1 Dark Football Scandal from Every European Country

[@hm_-nh6fo]

3 common things in life: death, taxes and another Vizeh banger

[@Vizeh]

My guy!

[@Dexter-b5c]

@@Vizeh fr tho

[@jordanlopez1438]

The best comment I've seen in my life

[@nova3752]

And 0 european titles for England*

[@hm_-nh6fo]

@@nova3752 that’s 4 things😂😂😂

[@Gingerninja738]

0:00 Vizeh waffle (check out mezzala designs code vizeh) 1:06 france. 2:28 Belgium. 4:39 Croatia. 6:10 wales. 8:34 Hungary. 10:54 Finland. 12:18 Iceland. 15:02 Spain. 17:34 Malta 19:10 Latvia 20:11 Norway 21:29 Netherlands. 22:40 Denmark 24:42 Gibraltar 25:18 IRELAND. 27:21 Georgia 28:39 san Marino. 29:52 Romania. 31:16 Portugal. 32:34 faroe Islands 33:30 northern Ireland. 34:58 Poland 36:42 Albania 39:04 Slovenia 40:13 Bosnia Edit: (there is gonna be a second part so any European countries not named could be named next video. )

[@_dybaIa]

He did not mention country Liechtenstein whattt

[@_dybaIa]

He did not mention Luxembourg whattt

[@_dybaIa]

He did not mention Montenegro whattt

[@_dybaIa]

He did not mention Kosovo whattt

[@_dybaIa]

He did not mention Andorra whattt

[@shaneh1872]

Russia, Turkey and the Balkans genuinely have so many stories that you can genuinely pick one and then leave out hundreds of other stories

[@Vizeh]

Yeah that’s the worst part of it

[@shaneh1872]

@@Vizeh unfortunate that so much dark shit has happened in that part of the world in general not just football. I do hope it gets better for them at some point in the future

[@limpa756]

It’s the same anywhere, the amount it corruption in England is deeply disturbing. The world is more cut throat than it’s ever been

[@idontknow6151]

Fun fact: The Westerlo trainer got fired because of that "scandal" and went to Charleroi (also belgium) who were about to play the relegation play offs and managed to keep them up, becoming the 1st coach in Belgium's history to save 2 teams from relegation in 1 season as he had saved Westerlo too earlier.

[@Vizeh]

I love that bit of info added in, thank you mate

[@idontknow6151]

@@Vizeh Thanks for the video 👊

[@WINsley13BMG]

​@@Vizeh on top of that Westerlo didnt need the point anymore since Charleroi lost 5-0 to Gent. It was played on the same time but it was clear Charleroi would lose and that game even ended before the 90 minutes in Genk against Westerlo.

[@johnanita9251]

​@WINsley13BMG better be save then sorry 😂

[@holygooff]

Also, the Genk coach went to... Ghent!

[@Butterfingers1989]

Sounds more like a mix of tragedies and scandals over just scandals.

[@2357y1113]

I'm from Bosnia. So funny that in Bosnia, it's not even a specific incident, there's just so much corruption that it becomes a general topic. 😅

[@kbdigitalpvd]

Zalostno

[@dandaratramadol3007]

Just during one Bosnian league season, you can pick 5 different incidents that are big enough to make the video. That's without going deeper into our football federation and the national team(s). You could make the whole series, easy 10 hours of content in just a little bit more than 30 years that we've been an independent country.

[@Bosnia_Lover]

Vedran Puljić😢

[@SavutGD]

​@@Bosnia_Lover ubile ga ustase

[@Bosnia_Lover]

@@SavutGD fanovi Širokog

[@YoungCowtippah]

For France, the first thing that always comes to mind is the Bernard Tapie/Marseille scandal from the 90's

[@Vizeh]

Absolutely, however I covered that recently so felt like doing something different for this

[@cell2179]

The Villaplane stuff comes to mind for me for France

[@johnanita9251]

Sure, but what about Bordeaux in the 80's ??

[@flashninoo2213]

Va Om

[@SamS-uv2ql]

Or the complete lack of due diligence done for the TV rights deal that collapsed.

[@nurbas396]

Russian football has a plenty of dark controversies (vanishing of russian provincial teams, possible match fixing in russian premier league and so on), so I expect Russia in part 2. Great video, Liam

[@Vizeh]

Russia has got so so much absolutely mate!

[@hugoumero9723]

@@Vizeh and dont forget portugal at some point

[@warmike]

And not just provincial teams: Moskva from Moscow, Saturn from a suburb of Moscow and Tosno from a suburb of Saint-Petersburg are just a few top-flight teams that ceased to exist in the last two decades. Other major defunct clubs are Anzhi from Makhachkala, Kuban from Krasnodar, Mordovia from Saransk, Spartak Nalchik from Nalchik, Tom' from Tomsk, Zhemchuzhina Sochi from Sochi, just to name a few.

