Correct. I've tried for a while remembering the greatest football players, all became great because they knew how hard life was when they were a kid. Some were literally living in poverty such as Rivaldo. Maradona, Pele, Messi, Ronaldo (Brazilian), Rivaldo, Eusebio, Ronaldinho, Cristiano Ronaldo, Romario, E'too, Drogba, etc were all poor when they were young. All these players knew they must succeed in football to have a better life. Dani knew he did not need to succeed in football to have a better life. Therefore he did not have the motivation and focus to triumph in football.
@@gicacoca some players you mentioned were poor but still unproffesional in their work ethic,for example maradona and ronaldinho,r9 was semi proffesional difference is they had too much talent compared to this guy i never heard about even this unkown guy had a free pass to partying and not showing at trainings also what these 3 have in common? forgetting from where they come when you put partying higher then work place(they didn't work for minimum wage,they were payed very good),you forgot that you were poor
Bernardo Silva comes from a wealthy family and is still an accomplished footballer. It's more about the work ethic and mentality. Poverty does not make the world better, that is just a neoliberal idea to convince people that their poverty is their own fault.
no, totally not, poverty actually makes the majority lose their way and overspend on things and just want to party and fame because they never did it before.
@@superpixelated7354 like I said everybody’s perception of happiness is different, no matter how you may look at something from the outside , happiness always depends on the individual. It is as simple as that.
He could easily be the best player of his generation. He just prefer night life, girls and drugs. In Sporting we have a saying everytime a Young player shows potencial. Who Will he be? A Dani or a Cristiano Ronaldo? The two oposites. A talented player who work hard and focus on becoming great, or a talented player who just don't give a fuck, and waste all his talent.
He didn't "throw it away". It's just he loved the lavish life more than he loved football, and when football tried it's hardest to make him suffer on his last year on Atletico it's understandable that he would call it quits. Not everyone that is talented loves football the way fans does.
I was in the same School with Dani when he was spoted by Sporting, in Queluz which is a suburb of Lisbon. Hardly a rich area. His father was my philosophy teacher in that same school. I am sorry about his wasted opportunity but he came from a middle class family, not from a rich family as portrayed.
A lot of people in the comments speaking about how he "Threw it away", you guys need to understand not everyone has the same aspirations and motivations in life, just because you might want to be a footballer doesn't make it so everyone who doesn't is mistaken. You can be miserable in any situations if it's not what you need, some people prioritise happiness over things like wealth or work.
Yeah the final takeaway should be that as much as it might hurt to see someone else refuse to live your dreams, you should be happy that he took charge of his own life and tried to be happy in his own way
Well he certainly didn't choose happiness over wealth. Everything he did and liked had exclusively to do with having a lot of money. He got angry with the management because they want to reduce his wages, which meant he couldn't spend thousands of Euros every day for parties and pleasures has nothing to do with pure happiness. That comes from within yourself. Dani's satisfaction however came exclusively from the superficial outside world ...
Very mature comment...I have personally faced such instances when I tried to sell dreams to someone...but he/she didn't buy them. For them..those were not dreams.
agreed the dude probably had more fun and banged so many hot chicks that is living the dream that he really wanted and got paid bank to play football. Who cares if he didn't win much. Winning isn't everything lol
Very true. For example, how many famous singers just disappear after some success and later on we find out they are just living the simplest life or change careers to something that has nothing to do with music? Just because it was something they are good at, doesn't mean it's what they want to do forever.
I'm Portuguese and clearly remember Dani. And when he went to West Ham, i remember the cover of one magazine or journal saying something like "lock your daughters at home, Dani has arrived". 😁😁
@@bdosreisable Dude, it was on West Ham. I know what i'm talking about. I'm Portuguese, i followed Dany's career, i remember many of his stories, fashion shows, nights out with models, leaving football at 26 or 27 because he lacked discipline and was fed up with training and i see him weekly on football programs on Portuguese television, where sometimes these stories are remembered.
Here's a link that you can consult and check some of his history. One of best lines it's this one: "Known for his witty one-liners, Redknapp surpassed himself after the press conference to announce Dani’s signing. “My missus fancies him,” he’d told reporters. “Even I don’t know whether to play him or f**k him.”"
@@timothychong6945 who said he had 0 talent, I’m saying Ronaldo used his talent with his work within and passion. Dani had the talent just no passion and very little work ethic!
That's cuz Ronaldo lived childhood as poor boy in a low middle class family. CR7 lost his father at young age too. His conditions made him hungry for success to provide his children the childhood he dreamed of. Ronaldo was a man on a mission. His goal was to be the best at what he does and provide the best life for his future family. Look at him today, he achieved his goal (well, he's not the best but definitely second best after Messi). I respect CR7. This is what real men should aspire to be. Be hungry to succeed, be humble to lead, be perseverant to defeat, be hopeful in deceit; these are the qualities of CR7. A player our children in the future may not hear of, but his legacy will be echoed by us... his audience.
Yes he was the opposite of Ronaldo meanwhile Dani had rich parents Ronaldo had nothing, that’s the only difference because Ronaldo at his age was much better
@@NarizdeNepe Even if I was rich I would still try my best to be better at what I do. It's like when playing with your friends, there was no reward but you still gave your best because competition makes it more fun and exiting
To be fair there's a lot of us that wouldn't have even bothered getting through the youth program at a football club if we came from such a rich family and not that interested in football. He deserves some credit for that
@@McFlashh I agree but I like football. If you told me I could have what Usain Bolt has but I'd have to hang out and train at an athletics track my whole life when I was a kid AND my parents were super rich. I might have given it a go but would I have seen it through or even made much effort? I'm not sure, because I don't like athletics and have no time for the Olympics or anything like that.
@@mattkinsella9856 if you look at David Beckham’s son (Romeo), he’s super rich and his dad is obviously very famous but he’s pursuing a career in professional football but he’s also very lucky because his dad can teach how to bend the ball like him (who can bend the ball like Beckham? 😜).
I used to sign him on a free transfer in Football Manger (Championship Manager back in the day). Think it must have been 2004 when he was on a free and hadn't yet retired in real life. Solid freebie. Shame he didn't have the professionalism to make the most of his gifts and talent but as long he is happy with his life choices, that's all that matters. His life to live how he chooses.
