Ludogorets Razgrad: The Most Hated Club in Europe?
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Ludogorets Razagrad have won nine consecutive Bulgarian First League titles, competing in both the UEFA Champions League and Europa League, since being taken over by millionaire owner Kiril Domuschiev.
Ludogorets success has been shrouded in controversy though, in a league that has historically been rife with corruption and scandal.
In this short documentary, HITC Sevens takes a look at the rise of Ludogorets Razgrad and why the club is so unpopular in Bulgaria.
I would do my university assignments but im going to spend my Tuesday morning watching a documentary about Bulgarian football
I was going to do my Malay essay, but a Sevens doc is more important.
Have exams in a weeks time but here I am
At least they’re still in the EU.
We deliberately decided to commit suicide.
I should be smoking drugs but I’m watching Stoitchkov and Bulgarian football
I was gona clean ma room
I was gona get up and find the broom
Alfie. Just one wrong thing. Last year Ludogorets had an unbeaten campaign until the final day where thay lost to a mediocre team so their rivals couldn't qualify for the Europa League. Those rivals are also financially unstable and could've really used the money
Тогава Левски ако си бяха взели мача срещу нас, които не играехме за нищо след спечелената купа нямаше да има значение резултата на рязаните
@@WHOTFUCK фактор играе и футболистите, които играха без желание..
Хем е така, хем не е. Домуса си опропасти шанса да завърши сезон без загубен мач срещу Славия, която могат да бият както си искат, но и самия Наско Сираков много не желаеше да играем в Европа. Вярно щяхме да вземем някакви къси пари от участие, но вероятно щяха и да лъснат някои неприятни неща пред УЕФА. :D
“Their rivals couldn’t qualify for the Europa League”
Bro, Levski and Ludogorets are not rivals. CSKA are the only rivals of Ludogorets!
@@asentseto Levski and CSKA are their rivals cuz they're the only big teams that have/had a chance to win the league
I used to work with a Bulgarian guy, his name was Atanas Dimov and turns out he used to coach Ludogorets reserves a while ago. I found him doing a press conference online for Bulgarian TV. Obviously I was amazed but he didn't really seem bothered. From football coach to unloading lorries!
I'm from a tiny country with a shitty little semi-pro football league and many of our foreign players are Bulgarians. Most of them would play anywhere except in their country because they are fed up with everything that's happening in their football.
@@ismailniyaz5167 Where are you from?
@@pepkata1391 he is from earth lol
If only you knew my friend. At my old job (warehouse, doing the grocceries for bigger shops and stores), we had a former mug, mob captain unloading our lorries, a thief that has sentences in atleast 6 countries for stealing and a former football player who earned something among the lines of 10k, but now was earning 1000k.
Life has a weird way with things.
@@ismailniyaz5167 Darn, I wish some club from my country's dogshit league would've gotten hold of Berbatov when he was young
I’m a second generation Bulgarian-American in the US and I’ve found it amazing that you’re covering Bulgarian football to the extent that you are.
Furthermore, my local team is the Richmond Kickers, the third division US team mentioned at 13:57.
Please stop stalking me, Alfie.
Does your local team play in USL League One?
American soccer teams have the worst names in world football..
@@shaun7389 Their American style names like San Jose Earthquakes or Seattle Sounders are always criticized. If they have European style names, like Real Salt Lake or Sporting Kansas City, they will also be criticized. Heck, they're even criticized for having 'boring' names like Minnesota United, Atlanta United FC or St. Louis City SC.
In conclusion: There is no way you can give a name to an MLS team and expect it not to be criticized.
@@shaun7389 you'll have an aneurysm once you hear about German football if you think "Kickers" is bad
@@shaun7389 Stuttgart, Offenbach and Würzburg are three german clubs out of my head that are all named Kickers :p The former two even played in the Bundesliga for some time...
A very nice video, thank you a lot! And actually here is some back story of Kiril Domuschiev-when growing up, he was a CSKA fan(even though I don’t consider him as such after what he has done to our club). At some point when CSKA Sofia’s owners were a company called TITAN, who almost killed the club btw, Domuschiev was a part of the board directors or something and his job was something to do with finances. At some point when he discovered that TITAN’s model was wrong, he went to the owners and asked them to buy the club, saying that he had an idea how to turn CSKA into a big team once again and his management of the club would involve fewer spending and most importantly-smart spending of money. The owners however rejected his offer and said that they need more money from him, in order to give him the ownership of the club. Then he said something like ,,OK, OK then...I will satisfy myself with Ludogorets...”
