ONLY those who hadn't seen Dejan Savicevic while he was playing, can be so much stunned by Messi's dribbles and movements! Everything you'd seen Messi's doing, HAS BEE DONE long before him, by Dejan!
no just dejan I watched as a kid Prosinecki, Dejan, Stojkovic, Jugovic, Boban, and thats just basic mid for that generation basic lol Brazil watched Artists at work all at the same time.
Man this guy is unreal. Really underrated player. If only he was born as brazilian or germany in his time he will be regarded as one of the greatest player ever. Look at his skills ! Unbelievable dribbling at dashing speed while still got brilliant vision to pass or to take own shot, not to mention that rocket powered kick. Trully legend he is
He was a fantastic player who is hugely underrated. One of the best players around in the 90s. His man of the match performance in the champions league final against Barcelona sticks to mind.
@@xowurb There was one.... Dragan Stojkovic Pixy, but Dejan was always my favorite! Both where ingenius players. If they were playing for Germany, England, Brasil, France, Argentina..... they would be proclaimed as one of the best of all time. Sadly both of them were playing for Yugoslavia, later (Serbia & Montenegro). Countries that not exist anymore. I remember 94, when Dejan played for AC Milan. He was the best player in the world for shure at that time, and Papen has won golden globe as best player in the world!?? Ridiculous and so sad! He was 3 class behind Dejan Savicevic.
@@vlaja5283 I can't agree more. For some mysterious design the 2 best european players since Crujff (imho along Baresi and maybe Platini) were 2 twins playing at the same time, in the same role, in the same team from the same country (at least at the time) . I used to prefer Piksi, but now I rate them at the same level. Piksi had a little more composure, while Dejo was somehow messier and more explosive. Dejo's worst years were at Milan (I don't consider his time in Rapid, where he was plagued by muscular problems and had no more motivation), where Capello was following those integralist ideas of the early 90's (at least in Italy), whereby the no. 10 was't allowed to play behind the 2 strikers. So he put Dejo on the wing: NONSENSE!!! Anyway, it's a shame that : - Stojkovic had that bad injury in 1990, (even though I think that it helped Dejo shine more) - Yugoslavia was banned from tournaments, otherwise tthey could easily win EC92 and WC94
@@ALLNAMESAREALLREADYT Capello had many great players under his command and a manager favors a great player who gives constant performances more than one who does not.
Also, that great Milan from the late '80s/early '90s is the best team I've watched. They would destroy both Guardiola's Barca and Zidane's & Cristiano's Real Madrid
I grew up with Milan 1994 and loved them but Barca by Guardiola with Messi Xavi Iniesta Puyol Villa Fabregas etc is The best team in all history of football in my opinion...
To speak of Savicevic is to speak of my idol in all these years watching football, the technique in action, the improvisation, the fantasy, the speed of execution, he was a pure 10 who played and made play. Once i heard he was the genuine example of a Yugoslav player, he preferred a beautiful failure to an ugly goal. The magic of football does not necessarily end up with a goal, who does not like to see someone pass them all, one by one or two by two? Dejan could do it, how many more can say the same? Thanks Savicevic.
I’m a die hard inter milan fan!!!! But I never hated ac Milan simply because I love football... Savicevic was one of my favourite players.... like capello said the guy was genius ... you knew he would do something special at any moment... I saw him doing things that only him could do... I remember against Parma he was wide on the left he got rid of two defenders with one touch to then put the ball in the middle for Baggio to score ... i don’t see players like him around these days
@@giordanodafrassini1476 Sì amico italiano. Savicevic del '91 è probabilmente i 10 migliori calciatori della storia. Era '91 un livello persino più alto del picco di Zidan. Brillante. Nel '88 la Stella avrebbe dovuto vincere la Champions League ma la nebbia interruppe la partita di Stella Rossa-Milan per 1-0. Ha letteralmente perso solo 4 partite in Euro Cup dal '88 al '95. Ha la più alta percentuale di vittorie MAI in Euro Cup :)
@@milosjovicevic6083 Si, concordo su tutto, lui stojkovic e prosinecki erano dei Diamanti, tecnicamente erano perfetti, solo Baggio era al loro livello sul piano tecnico...ciao Grande!
He was dimension above the game, was able to change Cartesian coordinates of the whole field in a mSec by his sudden and silly changes of momentum. Totally agree with your comment.
In my honest opinion, behind Maradona, there are not many better players that I have seen than Savicevic. I’m not going to write an essay here, but if you saw him play you know. If talking to someone they said to me Savicevic is the best footballer of all time I wouldn’t think them stupid. These are the type of footballers that render Messi and C.Ronaldo not even close to that title. Pure and utter unadulterated genius !
I saw a lot of matches of Garrincha in 1962. To be my honestly 2 Garrinchas = 1 Savicevic. I do not understand why Gerrincha has better respect although videos are registrated (not on YT but there are). Savicevic should have better reputation than Gerrincha. In my opinion he is even better than Maradona. Maradona was better only in lobbing and only in 1984-1988. The only player who could be comparable with Savicevic is R9. The best player in history if we talk about full career (not season) is Puskas. He finished career at 38 age. If not his injury in 1954. Hungarian team could won 5-0 in final match. Also some finals at chempions league he won such like 6-3, 4-0 etc.
@@David20092 yup, i have alot of vhs video brazillian soccer (pele, garrincha, rivelino, zico, ronaldo). savicevic is a combination of zico and ronaldo r9. if savicevic was born in brazil, he will get many awards
All these commentors are so stupid. I did watch savisevic live and I can testify that he is not even close to Messi or Maradona or Pele. People in their blinding nostalgia will utter anything.
Sure buddy! @@RattleSnake33 Keep living in that bubble of yours. I don't have anything to do with cricket! Also, improve your English first and then try to argue with your elders.
Dejo Savicevic the best player in one moment in the world. The class of Maradona, Messi,Ronaldinjo and Ronaldo Lima, technique, dribbling, goals. He was such a smart player and very strong on the ball. He was called a genius with merit, although he deserved much greater recognition in the world football.
Despite the poor quality of some footage, this is one of the most beautiful videos in the whole internet. I loved this player in a way that I still can't explain. Last idol I had in my life as a fan. Thanks.
i get you.i think its his completely unique style. Like dancing in the field. Messi, CR, Ronaldinho - are amazing, but ive seen their style and moves from other players - of course they do it best in the world in thei time, but ive SEEN resembling moves in others. There was noone like Dejan. Just so differrent and beatiful to watch him dancing in the field.
Glad to see such a great video of Savicevic. I often speak of him as being one of my favourites of all time but all too few people know about him these days. He was a fantastic player.
He was my favourite player too it was like festival to watch him play he was pure genius and talented player not like these days players depending on fitness only
Alot of yugoslav players are unknown.sinisa mihajolovic is unknown as being the greatest freekick taker ever. Nobody really knows who savicevic was. He was unstoppable. And afee more players like dragan stojkovic who in my eyes was better than zidane then there is jugovic aswell boban and prosinecki. Mijatovic. If they stayed as one country they would have won a worldcuo
@@Sonofserbia Lots of players from our ex country had a talent to become best of the best , Dejo had everything to be best of all time but like many of our great players from Balkans they were some time lazy , there was lots of games in Seria A where you wouldn't even realise Dejo is on the pitch until he got substituted , I was Hajdukovac as a kid but when I was growing up I think even Dejo is nowhere near talent of late Cava Dimitrijevic ….6 days a week drunk as a skunk lol but he had golden touch …….Balkanska posla , we could have been but we never were ….