[@ivandankob7112]

@@warmikeruzzians can destroy their local teams all they want, but they ruined all international sports, not just football, in other countries like Georgia and Ukraine. There were no international competitions or professional teams in Crimea for 10 years already

[@kurbi7262]

​@@hugoumero9723He did it in this video

[@krzysztofbielas1478]

As a Polish person i see one bigger scandal than "Sunday of Miracles". It is huge match fixing scandal in the early 2000's which lead to many relegations, arrests, and court battles.

[@mrmandalin]

i didnt even watch the video but i just know u had a loooooot of options on the Turkish scandals :)

[@oxymoronic-ephiphanies]

Where do we even start.

[@Andre-us4tj]

Great vid as usual. The SK Brann scandal is definitely up there as one of the worst scandals in Norwegian football. Another candidate is the Babacar Sarr case, where Ole Gunnar Solskjær and Molde defended Sarr in the media describing him as a man of honour and a leader, and then pretty much allowed Sarr to escape an international arrest warrent when the appeal case started up in court

[@Andre-us4tj]

Forgot to say that that this was a rape case involving 2 women

[@PeterBuvik]

@@Andre-us4tj One of which commited suicide

[@MrMultichris234]

Sunday of Miracles for Poland? There is one piece of context you missed. The polish law did not had paragraphs that could efficiently track down and penalize corruption until 2003!!! So, before that (and also after that which were tracked and penalized) the Polish football of the 90s and early 2000s was plagued by corruption and match-fixing. Check Barber's scandal (Afera Fryzjera). Sunday of Miracles is a tip of the iceberg.

[@hubertdec2433]

@@MrMultichris234 Właściwie to korupcja w polskiej piłce była wszechobecna już w czasach PRL-u, o czym opowiadał "Piłkarski Poker".

[@Vizeh]

Oh god yeah, thank you for adding that in mate! I need to look at that

[@sidlinjen]

Brilliant video! Great explanation of the Dinamo - Red Star game. The Yugoslavian war started about a year later, but many people see this game as the spark. This game truly showed how divided Yugoslavia was and how nationalism had taken over. The owner of Red Star, Arkan, started to build his army as soon as they returned to Belgrade because he felt war was inevitable. The craziest thing is that they actually continued the season. Red Star was also rewarded 3-0 victory in this match and eventually won the league in front of Dinamo. Red Star also won the Champions League that season. The league played its last season the following year.

[@avantgarde9812]

My dad was telling me the truth then

[@milosdangubic4628]

Arkan was owner of FK Obilic, not Red Star. But, in 1990 he was a leader of Red Star fans, Delije.

[@ronweasley1354]

I like how Romania is so wild that their section is just “the 90s”

[@euphoriaggaminghd]

For this type of video, you could attach a vague label of 'the 90s' to every single Eastern European nation

[@edi0157]

