The World Cup's hardest man ever?
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- čas přidán 4. 07. 2014
- Italy's Claudio Gentile was a legendary defender known for his no-nonsense approach that helped shut down Diego Maradona and win the 1982 FIFA World Cup™.
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"I watched videos of Maradona for two days to figure out how to slow him down; I decided on just kicking the shit out of him."
That's just admitting defeat
@@magopiendibene You know nothing about real football. Gentile was the antithesis of what football and defending should be about. A coward and a bully who did it all behind the referees back. Compare him with Franz Beckenbauer or Paul Breitner who won all their duels by interception using skill and intelligence. Gentile should have been banned from the game or a given lengthy suspension but was indulged by compliant managers and weak referees.
Like scoring by hand as Maradona did?
@@eliantotristalia1695 Fouling 23 times in single world Cup. Today's standard Gentile would be out within no time
@@eliantotristalia1695 I you know, if that goal would have been disallowed, Maradona would’ve scored 2 more to England, Maradona was unstoppable in 1986.
1982 is my favourite world cup. Italy did it the hard way beating Argentina, Brazil and West Germany. Gentile was superb.
Don't forget poland
Gentile era come il gatto, sapeva solo colpire, non suonava niente! colpendo finché non sono riuscito a fermare Zico e Maradona.
Kicking, tripping and holding players, all behind the referee's back is not what defending is about. Watch some videos of Franz Beckenbauer.
@@gunternetzer9621Watch some video of Baresi and Maldini, the best defenders ever.
@@gunternetzer9621 The Argentines got back from fate what they did in '78 with the Hungarians' young classic, Törőcsik.
Requirement to be a hard man:
Have a moustaches
Have a perm hairstyle
Never smile
Fun fact, "Gentile" in italian means Kind
The hardest man happens to have the word "Gentile" in his name
Nice observation
Esatto
Cannavaro, Nesta, Maldini, Bonucci, Chiellini, Gatusso all these players are born out of a culture which was started by the legendary Claudio Gentile... Lock the ball or Catenaccio
Italy's cynical, dirty, time wasting culture prevented them winning more titles.
@@gunternetzer9621You are obsessed, an italian bullied you or stole your girl, isn't it?😂😂😂
@@gunternetzer9621bru💀💀💀
"Football is not for Ballerinas"
I wonder how he'd conduct himself on the pitch today. Would probably see a lot more cards with some of the diving antics of certain players.
Just compare him to maldini , which shows the difference in class !!
Sissies like Neymar wouldn't even enter the pitch...
@@rinkiakepapa5625 but maldini never won a world cup...
Italy were not defensive against Brazil in 1982. This is a bizarre myth maintained by the Anglo-Saxons. The score line should have read 4-2 to Italy as a goal was disallowed in an otherwise flawless performance by the referee Kline from Israel (his assistant actually messed up). Italy attacked incessantly and were worthy winners. Brazil's problem was that they lacked a quality centre forward in their great '82 team.
Steve Jones Your assessment is spot on. It is arguably the greatest game ever played. Brazil had Zico but Serginho was a joke. He shanked a clear goal in the first half. Brazil brought on Isidoro in the second half but he should have started instead. Zoff made arguably the greatest save in a World Cup tournament towards the end of the match which would have given Brazil the result it needed to go through had it gone in. I still have this match on VHS cassette. LOL!!
Steve Jones bullshit socates scored his perfectly legitimate second goal that wasn't offside and zico had a clear blatant penalty denied when he was shirt was ripped in half and he was chopped down in the penalty box.
Brazil 4 Italy 4 Brazil goes through.
Secondly Italy third goal was illegitimate as the goal they scored from the corner didn't cross the line for a corner.
true jones! they had the lumber jack SERGINHO CHULAPA... I believe that Brazil would have won it had careca been fully fit for spain 82.
Penal in zico
Steve Jones
Brazil wasn't good defensively either , not to mention their bad goalkeeper , they got by weak teams in the first round and when they played a strong Italian team their defense was exposed .
respect for u Mr. Gentile
forever a Juventus legend
Loved watching his masterful defense in 82.
the father of all ruthless defenders in modern football era
Gentile era come il gatto, sapeva solo colpire, non suonava niente! colpendo finché non sono riuscito a fermare Zico e Maradona.