Just like many other players. I see this happen more in players who are more gifted. Everything comes easier to them, they hate training and prefer to party. Romario, magico gonzales, this guy and more
He had the work ethic.ALL professional athletes do. If he didn't, he wouldn't be playing in those teams and excelled at it. He just wasn't interested or never fell in love with the game like how you're not interested in baseball or some other sport you're not watching. Same thing except Dani developed well at football and was surrounded by the lavish lifestyle all his life. You can't blame him for not loving the sport cause his perspective was different than the ppl who had love for the game. He was in love with the lavish lifestyle / fame more than the game plus ppl were making him into a Villain at the end and making his life miserable? Of course he'd retire cause why would he go through hell for something he has no love for? Ronaldo would've been the next one if he didn't have love for the game. Luckily for us, he did.
He really had potential. I’m a Ajax fan and he was a star in Holland, not only because he was a good player but also because he was like a pop star and the lady’s really loved him. For a while he was the king of the Amsterdam nightlife. I heard stories about him going with 7 girls to his hotel…1 day before a match…
Its amazing that he probably achieved more than 99% of all professionals who has ever played the game. We tend to forget how special the top 10 or so players are. They're basically a drop in the ocean.
Check this one out. I am from Lisbon and although i never met Dani, i knew some of his friends. His stories were legendary. The best in my opinion happened in London. Dani was partying in a club, drunk out of his mind, when a small blond girl started seducing him. He says good bye to his friends and walks out with her and checks in a hotel near by. They spend the night in the room, and she leaves in the morning while he stays there sleeping the day away. When he wakes up he notices that all his friends tried to call him multiple times. He calls back to one of them that immediately starts asking him about the night. Dani finds it odd, because to him it was just an other night in the town as usual, he was not understanding what was all the fuss about. Then him friend tells him: dude, you left the club last night with... Kylie Minogue!!
You do excellent biopics on footballers’ and histories, appreciate you doing so especially in a secondary language. Very much a famine when it comes to football culture in US. Sports are stories, and if Americans don’t know the stories or history, they won’t be able to appreciate it. You deserve more subs than 50k, so stay consistent and they will come.
Loads of talented players like Danny have the ability But lack drive, discipline, structure and the right people around him to for fill his true potential
I actually had his name on my Ajax shirt in his second season, not because he was my favorite player (Litmanen was in his first season and after that Laudrup) but because I got the shirt as a birthday present from a friend who was Portuguese. Guy was incredibly talented, but couldn't handle city life at all, was out almost every night etc...still when he wanted to he could change a game on his own
It’s sad as a fan when a player or sportsman doesn’t really care for it although they have all the talent in the world . I’m a boxing fan and historian and have talked to pro boxers about historical bouts and they ain’t interested or don’t care . Sport can be your life as a fan but the athlete’s you idolise to them it’s just their job haha . Kinda like if you’re a mailman and someone is like wow that’s an amazing job do you know the history of the Royal Mail or tnt etc you’d be like ye whatever
Yeah but to be a professional sportsmen you need to be exceptional, so most sportsmen probably do enjoy their sport, such as messi and ronaldo, I’m sure if they didn’t enjoy the sport as much as they do they wouldn’t be obsessed with it from a young age
@@hod2116 yeah I agree but most boxers from nowadays don’t know fighters like jack dempsey or joe Louis or primo carnera or max bear etc . Mike Tyson was the exception where you could ask him the date and location a tommmy Farr fight was and he’d tell you even to how many rounds it went . Some athletes aren’t historians some just see it as an occupation. I’m an engineer and I had someone talking to me about what I do and they started naming who founded rolles royces jet engine and the aerospace specs etc and I didn’t have a clue I just do my job and get on with my life .
@@cafu-thebrazilianalanhutto6835 In a way your point makes it even more exceptional that Dani still made it as a professional footballer because he still put in the training as a kid and saw it through, even though he wasn't that interested. As a kid from a rich family he could have quit at any time.
tbf back then football didn't give you a lot of money. It's completely different to now where even Phil Jones can earn 120k per week without even make the match day squad...
I only know him because back in the day I found him on PES and recruited him for my Master League team. He was pretty good in the game and I always wondered why I never saw him play nor heard anything about him in real life. Finally, after so many years, I got to know the reason why + a lot more about how good he actually must have been. So thanks a lot for making this episode, I really enjoyed it!
This is what happens when you film a 2d screen from slightly higher up. Try it on your own TV, recording people speaking with your phone and move the phone and watch the heads morph like that.
I was so impressed with him when came to Ajax. He was incredibly technical and a real super talent. Such a same how it ended. He was notorious for having pizza's and girls over at his house. Glad to see he's happy these days working as a commentator.
@@Nhilzer Why should you struggle for something you don't want to do? Everyone has different aspirations and happiness means different things for different people.
@@MrGts92 ah yeah bro but just wasn't to be, he still to play for inter when they had one of there best squads of all time, for a chap playing on the streets of Dublin that's brilliant
@@3210-n1x he was ousted because of his nationality and status. Not in terms of being Irish but because he wasn't a big British name. Unfairly treated.
He is the counterpart of Ronaldinho. Different upbringing, socioeconomic context and attractiveness level. One was able to succeed and become a legend yet they had the same ending. My point is that both extremes, poor and rich, in the upbringing of a person can be bad. Balance is key.
They both followed the same path, Ronaldinho had no work ethic and fame was the reason his one of a kind talent came to an end so soon. The main difference is their upbringing.
@@SK-kh2rs He never actually had work ethic he worked of cours but when he won everything he was young and at his prime he started declining at only 27 and was downhill for him after gaining tons of weight neglecting training ect.
@@SK-kh2rs Ronaldinho was always in the nightlife, surrounded by drinks, prostitutes and whatever more the night life brings. Ronaldinho biggest salvation was his unmatched talent for the game. But a certain point, his body couldnt match his talent anymore and thats why he fell so hard. Have you looked at Ronaldinho? He looks as old as my father who has 65 years old now.
He enjoyed clubbing, parties and was always surrounded by beautiful girls. I saw that back in the 90s in Lisbon, being a professional is not for everyone, but he could be one of the best if he really wanted.
Dani was an amazing player, I thought he was going to be the greatest of all time (Portugal always had great talent but this guy was better). However he also enjoyed too many other things and girls were crazy for him. I guess he had a great life!
The first time I watched Dani play I was thrilled by his immense talent and talent to make scoring easy. I always looked forward to seeing him in the Portuguese National Team, unfortunately his career just plummeted like a shot jet fighter.
