germans a year later).
As someone from Saarland, thank you for giving our history some attention❤️
how old are you?
@@sc0op15 Mate, I'm 20, I wasn't alive for any of this. But: This story is common knowledge here where I live, yet I've never even seen it be told this publicly, not even in Germany. The Saarland is tiny, in the grand scheme of things we're irrelevant, but we have a crazy background story, and it's a nice feeling when that gets acknowledged.
You stole denmarks flag, i wont ever forgive you
Äisch säin och Saarlänner, fierzisch Joar, äisch känn die Geschischt of jedn Fall.
@@joachimnddelund5946 We made it more beautiful, though.
Thank-you for mentioning-
"Operation paperclip".
You have gone up in my ratings x
Worth mentioning Von Braun and his mates who were heavily involved in crimes against humanity when building the V2 rockets then joined NASA and he became a national ‘hero’ putting men on the moon.
@@johnholt9399 They towts landed on the moon. 🤫🙃
Well they are heroes. They helped win the cold War.
@@lucaslimo win the cold War? It was a war of intelligence, and technological growth, are you insinuating that the West is superior to Russia and communism.
@@jessewrites3819 Well if you judge the “Winner” of the War based on Intelligence and Technological advancements, the US would be Superior as far as im concerned. I’m not saying the US won or the Russians lost the war, but you don’t actually wanna argue that the Russians are further developed in technology than the US right?
I love these videos, being a GCSE history student studying Germany , it's great to see an insight into how the nation revived their sporting prominence following the war
I'm in your position too. Love Alfie's videos are always so insightful and they've made me want to become a historian of German football. (Ik very niche)
That's it, I'm starting a Saarbruken save on FM
Yas!
Kudos to @Andris for his persistence! Very interesting topic on a piece of history that few of us would ever heard or know. 👏👏
You're welcome, I'm glad my suggestion ended in such a well done video!
@@andris1634 Tu esi Latvietis?
@@supremeone2369 no, not from Latvia, I am German
@@andris1634 Oh, you're name Andris, is very common in Latvia
Your*
They really punched above their weight, gotta admire that
They must have had a really good side. Telepathic football.
The impression I get is that these kind of videos are less efficient from a business perspective, but I absolutely love them. Thanks for all the hours of gold Alfie.
If there was enough in it, the story of Jeff Hall at Birmingham could be a good topic.
England international whose death was instrumental in the take up of the Polio vaccine. Maybe a timely video!
Wow. HITC Sevens - this is a pleasant surprise. I lived in Saarbruecken for a couple months during Uni. It was by far one of my fondest memories up until now. Some of the nicest and charitable people I have ever met, the Saarlanders were such a splendid introductory to "German Culture" and Germany overall. I definitely recommend anyone to visit if able.
I think this is one of your most interesting and informative videos.
Tones of work put into these, I've learned so much about the sport and its history from this channel.
Fantastic video, thank you so much for this great summary of this largely forgotten, yet important piece of European football history!
Great Video with a lot of insight on how things evolved in Saarland over the years
Kudos for mentioning Operation Paperclip
Thank you for your work... this little pieces of history are amazing!
Alfie! A fantastic video again.... and despite being your former teacher, and a German teacher at that, lots of new info for me. I won't even quibble about some of your German pronununciation, as I seem to remember you only doing French at school.... your best one so far, in my eyes, but I am biased towards stories of German football... I can recommend some great literature on German football but I am guessing you have some already. All the best, Herr G.
Really enjoyed the video. A million thanks! I've been a big football fan since the early 70s and love this kind of unusual story. How about a video on Escoses FC, a team of Scottish factory workers living in Barcelona...one of whom played for Barca and scored their first goal in a competitive match!!!
I love your videos that are chock full of obscure information surrounding the game that I love! Thank you so very much!! ✌🏼💖
Wonderful video, knocking it out of the park again
Fair play, Alfie, this may be one of the best videos you've made so far.
Day 119:
"Final Yugoslavia First League Teams: Where are they now?" would be interesting with Red Star winning the 90s CL but then falling from grace as a lot of teams in the region.
+ maybe how a lot of them changed names or logos as socialism felt off (loosing a red star etc.)
Let’s not forget Partizan making Champions League final 1966 and Dinamo Zagreb winning Inter-Cities Fairies Cup just a year later. Hajduk also made quarterfinals of Champions League 3 times in 80s & 90s.
Day 36: Best 7 Caribbean Footballers of all time. (Had to either play for a Caribbean Nation or be born in the Caribbean and be uncapped)
Dwight Yorke, Joaquin Arias, Shaka Hislop, Shaun Goater, Leon Bailey, Jason Roberts, Wes Morgan
Have I missed anyone?
@@scpjack7856 stern john, theodore whitmore, russell latapy just off the top of my head.
