@@honestserieafan7098 like I said they have a nice thing going on so fair play to them I’m just saying I don’t see them being anything more then what they have already shown If they prove me wrong then fine but I doubt that’s going to happen unfortunately
@cogamers84 As long as you have basque connection any race can enter the club. For example Inaki Williams have african origin from his parents but can play since he was born there
@cogamers84 Another example of someone who doesn't know what "racism" is and means. One of their star players, Inaki Williams, is black and has played over 230 games for the club since joining in 2014. Learn what "racism" means and then comment, you brickbrain
Chivas best academy players: 1. Carlos Vela (Arsenal, Real Sociedad, West Brom), 2. Javier Hernandez (Man United, Bayer Leverkusen, Sevilla, Real Madrid) 3. Carlos Salcido (PSV, Fulham) 4. Maza Rodriguez (PSV, Stuttgard) 5. Marco Fabian (Frankfurt)
Athletic's transfer policy isn't necessarily because of Basque nationalism. There are a decent amount of Spanish nationalists or people who see themselves as equally Spanish/Basque who support the club. The policy started out as a "Bilbainada": doing something in an arrogant way because someone says you can't. Some team said they only won because they had British players, so they decided to only field local players out of spite, essentially. At first it was only local-local players from the Basque province of Bizkaia. Nowadays, they've expanded it to all of the Basque Country, with an emphasis on "formation" over birthright. In any case, being ethnically Basque doesn't necessarily make you eligible. In that sense, its sort of nationalist, in that it embraces the idea of the Greater Basque Country (I mean, they speak Basque in Navarre and France, too) but at the same time, its not an ethnic thing either. Their youth system will take in newly arrived immigrants without hesitation (like Diarra in their B team).
@@vankallahan59 he doesn’t really need a video on his demise, he just didn’t give a fuck about football and used his fame for girls lol I don’t blame him
@@dmur. he was arrested for assault and had an electronic anklet on to serve time at his home in Copenhagen while playing for Rosenborg. The dude doesnt have a license but drives around in a Porsche on live tv and doesnt have a license because he had it revoked for multiple DUIs He couldve had so much more
@@vankallahan59 that’s the thing tho, I don’t think he cared at all so he was never going to reach the top. He’s just a bloke who liked partying who happened to be good at football
Most gringos call it "Guad" which for me reminds me of Guam and sounds just wrong and out of place. Yet, that's a name they can correctly pronounced, so it's ok I guess
@@HITCSevens it's pretty alright but if you just don't say the "G" and say "Wah" instead (like Waluigi from Mario but without the emphasis since it doesn't have an accent which I know is a weird description but just trust me... please) it'll sound pretty spot on. If anyone wants to correct me, please also give Alfie a better tip so he can actually take something away from this whole interaction
Well, it's been lenient in its restrictions too...it's not like there are neccesarily only people who praise and then people who critisize it as HITC suggests, their core philosophy is to be praised, their inconsistency applying it to be highlighted
Is it the same restrictions with Bilbao on Football manager? Fancy starting a new career in Spain n would like to try Bilbao cos it will be a challenge if these restrictions are in place..
As far as I'm aware, Altınordu's policy is not restricted to only local players but rather to any Turkish player, in other words they just don't sign any foreigners. Maybe it has started off as the former but changed to the latter as the club progressed higher in the Turkish football ladder. Clubs playing in tier 3 and below aren't allowed to sign foreign players anyway, so it would make sense that they only fielded local players (probably players born in the Aegean Region of Turkey) when they were playing lower tier football. That being said, Altınordu still has arguably the best and most modern academy system of any Turkish club and they probably feature more academy players in their senior squad than any other Turkish team. They also haven't changed their manager since the current president came and adopted the said transfer policy, which means he has been in the club for 9 years now. This is highly unusual in Turkey given that managers in Turkey tend to stay in their clubs for around 3 months in average and there have already been 5 managers sacked by/resigned from Süper Lig clubs during the first 3 weeks of this season. As a final note, Altınordu has reached the promotion play-off final last year to be promoted to the Süper Lig but they lost to their local rivals Altay. Funny enough, upon reaching the play-offs and later the final, the club president has expressed multiple times his opinion that the club is not ready to play first tier football yet and he actually would rather his team not get promoted.
nahh trust it makes it easier cos the team cohesion is insane, at bilbao i won the league in my second and third seasons and came second on 98 points in my third, woild defo recommend a bilbao save
I managed Athletic Club on one save, but always ended up finishing outside the Euro places by either a single point or head to head results, and losing a domestic cup final on one occasion. If I remember goal difference isn't used in the Spanish league unless the teams cannot be separated on results against each other. I think.
@@FPSPRINCESS yeah head to head is more important, i prefer it though as it makes games against similar level teams more important, i remember playing barca and celebrating a consolation goal when i was 2-0 down so much because it put me ahead on head to head
If you do another it would be cool to include UCD. Play in the first division in Ireland (second tier) and only field players who are students at the University. Jamie McGrath, the Ireland international, had played on the U19 team but couldn't move up to the senior squad because he didn't get accepted into the university.