Having watched the video, i feel it played out as it had to. He's not the first footballer to love partying and he was young when he found fame. He put the required effort and dropped down to the 2nd division, something that no star would choose to do. If Athletico treated him as he claims, I can't blame him much for giving up on the sport. Unlike most, he had other options and could be just as well off without the sport that had probably turned toxic for him. Would be cool if he'd take part in charity matches like soccer aid or so
He didn't drop down to the second division, he chose to be on a 2nd division team that was on the brink of going to the first division and that was the last place he played so it sounds like it was probably the only place he was getting offers from as well.
Thoughtbyou were going to mention that time Dutch police came to his house and seized his amplifier and speakers because he was throwing party's that went well over the established by regulation about noise in the Netherlands. He basically built a disco at his place.
I remember of him. Hi was a big talent in Ajax, but eventually he neve became a big player. He had some good matches, but he never was good for the whole season. I didn't know that he hated football. Thanks this video!!
i remember watching him in the Under 20 world cup when they did that free kick routine where him and his team mate pushed eachother as if they were arguing and then crossed it for the goal!
The funny thing is, although he never broke through at Ajax, he still was extremely popular. And "Dani" became a popular boys' name in the Netherlands, you will find a lot of guys who are now in their early 20s who are named Dani.
@Johnny Ola Because Ajax fans love technical young players with the x factor. Also, almost all young women in the country loved his looks. It was before social media. Now he probably would have been a social media star.
He didnt quit when it got hard, had that been the case he would have retired after the first beef in Sporting. He quit when he found out it wasnt worth it.
I went to England Wales in 2005 at old Trafford and we waited at the players entrance for the coaches and dowie walked in with a stunning blond head held high thinking he was the man my mate shouted hey you guys and you could see him shrink lol
Not really, he was a professional for 10 years and a full international, made a ton of dosh and shagged hundreds of birds... not sure what more you could want really.
Guy who got paid a ton of money to play a game and never have to really work a day in his life while women threw themselves at him. If this is a cautionary tale can I have Dani’s life.
I vaguely remember as a kid the buzz about Dani at West Ham but in England at least we didn't really hear too much about him after he left so I'm interested to watch this and see what he did next. Another guy who was talented and handsome but whose career didn't really live up to expectations: Yoann Gourcuff. Scored one of The Great solo goals and got compared to Zidane. Was he too shy to succeed at Milan and for France? Too arrogant? Just injury prone? Might be a video idea down the line.
Gourcuff was brilliant for Bordeaux, the best player in Ligue 1, won it with them... But had somw big injury problems and never returned to his former level, just lost that burst of power and pace.
Story reminds me of my cousin.. Absolutely gifted footballer and was the guy that all the local clubs tried to hijack.. This was back in the 90's in Ireland .. But I can remember one club actually offering to pay the insurance in his car for a year if he joined..That was a big deal, as nobody got anything for joining clubs then.. You were lucky to play at all and that was that.. That same year if I remember correctly he got called for trials to the Irish national team... I met him a week after the trials and asked him how he got on, he said I'm not playing anymore... Went off and did a plastering apprenticeship... His brother told me, he just wanted to play a bit of football but didn't want all the phonecalls and people chasing him down kinda thing... I've never seen him with a football since.. I've never even asked him anything about it..
i have an older cousin who could pretty much play the guitar like hendrix but couldn't give a fuck about music, went to uni and got a 9-5. crazy how some people just don't care about things they have a gift for.
man, imagine having life handed to you on a silver platter; money, looks, talent, ability to change games on your own, never out of options to stay in and around success, the best players to have ever played the game recognising you as something special but yet after all that, you just throw it away.. you never know how good you've got it until it's taken away from you but by then it's too late. can't say i'm a fan of people like that but also can't deny i probably would be the same, maybe i wouldn't, maybe the life i'm currently living has made me more appreciative of the things i have - and the things i don't have. the life he has lived has definitely made him less appreciative of the things he has/had in his life.
Honestly it reminds me a bit of Carlos Vela. He Had so much talent. But somewhere, somehow his passion for the sport vanished. He was considered a wonderkid too in Mexico but his love for the sport is gone and he treats more like a 9-5 job now
@@doug2278 best Mexican 😂u know that’s probably true but Javier hernadez is probably the best Mexican cause he actually wanted to play for his international team
I was looking at a training session by Ajax and Dani almost run me over, quickly saying sorry to me. He sprinted to the trainings field that was fenced off to be save for the screaming girls.
A great mini documentary and I'm looking forward to watching more of your work. You have a talent for telling a story in enough depth to learn something new and interesting and enough brevity to maintain interest. Well done.
Ajax female supporters share the same opinion. Dani was a dude that born with everything in his favor and playing for Ajax while not giving the smallest fuck about his career because money wasnt an issue (football for him was a way to spend his time) its kinda impressive, he was really a huge talent. Sadly, stories like him (not in the same circumstances but in terms of wasted talent) are very common in Portugal... like Fábio Paim, for example.
And then there's other young talent who love the sport and can't even be signed because they are either poor or have never been scouted, players who actually deserve to be in professional football.
All in all, Dani was really good. He was only undone by the people's HUGE EXPECTATIONS of him. To me he did well. Only lacked motivation due to his background.
Dani played his first season for Ajax in my first season as an Ajax fan! I was always excited about him playing for the Dutch giants! But I was ok with him leaving as media was exposing his escapades as a kid I fell for it and frowned upon him. Thank you so much for uploading this
Seems he had everything must have had a great life and still if he lives now. No hate, he really got what most could only dream of! - suprised I had never heard of him before.
He's now one of the worst commentators I have ever seen... He covers some games in a Portuguese TV station, and honestly I prefer to mute the TV during those games
@@mart_enBetter than working a 9-5 job you hate so yah I'm sure it was amazing and he didn't get addicted to drugs or anything or arrested seemed like he enjoyed it in a real way
@ yea but he was a rich boy, after the milan era he went to real madrid as a high transfer of the year (money wasn't his catalyst or motivation) then pufffffff he didn't find next challenge and ended I mean you can check his age after he went to RM by 1 year, thats the real age he technically retired.
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1 job : name 3 Prof players with rich parents to retire early. Not 1 prof player w rich parents, you missed half the job.
I had an ajax practice jersey with the name of Dani on it back in 2002-03. So sad he never achieved much greatness for Portugal which had Figo, Nuno, Deko, Rui Costa and many more magicians.
Kaka was another player who had a similar background to Dani. Born into a wealthy family, had good looks and outrageous footballing ability but his personality and work ethic was the complete opposite of Dani.
But kaka was very religious and serious, kaka never went to a nightclub he didn’t drink alcohol, he didn’t miss trainings for sleeping with girls. Dani was a playboy that’s why he went in a wrong direction.