Pure “jazz” player, playing his own rhythm, creating, destroying and creating again. He always seems on the edge, falling but then very solid. Destabilizing the opponent with his way of playing. My favorite #10 ever.
Agreee 100%, he was somehow uncoordinated, but he had total control of the situation vs the defender. A thing that not many people notice is that he was very explosive and fast with the ball once he gained momentum vs the opponent. He was able to run on rhe field, like a more technical version of Cruyff or Kaka.
@@faraazkhan90 I was agreeing with Roberto's comment. But you're right, it's better to specify that he LOOKED somehow uncoordinated, but he actually was very smooth as you said. Btw, I am passionate about football history and a former A.C. Milan supporter, and I consider Dejo one of the top 5 Milanista ever, along with Nordahl, Schiaffino, Rivera and Baresi (it says it all about how much I admire him)
Looks like he has the same ability to dribble, same ball control, passing and vision as Messi if not better. He s not as agile and fast but he s (was) stronger on his feet. He was very skillfull and very relaxed and spontaneous on the ball. To bad people don t realize how rare players like this are now and how many were there back in the 80s and 90s .
Gavin Wilks ,Red Star whole season was played euro matches as a home team in Sofia or Hungary,and revanche mach with Utd never played....a game that was supposed to be played in Belgrade,would give Red Star a win
stop calling him most underrated. He's been respected with high regard by fellow footballer that time. It just shows that he plays in era full of great footballer in Italy alone. There was Van Basten, Roberto Baggio, Gullit, Maradona, Maldini, Baresi, George Weah, Donadoni, Roberto Mancini, Leonardo Araujo, Batistuta, Nakata, Rijjkard, Zvonomir Boban, Zidane, Zola, Marchel Deasily, I can write the list for another 20 great players. It's hard to pick one gem out of pile of diamonds. and football that day is not as individual comptetion as to day. It's not easy to attarct a special recognition for only one player in a pack of so many gems with so many unique characteristic of footballer. You have great dribling skill? you are not the only one. You have great pace? great shooting technique? pass? defending skill? areal ability? There are so many player with complete stat in that era. Even if they are not in the highest stat, even if they are not the GOAT player you can name, if you put so many players like that in one league, it wont be easy to dominate. Not like today's La Liga. The old fans of football will never forget what that man did in Champion League Final vs Barcelona. Nobody underatting him. We know how great he was. It just that the young football fans today hardly seen his game for every week. Not like today when we can watch any match online daily. If you just pick one of those player to play in this era's La Liga and play for Barcelona or Madrid or Atl. Madrid, that one player would always compete for Ballon d'Or for every year. And if you bring messi back to that era and play in serie A amongts those players, I bet he can't maintain his momentum to create goal after goal for every week. He won't have any chance to break cattenachio with that kind of build despite his great drible. Even Maradona can't create 2 or 3 goal week in and week out like messi does to day. Not because Maradona is worst than messi or messi is better than Maradona. It just show that they are in different league. Messi and Ronaldo was rising up right when the football is declining in competitiveness. That's why those two players look so majestic to day. Both of them playing football with lack of competitor. We are not underatting those great players who plays in 90s.. We can't just simply pick one gem out of pile of diamonds. We can't say this player is the greatest, that player is greatest. But we can easily say that serie A, the league they play in was so much better than to day's EPL or La Liga. We can't even easily chose who is better Messi or Ronaldo. It just between two player, but there will be no end for the debate who is better. Now you are especting us to pick and rate one great player amongts so many great players from 90s who hardly be seen by today's young fans
What defenders used to get away with in Serie A (and every other league too) in the 80's and 90's was truly horrific. They were genuinely 'Hatchet men' ..Why does Paolo Montero ALWAYS spring to my mind? lol. I agree with you in that it seemed that Serie A was saturated with genuine world class players..Some of THE best players that you have ever seen.Whereas today the art of tackling is a dying art and players are protected like an endangered species (not to say i want a return to the barbarism). Great players can play in any era, so the saying goes but i believe that neither Messi nor CR7 would have been quite so imperious in the 80's and 90's
@@milosjovicevic6083 I mean, we are well known how great he was. but not the youngster who never see his game. I'm Milanisti, and I know how great he was. and one can say he was far better than the name I mention in my comment. My point is not about comparison who is better than who, but about the fact that in that time, Dejan Savicevic played with those great player. and the fact he still shine brighter is the fact how great he was. And everyone in that era knew how to respect him on the pitch. But now, the term "most" underrated, where did it come from?! you bring this issue to generation who never see him plays, Ofc no body rates him. Howcould you rate some thing you never see?! From youtube?! Hell, everyone watch Messi and Ronaldo's dominance every week now. I'm not talking who is better than who, but I'm focusing on the "most" underrated term being used here. Dejan Savicevic was so grande. Those who watch his games know that well, I mean the old folks. But then, when I cast out my eyes to giuseppe signori, roberto baggio, gullit, (and there were still other great players around in that era), I come to a place where I can't even judge who is better than whom. Oh, may be you can say Dejan Savicevic is better, that's your taste to see it with your own eyes. But my eyes that time were not only on Dejan Savicevic. He was not the only one gem in that era. But the most important thing, he is not underrated. We just didn't used to rate players individually that time. Unlike today, that time we just enjoyed the show. When fantasista create some magic in his play, we just enjoyd the show, not bitching on about the GOAT or ballon d'or or something like that. And we didn't have youtube.
@@satriyanto6741 I see you're a good man, pure soul. I will explain it to you. Savicevic has the highest percentage of victories in the history of European competitions (78%), he literally lost only 4 games in European competitions. Savicevic was by far the best player in the world in terms of games in 1991, but the French gave Ballon d'Orre to Papin. Although he won the final. Although it shone all year. Savicevic won the Champions Cup twice with Milan and Red Star (as the best player), with 2 different clubs he was the champion + there are several more finals and semifinals. Why is it underrated? Because no one (literally no one) puts him in the top 50 best players of all time. Realistically he is in the top 20-30 for sure. Nobody mentions him. Not even Fifa put him in the top 100. It's blasphemy. He was a miracle and no one ranks him among the best players.
He was dimension above the game, was able to change Cartesian coordinates of the whole field in a second by his sudden and silly changes of momentum. Not a single unneeded move, efficiency 101 %, he is like the Shortest way finding machine. The real Genius !
Ivan Petrovic seria A Savicevic, Baggio, Zola, Mancini, Gullit, Hagi, Gascogne, Rui Costa , Martin Vazquez, Giannini, Francescoli ...lmao packed with playmakers and Fantasisti !!
r9flm40 plastic players? Stop playing the nostalgia card. The game was certainly rougher then but today's players in much better condition physically and the game is much faster today. We can't really compare the two eras. Stop living in the past
I'll never forget this player it's a crime has not talked about. If he was Brazilian he'd be worshiped still today. Best player in a ac Milan team that best Barca 4 0 in a European cup final...that's from a English football fan from england
Dejo was a playmaker, the quintessential Number 10, Dragan Stoijkovic , Safet Susic, Robert Prosinecki , and Blaz Slizkovic were also The old Yugoslavia’s greatest ever playmakers.
cultspaghetti Trashmovie I loved that Yugoslavia ❤️ fucking politic and religion !!! The world was better without that shit I’m going to Belgrade and first place I’ll visit is the Maracana ‘
@@davidemaglio5745 davide concordo totalmente già da 13/14enne non capivo tutti quegli elogi spropositati, 5/6 goals all'anno pur giocando in squadre mostruose....testate pedate in faccia ecc.ecc....già della classe 72 ce ne sono almeno 3 superiori
he was not a winger. Capello used to make him play as a winger in the 95/96 season, but he's a forward. Still remember his performance against PSG in that semifinal. We miss you genius. Nowadays they all fall down after a contact. There wan't be an another Savicevic.