The thing is he got it a bit wrong, what actually happened was we went FROM state owned clubs (because we defeated communism in a bloody Revolution where we STILL don’t understand who actually shot at people 35 years later and all not TO, like you might understand from the video) to various well-connected guys (“mafia”, as he and sometimes we as well call them) owning them and indeed bankrupting them starting a number of history disputes over which clubs can call themselves successors to the historical clubs (but the massive bankruptcy wave started hitting in the late 2000s/early 2010s and it is still happening, to the point where most clubs depend on state money to survive in one way or another despite fully state owned clubs being officially banned by a 1998 law that forced the privatisations that ended up putting the clubs in the hands of the aforementioned people. You might know this law if you are familiar with Corvinul or CSA Steaua s cases which could both be videos in and of themselves. Mere insolvency? Pah, that s just a regular thing at this point, there are 2 going on right now, Hermannstadt and Dinamo and there are other clubs with debts too). The actual 90s/early 2000s match fixing that he was talking about that never ended up going to a court of law but there have been statements from various people about it was not termed “blat” (that s just the regular term in Romanian for anything fixed ahead of time so I get the confusion) but “Cooperativa” (“The Cooperative”, from “a coopera”, “to cooperate”). Jean Padureanu s Gloria Bistrita (which actually played quite a bit in Europe in that era and was the boyhood team of quite a few good Romanian footballers like Lucian Sanmartean (absolute technical magician in the 2000s and 2010s, especially his stint at Vaslui is fondly remembered) and before the 90s Gabi Balint (CL winner with Steaua) and Viorel Moldovan (great ST of the 90s for teams like Dinamo, Rapid, Neuchatel Xamax and Fenerbahce). They were also the launching pad of Ciprian Tatarusanu that you might know as he played there for two seasons in 2007-2009) was infamous as the alleged centerpiece of it all. Anyway, yeah, Romanian football is wild. Another subjects he could talk about are general communist shenanigans with how Dinamo, Steaua and later to a way lesser extent Victoria Bucuresti appeared, grew and became so dominant/players not being allowed to transfer away like Nicolae Dobrin (Santiago Bernabeu of Real Madrid was super impressed by him in the early 70s and wanted to get him on his team, unfortunately for him dictator Ceausescu said no and we were still 19 years away from communism falling)/Rodion Camataru s Golden Shoe controversy (in case you are wondering why we have the coefficient multipliers today, well this is part of the reason. It was the spring of 1987. Steaua was in the middle of its 104 league games unbeaten run and its Golden Age. Dinamo was far away in 2nd. But they had this man, Rodion Camataru which was indeed a damn good striker. So they basically decided to make him the Golden Shoe winner. He ended up winning it with 44 goals in 33 games while the Austrian Toni Polster could only manage 39 and was initially ruled the winner. The problem was that he scored 26 goals in the last 10 games, 20 in the last 6 while he had only scored 18 times in the previous 24. The only one he didn’t score against in that run was Steaua in a 1-1 draw. As you can imagine, Polster was furious and did not show up to the awards ceremony. Eventually, Camataru was allowed to keep his copy of the trophy but his award got officially revoked. He himself denies any personal wrongdoing to this day but admits it might have been a Party directive. Note, other Dinamo players got it before and after without much fuss), Becali just in general (saying this as a fan of the club that he owns, FCSB (Steaua s privatised form that can’t legally call itself Steaua anymore despite having even avoided bankruptcy, long story)) but especially the Valiza case (“the Suitcase”. At the time in 2008 we were in a tight title race against CFR that went to the final matchday. CFR was due to play local rivals Universitatea Cluj. If CFR lost we would have been crowned champions, so Becali decided to pay U Cluj players 1.7 million euros to NOT LOSE (which makes it weird in terms of corruption cases where you usually pay people to lose but still corruption and match fixing either way) the game via a suitcase (which is why the case was known by that name in the media lol). CFR won the game 1-0 and became champions for the first time in their history, the suitcase was immediately intercepted by anticorruption officers and Becali eventually was sentenced to 3 years in prison for this and other cases of which he served 2. He is still our owner. That s not even scratching the surface about him.), Dinamo s missing owner Pablo Cortacero (this actually happened recently. In 2020 some random Spanish man known as Pablo Cortacero bought the club saying that he has all these funds and will make Dinamo great again etc. He proceeded to bring in Spanish players and staff on big contacts including one Aleix Garcia (yeah, the Girona one) and then just ghosted, never bringing the money. The fans rushed to support the team and keep it from going bankrupt, eventually wrestling it away from Cortacero and ending up with a minority stake in the team while majority control went to actual well-intentioned people. That s why Dinamo is still in an insolvency today) etc. That being said, hope there are better times ahead and we ll stay clear of any such scandals in the future, we are really passionate about the game and it is sad to see it being brought down by stuff like this

[@evan.bakker1756]

Another banger, keep it up! Also for the Netherlands you could’ve done the ‘slag van Beverwijk’, or ‘battle of Beverwijk’, it was a huge brawl between the supporters of Feyenoord and Ajax, a match that is already arguably the hardest and most hateful rivalry in Europe, up there with partisan-red star. The brawl ended with a lot of injured and wounded men, but worst of all, a life was lost during the massive brawl, it wasn’t just a normal fist fight, knives, hammers and even spike bombs where involved. It’s still the worst thing to happen in Dutch football in this century, and the main reason away supporters are banned from ‘De Klassieker’. You could fill 100 books full of scandals, brawls, and many more things surrounding ‘de Klassieker’ but this was by far the worst thing to happen. From a Feyenoord supporter, let’s hope this never ever happens again…

[@Podaling]

I'm from Canada, and our biggest football scandal happened quite recently, just a few days ago actually, when our women's national team were caught using drones to watch their opponents train so that they can win. Last time we did it, and the time we got exposed for it against New Zealand, we won 2-1, but despite this, we got a -6 point deduction. Many officials had to step down because of it.

[@HamzaTalksFootball]

That Westerlo vs Genk game is an example for why after 1982 where Austria and Germany both played for the draw knowing it was enough, the rule that final day matches/last group games are all played at the same time, reducing the chances of this happening as you're less likely to know whether a draw will do, came in.

[@Vizeh]

Theat's happened a crazy amount of times mate

[@vinylhorror]

I was thinking this situation has had to have happened before with or without our knowledge.

[@MrWhistler535]

it was actually 1-0 germany, but still it was enough to get both teams trough - also there were only 3 teams in the group so 1 team always had to sit out on the last matchday

[@HamzaTalksFootball]

@@MrWhistler535 Ah, yes I often get that detail wrong about it lol. I should have said after a certain point, both were just happy with the score staying the way it was and not trying to score. Also, you may want to look it up mate. There were 4 teams per group in that World Cup.

