7 Footballers Who Sold Their Souls
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- Опубліковано 15 тра 2024
- From Lionel Messi shilling for Saudi Arabia to David Beckham taking £150 million from Qatar and becoming the ambassador of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, HITC Sevens takes a look at a number of footballers who he thinks sold their souls.
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Very interesting that this didn’t just go down the traditional and easier route of players who transferred between rivals or the like. Great to shine a light on some of the serious moral failings of people who are often idolised blindly.
Get used to it. This channel has provided this data and shared research providing lots of context each and every time. Has to be up there with the best TRUE content creators in UA-cam
idolise the player, not the human. Kicking a ball is easier than being a good person
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Kind of surprised Platini wasn't even mentioned considering how involved he was with the corruption in FIFA and UEFA
He had no sould to begin with
Can't sell anything you don't have
Edit: i didn't realize that line would be in the video lmao
Honestly expected him to be #1
what did he do
@@chelseafan1692 so many things. Basically every FIFA corruption and major football corruptions is because of him.
Damn, a straight slam dunk on John Terry 😂😭
Ngl I loved this😂
Deserved slam dunk imo
Me: "How could Beckham possibly be worse than a nazi?"
HITC: "Friends with James Corden"
Me: "Ah, fair"
Agreed being friends with him is a fate worse than death
😂😂😂
what happened to corden?
@@trvyycrtr2206 nothing he is as insufferable as ever
No idea who James Corden is and too scared to google :D
I'm assuming Michel Platini doesn't feature because there was no soul there to be sold in the first place
😂
Soul? He barely qualifies as human.
When it comes to Qatar, there are enough footballers that qualify for this list. Overe here in The Netherlands we have Ronald de Boer (former Ajax, Barca, Rangers player). In Dutch media he despices people who mention the death numbers and say that they are inflated with other deaths (not related to the builds) He keeps hammering on the 'positive' impact it has on Qatar football. Mate, we don't care!
Positives? God you really can buy people
But why the double standards?
Is qatar worse than the US and China or even India?
How many innocents did the us backed Israelis kill in palestine?
How many muslims are being killed by hindus in India?
How many Uyghurs are being killed in China?
I really like Hitc content but come on messi can visit Israel, india or even china but not saudi arabia?
So where were the "moral" employers with money?
Positive impacts for football> Human lives.
Most humans will try to justify anything for Money.
hope everyone carries this enthusiasm about china. the same country that has literal concentration camps for minorties and kills anyone that opposes them. no one really bats an eye when a footballer goes there to play and be associated with them. god you can really buy people xd oh and don't forget all the western governments "misdemeanors" through out the 20th/21st century so get off your high horses your as fucked up as they are even my government is too.
May I recommend a new series for the channel- The biggest 'What If' (alternative histories) in football. Here are some notable suggestions.
- What if Alex Ferguson had been sacked by Manchester United in 1989? (Unthinkable looking back now but it very nearly happened)
- What if Yugoslavia's dream team hadn't been banned by FIFA in the early to mid 90's due to the Balkans War?
- What if South Korea had actually won the 2002 World Cup? (Would have been arguably the biggest fairytale and biggest scandal in football history at the same time)
- What if Zidane hadn't headbutted Materazzi in the 2006 World Cup final?
- What if Lionel Messi had accepted Spanish citizenship in 2009? (Imagine the tiki taka dream team with prime Messi. Absolutely terrifying)
All intriguing hypothetical scenarios that would be interesting to know how the modern game would be different had they happened.
The last one isn't a good What If, as Messi had already played in the Argentina national team for 4 years and had already played at the 2006 World Cup and the 2007 Copa América.
For number two i can say that the winner of Euro 92 (Denmark) would not have won as they got Yugoslavias placing
Whenever I hear about Yugoslavia as a whole my heart breaks. Such a tragic story entirely.
- What if the British home nations had competed in the inaugural World Cup?
- What if the Munich air disaster hadn't happened?
- What if the Hand of God incident had been spotted by the officials?
- What if Zidane had signed for Blackburn Rovers in 1995?
- What if Leeds United had won the Champions league in 2001?
Alfie, you truly are the gift that keeps on giving. I hope you know how much we appreciate you and the People's Channel. Your videos are always a delight to watch, especially your documentaries. Thank you for your work.
🙌🙌🙌
Ein Ehrenbruder. Im Gegensatz zu James Corden.
There is nothing to believe and it’s more to get entertained.