What you've written here is partially correct but there are several inaccuracies, in my opinion. He was indeed part of the board of directors/supervisory board or whatever you want to call it, but in more of a consulting role rather than hands-on operations in terms of running the club. As far as I know, he was offered the majority ownership (he never actually asked any of the owners to buy CSKA) of the club at least once, and he refused every single time to take it. And the reason for this is very simple - he just doesn't want the pressure that comes from media and fans. On top of that CSKA was piling massive debt at the time and the initial investments would've been enormous compared to what he invested in Ludogorets. He just wanted to take a club from ground zero and manage it according to his vision, possibly turning a profit somewhere down the line, which was deemed unattainable for one of two biggest clubs in Bulgaria several years ago. For him actively participating in Bulgarian football is simply business and a medium to satisfy his personal ambitions.
С тая снимка на Ники Александров от пред банята просто 😂😂😂
Hi
Асенце кур за литекс
@@DIMBARATA какво, какво мучиш от 12-тото място, че нещо не мога да те чуя😂
As a Bulgarian, I cannot thank you enough for this video! You told facts that even I didn't know. Very well researched video and tbh it even made me laugh.
What is it with Former soviet nations and loving to feed off scrapes from mobsters. The people there seem to have no will to fight for their rights and freedoms. A weak sense of self?
@@maisysmith7567 It's complicated. Also, you can currently see the west plunging into the abyss without any resistance, not only repeating every single mistake, they're willingly putting the gun in their mouth and pulling the trigger.
There are some wrong facts in there too
Абсолютно
They certainly are the most hated club in Bulgaria, but they are too insignificant to be the most hated club in Europe.
He probably means most intensely hated, not hated by most people. That would probably be PSG, City, RB Leipzig, Juve and Real, in other words, the big money conglomerates.
@@damasek219 I wouldn't consider RB leizpig but for sure psg city madrid barca and maybe chelsea with their loan system being insane
@@brayanaguilar2066 you have no idea how much germans hate lepzieg
@@jimothypersson8306 is it more hated than bayern?
@@arjunghanekar6140 depends on who you ask, i’d say rn it’s more even than when leipzig were in the rise
Brilliant content as usual regarding you're documentary style videos.
I appreciate your effprt to pronounce Bulgarian Cities. Love from Bulgaria 🇧🇬. Been following you for 2 years
Just the last gameweek Levski lost 1-0 to Ludogorets to a stupid offside call behind the middle of the field, also the tv scandal is correct and Domuschiev is a criminal who launders his money through the club although they develop youth players and have top 3 academy in the country. Great video which gave me as a bulgarian some perspective of our country, but the next generation has a lot of talent(we had a player in the man city youth academy) but the young footballers are not interested in football as much as they should be.
Domuschiev is also producing drugs and selling them through the pharmaceutical company.
@@dimakapeev3156 well eastern europe, is pretty much just corruption ,
You may need to add allegedly to be legally safe
I know it’s horrible there, so how come not too many Bulgarians came to the U.K. compared with tons of Romanians?
@@Ron.S. Our country actually has a lot of immigrants in the UK, but I think that the standard of living in the bigger cities is actually really nice. Bulgaria has a bad reputation in all of the UK because of the rasicm scandal. Also many romanians and bulgarians to search for a better life, but bulgarians don't have as much money to start a new life in a foreign country. Bulgaria is a very nice country liked by a lot of tourists, but corruption and the government ruin our country.
Our league is a complete mess the scary thing is Ludogorets will continue to win in the future 4-5 years in my opinion owner of the club is Cska Sofia fan who got kicked out and this is probably his little revange by humiliating all the clubs in Bulgaria.
Абсолютно прав си!
So if your fake Liteks-cska team wins our league will not be a mess? Owner of the club who got kicked out lool whaaat?
@@Sardaukar_7 the real Cska Sofia is the one that won the BG Cup in 2016 from the lowest league.
Everything great in the Bulgarian football is in the past
Sadly true 😢
Except cska
@@singoller3749 abd in Romania CFR, Serbia red star and Croatia Dinamo Zagreb
And in the future hopefully!
@@chriswolf1089 I don't know what you're watching, romanian football is becoming anything but stronger
Good story - years ago in the 2nd tier of Bulgarian football there was a match . 3-3 and in the 92th minute the coach puts on very young lad to get his first match for the first team. A lazy long ball by the keeper into the opposition half two bounces and the ball comes to the youngster. He tries an absurd 35 meter backscissors shot...and scores an absolute stupendous goal! The referee blows the final whistle. Everyone jumps on the young player...to beat him.
The match was set up to be a draw. The kid never played again.
Bulgarian football in a nutshell.
Lol
This is not true which match
@@boriskrastev872 idk which match but the player's name was Albert Einstein
@@boriskrastev872 he claimed it as a story and not a "real story" btw, so I don't think that was real. It was probably an anecdote on how corrupt the Bulgarian Football was/is
Hahaha, man I can’t stop loghing 🤣@@tombrodrick3372
He beat Berbatov to POTY he must be some player looks like he moves less than Berbatov did on the pitch
You can check on UA-cam there is a video that shows his ‘’qualities”😂
Berbatov is a genius, like, literally having a very high IQ.
