1992 - HOW one year changed football forever

Modern football didn’t come from nowhere - with it’s shiny TV presentation and big money transfers and wages. It’s development can be traced back to a specific year: 1992. The start of the Premier League, the UEFA Champions League, and freedom of movement in Europe birthed the football we know today. Join us on a trip to the days of the Fresh Prince, grunge and Starter jackets to see just how 1992 shaped the sport we love.
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[@Beaulacdebale]

Before 91 you couldn't predict which team will arrive in semi or final. Now, you will only see the richest clubs win the title. No more surprises. And it's even worse with the European championship.

[@cosminutz]

Another big factor which he could have added here is the fall of the iron curtain in ‘89 because it opened the gates for the Eastern European talent who were now free to join any team that afforded them. This basically removed any possible real competition from the East because in terms of raising private capital to afford high salaries, Eastern clubs were too far behind and now the gap continues or is worse.

[@rohithraman6488]

Ajax Lyon Roma Hold my beer

[@dahannes6739]

@@rohithraman6488 those are still so grand that used to be goats

[@zeetchelsea]

Mostly it was always the richest clubs progressing ahead during 20th century Not just now

[@rohithraman6488]

Worse with the Euros? Wales, Iceland and Denmark have surprised us recently

[@samykiani944]

I miss the days when Eastern European clubs were competitive. These days it's already a big achievement if they reach the latter stages of the Europe League. Back then they used to win the predecessor of the CL.

[@crxiqz]

You don't look old enough to remember tbh but isn't a run in the Europa now better than Red Star winning a weak and lesser CL just 1 year before the 1992 change? There was only 5 rounds and only had to beat Grasshopper, Rangers and Dresden before Bayern in the semi's. I think their run and the likes of Steaua are over romanticized in how much of a sporting achievement it was just for the sake of thinking it's better that their was a diversity of clubs from much lesser leagues in todays climate

[@trapeznik]

@@crxiqz What isn't romanticized is parity of the teams. Not just for eastern european clubs but also middle-table teams from top leagues. And even if there was 1 team that dominated certain era in the past it would usually last for short period of time, nowadays it's decades and it feels like it will only get worse, as someone who grew up with bundesliga in 90s, I just can't care about it anymore, even if bayern loses it's usually one sided game and a fluke result. Ironically even though european football was modelled by american sports, it failed badly in keeping parity of the teams, something that is still admirable in every american sport league.

[@samykiani944]

@@trapeznik You are absolutely right. It's about parity. Nowadays it's very hard to rise from a mid-table or relegation battle team to a top team. It takes a lot. Atalanta ia trying to establish themselves as a force in Italy. Their project is going the right direction. They did it without much ressources. It' s very hard to do so. Atletico with Simeone and Leicester are other examples but these are exceptions.

[@jovidbodurkhonov7623]

@@crxiqz Stfu. Real Madrid also had easy roads, Bayern, and other “elite” clubs.

[@anaidmekic653]

@@crxiqz Actually that isn't a easy way because all those clubs your mentioned was strong in those days. As you can hear from the video, clubs in those days can have only few players outside the country and that was the politics of all clubs, so Red Star, for example, had very strong team composed of players from Yugoslavia. Clubs were more even those days. For example NK Rijeka from Croatia/Yugoslavia beat Real Madrid 3-1 in 1984. they lose in second game, but that isn't the point.

[@trancedj77]

1992, the year football became a business at a global scale. €€€

[@dahannes6739]

😭😭😭

[@MP-si6mp]

Widening the gap between rich and poor and he said. Champions league anthem is the tune of English monarchs

[@adamigo1000]

The quality of this video and this channel in general, frankly speaking, is nothing short of amazing! Great content!!!

[@dwkickoff]

thanks Adam, we aim to please

[@heygoogle6133]

DW in general makes awesome documentaries.

[@betootaadvocate1966]

It’s German in other words it’s quality

[@mediacenterman8583]

@@dwkickoff Huge oversight to not include Italia 90. This tournament coincided with a societal shift to how football was perceived. It also was the catalyst for international players to transition between countries and provided a great platform for Serie A's superstars.