I too am in Germany , love football , hate racism and f§$k the afd
Fun fact #17:Frank Everiss holds the record for the longest managerial reign of all time when he manager West Bromwich Albion for 45 years 9 moths and 30 days which started is 1 August 1902 and ended in 31 May 1948
as a musician and someone whos studied classical music for more than a decade, I really appreciate the mention of the great Paganini as someone who's bartered their soul for seemingly supernatural ability. Amazing work as always!
EDIT: After watching the entirety of the video, I really appreciate your unblinking look at how certain players like Beckham and Messi really did sell out. Never change.
Sublime timing with the number one spot. We all knew it would be Beckham, but it's a mark of your writing quality that somewhere in the description of Villaplane's villainy, I forgot that DB even existed.
His villainy transcended his football legacy.
Villaplane should have been number 1 given his leading a death squad.
@@gm2407 Agree.
It would be good to see a video that listed all the footballers who have refused to play at the Qatar World Cup due to moral disgust. But I'm guessing it would be too short for the UA-cam algorithm...
As usual a very well research and interesting topic. I had no idea about Messi's Saudi deal or Gullit's employment under a Putin puppet. As someone who grew up watching football in the 2000s, Ronaldinho's endorsement of Bolsanaro was disappointing to see as he was, in my youth, my favourite player. Also bitterly disappointing to see the aforementioned Messi Saudi deal, as Alfie said until recently he kept his head down and appeared to be someone that wouldn't take sponsorship deals for the sake of the cash. He will remain in my eyes the greatest player of all time and my favourite player, but a reminder because it is needed sometimes that those we idolise are not perfect and deserving of criticism.
A lot of people are hating on footballers for taking Saudi but let’s be completely honest with ourselves. If you’re offered of millions of guaranteed money, would you take it? I genuinely believe 99% will meanwhile the 1% have to be deeply religious or morally stable.
@@Chronicthekid Working people? Ya we can have a conversation as to if you're really struggling economically, I can understand accepting millions from a morally repugnant regime if it's to save yourself from starvation, eviction etc, but we're talking about footballers, in this instance Lionel Messi, who for the past few years has been earning £1M a week plus bonuses and clauses. There was no reason for Messi to accept the Saudi's blood money.
@@SamJW Look at billionaires. They already have billions but they keep coming out with more product to make more money. Jeff Bezos has enough money for 5 lifetimes but he still intakes the money because money makes the word go round. Not justifying what these footballers are doing but it’s the truth.
@@Chronicthekid I know you're not justifying the actions of these players, however the difference between the example you gave of Bezos and Messi for instance is, first of all Amazon is in the market of destroying it's completion and don't really care about the public image of the company, thus they see what products sell best and undercut their rivals by making similar items and charging less because they can make the overall cost of production lower as a result of the companies infrastructure and those actions result in Bezos among other becoming wealthier. Messi as an athlete and his management team are able to pick and choose his sponsorships and the deals they strike and they will consider the impact those deals will have on his image and the legacy he leaves. To compare let's look at Pele, on the pitch one of the greatest players ever, but his legacy has been sullied as a result of following his career he took any sponsorship going and now is mocked because for it. Take Pele being mocked for promoting all sorts of silly products. Now if you're Messi think about you're greatness of the pitch and all your accomplishments forever caviated with helping sportswash the reputation of a regime with an abhorrent human rights record. Similar, as Alfie stated in the video, has occurred with Beckham. His career list of moments and accomplishments have been tarnished with his decision to help promote the Qatar World Cup and associate with another repugnant regime. Finally, their justifications are obsurd, Messi, Beckham and so many others claim their involvement with these regimes is to 'help go football' or 'help this nation progress' so add blatant lies to the staining of their legacies.
I don't think Gullit is a worthy inclusion here. As far I know he didn't express explicit support for the Chechen government, he just took a good paying job in the Russian Premier League. By the same logic, any player signing for the likes of PSG and M. City should qualify for the list
"You cant sell something you never had" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The ultimate Judas. World cup hero Tim Cahill. Who took a cash payout to finish his career in the middle east instead of Australia, assisted in the UAE World cup bid and now runs a clinic there instead of developing Australian footballers. It's a skidmark on what would have been the greatest contribution to modern football in Australia since we build fences around the ground the keep the roos out 😭
This comment is just pure gold
JewishCunt he is
How did I know not know this as my Aussie myself 🤔
What's wrong with the UAE? Have you been? It's great
@@danielpacic3954 asside from disagreeing with the politics of the country, im sure it's a lovely place. Using their wealth to buy my countries greatest striking export and depriving future generations of his experience and knowledge is a sore point. We already struggle to develop quality finishers and Cahill turning his back on his country for money is particularly distasteful to me.
