Where Africa‘s best footballers come from
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- Опубліковано 7 січ 2022
- African Football? There's no such thing! You'll see football styles as contrasting as the Sahara Desert and the Victoria Falls, as diverse as Berber and Bantu love songs, and yes, as different as the football skills of Mohamed Salah and Édouard Mendy. But where do the best footballers come from? Which country produces the best talent? Tell us what you think in the comments...
Report: Sebastian Saam
Camera and editing: Cem Bahadir Mete
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You are my favourite documentary channel for football
The amount of stereotypes about africans in that documentary is just so insane !
Please explain my friend
We gon win soon🇳🇬
@@rached8161 I THINK THEY WERE VERY FAIR TO ALL PARTS THE TRUTH HURTS YOU KNOW.
@Sebastian Saam 👍👍👍
"Football democracy is the only real democracy in Africa" that's a great quote and Comoros proves it, i hope they go far in the tournament.
They will go far. All of their players came out out of top French academies.
And they are correct
True. That is a great quote
Great quote. Rooted in sadness, but the absolute thruth.
There is corruption in football in Africa .It's called favouritsm and family relations.
Much love from Egypt to our West African brothers and sisters. West and North Africa has a lot talent and I can’t wait to watch our talent play in the tournament
Who do u think is gonna win the Afcon?
@@festusbravo9460 Probably Senegal or Algeria, but hopefully Egypt wins
We're facing of this week. Nigeria vs Egypt. Good luck and may the best man win 🙏
@@agberodongetinternet8651 Looking forward to a great tough game against Nigeria. I expect both of us to make it to the next round, but we will compete for the 1st and 2nd seeds
@@agberodongetinternet8651 Congrats on the win brother, we got humiliated today despite what the score says. Nigeria was easily the better team today
DR Congo has one of the best leagues in Africa too, with Mazembe and Vita Club being amongst one of the most successful clubs in Africa.
@Sebastian Saam The federation not properly investing in the development of football within the country. For example last year in March, when Congolese footballers playing in Europe couldn’t get to Africa because of the transport being blocked (thanks to COVID-19), the federation didn’t bother trying to get them private transportation. Instead they called up local players, now it wouldn’t have been that bad if the competition was named CHAN, but no, it was the AFCON qualifiers and the game against Gabon was a must win game. DR Congo stood no chance against Gabon who managed to align all of their players unlike DRC. The youth system is also no good ( and never was). The federation also rather steal millions 💰💰💵 instead of investing it in stadiums, kits, equipment to help the local league, developing the youth system, and invest in women’s football. It’s to the point where even Congolese born would skip call ups to focus on their clubs.
It's probably raja
K8nd
It’s regressing instead of going forward….I hope they step it up soon
Exactly. Yet his documentary focuses on the north, south and west. This is arrant nonsense.
This was a surprisingly eye opening video, i learnt a fair bit, nicely done DW!
Shaun bartlet, quenton fortune, mark fish , lucas radebe, bennie mccarthy...South African had a strong squad back in the days......it's so sad how the south african national team has gone so down...I hope they are able to rise again...I remember how they were a fearsome side in 90's and early 2000's ..love form Ghana....
Backward thinking. The big 3 haven't produced any good enough player in the last 10 years. All they do is buy buy ready made players and the youngsters aren't given a chance, some of which are way better than the senior players. At Pirates for example, you have Azola Tshobeni and Thabiso Sesane, they both better than Linda Mntambo, Djzukamanja and Tyson Hlatswayo on their respective positions, they've proved it whenever they were given a chance but they are frozen out while watching the senior players make rookie mistakes.
Thankfully the current Bafana coach selects these young stars even when they don't get much playing time with their clubs, coz he knows quality and he's here to play ball not make favours to agents.