[@HamzaTalksFootball]

@@Vizeh It has but this one was apparently veey explicit. It was dubbed "the disgrace of Gijon".

[@izishy4675]

As a frenchie the World Cup qualifiers and the World cup 2010 was probably the absolute worse thing a supporter can go through

[@JohnClancy-d4e]

Thanks for agnolinging our pain

[@icecreamy521]

Apparently you have never been an iranian during 2022 world cup

[@antoinedecastiaux1034]

Everything surrounding France 2010 WC is a disaster: Zahia, Valbuena’s sextape, France-Ireland, Knysna…

[@ziahamm1603]

It sounded gross dude, I feel for you and your fellow fans. It's certainly tainted my opinions of the 4 players involved that's for sure.

[@TomQuick14]

Be interesting to get a part 2 to this, as Portugal is full of various scandals, would also be sick for a deep dive for the Sporting Lisbon issues from a few years back

[@TheZoan007]

Yeah, he picked a story were Porto were actually cleared of all charges. It was even pictured on one of the artucles he chose. Sporting lisbon has a case with terrorists attacking their players in the training grounds and benfica currently has around 4 different legal cases of corruption, match fixing and bribes to the judicial system. He just chose the wrong example

[@Teddyngham]

About that KÍ vs Slovan Bratislava match. I am a carpenter, and me and my company were extending the KÍ stadium at that time. For both of the cancelled matches, we were removed from the construction site, because of the matches being supposed to be played. And after the "matches", while we were working again, Slovan fans were protesting at the construction site and stadium with signs saying "Fuck Covid, Slovan Forever". KÍ did btw make it very far, even managing to win 6-1 against Dinamo Tbilisi. But that's nothing compared to last year, when we made it to Conference League (and fair and square, may I add).

[@Śmigens1]

Watching this at the funeral with family, love it mate

[@OYVIND36]

You could do an entire video on the 2021 SK Brann season. It is one of the most chaotic seasons possible. At the time of the afterparty/nachspiel-scandal the team was struggling after having a horrible start to the season and had just sacked the manager. Dealing with the scandal is the first thing that the new coach Eirik Horneland had to deal with on his first week of work.

[@NIDELLANEUM]

I'd suggest one for Italy, which is the 1925 title, still referred to as the "Scudetto delle Pistole" (Gun Scudetto). The final matches between Bologna and Genoa (the winner of which would have then faced another team in the final) had something that went beyond simple match fixing. There were actual *gunfights* and military interventions, as everyone and everything wanted to favour Bologna into winning the title. The 1920s were a messy time for football: in 1921 the Italian FA split into two (which is why two champions were awarded) and, in 1927, Torino would see its title stripped away for a football scandal (imagine Calciopoli, but in Fascist Italy). It's been a century, and Genoa, who would have won its 10th title that year, still claims it. It's a wild story to cover in my opinion

[@mxybemxve9011]

love how the first one is genuinely like a very srious crime and the second is light match fixing

[@FC-ju9et]

Good video, liked it! We certainly need a part 2 with big Greece coming up, scandals are more often than expected in the glorious Super League

[@bananupiens2937]

About Latvia: Tamaz Pertia is still involved in Latvian football. He is currently the manager of FK Liepaja which used to be a club constantly fighting for European spots but currently they're in the last place in the higher league.

[@cereal574]

I would’ve liked you to go more in detail with Romania, namely the FCSB - Steaua Bucharest scandal, especially since they are Champions League winners.

[@marsiii296]

as an albainian who lives in greece, you can make 2 half hour videos on both countries on this topic

[@Vizeh]

You are NOT wrong about that mate

[@DimShamrock]

Nope. Really not needed.

[@marsiii296]

​@@DimShamrock I'm not saying he should do that, I'm saying he COULD

[@JustK4Y1512]

How didn’t you pick what’s currently going on, with the “Gibraltar is Spain” chants, where the Gibraltar FA has filed an official complaint? And also, after the 14-0 loss to France, there were a lot of allegations of mistreatment by their coach Ribas, which caused them to play so poorly. So yes, Gibraltar has been involved in scandals……. Also Iceland’s biggest talent at the moment, Albert Gudmundsson, is also suspended from the national team because of you guessed it, an SA claim………

[@jesuly17]

As a Spanish, the chants are a meme here we use as a joke about an stereotypical fascist who wants to conquer back Gibraltar and Portugal. No one here actually gives a shit about Gibraltar.

[@MortanAMrk]

Biggest controversy up here in the Faroes 100% is Mikkjal Thomassen threating a player and attacking a refferee, reportedly more and just leaving the country, now he has been sentenced 30 days and 40 hours community service

[@Nikwagner_]

the chapo team died cause of reckless pilots. the bolivian airline was bankrupt and the pilot (also ceo of the airline) always fueled within minimal margins to save money . with that said they werent able to make the trip to columbia because of fuel lackage. pilots also declined options to refuel and turned of voice recording . would be interesting to cover for vizeh maybe

[@wowza1928]

You didn't talk about the Heysel stadium disaster for Belgium you could have talked about that. Thanks for your video banger as always

[@ezraezra2928]

That was for the English football, and it was overshadowed 4 years later thanks to another disaster in Hillsborough.

