7 Footballers Who NEVER Actually Played
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- Опубліковано 3 сер 2022
- From former Arsenal, Manchester City, and Leeds United backup Stuart Taylor to the fake footballer Carlos Kaiser, HITC Sevens takes a look at a number of footballers who basically never played, despite spending more than ten years in the sport and not being permanently injured.
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How about the best ballers who refuse to turn pro?
This reminds me of a recurring dream I had that I'd secretly played 5 professional games of football and nobody could remember, and the dream involved me persuading them to check the records. I loved that dream.
I had a reoccurring dream that I was keane lewis potter walking home from training every day and signing someones hull shirt. I don't even support hull.
Always felt sorry for Diaby. Brilliant player who’s career was ruined by a late tackle in the 93rd minute of a game already won by some talentless hacker who took out his frustration on Diabys leg. Never recovered. Had all the talent of Vieira and even more skill. He could have been a truly great Arsenal player.
Another nail in Sunderland's embarrassing 05/06 seasons coffin. Terrible to watch, awful team, and ruined who could've really been Vieira's replacement.
Ironically the guy who did it went on to have less than 100 career appearances.
I remember wathcing him play in a international youth tournament (might have been under 21's) and he was absolutely miles ahead of everyone, and wishing Arsenal would sign him. Which of course we did. he was just startting to hit form when that thug took him out.
All the talent of Vieira hahaha... that's a real good one
@@cathyroche6738 he had all the talent and all the potential. He never got there because he had his leg butchered as a young player. Wenger himself said so. On rare occasions post injury when he wasn’t injured he was outstanding.
There's a 2018 documentary about Kaiser called Kaiser: The Greatest footballer never to play. Well worth a watch.
Where to watch
@@ianmeland4320 Amazon
Believe they are also making a film about him
Now it's time to tell you about the goat player of this category, Tommaso Berni.
He had a total of 9 Serie a games played and he's well reminded for his last part of career at Inter.
He was the third keeper from 2014 to 2020. (0 appearances, of course)
His career ended with a record breaking season, 0 appearances 2 red cards
Legend.
HOW DID HE GET 2 RED CARDS TF
@@streams7242 Too many protests from the bench lol
He played 108 matches though.
But he played 82 games for ternana
Howww
Its like in fifa you barely ever touch your standard reserve players bench
I'm doing rotations,because in England i have to play way too many games 😅
I make sure they get at least 10 apperences for the season
@@user-fq2wq9jx6g mannn I wish all the leagues had the cups on fifa career
And then the board are angry at you for not playing 4 young players rated 55ovr even though you've been asked to win the prem and the champions League with Morecambe.
@@raulsekwati885 Except for goalkeepers, whoever I don't loan out will get probably at least 5 games, because if I'm playing a league cup match as Liverpool for instance, I don't mind playing Billy Koumetio at CB with Gomez or Matip next to him as an example.
That last guy is an absolute legend! Hearing stories like that is exactly why love this channel, plus I was reminded of Davina, a name I literally hadn´t thought about in years!
I've just got a new hero, all hail Kaiser.
02:50 Aron Hunt is the perfect example of a footballer who is undeniably good, but only let his talent shine when his contract was about to expire so he would be offered an extension. If he had been serious throughout his career, he would have been just as good and remembered at Werder Bremen just like Özil and Diego were.
He’s also racist
@@SaudiGod so is everyone who isn't a BLM LGBTQA+ activist who hates white Christian men. No one cares anymore.
Oh well then replace the H with a C
@@SaudiGod The only thing i could find on that was his suspected use of racist verbiage in a U21’s match in 06. His 2 game suspension was officially revoked and lifted. His support for teammate Bakery Jatta in light of the awful smear campaign by BILD was the other thing i found. So might he have used racist or racially sensitive language (wich is terrible) in the past? Yes he maybe might have. Is the label of a full blown racist a fair one to put on him? I’d rather say no.
@@SaudiGod be careful throwing that around.
Idea for a video: 7 managers who have never played football as players. Thanks for all the content and your hard work Alfie!
We would have even a World Cup Champion: Carlos Alberto Parreira.