@@prodh2 you said it well my friend 👏 and most people will complain why the likes of Themba Zwane are not included in bafana bafana while we failed many times with them
we will bounce back,SA Football has two sets of Governing body Pro Club Footy and National Footy both want to be successful which sometimes doesn't work,there's a lot of politics in our footy but we will bounce back..we got a Good coach in Broos and Africa won't be ready in 2023 Afcon..
Eish..watseba we did!!🤔😥..what went wrong?
...please, @@ngcebozulu9160, , bounce back to where? Your Bafana-Bafana's only proper highlight occurred in AFCON1996 because the Super Eagles did not attend (forget those Mickey Mouse COSAFA 'trophies'). And before you start foaming and frothing, refer to 2013 for full clarity. Peace.😷
Much love to my African brothers and sisters throughout our prideful continent love from South Africa stay safe🙏🏽❤️
Football is simply No. 1 Sport in West Africa, good athletes get attracted to football at an early age. A good footballer gets the attention of the whole community.
The DR Congo has contributed a lot to football. Players like kompany, mbemba, wan bissaka, mandanda. It’s a long list I can’t name them all. They all play it top leagues around the globe. The top 3 to be exact. The problem is the Congolese football association. Look at France and Belgian teams and you will see the amount of players with ties to the DRC. The problem is no player wants to play for a country with no structure. Plus the way in which the country is looked at by western countries is not appealing. Just search any African country and say players who could play for them, you would be surprised.
Lukaku Bolingoli
So true..I wanted to see that spoken about on this docci...france belgiam lately Switzerland and others have lot players originating from Africa
I’m Belgian and it’s true: the players of Congolese background are over-represented in Belgian football. Kompany, Vanden Borre, Benteke, Batshuayi, Mbokani,Balikwisha, etc.
North Africa = 11 titles (Egypt Algeria Morocco Tunisia)
West Africa = 14 titles (Cameroon Ghana Nigeria Cote d'Ivoire)
Central Africa = 3 titles (Congo Kinshasa Congo Brazzaville)
East Africa = 2 titles (Ethiopia Sudan)
Southern Africa = 2 titles (South Africa Zambia)
No !
Magreb 11
Sub-Saharan Africa 21
@@Chris-yp1cd the discussion here is the North, South, East and West
Cameroon is in central Africa
@@SouthwardTwist , so , you divided it to prove your superiority . Africans do no see themselves as south , east , west or north. They see themselves as sub-Saharan and Maghreb . I repeat sub-Saharan has 21 continental trophies 🏆 vs 11 for Maghreb ( 80% of Maghreb continental trophies went to one country called Egypt) .
The northern teams are better. Better finance and infrastructure
Good report. But I was expecting to see Zamalek name when you talk about African clubs and popularity. I support Egypt but always enjoy the talents of Algerian, Moroccan, Ghana, Nigeria and Cameroon players as well
The issue with African countries winning the Afcon Tournament more than other countries, is not the size of the west Africans or the technical Abilities of the North Africans, the main reason is the Investment in football from a young age, that certain countries do that others don't do, I'm from Eastern Africa in Mozambique, my country has many talent but the government doesn't invest in the youth, that's why my country doesn't do nothing in football, my country has produced talent like Eusebio that played for Benfica of Lisbon, he was one of the Best players at the time and who invested in him was the former colonial power Portugal, if the reason for success was the size of West Africans I can bet that Cameroon or Nigeria would have more tittles than Egypt, but it's not that it's investment from a young age that's the secret.
Perfectly said
I am from Kenya..we have got immense talent in sports Rugby, Volleyball and Long distance running if the govn would have supported fully especially in soccer we would have been very far ..the problem here is govn support..
@@robizzo44 I understand you brother, the issue with our countries it's our Governments, they only care about themselves my country Mozambique has the same issue, the talented Boys and Girls get lost with drugs and Alcohol, while having the same potential has the kids from North Africa and Europe, but because of them not having the right support of the Government the talent gets wasted, it's sad but it's my country.