[@wowza1928]

@@ezraezra2928 Yes but the stadium was at fault as well it wasn't in a condition to host a UCL final

[@MrMarios3000]

Greece deserves its' own 1+ hour video, cant wait to see what will you pick of it all.

[@ezraezra2928]

Gibraltar's issues in football happened more recently. Remember the "Gibraltar is Spain" chants used by the Spanish footballers after the country won the Euro 2024?

[@jesuly17]

As a Spanish, the chants are a meme here we use as a joke about an stereotypical fascist who wants to conquer back Gibraltar and Portugal. No one here actually gives a shit about Gibraltar.

[@LN_997]

For us (Ireland) I'm surprised you didn't mention the hand of le frog too, I am still scarred from that

[@opajopayt]

Fun fact about that Dinamo-Zvezda part, there is dokumentary movie about that Game and policeman who got kicked by Boban say that if Boban came back again to ‘fight’ he would shoot him.

[@quqzy6265]

What is documentary called?

[@lunarfox6206]

Thats a lie, the policeman said that he regrets mistreating the fan and that he forgives boban

[@opajopayt]

@@quqzy6265 Itd Dinamo-Crvena zvezda dokumentarac..there is few of them not 100% wich one I watched.

[@gabdunyt2.0]

For Malta you could have also mentioned the case of former Malta NT manager Devis Mangia allegedly SA 3 of his players, this was also interesting as it happened at his last 4 clubs. The Malta FA then launched a police case and found him guilty. This came as a shock for football supporters in Malta as under Devis Mangia, Malta enjoyed fruitful growth and also the longest unbeaten streak we have ever had. Loved the video, Keep it up Vizeh 🇲🇹🍾

[@hendersongalbreath1072]

The Ireland scandal, "Sandwichgate", really brought back some great memories of the 2002 WC. Friends and I gathering at 2 and 3 in the morning, getting completely pissed and generally having 3 of the best weeks of our lives. Took days to get all the beer off the walls and ceilings. As an aside, well done Gibraltar. Just some minor photoshop issues. Well-behaved FA, that.

[@Śmigens1]

btw fun fact the game between two mentioned belgian teams was the most goal scorring draw in football history, which happened on august 7th 1999 and the game ended 6-6

[@ditik2795]

Great vid! Can't wait for pt2!

[@guywithacreativename5134]

If any of you wanted a Turkish one: Mostly it's much of not of a dark story but it's mostly against Galatasaray with accusations of match-fixing at around 1990s. The current season was ultimately predicted a championship for Besiktas as they were the 1st team with Galatasaray being the runner-up. Galatasaray had required 8 goals in total to surpass Besiktas in goal difference to become the champions. Of course with chances towards Besiktas being very high the Besiktas fans had began early celebrations in streets etc. But, in the last matches of the season Galatasaray had faced Ankaragucu (Also the same team who faced fining over punching a referee). It was expected that Galatasaray could win, but to a big surprise, nobody expected for them to somehow win 8-0. The exact amount of goals needed to secure the championship. Which this obviously led to suspicious and frustrations from the Besiktas fans and practically everyone else. This was a long case seeing how Ankaragucu players had played compared to their other matches, assuming Galatasaray had bribed Ankaragucu and did match-fixing. Although, Galatasaray didn't face any finings, the case was pretty much left towards them to them being not guilty.

[@janosvarga3263]

Happy to have given the Hungarian example! Great video as always

[@KokenyRichard]

Yea bloody commies...

[@РостиславСлавчев-р8н]

Nice job! I love your videos! Support from Bulgaria! We have a lot of fotball scandals. Mainly around our Bulgarian Football presidents. But as a honorable mention, I can also give you the chaos in the Bulgarian Cup final in 2006, when a massive fight between the fans of Cherno More and CSKA happened . Here is a video from it. Sorry for the bad quality, but it is from 2006. :D You can also see the case of CSKA and CSKA 1948. Two clubs with the same name. I hope that I helped you. :) But, of course, I feel that Bulgaria vs England 2019 will be on the list. Speaking about the match fixing. Dan Tan, who worked with Raj Perumal fixed a friendly match of Bulgaria vs Estonia in 2011, which finished 2:2 after all 4 goals came out of penalties. You can find a lot about Bulgaria. Also you can see FC Tsarsko Selo (A bankrupted club). The owner went on thepitch in order to prevent a player taking a penalty. You can make a whole video about us. :D

[@edi0157]

Same for us here in Romania lol, our leagues are just wild. Btw, your link doesn’t work if you meant to have one, I am not sure if it is even possible to link stuff within youtube comments but at least now it isn’t working, no link shows up

[@РостиславСлавчев-р8н]

@@edi0157 kzbin.info/www/bejne/mWmriWeEgZxon6s And now?