Poverty is a big factor to the greatest players, it puts drive into men from young. Dani didn't know about that feeling
Correct. I've tried for a while remembering the greatest football players, all became great because they knew how hard life was when they were a kid. Some were literally living in poverty such as Rivaldo. Maradona, Pele, Messi, Ronaldo (Brazilian), Rivaldo, Eusebio, Ronaldinho, Cristiano Ronaldo, Romario, E'too, Drogba, etc were all poor when they were young. All these players knew they must succeed in football to have a better life. Dani knew he did not need to succeed in football to have a better life. Therefore he did not have the motivation and focus to triumph in football.
@@gicacoca some players you mentioned were poor but still unproffesional in their work ethic,for example maradona and ronaldinho,r9 was semi proffesional
difference is they had too much talent compared to this guy i never heard about
even this unkown guy had a free pass to partying and not showing at trainings
also what these 3 have in common? forgetting from where they come
when you put partying higher then work place(they didn't work for minimum wage,they were payed very good),you forgot that you were poor
Bernardo Silva comes from a wealthy family and is still an accomplished footballer. It's more about the work ethic and mentality. Poverty does not make the world better, that is just a neoliberal idea to convince people that their poverty is their own fault.
@@universesays1842 think that being as good and finding it as easy has something to do with their fall from grace as well, injuries for r9 as well.
no, totally not, poverty actually makes the majority lose their way and overspend on things and just want to party and fame because they never did it before.
Proof that happiness is all about perception and what a person values .
True
so so true. i'm stealing that!
But how about sorrows from lack of money?
@@superpixelated7354 like I said everybody’s perception of happiness is different, no matter how you may look at something from the outside , happiness always depends on the individual. It is as simple as that.
@@superpixelated7354 You can also have sorrow with tons of money.
Can’t believe I had never heard of this guy
This guy seduced Johan Cruyff
Dani was a very good player
Naturally left footed
honestly man
He could easily be the best player of his generation. He just prefer night life, girls and drugs.
In Sporting we have a saying everytime a Young player shows potencial. Who Will he be? A Dani or a Cristiano Ronaldo? The two oposites. A talented player who work hard and focus on becoming great, or a talented player who just don't give a fuck, and waste all his talent.
He didn't "throw it away". It's just he loved the lavish life more than he loved football, and when football tried it's hardest to make him suffer on his last year on Atletico it's understandable that he would call it quits. Not everyone that is talented loves football the way fans does.
One example is Carlos Vela.
You say that as if fans train for 5 hours every day, 10 months out of 12 in a year. Its much easier to sit on an armchair and pass comments
Beckham was the exact way
@@עתהסב Vela loved football but arsenal experience killed his love
Yeah. He had talent in other areas, but ambition is as a talent as well. In that sense he didn't throw it away, since he never really had it.
"when life is handed to you on a plate, you never understand how food is cooked".
Facts
capitalism in a nutshell
Wow this just blow my mind no cap
Never seen or heard that quote before, but it’s very powerful and very true
well yeah, he probably knows how it’s cooked, just chooses not to cook it which is understandable, I would do the same probably.
I was in the same School with Dani when he was spoted by Sporting, in Queluz which is a suburb of Lisbon. Hardly a rich area. His father was my philosophy teacher in that same school. I am sorry about his wasted opportunity but he came from a middle class family, not from a rich family as portrayed.
Ele ja fazia sucesso nos tempos de escola?
Dani came to clean my dishes everyday when he was a child
@@bully2009 mine too, he was good at it
@Raffe Karamousayan well you aren't portuguese
source: trust me
A lot of people in the comments speaking about how he "Threw it away", you guys need to understand not everyone has the same aspirations and motivations in life, just because you might want to be a footballer doesn't make it so everyone who doesn't is mistaken.
You can be miserable in any situations if it's not what you need, some people prioritise happiness over things like wealth or work.
Yeah the final takeaway should be that as much as it might hurt to see someone else refuse to live your dreams, you should be happy that he took charge of his own life and tried to be happy in his own way
Well he certainly didn't choose happiness over wealth.
Everything he did and liked had exclusively to do with having a lot of money.
He got angry with the management because they want to reduce his wages, which meant he couldn't spend thousands of Euros every day for parties and pleasures has nothing to do with pure happiness.
That comes from within yourself.
Dani's satisfaction however came exclusively from the superficial outside world ...
Very mature comment...I have personally faced such instances when I tried to sell dreams to someone...but he/she didn't buy them. For them..those were not dreams.
agreed the dude probably had more fun and banged so many hot chicks that is living the dream that he really wanted and got paid bank to play football. Who cares if he didn't win much. Winning isn't everything lol
Very true. For example, how many famous singers just disappear after some success and later on we find out they are just living the simplest life or change careers to something that has nothing to do with music? Just because it was something they are good at, doesn't mean it's what they want to do forever.
I'm Portuguese and clearly remember Dani. And when he went to West Ham, i remember the cover of one magazine or journal saying something like "lock your daughters at home, Dani has arrived". 😁😁
loooooool
this was in atletico madrid, i think, not on west ham. there's a video of futre speaking about it
@@bdosreisable Dude, it was on West Ham. I know what i'm talking about. I'm Portuguese, i followed Dany's career, i remember many of his stories, fashion shows, nights out with models, leaving football at 26 or 27 because he lacked discipline and was fed up with training and i see him weekly on football programs on Portuguese television, where sometimes these stories are remembered.
Here's a link that you can consult and check some of his history. One of best lines it's this one: "Known for his witty one-liners, Redknapp surpassed himself after the press conference to announce Dani’s signing. “My missus fancies him,” he’d told reporters. “Even I don’t know whether to play him or f**k him.”"
The opposite of Ronaldo, just shows that hard work and passion go a long way
God can you the gift. But is up to you to developed it. ✨
Ronaldo was incredibly talented as well, its a myth that hes 0 talent
@@timothychong6945 who said he had 0 talent, I’m saying Ronaldo used his talent with his work within and passion. Dani had the talent just no passion and very little work ethic!
That's cuz Ronaldo lived childhood as poor boy in a low middle class family. CR7 lost his father at young age too. His conditions made him hungry for success to provide his children the childhood he dreamed of. Ronaldo was a man on a mission. His goal was to be the best at what he does and provide the best life for his future family. Look at him today, he achieved his goal (well, he's not the best but definitely second best after Messi). I respect CR7. This is what real men should aspire to be. Be hungry to succeed, be humble to lead, be perseverant to defeat, be hopeful in deceit; these are the qualities of CR7. A player our children in the future may not hear of, but his legacy will be echoed by us... his audience.