Claudio Gentile much respect!👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿Hard as they come the good old days of man marking!
Maradona's worst nightmare as of 1982. Catenaccio does rule
Unfair. Italy won that world cup by attacking.
@@wonjubhoy Gentile era come il gatto, sapeva solo colpire, non suonava niente! colpendo finché non sono riuscito a fermare Zico e Maradona.
Maradona was too young in 1082, 4 years later the Diego was unstoppable
Imagine gentile against Roy Keane
Gentile would destroy Keane
Such a great defender as Gentille, we'll never find so easy in the world!!!
Hoy en día, sería expulsado, mínimo como 400 veces ,los grandes defensores se definen por su técnica y lectura de juego y quitar la pelota limpiamente
Zico The Legend ! The Real GOAT No. 10 !
Legend of Italian football, I wish footballers nowadays played like him.
Gentile era come il gatto, sapeva solo colpire, non suonava niente! colpendo finché non sono riuscito a fermare Zico e Maradona.
They would be constantly suspended after been sent off 🤣🤣 they still moan about protecting players aswell, they want to thank their lucky stars they’ve never had to play this guy 🤣
@@donaldduck5553 Gentile was the antithesis of what football and defending should be about. A coward and a bully who did it all behind the referee's back. Compare him with Franz Beckenbauer or Paul Breitner who won all their duels by interception using skill and intelligence. Gentile should have been banned from the game or a given lengthy suspension but was indulged by compliant managers and weak referees.
He should have banned from the game. A dreadful player who did it all behind the referee's back. He should have been driving an Italian tank with one gear - backwards.
@@gunternetzer9621 well if he did it to the referees face he would of been sent off every game 🤣 rumour has it he’s still hanging onto zico
Per me Claudio Gentile è stato il più grande marcatore di tutti i tempi, quando abbiamo vinto il mondiale nel lontano 82, chi poteva fermare , Zico, Maradona, e Littbaschi? Se abbiamo vinto quel mondiale grazie A Claudio Gentile, Se giocava ancora Cristiano Ronaldo e Messi non avrebbero vinto 11 Palloni D' Oro. Gentile li avrebbe fatto vivere una vita D' Inferno con la sua Marcatura.
Y no nada más Gentile ,ahí estaban ,Baresi, Carlos Mozer de brasil
Pasarela, Carlos Muñoz
Cirea, Pietro, Julio Cesar (brasil) Augentaler de Alemania
Batiston, Mariño,
Butcher
En ese tiempo estaban los mejores defensas, Messi y cristiano, no hubiesen marcado los goles que tienen
The great claudio gentile . Grazie from all italy national team and seria a fans around the world .
Gentile era come il gatto, sapeva solo colpire, non suonava niente! colpendo finché non sono riuscito a fermare Zico e Maradona.
Think about it.
You have a player who can guard Maradona and Zico.
Then you have a player (Conti) nicknamed MaraZico for his insane skills.
And then you have Zoff, Cabrini, Scirea, Tardelli, Antognoni, Rossi, Altobelli.
That team hardly gets mentioned as the greatest ever, but if you have 10 minutes go check those player's accomplishments through their career, you'll get an idea.
Amazing team who won the ultimate prize in football
so what happened to conti in 86 he played in 86 what. happened
and this is the same team same players that drew with peru and camerroon and should have lost
only beat poland cause boneik was out
He looks healthy. What a player though. True international world class.
Gentile was the antithesis of what football and defending should be about. A coward and a bully who did it all behind the referees back. Compare him with Franz Beckenbauer or Paul Breitner who won all their duels by interception using skill and intelligence. Gentile should have been banned from the game or a given lengthy suspension but was indulged by compliant managers and weak referees.
Search for Pietro Vierchowod as well, Maradona's nightmare in Serie A.
Because player like vierchowod , van basten must retired earlier...
Baresi too😉
baresi, vierchovod, bergomi, tasotti, the list of Italian Butchers is endless....
I love this guy, I always considered Gentile as a Libyan footballer playing for Italy .. he was born in my home town, Tripoli - Libya
best mma fighter in football history
how about roy keane?
Vinnie Jones a.k.a bullet tooth Tony.
Tommy Smith of Liverpool would have this dude for breakfast.