I'm not saying they're better than your picks, just further suggestions. top man👍
My Grandma for the young Bahamas
@@ak47groupAKM 😂
@@scpjack7856 Shaun Goater doesn’t count because he’s Bermudan, which I don’t think is in the Caribbean. I know in cricket Bermuda compete separately to the West Indies (although they only make up part of the Caribbean) so I assume Bermuda isn’t part of the Caribbean, especially given it’s a lot further northeast.
Was going to ask about covering this Alfie, thanks for reading my mind
Videos like this is why I love this channel.
1 of your best works Alfie. Thats was fantastic 👏
Great video. Thanks.
I had heard of this before, because well im a nerd for football and trawling through wikipedia, but its weird that I looked at the Saarland national team article on wiki just a few days ago, and here you are with a video about it. Great minds think alike!
My dad, who played semi-pro in Germany in the late 60s and managed a national team in the 70s (not telling), and is football crazy, always told me about Saarland's independent footballing history. Nice to see it brought out to a wider audience. Incidentally, the manager of my favourite team's - Waldhof Mannheim - best seasons had a stint as Saarbrücken's boss, before eventually taking over the Chinese national team.
Alfie, this is so imformative, well done great work
Incredible video, as usual.
Greetings from the Saarland!!
Ah joo, Grüße aus Oberfranken 😁👍🏻
Great story Alfie , i learn something today , and i will look if i have any stamps in my youth collection , of Saarland . Thank you for the video .
Excellent content. I lived in Strasbourg (France) the past 2 years and between my many many bus journeys back home to Wales, I'd always have to change buses in Saarbrücken. Was great seeing them go so far in the Deutsche Pokal last time out. Just a stopover for me but always wanted to know more about the place =)
Great video mate. Been watching since you lot had 10k sub on the old one - great to see where you are now
Favorite youtube chanel for over 2 years now
great video! Cheers from Saarbrücken
Very brilliant video about something I knew nothing about. Thanks!
Alfie I always get educated about football when watching ur vids bro pure class as pre usual
Day 22:Please make a video about DINAMO BUCHAREST...The story of our club is a hard one...And you telling it can really help us a lot,our club is clinging to survival,and we raised 2 milion euros to try to save the club...
Dinamo is one of the biggest clubs in Eastern Europe,it has 18 league titles and 13 domestic cup titles...It reached the Champions League Semi Final in 1984 after beating the holders of the trophy Hamburg...In the Semi Final they played against the great Liverpool side of the 80's...After the 89 revolution the club lost one of their greatest generation after their players where bought off by western clubs,similar to what happened to the clubs in East Germany that you already talked about...Corruption and neglect brought this giant of romanian football to it s knees...At the moment Dinamo is preety much the ONLY true historical side in Romania's top division...This team stood afloat thanks only to it's fans...In the summer some new spanish chiarman came and bought the club,brought players on huge contracts and left without paying them...The players just broke the contracts and the club accumulated even more debt...If the fans did not step in and accumulated 2 milion euros the club would have been dissolved...For anyone watching outside of Eastern Europe it might be hard to understand it s value...If u re English imagine Liverpool being dissolved...This club is OUR Liverpool,and it's stadium OUR cathedral...With all the fears of relegation,players leaving and managers coming in and leaving the club still managed to fight it's way to a Romanian cup Semi Final...Please,make one video about our story too...
this channel deserve more praise
Cant imagine how tedious the research for this video must’ve been. Quality content
Great video as usual!
Very interesting story, keep up with the good work Alfie
This is the most interesting and fascinating historical football documentary I have ever seen.
awesome , very informative video thank you
The best player that has had a stint with every pl club
Eto'o for Everton
Anelka for West Brom
Think Anelka is better then Lukaku?
@@PlayThenSay yes
brilliant video, learned a lot and found it very interesting!
Amazing vid Alfie, proper thorough research
This video made me switch to Wikipedia every 2 minutes and I love it
Superb work. The history of football (and all sport) is an integral part of how nations and cultures develop. Anyway, my ideas for a video; 1 - All time Basque v Catalan XIs, 2 - Scotland 1978 WC (We'll really shake them up when we win the World Cup), 3 - Matthias Sindelar (great story, I'm sure you know it, but lots of intrigue), 4 - Seven teams that play in other countries' leagues (not including Welsh teams in England, as the UK is the country). I'm not bothered (much) if you ignore me, whatever you choose, it'll be fascinating.
Beautiful zoom into a microcosm of European history Alfie 👏👏👏 the football is incidental to this one, but that’s life.
Love niche football and history subjects like this love to see more videos like this
Great video, I remember reading about Saarland a bit when I read about that 1954 squad which Imo had the talent to make some noise in Brasil. No surprise Saarland and Saarbrucken where as good when they had that good of a coach in their ranks
The video was amazing didn't know about this club so now I know about it so thanks ☺️
Excellent vid! The Saarland is a wonderful place to live....and I'm saying that as a Dutchman....wonderful landscape, wonderful people, excellent food and always veeery relaxed....