True, I'm Spaniard and my grandfather told me about Eusebio he was called "Black Panther" and the player that end the era of Di Stefano, Gento and Puskas that were ruling Europe with Real Madrid. Eusebio was considered the best player in the world after Di Stefano and won 2 European Cups with Benfica. A true legend.
@@YrbRMA he was a True Legend and Icon, he was born in my country Mozambique, we have so much talented players but the corrupt Government doesn't invest in football, they prefer to steal the tax money that we pay monthly to the state.
In Southern Africa football as a sport is competing with many other sporting codes. As opposed to North and West Africa were the main sporting codes are football followed by basketball 🤷🏽♂️
That is an excuse. South Africans are just not as genetically athletic as the West and North Africa. West Africa only makes up 5% of the world population, but 99% of all humans to run the 100 metres under 10 seconds have been of West African heritage. 85% of the NBA are players of West African heritage, 75% of the NFL are players of West African heritage and 40% of the Premier League is players of West African. If West Africans cared about Rugby or Cricket they would dominate that too and be better than the South Africans. The West Indies when they cared about Cricket dominated it for 30 years and Caribbean people are just displaced West Africans. And while North Africans have more Arabic and Europe heritage, they also have have Black African genes too because they boarder many West African countries.
@@Delboy0 keep feeding yourself that lie, if the issue is genetics than why not win the Word Cup ? Because when it comes to physicality West Africans come second to none hahahaha 🤷🏽♂️
Excuses excuses And more excuses
@@Delboy0 So why is South Africa a big player in rugby? This should be impossible, if they are physically not strong enough 🤔
@@flyingsquirrel2620 Because they are the only nation with a big black population that takes Rugby seriously. They are essentially doing well in a white sport. Do you think if the USA, and West Africa cared about Rugby and played their best athletes played Rugby, South Africa would be as good as them? Of course not. Just look at France and England in Rugby with just a small number of West African heritage players and they are just as strong as South Africa, a team of West Africans would blow South Africa off the park.
Wonderful research. Great script. Well done DW!
Let’s get to the pitch dear african the joy is on the way🇨🇲 🔥
Cameroon transcends central west Africa geographically So it is both west and Central Africa.The culture of cameroon is more of west Africa
And West African countries have been doing amazing stuff when it comes to football.West Africans are hustlers
West Africa is not a monolith, fulanis and Hausa are the largest ethnic west African groups.
No, culture of Cameroon is more of Central Africa. Music, peoples, languages.
@@bilo94245 that's a lie bro it's benefit from both west and Central
People from the anglophone side of cameroon are culturally more western africans,but the majority of cameroonian are culturally similar with others central africans
'West Africans are hustlers"...thats egotistic thinking,hustlers are found all over the world.
I hated to see how the French flag spanned across the forehead of the Continent. At some levels, politics affect football. Political instability always impacts football negatively and it does not matter the country. Look at history!
First of all great piece. It really tried to give an elaborate explanation as to why certain regions don't excell in football while others do. I'm a Kenyan and I'll try as much as possible to debunk some of the myths why Kenya is currently not reffered to as an African Powerhouse. Well first and foremost Kenya has always been and still is a sporting Nation with Kenya being represented in almost all sports. Rugby, Athletics, Cricket, Volleyball, Basketball, Football, Tennis etc. However, lets stick to football. Kenya has qualified for AFCON 6 times 1972, 1988, 1990, 1992, 2004, 2019. The first 4 times only 8 nations used to qualify. So we were a big team if we consider the number of teams that qualified. Now there's a reason for that. And just by the way Uganda reached the final of Afcon 1978 and lost to Ghana 2-0.There was a period East Africa was dominant.