Haha I know about them (as an American) solely through them being the lowest rated team in FIFA 14, constantly played with them in the career mode back then
Always found the fact that Bilbao never been relegated with such restrictive transfer policy very VERY impressive. Plus, they have Sociedad also fighting them for most Basque players even though their transfer policy is not restrictive. Real Sociedad also like to have as many Basque players as possible.
thanks for talking about my hometown club Chivas de Guadalajara!!! Arriba las chivas!!! btw you actually pronounced Guadalajara correctly (that's coming from a Mexican)
The fall of South African Football (Day 4) From 1996 Africa cup of nations Champions and with South African Stars in the Premier league like Benny McCarthy(won the '04 Champions league with Mourinho at Porto) , Steven Pienaar, Quinton Fortune , Shaun Barlett etc , it seems like corruption , bad coaching and unprofessionalism has plagued football to oblivion in my country and footballers of South Africa.
Says plenty about African Football I remember watching your Ghanain and Nigerian footballers in the 80s and 90s They played great football with massive flair and style like the Brazil Joga Bonito of old For some reason it has been completely corrupted out of them as their players have been Europeanised It almost like they have been sabotaged
@@michaelfarrow5817 yeah FB position is very different to what it was even 5 years ago now as they tend to be the creative outlet for most teams most fullbacks are the new wingers essentially
Imagine spending 50 million on a a striker just to buy a 100 million striker when you’ve got a striker better than the first and almost as good as the latter for free
What Bielsa achieved at Bilbao was insane. Let it sink in. With such a limited number of players available he still managed European football and some success. Insane.
and then Valverde did what Bielsa couldn’t and put them in the Champions League and won silverware (after Bielsa almost relegated them) but because he’s not a hipster manager he doesn’t get any credit for it.
Singapore also used to have an African (+French) only team called Etoile FC back in the early 2010s. One of their former players even played in Portugal recently.
Fun fact: Malaysia's u23s used to compete in Malaysian 2nd division and then compete in Singapore's League as Harimau Muda (Young Tiger in English). As exchange, Singapore send their team to compete in Malaysian Super League as Lions XII.
To add to this, Lions XII even won the Malaysian Super League in 2013 and the FA Cup in 2015. The Harimau Muda team did alright in their earlier seasons in the S-League, but later they ended up as one of the worst teams in the league. Harimau Muda was also sent to play in the Australian NPL (don't remember which region though) in 2013. Malaysia also used to have a similar youth team club in the 90s called Olympic 2000, and also currently the FAM-MSN Squad which is made up of U-19 players and is dead last in the Malaysian second division.
As a Sunderland fan that hits hard. The sheer amount of cash we spent on utter crap is silly and even in League 1 we are still paying money for these planks whether it be wages at other clubs or transfer fees. Thankfully our new policy as of this season seems to be a good one so far.
Keep your head up lads, least you two support your regional teams instead of chasing glory. Have you thought about adopting a second team to support in Europe? Liverpool *wink wink nudge nudge* FC for example?
@@justjay8186 Was actually thinking to start supporting FC Chertanovo Moscow now... been to see the 'Pool a couple of times in the last couple of year actually... once in Madrid vs Spurs and again in Qatar vs Flamengo.. apparently they won something big both times :-)
If you wanna play Football Manager on super hard mode, try picking Bilbao and possibly winning Champions League. Atletico Bilbao and Real Sociedad have a really fascinating culture behind them. Another brilliant video by our man, Alfie ⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽
Altinordu - Turkish players only Chertanovo Moscow - no signings. None. Zero. Use the youth system only. It's hard-coded in. Just like Cardiff Met. Uni and their amateur status.
Paksi FC in Hungary. Only Signing hungarian players, they finished 4th in the last season, scoring record breaking amount of goals in the history of the 12 team hungarian first class system. Of course giving the top scorer of the league.
Loved how you included Altınordu. As a Turk and a Fenerbahçe supporter I can say something where even the supporters from the rival teams will agree on... And that is that Altınordu is a club that is impossible to hate. Thanks to them we now have star players in Europe like Çağlar Söyüncü, Cengiz Ünder and Burak İnce and more will come. They actually use Athletic Bilbao as a sample club when they're talking about their business model. There have been some criticism towards their policies for a good reason since they're focusing a lot on discipline. For instance it was rumoured that it turned out that when Cengiz Ünder came to Başakşehir that pretty much his whole was inside the training centre so that Başakşehir had to help him to get a better social life especially in İstanbul. Anyway, hopefully Altınordu took that criticism seriously because they're the best example in Turkey how a football club should be run and how they're doing it on the non-turkish way. Because is there anything that our Turkish clubs is known for is that lot of the boards want quick success and they start flow cash very irresponsibly which ends with same story... No success on the field after that, which ends up with mega-huge debts and don't get me started on a lot of talents that is bought by the big 4 clubs in Istanbul and Trabzon from Anatolia where they fail to adapt themselves to the new live life there. Sadly, that has happened too often. Ask players like Sezer Öztürk, Okan Koç and Sercan Yıldırım about how İstanbul ruined them. Don't get me started on the fallen former title contendors like Eskişehirspor, Gaziantepspor, Karabükspor, Orduspor, Mersin İdmanyurdu, Bursaspor, Kocaelispor and Sakaryaspor. I really feel for their supporters considering what kind of mess they have been forced to go through thanks to their stupid club boards who sat them in that mess. That's the reasons why Altınordu is seen as a good example in Turkish football for a good reason.
As a fellow Turk and avid supporter of Galatasaray İ wholeheartedly agree with everything you wrote. The focus on short term success continues to cripple our footballing development to this day. Ayrıca İngiliz diline sizin kadar hakim olan bir Türk ilen çok nadiren karşılaştım, helal olsun
I actually say Young Lions play at Jalon Besar Stadium while I was in Singapore visiting in 2011. Nice little stadium, but the league is very undervalued by the locals. The attendance was between 100-200 people. It was a very good game.