Great video 👍
Very interesting vid. 👍🏻👍🏻
Excellent video!
Very well researched Video! I didnt konw that my home town club once was that good to create its own turnament.Fun fact my grandparents where born in the same village but in 4 different States due to the Saarland changing hands so often.
So interesting. Thank you
That's Saarland 🔥🔥
HAALAND
Best football knowledge channel there is. 👏👌
Very interesting. Never knew about Saarland. Love the independent Saarland flag too.
Thank you for this piece.
Fascinating story thanks for that
Nice video very interesting. Gj alfie
This is amazing🔥🔥
What a great video
Great research. Up there with the difficulties European historians have to deal with. So many chops and changes to a region based on continental politics.
This was good,love these old nations history.much better than the last one you did a while ago on india since its more impactful to our game in Europe
Great history video as always Alfie!
Your video made me think that Saarbruken(I might have butchered the name sorry) was an urban myth lol
12:18 Miniscule correction: The club is called "Dresdner SC" ("Dresden's Sports Club"), with the "er" bit at the end indicating possession. The city itself is called Dresden. Just saying "Dresdener" would be like saying "Hull's" without any follow up ;)
Good stuff as always! Also, day 1 of not suggesting anything :D
Great Video
7 players most likely to form a revolution against the monarchy and overthrow the royal family based on their weak foot ability
Based
1. JLingz
Well researched account of a little known sage. Thanks.
Great video, what a logo for Saarland btw thing of beauty
I played a game at Saarbruchen in the German cup. It was whilst serving in the RAF in Germany. The team I played for played in the Nord Rhine Westphalian league of West Germany (the last season of this league before reunification). We were invited down a couple of days before and shown round the ground and told of their fascinating history (but I have to admit my German wasn't quite up to understanding everything that was said), there was three of us Brits playing that day one Army lad, a civvy friend who was a chippy and myself like I said was serving in the RAF at the time. We lost the game quite heavily but it was a memory that will live long in the memory
The Tim Traveller had a great video on Saarland, two of my favorite youtubers covering the same topic, fun times
Day 41. 7 most successful club teams that no longer exist. Very interesting video today.
Rangers FC
@@bri1085 I mean yes and no
AC Parma
7 best gay footballers?
@@bri1085 Ha Ha Terry Munro. Torbett towers has collapsed.
Can you please do a video on Newport County AFC. It's an amazing story reformation, when we were kicked out Wales and the fans took over ownership of the club and brought the mighty Exiles back into the football league, as well as completing a ridiculous run to quarter final of the European cup winners cup with John Aldridge leading the team. In recent years we have had some incredible FA Cup runs beating the likes of Leicester (the season after they won the league) and Leeds Utd and even drawing with Spurs. This season we are looking for promotion in the League two play offs
This channel does a better job than legacy media in unearthing and telling the universally appealing human stories of Football.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you very much Sir! WouId you believe it! I had not a clue of the very interesting roots, of a championship contest I have enjoyed since the 1970's.
I was following this team last season as they made it to the quarters or semis of the dfb pokal and then they were introduced into fifa 21 because they got promoted so when it said about Saarland being next to Germany I knew that Saarbrucken would be mentioned
Every French player signed in Newcastle’s ‘French Revolution’ where are they now?
Nice video
Best historical take ever!
What a video alphie
Thats a GREAT story and an amazing idea for a FM21 save.
I went to a Saarbrucken match in 2007, then in the Dritte Liga. (during an Edvard Grieg festival (!)). They were playing a little-known outfit who had just been bought by a mega-rich person. The club was TSV Hoffenheim.
To my surprise, who was to enter the field but Mustapha Hadji, who I didn't realise was even still going.
It was a dreadful game where neither team understood the concept of defending the wings. And the Saarbruckeners looked at me kinda funny as I cheered them on anyway.
Quality video
100th time I ask for a video on champions league winners that came after losing they nation league previous season.
Thanks
Great video as always
Here while Saarbrucken tears through the DFB Pokal this year.
Day 64: A premier league styled table of the 20 biggest cities and their football teams in the UK
ok
Video idea: do a video on omonoia 1948. Basically the ultras of omonoia Nicosia (gate 9) created a new team that started from the Sunday leagues of Cyprus and by this time they are close to being promoted to the second tier.
Was actually split in 5 he says as the image hovers over the polish and Russian annexations. It was split into 7. Occupation zones: US, UK, France, USSR. Annexations: Poland USSR and Fiddly independent country that decided to rejoin the Bundesrepublik: Saarland.
Great video as usual Alfie, also feel free to make more videos about hull city, rather that than the general media always talking about the “big six”
Big Five when Arsenal isn't so big anymore
In this and other worlds,I am the 13th liker of this video and fully like almost all the nations including this nation daily in my life forever and every generations that we would be born,good friends!!!:-D