Actually i've never heard about him before, but obviously he had it all :speed,agility,ball protection,touch,elegance . Reminds of many players just in one of him :kaka,requilme and even ronaldo looking to the way he's eleminating players resisting the pressure. Nice work by the way👏
He was better. One of the best player all of the time, but he did not play for Yugoslavia because the war during lust decade of XX century. It was probably one of the biggest mistakes of FIFA. It can be said a crime against sport.
Dejan degno erede dei grandi 10 del Milan , avevo un amore calcistico pazzesco per Dejan ..lui e Marco Van Basten sono i giocatori che piu' mi han divertito a SAN SIRO .. aggiungo anche Boban
I am from Montenegro, so Dejo is my compatriot. Underrated? I would not say so. Maybe not recognized as one of the greatest, which he would be if he were Brazilian, Argentine or from some other power house in the world of football. But underrated, no. AC Milan and Red Star fans know that very well. He won 2 CLs being the best and most influential player in his teams. Savićević is, no doubt, the most talented footballer from former Yugoslavia, ever. All the players that played with him always say that. If you love football and understand it as such, you just enjoyed watching him.
I agree with you .His only flaw was discontunity .If there is an overated yugo player ,that is Boban .Boban was a wonderfull player ,completed ,tactic and concrete in the same time ,aggressive and leader .
@@ramadanhalili762 I agree that Stojkovic was one of the best european players ever (it's a shame he was injury prone) and very underrated. Savicevic was at the same level though, maybe a little bit lower
@@Vice81 To be honest Capello surrendered to the 4-4-2 hysteria of the 90's in Italy. As for Baggio he had him play in his natural position. The problem was he benched him too often. As for Savicevic instead, Capello used him in a stupid position, as a midfielder on the wing (the worst move ever). Nevertheless he managed to be the best player in the squad
@@13grammi Sì hai ragione. Questo depone meno a favore di Baggio. Perché almeno partiva titolare. Io non sono un particolare amante di Baggio, perché per me viene troppo mitizzato da noi italiani. In più da vecchio milanista (ormai però non tifo più) ti dico che Baggio nel Milan è stato quasi una meteora. Eppure era ancora giovane, giocava comunque in una posizione decente, partiva per lo più titolare ed era l'eroe nazionale in quel momento. Non ha grandi attenuanti per il rendimento al Milan. Diverso il discorso per Savicevic (che piaccia o meno il giocatore). Capello lo impiegò per lo più nella posizione di Angelo Colombo (aaaaarrrrgghhhhhh!!), la scelta tattica più stupida della storia. Avrebbe avuto quindi tutte le attenuanti del mondo se avesse deluso. Eppure nonostante qualche passaggio a vuoto riuscì alla fine a diventare il giocatore migliore di quella squadra. Di sicuro l'impatto che ebbe lui fu superiore a quello di Baggio in quel Milan, benché avesse attenuanti in più di Baggio
He is my uncle from my grandmothers side her name was Anka Savicevic may she rest in peace, I met him once in Montenegro as a kid he was my idol and I cheered for Red Star Belgrade because of him
One of my fave players of the 90's and a integral part of that heavyweight AC Milan team..This guy just oozed world class ability from every single pore
Savićević was and still is one of the greatest player that ever graced the pitch, and without a doubt the finest dribbler that football ever had. His nickname in Italy was Il Genio (The Genius), and not without the reason! It is a shame that he only received a Silver Ball in 1991, a year when he was hands-down the best player in the world. Messi before Messi, but with even crazier dribbling skills and Maradona-like temperament!
@@andreaoldani1588 Ronaldo Nazario and Savicevic are 2 most talented player ever 😇 But not greatest as Messi, Pele, Maradona etc because thay were unlucky about career
I like Dejo, he played for my Red Star. I consider him world class player. His creativity and dribbling was unforgettable. On minus side, he was selfish player, and moody, you never knew if he will explode and play brilliant, or just walk around field if he slept bad or thinks someone wronged him somehow. I think this unpredictability and ego were reason why he was never loved by coaches and fought with them. He played first for spectators, then for himself to prove things, then for team, and only then for coach. My favorite player from that time was Dragan Stojkovic Piksi, who I consider even better player, probably best one i saw, nowadays would be worth hundreds of millions.
When I first bought CM Italia for the Amiga, Milan had such an insane side. Savicevic, Van Basten, Papin, Boban, Albertini, Lentini, Baresi, Maldini, Costacurta...
The marking was brutal at that time specially in serie A, it wasnt as violent as precious decades but was as tough and sticky plus more advanced tactics and fitness, to play with the finesse of Savicevic and surviving serie A defenders You had to be special
The excellent 3S : Safet Susic, Stojkovic and Savicevic. I expected to watch Susic at WC 82, but couldn't. When he was still included in Yugoslavia NT at WC 90, I was glad, because I could watch him play. But he was past his prime (35 years old); fortunately there was a new no. 10 playmaker : Dragran Stojkovic who played better than Maradona in the match vs Argentina.
Savicevic had the ability to play wide and sometimes had to defer to more centrally minded players when at Red Star (eg. Stojkovic, Prosinecki) but he was never really a winger... by 1991/1992, he was being played in a more advanced role next to Darko Pancev... when he transferred across to Milan, he again was played more as a forward in view of the disciplined game in Serie A... but Il Genio would best be described as an old school number 10 playing in the pocket between the CMs and the striker(s)... of a great generation of players to emerge from the former Yugoslavia (1965 to 1970 born) such as Boban, Prosinecki, Jugovic, Stojkovic, Mijatovic, Suker etc., Savicevic was the best... on his day, unplayable... under-appreciated and dismissed now by fans that did not watch him
@@ramadanhalili762 Savicevic was younger, had come to Red Star after Stojkovic, debuted for the national after Stojkovic and so, I think a lot of that deference was due to seniority... that said, Stojkovic was a wonderful player in his own right but I think Zvonimir Boban was right in his description of Savicevic --> if there was ever a maestro born and not made, it was Savicevic… for whom the most difficult play seemed easy, natural even, but for whom the percentage, simple play was almost painful... and who remained untouched by footballing school or manager or system
Savicevic was only faster than Stojkovic .George Hagi and Nedved had only better long range shoot than Stojkovic. The most gifted ,classy,spectacular ,and completed player ever to come out from Eastern Europe ,and the best jugoslav ever is Stojkovic .He did not Play during his prime 25 to 30 years old .Immagin if Maradona would Have the same luck .Today Romario and Baggio woud be' considered much better than him .I remember where ever he played ,Zvezda ,National Team and those few matches with Marsej ,he always was MOM ,most goals came out of his passes ,free Kicks or even corners .
Football is more than pure statistics. That being said, i would always pick Savićević as my No.1 before Messi or Ronaldo or other players that have better numbers "on paper". Dejo is one of the kind, unique, i am grateful that i watched him play live as my childhood hero... I would also want to thank him for that famous:" Је*ем те у уста те је*ем! У та шкрбава уста...!"😊
Il Genio, one of the best ever, my idol when i was teenager. Ask Zubizarreta, Koeman, Nadal, Ferrer about him. They sure have nightmares nowadays. Forever rossonero
Never heard of this guy before and this video proved to me how good he was. Ur one of my favourite youtubers at the moment making great videos on some of my favourite players so keep going!
