THE BEST ITALIAN FOOTBALLER OF ALL TIME? Gen Z'er Reacts to Roberto Baggio!
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For us italians, Baggio was, and still is kind of a mythical figure. I'd say he's the best italian player ever (Maldini is up there too), certainly he's the best number 10 in italian history. And he did all of that with a leg and a half. As a 18 years old he injured his knee. The surgery required 220 stitches. At that time, for most players, an injury like that would have meant early retirement. At the end of his career he had 7 surgeries on the knee, he had to do extensive physio before and after training and matches, and he basically couldn't exert any force on that knee, letting him play basically with one leg. And even like that, Guardiola said in a video with Messi, (and confirmed later), that Baggio was the best player he ever played with. For many italians there's much more to him than one of the greatest football players of all time: he played at an oustanding level in an era when the Serie A was not only the best, but the toughest league in the world, especially for a number 10. I'd say he is, to this day, the most beloved and renowned player in italian history.
Thank you for your video.
I am from Ukraine and I understand, that Roberto Baggio is N1 in the world football history 🥇
He was the most complete attacking player I ever saw! Two-footed, perfect touch, dribbling, passing, every type of shot in his locker, set-pieces, penalties, heading, acrobats,speed, all whilst being injured all his career..... He was every bit as talented as Messi, just injuries made it hard, and his era was harder for goals.
Pep Guardiola said that if BAGGIO played today he would score 50 goals a season, regardless which team he played for.
blew his knee to pieces at like 18 and could not walk after every game and still was that good. imagine his knee was ok. could have been the best ever.
Also trained for 3 years by himself to rehabilitate his knee back to strength… what a absolute legend !! Yes he would have been the best of all time I think as well
I heard about this recently on a documentary, I didn't realise how severe that injury was. Incredible he played at such a high level. Baggio and R9 had a gifted curse.
How did he sustain the injury?
And how did they get him back to such an elite level whilst Gazza was nowhere near the same player after his injury?
Per 30 anni la serie a e`stato il campionato piu bello e difficile di tutti.
Baggio insieme a maradone i più forti della storia.
In my opinion across the second half of the 80s and the first half of the 90s 3 players were absolutely above all the others: Diego Armando Maradona, Roberto Baggio and Lothar Mattheus. Baggio was just more unlucky, because after winning the Ballon d'Or in 1993, he lost the Word Championship Final in 1994 on penalties, even if he was the best players of that Word Championship together with Romario. We should remember that also Maradona and Mattheus didn't score in the Final when they won the Word Championship. Moreover Baggio played all his life with a fragile knee, due to a destructive injury when he was just 18 years old. I'm from Brescia and he finished his career in the team of my city. He arrived there at 33 (and around 160 goals scored in Serie A). For many critics he was finished. He stopped after 4 seasons in Brescia at 208 goals in Seria A (he was often injured, he scored 46 goals in 100 presences, it means around 1 goal every two games...). And many many assists and great plays! Also for this reason today in Italy there is a song that says: "Since Baggio has stopped playing, it is no longer Sunday..." (because in those years the Serie A matches were played only that day). Legendary!
He scored 205 goals in Serie A, not 208.
Magical player. I feel privileged to have been able to see a lot of the Serie A games live back in the 90s. I agree there was more to the players in those days and the individual players stood out more than the system
No one was or is above Baggio. Ballondor. Different class. And it was an era of many real contenders.
I think the likes of Hagi, Baggio and Romario are the forgotten gems of football, they wont get remembered quite the same way as the likes Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Maradona, Zidane, Messi, CR7, but really they are players that would be elite in any era and right up there with all those names
(Maybe Rivaldo is in this category too)
Correct. One of the all-time greats - and for me, the greatest alongside Messi - yet hardly gets mentioned when discussions about 'greatest players' arise. Criminal. Just like Messi, he carried his national team and dragged a mediocre one to a WC final.