[@mickallister]

Great video, I do feel that the self censorship detracts from the seriousness of some of these cases. On the Iceland one you said "Gylfi was accused of behaviour in a very bad way" and you mentioned on another "R'ed". I'd say if you're making content like this, you can't be shying away from the words that fully describe the situation.

[@liamfitzdrums]

I wonder if Saipan got many Irish tourists over the years after the Roy Keane & Mick McCarthy debacle.

[@savastepeli4210]

You should've put 1949 Linfield-Belfast Celtic match for Northern Ireland. In that game several Celtic players were lynched by the crowd.

[@RainXbox]

Northern Irish person here. I'd say Belfast Celtics withdrawal from the league In 1949 would have been a better inclusion than the Sunday football issue

[@SaifAlyamani-vv4bv]

For the record, the man in 11:47 frame is not the one whose mentioned, that’s a photo of a Saudi refree called Fahad Al merdasi but he looks like him though 😂😂

[@lathymorek]

I think for Poland the match fixing in the polish league final in 1993 suits better. Playing teams were Amica Wronki and Aluminium Konin. The first half was going alright but at half time the referee got the managers of both teams to the referee room and started a bidding war, who wins his team will be more favorable. One guy even offered 100.000zl (£52,176.34 at that time).

[@tibotierenteyn]

“Propere handen” was a much bigger scandal in Belgian football than Westerlo vs Genk. To make a long story short. 2 refs, 2 player agents, few clubs and a few coaches were involved in fixing multiple matches. The refs were banned, most clubs has cut ties with the agents, KV Mechelen got punished by relegation, a lot of people were interrogated under which Ivan Leko (Club Brugge coach at the time) and Herman Van Holsbeeck (Anderlecht president at the time). And the funny (or worrying) thing is one the player agents brother is now chairman of the Belgian FA. Even years after, there are new things about this case coming out. But it’s been quite since about 2 years.

[@tristanlwkns]

So weird this silly Westerlo-Genk incident is included in this video. There are way more darker and insane cases in Belgian football history than this nonsense. "De gokchinees " or "propere handen" cases are easily up there.

[@Purplenbrown]

Slovakian 2nd division was plagued with match fixing and bet fixing 10 years ago. To a point where I heard that coaches had to scold whole teams in locker room threatening players with no payment until end of the year if they ever sniffed out more cases of that. Not sure what is happening now.

[@TomVanhimbeeck650]

Belgium has a lot more scandalous football stories like the case of Dejan Veljkovic (basically match fixing) and the Zheyun Ye case (again… Match fixing) or even the case of Anderlecht-Nottingham Forest (you guessed it: Match Fixing)

[@Jester-611]

i like how theres a consistent flow of videos from vizeh now keep it up liam!! also roy keane was right.

[@comersaberes-ok9lc]

you could make a 10 hour video about the big 3 in portugal, mainly porto and benfica. every season a new scandal but they are untouchable by the law

[@YABORGHINI]

yeah this video sealed the deal for me, had to subscribe after watching your videos for almost 6 months.

[@jordygoossens2]

for Belgium, there is a case called "propere handen" (clean hands), its massive

[@Adrian-zg8vn]

Can’t wait for part two another great series

[@Vizeh]

Incoming very soon mate! I felt like a 2 hour video is a bit much😂

[@Adrian-zg8vn]

Fair enough

[@85Rok]

Slovenia has a Šmarna gora incedent in 2002 world cup inSouth Korea between national manager Katanec and first star Zahović.

[@FentumGames]

Where’s part 2?

[@ShadowMonkey69]

One you do part 2, I'd love to see one about controversies with north and south america countries

[@TheSchmolke]

I was wondering, what it could be from Denmark, but i do remember that match, it was crazy that it got called off. Also the "fan" was actually living in Sweden at the time.

[@Hetapeep41]

Funny enough, I was at the Westerlo - Genk game. The supporters I was standing with were pretty annoyed and stood there dumbfounded during those last minutes

[@johannlothe]

After the afterparty scandal in Norway, SK Brann got relegated from the top division. But a year later, they got promoted again, won the cup, finished second in the league and was one goal away from entering the Conference League. One of the best teams in Norway atm. Crazy shit.

[@Fuzii._B0tT]

We need Part 2!!!

[@danoninho5880]

In Portugal you also have E-Toupeira where loads of evidence against benfica was dismissed because the information was obtained through hacking

[@Shinkx0]

For the Northern Irish one, there are a lot of youth teams that refuse to play on Sundays, and sometimes have ended in massive scraps, over a bunch of 12 year old's.