Run Intensity: KOVACIC Elegance: MILINKOVIC SAVIC Run Extend: PERISIC Tecnique: PANDEV Creativity: MODRIC Dribbling: STOJKOVIC Leadership: MIHAJLOVIC ALL IN ONE WORD: SAVICEVIC REALLY UNDERRATED.
1:22 playing for red star v panathinaikos. Great sides back in the day. what i would give to see eastern european sides rise again. The UCL has become a secluded group of western sides, thus becoming dull and predictable.
@@vsavage9913 Riquelme...different league. Maradona was the greatest ever and Savicevic was my all time favorite player. Stojkovic was amazing too, I believe he played at maradonian level -dribbling, skills, passes, free kicks, impossible goales ,leadership, beyond you can imagine it... , but some injuries ruined his career after 90.
marius320068 sure stojkovic was amazing He had or developed super control and touch, just watch the ball literally stick to his feet and this very much like Messi. in fact Messi not much difference except faster and though only a little bit still it counts a lot (stojkovic was very fast already ) Now what maradona had on top of speed, or savicevic or i suggest riquelme too you have a look was a certain slowness or laziness (this zidane also had though he did not develop it into fancy dribbling skill specifically
Hagi. Unfortunately for his media exposure (and for what would have been an earlier contact with the world of professional football, I mean the relationships in the locker room, with the coach etc.), the Communist regime rejected Juventus' offer to transfer a very young Hagi in exchange for building a FIAT factory in Romania. I am sure Hagi's legacy would have been even greater if he started playing for Juventus when he was about 20. It was fortunate for Sportul Studențesc and Steaua to have him between 1983 and 1990, though.
"Best number 10 we have ever seen on Old Trafford" -Sir Alex Ferguson on Savicevic.
ONLY those who hadn't seen Dejan Savicevic while he was playing, can be so much stunned by Messi's dribbles and movements! Everything you'd seen Messi's doing, HAS BEE DONE long before him, by Dejan!
Agreed 100%
no just dejan I watched as a kid Prosinecki, Dejan, Stojkovic, Jugovic, Boban, and thats just basic mid for that generation basic lol
Brazil watched Artists at work all at the same time.
Peter Beardsley in the UK had the same impact in our game long before Messi… but Savecevic was just amazing, an incredible player
@@aleksrako2302 DUDE JUST WATCH RIVELINO AND GEORGE BEST. RIVELINO, BEST, CRUYFF ARE GODS OF PLAYING 1 VS 11 ALONE.
agreed, but messi is 100000% better
Man this guy is unreal. Really underrated player. If only he was born as brazilian or germany in his time he will be regarded as one of the greatest player ever. Look at his skills ! Unbelievable dribbling at dashing speed while still got brilliant vision to pass or to take own shot, not to mention that rocket powered kick. Trully legend he is
He was a fantastic player who is hugely underrated. One of the best players around in the 90s. His man of the match performance in the champions league final against Barcelona sticks to mind.
Not one of the best but best ever. Show me some other player with those dribbling skills.
@@xowurb There was one.... Dragan Stojkovic Pixy, but Dejan was always my favorite! Both where ingenius players. If they were playing for Germany, England, Brasil, France, Argentina..... they would be proclaimed as one of the best of all time. Sadly both of them were playing for Yugoslavia, later (Serbia & Montenegro). Countries that not exist anymore. I remember 94, when Dejan played for AC Milan. He was the best player in the world for shure at that time, and Papen has won golden globe as best player in the world!??
Ridiculous and so sad! He was 3 class behind Dejan Savicevic.
every balkan player is always super underrated
@@vlaja5283 I can't agree more. For some mysterious design the 2 best european players since Crujff (imho along Baresi and maybe Platini) were 2 twins playing at the same time, in the same role, in the same team from the same country (at least at the time) .
I used to prefer Piksi, but now I rate them at the same level.
Piksi had a little more composure, while Dejo was somehow messier and more explosive.
Dejo's worst years were at Milan (I don't consider his time in Rapid, where he was plagued by muscular problems and had no more motivation), where Capello was following those integralist ideas of the early 90's (at least in Italy), whereby the no. 10 was't allowed to play behind the 2 strikers. So he put Dejo on the wing: NONSENSE!!!
Anyway, it's a shame that :
- Stojkovic had that bad injury in 1990, (even though I think that it helped Dejo shine more)
- Yugoslavia was banned from tournaments, otherwise tthey could easily win EC92 and WC94
Pixi and Savicevic were probably top 10-20 best players ever. Insanely underrated.
Those days when serie A was the best league in the World
@@andriap.2571 coz of stupid Capello who did'nt recognize genious
1980-2010.
More than “days”.
Best league ever
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@@ALLNAMESAREALLREADYT Capello had many great players under his command and a manager favors a great player who gives constant performances more than one who does not.
When you wear the #10 for Milan and your nickname is 'il Genio' (the genius) and you shred Barca on your own in a CL final. Life is complete
Savicevic pure magic!!
djfunkychicken Genie*
Yup..Doesn't really get much better than that lol
Also, that great Milan from the late '80s/early '90s is the best team I've watched. They would destroy both Guardiola's Barca and Zidane's & Cristiano's Real Madrid
I grew up with Milan 1994 and loved them but Barca by Guardiola with Messi Xavi Iniesta Puyol Villa Fabregas etc is The best team in all history of football in my opinion...
Dejo was not a winger. He was pure a number 10, a trequartista or a second striker. He was able to play everywhere upfront, not only on the wings...
Rayno Raynov he was like Baggio
There are 10s and 10s...he was more of an attacking midfielder (Maradona...) than Baggio (silmilar to Pele or Messi in the field position)
Davide Maglio ohhh ok
Capello forced him to play as winger but he was more effective as second striker or advanced midfielder
@@diegocanale1124 that's right.. He helped Red Star to reach top of Europe and World.. He played something like attacking midfielder
To speak of Savicevic is to speak of my idol in all these years watching football, the technique in action, the improvisation, the fantasy, the speed of execution, he was a pure 10 who played and made play. Once i heard he was the genuine example of a Yugoslav player, he preferred a beautiful failure to an ugly goal. The magic of football does not necessarily end up with a goal, who does not like to see someone pass them all, one by one or two by two? Dejan could do it, how many more can say the same? Thanks Savicevic.
At the times in his position there was stoijkovic jugovic and prosinecki and stankovic in Yougoslavie team
Beautifully said. Its such an ugly game now days.
know people who are his friends. Its REALLY true - he preffered beatiful failure
I’m a die hard inter milan fan!!!! But I never hated ac Milan simply because I love football... Savicevic was one of my favourite players.... like capello said the guy was genius ... you knew he would do something special at any moment...
I saw him doing things that only him could do... I remember against Parma he was wide on the left he got rid of two defenders with one touch to then put the ball in the middle for Baggio to score ... i don’t see players like him around these days
One of the best assist ever between two players what a player he was
@@user-wk4iw8gt8r Imposible to compare. Savo was magic. So skillfull!
24 lmao you comparing a sissy with a beast
@@user-wk4iw8gt8r grizeman CAN'T drible
d d he deleted his comment 😂
The Dancer in the grass. Love him. One of the best players I've ever seen during more than fifty years seeing football.
