@@stephenbuffery180 This makes no sense. Messi is the ultimate GOAT and even he has struggled against several players. By this logic, Bruno Alves better than Messi?
I am not comparing him to vidic, but strahinja pavlovic seems like he is cut from the same cloth certainly, I mean there is still hope. That kid when he came to the world cup he was so visibly confused and out of place and yet delivered each performance with so much heart and passion, scored a goal as well. While you could see Nikola and Milos struggling to cover for their wing back, zivkovic, Pavlovic was so enormous and gigantic at the back you could see him everywhere. This back 3 with no real CDMs and wing backs who are actually wingers leave the Serbian back 3 very vulnerable but I was impressed how pavlovic tackled that challenge. He is a top top talent in my books and if there is right kind of atmosphere around him we will see a true fighter of a Cb in the future. I hope in Euros Serbia dont leave their back 3 so helpless. It is so heartbreaking to watch them play without any defensive solidity whatsoever, although they have great talent.
Because our football association is corrupt and government-led, a lot of nepotism and mafia, our coach has a $1.2mil salary for god's sake and he never coached any top 5 leagues . Coaching staff, physio, set-piece coaches, and all other staff have tactics like it's 1990s, and this is just scratching the surface, we probably sell games practice blackmail and who knows what else goes on there...
No Vandijk is litteraly better than Vidic in every aspect of the game, hes socred more prem goals, has a better tackle succesion rate, is far faster, far stronger, better in the air, has more passes and a better pass completion lol
Watching him when I was a young kid he became my favorite defender and one of my favorite players at Manchester United instantly Watching him from that young age I want to say it made me fearless in the way I play sports not even just football but he definitely influenced how I played and saw the game
Im Serbian and Man Utd is my favorite club in PL,Paul Scholes was my favorite player ever and in that team that i watch come Serbian warior Nemanja Vidić and play with Legends and Greeatest ever Ser Alex....oooo man and that song about Nemanja and where he is coming from wow and straight respect from Man Utd fans who respect people like him,people who will give thay everything for that club and that is what is mising today...I mising days when footbal wasnt just who is payed 200 M but dont worth to clean boots of Legends like this...
Немања Видић, хвала ти легендо на свему💪👑 Дај све од себе и желим ти да очистиш српски фудбал и спорт од олоша и смећа. Живео краљу и све најбоље у животу.
As Serb and a Liverpool fan, I remember watching United games mora than Liverpool games back then thanks to Vidic. What a joy that was watching him "kill" attacking players for those 8 or so years.
Obsessively watched premier league in the late 2000s and early 2010s, and as a united fan, Vidic was my hero. If there was an attack, Vidic was there to save us. Reliable, tough as nails, defended like his life depended on it. Sometimes what you need from a defend is them putting their heart and soul into stopping the opponent.
Heh there is a fun fact back in 2002, young Vidic was playing in Red Star Belgrade and there was a derby against Partizan where Vidic scored a header and commentator said (note again that it was 2002) “And Its a goal, Nemanja Vidic - Red Star's Sami Hyypiä!”
what a passion for play and victory that was!! as a liverpool fan it was tough to watch him play against us but hats off, he was on another level! i'd say Maldini and Vidic are the best defenders i saw playing. quality, performance and attitude are over the roof!
Unfortunarly no more tough defenders. I mean there are strong phisicaly defenders but they just dont seem tough as defenders before. Back than they had bigger pair of balls.
as we Serbs like to say if Vidic was english, italian or spanish player he would be considered as Beckenbauer, maldini same as we say if Novak Djokovic was american, british or german he would be easily considered as a goat long time ago but not just that he would be considered as best athlete of all time, similar situation is happening in basketball and NBA where the best player in last 4 yrs is serbian Nikola Jokic having won 3x MVP of the season, winning the western conference MVP player award, winning the title with MVP of the finals all that while there is huge even hate and racism showed to him, if you miss the pattern here then you are either deluded or acting dumb
Back than he was tough as brick at his peak of career. What a defender he was. Its sad to see actual Man U defenders when we remeber Vidic, Ferdinand, Stam.