[@KailumDodds]

Vizeh videos are the greatest things known to mankind

[@Vizeh]

I love you man!

[@user-wb3ln3re8s]

You have to do Greece the staff happening here in the league are always crazy especially in the past Back in the 80s or 70s for example AEL won the league but the league made an illegal point deduction so that aek would win and so the ppl from the city of Larisa cut the country in 2 and the government gave it back to them (it ended up not getting stolen unlike many other cases but its the one that escalated the most)

[@specsishere]

predicting portugal: the sporting fan coup where they attempted to literally lynch the players/manager

[@Devster_10]

Huge honor and diligent content creation.

[@Vizeh]

Cheers mate!

[@nordicoASR]

the genk incident reminds of the colombia and peru scandal when they did the same but on the 2018 world cup playoffs to get chile out of the wc and both peru and colombia went on to play the 2018 wc, as a chilean, it enfuriating to watch the mach back

[@ruzgar1903BJK]

From Türkiye, Besiktas fan here In the 80s or 90s, we played against Ankaragücü (note that we would've won the league if we won or drew) and the referee scored a goal..

[@hestgames]

I was literally watching a video about the Sala incident earlier... RIP to Sala 😢 I was shocked when it involved Cardiff because I support Cardiff, It was shocking.

[@Vizeh]

I find it so bad on how it got dealt with by both clubs fighting in courts for all these years man

[@hestgames]

@@Vizeh I agree

[@prikulis10]

Remember when that happened in Gibraltar, still can't believe to this day, shocking

[@ilusion_9]

The biggest scandal from Romania is the self destruction of Steaua Bucharest. First, by the romanian army (in the late 90s), and second by Gigi Becali. Now there are 2 teams, FCSB with the history, and CSA Steaua with the brand (logos and name).

[@hoggiegaming1749]

I know it involves another nation but irelands should be Henry handball. Cost the country millions and was the first time VAR was brought up in football

[@coralpilled]

Vizeh slowly turning into HITC Sevens

[@Untold1939]

As a romanian I was wondering which story you'll pick and i wasn't surprised that you chose a whole era of the romanian football history and not a particular story even tho i was disappointed since there are so many crazy stories that for us romanians it seems a bit normal but i'm sure for a foreign eye this could be just mental

[@kingpietro1279]

talking about the situation the belgium football corporation didn't give any poitns reduction simply just giving both teams zero points would have sovled the problem but they didn't do it

[@niko965]

About Greece 🇬🇷 you can even write a book

[@liljalapeno2187]

What a great KZbinr. There are very few good channels left on KZbin now. This certainly is one of the few.

[@VentspilsMapper]

Latvia had the same story once again recently. In 2021 Ventspils FK, one of the best clubs in Latvia, was banned both by UEFA and by LFF, and later dissolved.

[@GamingWithJulio6000]

You were the only channel I would listen to when I was in coding class, all your videos are amazing!

[@CV19_YT]

For Switzerland i would say the de gschand vo basel the travisty of Basel or the Zurich grasshopper pyro throw in 2011 i tought Switzerland would get in the first vid but i can't wait for the second

[@Vizeh]

Thank you for adding this mate

[@CV19_YT]

@@Vizeh no problem I'm Swiss and a Basel fan still broken after the Switzerland England game I was in Dusseldorf as well

[@VexNew-h7z]

You know its a good day when Vizeh drops a documentary better than National Geographic

[@maciejmusia9680]

A little side-note to Polish scandal and the sunday of miracles. Even though the clubs involved were never found guilty (because there was no such thing as match-fixing in Polish law at the time, so there was no ground for criminal punishment), Wisla Kraków board have suspended and/or terminated contracts of their own players who were involved in the 0:6 fixed match against Legia. It resulted in Wisła's relegation the following season.

[@TheMiniMaestroMan]

One of my local clubs, Dundee FC, was owned (presumably) by the mafia and signed numerous world class players like Fabrizio Ravanelli, Claudio Caniggia, Fan Zhiyi, Marco Russo who were way, waaay above the club. And that's not even a full list, it goes on and on. Claudio was on 20k/pw and had won the World Cup previously before joining in 2003. Every bit of profit made from merchandise went solely to paying his wages. The former director Giovanni de Stefano was arrested for 14 years after being charged with fraud. He had links with Sadam Hussein, Osama Bin Laden and Robert Mugabe. The BBC show 'A View From The Terrace' did a great documentary on this. The media frenzy surrounding the club was mental. It's surreal to think that players as big as this, literal World Cup winners and National Team captains, once played at my tiny local club barely 10-15 minutes down the road from the scheme I live. Dundee's current training ground is the college I go to, so they are as local to me as it gets. I walk past the players on my way home from lectures and at the car park. Although I love Rangers because seven generations of my family have supported them, if I had to pick another club, then I would probably support Dundee.