Gor Mahia which is the most successful club in Kenya with 19 titles is the only team in East Africa to have won a continental title in 1987 and was also the first in East and Central Africa to do so against Esperance de Tunis and in that year two Kenyans Peter Dawo and Ambrose Ayoyi were named in the top 10 best players, in fact, Dawo scored 10 goals in that campaign. Other teams such as Tusker FC formerly known as The Kenya Breweries, reached the final of the CAF Cup winners Cup in 1994 but lost to DC Motemba Pembe and if you look at the history of the continental club competitions in the 80s and early 90s, Kenyan teams regularly featured in the latter stages of the competitions. In the 70s up till the 90s, regional club football was taken seriously in this part of the continent with the CECAFA club championship being the creme dela dreme of club football and between 1977-1987 Kenyan teams won all but one regional club title which was dubbed the Cecafa Club Championship and in 1988, CAF Cup Winners Cup could have potentially have had an all Kenyan final were it not for African politics where Gor Mahia was denied a training pitch for 3 days when they face Inter Club of Congo and AFC Leopards, Kenya's 2nd most dominant club, were knocked out in controvesial circumstances against Diamant of Cameroon.
The reason why Kenya was strong in the 80s and 90s is because the government had established centres of excellence in various regions in the country and the players from those centres were really talented and skilled and hence why Kenya was dominant up till 1992. However, systems grow when you inject new ideas and that is what Kenya failed to do and the centres were eventually closed. Albeit, Kenya still produced good players and teams in the 90s and this was witnessed when the Kenya Breweries reached the final of the Cup winners cup in 1994 but lost. What absolutely impeded the growth of football was the 1996 AFCON. Kenya was slated to host that edition but due to politics in the country the rights were snatched away from us by CAF and handed to SA and Kenya was subsequently handed a two year ban which resulted in us missing the 96 and 98 AFCON editions only to make a comeback in 2004.
From that period, no concrete investment has been made in football and sports in general with many parents discouraging their children from pursuing any sports as a profession. In fact sports is only regarded as a hobby and is seldom taken seriously in Kenya. We don't have proper youth structures in Kenya across all sports and if Athletics was a team sport, there's a high possibility that we wouldn't be as good as we are at the moment. Lack of investment, poor leadership in the early 2000s to 2010 ocassioned by wrangles within the federation stunted our growth and even after the wrangles, the subsequent leaders have not provided visionary leadership to take us back to our glory days.
The few individuals who have made it from Kenya for example Wanyama, Mariga, Oliech, Olunga just to name a few, have been extremely disciplined because it was all down to sheer luck. They did not get the best preparations but due to their passion and love for football, they managed to progress their careers and rub shoulders with the best in the European continent. If sports was economically viable and promising in the country, we would invest our time, money and effort into it but it really isn't. Kenya has a vibrant economy and other sectors are more lucrative than sports so hence the reason why we don't invest in sports. The notion Sports is a hobby or a pass time engagement has massively hindered the growth of sports and football in this case and until we get rid of that notion, we will continue sinking in the depths of despair when it comes to football.
Where were you when we did this? :) Thanks for the great comment.
@@dwkickoff I'm a Kenyan Sports journalist and I was busy covering our local leagues 😁. I'm ready to assist any time.
@@dwkickoff this is indeed a great comment! But sorry DW, in the Video, i find it pretty sad that you let some people, who call themselves journalist or scientist, express a couple of times that nigerian Players are more successfull at football than kenyan players because nigerians in general are more ambitious than kenyans!? And kenyans are lazy?That's pretty racist. I think you should've dived deeper into the subject on this point. And if you didn't find some good answers, than rather say nothing about it instead of racist tendences. I know, you acknowledged that kenyan long distance runners won a lot of olympic medals, but at least because of that you should've let fall the argument with ambitions and stuff. Doesn't matter if this guy you quoted is kenyan himself. Besides that, i really liked the video and also your other docs, keep up the good work
This Documentary is very thought-provoking but has lots of proven facts in it. I will be more upset if I wasn't from Ghana and Nigeria.
'This is All Ahly fans while their team is just training"
But I can see people hanging on others shoulders
With love from South Africa 🇿🇦 with the kuthi hu sound track
Thanks for the video that was really interesting! Love your channel, keep up the good work! 🤩🙌🏻
This was very well done. Bravo DW.