Fantastic Video Alfie! I love how you took the concept of ethics as the main thrust of the video and not just about footballers defecting between clubs, it's great seeing a UA-camr based in football with such a large platform able to take on these types of videos.
Alfie is a person who sees football as part of the world in which it operates.
I find it absolutely disingenuous when people say "politics and sports don't mix". It usually means that someone is doing something unethical.
Absolutely love the length and detail you went to. I’ll be honest, was expecting a basic simple players changing to to their rivals. Good stuff
Now that was a real Monday video to get us started on. 😄 cheers Alfie and good job done for continuing to show the flip side of the game 👍
This was class Alfie, would love a part 2. 👌🏻
Just as a quick annotation: Joelinton was absolutely banging back when he was at Hoffenheim. Man was destroying defenders all over the place in that season… probably just needed some time to adapt to the PL.
He needed a half decent manager to support him and give him his confidence back, which he now has.
These mixes of politics, history and football are both awesome and educational. Please keep up the good work as always
Thanks Alfie. Great content as always.
donate me bro
great to see you tackle issues such as these on your channel
Thank you! Fantastic video. And thank you for not holding back
I really enjoyed this one! I would definitely enjoy more videos on some of the off field aspects of football
The whole beckham bit had me in stitches , love the content as always COYS
Great video Alfie... hits all the right buttons. Always appreciate your takes beyond the football pitch.
Michel Platini is a glaring omission and I presume he had a better soul to start with than the horse race fixing Nazi collaborator... he's for more reprehensible than Redknapp, who I'm far from a fan of. Commercialism is nauseating but it's hardly a crime compared to Platini's massive corruption...
I don't think the concept was to select straight corrupts or people who got involved in criminal activities... but rather those who engaged is morally dubious activities.
The devil doesn’t sell his soul. Other sell their souls to Platini.
@@MrTonyktn ouch. But he was a saint as a player, a hero
@@soundscape26 it's for people who were of sound moral standing who turned to nefarious activities...which I thought Platini would be one
Seeing as though virtually his entire career post playing has been mired in corruption and scandal, revealed either concurrently or after the fact, I think it's safe to lump him in with Terry in the category of "never had one to sell to begin with." Or has also been implied, the devil does not sell his own soul.
Very interesting video, well put together! Congrats!
Excellent video mate. Loved every bit.
I'm slightly less critical of active players as they are typically completely disconnected from politics.
Easy to criticise them as they are in the spotlight. On the other hand there as been very little media coverage of the UK government's role in the Newcastle purchase which is a lot worse to me.
Lmao the uk government and the west currently funds the Saudi and repressive regimes in the gulf . I think this ukraine war was a good way for them to whitewash their image. Rather than going after players they should go after politicians leaders or buisness men who have more clout.
Beckham is more connected than dare say Ronaldo and messi and I won't be surprised if he has more shady dealings behind the scenes with politicians and others etc.
Man as a messi fan I would rather have him retire than play for that soul less shallow pit of a club psg .
I don't know what was funnier- The John Terry jibe or Morrisey and Lydon used for illustration purposes. Good job.
Johnny Marr approves!
People need to stop looking at footballers as role models because they're not they're footballers and will always look at any way to enhance their career regardless of the morality around it and money is one of those things.
Ronaldinho still has the most phenomenal warmup I’ve ever watched in person.
Great vid. Everyone needs to see this
Day 59: Considering that the last player who played in the miracle of Bern died about 8 months ago, I would really like to see a video about the whole story between Germany and Hungary, especially because it meant so much to at least the German population
these have gotten so much funnier!
it feels like you're stretching your creative legs a bit now, keep it up!
Possibly the best video you have done.
Worst*
@@xavier1752 Why?
Thank you Alfie - your pivot between humour and disgust at Beckham was masterful. One of your very best.
Thanks for bringing light to my day and humanity ❤️
That was a brilliant video, lots of things I didn’t know in there and I couldn’t agree more about Becks, a hollow bank of a human being.
Plus that burn on JT in the intro was exceptional.
Great vid again man
Excellent work man
Day 295: Indonesia XI If All Eligible Players Had Declared For Them.
I lend thee mine hand.