Yes he was the opposite of Ronaldo
meanwhile Dani had rich parents Ronaldo had nothing, that’s the only difference because Ronaldo at his age was much better
You won't always be motivated, thats why you need Discipline
wow thanks for that.
And discipline takes not motivation but internal drive usually instigated by fear of failure
Not for a rich kid.
@@NarizdeNepe Even if I was rich I would still try my best to be better at what I do. It's like when playing with your friends, there was no reward but you still gave your best because competition makes it more fun and exiting
Dang, that’s a good saying right there
To be fair there's a lot of us that wouldn't have even bothered getting through the youth program at a football club if we came from such a rich family and not that interested in football. He deserves some credit for that
Andrea Pirlo came from a rich family too. But true
A lot of credit you mean it's not very easy to conform and be disciplined when you don't have to .
But football is more than just money. Being a footballer is fun, you get fame, respect and fans which love you. What’s better than that?
@@McFlashh I agree but I like football. If you told me I could have what Usain Bolt has but I'd have to hang out and train at an athletics track my whole life when I was a kid AND my parents were super rich. I might have given it a go but would I have seen it through or even made much effort? I'm not sure, because I don't like athletics and have no time for the Olympics or anything like that.
@@mattkinsella9856 if you look at David Beckham’s son (Romeo), he’s super rich and his dad is obviously very famous but he’s pursuing a career in professional football but he’s also very lucky because his dad can teach how to bend the ball like him (who can bend the ball like Beckham? 😜).
Aquele sotaque tuga que so nos conhecemos! Great video man and its great to see that somebody didnt forget Dani. Hugs from a tuga in the UK
Finalmente 🙏🙏
Aquele António Guterres accent
@@ronaldoorei6980 🤣🤣🤣
@@ronaldoorei6980 e o Nuno Gomes 😂
Sak mai dic mai fren
I used to sign him on a free transfer in Football Manger (Championship Manager back in the day). Think it must have been 2004 when he was on a free and hadn't yet retired in real life. Solid freebie. Shame he didn't have the professionalism to make the most of his gifts and talent but as long he is happy with his life choices, that's all that matters. His life to live how he chooses.
To be fair, anyone standing next to Ian Dowie looks handsome
That one there was a violation
@@_SK23 personally I wouldn't have it
Well this is the most legit statement I've heard my entire life
😂
Don't be too wicked 😂
He really didn´t hate football, he hated the work ethic.
Just like many other players. I see this happen more in players who are more gifted. Everything comes easier to them, they hate training and prefer to party. Romario, magico gonzales, this guy and more
@@Novusilluminatus in basketball we have Allen Iverson
Yep, he hated to work, thats all.
@@yugoshine5593 what absolute rubbish, AI was one of the hardest working players in history
He had the work ethic.ALL professional athletes do. If he didn't, he wouldn't be playing in those teams and excelled at it. He just wasn't interested or never fell in love with the game like how you're not interested in baseball or some other sport you're not watching. Same thing except Dani developed well at football and was surrounded by the lavish lifestyle all his life.
You can't blame him for not loving the sport cause his perspective was different than the ppl who had love for the game. He was in love with the lavish lifestyle / fame more than the game plus ppl were making him into a Villain at the end and making his life miserable? Of course he'd retire cause why would he go through hell for something he has no love for? Ronaldo would've been the next one if he didn't have love for the game. Luckily for us, he did.
He really had potential.
I’m a Ajax fan and he was a star in Holland, not only because he was a good player but also because he was like a pop star and the lady’s really loved him.
For a while he was the king of the Amsterdam nightlife.
I heard stories about him going with 7 girls to his hotel…1 day before a match…
He valued his life more than the football. His life came first. That's living the dream
Its amazing that he probably achieved more than 99% of all professionals who has ever played the game. We tend to forget how special the top 10 or so players are. They're basically a drop in the ocean.
You can always rely on Harry Redknapp for a classy quote.
Check this one out. I am from Lisbon and although i never met Dani, i knew some of his friends. His stories were legendary. The best in my opinion happened in London. Dani was partying in a club, drunk out of his mind, when a small blond girl started seducing him. He says good bye to his friends and walks out with her and checks in a hotel near by. They spend the night in the room, and she leaves in the morning while he stays there sleeping the day away. When he wakes up he notices that all his friends tried to call him multiple times. He calls back to one of them that immediately starts asking him about the night. Dani finds it odd, because to him it was just an other night in the town as usual, he was not understanding what was all the fuss about. Then him friend tells him: dude, you left the club last night with... Kylie Minogue!!
maybe she wrote that on a night like this song about him lol
haha no way!
Yeah nah
You do excellent biopics on footballers’ and histories, appreciate you doing so especially in a secondary language. Very much a famine when it comes to football culture in US. Sports are stories, and if Americans don’t know the stories or history, they won’t be able to appreciate it. You deserve more subs than 50k, so stay consistent and they will come.
Thanks man! I always find it cool to see Americans here and don't worry I'll keep going for sure
@@DailyDoseOfFootballYT your doing a good job man impressive
He's doing extremely well. I told him already, I tell him again... Amazing job!
Este canal é português, correto?
American here that loves football and appreciated the vids
Some people are just born with it all. He had good looks, money, talent, but unfortunately lacked drive & discipline.
I bet your married
Loads of talented players like Danny have the ability
But lack drive, discipline, structure and the right people around him to for fill his true potential
He was disciplined to party like a rock star. We don't know the great achievements he had off the field for some that is the stuff dreams are made of
so... he wasnt born with it all then?
True
I actually had his name on my Ajax shirt in his second season, not because he was my favorite player (Litmanen was in his first season and after that Laudrup) but because I got the shirt as a birthday present from a friend who was Portuguese.
Guy was incredibly talented, but couldn't handle city life at all, was out almost every night etc...still when he wanted to he could change a game on his own
He played hang over and not mutch sleep and still was best player on fild lol
My mastake sorry
The way you told this story is fantastic. Extremely well-done and well written. Nice one!