Very undervalued, had the chance to represent the now defunct Woodlands Wellington at youth level and definitely watched the senior team games. Particularly Woodlands Wellington had the highest attendance in their last 2-3 years before merging with Hougang United and ultimately ending the team from competing. Locals here prefer watching the EPL and european football rather than their own local football team, weird but it is what is is. Such a sad state we are in right now, even when the league is picking up once again and National team playing well. Fans are still not appreciating our local team 😭
@@NazirulAmir77The interest for the league has actually grown alot now since covid. My club, Home United, got privatised in 2020 and has revolutionised Singapore Football as well as bringing tons of fans. In 2021, We even managed to reach an attendance of 10,000+ people during a AFF Suzuki Cup game against Thailand.
Part of my family lives in Chertanovo in Moscow, and I have been there some times, so I followed them a bit. But I never thought, that I would hear about them on this channel. Thank you.
Greetings from Singapore. Nice research on the Young Lions. There's actually been calls the scrap the Young Lions for several years as it disincentivises Youth Development by the other clubs. and promotes a defeatist mentality since the young team are frequently trashed every week. Apart from Albirex Niigata's satellite team, there's another team competing in Singapore, DPMM FC, a team comprising of only players from Brunei. Funfact: from 2015 to 2020, the Singapore league has been won 4 times by Albirex and 2 times by DPMM.. So we've had a foreign champion for 6 years in a row (which is probably a record?).
Funny enough the guy who led to the creation of Chivas was from Belgium and he based the kit off of Club Brugge who used to wear red blue and white at the time
Club Brugge didn't use to wear red, blue and white at any time. BUT go look for the FLAG of Brugge, and you'll see why Chivas wears a red&white stripped jersey with blue shorts.
@@kevinp9403 sure, the flag of the city has those colors, it's just that it wasn't the reason why 115 years ago they settled on those colors. (also, your version was the official version for decades, and it's still the most common version that you hear, so it's not really your fault :) )
Since you mentioned Indian Arrows , I would like to add something. In a 'cricket frenzy' country like India having a developmental team for the youngsters by the AIFF itself and having them play in the second top division itself is a big thing. Indian Arrows too are an U21 side and aims to provide playing time for players graduating from the U17 national side whom are yet to be picked up by top Indian clubs. They play against other professionally run clubs in the league that have mix of both Indian and foreign players. And huh having the average age at not more than 19 years, the oldest player in the Indian Arrows setup will not be above 21. So the football lovers in MY COUNTRY like me doesn't care where they finishes in the table as long as the players get to play and improve.
What a ruthless intro! XD Also, I'd love to see some of the ideas in this video, especially the Korean Sangmu, turn into full documentaries. If you're also looking for some good examples in Italy (albeit not so restrictive), Olbia, Pro Vercelli and Pordenone could be good examples to start from!
This was far more entertaining than the "mainstream" (dire) What if every EPL team was a country? I genuinely didn't know that about Athletic Bilbao - interesting.
After seeing Indian Arrows,they only field U-21 players in 2nd tier is good for development in young players. But it's like a punishment to those teenagers 😂😂
Bro I am from Romania and when I heard FC Romania I got back 5 sec on the video because I could not believe what I just heard. Damn, you made my day!:))
i learned the hard way about Bilbao's policy when i become their manager in FM, young and aspiring manager from division 2 just left with a pikachu face when i know i have a limited option
Si la neta están dela chingada orita jajajaj aver si se recuperan pa que ya nos hagan competencia otra vez al América 💛🦅💙, y yo soy de ahí de Guadalajara ahí vivo xd
@@teamcanaloficial8358 Si pues. Ches chivas malas. Hace falta menos princeso en el equipo o alguien quien los ponga en su lugar porque Peláez los consiente mucho y es muy metiche.
@@hugoalvarado9453 La neta se aventaron unos partidazos porque la afición estaba hasta la madre. Me gusta que cadena haya cambiado las cosas un poco en su esquema. Dejamos ir mínimo unos 3 partidos que teníamos que haber ganado
another similar team to the Young Lions exists in the Philippine Premier League called the ADT (Azkals Development Team). The azkals being the name for the national team. The team is managed by the national team manager as well, and is under the control of the FA in order to develop homegrown players for the national team. “The ADT was formed after it was observed that other countries participating in the southeast Asian games already had many players participating in professional leagues while Filipino players of the same age still involved in collegiate football. The development team is intended give "professional club environment" exposure to mainly youth players as well as select overage players from the senior national team such as individuals who recently recovered from an injury.”
Alfie can you do a video documenting the rise and fall of Oldham Athletic and how they managed to go from being founding members of the Premier League and having competed in the top-flight at recently as 1994 to now favourites to get relegated out of the Football League altogether here in 2021?
It’s hilarious when ignorant people criticise Athletic for being “racist” and the like, conveniently ignoring Ramalho, Iñaki and Nico Williams. Santiago Abascal (leader of far-right Vox) naturally fell into that trap, but I imagine that’s a complex from Athletic fans making fun of him for wearing a Spain top at school in Bilbao - that and him being xenophobic. He also criticised Real Sociedad for doing the same, except they ended the strict policy decades ago, albeit still keep up a strong practice.
As an Altinordu fan I can't even put into words how happy and cheerful I was when I saw my team in the video. Thanks for making our club's name known. Keep up the good work!
Best German players in the premier league of all time. (Day 191) I will not give up until the video is made or Alfie himself tells me to stop. Everyone else telling me that will be ignored. If you don't believe my number, just go back to the previous videos. I'm at the bottom most of the time, but I'm there.