[@renealmeida6436]

Agreed. This is amazing content

[@TeriMummyMeriHoja844]

Where was this channel for the past 18 years of my life? Best football channel in my opinion.

[@genekwagmyrsingh9433]

Germany?

[@sieteocho]

People in some parts of Asia were watching football before 1992. Indonesia was in the 1938 World Cup. People in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Hong Kong and South Korea were already football crazy in the 60s and 70s. This year is the centenary of the Malaysia Cup. (But there is no doubt that something changed in 1992.)

[@mediacenterman8583]

100% agree. It was also big oversight to not include Italia 90. This tournament coincided with a societal shift to how football was perceived. It also was the catalyst for international players to transition between countries and provided a great platform for Serie A's superstars.

[@wandilande9628]

*Dutch East Indies

[@JalanHidayah__]

Football is so famous in Indonesia, Thailand, japan, south korea. Then Malaysia, Vietnam Iran, Australia.

[@sylar2a]

And thus, UEFA created large gap in club footbal quality between rich and not so rich countries, bringing even more money to rich countries in the end.

[@abirachman]

That's life for you mate. You want all equality, go communist. But good luck finding the not corrupt leader tho.

[@truechaosmulala3831]

@@abirachman easy be that ruler

[@lkrnpk]

@Dmitry Zaripov Well Croatia reached World Cup final and Uruguay still on any day can at least win bronze, so small countries still can do big things. As for club football, sure you can say it is harder, but Russia had and still has plenty of money and that alone could not bring much in terms of the result (ok they have some Europa League success), so perhaps talent and scouting is lacking too nowadays? Yes, big clubs take all the talent, then again there's the example of Leicester which shows that a modest club can still do a lot

[@reintaler6355]

@Dmitry Zaripov you do realize that Eastern European clubs spent decades playing under communist regimes before 1992 right?

[@roccobln10]

@@lkrnpk bro Uruguay win 2 worldcup

[@joesantos8532]

The UEFA Champions League started in 1991-92 season, went to a Champions group match between Benfica v Sparta Prague in Fev 1992! I still have the ticket !

[@arthurtrommel1438]

You might say, 1992 is the year, football lost his innocence.

[@abhishekhravi1521]

“Can football ever leave this path” Florentino perez - “lol”

[@hitmonchan52]

Bro videos like this make me want to cry. 6 billion years on the planet and we live during the era of champions league 😭😭😭😭😭

[@Joel-mh3cn]

?

[@physe1637]

what

[@dahannes6739]

*6 thousands

[@johnnymiles6062]

@@dahannes6739 ignorant

[@xpointer483]

Lol your comment sound like you could have been born at anytime in these billion years like right after the earth was created but unfortunately you happen to live at a time when champions league is around.

[@Delboy0]

It is nice to see a German media outlet being truthful about why English teams are so rich. I often see in the German media and German fans state that English teams are only richer than German teams because of Sheiks and Oligarchs. The truth is TV money, plain and simple. England invented football, but also reinvented it in 1992. They were the first country in Europe to apply American sports marketing techniques to football, to create buzz and hype for football. But they were also the first to market their league globally. While English teams have always been the most popular globally because English teams used travel globe in the 1950s and English games were shown internationally since the 1960, with the American sports marketing and England's history and culture, they turned English football gold to cocaine. This meant English teams were not only getting a lot of TV money domestically, but globally too. England turned football from a million euro industry to billion euro industry. So in the US where football is not a big huge sport, the Premier League earns more money just from the US TV companies, than the Bundesliga earns globally on their TV contract. People claim bubble will burst, but Sky UK need the EPL because it is main reason people subscribe to Sky so they have to pay more to keep it. As former Chelsea owner said about Sky, people will not keep their subscriptions just to watch the Simpsons.

[@felixw19]

Well it explains why English clubs initially had more money than the teams in other countries. But then these countries applied the same marketing techniques. Without the oligarchs the top clubs around Europe would have about the same amount of money. The oligarchs and club owners are tge reason English clubs have more money than the rest TODAY. Also England and Spain have marking advantages above e.g. Germany, because English and Spanish are the world's most widespread languages. This makes foreign marketing easy when the potential costumers (you just can't call them fans) already speak your language. German on the other hand is rarely spoken outside of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. This makes foreign marketing harder and gives the Bundesliga a disadvantage.