Il colmo è che alla Stella Rossa era ancora più forte perche si allenava di più si vede da come era più asciutto
@@giordanodafrassini1476 Sì amico italiano. Savicevic del '91 è probabilmente i 10 migliori calciatori della storia. Era '91 un livello persino più alto del picco di Zidan. Brillante. Nel '88 la Stella avrebbe dovuto vincere la Champions League ma la nebbia interruppe la partita di Stella Rossa-Milan per 1-0. Ha letteralmente perso solo 4 partite in Euro Cup dal '88 al '95. Ha la più alta percentuale di vittorie MAI in Euro Cup :)
@@giordanodafrassini1476
Ha la migliore percentuale di vittorie MAI, 78%. Dietro di lui ci sono Ronaldo, Messi, Van Basten ecc :)
@@milosjovicevic6083 Si, concordo su tutto, lui stojkovic e prosinecki erano dei Diamanti, tecnicamente erano perfetti, solo Baggio era al loro livello sul piano tecnico...ciao Grande!
He was dimension above the game, was able to change Cartesian coordinates of the whole field in a mSec by his sudden and silly changes of momentum. Totally agree with your comment.
In my honest opinion, behind Maradona, there are not many better players that I have seen than Savicevic. I’m not going to write an essay here, but if you saw him play you know. If talking to someone they said to me Savicevic is the best footballer of all time I wouldn’t think them stupid. These are the type of footballers that render Messi and C.Ronaldo not even close to that title. Pure and utter unadulterated genius !
I saw a lot of matches of Garrincha in 1962. To be my honestly 2 Garrinchas = 1 Savicevic. I do not understand why Gerrincha has better respect although videos are registrated (not on YT but there are). Savicevic should have better reputation than Gerrincha. In my opinion he is even better than Maradona. Maradona was better only in lobbing and only in 1984-1988. The only player who could be comparable with Savicevic is R9. The best player in history if we talk about full career (not season) is Puskas. He finished career at 38 age. If not his injury in 1954. Hungarian team could won 5-0 in final match. Also some finals at chempions league he won such like 6-3, 4-0 etc.
@@David20092 yup, i have alot of vhs video brazillian soccer (pele, garrincha, rivelino, zico, ronaldo). savicevic is a combination of zico and ronaldo r9.
if savicevic was born in brazil, he will get many awards
All these commentors are so stupid. I did watch savisevic live and I can testify that he is not even close to Messi or Maradona or Pele. People in their blinding nostalgia will utter anything.
@@mudabbirahmad2141the only u have watched is cricket!
Sure buddy! @@RattleSnake33 Keep living in that bubble of yours. I don't have anything to do with cricket! Also, improve your English first and then try to argue with your elders.
Dejo Savicevic the best player in one moment in the world. The class of Maradona, Messi,Ronaldinjo and Ronaldo Lima, technique, dribbling, goals. He was such a smart player and very strong on the ball. He was called a genius with merit, although he deserved much greater recognition in the world football.
Despite the poor quality of some footage, this is one of the most beautiful videos in the whole internet. I loved this player in a way that I still can't explain.
Last idol I had in my life as a fan. Thanks.
i get you.i think its his completely unique style. Like dancing in the field. Messi, CR, Ronaldinho - are amazing, but ive seen their style and moves from other players - of course they do it best in the world in thei time, but ive SEEN resembling moves in others. There was noone like Dejan. Just so differrent and beatiful to watch him dancing in the field.
Awesome Milanista, who can forget his performance in Europe final against Barca
This is Football Understanding.
Very Original Player
Beauty and Art together
All what Football is.
I would agree. One of the very best. Very hard to play against without fouling him. He had speed and skill.
James Ebola he rode challenges and tackles unlike our very fit players of today who collapse like twigs upon any contact.
Glad to see such a great video of Savicevic. I often speak of him as being one of my favourites of all time but all too few people know about him these days. He was a fantastic player.
He was my favourite player too it was like festival to watch him play he was pure genius and talented player not like these days players depending on fitness only
Alot of yugoslav players are unknown.sinisa mihajolovic is unknown as being the greatest freekick taker ever. Nobody really knows who savicevic was. He was unstoppable. And afee more players like dragan stojkovic who in my eyes was better than zidane then there is jugovic aswell boban and prosinecki. Mijatovic. If they stayed as one country they would have won a worldcuo
Yes .not less than Messi.
Savicevic....The Legend....and do not forget Dragan Stojkovic Pixi...pure genius
@@Sonofserbia Lots of players from our ex country had a talent to become best of the best , Dejo had everything to be best of all time but like many of our great players from Balkans they were some time lazy , there was lots of games in Seria A where you wouldn't even realise Dejo is on the pitch until he got substituted , I was Hajdukovac as a kid but when I was growing up I think even Dejo is nowhere near talent of late Cava Dimitrijevic ….6 days a week drunk as a skunk lol but he had golden touch …….Balkanska posla , we could have been but we never were ….
Pure “jazz” player, playing his own rhythm, creating, destroying and creating again. He always seems on the edge, falling but then very solid. Destabilizing the opponent with his way of playing.
My favorite #10 ever.
Agreee 100%, he was somehow uncoordinated, but he had total control of the situation vs the defender.
A thing that not many people notice is that he was very explosive and fast with the ball once he gained momentum vs the opponent.
He was able to run on rhe field, like a more technical version of Cruyff or Kaka.
@@davidemaglio5745 why would you consider him uncoordinated? He looks pretty smooth and has great balance.
@@faraazkhan90 I was agreeing with Roberto's comment.
But you're right, it's better to specify that he LOOKED somehow uncoordinated, but he actually was very smooth as you said.
Btw, I am passionate about football history and a former A.C. Milan supporter, and I consider Dejo one of the top 5 Milanista ever, along with Nordahl, Schiaffino, Rivera and Baresi (it says it all about how much I admire him)
He always keeps the ball moving. So the opponent is always having to react. He would use his body to decieve them. Genius.
one of my top ten players of all time ...
Looks like he has the same ability to dribble, same ball control, passing and vision as Messi if not better. He s not as agile and fast but he s (was) stronger on his feet. He was very skillfull and very relaxed and spontaneous on the ball. To bad people don t realize how rare players like this are now and how many were there back in the 80s and 90s .
Wierdly, this crazy talent didn't even have 'serious' close ball control..but he made up with his touch, technical trickery and speed. A great watch!
Football was the game not job like today. Good times
Hatem Ben Arfa
Totally agree
His left foot was a magicians wand..No bull
Enormous. Before football became a sport for body builders, true talent could really shine through.
Best ever. Genius, Il Genio, Геније, Доктор наука.
12:43 ..Savicevic and Baggio.what else can u ask!!
nostalgia di quel Milan...solo Dejan mi ha emozionato a San Siro quasi quanto Marco
Pure magic
Insisto que este tipo de jugadores ya no existen. Hacía todo bien! Gran visión, técnica pulida, zurda de oro, velocidad, timing perfecto
Juan Carlos Santos esplosivo !!!!
GENIO ASSOLUTO !!!
pallone d' oro a modric… lui quanti ne dovrebbe dovuti vincere?
@@francodimartino5745
*Avrebbe
I watch this and count how many times today players would be falling on contact.
Davvero forte uno cosi oggi varrebbe 200 milioni
Corrado Quartarone Certo
On his day he was unstoppable .1994 vs barca in the final made barca look like amateurs
Take a look at the game Man.Utd-Red Star,1991,Supercup . Genie was playing games with Ince and company from utd...
this game he ran United ragged. Absolutely unbelievable performance and how Crvena Zvezda didn't win, well, that's Furgoson's United all over....