Not sure if this Gentleman would have been given the liberty of using his tactics of constant fouls and physical obstructions, intimidation against the gifted ball players from 1986 World Cup onwards. The kind of physical assaults he launched against Zico and Maradona in 1982 are unthinkable in modern football... he would have been certainly out of the pitch. Zico even had a torn jersey in 1982 Brazil-Italy encounter.
NONSENSE
correct
gentile is the dirtiest defender，but he never injured any players.
cause italian tackles touch the ball... unlike Pepe's and others. Look at Maldini, Nesta, Baresi etc... 90 minutes, 40 tackles, 0 fouls.
He tore Maradona a new one literally
If I was being marked by Gentile I'd wear shinguards on the back of my legs!
A seleção brasileira, tinha dois jogadores a menos, o goleiro e o centroavante
being born in Tripoli Gentile's nick name was Gheddafi even for his great resemblance with the dictator
My greatest defender of all time
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Greatest Italian team ever, beat the best of the best, FORZA ITALIA!
ONE OF MY IDOLS AND HEROES IS MR CLAUDIO GENTILE
ONE OF MY IDOLS IS MR CLAUDIO GENTILE
Definitely wasn't a looker; but then, that was all part of the indestructible package
Grazie Claudio
From Glasgow!
Legend!!
One of the best "Forza Italia"
for this reason Maradona is better than Messi.
fabrykiro
Absolutely correct , Messi wouldn't stand a chance with players like Gentile .
Better than Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar
jim doe yes like he's done in every world cup tournament he's played in..🤣🤣
@Chakka Boola wow I thought Shearer had record with 11
@Chakka Boola so confused. It was in relation to the Neymar game in which he was fouled 10 times but they claimed the record still belonged to Shearer with 11
Dear Iggy Cardozo I would like to remembering you that Italy is not the dirtiest national team in the world . Maradona and Argentina cheated with handball to defeat England in 1986 . And in 2002 in 16 th stage Belgium scored a regular goal with Wilmots in first half disallowed by referees against Brazil and in 2018 France was helped by the referee in final against Croazia he was given a 1 penalty inexistent and a free kick inexistent in favour of France
You are correct. Footbal is fixed sometimes
Zico the best of the all times
La pobreza no te deja ver a Maradona
@@GaspiPÐZico fue mejor que Maradona y ambos superiores a Messi.
@@galotorres8393 jaja que pelotudo
Those were the day,s football was played by men not the wimps you have now.
Defence and art passed to Italians by the legendary Claudio Gentile!
Lol...Baresi ,Maldini are class...not frauds like Gentile
Who else laughed at the title
Hard....... but Gentile.... xD
😂😂
Popping the blue pills, i guess lmado 😉😂😂😂😁😊
It is really ironic that his name means "Gentil", 21 fouls against Argentinian Maradona and He wasn't sent off. I don't think Gentilli was better than Franko Baressi in 1994. Baressi put under control a Bebeto and Romario with out harsh tacles and T-shirt pulling as Gentilli did with Maradona and Zico.
Fik Desta Both defended hard but did not make bad fouls.
bebeto and romario had the feet but didnt exploit the body as much as Diego which many times went forward just thanks to body strenght and fighting.
Baresi was absolute class. And what a defensive line-up he was part of un that Italy team, with a young Maldini, Mauro Tassotti, and Costacurta.
True. That performance by Baresi and the other defenders is the greatest piece of defending I have ever seen up until this day.
Yeah yeah yeah !! Baresi, Maldini ? great players... but no WORLD CUPS...
ONE OF MY IDOLS
I love Gentile. His marking man style is so different from players such Virgil Van Dijk.
In today's game man marking isn't that effective against positional play.
The title is flag worthy.
he was born in Lybia from italian parents but he looks like Gheddafi, mmm.....
His nickname is actually Gheddafi
John Charles for Wales, huge guy at the time, but playing Centre Half was never booked in his entire career.
you were born in 40s 50s
John Charles legend, from a Juventus fan
@@luca91274 he played centre forward too sometimes? Only player that flexible I can remember was Ruud Hullit.
let's imagine Zidane facing Gentile.....to the hospital surely!