Before moving to Canada, I was able to witness in person the Chivas win in 2017, it was exciting. Later here they played against Toronto and I was able to watch one of the matches! I'm happy to see my grandfather's club champion twice
That's a different case. They have a Portuguese sporting director, so he's great at founding Portuguese talent and persuading them to join Wolves. These clubs literally have a policy "Sign only this kind of players"
As a native turkish speaker I can tell you that your pronunciation of Izmir and Altınordu was great. Keep up the good work and pls continue to making videos on niche topics.
I have a very, very strict rule when I play championship manager - if you're 32, you're out the door, and only buy players between 17 and 23. Works for me, would it work in the real world?
Bilbao fluctuates so much, going up and down the table every year, but so far they haven't relegated yet. Works pretty well for them to be restrictive
That’s their level, it’s not going to get any better for them
If their happy to be there then fine continue the tradition
@cogamers84 learn about them before talking rubbish
@@honestserieafan7098 like I said they have a nice thing going on so fair play to them
I’m just saying I don’t see them being anything more then what they have already shown
If they prove me wrong then fine but I doubt that’s going to happen unfortunately
@cogamers84 As long as you have basque connection any race can enter the club. For example Inaki Williams have african origin from his parents but can play since he was born there
@cogamers84 Another example of someone who doesn't know what "racism" is and means.
One of their star players, Inaki Williams, is black and has played over 230 games for the club since joining in 2014.
Learn what "racism" means and then comment, you brickbrain
Carlos Vela is another to come out of Chivas’ academy
He joined
arsenal
@@devinpapadoilos942 arsenal got him form chivas Youth
@@ybnalex9628 I didn’t deny that 😂
Chivas best academy players: 1. Carlos Vela (Arsenal, Real Sociedad, West Brom), 2. Javier Hernandez (Man United, Bayer Leverkusen, Sevilla, Real Madrid) 3. Carlos Salcido (PSV, Fulham) 4. Maza Rodriguez (PSV, Stuttgard) 5. Marco Fabian (Frankfurt)
Athletic Club is my favorite spanish club for exactly that
Athletic's transfer policy isn't necessarily because of Basque nationalism. There are a decent amount of Spanish nationalists or people who see themselves as equally Spanish/Basque who support the club. The policy started out as a "Bilbainada": doing something in an arrogant way because someone says you can't. Some team said they only won because they had British players, so they decided to only field local players out of spite, essentially. At first it was only local-local players from the Basque province of Bizkaia. Nowadays, they've expanded it to all of the Basque Country, with an emphasis on "formation" over birthright. In any case, being ethnically Basque doesn't necessarily make you eligible. In that sense, its sort of nationalist, in that it embraces the idea of the Greater Basque Country (I mean, they speak Basque in Navarre and France, too) but at the same time, its not an ethnic thing either. Their youth system will take in newly arrived immigrants without hesitation (like Diarra in their B team).
Petaling Jaya City in Malaysia is another local players only club. A few national team players play for this club.
Liverpool’s transfer policy: if they were touched by Southampton they’ll probably end up at Anfield
Could you please add "without further ado" with a photo of Edu/Freddy Adu to your "anyhow"-Eddie Howe schtick?
Why did Sunderland catch free smoke in the beginning 😂
No one is safe in an HITC Sevens intro
@@HITCSevens Please do a video on the demise of Nicklas Bendtner. The man more or less destroyed his own life
@@vankallahan59 he doesn’t really need a video on his demise, he just didn’t give a fuck about football and used his fame for girls lol I don’t blame him
@@dmur. he was arrested for assault and had an electronic anklet on to serve time at his home in Copenhagen while playing for Rosenborg.
The dude doesnt have a license but drives around in a Porsche on live tv and doesnt have a license because he had it revoked for multiple DUIs
He couldve had so much more
@@vankallahan59 that’s the thing tho, I don’t think he cared at all so he was never going to reach the top. He’s just a bloke who liked partying who happened to be good at football
Guadalajara wasn't butchered IMO, your Spanish is alright.
Cheers Andrea, I needed that.
Most gringos call it "Guad" which for me reminds me of Guam and sounds just wrong and out of place.
Yet, that's a name they can correctly pronounced, so it's ok I guess
@@HITCSevens it's pretty alright but if you just don't say the "G" and say "Wah" instead (like Waluigi from Mario but without the emphasis since it doesn't have an accent which I know is a weird description but just trust me... please) it'll sound pretty spot on. If anyone wants to correct me, please also give Alfie a better tip so he can actually take something away from this whole interaction
@@HITCSevens Your pronunciation of Chivas sounded more off not going to lye
There's actually two Guadalajaras. One is in Spain in Castilla La Mancha and the other one is Mexico.
In Estonia, we have a team, FC Flora - only estonian players. This year, they got even to Europe Conference league.
Same as Široki Brijeg only Croatian players
thank you for giving us maksim pasgoatsi
@@josephphilip6022 You are Tottenham fan?
@@andresehala8091 yup
In Hungary we have Paks
Only Hungarian players, they are getting better and better in the league
This was a very informative video. I wasn't aware of any of the policies except for Athletic Bilbao's.
I love that Bilbao keep uphold their tradition and still competing in la liga
Yes
Well, it's been lenient in its restrictions too...it's not like there are neccesarily only people who praise and then people who critisize it as HITC suggests, their core philosophy is to be praised, their inconsistency applying it to be highlighted
go to san mamés and you will see why. absolute fortress
How is that competing? They haven’t made any progress.