He was able to see the game in a Matrix like way( like all Elite Athletes) with Abstract Thinking, ability to read players body language etc With the high intellect and His peak talent and skill.
Due to his superior spatial awareness and forward thinking( Chess Master knowing your next 4-8 moves) depending on each direction he went or what first touch would take Berbatov into the Optimum opportunity to score.
Mixed with his natural flair in front of goal.
It gave him a Mental, Spiritual, physical, psychological sporting edge over 90% of the Defences.
Sadly, Berbatov was looked on as being a lazy player at times, but in reality, he had little EGO and just knew when the best chances of scoring were and didn't have to run around all the time to find them, they, the chances would find Berbatov.....
Criminally underrated to this day.
What do we have for icc?
The only dislike is from the president of Ludogorets.
And from Angel Petrichev(Angel Pederichev as we call him)😂
Кур за киро гела
@@asentseto Peder hahaha!
0:26 a lot of people in Bulgaria would disagree that this was the peak of Bulgarian football.For some of the older people in our country, Bulgarian football actually peaked in the 60s. At that time we had players like Georgi Asparuhov-Gundi, who you already made video about, Peter Zhekov(Golden Boot winner), Dimitar Yakimov(called the Bulgarian Garrincha and touted as the best Bulgarian player ever by Gundi himself), Ivan Kolev(finished 8th for the Ballon dor) and other legends like Dimitar Penev, Georgi Naydenov, Dinko Dermendzhiev, Ivan Vutsov, Boris Gaganelov, who are not as popular of non-Bulgarians. This team managed to qualify for 4 straight World Cups(from 1962 to 1974) and at that time qualifying for a World Cup was harder, because fewer teams played in it.
Actually small amount of people would disagree but there are people that would do ir
Arguably the peak was at June 2, 1970 at 49 minute leading 2-0 vs Peru. Should they had held on and won that game, history would be different. They didn't and won their first game at world cup finals in 1994, having been somewhat lucky but also beating Germany later in that competition. Something they fail to do in 1970, losing 2-5 after leading in that game too.
The 1970 team was more talented but had no end product and failed to win a single game.
Yeah, those people are stupid and want to be contrarian for the sake of being contrarian. They don’t want to admit that communism held Bulgarian player development back by not allowing them to play in the west. 1994 was by far the peak.
I love Gundi but he played in 2 world cups and scored one goal. Bulgaria was routinely routed in the World Cup throughout the 60 and never won a match.
Meanwhile, in ‘94, we had 2 players in the all-world 11 team, second only to Brazil. Bulgaria beat the last two World Cup winners - Argentina and Germany. Golden boot winner. Golden ball winner. In the early to mid 90s, Stoichkov’s dream team won la liga 4x and he lifted a champion league trophy, the first one ever for Barcelona. Kostadinov’s Porto team dominated Portugal. In ‘95 luboslav penev’s athletico won the double and he led the team with 22 goals. Trifon Ivanov’s team was dominating Austria. Bulgarians were making Mother Bulgaria proud all over the world.
I'm from Bulgaria and I can confirm the story at 12:30. Commentator's name is Iliyan Enev.
In fact some of the players that used to play for Bulgaria at the 1994 World Cup when Bulgaria reaches the semi final are quite guilty for that decline. Borislav Mihaylov, who is Levski Sofia legend and was the goalkeeper saving 2 of the penalties against Mexico in 1994, was a president of BFU until last year when Bulgaria lost with 6-0 by England and he resigned, Emil Kostadinov, who is former CSKA and Bayern Munich player also big part of the 1994 tean, is vice-president and Yordan Letchkov, who is former CSKA and Hamburger playrr, also part of the 1994 team is a member of the executive committee of BFU.
In Poland we are also questioning Zbigniew Boniek's ability to govern PZPN, albeit we aren't at the situation Bulgaria has.
@@luishernandezblonde a fantastic player he was! We remember him well in Bulgaria!
@@SKa-tt9nm In Poland we missed Hristo Stoichkov much, he's popular here too.
yeah, these Bulgarian legends actually played a big part in ruining football in this country
Dear HITC Seven, you are doing God’s work! This video is journalistic accountability. We need our media to shine light on corruption and abuses of power and this goes all the way to the top. People outside of Bulgaria may not care, but I hope some within Bulgaria, or close to Bulgarian football see this and it spurs them on to make change.
I am Bulgarian, everything here is true... Unfortunately...
Totally spot on, good video! Cheers mate!!!
As a Bulgarian, I thought this was going to be just another video where there would be a lot of trash talking and hate about Bulgaria most of which would have nothing to do with the truth. Well, I couldn't be more wrong. Very well done video, a lot of facts and correct statements and no hateful comments just for the sake of it. Congrats to the uploader, good job!
Bulgaria looks a beautiful country and full of passionate people , such a shame the gangsters steal all the wealth, i hope they flushed out along with the dodgy politicians , they have always `produced some special footballers over the years , they will be back hopefully
Would love a video about Hungarian football's decline, too!