Gavin Wilks ,Red Star whole season was played euro matches as a home team in Sofia or Hungary,and revanche mach with Utd never played....a game that was supposed to be played in Belgrade,would give Red Star a win
His best match ever!
stop calling him most underrated. He's been respected with high regard by fellow footballer that time. It just shows that he plays in era full of great footballer in Italy alone. There was Van Basten, Roberto Baggio, Gullit, Maradona, Maldini, Baresi, George Weah, Donadoni, Roberto Mancini, Leonardo Araujo, Batistuta, Nakata, Rijjkard, Zvonomir Boban, Zidane, Zola, Marchel Deasily, I can write the list for another 20 great players. It's hard to pick one gem out of pile of diamonds. and football that day is not as individual comptetion as to day. It's not easy to attarct a special recognition for only one player in a pack of so many gems with so many unique characteristic of footballer. You have great dribling skill? you are not the only one. You have great pace? great shooting technique? pass? defending skill? areal ability? There are so many player with complete stat in that era. Even if they are not in the highest stat, even if they are not the GOAT player you can name, if you put so many players like that in one league, it wont be easy to dominate. Not like today's La Liga.
The old fans of football will never forget what that man did in Champion League Final vs Barcelona. Nobody underatting him. We know how great he was. It just that the young football fans today hardly seen his game for every week. Not like today when we can watch any match online daily.
If you just pick one of those player to play in this era's La Liga and play for Barcelona or Madrid or Atl. Madrid, that one player would always compete for Ballon d'Or for every year. And if you bring messi back to that era and play in serie A amongts those players, I bet he can't maintain his momentum to create goal after goal for every week. He won't have any chance to break cattenachio with that kind of build despite his great drible. Even Maradona can't create 2 or 3 goal week in and week out like messi does to day. Not because Maradona is worst than messi or messi is better than Maradona. It just show that they are in different league.
Messi and Ronaldo was rising up right when the football is declining in competitiveness. That's why those two players look so majestic to day. Both of them playing football with lack of competitor.
We are not underatting those great players who plays in 90s.. We can't just simply pick one gem out of pile of diamonds. We can't say this player is the greatest, that player is greatest. But we can easily say that serie A, the league they play in was so much better than to day's EPL or La Liga.
We can't even easily chose who is better Messi or Ronaldo. It just between two player, but there will be no end for the debate who is better. Now you are especting us to pick and rate one great player amongts so many great players from 90s who hardly be seen by today's young fans
@@gox8842 Stop bro. He was better than all of tham except Maradona.
Maradona is God.
End of history poor boy.
What defenders used to get away with in Serie A (and every other league too) in the 80's and 90's was truly horrific. They were genuinely 'Hatchet men' ..Why does Paolo Montero ALWAYS spring to my mind? lol. I agree with you in that it seemed that Serie A was saturated with genuine world class players..Some of THE best players that you have ever seen.Whereas today the art of tackling is a dying art and players are protected like an endangered species (not to say i want a return to the barbarism). Great players can play in any era, so the saying goes but i believe that neither Messi nor CR7 would have been quite so imperious in the 80's and 90's
@@milosjovicevic6083 I mean, we are well known how great he was. but not the youngster who never see his game. I'm Milanisti, and I know how great he was. and one can say he was far better than the name I mention in my comment. My point is not about comparison who is better than who, but about the fact that in that time, Dejan Savicevic played with those great player. and the fact he still shine brighter is the fact how great he was. And everyone in that era knew how to respect him on the pitch.
But now, the term "most" underrated, where did it come from?! you bring this issue to generation who never see him plays, Ofc no body rates him. Howcould you rate some thing you never see?! From youtube?! Hell, everyone watch Messi and Ronaldo's dominance every week now.
I'm not talking who is better than who, but I'm focusing on the "most" underrated term being used here. Dejan Savicevic was so grande. Those who watch his games know that well, I mean the old folks.
But then, when I cast out my eyes to giuseppe signori, roberto baggio, gullit, (and there were still other great players around in that era), I come to a place where I can't even judge who is better than whom. Oh, may be you can say Dejan Savicevic is better, that's your taste to see it with your own eyes. But my eyes that time were not only on Dejan Savicevic. He was not the only one gem in that era. But the most important thing, he is not underrated. We just didn't used to rate players individually that time. Unlike today, that time we just enjoyed the show. When fantasista create some magic in his play, we just enjoyd the show, not bitching on about the GOAT or ballon d'or or something like that. And we didn't have youtube.
@@satriyanto6741 I see you're a good man, pure soul. I will explain it to you. Savicevic has the highest percentage of victories in the history of European competitions (78%), he literally lost only 4 games in European competitions. Savicevic was by far the best player in the world in terms of games in 1991, but the French gave Ballon d'Orre to Papin. Although he won the final. Although it shone all year. Savicevic won the Champions Cup twice with Milan and Red Star (as the best player), with 2 different clubs he was the champion + there are several more finals and semifinals. Why is it underrated? Because no one (literally no one) puts him in the top 50 best players of all time. Realistically he is in the top 20-30 for sure. Nobody mentions him. Not even Fifa put him in the top 100. It's blasphemy. He was a miracle and no one ranks him among the best players.
80's and 90's Serie A was a dreamland.
He was dimension above the game, was able to change Cartesian coordinates of the whole field in a second by his sudden and silly changes of momentum. Not a single unneeded move, efficiency 101 %, he is like the Shortest way finding machine. The real Genius !
That is the best explenation of his game, the caracteristic of few who ewer played footbal.
He was the best. I stopped looking futbool after him.
Ivan Petrovic seria A
Savicevic, Baggio, Zola, Mancini, Gullit, Hagi, Gascogne, Rui Costa , Martin Vazquez, Giannini, Francescoli ...lmao packed with playmakers and Fantasisti !!
dat 90's italian defense :o none of those current plastic footballers would have survived a game over 90 minutes
r9flm40 plastic players? Stop playing the nostalgia card. The game was certainly rougher then but today's players in much better condition physically and the game is much faster today. We can't really compare the two eras. Stop living in the past
Oggi i giocatori cadono sempre a terra, peccato. Riguarda il video.
Neymar
r9flm40 what are you saying???
Gokul Balakrishnan Today's football=💩
I'll never forget this player it's a crime has not talked about. If he was Brazilian he'd be worshiped still today. Best player in a ac Milan team that best Barca 4 0 in a European cup final...that's from a English football fan from england
Il Genio ! AC MILAN 7 Champion
Dejo was a playmaker, the quintessential Number 10, Dragan Stoijkovic , Safet Susic, Robert Prosinecki , and Blaz Slizkovic were also The old Yugoslavia’s greatest ever playmakers.
cultspaghetti Trashmovie I loved that Yugoslavia ❤️ fucking politic and religion !!! The world was better without that shit
I’m going to Belgrade and first place I’ll visit is the Maracana ‘
You can include Boban and Modric too.
But Piksi and Dejo were 2 of the BEST EUROPEAN PLAYERS EVER.
Se fosse stato brasiliano o argentino avrebbero eretto monumenti in suo onore. Uno dei piu forti di sempre.
O francese algerino pompato adidas ahhahaha
@@giordanodafrassini1476 Oh qualcuno che la pensa come me...
@@davidemaglio5745 Siamo pochi però, persone che han cominciato a seguire il calcio sol con le paytv conoscono solo messi ronaldo e ramos!
@@giordanodafrassini1476 Sì ma tu parlavi di Zidane mi pare...