A good inclusion would have been Ryan Meara. Had 1 season as the first choice GK for the NY Redbulls in 2012. He got injured, and his “temporary” replacement went on to start nearly every league game for the next 6 seasons breaking the MLS record for consecutive league appearances with 183. Excluding appearances in the PDL (an amateur/ semi-professional league) early in his career, Meara has made 35 appearances for the Redbulls first team from that first season and the odd cup match over the years, 30 for the Redbulls reserve team in the USL championship (US second division) and 1 appearance on loan. 66 total appearances over 10 years. Still at the club today, hes a fan favorite despite his lack of games. A New York Native, he’s seen as a loyal, blue collar professional, more than capable of occupying the number 1 shirt, who has been unfortunate to have been at the club at the same time as one of the all time great MLS goalkeepers.
As an NYCFC fan, I agree lmao. He played for us our inaugural season!
@@Theneckofthrogs Not to mention we got a decent depth signing in Sal Zizzo alongside loaning him out to City
Best player to retire at every age
As a Chelsea fan, Kevin Hitchcock immediately springs to mind. He made nearly 300 league appearances in total, but managed a grand total of 96 appearances in 12 years at Chelsea.
He doesn’t quite meet the criteria, but must be worth an honourable mention.
I liked Hitchcock, good solid keeper, must admit he doesn't spring to mind for me as I remember him playing quite a bit in the era when Dimi Kharine was number one. Dunno if it was down to the "three foreigners" rule or injuries but they seemed to swap quite a bit in that period. The Chelsea keeper who always springs to mind for me is Lenny Pidgeley but turns out even he has nearly 300 appearances too spread over a plethora of lower league clubs
I have a pretty good idea for a video. Widzew Lodz were one of the biggest clubs in Poland, but they went bankrupt so they were taken over by a fans group and had to start out in Division 5. They built themselves a stadium and kept getting promoted until they are now back in Polands premier league. It's a riches, to rags back to riches story which might be quite interesting.
a documentary on the afc Wimbledon on the nine promotions in eleven years, how they’re a fan own club and how they have a stadium in plough lane now.
The story of they lost the club, how the F A allowed that and won’t allow that anymore.
How they were very close to moving to ireland
How they went up the English football leagues.
It would be a good documentary video if you can do this. #thepeopleschannel
Big up Wimbledon
@@Beansontoast93911 yea, hopefully Alfie can do this.
Good video today on the seven players who hardly played
I'd love to see one on wimbledon too!
Nobody wants hear about a club started by traitors who turned their backs on their own club and started another before their own had moved or died. Can't stand AFC turncoat
@@EFFEZE are we forgetting Bolton who are a team in Manchester almost went not long ago ?
as a bayern fan, bernd dreher is one of the first people to come to mind. he had an active time as #1 of uerdingen for years before joining us (before i was even born) and proceeded to be bayern's 3rd choice goalkeeper for a whopping 10 years total (over a 12 year span, he retired for 2 years and then came back for another 3 at the age of 39, i believe). during his time at bayern he made a total of 15 appearances for the club.
Signed him many a time on Champ Man when desperately trying to find a backup keeper and remembered why I shouldn't after 3 games in.
In real life BTW was he any good?
Still played 201 league games for uerdingen, which is too much for this list
We as south Africans kept a particularly good attention to Manchester United that featured Quintin fortune. We remember almost every appearance he made that featured in television
I'm a United fan born in 1991. Maybe I'm misremembering but I actually thought Quinton Fortune was a decent squad player 😂 He was decent cover for a long season with cup games and injury cover. Probably great for bringing in support from the South African market too.
S Taylor was in the three keepers to get a Premiership medal on the same team in the same season. Never done before
Can you make a video on the 7 nations most likely to become 1st time World Cup winners by the end of the 21st century?
Think they got the mesaage now
USA, Poland, Canada, Croatia, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium.
Only if England is 8th but still do 7
@@yetekt6953 Canada hahaha they would not win amateur league title.
What you want him to predict who might have a chance of winning the World Cup in the next 78 years?
Given that Croatia (4 million people) got to the WCF and Denmark and Greece came out of nowhere to win the Euros, you could basically tag 50 countries that realistically have a chance of winning the WC by 2100.