@@robert2690 they still competing with la liga clubs aren't they?
Atletic bilbao is baque only until i start fifa career mode and they sign jamie vardy in the first transfer window.
thats something i want EA to fix
Yeah, they are full of foreigners by Season 2
I try to reinstate it by controlling bilbao as my team and only sticking to signing spanish players
@@shakenblake4533 ill do that next year
Is it the same restrictions with Bilbao on Football manager? Fancy starting a new career in Spain n would like to try Bilbao cos it will be a challenge if these restrictions are in place..
As far as I'm aware, Altınordu's policy is not restricted to only local players but rather to any Turkish player, in other words they just don't sign any foreigners. Maybe it has started off as the former but changed to the latter as the club progressed higher in the Turkish football ladder. Clubs playing in tier 3 and below aren't allowed to sign foreign players anyway, so it would make sense that they only fielded local players (probably players born in the Aegean Region of Turkey) when they were playing lower tier football.
That being said, Altınordu still has arguably the best and most modern academy system of any Turkish club and they probably feature more academy players in their senior squad than any other Turkish team. They also haven't changed their manager since the current president came and adopted the said transfer policy, which means he has been in the club for 9 years now. This is highly unusual in Turkey given that managers in Turkey tend to stay in their clubs for around 3 months in average and there have already been 5 managers sacked by/resigned from Süper Lig clubs during the first 3 weeks of this season.
As a final note, Altınordu has reached the promotion play-off final last year to be promoted to the Süper Lig but they lost to their local rivals Altay. Funny enough, upon reaching the play-offs and later the final, the club president has expressed multiple times his opinion that the club is not ready to play first tier football yet and he actually would rather his team not get promoted.
alternative title: 7 hardest teams to manage in football manager
nahh trust it makes it easier cos the team cohesion is insane, at bilbao i won the league in my second and third seasons and came second on 98 points in my third, woild defo recommend a bilbao save
I managed Athletic Club on one save, but always ended up finishing outside the Euro places by either a single point or head to head results, and losing a domestic cup final on one occasion. If I remember goal difference isn't used in the Spanish league unless the teams cannot be separated on results against each other. I think.
@@ousfraton435 It's strangely straightforward too. It's true the options are limited, but it's incredibly easy to make decisions.
@@tennoki yes exactly, the problem came for me when my fullbacks retired and with no basque fullbacks affordable i was left with two academy players
@@FPSPRINCESS yeah head to head is more important, i prefer it though as it makes games against similar level teams more important, i remember playing barca and celebrating a consolation goal when i was 2-0 down so much because it put me ahead on head to head
For a while Rangers had an unofficial policy of not signing Roman Catholic players to the team, now we have around 8-9 in the team
We have signed very few irish players too. The only one I can think of is Daly.
If you do another it would be cool to include UCD. Play in the first division in Ireland (second tier) and only field players who are students at the University. Jamie McGrath, the Ireland international, had played on the U19 team but couldn't move up to the senior squad because he didn't get accepted into the university.
Haha I know about them (as an American) solely through them being the lowest rated team in FIFA 14, constantly played with them in the career mode back then
@@frogmafiaofficial love it. Yeah last played as them in FIFA 20. Got relegated in real life so haven’t been in 21 or 22
Day 8: every football league clubs greatest ever academy product
Always found the fact that Bilbao never been relegated with such restrictive transfer policy very VERY impressive.
Plus, they have Sociedad also fighting them for most Basque players even though their transfer policy is not restrictive. Real Sociedad also like to have as many Basque players as possible.
@der Führer more insane? They're the 3rd best team in La Liga
I think Real Sociedad also used to have a Basque only policy until they signed John Aldridge in the late 1980s
Not only Real Sociedad... Osasuna, Alaves an Eibar also
Never relegated, AND 8 leagues, 24 cups and 3 Supercups in the process.
@@xebio6 *25. /wink :)
thanks for talking about my hometown club Chivas de Guadalajara!!! Arriba las chivas!!! btw you actually pronounced Guadalajara correctly (that's coming from a Mexican)
The fall of South African Football (Day 4)
From 1996 Africa cup of nations Champions and with South African Stars in the Premier league like Benny McCarthy(won the '04 Champions league with Mourinho at Porto) , Steven Pienaar, Quinton Fortune , Shaun Barlett etc , it seems like corruption , bad coaching and unprofessionalism has plagued football to oblivion in my country and footballers of South Africa.
Says plenty about African Football
I remember watching your Ghanain and Nigerian footballers in the 80s and 90s
They played great football with massive flair and style like the Brazil Joga Bonito of old
For some reason it has been completely corrupted out of them as their players have been Europeanised
It almost like they have been sabotaged
Wow, Singapore actually being represented on the channel. This must be a first.
not when theres some terrible singaporean valencia CF owner
@@astraweiss Please don't remind me of that idiot. He is destroying what we tried to build for so long.
God that intro was bloody hilarious
13:38 El Nacional has competed in 24 Copa Libertadores, not 22. And they are not the Ecuadorian club with most CL apps; Emelec is, with 27 (soon 28).
Imagine spending 100m on fullbacks
Imagine spending 500 million on defenders, oh yeah forgot that’s Man City 🤣🤣🤣
To be fair you guys nearly spent 100m on bakayoko, drinkwater, and barkley combined. It's football we all make bad choices, over pay etc
Some would argue it's the key position on the field.