[@Delboy0]

@@felixw19 What utter nonsense. Please explain how teams from other parts of Europe would have the same amount of money as English teams, when English teams earn £5 billion from foreign TV rights and leagues like the Bundesliga and La Liga earn less than 1 billion from international TV rights? English teams are the most popular teams in the world and that is why their TV contracts are so much bigger. Teams like Liverpool, Man Utd, Arsenal, Man City, Chelsea and Spurs average between 400 million and 200 million global TV viewers per game. To put this into perspective Real Madrid and Barcelona are the most watched non-English teams and they only average 50 million global TV viewers when they are not playing each other. This means Premier League TV rights are worth more because TV companies around the world know English teams attract viewers and subscribers. And if language is the only reason English teams are popular, then why are Premier Leagues matches the most watch games in Europe, South America, African and Asia where many people don't even speak English? I will also point out the Bundesliga was the first European football shown in the US in 1970s and 1980s well before the English football so had a head start, but English football has taken over in the US now, because people there prefer how English teams play and the history of the clubs and that is why the Premier League is the most popular sports league in the world.

[@Delboy0]

@@felixw19 I will also point out only 2 of the 20 Premier League teams are owned by oil or gas billionaires, so with FFP, that Bayern President Rummenigge helped create and rig in favour of his club a rich owner cannot bankroll his team. No points out that Real, Barcelona and Bayern more money than any English teams and the wealth comes through dubious circumstances. Real and Barcelona take 50% of the La Liga TV money to give them false wealth and Bayern as the only big team in the 3rd biggest economy in the world get inflated sponsorship contracts from German companies for nationalistic reason than true value. One of the reasons Liverpool left Adidas was because Adidas a German based company wanted to pay Liverpool less money for a kit deal, despite Liverpool selling more kits than Bayern 5 to 1. So Adidas was paying Bayern more money just because they are German. No also talks about the corruption Rummenigge helping to create FFP laws and making the laws so they favour his team. FFP could have been based on proof of wealth so teams with rich owners could spend, but he went for income generated because he knew Bayern being the only big club in Germany with inflated sponsorship from German companies have much higher income than teams countries where there are multiple big teams, where sponsorship is more divided up. When FFP was launched Bayern suddenly became contender for the Champions League because the law handicapped countries with multiple big teams in England and Italy.

[@Monaleenian]

@@Delboy0 That's a bit unfair. Felix is correct in saying that it is largely because of foreign owners and the competitive balance that they bring to the league by acquiring better payers for their team, that is responsible for the English clubs having more money today. The reason that the international TV rights fetch so much money is because of how competitive the Premier League is, particularly in comparison to the borefest that the Bundesliga has become over the past 10 years, where the 50+1 rule has lead to very obvious stagnation. The Premier League would have died as an international product, like the Bundesliga, if it had the same ridiculous, position-maintaining farce of a rule and would have become the same kind of one-horse league, with probably Man United always finishing first, Arsenal second etc. Your criticism of the deals offered to Bayern by German companies, which seem to not be based on what relevant factors whatsoever, is valid though. So too is your criticism of Rummenigge's involvement in the creation of FFP. It was an very obvious use of authority to entrench his team's position. I can't really blame Rummenigge though. He's doing what's in the best interest of the business that he's looking after. So are all the executives in every other football club. The problem is actually much deeper though. Having clubs compete against one another as business entities, rather than just as sporting entities, means that some win financially at the expense of others, leading to the same happening again in future, with league positions(and the associated prize money and sponsorship contracts) almost being preordained, which is clearly to the detriment of the product that the spectators actually pay for. It's probably going to take someone with a bit of common sense and vision to form a closed league, like the ones we see in America, which are all extremely profitable and sustainable, in order to avoid the stagnation that will obviously now result from the FFP rules.