Grazie Claudio , Ti aspettiamo in libia
Non ti illudere, non é Libico ma i suoi Genitori in quel periodo vivevano in Libia perché la sua familia svolgeva dei lavori per la Diplomazia Italiana a Tripoli. Gentile é Italiano di genitori Italiani di Sangue Italiano, fatti passare subito quest illusione
A.k.a Gaddafi.
Horrendous refereeing those days.
There is no shutting down Maradona without american football tackling.
Thats what theyve been doing to messi for past 16 years
Gracias adiosproloqueveno
He was not violent, he was never expelled for a violent foul.
He has only been sent off once in his career, for hitting the ball with his hand.
Maradona said he was violent, but the truth is that Maradona was sent off for a kick in the belly of a Brazilian national team player.
Futebol não é para bailarinos, assim como futebol não é para carniceiros que tentam compensar a falta de talento abusando da violência.
The cheater would be sent off in today's game.
Just like Maradona against Argentina...
❤💚❤ i like the italian Team Azurri
انه جيل ذهبي فى وقت جميل جنسيتي انت رايح ❤
Gentile makes Roy Keane look a like a newly born Lamb...
But I'm the hardest man in the world and that's why women everywhere scream my name in adoration!
Sweet DREAMS are made of you!
grande tardelli
Gentile was a mere apprentice to the great Romeo Bennetti
Gentile e fortisimo
I think he was the only african-born to play for italy in the 70's and 80's.
Thanks to him Maradona did nothing against the italians un '82.
he was born in libya and lived there till years old
Gentile era come il gatto, sapeva solo colpire, non suonava niente! colpendo finché non sono riuscito a fermare Zico e Maradona.
GENTILE IS MY IDOL
grazie claudio gentli
I believe Maradonna's "hand of god" was a direct result of having played against Gentile in 82! Maradonna was still naive & innocent in 82, but after having faced Gentile he realized that you can also win by slightly cheating. He was a different player in 86 for better or worse, and the rest as they say is history.
Anti-footballer is a better way to describe him. Ripping shirts when you can't hit the more talented
You saw one picture and now you say "ripping shirtS when you can't hit the more talented"? Really? What about all the tackles on the ball on Zico?
Brazil always remember as best team, referee helped Italy, didn't mark the penalty in Zico😠
Me hubiese gustado que Gentile hubiese seguido jugando hasta ahora para que marque a Neymar jeje.....
ok
اول اجسامهم ياخي وااو
He was a brute lacking defensive skills. Hence used strong arm tactics throughout his career. In today's referring his career would have been over pretty fast due to the incessant red cards he would have received. The best defenders of Italy from the 80s and 90s were baresi and maldini.
Ball winning is a euphemism for kicking people. If you like your football in a skilled and cultured groove it is possible to win the ball without doing this - the classic example from the past is Jean Tigana from the great French midfield of the 80’s. The wiry man from Mali was never a chopper; more of an interventionist; anticipating passes and cutting them out - always the first attacking player to get back to help in defence and always available just outside his own penalty area if a colleague won the ball in defence. From there with one deft pass he turned defence into attack. He often cut out opposing attacks by intercepting passes in midfield at the precise spot where the ball could be won, without a tackle and certainly not by kicking anyone. The art of interception sets the quality defenders and midfield players a big step apart from players who might be quicker, but rarely look and think.
Gentilé was a quality butcher,
Anyone from footybase
Mr Gentile:
- You know that, in this day and age, you would be red-carded multiple times.
- FIFA actually thought about getting tougher on dirty defenders after you fouled Maradona 21 times in 1982 and only received one yellow card.
Jorge Ponce. 2)You know that rules are change?
2)Prove your statement
In this game, Gentile was called 23 fouls (some fouls were not called at all, he actually committed more than 30) and received only one yellow card. That 23-to-1 disproportion had not been seen and was not to be seen again in any World Cup. Joao Havelange put pressure on FIFA Referee Committee so that refereeing would never again be so lenient. Havelange (of Brazilian origin) wanted to preserve elegant South American playmakers against atrocious defenders, mostly Italians and Germans.
Jorge Ponce Never found any sources about this fouls.
You didn't bring any source,except a biased BRAZILIAN Fifa president.Yeah,really beliavable.
Watch the game and count the fouls, including the 23 that were called by the Romanian referee.