It’s sad as a fan when a player or sportsman doesn’t really care for it although they have all the talent in the world . I’m a boxing fan and historian and have talked to pro boxers about historical bouts and they ain’t interested or don’t care . Sport can be your life as a fan but the athlete’s you idolise to them it’s just their job haha . Kinda like if you’re a mailman and someone is like wow that’s an amazing job do you know the history of the Royal Mail or tnt etc you’d be like ye whatever
Yeah but to be a professional sportsmen you need to be exceptional, so most sportsmen probably do enjoy their sport, such as messi and ronaldo, I’m sure if they didn’t enjoy the sport as much as they do they wouldn’t be obsessed with it from a young age
Yeah but they are saturated with it from an early age and probably want to talk about other things
@@hod2116 yeah I agree but most boxers from nowadays don’t know fighters like jack dempsey or joe Louis or primo carnera or max bear etc . Mike Tyson was the exception where you could ask him the date and location a tommmy Farr fight was and he’d tell you even to how many rounds it went . Some athletes aren’t historians some just see it as an occupation. I’m an engineer and I had someone talking to me about what I do and they started naming who founded rolles royces jet engine and the aerospace specs etc and I didn’t have a clue I just do my job and get on with my life .
@@cafu-thebrazilianalanhutto6835 In a way your point makes it even more exceptional that Dani still made it as a professional footballer because he still put in the training as a kid and saw it through, even though he wasn't that interested. As a kid from a rich family he could have quit at any time.
I love that Royal Mail analogy. Very well put
That was very refreshing. Thank you.
Never knew the player. It's ok if he didn't push his talent as long as he's happy and doesn't regret it.
Had life served on a platter, he didn’t need to play football
Many of us wish for that opportunity and talent in football...guy Just threw away useful scraps
@@hungry6646 well, sounds like he made room for someone who wanted it more. Nothing wrong with that.
@Atlantis Rising David Ginola grew up in a castle in France so I think he wasn’t poor
Yup 🙄
You saying that like football is for money
Discipline is not for everyone,
Dani is proof of a diamond that never needed to be cut but in the end was broken.
Imagine Dani had the same work ethic like Cristiano Ronaldo..
ronaldo was ugly, if anybody had the work ethic like him, they would have become great
Definitely. One could argue his true talent is his work ethic.
Ronaldo was poor and hungry for success, Dani was born into high wealth and didn’t care much about football
tbf back then football didn't give you a lot of money. It's completely different to now where even Phil Jones can earn 120k per week without even make the match day squad...
Gabe bruh what that has nothing to do with this
I only know him because back in the day I found him on PES and recruited him for my Master League team. He was pretty good in the game and I always wondered why I never saw him play nor heard anything about him in real life. Finally, after so many years, I got to know the reason why + a lot more about how good he actually must have been. So thanks a lot for making this episode, I really enjoyed it!
Lol on 5 mins what's up with the alien heads!!! Dowie usually looks weird but even Dani looked mad !!
This is what happens when you film a 2d screen from slightly higher up.
Try it on your own TV, recording people speaking with your phone and move the phone and watch the heads morph like that.
how good was lingard? man, he's the longest wonderkid i have ever seen
I'd actually like to make that video especially considering his career revival at west ham
@@DailyDoseOfFootballYT that’d be great!
You aged well
He is still man utd youth prospect, lol
He’s a good prospect
Giving it a half arsed effort he managed to become pro and play for Ajax. Nice work!
Ahahah I mean you gotta give him that
Aye that's true.
He was blessed with everything in this World, riches, beauty and talent. Some people do really born in a silver plate.
True, even without caring much he played for the top clubs in Portugal, Spain and Holland.
I was so impressed with him when came to Ajax. He was incredibly technical and a real super talent. Such a same how it ended. He was notorious for having pizza's and girls over at his house. Glad to see he's happy these days working as a commentator.
I'm portuguese and I don't think people like him deserve to have luck compared to people who fight while struggling in life.
@@Nhilzer Why should you struggle for something you don't want to do? Everyone has different aspirations and happiness means different things for different people.
@@KemosabeTBC Estava à responder as pessoas que diziam que tinham pena por ele. Porquê ter pena quando ele não se importava nada de futebol ?
Just how good was Robbie Keane actually? To score 60+ goals for Ireland and play for inter Milan and Liverpool among others is incredible.
I feel sorry for Keane. Two big moves, which didn't work out. Inter especially.
@@MrGts92 ah yeah bro but just wasn't to be, he still to play for inter when they had one of there best squads of all time, for a chap playing on the streets of Dublin that's brilliant
robbie keane was underrated like defoe
@@3210-n1x he was ousted because of his nationality and status. Not in terms of being Irish but because he wasn't a big British name. Unfairly treated.
@@samdaman7841 DeFoe wasn't underrated. He just wasn't that good.
He is the counterpart of Ronaldinho. Different upbringing, socioeconomic context and attractiveness level. One was able to succeed and become a legend yet they had the same ending.
My point is that both extremes, poor and rich, in the upbringing of a person can be bad. Balance is key.
They both followed the same path, Ronaldinho had no work ethic and fame was the reason his one of a kind talent came to an end so soon. The main difference is their upbringing.
That's exactly what I said in my comment bro
@@Dvshti lol he did have a work ethic. When he had won everything he took the foot off the gas
@@SK-kh2rs He never actually had work ethic he worked of cours but when he won everything he was young and at his prime he started declining at only 27 and was downhill for him after gaining tons of weight neglecting training ect.
@@SK-kh2rs Ronaldinho was always in the nightlife, surrounded by drinks, prostitutes and whatever more the night life brings. Ronaldinho biggest salvation was his unmatched talent for the game. But a certain point, his body couldnt match his talent anymore and thats why he fell so hard. Have you looked at Ronaldinho? He looks as old as my father who has 65 years old now.
i always feel that players like this’ lack of care makes them just much more likeable
He enjoyed clubbing, parties and was always surrounded by beautiful girls.
I saw that back in the 90s in Lisbon, being a professional is not for everyone, but he could be one of the best if he really wanted.
Dani was an amazing player, I thought he was going to be the greatest of all time (Portugal always had great talent but this guy was better). However he also enjoyed too many other things and girls were crazy for him. I guess he had a great life!
The first time I watched Dani play I was thrilled by his immense talent and talent to make scoring easy. I always looked forward to seeing him in the Portuguese National Team, unfortunately his career just plummeted like a shot jet fighter.
That he had a Metallica poster on his bedroom wall has got my seal of approval!! \m/
Stuck in 08 I see
@Lee Mac \m/
Having watched the video, i feel it played out as it had to. He's not the first footballer to love partying and he was young when he found fame. He put the required effort and dropped down to the 2nd division, something that no star would choose to do. If Athletico treated him as he claims, I can't blame him much for giving up on the sport. Unlike most, he had other options and could be just as well off without the sport that had probably turned toxic for him.