I miss seeing hime playing. Wish we could reslly find another CB who is as fearless as he was . Man give his all for ManUtd even when he had blood rushing from nose or head injuries he kept playing like a real boss
The myth of Torres destroying him is absolute nonsense, in 15 matches against Vidic, Torres only scored three times. One of the goals was a mistake by Vidic which later on he admitted to misjudge the distance and he scored.
Its a very popular comment on social media. HAHA TORRES! But lets be honest did any defender in history manage to stop everyone all the time? HAHA SERGIO RAMOS GOT DESTROYED BY MESSI
Guardiola made defenders obsolete (along with officials who punish tackling but allow diving). Now we're supposed to believe Haaland is an all-time great because he's exploited the gap... Vidic would brutalise that Ghostbusters II clown
No they compare Van Dijk to Vidic and there is no comparison. Nobody will ever reach Vidic standards of 2007/8/9 seasons. Van Dijk is way over rated playing in a protected era of football!
@@iprince7934 He's not even close. Vidic was just as good in the air, FAR superior in ground duels and his positioning and anticipation were possibly the best the Premier League has ever seen. VVD is one of the greats but there's levels and he's not on Vidic's.
The problem with MU defence nowadays is they just waiting for the ball and goes back off until opponents teams scores, meanwhile vidic and and the gang, make a high pressure and get the ball before the player get any chance to go inside the box.
The point of this story is not Vidic; check the part of the interview when, after his training sessions, he could not find any other teammates who were doing extra training to improve what they needed in the game, to be better to be top class. And most important is that whole group was like that, and they have respect for the club, to the staff, and to the game, so each time in that environment, when a new player comes, he needs to adopt that mentality or it will fail. That is the success of glorious Manchester United, but it is unfortunately past...
Check out Strahinja Pavlovic, 23 year old CB from Serbia, currently in RB Salzburg, i think he's the next Vidic, fearless, technical, strong af, they even look alike.
@@stephenbuffery180 Find me a defender in history that didnt get destroyed by some attacker at some point? Lets joke with Maldini and tell him haha bro u got molested by R9
@@stephenbuffery180 That one game didn't change anything. Yes, Torres took out the entire UTD defense, but then shit always happens. It was just one of those days.
the only close to Vidic at the moment is Strahinja Pavlovic, a great defender who i see he throws his heart and body on the field is it possible that he might be like Vidic?, I am not sure but wherever he does end up i hope he still has mindset like Vidic did and continue to defend great like he used to
Kompany is the best defender the PL has ever seen IF you judge on one season. Not a single defender ever came close to what Kompany did in the 2011-'12 campagne. Total domination. But when you talk about an entire career, Vidic and Terry stand out.
If I had to pick 3 of my all time favourite manutd centre backs it would be vidic with rio n finally the one who literally bullied the Premiership for a few season is juup stam
The best CB the Prem has ever seen . By far
Hell no, Vandijk clears him, his littearly better than him in every aspect of the game
Not even close. He’s the most overrated
@@wadeyone12 Vandijk aint overrated lol
@@iprince7934 rediculous take, can't even take that seriously. of all the CBs, to tackle guys claim, you going for van Dijk 😅 just hilarious mate
Along with Jaap Stam
god damn i got goosebumps at the end when they started singing his name
Brought a tear to my eye 😢
Me too 😢
Same 😢😢
Me too
For mu he was god
A time when players used to care about the club 😢🔴
A little correction or maybe just an observation: A time when players actually played for the club not for the money of the club
Fact this video is on 23k after 5 days is another reason people don't actually realise the absolute Demon of a baller Vidic was!
Till torres played 😂
@@stephenbuffery180 This makes no sense. Messi is the ultimate GOAT and even he has struggled against several players. By this logic, Bruno Alves better than Messi?
@@AmritSingh-xe5yr Bruno. Who ?
@@stephenbuffery180 the guy who stopped Messi's penalties. You're way too young.
@@AmritSingh-xe5yr bet he didn't even watch when Vidic vs Torres XD He only managed to score 3 goals pass him
Van Dijk doesn't deserve to named in the same breath as him. He's leagues below Vidic.