After the Mighty Magyars and good match attendances until 1965, Hungary's best league went from 14k+ attendances to
Hey, Hungarian here. I can only talk about todays attandances, but I think the decline of fans going to matches is about that they made the league smaller (only 12 team 33 matches a year) and many big older clubs such as győri ETO, Sopron, Kecskemét, PMFC, Nyíregyháza are in the 2nd division and many newer clubs such as Puskás Akadémia, Kisvárda, mezokovesd which are small Towns are in the First Division with really low population and interest in football
hungaria is good now.
@@coolbian513hell nah, only ftc is good. But at least we have decent amount of fans this season
hey alfie to answer your text, yes we do have math homework. It’s page 57 #4-16, and page 58 #8-28 evens
How do kids even learn math, wolfram alpha solve all math problems
I just love the fact that the office block you show in Sofia at the start is one I went to on a business trip
Ludogorets is a world phenomenon. They have won the Bulgarian championship 13 times in a row. With every new title, their fans become less and less...
The truth is somewhere in the middle really.
On one hand while their owner is a member of the football union, as he is not the only owner there, which is baffling really, and there such that are a lot more vocal then him, and that are downright disgusting - like the one of Slavia Sofia. In terms of organizational level, they are probably the one team in Bulgaria that actually has a strategy and a plan on how to run a club, and are the only one with actual finances for a... relatively high quality players, at least by Bulgarian standards. They are also currently the country's best option when it comes to having a team in international club tournaments (of course, traditionally CSKA Sofia have also been good there - including this year so far, again by Bulgarian standards).
On the other hand, even as a person who does not really care about Bulgarian football all that much (I have no club preferences here), even I can see that some of their titles were not really... cleanly won. While they are playing the best over all, when there had to be a close call in the title race, they have had what could easily be described as help.
Something else that is factor when it comes to the hate they get - Bulgarian fans are very loyal to their old clubs, and anything that challenges them is pretty much the antichrist to a lot of them, regardless of whether their team was beaten fair or not.
Ludogoretz are in a way a necessary evil - they have not always been clean, they have no history (which, in general when it comes to clubs, is a really stupid argument to invalidate them), they have more money then probably the rest of the teams combined in recent years, and yet they are still the closest that Bulgaria has to a properly managed football club. Yes, it is sad.
Wow, that's way worse then I thought. Glad to see there's a worse Footballing system then in Israel though.
Just one thing to add more to that - Ludogorerz were probably averaging a 3-4 bulgarian born players though out the season ( not sure about this season as i lost interest in Bulgaria club level) which doesn't rly help to our national team 😂
@@TheTermond Good point. I haven't really watched BG club level recently too (same as you, I just find it to be a waste of time), but in the recent years, the other grands would have focused on imports too if they had the money. The sad reality is that almost every transfer window there are so many player rotations, and new players coming in (especially to the other 2 traditional big teams Levski and CSKA), there is little chance for a core of a team to stay together and improve. While this is happening, it's harder to get new players on a high enough level consistently.
While you can blame them for that, they are still just doing what others would have done too - simply because it is allowed.
In my opinion the Football union should put new rules like in Germany or Russia (from what I know), for a minimum number of Bulgarian/academy players in every match.
From memory, I think there was an idea like that here, but just not sure if it ever came into fruition.
P.S: Still not sure about the rule, as I mentioned, so please correct me if I'm wrong it got implemented.
Also, what I said about the other 2 big teams - while CSKA has historically offloaded the most (or at least some of the most) Bulgarian players into other EU countries, it too has had some years where is it was buying imports by the dozens, which is what I tried to express earlier. Same goes for Levski too, an while both teams do have more Bulgarian players now, one can't help but wonder if that would have been the case if they more financially stable.
The whole reason behind their logic, is that they simply cannot wait - there is no long term plan, but just trying to buy what would get you immediate results, and unfortunately for all, those results are not often good.
@@TheTermond Considering Bulgarian youth loses 10-0 Belgium, while the proper national team has an 18-match winless streak, you can see why Ludogorets don't use Bulgarian players.
I also recommend you check how many Brits start for the likes of Tottenham and Manchester City, or how many Spaniards for Real Madrid.
These features you do are some of the best football videos on youtube. Anyone can set up a highlight reel video but you have an interest in the less glamorous sides of things and its very much appreciated
There are two interesting facts about Ludogorets most people don't know about:
1. In 1964 Lev Yashin and his Dynamo Moscow team went to Razgrad during a run of friendly games across Bulgaria. The entire stadium was full, just like how the stadium was full when Inter came to Razgrad. History repeats itself.
2. In 1984 they reached the Cup of The Soviet Army semi-final, losing 5-4 on penalties to Dorostol Silistra.
Pffff hahahaha😂😂😂😂
,,Their stadium was full”
In the 60s their stadium was something like 4000 seats are you stupid
@@asentseto Still counts!