Imagine living your peacuful life somewhere in Greece or remote area in some exotic island and suddenly you get mentioned in HITC Sevens and random people come to you asking autographs next day or asking question about your footballers career, which you barely remember yourself 😜
I really liked this one Alfie great effort and delivery
Hello Alfie! Looking very much forward to your documentary about the rise of Bodø/Glimt. Hope your research about the arctic circle club goes well 😊
The rise of ma boi Jens Petter Hauge 🔥
The channel is covering Scandinavian Death Metal bands now is it?
Met Tony Pulis in Tampa Bay when Anthony was St Louis manager, called his name out and he came straight over and shook my hand, feel like he thought we must have known each other as why else would I have recognised him! :p
The surprise is there aren't more goalkeepers. It's a position that lends itself to being good enough to make a club but not playing much due to somebody else being better. Taylor is a prime example of how that can happen.
Here in Brasil we have several cases like that of the kaiser. My team, Fortaleza, has had a bunch.
An integral part of the scheme is for the player to have a stint in one of the "big 12" clubs in Brazilian football on his CV. With that he is ready to go through several teams, play 1 or 2 bad matches, earn months of salary and go cheating on another club...
"Look... he played for gremio... flamengo... he must have some potential"
And the dude just.... colect his pay... and moved on
Cool - what are some names?
I haven’t watched the video yet, and even within two seconds of seeing the title I thought… Stuart Taylor, GK for Villa, Arsenal, Saints etc. Now I see if he’s included…
He is !
If I remember correctly, Stuart Taylor got a short run of games for Arsenal when both David Seaman and Alex Manninger were injured. He played really well, and made some important saves. He was brought on as sub in the last game of the season to enable him to have enough games to qualify for a Premier League championship medal. You'd think he would have been good enough to be first choice somewhere.
Your so good at making these videos
I am wondering about seven players that played outside of the top five leagues but still made an impact at the World Cup.
Pele
Might be difficult to so out which leagues were "top 5" for each era. I think there was even a brief period lately when Portugal was ahead of France, right?
2002 with turkey and southkorea being in semis would definitely have some interesting players
Enzo Fernandez, James Rodriguez
Day 14:
A detailed look at the state of Crotone would be nice, going from Serie A in 20/21 with a 20 goal a season striker (Simy) to Serie C by 22/23. Two relegations in a row, something surely has to be wrong at that club.
Not really, they’re a small club that has only touched the top league a few times. Spent most of their time in the lower divisions where they are now
The Italian Sunderland. Very similar, they had a 20 goal a season striker (Defoe) in 16/17 and got two relegations in a row to league one by 18/19
As a Walsall fan, I remember Rene Gilmartin in goal. I'd say he played less than 50 games for us in about 5 seasons before moving to Watford I think. Seemed to bounce around for a while, never establishing himself anywhere as a first choice keeper. Retired last year... I'd bet his amount of appearances is less than 100.
87 appearances. The majority of those were at Walsall (35)
Carlos Kaiser manage to get 3 clubs to sign him twice despite having no ability. Legend.
Kaiser claims to have signed for 13 clubs. The big 4 of Rio de Janeiro: Flamengo, Fluminense, Botafogo and Vasco, plus other two of Rio's "medium" clubs: America and Bangu. He also claimed to be signed by Palmeiras in São Paulo, Independiente in Argentina, Puebla in Mexico, El Paso in the US, Louletano in Portugal, and Ajaccio Gazelec in France and Wacker Insbruck in Austria. He's a Libertadores, Intercontinental Cup and Brazilian league champion without kicking a ball.
Alfie, you should research Nuno Espírito Santo of Wolves fame, he spent his career as bench goalkeeper in Vitória Guimarães, Deportivo Corunha and FC Porto.
Kaiser iconic. What a legend.