I am not comparing him to vidic, but strahinja pavlovic seems like he is cut from the same cloth certainly, I mean there is still hope. That kid when he came to the world cup he was so visibly confused and out of place and yet delivered each performance with so much heart and passion, scored a goal as well. While you could see Nikola and Milos struggling to cover for their wing back, zivkovic, Pavlovic was so enormous and gigantic at the back you could see him everywhere. This back 3 with no real CDMs and wing backs who are actually wingers leave the Serbian back 3 very vulnerable but I was impressed how pavlovic tackled that challenge. He is a top top talent in my books and if there is right kind of atmosphere around him we will see a true fighter of a Cb in the future. I hope in Euros Serbia dont leave their back 3 so helpless. It is so heartbreaking to watch them play without any defensive solidity whatsoever, although they have great talent.
nemoj da kenjas molim te
Because our football association is corrupt and government-led, a lot of nepotism and mafia, our coach has a $1.2mil salary for god's sake and he never coached any top 5 leagues . Coaching staff, physio, set-piece coaches, and all other staff have tactics like it's 1990s, and this is just scratching the surface, we probably sell games practice blackmail and who knows what else goes on there...
@@sohaibimran9 they played even worse at the euros than the world cup. Everyone but Pavlović didn't give a shit. Pavlović ate his heart out.
@@МиланЖивковић-к9ъPavlovic did the job both on offense and defense, rest of the team beside the goalkeeper should be ashamed
and now he is at milan
Vidic best defender pl era seen no joke 💯
I’m a Man U fan but he’s not the top 5 fs. 1. Ferdinand 2. Terry 3. Vvd 4. Vidic
@@moussaruremeshangabo1277 that’s still top 5 bro and vidic is better than vvd
No Vandijk is litteraly better than Vidic in every aspect of the game, hes socred more prem goals, has a better tackle succesion rate, is far faster, far stronger, better in the air, has more passes and a better pass completion lol
@@jahmanihenry7513 Hes not
@@jahmanihenry7513he’s no where near van dijk level. Vidic would get crucified playing today
He was the best defender.. We ever had he was unbelievable.
My favourite player ever
Watching him when I was a young kid he became my favorite defender and one of my favorite players at Manchester United instantly
Watching him from that young age I want to say it made me fearless in the way I play sports not even just football but he definitely influenced how I played and saw the game
Im Serbian and Man Utd is my favorite club in PL,Paul Scholes was my favorite player ever and in that team that i watch come Serbian warior Nemanja Vidić and play with Legends and Greeatest ever Ser Alex....oooo man and that song about Nemanja and where he is coming from wow and straight respect from Man Utd fans who respect people like him,people who will give thay everything for that club and that is what is mising today...I mising days when footbal wasnt just who is payed 200 M but dont worth to clean boots of Legends like this...
Watching him and Maldini are 2 of my favorite cb in world football
THIS!
Немања Видић, хвала ти легендо на свему💪👑
Дај све од себе и желим ти да очистиш српски фудбал и спорт од олоша и смећа. Живео краљу и све најбоље у животу.
I loved watching him play. He was one of the best I grew up watching. His pairing with Rio was greatness
As Serb and a Liverpool fan, I remember watching United games mora than Liverpool games back then thanks to Vidic. What a joy that was watching him "kill" attacking players for those 8 or so years.
This guy was a monster...
When it comes to Tackling, Aerial Ability nobody was better. Phenomenal Defender.
if anyone in this current man utd team had even half an ounce of this guy's passion, we could actually win trophies.
2024 fa cup champs ❤
We have Lisandro 💪
I agree to that 💯💯
Obsessively watched premier league in the late 2000s and early 2010s, and as a united fan, Vidic was my hero. If there was an attack, Vidic was there to save us. Reliable, tough as nails, defended like his life depended on it. Sometimes what you need from a defend is them putting their heart and soul into stopping the opponent.
Im from the same town as Sami Hyypiä, Ive been a hammers fan since 90s but I must say that Vidic is by far the best centerback Ive seen. Rescpect.
Heh there is a fun fact back in 2002, young Vidic was playing in Red Star Belgrade and there was a derby against Partizan where Vidic scored a header and commentator said (note again that it was 2002) “And Its a goal, Nemanja Vidic - Red Star's Sami Hyypiä!”