@@randomchannel1TM you also didn’t say that when Bulgaria was in the period of 1944-1989 the interest toward football was 5 times as much as it is now, so the stadiums were FULL! The capacity of the national stadium Vasil Levski is 35/40 000 people. When CSKA played against Bayern Munich for the semi-final of the ECC, there were 70 000 watching! Combine this with the fact that Lev Yashin is coming to Bulgaria and of course there will be 4000 people.
@@asentseto Абсолютно прав си. Сега стадионите са празни, защото първенството ни е селско. Никой не иска да гледа отбори като Ботев Враца и Царско село
Everything is absolutely true. There are even things not mentioned in the video. Bribed referees, bribed football officials, threatening football clubs he's not gonna pay TV rights (Domuschiev owns them), and so much more.
Good video mate. Sadly, as everything else in Bulgaria, nothing will change.
Thank you for the constant love Bulgaria is getting on this channel. It's actually mental how corrupt our league is and it speaks volumes about our country.
Yet another Alfie masterclass, great content as always!
Thank you for making this video! I appreciate your effort in pronouncing Bulgarian names!
Is he stupid to not know how to pronounce our club names?
Manchester City: hold my plastic flag
RB Leipzig: hold my red bull
PSG: hold my oil money
Leeds: hold my fanbase
Random post.
The hatred for RB Leipzig in the Bundesliga cannot be overstated. Some clubs even refuse to display their logo at matches
Cringe
Leeds's fanbase is a reasonably good bit better than they used to be, but yes, they can be a bit rough. Then again, Leicester, Millwall and even Wednesday (my team!) are far, far worse.
Bulgaria were one of Europe's best national sides back in the mid 90's.......now they're about as good as Luxembourg. Shows how vastly things can change in 25 years.
Ludogorets is one of the best 40 clubs in the world, so your comment is bullshit.
@@miljonair3882 stop using drugs kid
@@jackmehoff5541 Cute. You are crying right now because I tell you facts. Go away of this video stupid Levski fan, because you will play second league next season.
0:39 also Nottingham Forest(when they were current European champions) and Ajax(when they were current European champions with Johan Cruyff and the ,,total football”)
They lost both matches in 72/73 vs the all star team of Ajax, it was only the next year 73/74 when they won the return and eliminated the champions Ajax (but without a significant part of their former stars and coach)
Samo Levski.
Bate ti ne si v red prestani da zanimvash choveka s umreliq ti otbor
Pravi gotini klipove pisna mi da komentirash otdolu te eba v svinqta prosta
@@alexanderotbgotbgalexander1193 коментирам и даван допълнителна информация за Славния ЦСКА, защото както виждаш на хората им е любопитно, пък и така прославяме българския футбол. Това, че ти не можеш да се похвалиш със същите успехи на твоето отборче, не е мой проблем!
And Bulgaria was empire when Europa learn how to walk. Cska is dead.
Има ли българи тука🔥🔥?
И още как
Естествено
Ne
Че как
nema
Thank you for this video. I was pleasantly surprised to see a video about Bulgarian football on your channel! Your commentary was 🔥 I laughed so much.
I do remember my team Tottenham will be playing against them in the Europa League group stage this week.
As a Bulgarian, I'm backing the mighty Spurs and I'm not even a fan of them
Yep, was gonna go to the game but sadly no fans will be allowed :/
Ah, the other most hated team that n Europe
@@liamh3964 Nah PSG, RB Leipzig, Lazio, Man City, Zenit and Chelsea are far more hated than Spurs.
Over 2 games spurs 7 ludogrets 1 ( 1-3 and 4-0 )hope the players who had covid have a speedy recovery
RB Leipzig: Hold my Redbull
The hate for them is totally unjust
@@thomaskendell8146 No its not. This club should not exist and it should have no right to play in the Bundesliga.
@@thomaskendell8146 they violate agreed Bundersliga ownership rules (But are not the only one).
They would not be there if not for dirty money
Every club has a right to exist are you denying the people Leipzig a professional team and the citizens more employment opportunities there is a pyramid in football for a reason they have clever recruitment and have helped development many young players in Africa the RedBull project is admirable
@@thomaskendell8146 i think people who criticise red bull do want Leipzig, but they just wanted them to play by Bundesliga ownership rules.
Video idea: why the soviet union was bad for people but good for football?
I mean just look at the former East German clubs languishing in the 4th division of germany
Could even make a case for an unified league "Super league" for these former Soviet bloc and how entertaining it would be off the pitch
How was Soviet union bad for people ?
konstantin kelekhsaev they violated human rights
@@bluest.9320 Such As ??
@@konstantinkelekhsaev302 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_the_Soviet_Union
Idk there was a big famine, millions of people died, people had no identity and freedom.