I respect your perseverance
Keep dreaming bocah
Top quality content, yet again.
I don’t understand how you can be so repugnant to literally sell your soul for more money when you already have more than you can spend.
Hi Alfie, love the vids. Can you do a video about the Tour de France. I’d imagine you know a lot about cycling too
You left out the part where David Beckham was due the in the Philippines on behalf of UNICEF had deemed the first class flight and 5* hotel Sofitel they provided as (insufficient) and contribute towards a private jet and more luxurious stay. In leaked emails he told his advisors "It shouldn't be costing me a penny"
Hmmm.... they're a charity David.
To be fair the sofitel in Manila is definitely not a 5 star hotel.The Conrad and Shangri-la BGC are more like it
26:21 I don't know whether to laugh or cry at whoever sent you that suggestion, I hope they were joking but it's twitter so you never know. Anyway, your delivery in this video was spectacular, was laughing the whole way through.
A great follow up to this brilliant video would be a list of players who used their fame, money and power for actually good eg, Rashford, Mane
Love this just for the vitriol that Alfie puts into his pronunciation of 'Jackpot'.
Day 9:
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.
I love this guys cutting humour!!! Just brilliant!!
The John Terry burn is amazing
Well done mate , I have had a wee look at your stuff over the past couple of months , thoroughly enjoyed it and passed it along to my football loving buddies . For me as a Bolschie Celtic fan it isn`t a massive jump in consciousness to really identify with a lot of the issues which you bring up . But what I really love as an old git who enjoyed Fantasy football ( with Badiel and Skinner ) the football journalism from the real fans in " My favourite year " , When Saturday Comes etc etc , it`s nice to see that the tradition of humourous well informed football journalism is alive and well with guys like yersell . Still waiting for an opinion from my other Celtic buddies on your stuff , but some of them are of the naive attitude that politics has nothing to do with sport . Au contraire mes Amis , tell that to Tommie Smith and John Carlos . and that`s one of the reasons I enjoy your exposure of the despots who use fitba to sanitise their horrible public image. Keep up the good work young man .Always love to hear accents from the UK ( I live in Germany and I miss this almost as much as I miss a fry up ) . I shall continue watching and write again . Some of the comments are priceless. 🙂
I want a part 10 series of this
Promoting Qatar is at most on the same level as promoting Saudi Arabia (Messi) - as an Arab, I think the Saudi regime in 50 worse - but topping an actual traitor and a killer who sell his souls to the Nazis and oversees a massacre!! Come on Alfie!!
Also, Beckham's entry in your list made me cackle 🤣 x
The perfect HITC sevens video does not exist…..
There are conspiracies that Arsene Wenger sold his soul for an Invincible season.
Day 33 - 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!
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.
Brilliant video Alfie, hilarious
I hope that Gullit was actually secretly sabotaging the club and robbing them at the same time.
Gary Neville must be on this lift after some of the Qatar World Cup videos I’ve seen from hin
Makes it worse that he's so political about inequality and corruption in the UK. Clearly it doesn't matter as much if it's happening abroad.
But did Gary become the face of that world cup like beckham
@@Support-your-local-team He's a horrible hypocrite.
Saw Franz Beckenbauer play for new York cosmos against Victoria in Melbourne during the late 70s, can't remember much of the game though, we used to get overseas teams touring during their off season, the used to play against a Victorian representative side or Australia. At least now they play A league sides.
The long explanation about Beckham is just *chefs kiss*
The Centre parcs reference is class 🤣🤣
There are some terrible crimes… and then there is befriending James Cordon.
UN must condemn
@@ebbeb9827 😆
Ngl, Beckenbauer felt like a weird inclusion. You could just as well have Platini or Hoeneß
But Platini wasn’t one that surprised anyone. He likely didn’t have a soul to begin with. Hoeneß would’ve been a good inclusion though.
I just love how you skit around litigation 😂😂
Lothar Matthaus is might also be a good addition. Though not that apparent, but in general when he was the captain of Hungary, he basically called up like a 100 different players in 3 years and tried to sold them to foreign clubs. He failed to qualify to any major tournament and only pursued his own interest instead of actually managing the team. Probably he did the same elsewhere too.
Back to the good stuff Alfie 👍🏻
Although surely Messi has to be in the top 3 for doing similar unprincipled greed as Beckham...
Another great video! I'd also love to see a video from the opposite perspective e.g. footballers who have gone above and beyond to highlight human rights abuses and to support good causes.