Even Zidane said regarding Marcello Lippi keeping Baggio on the bench while he was coach at Inter " "Baggio on the bench?!? You will never be able to explain that to me in my lifetime."
You are spot on by the lack of player diversity. Players in academies are now being moulded into the perfect player for their team’s system and the amount of flair players and players with the ability to think for themselves and get out of any situation using skill/creativity are falling. Players are being turned into robots and personality is being taken from their game at a younger age compared to ever before. Brazilian youngsters are some of the only ones left.
I agree it has become boring
It will be robots playing within 15 years. Mark my words
Let me tell you this about Baggio - Most of these highlight reels don't even do him justice. You should watch like video of all of Baggio's touches in a certain game. Like Inter vs Real Madrid. It exists on youtube. Because so many of the things he does are not "highlight worthy", but you can feel every touch is magic. You can feel every move is by a football genius.
That's why I say people who didn't get to see Baggio play, will not be able to realize how magical he was. How he made an entire nation fall in love with him in the highs and the lows. How he made kids like me, I was a pre-teen when I started watching him, fall in love with the game. Baggio is the EPITOME of love of football. The epitome of passion for the game, creativity, touch. And you can only see that really through watching him play a match or several matches. It is much more than just his incredible goals and assists.
Baggio is one of the most underrated players, because people tend to forget how truly amazing he was. And he played his entire career on one knee, basically. Since he had several really critical injuries on his other knee.
Il Baggio più forte in assoluto giocò nella Juventus quando lì vinse il pallone d'oro..
Roberto Baggio Legend
Baggio is the best at sitting a keeper down I’ve ever seen, him and R9 just absolute masters at selling the dummy.
Don't forget that after the first goal shown in this compilation Baggio played all his career with a damaged knee, 200 stitches !
My idol growing up in England. WC 94 was all Baggio - dragging a mediocre Italian side all the way to the WC final. Such important goals, elegant play, outrageous skill and sheer determination. He did not deserve to be remembered for a penalty miss.
mediocre? lol Albertini, Maldini, Baresi , Conte, Zola, Signori, Casiraghi.
And Baggio.
You probably mean unlucky
The 94 team was mediocre and would have exited before the quarters without Baggio. Pagliuca, Berti , Benarivo, Donadoni, Costacurta, Massaro, Mussi were all average players at best. Signori was above average but not a great player. Casiraghi's goal rate at club/international level is approx 1 in 4 - quite woeful and his main assets was his height, and heading not skill @@nespolinho
@@Dingbotz Pagluica , Costacurta , Donadoni average? lol, and you forget to mention Baresi Conte Zola e Signori
@@nespolinho absolutely. Donadoni and Massaro struggled to get in Milan’s team and became journeymen at much smaller clubs. I already covered Signori, Baresi was a gel rest but past his best. Zola was great but not pivotal to Italy until 97+ as the team revolves around Baggio. Now reread my previous message where I listed many of that Italian team and you will see how inconsequential they were and that is why the whole world knows that 1994 was the year that a mediocre team was taken all the way to the final by the genius of one player (Roberto Baggio) just like Argentina in 1986 with Diego Maradona.
He was the divine ponytail… me personally Alessandro Del Piero was a different player not better then Baggio but as a man and loyal servant and captain was better. Baggio is simply a mythical legend! He played for so many teams and scored so many goals that he should be up there with top 5 player of all time and perhaps yes best Italian player of all time!
Good reaction !
He also was dominant in Serie A when it was arguably the greatest league in club football history, facing the world's best defenders in an era when you could still defend properly, tackle from behind, follow through from tackles was still permitted etc, so much harder for attackers back then.