Eli Babalj - left Melbourne Heart in 2012 after 35 appearances. Largely disappeared off the map after that and has made 58 appearances since then. Comes back to the A-league every now and then, which is so typical, and does nothing before going back overseas to some obscure league
Are you making a Barcelona fc bancrupt video and your videos are amazing keep doing what you are doing
Never thought I'd see Quinton fortune appear here - but he had a solid season or two and made a deadly partnership with John O Shea for a couple of games 😂
Wow, what a tough criteria, you really challenged yourself 👏🏾
This is why I always make sure when I play championship manager, I give my fringe players at least three appearances per season. (By fringe players, I mean the 22 non frontline players of my first team squad, I don't mean that I move in reserve players for games willy-nilly! And, yes, I try to have 33 players in the first team squad, three goalies, three right-backs, three left-backs, six centre-backs, three defensive midfielders, three attacking midfielders, three right wingers, three left wingers, and six strikers. That should be more than enough cover for every position!)
Agreed but depends on the team if I am doing a carrer I usually don't get wingers if the team already has wingers and if the team isn't using fullbacks I won't use fullbacks and so on I only use the positions that the team is already using.
Video idea: the 7 greatest 'what if' players
Like players who's bodies let them down e.g reus, ledley king
Or players who let their bad habits get the better of them e.g ravel morrison
The one seriously missing is HARVEY ESAJAS - who played for AC Milan, recommended by Clarence Seedorf. His total match count is just 58 in 13 years.
Isn't it kind of a cheat to have 3 goalkeepers in this list? They're the most likely to be logging extended time on the bench, since by definition only one goalkeeper can play in a side. The same cannot be said of outfield players, who usually could slot in to more than one place in a given squad, depending on the system.
Goalkeepers, however, tend to have longer careers than outfield players
It's no wonder Kaiser in first place never made any appearances, considering he was so busy touring the world as the lead guitarist in Van Halen.
If you're constantly stuck in the reserves you can relate to this.
Okay, getting pictures of people with similar names was a touch of genius. I lost it at bloody Davina McCall 😂
Throwbacks! When I was a kid I remember meeting Richard wright, he was tipped to be the next big gk at the time, I’d been selected as a kid with potential and we got 2 hours with him and he was such a great dude, spoiler alert I didn’t make it lol
01:58 That was merciless.
A List much like this one but about professional players who competed in other pro sports either before during or after their footballing careers.
Day 39 - The Fall and Rise of FK Velež Mostar
From a Club that has beaten Borussia Dortmund, Twente, Derby County and many others to a club that was forced from their own stadium, reduced to nothing during the Bosnian War, becoming a mediocre top-level team in the 00s to nearly being forced into folding in 2016 to its amazing comeback to European competitions in 2021 seeing the early exit of Greek giants AEK Athens in a sensational win in Athens!
Stuart Taylor in fact was great in one of the old CMs :) He would even play in the England NT. I don't remember whether it was CM 9798 or CM 0102.
Do an Iron man video - outfield players that never get injured or miss games
I remember pullis on the bench for Portsmouth against Blackpool in the fa cup
Request that could be interesting: 7 Players from different eras who would've benefitted from position changes. IE 90s number 9's who could've made good number 10's or wingers today, and vice versa
Meh
Cheers mate
We all know how proud of the joke at 13:10 you were Alfie - and rightly so.
How about players that played at senior level at other sports i know there are a few like Kevin Moran who played Gaelic football for Dublin but are there many others.
Did Roy Keane play for Cork?
Damien Plessis instantly came to mind, but it turns out he's made at least 133 appearances
As someone who studied sociology for A-Levels, the Nicholas Marx section was a joy to watch 😂
14:35 I love that picture
Whats with the image at 14.41 with the GK saving the ball and a player upside down? 😅😅😅
Bloody hell! Kaiser is an absolute legend of a farce!
I haven't heard of most of these for a very good reason by the looks of it.
Lol great vid man again
Never thought I'd see Davina Mcall on HITC sevens...
Babe
@@teiloturner2760 Hells yeah!
Alfie, when will you release your documentaries on Turkey's Big Three (Fenerbahçe, Galatasaray, Beşiktaş)? I remember you teased them back in your Süper Lig video.
Make a Video about Footballers whom should have Never Played as they were not up to scratch … ⚽️
Hey Alfie, can you make a video about the fall of Esbjerg FB, they were 3rd in the danish superliga in 18/19 and then have suffered 2 relegations in 3 years
Has this channel done a "7 most influential managers in world football" video?