Very instructive and well presented documentary.
Kenya is not about ambition as the Nigerian said. here, its an issue of systems. there is no established youth system and the good players we used to see in high school decide to drop out of the sport as there are better career options than football in Kenya. add to that the mismanagement of funds by the football bodies in Kenya, it makes football nothing but a last ditch career option unless they can secure their way out of Kenya while young. We have talented footballers but the football body only cares about the money they get from FIFA and enriching themselves.
Very true
Now the ambition that Nigerian guy is talking about comes in here : while the Kenyan drops out and gives up, the Nigerian works saves money and travel out of Nigeria to find a club to play in there are Nigerians playing in Azerbaijan, Saudi Arabia, Oman, south Africa, Ghana, USA, France, Italy, turkey, Seychelles, even Afghanistan or Iraq I can't remember which a guy some years ago used to write to Nigerians back home on a social media site about his experience living in the country as a footballer.
Many who don't have enough money to make the trip use the more dangerous Sahara desert through and through Libya to Europe.
It's like this I'd rather d!e than not succeed mentality west Africans Especially Nigerians have. Kenyans wouldn't attempt any of these even if you paid them and assured them they would not die.
And we see this attitude not just in football but in music, movies, business, religious organizations and other works of life. I don't know where you are but I can assure you there is either a Nigerian bank, church, school or Nigerian owned business within 500meters from where you are Now. Not because Nigerians are very very rich but just that Ambition. If things don't work out for me as a Nigerian instead of feeling like it's over or I have failed I'll say no way this place must be the problem and I will move or this business must be the problem and I will change business but I will NEVER give up. I will NEVER Feel or be hopeless even when it's obvious there is no hope, no help is coming from anywhere I will still have that ambition that drive to succeed no matter what.
And unfortunately this attitude although has it's many good parts also has bad aspects in that some will turn to crime all in a bid to want to succeed no matter what.
@@Biobele u're nothing but absolutely very correct...big ups to u👍🙌👌
Nigerian ambition is scamming people
@@geobelieve3609 thanks 👍🏾✌🏾
The Al Ahly fans and their passion @ 11:33 while watching a training session is amazing. I can't believe the pressure an Al Ahly player must face. If you don't put in 100% effort, there is no way such a committed fan base doesn't notice. For youngsters, it must be intimidating but ultimately rewarding if you manage to break through. Big ups to them.
That make it most successful club to win trophy in world and Case real Madrid for number of most successful team win champion league and super ❤️
Great video and very informative. Thank you 🙏🏾
I love this channel ❤
Go Africa !!❤❤❤
Thank you DW we also deserve recognition for our efforts
The use of African music was really nice, complimented the video
What's African music?
all music is African
all modern humans came from Africa
@@mutaicaleb3549 well that's a conversation for another day but I was talking more about identity. Not everyone identifies as African
This is so beautiful piece of documentary, love the different beats used including Gudujja frm Rema ft B2C boys
Loved this one!
amazing piece, thank you and greetings from a concacaf country!
DW always doing an amazing job.
Beautiful peace Sir.I enjoyed every moment of it
I absolutely enjoyed this.
What a wonderful program thanks to you guys.
I have been looking for what's wrong with east Africa football now I got answer
East Africa is dominant in other sports...look at track for example.
Great Documentary Dw. From a Kenyan Perspective, I would say that their is talent in abundance in our country but the main issues are lack of structure ( scouting, football pitch), too much football politics be it in management ,team selection and running of our almost dying league there is also an issue of sports as hobbies and not serious careers leading to a blaise' attitude moreso in football where there is close to no success story for inspiration. Lastly their is a saying amongst football fans in my country...If you want to see serious football go to the village and grassroots there is something serious there unfortunately there has never been any serious scouting done to tap these individual they end up hanging their playing boots quite early to feed their families.