@@michaelfarrow5817 yeah FB position is very different to what it was even 5 years ago now as they tend to be the creative outlet for most teams most fullbacks are the new wingers essentially
Imagine spending 50 million on a a striker just to buy a 100 million striker when you’ve got a striker better than the first and almost as good as the latter for free
Fun fact: Atletico Madrid was founded by Athletic Club supporters in Madrid. Their kits are also based on English clubs Blackpool\Sunderland.
Bilbao's kit looks more like Southampton.
What Bielsa achieved at Bilbao was insane. Let it sink in. With such a limited number of players available he still managed European football and some success. Insane.
and then Valverde did what Bielsa couldn’t and put them in the Champions League and won silverware (after Bielsa almost relegated them) but because he’s not a hipster manager he doesn’t get any credit for it.
I'm Romanian and I never knew there was a football team called FC Romania in England in lower leagues. Thank you very much . Keep up the good work
There is a club in the Icelandic 5th tier called Afríka FC That only field foreign players.
They are not very good. Their goal difference (after 14 matches) is -127
@@anophelesnow3957 wow
LMAOOOOOO
Singapore also used to have an African (+French) only team called Etoile FC back in the early 2010s. One of their former players even played in Portugal recently.
I just looked them up. Out of their 23 players, only 7 are Icelandic and out of those 7, three of them have parents from another country.
Fun fact: Malaysia's u23s used to compete in Malaysian 2nd division and then compete in Singapore's League as Harimau Muda (Young Tiger in English). As exchange, Singapore send their team to compete in Malaysian Super League as Lions XII.
To add to this, Lions XII even won the Malaysian Super League in 2013 and the FA Cup in 2015. The Harimau Muda team did alright in their earlier seasons in the S-League, but later they ended up as one of the worst teams in the league.
Harimau Muda was also sent to play in the Australian NPL (don't remember which region though) in 2013. Malaysia also used to have a similar youth team club in the 90s called Olympic 2000, and also currently the FAM-MSN Squad which is made up of U-19 players and is dead last in the Malaysian second division.
Aren't there Singaporean players playing on actual professional clubs though?
Hi Singaporeans here, now there are a few singaporeans in the Malaysian super league
As a Sunderland fan that hits hard. The sheer amount of cash we spent on utter crap is silly and even in League 1 we are still paying money for these planks whether it be wages at other clubs or transfer fees.
Thankfully our new policy as of this season seems to be a good one so far.
Fun fact: back in the day Athletic de Bilbao used to be the club with the most foreigners in the spanish league
Yes, but in the very start of its history. It was founded by the English miners, and obviously they were mainly who played
He didnt mention Hull City in this Video or am i deaf. Something is wrong here
My team, Houston Dynamo, have a policy of signing players who seem incapable of winning a game...
@@juangutierrez9575 Yeah but you're a new team so we'll let it go for now...
Keep your head up lads, least you two support your regional teams instead of chasing glory. Have you thought about adopting a second team to support in Europe? Liverpool *wink wink nudge nudge* FC for example?
@@justjay8186 Was actually thinking to start supporting FC Chertanovo Moscow now... been to see the 'Pool a couple of times in the last couple of year actually... once in Madrid vs Spurs and again in Qatar vs Flamengo.. apparently they won something big both times :-)
Thx for showing love to Chivas Alfie🇫🇷😉👍
Ive been waiting for this moment my whole life
If you wanna play Football Manager on super hard mode, try picking Bilbao and possibly winning Champions League. Atletico Bilbao and Real Sociedad have a really fascinating culture behind them. Another brilliant video by our man, Alfie ⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽
loool...you really gotta beef up the academy in FM with Bilbao 😀😀
I did try that challenge in FM12. I'd Fernando Llorente as a target man on top😂
😀😀😀
Altinordu - Turkish players only
Chertanovo Moscow - no signings.
None. Zero. Use the youth system only. It's hard-coded in. Just like Cardiff Met. Uni and their amateur status.
Also I am not surprised Altinordu were next after Bilbao
🐐 🇫🇷 Nice to see Chivas in this video.
🇵🇷 flag of Puerto Rico but it goes better for representing Chivas
Paksi FC in Hungary. Only Signing hungarian players, they finished 4th in the last season, scoring record breaking amount of goals in the history of the 12 team hungarian first class system. Of course giving the top scorer of the league.
Loved how you included Altınordu. As a Turk and a Fenerbahçe supporter I can say something where even the supporters from the rival teams will agree on... And that is that Altınordu is a club that is impossible to hate. Thanks to them we now have star players in Europe like Çağlar Söyüncü, Cengiz Ünder and Burak İnce and more will come. They actually use Athletic Bilbao as a sample club when they're talking about their business model. There have been some criticism towards their policies for a good reason since they're focusing a lot on discipline. For instance it was rumoured that it turned out that when Cengiz Ünder came to Başakşehir that pretty much his whole was inside the training centre so that Başakşehir had to help him to get a better social life especially in İstanbul. Anyway, hopefully Altınordu took that criticism seriously because they're the best example in Turkey how a football club should be run and how they're doing it on the non-turkish way. Because is there anything that our Turkish clubs is known for is that lot of the boards want quick success and they start flow cash very irresponsibly which ends with same story... No success on the field after that, which ends up with mega-huge debts and don't get me started on a lot of talents that is bought by the big 4 clubs in Istanbul and Trabzon from Anatolia where they fail to adapt themselves to the new live life there. Sadly, that has happened too often. Ask players like Sezer Öztürk, Okan Koç and Sercan Yıldırım about how İstanbul ruined them. Don't get me started on the fallen former title contendors like Eskişehirspor, Gaziantepspor, Karabükspor, Orduspor, Mersin İdmanyurdu, Bursaspor, Kocaelispor and Sakaryaspor. I really feel for their supporters considering what kind of mess they have been forced to go through thanks to their stupid club boards who sat them in that mess. That's the reasons why Altınordu is seen as a good example in Turkish football for a good reason.