Jorge Ponce Sorry,but this isn't a valid argument.Lots of people watched the semifinals and the final where Italy won the WC,even if Brazil was eliminated.So? They wanted to see Italy afterall...
Why did he shave off his moustache for the final ?
he said if i go to final i will shave my moustache
🐐
La mas dificil fue la de mexico.86
The "world cup's hardest man" should remember how he was murdered by romanian legend Balaci in '83.. After the match Claudio went to Balaci and said that he was the only guy that "hides" the ball in a match in his entire career.. Mr Gentile couldn't take the ball.. Balaci was the greatest player that he met in his career..
Maddalin Tudor Prove it.
Gentile was hard but did not do hard fouls
Watch the match .. Romania - Italy - EURO '84 Qualifiers .. it was 1 0 for Romania (goal by Boloni with Balaci with the assist) .. Look at the final whistle when Gentile goes to hug Balaci at their way to the locker-rooms.. All the entire match Gentile was a "toy".. Balaci asked him several times "That is Antognoni ? Yes. That is Rossi ? Yes.. But who are you ? said Balaci to Gentile.. Then Gentile explodes :))) .. Balaci had the most higher cheek in the history of romanian football.. even more than Hagi or Dobrin.. Balaci at the age of 18 was the leader of the national team..
Maddalin Tudor I saw it and I saw nothing special....yes,Italy played bad,but I didn't see this "Baraci" dangerous at all....
And I found no source of that dialogue.
Baraci sure was good for Romania standart but Italy 1984 wasn't as strong as in 1982,whith same fellung they had during the tournament.
At min 2:22
Maddalin Tudor Where di he said that? He was talkin about Maradona
Yikes! This series of videos has the worst sound editing I've ever heard. The narrator's translation is overwhelmed by the undiminished volume of the original sound track.
There was no skill with this guy, he played dirty as fuck. Brazil should have won that game against Italy but he literally held Zico back by his jersey so hard that it ripped and it wasn’t a penalty. And he should have been sent off for the 21 dirty fouls against Maradona
And that's why only Italians know him
True lol.
茅王
Gentile must have received 3 red cards for his fouls to Maradona. And the official Fifa channel honors him? What a load of crap....
Maradona received a red card against Brazil for a criminal foul!
@@zzzzzz8515 Maradona fouls the Brazilian who in the previous play, cases injuries to an Argentine player. That part is never shown
So he wasn't Jewish?
He was a killer without any real talent...its easy to injure players .....and hard to create something with the ball...that will take talent which Gentile never had....
he wasn't a killer since he never tackled an opponent with the intention of harm - as for instance did Roy Keane once
in fact he never injure any players
Typical hater... English maybe?
Who cares if he had no talent otherwise. He's a world cup winner and he did his job with maximum effectiveness. Paolo Rossi also didn't have much skill with his feet, but he was a textbook poacher.
Takes no skill or talent to constantly foul players.
he's a defender....and neither Maradona nor Zico have scored a goal when he marked them
@@juliozapata1134 yes he stopped Maradona fouling him 21 times and Zico by grabbing and breaking his shirt when he was about to score..
@@trlz3085 bla bla bla
But it takes skill to prevent goals
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Gentile is worst and as bad as Sergio Ramos and Pepe. He could have collected a few red cards for a lot of fouls he committed;and he could be sent off the field a few times,but he was lucky because it was the referee seem to favour him.
Quindi da quello che vedo qui sotto, questi brasilero avrebbero perso per colpa di Gentile? Ahaha, patetici. Siete delle capre, questa è la verità.
Ancora godo
Not as hard a Kenny Burns, not remotely.
but then again, kenny burns wasn't as hard as romeo benetti..the true GOAT of hardman.
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Don't know what's there to celebrate. Gentile was not a football player, he was a butcher. Of course the rules and the refs made it possible in the end; by todays standards this brute would have been send off within 30 minutes of the match. But with the obviously bought Romanian ref he could commit no less than 23 fouls against Maradona, 11 in the first half alone and 12 having been booked. His yellow card he got at the end of first half after seeing Maradona (!) get booked for complaining about him after having received 10 fouls in 40 minutes. That's apparently he knew to what extent the ref was in the sack of Italy. So he turned to Maradona and punched his fist into his face. What would be an instant red card even by 1982 standards got him his booking, but that didn't hinder him to foul even more in second half.