Vidic will always be loved ❤
I guess lisandro Martinez now wears the crown ❤
Yes. Lisandro Martinez is similar in play style. Fights for the bagde
Nemanja Vidić its my fav player all time!
what a passion for play and victory that was!! as a liverpool fan it was tough to watch him play against us but hats off, he was on another level! i'd say Maldini and Vidic are the best defenders i saw playing. quality, performance and attitude are over the roof!
He was also fantastic with positioning in free kicks and corners, scored many goals like that with fantastic headers
Him and Jaap Stam are the best pure defenders in prem history by a mile.
Unfortunarly no more tough defenders. I mean there are strong phisicaly defenders but they just dont seem tough as defenders before. Back than they had bigger pair of balls.
Nemanja Vidic... Forever one of the greats!!
Hard as fucking nails.
these kinda videos will remain to show the next generation just how bright some players were before the current.
My Favourite CB by a mile
if i ever get into profesional football i'll play like vidić
Vidic is awesome. I hope Martinez can come back and live up the the same standards if Utd don’t sell him in their up coming clear out.
martinez has an ounce of nemanja's passion. that's enough to succeed.
He'd be first out 😂
You need more people like martinez to inspire each other. Having crybabies like sancho and others would only lead to destruction
Martinez is Vidic but small
Great January signing along with evra, both struggled at first and Martinez is of the same mould as vidic, just need him to stay fit
And grow a foot 😂😂
lol
Jebiga dva puta igrac premijer lige a defanzivac sta reci Ratnik krvavi Nemanja ❤
How did we go from Vidic and Ferdinand to Maguire and Lindelof
This your question move me oooo I swear
Warrior of a genius
Absolute goosebumps on his farewell. Absolute legend of the game and the club. Always think he’s underrated compared to Maldini and Sergio Ramos.
as we Serbs like to say if Vidic was english, italian or spanish player he would be considered as Beckenbauer, maldini same as we say if Novak Djokovic was american, british or german he would be easily considered as a goat long time ago but not just that he would be considered as best athlete of all time, similar situation is happening in basketball and NBA where the best player in last 4 yrs is serbian Nikola Jokic having won 3x MVP of the season, winning the western conference MVP player award, winning the title with MVP of the finals all that while there is huge even hate and racism showed to him, if you miss the pattern here then you are either deluded or acting dumb
Back than he was tough as brick at his peak of career. What a defender he was. Its sad to see actual Man U defenders when we remeber Vidic, Ferdinand, Stam.
I love him.
Spot on RVP, we miss him dearly.
I’m Albanian and I am a fan of him. Great player.
Back in the days united used to be disciplined ❤️
Please tell me why I felt goosebumps all over when the fans started the vidic chant. They don’t make cbs like him anymore… 😢❤
I miss seeing hime playing. Wish we could reslly find another CB who is as fearless as he was . Man give his all for ManUtd even when he had blood rushing from nose or head injuries he kept playing like a real boss
he gave his heart and soul for manutd thank you Vidić
The myth of Torres destroying him is absolute nonsense, in 15 matches against Vidic, Torres only scored three times. One of the goals was a mistake by Vidic which later on he admitted to misjudge the distance and he scored.
Torres destroying Leverpool
Heard some crap that's near top of pile load of horse crap 😂
@@stephenbuffery180 Indeed
Its a very popular comment on social media. HAHA TORRES! But lets be honest did any defender in history manage to stop everyone all the time? HAHA SERGIO RAMOS GOT DESTROYED BY MESSI
Guardiola made defenders obsolete (along with officials who punish tackling but allow diving). Now we're supposed to believe Haaland is an all-time great because he's exploited the gap... Vidic would brutalise that Ghostbusters II clown
Honestly one of my favourite players growing up
Best defender
The wall of Manchester
My Serbian Science teacher did a whole power point presentation about Vidic when we were supposed to be learning about science.
Vidic and Rio are the best CB pair in English football of all time. Both were absolutely dominate and complemented each other impeccably.
Martinez reminds me of vidic 👑 👑
And people compared him to van dijk🫠
Vandijk is so clear of Vidic
just watch vvd play
@@halfviltrumite but you weren’t born early enough of watch Vidic🥲
No they compare Van Dijk to Vidic and there is no comparison. Nobody will ever reach Vidic standards of 2007/8/9 seasons. Van Dijk is way over rated playing in a protected era of football!