Bergkamp is one of my favourite players of all time.....but Baggio>Bergkamp, Baggio is closer too the likes of Messi and Maradona than Bergkamp, in terms of ability, we are talking genuine top 10 greatest players of all time kind of level with Baggio IMO
(I do honestly think that 90-00 probably had the most elite players in a decade,maybe the fitness was less and all that , but if we are talking ability, thats the golden era IMO, maybe the 80's but it was for sure between 80 and 00, and probably the 90's)
He was outstanding, thank you Channel 4 and Football Italia for bringing a good part of this great man's career to UK viewers. He knew how to stay on his feet and push the ball past the player then jump the leg that would nowadays bring the foul.... I used to love watching him 'go round the keeper' as I used to view his knack of sending the keeper the wrong way.
Greatest Italian player ever for me, top all time globally even. Unbelievable. And to think he played his entire career injured makes his achievements even better.
The best italian player ever 👍
Yes, Bergkamp and Baggio shared an almost unique blend of elegance and intelligence on the pitch. I cannot think of many players who had as good a first touch as those two. Baggio was the better player though, better at dribbling at speed, better at set-pieces, more of a goal threat and wider skill-set which allowed him to play as a striker, a second striker, an attacking midfielder, and sometimes on the flanks. Bergkamp really struggled in Italy thanks to the defensive/counter attacking style of play and the extremely strong defences he came up against, whereas Baggio excelled, even when his own coaches seemed intent on stifling him - imagine what he would have done in a more open league? Or how he would fair in todays game (with all the many advantages todays players have)?
He is my all-time favourite player. What he produced, his magical moments - club and country - and goals/assists during what was the toughest time for a forward in Serie A in footballing history (thanks to the many legendary defenders Baresi, Maldini, Cannavaro, Nesta, Aldair, Thuram, Stam, Sammer, Bergomi.... great defences and very tight style of play of many sides), plus the awful injuries he sustained as a teenager - two knee injuries which led him to miss two seasons, they pretty much crippled him for the rest of career. His longevity was also a miracle, playing until he was 37 and arguably got even better with age. Plus he took relegation fodder sides like Brescia and Bologna on the cusp of or into Europe. Brescia were relegated shortly after he retired.
How did they get him back to such an elite level after his knee inuries whilst Gazza was nowhere near the same player after his?
Absolutely best player ever total class skill and elegance
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He had knees problems at 18-19 years old he was told he never play again I love ❤️ him
Nobody is above Baggio in the Italian ranks, he’s the all time GOAT. He’s a blend of Maradona & Bergkamp, one of the greatest footballers of all time. Defined by many, though, for his decisive penalty miss Vs Brazil in the 1994 World Cup final shootout, even tho he was their player of the tournament and dragged them pretty much single handidly to the final. If he scored his pen, he’d be talked about in the same breath as Zidane and that ilk.
I agree with what you said, but people forget that even if Baggio scored, Italy would probably lose either way because Baresi missed another penalty before Baggio.
@@tocov not just Baresi, Massaro missed before baggio. Brazil would’ve almost certainly won, even if Baggio scored.
C'est super que des jeunes puissent se régaler avec les magnifiques buts de baggio c'était jamais des buts de hasard juste des buts de classe mondiale ballon ⚽️ d'or 1993
Baggio was one of my fav Italian players. He was pure class 👏 and carried his team in the 94 World Cup. The other Serie A 90s player and Argentine legend you need to check out is Gabriel Batistuta. 56 goals in 78 games for Argentina. He was a pure beast on the pitch. 💯 Maradona's classed him as the best striker he had ever seen play. 👍👍👍
baggio my all time fave
I live in Bologna, and I was at the stadium all matches he did in the year he was here: I think you described Baggio very well. The only thing I'd add is that year I had clear how much he was elevating all team level. Same players I had seen the year before were looking much stronger. Such a great player, thanks for reaction.
p.s. the goal he did with Brescia vs Juventus (the first touch control with which he dribbled goalkeeper after a 30+ meters pass from Pirlo) is one of my favorite goals ever. ❤
edit: oh, I was forgetting... all you have seen he did with 7 (seven!) surgery on his knees.