[@josephjoestar995]

Love this channel man, so many good facts and history - history boi 😊

[@Vizeh]

Thank you bro!

[@zeeolifant77]

As a Belgian, I support Gent. And we needed Westerlo to win against Genk to make it to the playoff. Seeing this was verybsad, but we got our revenge in the end beceause we wear first in the second playoff and then beat Genk in the match for European football. Karma strikes back

[@Vizeh]

Ah thanks for adding that piece mate!

[@tristanlwkns]

Very deserved European qualification if you as me as Genk fan, we have been making a fool of ourselves now and then for the last couple seasons on and off the pitch. That said I think there is nothing scandalous about the last minutes of Genk-Westerlo, both teams were safe and this is what most teams would do, just not that obvious. Don't hate the players, hate the game and it's stupid rules!

[@Bluebyza]

Is widely -known- guessed in Spain that Rubiales is involved in a bunch of corrupt dealings (and he's on trial for a lot of shady/weird deals AFAIK) but the thing that took him down was thinking he was so high above the law and decency that didn't need to contain himself on a celebration. His family reacted to this ordeal in a composed and timely manner... HA sister and cousin went to tv to defend/acuse him, his mom got inside her local church and went on hunger strike...

[@BeWe1510]

The football ban on Sundays in Northern Ireland is interesting to me. I quickly skimmed through the schedule of the Irish league and didn’t find Sunday matches either. Of course Ireland is generally seen as one of the more pious countries in Europe but most other countries are Christian too and nobody cares there. Gaelic football seems to be played on Sundays regularly so I wonder if any Irish could weigh in, is it only due to religious believe or is it some sort of gentleman’s agreement to leave Sundays for Gaelic football? In this case it would make sense that playing on Sundays caused controversy in Northern Ireland because Irish nationalists probably saw it as compromising the all-Irish Gaelic football competition in favor of the divided association football competition.

[@Thepodgequinn]

It was the Loyalists, that controlled the Occupied Six for years, that chained up swings on Sundays, not Nationalists. I'm not sure if pious would be the correct adjective either, fundamentalist would be more accurate.

[@Quanny69]

Another banger.Most underrated KZbinr !.My da doesn't like the way roy Keane walked out of the team.Our best team so far

[@AManAndHisKebab]

The case of Izzy Akinade was a much worse (but less well known) scandal in Irish football

[@filipstojanovski5244]

4:50 Delije is pronaunced like this: Then without saying the n - Lee-Ye

[@langoles1824]

Nk rogaska had a few scandals during their 1 season in the first slovenian legue. First their stadium was very bad so because of that countles games were delayed and the whole league had to ajust by playing the rogaska home games at 1 pm because there was sun light at that time (they didint have reflectors) There was an incident where they had to play nk koper where the games was canceled and a 3-0 win was awarded to koper because nk rogaska didint follow the homegrown young player rule. From that point onwards they started the game with a young slovenian kepper got the ball out of play as quicly as possible and subbed on a new kepper (that was tecnicaly still following the rules) At the end of the season it was revelaed that they will not be able to get their uefa and slovenian league licence because of the stadion and financial stuff. As it was revealed some rogaska players didn't have contract with rogaska but another company so a funny example by contract their striker was technicaly an electrician for that they got demoted to the 4th division of slovenian football. There was quite a lot of incidents but these are the most inportant.

[@The_Kave_man]

I watch these vids while I play champs, I would totally sit for a 2 hour video

[@onewinged23]

Hi Vizeh. Loved the video. Hopefully this comment finds you before you release the subsequent sequel to this video since as a lithuanian I do wonder if you already have sth in your notes/plans already for pretty much the only nation in europe that quite famously doesn't consider football as their #1 team sport. If you don't then I have two offers: - The national federation, in its early days, investing their finances into mayo manufacturing (yes, food product). I guess it would be a funny story in already dark video on how corrupt LFF (Lithuania football federation) was and still is; - Tho if you really want some dark stuff then the recent passing Karolis Chvedukas ir pretty dark, sad and recent enough, with more questions than anwsers. How initially a healthy athlete has been reported to suffocate from lethal heart failure turned into criminal case where he actually on a day of his passing was beaten mercilessly by yet unknown "people" with yet to be uncovered agenda. I don't think that the investigative story is finished tho it seems to be a cold case recently. Regardless, for a former national team member who had 20 apps (including one game against England) to end his life this way serves now as a cautionary tale for many, especially young families with toddlers looking for after school physical activities, that what would be considered a success in terms of being a footballer in Lithuania is complete tragedy and utter waste of ones life and potential

[@giovaniberkhof4820]

I thought the netherlands was going to be about carlo picorni……. Never knew the story of hamel such a painfull thing to hear the history should teach us ❤

[@P3ppar]

So... where's our part 2? Great video!

[@davywilson8779]

imagine how crazy this would get if you did this for every continent the stories would be crazier