Would be cool if he'd take part in charity matches like soccer aid or so
He didn't drop down to the second division, he chose to be on a 2nd division team that was on the brink of going to the first division and that was the last place he played so it sounds like it was probably the only place he was getting offers from as well.
Thoughtbyou were going to mention that time Dutch police came to his house and seized his amplifier and speakers because he was throwing party's that went well over the established by regulation about noise in the Netherlands. He basically built a disco at his place.
He’s my hero
I remember of him.
Hi was a big talent in Ajax, but eventually he neve became a big player.
He had some good matches, but he never was good for the whole season.
I didn't know that he hated football.
Thanks this video!!
Ronaldo grew up in a struggle whilst Dani was born with a silver spoon when push comes to shove Dani just wasn't hungry enough.
He wasn't interested not "hungry enough"
i remember watching him in the Under 20 world cup when they did that free kick routine where him and his team mate pushed eachother as if they were arguing and then crossed it for the goal!
2:35 i remember that free kick. Was a cheeky distraction. You can see it if you look closely
You don't need to look closely to actually realize that "cheeky distraction". It's crystal clear
The funny thing is, although he never broke through at Ajax, he still was extremely popular. And "Dani" became a popular boys' name in the Netherlands, you will find a lot of guys who are now in their early 20s who are named Dani.
@Johnny Ola Because Ajax fans love technical young players with the x factor. Also, almost all young women in the country loved his looks. It was before social media. Now he probably would have been a social media star.
Probably named after their father hehehe
Rich,talented guy gets to have a career in professional sport. Quits when it gets hard. OK
It’s not for everybody 🤷
Not everyone wants to be a professional in a sport. He just happened to be good at it 😂
Be quiet
He didnt quit when it got hard, had that been the case he would have retired after the first beef in Sporting.
He quit when he found out it wasnt worth it.
@@Nikolazy133 he quit because he had a better life outside of sport.
My first time to hear about him, What a good looking guy and an amazing footballer too.
I know he was an ugly brute anyway but you did Dowie dirty there😂
I went to England Wales in 2005 at old Trafford and we waited at the players entrance for the coaches and dowie walked in with a stunning blond head held high thinking he was the man my mate shouted hey you guys and you could see him shrink lol
@@hod2116 🤣🤣
LMAO
@@hod2116 referring to the guy from the goonies?? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@bsuarez3455 yes lol
Dani's football career : the perfect cautionary tale.
For real
Not really, he was a professional for 10 years and a full international, made a ton of dosh and shagged hundreds of birds... not sure what more you could want really.
@@FightingCoward my guy
Guy who got paid a ton of money to play a game and never have to really work a day in his life while women threw themselves at him. If this is a cautionary tale can I have Dani’s life.
I vaguely remember as a kid the buzz about Dani at West Ham but in England at least we didn't really hear too much about him after he left so I'm interested to watch this and see what he did next. Another guy who was talented and handsome but whose career didn't really live up to expectations: Yoann Gourcuff. Scored one of The Great solo goals and got compared to Zidane. Was he too shy to succeed at Milan and for France? Too arrogant? Just injury prone? Might be a video idea down the line.
Yeah Gourcuff will be done, I mentioned him in a video a while ago and I'm curious to learn more now
Gourcuff was brilliant for Bordeaux, the best player in Ligue 1, won it with them... But had somw big injury problems and never returned to his former level, just lost that burst of power and pace.
@@DailyDoseOfFootballYT could do one about Mario Balotelli, very underrated but still highly rated if you get what i mean.
@@dragontheuncharted9776 Balotelli has great feet but childish mind.
Story reminds me of my cousin.. Absolutely gifted footballer and was the guy that all the local clubs tried to hijack.. This was back in the 90's in Ireland .. But I can remember one club actually offering to pay the insurance in his car for a year if he joined..That was a big deal, as nobody got anything for joining clubs then.. You were lucky to play at all and that was that.. That same year if I remember correctly he got called for trials to the Irish national team... I met him a week after the trials and asked him how he got on, he said I'm not playing anymore... Went off and did a plastering apprenticeship... His brother told me, he just wanted to play a bit of football but didn't want all the phonecalls and people chasing him down kinda thing... I've never seen him with a football since.. I've never even asked him anything about it..
Best comment on here!
i have an older cousin who could pretty much play the guitar like hendrix but couldn't give a fuck about music, went to uni and got a 9-5. crazy how some people just don't care about things they have a gift for.
Top episode! Loved every minute, thank you very much.
Thanks! Loved making it too, one of my favorites so far
Simple he needed someone like sir Alex to put him in his place to get the most out of him
Trust me if Louis van Gaal couldn't nobody could.
@@mickealvrijenhoek7754 van gaal was that great¿
Doubt it he tried with Ravel Morrison .
Like he did with Ravel? Wenger may have had a better chance as he may have made him enjoy football and train
The gum-chewing Scot would have handled him niced 👌🏿
as long as he's truly happy now and not living in regret, i think it was nice having him around
I meam he grew up rich so no loss
most people dont seem to realise a lot of footballers arent interested in football, its just a job they are good at and trained for
A good episode. I always did wonder what made him pack it in at 27. Talented player, for sure
Dani is a great person. He was really at his place in Amsterdam with AFC Ajax. Awesome player.
Im happy to have seen him play. Grtz from Amsterdam
Greetings! Lovely city btw, me and my girl pretty much started dating there
@@DailyDoseOfFootballYT yes Amsterdam rules!
man, imagine having life handed to you on a silver platter; money, looks, talent, ability to change games on your own, never out of options to stay in and around success, the best players to have ever played the game recognising you as something special but yet after all that, you just throw it away.. you never know how good you've got it until it's taken away from you but by then it's too late.
can't say i'm a fan of people like that but also can't deny i probably would be the same, maybe i wouldn't, maybe the life i'm currently living has made me more appreciative of the things i have - and the things i don't have. the life he has lived has definitely made him less appreciative of the things he has/had in his life.
He a little friend called Cocaine
If it’s not his passion, why in the world would he spend his life doing it? especially when he doesn’t need to?
Honestly it reminds me a bit of Carlos Vela. He Had so much talent. But somewhere, somehow his passion for the sport vanished. He was considered a wonderkid too in Mexico but his love for the sport is gone and he treats more like a 9-5 job now
Still will not be forgotten.Vela is so good i personally like him most out of mexican players
@@johnpaschalidis9497 lmaooo he will be forgotten bro vela was that one player no one cares if he goes to the the international team or not
He was n is the best Mexican player because he’s the only one to play in a top euro league AND actually play not be a bench warmer like the rest
@@doug2278 dude what 😂honestly dude people are going Remember if he played or not and he rarely did ,dude is a waste of talent
@@doug2278 best Mexican 😂u know that’s probably true but Javier hernadez is probably the best Mexican cause he actually wanted to play for his international team
Really interesting, surprised me that I had never heard of him nor his story, great video!