[@Delboy0]

@@Monaleenian Having a rich owner is irrelevant now because England and Europe have financial fair play rules so clubs can only spend what the teams and not the owner's money. Do you know the richest owner in England is the QPR owner. They are second division team. The owner cannot spend his money because it is against the rules, he can only spend what the team makes. So rich owners have nothing to do with the competitive balance. It is not that complicated it is the huge TV contract and meritocratic distribution of this money. In the Premier League every team gets at least 250 million from TV and this creates the competitive balance because every team can afford top players and top coaches. I think what foreign owners have done is given English football a level of professionalism off the field that makes them lightyears ahead of the rest of Europe. A big problem in Germany is 50+1 rule means most German clubs are amateurish run and have a lot of incompetence making it easy for Bayern. English teams attract bigger international contracts because English teams have always been the most popular teams globally. Liverpool is far bigger than Bayern in terms of global support, yet they had not won the title for 30 years. English teams transcend success. What you have to understand is people in foreign countries have been supporting English teams for 70 years, which makes it unique to any other European league. You have 9 or 10 generations of hardcore foreign fans who follow English teams. I was in a taxi in Africa and driver was listening to a Premier League on his radio, because he wouldn't be doing this for a La Liga or Bundesliga game. I was in Asian too and Liverpool where playing Chelsea and this fancy hotel and all the staff of the hotel were trying to watch the game because they were Liverpool fans. English teams have ultra foreign fans and this is why they earn far more from international TV contracts. They are not getting more money out of charity, it is because the TV companies know English football across 6 continents gets the most viewers.

[@TStadiumhopper]

Don't forget the effect of entertaining World Cup 94 which boost the popularity of football around the world. There were influxes of top foreign players moving to/from abroad.

[@mediacenterman8583]

Italia 90 was the catalyst. First WC of the new decade, European friendly KO times, marketed well ,a crossover between sport & mainstream culture; this tournament also coincided with a societal shift to how football was perceived. It also was the catalyst for international players to transition between countries and provided a great platform for Serie A's superstars.

[@brosephyolonarovichstalin2915]

I would add 1 more thing. The decline of Italian football. This triggered the flood of available players. It started with players like Vialli, Ravanelli, Lombardo and Benito Carbone from Italy and snowballed. I also think United winning the Champion’s League in 1999 firmly put English football back on the map. A lot of people had a feeling that team was very special not just regarding league, but in Europe it could really do something. They were clapped off in the Nou Camp after the 3-3. Andy Cole/Dwight Yorke and THAT goal. For me the United/Bayern final signalled the end of Italian dominance in Europe. We beat off 2 Italian teams to get to the final. The explosion of the premier league and the beginning of the end of Serie A having the best league more or less ran at the same time. It started with them selling the 30+ players to our league clubs but the tv money generated and the sheer global reach of the premier league thru sky meant it was going to get bigger and bigger.

[@qlnbd]

Oh the memories this evokes! The "Battle of Britain" between Rangers & Leeds Utd. Bernard Tapie bribing Marseille's path to the final. Then AC Milan beating them. Such simple, uncomplicated times!😉

[@Vonneumann747]

Marseille beat Ac Milan in the final...

[@mediacenterman8583]

Huge oversight to not include Italia 90. This tournament coincided with a societal shift to how football was perceived. It also was the catalyst for international players to transition between countries and provided a great platform for Serie A's superstars.

[@secondleprechaun]

Every fan of a Euro team needs to watch this!!!!

[@angelbadillo4511]

10:05 so are going to pretend the Juve back line wasn’t the Italian back line for the last couple of years.

[@claretnewham9307]

It died in 1997, When you could qualify for the champions league when you finished 2nd and 3rd in your league. The competition should be what it says on the tin, the champions of their league. Only 1st place in the league should qualify. Not a watered down competition. The 2nd rate European competition should be a competition where only the domestic cup winners go through that way it's again a another competition with only champions and will make the domestic cups even more competitive.