Baggio is the goat
Did u jus compare Baggio to Bergkamp. Diff levels
Jurgan Klopp "no playmaker can create as much as a good counter press can create."
It saddens me to that the era of the great number 10s is over.
Somehow modern football has squeezed the best, most fun, most valued player out of the game.
Joe Cole was a number 10 but was forced to play almost his entire career out on the wing.
Same thing has happened to countless others.
These days classic number 10s like foden, firmino, havertz are made to play up front on their own. Told to chase down full backs and play to the teams system.
It's a shame but it works.
The original number 10 was my favourite type of player. Dead position in todays game which is sad.
Nobody is ahead of Baggio in Italy. Nobody is ahead of Baggio in almost any nation. Brazil, Argentina, France, and Portugal might have an argument, but nowhere else.
To answer your Q on his would be greatness. Had it not been for those debilitating knee injuries he would have succeeded Maradonna and become even greater then him and the Messi of his day a generation earlier like Jordan after Johnson in Basketball.
Man for 90% of italians, Baggio is n.1, then n.2 rivera, n.3 g.riva/maldini/totti/del piero/v. Mazzola
YES ‼️ BAGGIO N10 🎉🥇
And this is all on one good leg. On skill alone he had to be up there with the greats. Hell Pep said in 2021 (Baggio would have been 54) that is Roby wanted to get in playing shape he would take him on Man city. play him as a false 9 get about 500 touches of the ball & EASILY score 50 goals a season.
the ankle breaker of footbool 80's 90's,and he played whole career with 1 knee only lost at 18age.
Glad that I have lived in thar period of time! Pinturikio
Best Italian Players:
1. Buffon
2. Pirlo
3. Baggio/DelPiero/Maldini
@mm4350 I like your list. May be slightly biased since it is a Baggio vid. I am not Italian so no expert, but for me Buffon is the best keeper ever. Hard to list goalkeepers vs outfield players.
Per noi italiani Baggio è stato il più grande giocatore italiano di sempre. Personalmente penso che i primi 11 siano: Roberto Baggio, Paolo Maldini, Gianni Rivera, Franco Baresi, Andrea Pirlo, Francesco Totti, Gigi Buffon, Bruno Conti, Alessandro del Piero, Gianfranco Zola, Paolo Rossi.
@@WLANATO You have many great players from Italy.
This is just my view being from Denmark. We only have had 2 players who could be in your 11:
I think Peter Schmeichel was keeper nr1 in the world before Buffon.
And because I am from Denmark, our best player ever, I would choose Michael Laudrup over Baggio.
@@mikaeldk5700 Michael Laudrup absolutely great player. I'm sorry if i have wrote in italian language before...🤗
Alesandro fuck it I’m no Italian, del preiro was baggio,s understudy I’m 44 baggio is the one man😎
What if I told you that at age 18 he snapped his cruciate ligament and was told he'd only ever walk again with a cain? He went on to have 3 more operations on that knee and two on the other....AND he was allergic to pain opiates. Everything you saw, he did hopping around on absolutely crushed knees. He never played a single match of his professional career at 100%. Not a single game...and as for his penalty miss in the 1994 World Cup - he had never missed a penalty in his career before that moment. Between 1983 and 1994; he had never missed a penalty.
WOW!
Wait until you discover totti..
As in he went from bolongnia to jve the basically was than man for long time he was the best bud
Tra i 10 piu forti al mondo,e il goat italiano...ma tra infortuni e allenatori di merda ,gli hanno rovinato di diventare il piu forte al mondo,,,,elegance carisma wow classe ,il divin codino
You got a hig head mate thats all we can see...more of baggio videos and less of you maybe
above him? not a lot, actually we can argue that no one is above him, maybe in different roles or time, Maldini, Del Piero in some ways, Totti, Vieri for the power, Buffon .
The only thing that you can find as a flow was his knee , or the lack of any knee :D
Totti>
Baggio is italian Maradona