I posted on that video saying Bulgaria was the most corrupt league, so I feel like I’ve had a hand in this video. Not from Bulgaria myself but when I was in university a Bulgaria exchange student and part-time Sofia Ultra explained to me the corruptness in the game so I spent a few nights researching into the topic, it’s actually crazy stuff and I appreciate you doing a video on this!
Levski Sofia* because apparently CSKA Sofia is Communist in his opinion hahah
@@loveridgej2340it is. cska sofia is one of the many cskas made around the eastern bloc, with that standing for central sports club of the army.
I always admire how well researched these are
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Day 1 - Alfie, please do a video on the pitiful situation the Bulgarian national football team is currently in. Here are a couple of points to give you an idea about what I'm talking about:
- Currently, the team is in a streak of 8 winless games, at the bottom of its qualification group for the 2024 Euro, with no chances of qualifying, after losing to opponents such as Montenegro and Lithuania.
- The team's last win was almost a year ago - on 16.11.2022 in a friendly against Cyprus. Our last win in an official match was more than a year ago - on 26.09.2022 against North Macedonia.
- The national football team of Bulgaria has been constantly performing bad for at least the last 20 years. The last big tournament we played was the 2004 Euro in Portugal, where we were humiliated in the group stage.
- Many supporters blame the current bosses of the Bulgarian Football Union for this downfall. The most notable of them are Borislav Mihaylov, Emil Kostadinov and Yordan Lechkov - 3 players who were part of the great 1994 WC team which reached the semi-finals of the tournament. Sadly, those people's success as players has been overshadowed by their lack of capability or willingness to resolve many of the problems in our football - the out-of-date training systems, the poor football infrastructure etc. What's worse is that they refuse to resign a failure after another and they have changed the rules of the union in a way that makes them irremovable for more than 18 years.
- Recently a couple of players from the next generation - Dimitar Berbatov, Stiliyan Petrov and Martin Petrov started a campaign, trying to overthrow the aforementioned but as I said the rules are in the bosses' favour.
- Meanwhile fans are getting really angry with the situation and are starting to take measures. Last weekend, during many matches of the First and Second Football Leagues the fans were chanting against Mihaylov and company and displayed banners against them. Of course, the BFU fined the clubs for "obscene chants and banners".
- There is a campaign on social media calling fans of all local clubs to put their differences aside and come to the Euro qualifier with Hungary on 16.11 and show their disapproval of the current BFU leaders.
That's the main points, I'm sure that if you dig a little you'll find much more. Please consider doing such a video, the anti-BFU sentiments are getting stronger and we need to disturb those self-serving ex-legends in every way possible. Thank you and keep up the good work!
The videos on Bulgarian football are some the best in the channel and am not even from bulgaria
My second home is plovdiv and I now follow the BFL. Im a lokomotiv plovdiv fan and would love to see more content around bulgarian football.
Its interesting to see the point of view of a non-bulgarian. Nice Video 😁
Проблемът на българския футбол не е Лудогорец, а многото чужденци в първенството и лошата работа с децата в школите. Корупцията е огромна и това отказва много талантливи деца за сметка на бездарници с богати бащи. Аз бях от ЦСКА преди да ни закрият!
nice content HITC, loving the vids lately
I actually love these videos. They are very entertaining and informative. Keep them up Alfie 🙂👍🏻👍🏻
An idea for a video similar to that of the CSKA Sofia video: One about the rise and Fall of Steaua Bucharest. They won a champions league against Barcelona in 1986. Crazy story altogether. If you already did a video like this, I am sorry, I just feel like it would be interesting. Another idea could be possibly the rise and fall of Politechnica Timisoara, I grew up hearing stories of European nights my dad got to experience as he was growing up, and how now there are 2 Politechnica Timisoara teams, with the one my family supports in the second division. I feel like these would be interesting!
he already did the Steaua one, check it out:
ua-cam.com/video/rex2qasoAmQ/v-deo.html
Great video! Very nice that you digged so deep in Bulgaria to make this video.Keep it like this!
Bragantino is a Brazilian team not Portuguese broo
Em Tee: Broo?! Moron!
@@heli-crewhgs5285 why is he a moron? He s right. That team is from brasil, not portugal
@@heli-crewhgs5285 stupid fanboy detected
@@heli-crewhgs5285 how is he a morron? The team is Brazilian not Portuguese
Pretty sure its a long name for Braga or some team in Portugal
Mate, you are a king of documentary making about football, I really like the tone of your deliveries. And I am not a hardcore football fan. Kudos to you!
I've said it before, i'll say it again
I love these documentaries
You should do more of them 😛👌👌
Love these videos. Cheers for all the hard work all these videos no doubt take
7 Stadiums that can hold more people than the city/town they live in
(Dingwall in County Ross)
Amazing video Alfie!
Greetings from Plovdiv,Bulgaria
Thanks for this once again brilliant video on my country's football. It is a sad state of affairs, but one can only go up, right?
Love from Bulgaria!
Let's hope so.