@@iprince7934 He's not even close. Vidic was just as good in the air, FAR superior in ground duels and his positioning and anticipation were possibly the best the Premier League has ever seen. VVD is one of the greats but there's levels and he's not on Vidic's.
Lisandro is a lot like Vidic minus the leadership. If only United hired qualified and professional medical and fitness team....
I hope he can make a good comeback. We are in dire need of a personality like him in our defence.
God help us 🙏
The GOAT
10.5M for Vidic is such a mad good deal bruv!! Considering we made Maguire the most expensive CB of all time...how low we've fallen
I’m 26 years old . Prime Vidic got to witness . True fighter
They don't make them like Vidic anymore.
Beast man best in the prem.
Great channel. Short to the point videos that don't fail to capture what was special about a player. Good job! :)
thank you
The problem with MU defence nowadays is they just waiting for the ball and goes back off until opponents teams scores, meanwhile vidic and and the gang, make a high pressure and get the ball before the player get any chance to go inside the box.
might be too early to tell but Martinez reminds me of him
Vidic in Football, Jokic in Basketball, Djokovic in Tennis. Serbians are just built different
As a Serb I am so f**ing proud l.
Vidic > VVD
I can't believe I saw Vidic play for Manchester United
The point of this story is not Vidic; check the part of the interview when, after his training sessions, he could not find any other teammates who were doing extra training to improve what they needed in the game, to be better to be top class. And most important is that whole group was like that, and they have respect for the club, to the staff, and to the game, so each time in that environment, when a new player comes, he needs to adopt that mentality or it will fail. That is the success of glorious Manchester United, but it is unfortunately past...
Ma jedan je Vidara!!
red is our color for life, like on field like in life , once you turn red there is no going back
Check out Strahinja Pavlovic, 23 year old CB from Serbia, currently in RB Salzburg, i think he's the next Vidic, fearless, technical, strong af, they even look alike.
❤❤❤❤ BRAVEHEART from SERBIA'S
Love the guy so much ❤️
mate i cried when he left Football and Man UTD
The best
Nemanja the best ever
he was born in fire
Torres fire 😂
@@stephenbuffery180 Find me a defender in history that didnt get destroyed by some attacker at some point? Lets joke with Maldini and tell him haha bro u got molested by R9
@@stephenbuffery180 That one game didn't change anything. Yes, Torres took out the entire UTD defense, but then shit always happens. It was just one of those days.
He broke his nose six times... passion
And then there are people claiming there were better defenders than him in England....there werent, he is best ever CB that played in Premier league.
if a shot clock is introduced in football, we'll see these types of players return.
The only reason it was only 14 clean sheets is that Ferguson tried to rest him in the 15th game and they conceded..
the only close to Vidic at the moment is Strahinja Pavlovic, a great defender who i see he throws his heart and body on the field is it possible that he might be like Vidic?, I am not sure but wherever he does end up i hope he still has mindset like Vidic did and continue to defend great like he used to
Legendary MU warrior for the ages
He deserves to play in a club like Real Madrid Barcelona or even Bayern Munich!!
oh come on you have to include his celebration where his arms circling around. His best celebration
Balkan beast
I can't believe people are comparing this demon with van dijk
Terminator!
Damn imagine playing against a team with 5 vidic's in defence💀
Strahinja Pavlovic🌲👀🌲
Lisandro Martinez can fill up his shoes
Back then when our players come from poverty, war and dream
Kompany is the best defender the PL has ever seen IF you judge on one season. Not a single defender ever came close to what Kompany did in the 2011-'12 campagne. Total domination. But when you talk about an entire career, Vidic and Terry stand out.
You on drugs
I have a case to say that give Lisandro Martinez a solid partner, I think he’s up there with him
I remember those days man united
If I had to pick 3 of my all time favourite manutd centre backs it would be vidic with rio n finally the one who literally bullied the Premiership for a few season is juup stam
One of the all time best CB the premier league ever had. The one and only Nemanja vidic ♥
"He comes feom Serbia, he'll fucking murder yea". God the fans are so right. 😂
goosebumps
You know your CB is a beast if he looks like propper MMA fighter 😂
Honestly Strahinja Pavlovic is kind of a Vidic regen, but still not close
There will not be any maldini,messi ronaldo,stam etc every player is unique