As a fellow Turk and avid supporter of Galatasaray İ wholeheartedly agree with everything you wrote. The focus on short term success continues to cripple our footballing development to this day.
Ayrıca İngiliz diline sizin kadar hakim olan bir Türk ilen çok nadiren karşılaştım, helal olsun
Alfie's new club The People's City has a transfer policy whereby players who own scarves are not allowed to transfer.
Thats discrimination against Irish men that bath in milk !!!😆
@@newguy6491 Oh also smelling of horse piss means your transfer will be blocked (damn I've owned the Irish Guy)
I actually say Young Lions play at Jalon Besar Stadium while I was in Singapore visiting in 2011. Nice little stadium, but the league is very undervalued by the locals. The attendance was between 100-200 people. It was a very good game.
Very undervalued, had the chance to represent the now defunct Woodlands Wellington at youth level and definitely watched the senior team games. Particularly Woodlands Wellington had the highest attendance in their last 2-3 years before merging with Hougang United and ultimately ending the team from competing. Locals here prefer watching the EPL and european football rather than their own local football team, weird but it is what is is. Such a sad state we are in right now, even when the league is picking up once again and National team playing well. Fans are still not appreciating our local team 😭
@@NazirulAmir77The interest for the league has actually grown alot now since covid. My club, Home United, got privatised in 2020 and has revolutionised Singapore Football as well as bringing tons of fans. In 2021, We even managed to reach an attendance of 10,000+ people during a AFF Suzuki Cup game against Thailand.
Part of my family lives in Chertanovo in Moscow, and I have been there some times, so I followed them a bit. But I never thought, that I would hear about them on this channel. Thank you.
Finally a Club in Singapore is Cover Thanks From Singapore
Newcastle United; they’re not allowed to use money
Greetings from Singapore.
Nice research on the Young Lions.
There's actually been calls the scrap the Young Lions for several years as it disincentivises Youth Development by the other clubs. and promotes a defeatist mentality since the young team are frequently trashed every week.
Apart from Albirex Niigata's satellite team, there's another team competing in Singapore, DPMM FC, a team comprising of only players from Brunei.
Funfact: from 2015 to 2020, the Singapore league has been won 4 times by Albirex and 2 times by DPMM.. So we've had a foreign champion for 6 years in a row (which is probably a record?).
i've been to Bilbao and it's an amazing city
Funny enough the guy who led to the creation of Chivas was from Belgium and he based the kit off of Club Brugge who used to wear red blue and white at the time
Club Brugge didn't use to wear red, blue and white at any time.
BUT go look for the FLAG of Brugge, and you'll see why Chivas wears a red&white stripped jersey with blue shorts.
@@jagwolf8079 my bad but Club brugge do have red white and blue as a 2nd kit sometimes
@@kevinp9403 sure, the flag of the city has those colors, it's just that it wasn't the reason why 115 years ago they settled on those colors. (also, your version was the official version for decades, and it's still the most common version that you hear, so it's not really your fault :) )
Since you mentioned Indian Arrows , I would like to add something. In a 'cricket frenzy' country like India having a developmental team for the youngsters by the AIFF itself and having them play in the second top division itself is a big thing. Indian Arrows too are an U21 side and aims to provide playing time for players graduating from the U17 national side whom are yet to be picked up by top Indian clubs.
They play against other professionally run clubs in the league that have mix of both Indian and foreign players. And huh having the average age at not more than 19 years, the oldest player in the Indian Arrows setup will not be above 21.
So the football lovers in MY COUNTRY like me doesn't care where they finishes in the table as long as the players get to play and improve.
Man knows about Young lions 🤣🤣🤣
This makes it all that more impressive that for about a decade Chivas could field an MLS team in spite of their heavily restrictive transfer policy
The MLS team didn’t obey the same restrictions. It was also pretty terrible.
Day 9: The rise and fall of gretna fc
Pele disappointed there that he is too old and Brazilian to play for Young Lions.
What a ruthless intro! XD
Also, I'd love to see some of the ideas in this video, especially the Korean Sangmu, turn into full documentaries. If you're also looking for some good examples in Italy (albeit not so restrictive), Olbia, Pro Vercelli and Pordenone could be good examples to start from!
Wow, a Singapore representation!!
P.S Alfie knows more about Singapore Football than the Singapore Football Association higher-ups
Day 5 of asking for a video about the revival of Rapid București
Do an XI of the best Basque players of all time please!
Saw the title and thought "oh, he talks about chivas in this one"
nice on .... i will come back to this video when fm22 is out :D
That intro was a violation
This was far more entertaining than the "mainstream" (dire) What if every EPL team was a country?
I genuinely didn't know that about Athletic Bilbao - interesting.
You missed my club, Hull. Our owners have adopted the interesting transfer policy of not spending any fucking money.
I love these left of field videos, keep it up
After seeing Indian Arrows,they only field U-21 players in 2nd tier is good for development in young players. But it's like a punishment to those teenagers 😂😂
Bro I am from Romania and when I heard FC Romania I got back 5 sec on the video because I could not believe what I just heard. Damn, you made my day!:))
Palace only sign players carrying injuries.
i learned the hard way about Bilbao's policy when i become their manager in FM, young and aspiring manager from division 2 just left with a pikachu face when i know i have a limited option
Chivas fan here. We're in awful shape right now, but we will never change our identity.