Read in the news they won their tenth consecutive league after promoting to first league 10 years ago. Then went to check YT for context and found this, great content thanks!
This is an absolutely Ludogorets situation!
The truth is that in bulgaria there are 2 teams that can be categorized as grands in the country and thats levski and cska. Sadly when 80% of the fanbase in bulgaria are people from this two teams is very hard for them to accept the fact that ludogorets have more success in the last 10 years in the modern football then them for their whole history, specially in the last 20 years. You cant compare real madrid that faced ludogorets and real madrid from the 80. People here are stupid and cant accept the fact that Ludogorets is a project that works correctly. Anyways good job.
Day 66 : Ranking every barca signing since Neymar's sale
Day 66: Ranking every uefa madrid crying dogs
@USSR this dude is toxic to make fun one of the greatest teams in europe
Love the content, been looking for a channel like this for a while. Subscribed 👍
Day 16: Final East German First League Teams, where are they now?
Video had been made very well
Keep up the great work Alfie!
“Broke into a morgue and took a 💩 on the floor.” 😄 I’m really looking forward to running a Bulgarian club in FM21.
Do CSKA Sofia-the biggest and most supported team in the country!
@@asentseto Too bad they don't exist anymore.
@@asentseto Levski has more fans dumb kid.
@@tsetso99 thay are playing tomorrow against AS Roma lol
@@lillexus5589 Not the same team
10:12 Bragantino is actually from Bragança Paulista, Brazil. By the way, they're a known as Red Bull Bragantino now as Red Bull started administrating them, and are on the Brazilian Serie A as of 2020.
maluco vacilou
CSKA Sofia may have gone down but are in this season europa league group stage so could it be the first sign of an upward curve even if it’s too early to say that!
This is hilarious. I love these videos bro, you are on all day long in the background while I work now. :)
That reminds so much of Ukraine (my home country). Lots of corruption, match fixing, buying referees, losing almost all traditional clubs and replacing them with some no-names
You could look into that, if you are in a post-communist/socialist topic now
To say I was surprised by a Richmond Kickers shout-out is an understatement. Love to hear my horrible local team mentioned in an HITC Sevens video!
I’ve seen some people in the comments talking about how Levski and CSKA both hate Ludogorets equally, but I will argue with that. Most of the Levski fans don’t like Ludogorets and what they have done to our football, but there their hate is no where near as the hate of the CSKA fans. You can even search in Google of choreographies of Sektor G(from 2017,2020 and more not directly at Domuschiev), which show the hate of the CSKA fans toward Domuschiev. On one of the choreos the owner of Ludogorets had his head nailed on a sword by some imperator and under that scene it said ,,YOUR GOD ENDS HERE!”. This was a 2 months ago. On the other choreo from 2017 made by Sektor G, Domuschiev was shown how he is using his 3 companies to steal the CSKA emblem, but next to that there is a CSKA ultra, ready to fight and under that said ,,I WILL DEFEND THE EMBLEM EVEN WITH MY BLOOD!”. So as you can see that comparing the hate of the CSKA fans to Ludogorets and that of Levski is pathetic. The reason for that is is that Domuschiev is giving everything to kill CSKA.
He is CSKA fan but anyway
There's a very interesting video by Copa 90 about this, it's called "The Billionaire That F**cked With The Wrong Ultras".
@@ze5258 yeah, I’ve watched that video at least 100 times:)
HITC, can you just make a video about Swedish footballers in Russia? Why there are so many Swedish players venturing Russia when they can get success in Real Madrid, Barcelona, Manchester City, Bayern Munich and Juventus? I found it weird but it is also worth mentioning.
You should do a video on FC Nordsjaelland ! A very interesting club.
Loved the video, I always fancy a fm save with cska-Sofia in order to dethrone Ludogorets.
I might do one if I ever get my hands on FM.
Currently about to be dethroned by FC Midtjylland as the worst Danish team to participate in European football. Progress?
@@Metalton95 Guess so?
Agree. I would love to hear something about Nordsjaelland. I know they recruit a lot of youngsters and sell them for a lots of money.
3 years later and everything in this video is still absolutely valid and everything is the same. Oh and about the 2 types of people (supporting Ludogorets and not supporting them) are both right. They are absolutely ruining the league and they are basically promised the league every season, however it’s also truth that maybe as a result of that as well, they have the best facilities, stadium, money and every resource they need.
The Hungarian league is also similarly corrupted. The prime ministers hometown team "PAFC" has a population of 1 688 and has a modern stadium with 3 816 seats.
It's a pattern seen in most Balkan countries
@@davidmarcea1952 Hungary is not balkan
@@davidmarcea1952 maybe learn where the balkans are first lol
Brilliant video as always. Great combination of comedy and we'll researched facts and figures. Thank you
All those Bulgarians who hate Ludogorets for being corrupt would not mind it at all if it was from Sofia. It's just people from Sofia believe they are entitled to have it all while the rest of Bulgaria pays the bill. That's how it's been for decades, that's how it is, and that's how they like it.