There is talent thats true but if you go to west and north Africa you will see alot more than we can offer
Did you hear that guy saying the average Nigerian is much more ambitious than the average kenyan. Mahn Harambee stars have let us down. But Let's see what the future holds.
great analysis well done
This is a very good documentary. Well done! Sehr gut!
great piece. thanks for explaining n enlightening the world about our soccer. It is a competition we look forward too just like every Europeans n South American their respective competitions. There such much of our soccer that meets the eye.
Bro, it’s football not soccer. It hurts every time i hear soccer 😂
It's football.
It's FOOTBALL not that sick name u gave to it. Football!!!! n don't argue me because in democracy majority carries the vote and so FOOTBALL is the name.
its our FOOTBALL
Maybe we should all watch this one and live in peace together: ua-cam.com/video/Ld5pfFrPBVE/v-deo.html
11:29 😂 🤣 that was freaking hilarious! Please publish that as a youtube short
Love the Prince 'Oh Sheila' in the back ground...amongst otherz such as Cinematic Orchestra...quality
I thought I know everything about Africa football but this video embarrass me in a every eye opening way and I love it
Good video ,.. From Egypt🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬
Football isn't about being strong, you need to be smart with skills
You need both. The best teams in the world have both technical players and players that use brute force.
vvd is both
Exactly most of brazilians players are less stronger then russians but they beat them easily...
Nice vid, DW! Danke 🙂👍🏼
Good documentary, keep them coming
Except for Amine El Amri’s take, I found most of the commenters' reasonings biased. Saying the average Kenyan isn’t ambitious than the average Nigerian is just too gross generalization!
The reality shows it🤷♂️.
man talk about it 😒
The fact our kpl is shit shows we lack ambition to build stadium, facilities , Training , scouting infrastructure . So yeah Kenya we have no ambitions
Yea that was stupid but not as stupid as pseudo scientific genetic explanations
The reality is it’s an exposure thing, East and South Africa don’t care about soccer
@@colemerchant8926 if numbers can't prove it, then don't bother saying it in a scientific/research based report. What's the difference between a scientific fact and an anecdotal opinion? Reality shows the earth is flat to you but you realise how stupid and limited that sounds??
My country DR Congo still has a chance to qualify for the World Cup
I hope so 🙏🙏🙏
Great love this content
You're playing a wicked game DW
A documentary that came at the right time.
Greeting from the Moroccan Sahara 🇲🇦 🇲🇦 🇩🇪 🇩🇪
I was so happy when they showed the full map of morocco 😁
@Sebastian Saam There Is no take-over to start with, no influence whatsoever as well, all one unit.
I have no idea where'd you get that.
Great piece at chasing shadows. All arguments made do not make sense. Each region in Africa has a sport they excel in. East Africa excels in athletics, volleyball, hockey and rugby. East African teams especially from Kenya dominate these fields. South Africans have excelled in Rugby and cricket. My point is, lack of motivation cannot be a factor why Kenya does not excel in football and Nigeria does. That would also means that a lack of ambition makes West Africa not excel in Rugby or athletics. As I said, this piece was very excellent at explaining nothing and chasing shadows.
It's classic divide and conquer...but will Africans ever learn?
This piece tries to explain why some regions are better than others in FOOTBALL!! Not sports in general. If you want to know about any other sport, go watch another documentary. This piece does the work it is intended to do. Don’t sulk under the comment section. No one argues with eastern African countries when it comes to athletics in Africa. Everyone is a king in their own region. Don’t hate on a king when you are in their territory
Actually no one cares about rugby 🏉 maybe only South African does, every one is after the well known sports 💯. South Africa has the best league in Africa yet the worst national team in Africa, it's a shame 💯
@@hutup9092 Many people do care about rugby just like you care about football. Stop 🛑
@@jaybee4577 lol tell me any rugby player more famous than Ronaldo or Messi?. For a country with the best league in Africa yet good at rugby it's funny 💯
Awesome documentary
Thanks for talking the time to make some enlightenment on african football
France?