Also, you said Guadalajara well Alfie.
Si la neta están dela chingada orita jajajaj aver si se recuperan pa que ya nos hagan competencia otra vez al América 💛🦅💙, y yo soy de ahí de Guadalajara ahí vivo xd
@@teamcanaloficial8358 Si pues. Ches chivas malas. Hace falta menos princeso en el equipo o alguien quien los ponga en su lugar porque Peláez los consiente mucho y es muy metiche.
Ya se estan conponiendo jugaron bien contra pumas
@@hugoalvarado9453 La neta se aventaron unos partidazos porque la afición estaba hasta la madre. Me gusta que cadena haya cambiado las cosas un poco en su esquema. Dejamos ir mínimo unos 3 partidos que teníamos que haber ganado
Tienen a un peruano jajajaja ya cambio la identidad nea
Brighton should be on this list. WE DONT SIGN STRIKERS
Chivas finally signed a dual nationality player with Santiago Ormeño in summer 2022. He’s Peruvian & Mexican and represents Peru
another similar team to the Young Lions exists in the Philippine Premier League called the ADT (Azkals Development Team). The azkals being the name for the national team. The team is managed by the national team manager as well, and is under the control of the FA in order to develop homegrown players for the national team.
“The ADT was formed after it was observed that other countries participating in the southeast Asian games already had many players participating in professional leagues while Filipino players of the same age still involved in collegiate football. The development team is intended give "professional club environment" exposure to mainly youth players as well as select overage players from the senior national team such as individuals who recently recovered from an injury.”
Thanks for highlighting indian arrows as an example. Massive respect.
Alfie can you do a video documenting the rise and fall of Oldham Athletic and how they managed to go from being founding members of the Premier League and having competed in the top-flight at recently as 1994 to now favourites to get relegated out of the Football League altogether here in 2021?
It’s hilarious when ignorant people criticise Athletic for being “racist” and the like, conveniently ignoring Ramalho, Iñaki and Nico Williams. Santiago Abascal (leader of far-right Vox) naturally fell into that trap, but I imagine that’s a complex from Athletic fans making fun of him for wearing a Spain top at school in Bilbao - that and him being xenophobic. He also criticised Real Sociedad for doing the same, except they ended the strict policy decades ago, albeit still keep up a strong practice.
HITC Sevens> HITC Sport
As an Altinordu fan I can't even put into words how happy and cheerful I was when I saw my team in the video. Thanks for making our club's name known. Keep up the good work!
Happy to see the club I support Guadalajara be mentioned in this video and you pronounced it pretty well for not being a Spanish speaker
Fair play to them for winning the 2018 CONCACAF Champions League 👍🏿
Best German players in the premier league of all time. (Day 191)
I will not give up until the video is made or Alfie himself tells me to stop. Everyone else telling me that will be ignored.
If you don't believe my number, just go back to the previous videos. I'm at the bottom most of the time, but I'm there.
Karius is the best german in the premier league of all time
It's too specific to appeal to enough viewers. That's probably why.
There are some videos u just know Alfie made looking the titles and this was one of them🤣
Mekelakeya(owned by the defense force) of Ethiopia which plays in the Ethiopian second tier only signs Ethiopians
Just started watching. Surely that Israeli team that won't sign muslims has to be top...
You forgot to mention that bilbao has never been relegated, one of the three along with Real Madrid and Barcelona
The first minute... Burns so harsh only the Brazilian rainforest can sympathize...
Your pronunciation of Guadalajara is on point Alfie, anyone who says otherwise can fight me
Make a documentary for the team of ibiza. They were founded on 2015 or 2016 and now they are in the second tier of Spanish football
How dodgy is the backroom or is it a legitimate club?
Correction: After 2019, Indias ceased to have 2 top flight league and the ISL is now India's top tier with I-league the 2nd division
My home town team Rotherham United have a policy of only signing wankers.
Arsenal's policy of signing brazilians named Gabriel
The first 50 seconds of this video is complete savagery.
Before moving to Canada, I was able to witness in person the Chivas win in 2017, it was exciting. Later here they played against Toronto and I was able to watch one of the matches! I'm happy to see my grandfather's club champion twice
9:01 serious overdose pending
Been looking for a team from turkey for my next FM save. Thanks for the find!
As an Altinordu fan it's nice to hear that you are interested in our club :)
You forgot about Wolves Portuguese player signing policy
That's a different case.
They have a Portuguese sporting director, so he's great at founding Portuguese talent and persuading them to join Wolves.
These clubs literally have a policy "Sign only this kind of players"
@@markolitvic6981 it was a joke
I lived in Gimcheon for a year back in 2013. It was...alright.
As a native turkish speaker I can tell you that your pronunciation of Izmir and Altınordu was great. Keep up the good work and pls continue to making videos on niche topics.
I have a very, very strict rule when I play championship manager - if you're 32, you're out the door, and only buy players between 17 and 23. Works for me, would it work in the real world?
Altinordu was very close of getting promoted to the Super Lig last season, they lost in First League's play-off final to Altay 1-0.
As a Sunderland supporter can confirm it was a horrible time. Rodwell's face still gives me nightmares
Day 1 of suggesting 7 biggest clubs in Africa
This is more mainstream than your mainstream video
Thought u would’ve brought up that johan cruyff was the manager of chivas at one point😂