I'm surprised Alfie didn't mention that beckenbauer maybe potentially sold his soul when he played against Plato and Socrates.
That photo of Wayne Bridge with his arm around John Terry.
Talk about timing....
One of your best Alfie
very well done
Has this channel ever did a "7 weirdest trades in association football" video? I was watching ESPN's SportsCenter. They were doing a video of trades in sports. The mentioned a Norwegian footballer being traded for over 100 pounds of shrimp.
That'd be worth a watch mate.
Could you do a video on ethically upright players? I need to see some light amongst all this darkness.
Dedicating the highest award in the sport to a dude in jail for necklacing white farmers with tires is a weird move tbh
Lol what🤣
@@Mzfz Mandela, and his wife. Was their movement’s main method of cultivating political submission.
@@Mzfz Mandela was imprisoned for having his followers go onto Boer farms and necklace the families with truck tires.
They would bind them, place a a tire over them, doise it in gasoline and let them burn and the rubber melt onto them.
That's why Mandela was in prison, not hand holding and walking around like MLK did
I'd add an entire federation, namely the US Soccer Federation.
The selling cyanide to children had me in stitches! Very interesting video overall.
Love how this came up as soon as Jordan Henderson goes to Saudi
And after hearing number two: damn, who’s going to surpass THAT?
Ah man, Lionel my dude, i didnt even knew and now im disappointed.
all I’m gonna say in his defence is two things: 1. His father is known to have a huge influence in managing his financial side of things. That is one of the main reasons he got caught up in the tax fraud issue. 2. As an active player, I’m sure Messi isn’t keeping up to date with political issues in the Middle East. It’s more that his father sees the money and goes yeah, this makes sense.
@@nilsoskar he isn’t a teenager anymore. His father isn’t going to be forcing him to do anything, and you have nothing to suggest it’s just his fathers decision and Lionel doesn’t support it.
Idea which might be interesting to your English subscribers: 7 USMNT players likely to make the WC squad who haven't played any club football in Europe. Sean Johnson, Walker Zimmerman, Aaron Long, Cristian Roldan, Kellyn Acosta, Jordan Morris and Jesus Ferrara. Paul Arriola would make 8 which means you could do a "top" seven by bumping Aaron Long, but he played 2 games on loan at Swansea, so tough luck. Several of those players would make my starting XI vs the 3 lions for specific tactical reasons, including Morris (very strong, very fast winger/forward which could pose problems), Roldan (frequently used in holding and attacking mf, he's also the USMNT's best defensive RB, which sets up a Yedlin-Adams substitution to push McKennie further forward if a goal is desperately needed), Zimmerman (currently the best center half in MLS, by a margin), and Johnson (just better than Horvath & Turner, from what I've seen).
messi said,"yes", alfie didn't even think he would say otherwise or considered saying no
This one was sad and hilarious at the same time!
Anybody else get an advert to visit dubai whilst watching?
as a bristol rovers fan....gotta be matty taylor.. we to a gamble on him, n yes he did very well for us, yet when it came time for a new deal he signed one with a horribly low release clause to go running to bristol city asking them to pay it, which they did so he could play championship footvall
To be honest: Beckenbauer didn't do anything, any other official that wanted to get a World Cup to his home country would do. And unlike say Platini, he used most of the money for that World Cup bid and not to enrich himself. Just to point this out: Platini, not Beckenbauer, was considered to be Blatters favorite student, who is the literal devil in Football.
Honestly, when the shock, when we Germans found out, that our World Cup bid wasn't just the best by far, but that "we" also partially bought it, was one of the most amazing things I have seen. And it is also a bit of racist, since we all knew or expected, that all the other bids in this millennium were corrupted. But we Germans were good enough to get a World Cup without these shenanigans.
Alfie on the ronaldhinio thing. I would say the working class in alot of developing countries are often also conservative. It's just something Ive learned in my life there a few reasons but I won't go in detail
I think Alfie should learn more about Mandela😃
- from a South African
Remember that the person legally behind the messi tax case was his father who is still his agent I'd be surprised if messi had much say
Still doesn’t cover up the fact that he took money from a filthy middle eastern dictatorship
Imagine being too good people think you sold your soul
Alfie needs to be careful up there on his high horse. Someone might try and pull him off it.
alfie, please make a fpl video this year as well
I'm sure Messi was bitter that Center Parcs didn't offer him an ambassadorial role
I CLAIM an opposite top 7: football related personalities that avoided to sell their souls ;D