Pulis reminds me of Manager John Bond's son Kevin at Norwich. Constantly terrible as a full back but constantly in the line up and hardly ever played for any other Championship/EPL side if his father wasn't managing it...
Orlando City were heavily linked to the Stoke board and both owner and manager were Stoke born. Pulis Jr only moved there as a favour to his dad
I wish you do a documentary on Carlos Kaiser and other fake footballers
Absolute unit in the Essen team at 11:00
Kerlon (the seal dribble guy) only made 68 league appearances as well
Kind of surprised, that Stuart Taylor never got caped for England. I mean, he did keep a clean sheet in the Premiere League at least once. That should put him ahead of Paul Robinson. Or Joe Hart... Or Robert Green... Or Scott Carson... Or David James...
It wouldn't make the list criteria but I remember a guy called Ali Dia who I'm sure long tenured Saints fans will remember he was the guy who conned Graeme Souness into giving him a one month contract claiming to be George Weah's cousin.
Might come in handy if you do a list of greatest football player hoaxes
Honestly didn’t expect USCL era Orlando City to be mentioned on this channel
Stuart Taylor is an amazing goalkeeper in Champ Manager 03/04.
The player at 16:29 isn't actually kaiser, that's the chilean player Franklin Lobos, who after retiring went on to become one of the 33 miners that got trapped in 2010, so thats a fun fact i guess
Stuart Taylor has been a hero of mine for a while. Would love a career like that; Kaiser is running him close, but it seems like a lot of effort to do that; so think I'll stick with Taylor.
At first i thought the title meant footballers who almost took up another career.
Have you done a video about Molde?
Ah the legend of Carlos Kaiser, the world's best fake footballer
Former Chelsea man Charly Musonda will be a good shout for this list shortly, though injuries are the cause of his not playing
How about a documentary regarding the German football scandal of 2005? Could be quite interesting, as it's one of the largest in recent memories
"the second world kerfuffle"
I totally heard "second world cup finals" and thought "Alfie... what?"
I thought Jimmy Glass might have qualified, but 2 years as Bournemouth's No 1 spoiled his chances
I think I have actually seen Pulis play for Orlando when I went to watch them
The tony pulis and his son Anthony pulis sounds alot like Steve Bruce and his son Alex Bruce and his son both going to the same team
Day 300: Indonesia XI If All Eligible Players Had Declared For Them.
Stuart Taylor was tipped for big things. I remember seeing a doc on the England youth team at lilleshall and he was on it.
That Kaiser guy was contracted to Botafogo TWICE :D How did he pulled that one off?
That last guy is a genius.
If Alfie ever built a prison it would contain only two rooms with any function, a guillotine and an electric chair because Alfie is killing it and taking no prisoners.
The Kaiser story is quite something.
I'm guessing even Steve Harper made more than 100 appearances but after that at Newcastle, someone like - and yeah I'm going back here - Paul Brayson perhaps? Paul Robinson, striker?
Fábio Paím should have a video all for himself, but he would fit this list too.
Very surprised Kashif Siddiqui didn't make the list. 9 appearances in 10 years.
Kaiser is legendary
That last guy is even better at stealing a living than bale in his last 4 years at Madrid 😂
Stewart Castledine didn't play to many games over his time with Wimbledon
great shout. Also married to 'homes under the hammer' presenter - ideal daytime tv for the 'resting' footballer
Good call. 53 games according to wikipedia. As a Dons fan back in the day only recall seeing him play during a 5-1 loss at Highbury.
Before watching the video I wondered how many matches Jordi Cruyff made so I looked him up. Was surprised to see he played more for Barcelona than he did for Man Utd 😳
Not surprisingly. He even works there now high up in there boardroom.
Alfie, can you predict the Premier League table if the Premier League was allowed to continue throughout the World Cup in Qatar?
8:15 "His french wikipedia says exactly 99 league games"
Firstly, French wiki shows games and goals in ALL official competitions (which is why it is the best one when it's about footballers)
And secondly, the 1st part is said in every article, it is on your screenshot: "1 Compétitions officielles nationales et internationales".
I'm not great at french either, but any even a bit experienced football-wiki guy should know that fact about fr wiki.