Without joking West Africa has the most talent atm and historically
Europe and south America have more talent and IT isnt even close
No North Africa does
@@user-pb6rn1xk4b The West does
Lmao North Africa destroys West Africa in talent and history. Egypt alone tops the entire continent of Africa
@@anubis8586 except technical forward what does North Africa has better than the west African
I am from East Africa and we win Olympic more than the rest of African countries combined so we damm good at something but football isn’t the strongest thing sure it will be one day
Wanapora pesa ya ball,president ya football Kenya yuko wapi?mashinani vijana wako lakini football haendi mbali kama kazi ni kucheza na mashemeji tangu independence,
Fun fact: 50% percent of Kenya’s land was carved off from Somalia
@@daviroza4700 So what ? It was taken and it will never be given back. Live by that fact....
Same as Israel annexed Palestine land and it will never be given back...
# It is what it is ...
True some people here have forgotten that there are many more sports besides football.
@@user-vw6bk4pb4l shuuush
Really good video! Well done...
Great video!!!
I'm an avid watcher of AFCON I love the physicality and competitiveness. Proper football warriors.
Proud African from EGYPT 😎💪🙏🏻 by the way we North Africans are not Arabs, genetically and culturally we're Mediterranean Africans.
nobody denied your africaness
@@GoogleUser-xd5fi our people are arabized because of centuries of propaganda, and other africans need to help us by not calling us Arabs
Yeah im a subscribe now thank you for bringing light to this.
Super documentary.
I appreciate them using Prince Kaybee's song in the beginning (South African Artist)
Keep this in mind.. When I was in a football club, my friends was transferred to South Africa to be recruited. They changed their background, give them South African passport.. I'm sure other countries do this as well. Nigeria produces a lot of good players for the world. 🤟
This doccie is very eyeopening and enlightening..South Africa take note...🇿🇦
Everybody gangsta until Akrobeto starts calling out their names
😂😂
Waiting for a similar video about Asia or Concacaf football
Best documentary on African football ever
Thank you, Ruben. We're glad you like it. Spread the word...
Thanks I have leant alot
I am speaking for my very own country the DR Congo 🇨🇩. Speaking of brave and ambitious, Congolese could easily the bravest of all African. One thing not mentioned is that, sadly the most talented players from countries such as Dr Congo prefer to represent European nations such as Belgium and France.
Bro I understand your point we Moroccans have the similar problem. Bu still shouldn’t we produce our own talent I mean Congolese players are very fast and strong they could blossom in any club…
We moroccans are more technical with flair but we always want players born in Europran countries that’s a very bad mentality 🤜
@@user-qt2fz8hc1c I agree. We should develop our infrastructures to develop the talents locally
The newest face is Gambia, ambition courage and efficiency
This is accurate. Great job
African football is as diverse and beautiful as it’s many nations.
Imagine if the likes of Zidane, Pogba, Mbappe, Saka, Lukaku, Benzema and many, many more had chose to represent their African countries? This video would have a different tone to it.
Seeing France win the 2018 FIFA World Cup with a squad that was predominantly 80% African was bittersweet.
It was as much a win for Africa as it was a loss, as this only goes to perpetuate the desire of players with African ties to represent European countries as they seem to have a better chance of winning on the world stage.
Mamelodi Sundowns, reppin' da set. 🇿🇦
The north and west Africa take advantage of huge diaspora population and also dual citizenship.