I really enjoy these videos. Keep up the good work, and not let your channel get diminished to "Top 10 haircuts in the premier league era" all though i suspect that video would be quite enjoyable.
Can you make video about Red Star Belgrade and Partiazn rivalry please?
I really love these documentaries you're doing recently ngl.
Video idea:
HNK Hajduk a club runned by the streets. Club is doing really bad right now cause its ran by people from the streets who know nothing (Naš Hajduk - Our Hajduk) if you research more about this theme youll see that streets saved the club from bankrupcy but today are messing it all up. Not being biased but if you will do a club story from Croatia then Hajduk is the one...
I’d never heard of Ludogorets until about a year ago when I played them in Europe on Football Manager! Now I can’t stop hearing about them lol
Bader-meinhoff phenomenon activated
please make a video about fcsb or the 1st league of Romania 🇷🇴
He has already done that about FCSB(the real Steaua, right?) and CSA
Forța Steaua!!!! 🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴💪💪💪
Glad to see someone talking about Bulgarian football's history since I'm a bulgarian myself
I'm not a fan of any club in Bulgaria. Bulgarian football is pathetic. Ludogoretz are just one example, and to be fair to them, not even the most corrupt. The two "traditional" clubs (Levski and CSKA) have been run by criminals for years and this led them to financial collapse. Their fans are really butthurt as a result and now claim corruption started with Ludogoretz. In fact, the only reason the two traditional clubs achieved major success in the past is due to the help they received from the communist regime. The elite clubs in Bulgaria in general are "artificial", created by the state, local authorities or some shady local "businessman", often with the goal of money-laundering. People who actually care about football in Bulgaria don't seriously follow such clubs and play in the amateur leagues.
You really do your research!! I liked this chanel before this video, but now I am in love with it!! All things you said are 100% true and that journalist who was fired by mr. Domuschiev just shows the level of corruption not only in our football, but in our whole country! Really appreciated video! Keep going 👏
Haven't seen the whole vid yet but just wanna say that in the past 10 years every time Levski play Ludogorets they don't give us penalties and don't give them red cards on a regular. Not to mention the biased highlights as the owner of Ludogorets owns the tv station on witch the games are watched
kur za lefski
As a botev fan you're biased dude
@@ivilsisle561 браво бе кретен такъв. Вместо да си срещу Лудогорец се занимаваш да си срещу друг отбор. Също много си тъжен че си лайкваш своя коментар
@@upthevilla9505 how am I biased when I speak the truth? Levski certainly isn't the only team which it happens to but I speak from experience. I can't talk from the point of views of other teams when I don't watch their games
@@ditik2795 bro levski and cska get wayyyy more questionable decisions than ludogorets
Great vid as always, but holy crap, you mentioned my local club the Richmond Kickers!
The thing about the fired commentator is completely true.
Great video! Thanks for tackling the subject. Your CSKA video was great too. To borrow a regionalism, Bulgarian football has been corrupt “since ever,” or at least since Soviet dominance began; CSKA & Levski got all the support from the State, Army, and Police respectively.
You should do a video about Greek football corruption especially olympiacos and panathinaikos
For me : PSG,RB Leipzig (and all the RB franchise clubs),Chelsea and Man City basically for being the epitome of Modern Soul-less football
Assassination, money laundering, embezzlement, and corrupt officials. This just reminds me of Colombian football during the 80s to early 90s
this explain why ther was so many Bulgarians commenting great day for Bulgarian football etc.. When FC Nordsjælland (Denmark) won 7 - 1 over them in the Conference League
Day 7: Suriname XI if all eligible players declared
Should've named the video "ludogorets = the killer of the bulgarian football". There is an article from not so long ago and it was named "There is no one to even hate Ludogorets anymore" and it means that we do not care about it anymore because we are used to seeing the corruption. You could put a video evidence of what kind of penalties are being given to them or any fouls at all.
The hate for Ludogorets is large, but it is coming mainly from fans of those formerly top teams in the capital that get beaten by them continuously. They claim all kinds of corruption and foul play is taking place, because this is the only way they can explain their own faults and taking example from their own dishonest practices. More and more Bulgarians, especially educated and successful ones, love Ludogorets for their extraordinary play style and many happy moments this team has given all of Bulgaria while defending its colors in the European tournaments. Where the team has achieved historic success, proving they don't need match fixing to be the ultimate champion in Bulgaria for now 10 consecutive titles. Ludogorets is the only Bulgarian team where you can take your family to the modern stadium and watch the game in peace, without borderline criminal ultras fan groups creating havoc and threatening with violence
Not saying you are wrong about the things you said in the video, but in my opinion you were not very fair in representing the club's success (if you can call it that) on the Europe stage. Nonetheless an interesting video, it was quite entertaining to see how we look to foreigners.