GRAN giocatore per carità, ma non rientra nei primi 50 (e son generoso)
@@davidemaglio5745 davide concordo totalmente già da 13/14enne non capivo tutti quegli elogi spropositati, 5/6 goals all'anno pur giocando in squadre mostruose....testate pedate in faccia ecc.ecc....già della classe 72 ce ne sono almeno 3 superiori
he was not a winger. Capello used to make him play as a winger in the 95/96 season, but he's a forward. Still remember his performance against PSG in that semifinal. We miss you genius. Nowadays they all fall down after a contact. There wan't be an another Savicevic.
The Escapist 🙏
12:38 - Savicevic-Baggio... spettacolo
Actually i've never heard about him before, but obviously he had it all :speed,agility,ball protection,touch,elegance .
Reminds of many players just in one of him :kaka,requilme and even ronaldo looking to the way he's eleminating players resisting the pressure.
Nice work by the way👏
He was better. One of the best player all of the time, but he did not play for Yugoslavia because the war during lust decade of XX century. It was probably one of the biggest mistakes of FIFA. It can be said a crime against sport.
Dejan degno erede dei grandi 10 del Milan , avevo un amore calcistico pazzesco per Dejan ..lui e Marco Van Basten sono i giocatori che piu' mi han divertito a SAN SIRO .. aggiungo anche Boban
Io lo metto allo stesso livello di Rivera e Schiaffino, due giocatori (in particolare quest'ultimo) epocali
Il Genio. Un mancino che partiva anche da destra e seminava il panico, parecchi anni prima di Robben e Messi.
Purtroppo appartiene alla mentalità dei balcani. Come in tutte le cose del resto!
Crno mace sa morace crnogorska orhideja savicevic deja hvala ti za sve nezaboravne trenutke koje si nam pruzio
talking about individual skills, the slavic school is clearly the best in europe...only Brazil and Argentina are at the same level
titanio784 Nowadays nowhere near but in 80 especialy 90s yes
@@dadisajo9 Modric?
The best at basketball and were heading towards being the best footballers and then yugoslavia went too shit .. ty religion for ruining the world
@@robertpetrovic484 He's not even near Stojkovic, Savicevic, Prosinecki...
@@Just_another_Euro_dude Germany and Netherlands are big player factories bro
I am from Montenegro, so Dejo is my compatriot.
Underrated? I would not say so. Maybe not recognized as one of the greatest, which he would be if he were Brazilian, Argentine or from some other power house in the world of football. But underrated, no. AC Milan and Red Star fans know that very well. He won 2 CLs being the best and most influential player in his teams.
Savićević is, no doubt, the most talented footballer from former Yugoslavia, ever. All the players that played with him always say that. If you love football and understand it as such, you just enjoyed watching him.
I agree with you .His only flaw was discontunity .If there is an overated yugo player ,that is Boban .Boban was a wonderfull player ,completed ,tactic and concrete in the same time ,aggressive and leader .
That is true ,he is the most talented from ex yugoslavia,but Dragan Stojkovic was the most talented fom East Europe, and probably Europe.s one .
@@ramadanhalili762 I agree that Stojkovic was one of the best european players ever (it's a shame he was injury prone) and very underrated. Savicevic was at the same level though, maybe a little bit lower
Il genio
Amazing player, incredible. Him and Roberto Baggio were the best at those times
Both screwed by Capello and conservative catannacio Italian coaching.
@@Vice81 To be honest Capello surrendered to the 4-4-2 hysteria of the 90's in Italy.
As for Baggio he had him play in his natural position. The problem was he benched him too often.
As for Savicevic instead, Capello used him in a stupid position, as a midfielder on the wing (the worst move ever). Nevertheless he managed to be the best player in the squad
@@Vice81ma non dire cagate baggio weah e savicevic hanno vinto uno scudetto..savicevic con Campiello ha giocato anni e ha vinto
@@davidemaglio5745non lo metteva in panchina lo sostituiva spesso nel secondo tempo é diverso .
@@13grammi Sì hai ragione. Questo depone meno a favore di Baggio. Perché almeno partiva titolare.
Io non sono un particolare amante di Baggio, perché per me viene troppo mitizzato da noi italiani. In più da vecchio milanista (ormai però non tifo più) ti dico che Baggio nel Milan è stato quasi una meteora. Eppure era ancora giovane, giocava comunque in una posizione decente, partiva per lo più titolare ed era l'eroe nazionale in quel momento. Non ha grandi attenuanti per il rendimento al Milan.
Diverso il discorso per Savicevic (che piaccia o meno il giocatore). Capello lo impiegò per lo più nella posizione di Angelo Colombo (aaaaarrrrgghhhhhh!!), la scelta tattica più stupida della storia. Avrebbe avuto quindi tutte le attenuanti del mondo se avesse deluso. Eppure nonostante qualche passaggio a vuoto riuscì alla fine a diventare il giocatore migliore di quella squadra. Di sicuro l'impatto che ebbe lui fu superiore a quello di Baggio in quel Milan, benché avesse attenuanti in più di Baggio
Gênio¡!!!! Simplesmente gênio ¡!!!!'
Genius!!! Great.
He is my uncle from my grandmothers side her name was Anka Savicevic may she rest in peace, I met him once in Montenegro as a kid he was my idol and I cheered for Red Star Belgrade because of him
Wow! Wonderful!
And yet Dragan Stojkovic was still better him. Savicecic said the only player he’d ever sit on the bench for was D. Stojkovic
Truly underrated, one of the best.
One of my fave players of the 90's and a integral part of that heavyweight AC Milan team..This guy just oozed world class ability from every single pore
One of my fave all.time.players... big game player
Savićević was and still is one of the greatest player that ever graced the pitch, and without a doubt the finest dribbler that football ever had. His nickname in Italy was Il Genio (The Genius), and not without the reason! It is a shame that he only received a Silver Ball in 1991, a year when he was hands-down the best player in the world. Messi before Messi, but with even crazier dribbling skills and Maradona-like temperament!
Grazie Dejan...THE GENIUS...FORZA MILAN
Thanks for that, that’s a good good man.
Il nostro Dejan!!fuoriclasse unico e meraviglioso. Il GENIO!!We are A.C. MILAN
He was not a winger.He was midfielder,centrocampista,number 10...
Branimir Radivojevic he is a world class champion ... il Genio ! ⚫️🔴
The best player ever...
Aaaah! You are a joker! The best player ever is pele...n 2 maradona n3 messi...savicevic is a fantastic player but not the best player ever!!!!
@@andreaoldani1588 Yes he is
But Pele, Messi etc had much better national teams 😉
Savicevic is a great player but pele maradona zidane and messi are the top in the history! Are fantastic in the club and the national team
@@andreaoldani1588 Ronaldo Nazario and Savicevic are 2 most talented player ever 😇 But not greatest as Messi, Pele, Maradona etc because thay were unlucky about career
Literally UNSTOPPABLE!
He's actually outsprinting ppl with the ball at his feet in close control!! madness!
I like Dejo, he played for my Red Star. I consider him world class player. His creativity and dribbling was unforgettable. On minus side, he was selfish player, and moody, you never knew if he will explode and play brilliant, or just walk around field if he slept bad or thinks someone wronged him somehow. I think this unpredictability and ego were reason why he was never loved by coaches and fought with them. He played first for spectators, then for himself to prove things, then for team, and only then for coach. My favorite player from that time was Dragan Stojkovic Piksi, who I consider even better player, probably best one i saw, nowadays would be worth hundreds of millions.
cibetka76 man I’m going to Belgrade can you tell me place to visit please ?!! Grazie
Esse cara é um artista! 😱👏🏻
Fantastico il Genio😍😍😍
My brother with the heart of gold!♥️👑🇲🇪
Aún recuerdo levantarme temprano todos los domingos, solo para ver a este crack junto con Whea.