This dude has everything, grew up wealthy, good looking, and talent.
He was short.
@@John_Stone_ lol
@@John_Stone_ that can be an advantage. short players are faster and better at dribbling than the tall ones. look at messi
I was looking at a training session by Ajax and Dani almost run me over, quickly saying sorry to me. He sprinted to the trainings field that was fenced off to be save for the screaming girls.
A great mini documentary and I'm looking forward to watching more of your work. You have a talent for telling a story in enough depth to learn something new and interesting and enough brevity to maintain interest.
Well done.
a fantastic talent, techinically brilliant, im proud he played for ajax
Ajax female supporters share the same opinion. Dani was a dude that born with everything in his favor and playing for Ajax while not giving the smallest fuck about his career because money wasnt an issue (football for him was a way to spend his time) its kinda impressive, he was really a huge talent. Sadly, stories like him (not in the same circumstances but in terms of wasted talent) are very common in Portugal... like Fábio Paim, for example.
Dani grew up in Oeiras in a middle class família, his mother was a teacher… the hell you are talking about?!?!?
His Mother was my family doctor in Cacém. You might want to straight up the facts before...
Yes, I did hear he was raised in Oeiras, but that his mother was a doctor, not a teacher.
His family was already amazingly healthy, his parents did work yes, because they wanted to, not because they needed to.
o pai é que era professor...
Dani is a football commentator now.. I didnt knew he was such a good player
You play for Ajax AFC you are a baller ⚽️🤷♂️
Dani had everything to be one the greatest…except motivation and dedication.
*discipline and dedication
Fabulously narrated. Well done!
How about how good was actually Abou Diaby
Ahhhhh that one hurts
@@lancinekeita4823 it indeed does, yes, especially for Arsenal fans like myself
True
Diaby what a player he was man
Tragic……I bet he would of loved a 9-5 minimum wage career. The dice didn’t roll in his favour.
he was insanly rich before football, he wouldnt like 9-5 minimum wage career either.
Just how GOOD was Alexis Sanchez actually?
As an Arsenal fan who was pissed at him joining United i can say he was simply Incredible.
@@Pwnziillaaaa incredible maybe but not game changer; not dependable
@@gemesin311 scoring in cup finals? Wondergoals in big games against city , liverpool , united. Hattricks. Im confused.
Gemesin ur tripping 😂😂😂😂😂
Sanchez was one of the best wingers in the Emirates era
And then there's other young talent who love the sport and can't even be signed because they are either poor or have never been scouted, players who actually deserve to be in professional football.
We just hope we finally get to play the game and not waste our sweat, tears and pains.
01:39 Nuno Guômes.
Northern Portuguese accent. Love it
This is the funniest football video I’ve ever watched. Harry Redknapp’s comments are the best!
New to your channel I love documentarys like this you've got yourself a new sub
Thank you for sharing those really interesting these are the kind of stories that a lot of reporters don't expose
Deserves a movie for real..!!!! Would be a huge hit 🔥🔥
Interesting story. Thank You for bringing it up.
When I thought Harry redknapp had said it all he says that 😂🤣
Loved this documentary episode. Great job.
All in all, Dani was really good. He was only undone by the people's HUGE EXPECTATIONS of him. To me he did well. Only lacked motivation due to his background.
That mid-90s to early 2000s was a joy to watch gifted plyrs on the same Ajax team - Dani,Litmanen & the Laudrup brothers.'Magic'
The question is Who is Dani
Alves?
Hopefully you got the answer ahah
Daniells?
Dani played his first season for Ajax in my first season as an Ajax fan!
I was always excited about him playing for the Dutch giants! But I was ok with him leaving as media was exposing his escapades as a kid I fell for it and frowned upon him.
Thank you so much for uploading this
No worries man, glad you enjoyed it!
The Portuguese Paul Gascoigne. Like the great SAF once said, He would love to coach him and who knows how great he could have been.
Seems he had everything must have had a great life and still if he lives now. No hate, he really got what most could only dream of! - suprised I had never heard of him before.
You think going on parties every night and living the ultimate superficial life is something everyone dreams of ?
He's now one of the worst commentators I have ever seen... He covers some games in a Portuguese TV station, and honestly I prefer to mute the TV during those games
@@mart_enBetter than working a 9-5 job you hate so yah I'm sure it was amazing and he didn't get addicted to drugs or anything or arrested seemed like he enjoyed it in a real way
@@breakingthewall2112 true
perhaps because you are a young person? Dani was well known when he was young due to his raw talent in the game.
Talented player, but a professional player. Not the first athlete with rich parents to retire early.
Name 3 more
@ kaka?
35 when he retired
@ yea but he was a rich boy, after the milan era he went to real madrid as a high transfer of the year (money wasn't his catalyst or motivation) then pufffffff he didn't find next challenge and ended
I mean you can check his age after he went to RM by 1 year, thats the real age he technically retired.
1 job : name 3 Prof players with rich parents to retire early. Not 1 prof player w rich parents, you missed half the job.
Man, I had to subscribe after this video and leave a comment. I love your content and your accent is lovely!
Keep going brother!
Thanks man! I'm kinda self conscious about the accent so that's really nice to hear
How good was Falcao? Omg I remember him swing me with goals
Legendary forward while playing at FC Porto. There are rumours that his age was falsified though.
His outside of the field stories are epic. Way more exciting than his playing. 😅😅
I had an ajax practice jersey with the name of Dani on it back in 2002-03. So sad he never achieved much greatness for Portugal which had Figo, Nuno, Deko, Rui Costa and many more magicians.
Deco
I was searching deep in my football memories and close to the end of the video I managed to remember him!. Time really flies.
Talking about very talented players who didn't have a great career, you could make a video about Giorgi Kinkladze.
Yes
Kaka was another player who had a similar background to Dani. Born into a wealthy family, had good looks and outrageous footballing ability but his personality and work ethic was the complete opposite of Dani.
Lampard same background and he was one of the best professionals ever
But kaka was very religious and serious, kaka never went to a nightclub he didn’t drink alcohol, he didn’t miss trainings for sleeping with girls. Dani was a playboy that’s why he went in a wrong direction.
O sotaque portugues se nota👀. Let's go
Super delivering always. Thanks man