Loved the end bid 😄
Great video
Using African Music on an African video, you guys take music seriously I've noticed good work🎶
Europe XI v Africa XI (1997) was a friendly football match that took place on 29 January 1997 at the Estádio da Luz in Lisbon, Portugal, between a European select side and an African select side.[1] The match was jointly organized by UEFA and CAF as part of the European Year against Racism.[2] The African XI won 2-1 with goals from Abedi Pele and Mustapha Hadji.[3]
Europe XI v Africa XI
Europe XI Africa XI
UEFA CAF
1 2
Date
29 January 1997
Venue
Estádio da Luz, Lisbon, Portugal
Referee
Vitor Melo Pereira (Portugal)
Attendance
8,000
Thank you I never knew about this
@Sebastian Saam There's a Wikipedia article about it. Vincent Guerin scored. Zidane wasn't there.
Thanks so much for the decomentary.⚽🏃
Great journalism there
To me, the all time best is none other than Samuel Ett’o. A true legend and probably worlds best striker in his prime.
Drogba too
Did you notice how Cameroon was snubbed in the editorial ? …it’s been ongoing over decades and we’ve never understood why.
@@GeorgioBD that’s their politics bro... English media advocate for their former colonies putting mostly our 9ja and Ghanaian brothers ahead while trying to intimidate the others (formers colonies) of eastern and Southern Africa. The same applies for the French media who places their people too infront (Ivory coasts, Senegal) while insulting us. So we just been in the middle we just have to count on ourselves 😂. But that’s what we love
I love this research
Me fellow human being, you have thought me a lot in this very short yet immaculate video! 👏
Thank you
Lovely, just lovely
You can't disrespect someone in Kenya 🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪 and then take it back by saying no disrespect ....Talk about marathons and suddenly Kenyans are more ambitious.
How has this been so overblown
At first I was offended by the title of the video. But after watching it I found that it was very informative. Great job
Thanks, Matathias, but why did you feel offended?
@@dwkickoff Because you are agent of division and disunity amongst African. Why not just claim different Africans can be successful and failures in different sports? Kenyans are good at the Olympics does that mean West Africans are lazy and not ambitious? Again very stupid and divisive video. SHAME!
North and west are top 2 when it comes to football
Yes
I enjoyed your analytics! You're not far from the truth about African football!
This video gave questions more than it gave answers!
Controversial!!! 🔥 🔥
As a Kenyan,I am wondering why the fear of failure and all that stuff they are saying about Kenyans attitude to life and football doesn't apply to our stellar performance in rugby, cricket, volleyball, hockey and athletics where we dominate or have dominated the continent. Kenyan teams have dominated these sports on the African continent for long, and we are also stepping up in Basketball and swimming.
Because no other African country focuses on cricket, volleyball, hockey, I'm pretty sure 90% of African countries don't even have a hockey or cricket national teams, or even know what cricket means
I sense some envy of Kenyan achievements...Kenya is the last country this guy would have picked on in relation to his 'ambition'...you forget Kenya also dominates Africa in innovation.
@@Yanzdorloph very true. Yet we have nations that have reached the finals of the world cup, and others like ours who have won bronze at the same.
This is a Football documentary.
Great video!!! 2022 is Morocco’s year 🇲🇦🏆
This year a west african country will win the cup, moroccan team is great though.
Interesting video
I am from East, respect all my brothers 💯
Don't forget the other reason for west African football doing well is that, they is a lot of poverty in that region. Players give it their all because, they want to move out of poverty. While the northern Africans, have the infrastructure. In southern Africa, the focus is more on education. The mentality in southern Africa is that u cannot go far with sports alone without the education. These factors play a big part in football but also the way regions are.
I think it has to do with genetics
@@olafharoldsonnii4713 na don’t be an idiot Olaf. Never go full idiot :))
@@abdiali4631 east Africa has no talent.
South Africa has no talent.
It’s mainly West and North Africa. Majority of the French players are of west and North African origin.
Zidane is Algerian
South Africans concentrate more on Cricket and Rugby rather than Football. However there has been talent from South Africa. Steven Pienaar managed to make it to the premier league.
East Africans concentrate more on athletics, primarily long distance running. They also keep their bodies very light so their legs won't give up on them when they run for 2 hours+. As the video suggested Wanyama was an exception
@@velox5598 also true