Marcaron mi infancia... Saludos desde El Salvador ⚽⚽
Incredible
I`m proud he plays his last Station by my fav. Team Rapid Wien and man I loved to watch him....sure he was older but with a ball - WOW
Grazie per il video spettacolare! Secondo me, Dejan il piu' grande degli ultimi 50 anni con Diego ed a Zico
Non ci vai tanto lontano. Ma ce ne sono comunque anche altri
his speed, tenacious & dribling skills & that left foot power are mind blowing. DS10. FORZA MILAN
Mislim da je Dejo Savicevic u istoriji fudbala br 1pored vrhunskog fudbalskog umeca imao je najvise ,,donosaca bureka"...ziveo nam dugo dugo.
il genio! Mio giocatore preferito di sempre! Nessuno come lui!!!!!!
What a player,legend...
My idol 💪👑🔮
One memorable moment regarding his dribble to me is at WC 90 match against Argentina, when the commentator said : "Pass one, pass two..."
Underrated by the media yes! Not by the fans who watched him playing back in the days! Should have won that ballon d’or in 1991 over Papin…
When I first bought CM Italia for the Amiga, Milan had such an insane side. Savicevic, Van Basten, Papin, Boban, Albertini, Lentini, Baresi, Maldini, Costacurta...
The marking was brutal at that time specially in serie A, it wasnt as violent as precious decades but was as tough and sticky plus more advanced tactics and fitness, to play with the finesse of Savicevic and surviving serie A defenders You had to be special
Incredible player, lots of the former Yugoslavin players were not recognised as they should have been
The excellent 3S : Safet Susic, Stojkovic and Savicevic.
I expected to watch Susic at WC 82, but couldn't. When he was still included in Yugoslavia NT at WC 90, I was glad, because I could watch him play. But he was past his prime (35 years old); fortunately there was a new no. 10 playmaker : Dragran Stojkovic who played better than Maradona in the match vs Argentina.
Savicevic had the ability to play wide and sometimes had to defer to more centrally minded players when at Red Star (eg. Stojkovic, Prosinecki) but he was never really a winger... by 1991/1992, he was being played in a more advanced role next to Darko Pancev... when he transferred across to Milan, he again was played more as a forward in view of the disciplined game in Serie A... but Il Genio would best be described as an old school number 10 playing in the pocket between the CMs and the striker(s)... of a great generation of players to emerge from the former Yugoslavia (1965 to 1970 born) such as Boban, Prosinecki, Jugovic, Stojkovic, Mijatovic, Suker etc., Savicevic was the best... on his day, unplayable... under-appreciated and dismissed now by fans that did not watch him
Until september 1990 ,when injurie destroyed the career of Stojkovic, Savicecic used to be his aprentice .
@@ramadanhalili762 Savicevic was younger, had come to Red Star after Stojkovic, debuted for the national after Stojkovic and so, I think a lot of that deference was due to seniority... that said, Stojkovic was a wonderful player in his own right but I think Zvonimir Boban was right in his description of Savicevic --> if there was ever a maestro born and not made, it was Savicevic… for whom the most difficult play seemed easy, natural even, but for whom the percentage, simple play was almost painful... and who remained untouched by footballing school or manager or system
Savicevic was only faster than Stojkovic .George Hagi and Nedved had only better long range shoot than Stojkovic.
The most gifted ,classy,spectacular ,and completed player ever to come
out from Eastern Europe ,and the best jugoslav ever is Stojkovic .He did not Play during his prime 25 to 30 years old .Immagin if Maradona would Have the same luck .Today Romario and Baggio woud be' considered much better than him .I remember where ever he played ,Zvezda ,National Team and those few matches with Marsej ,he always was MOM ,most goals came out of his passes ,free Kicks or even corners .
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Il Genio!!!! Uno dei miei giocatori preferiti...che ricordi
Football is more than pure statistics. That being said, i would always pick Savićević as my No.1 before Messi or Ronaldo or other players that have better numbers "on paper". Dejo is one of the kind, unique, i am grateful that i watched him play live as my childhood hero... I would also want to thank him for that famous:" Је*ем те у уста те је*ем! У та шкрбава уста...!"😊
Божественный игрок!!! Один из избранных❤🖤
No Doubt, a legend of the game...
Awesome player.
Il Genio, one of the best ever, my idol when i was teenager. Ask Zubizarreta, Koeman, Nadal, Ferrer about him. They sure have nightmares nowadays. Forever rossonero
Never heard of this guy before and this video proved to me how good he was. Ur one of my favourite youtubers at the moment making great videos on some of my favourite players so keep going!
u born on wrong era of football then .. the balkans have so many talents, even im indonesian know it so well
Did not you hear about Savicevic?Hm, Dejan is a genius.
no i knew nothing about him unfortunately. Happy I do now
Run Intensity: KOVACIC
Elegance: MILINKOVIC SAVIC
Run Extend: PERISIC
Tecnique: PANDEV
Creativity: MODRIC
Dribbling: STOJKOVIC
Leadership: MIHAJLOVIC
ALL IN ONE WORD: SAVICEVIC
REALLY UNDERRATED.
Quante cazzate che hai scritto. Pandrv non gli allacciava manco le scarpe 😂😅😅😅😅
Che giocatore meraviglioso ❤️🖤❤️🖤
Fantastic player
He's a Legend ❤!!!
Dejan saviçeviç KİNG 💪💪💪
I wouldn’t have known about him, coach told me bout him…. He’s crazy(fifa player)🔥🔥
1:22 playing for red star v panathinaikos. Great sides back in the day. what i would give to see eastern european sides rise again. The UCL has become a secluded group of western sides, thus becoming dull and predictable.
The only two players to compare with Dejo skill are messi and maradona (ronaldo is different)
Dragan Stojkovic ?
marius320068 no stojkovic great player sure and midfielder but did not have that ..maybe riquelme
@@vsavage9913 Riquelme...different league.
Maradona was the greatest ever and Savicevic was my all time favorite player.
Stojkovic was amazing too, I believe he played at maradonian level -dribbling, skills, passes, free kicks, impossible goales ,leadership, beyond you can imagine it... , but some injuries ruined his career after 90.
marius320068 sure stojkovic was amazing He had or developed super control and touch, just watch the ball literally stick to his feet and this very much like Messi. in fact Messi not much difference except faster and though only a little bit still it counts a lot (stojkovic was very fast already ) Now what maradona had on top of speed, or savicevic or i suggest riquelme too you have a look was a certain slowness or laziness (this zidane also had though he did not develop it into fancy dribbling skill specifically
Hagi. Unfortunately for his media exposure (and for what would have been an earlier contact with the world of professional football, I mean the relationships in the locker room, with the coach etc.), the Communist regime rejected Juventus' offer to transfer a very young Hagi in exchange for building a FIAT factory in Romania.
I am sure Hagi's legacy would have been even greater if he started playing for Juventus when he was about 20. It was fortunate for Sportul Studențesc and Steaua to have him between 1983 and 1990, though.
Was Mann kann sagen wegen Dejo Genie,ich mag Ihm seit Kinderheit!!!!❤
Grande il genio, io lo ricordo molto nel modo di giocare...mancino co e lui...