[@DudleyBlue]

Mate back in the Day until the mid 90s I think It was exactly what it said on the tin!!!! Only Winners of their Leagues qualified…. Its the way it should be, I know obviously they would have to change format because the competition would only have like 15 or 16 Teams and it would be a very short tournament but they could figure it out…. Im a Chelsea Fan and I Loved watching Us Win the Champions League but shouldn’t have been there as We finished 4th to qualify, When We Won it in 2012 We finished 2nd the Season before….Except for when Chelsea are in the Final I will always support the Team that have Won their League because I see them as the deserved Winner but like I say that doesn’t include Chelsea because I’m a Football Fan and very fickle and a hypocrite 😂😂

[@moluther2826]

"Corona has tweaked things but certainly not led to a change of direction" The Super League: *are you sure about that*

[@NIDELLANEUM]

Remember when the Super League was a thing for like, a week? lol

[@ATominator9911]

the beginning of the end of football

[@Joel-mh3cn]

How

[@bumpycat3698]

@@Joel-mh3cn bEcAuSe oLd Is GoOd, nEw iS bAd

[@nick-kk5iz]

1992 must be remembered as the year football died. The romantic era of football ended. It then became a playground for companies sheikhs and oligarchs. The sport that masses around loved is not here, it has become an other cash cow.

[@Joel-mh3cn]

How has football died it is by far the most popular sport

[@abirachman]

Tough luck for you old man

[@MonTube2006]

@@abirachman Your idiocy unveil your age

[@abirachman]

@@MonTube2006 good for you old man 👍

[@MonTube2006]

@@abirachman I'm not an "old man" you simpleton 😆 Is telling someone is old an insult where you're living ?

[@tylascraig9306]

OMG...I became a fan of the Azzuri watching Salvatore "Toto" Schillaci in 1990 and that amazing defense. I became a Juventus fan through Roberto Baggio in the '94 WC. I followed him back to Europe after the World Cup and the following '94/95 Champions League season was the first I watched albeit cut short by Marine Corps boot camp. The first game I ever saw was ManU vs Barca with Romario nutmegging Schmeichel and the Lee Sharp heel flick; you can watch that entire match on KZbin. Thank you very much for all the memories from the formation of the Champions League, the EPL growth, and the Bosman ruling. Zizou leaving Juve for Madrid was the end of power in Italy. I am now following this channel. To this day I drive my fiancee crazy on match days. All she hears from the tv on commercial breaks is "THE CHAMPIONS!!"

[@afanasymarinov2236]

Extremely interesting video. You guys did your research. Thanks.

[@brosephyolonarovichstalin2915]

This a simply magnificent documentary. Great work. I feel honoured to watch this.

[@DudleyBlue]

Chelsea were the first Premiership Team to field a all Foreign starting 11 in 1999….It was a big thing back then but nobody notices in Today’s Game as it’s that common….

[@bigluv8339]

The glory days when Everton were in the Big 5 !

[@lbrasanchoo5290]

I remember football made in Germany program in our country

[@daniellopez9622]

Football from the 70's to the 91 was the best era, IMHO.

[@lexkanyima2195]

But in 1992 was a end of a era of the golden 80's in general and at it's start of a new era

[@dwkickoff]

and what about those pitches in the 1970s? Either full of mud or ticker tape

[@Kobs.A]

@@lexkanyima2195 sigh, nostalgia junkies. The only thing good about the oldies were the parity

[@lexkanyima2195]

@@Kobs.A but they still complaning in a generation what had happen

[@Joel-mh3cn]

@tackler96 ur a nostalgia merchant

[@user-ei7ed6zy9k]

The foreign players limit should be reinstated, but not as strict. Like 50% homegrown

[@timlamiam]

I did not hear a word you said for the first 2 minutes as my brain started spontaneously rapping Fresh Prince of Bel Air.

[@MrUrlanjedozvoljeno]

So, basically, UEFA and the FA destroyed the idea of Football in 1992. Thank you very much!

[@cristiansolares2007]

If they haven’t then the French league would be the most competitive league because they have most of the best players in today’s games.

[@ferdigriffonpierrot5514]

1992, the year all legends were born

[@dwkickoff]

Can we go ahead and guess you were born in 1992?

[@Arshi69]

@@dwkickoff Neymar

[@schipp3525]

It’s true in snooker

[@ciriciri9071]

CR born in 1985 smh

[@samykiani944]

It's conincidently the year of my birth. I'm 29 years old.

[@BenchviewsSportsTV]

Proper insightful information 👏🏾

[@truongtruong4148]

Whos here after europoopean super league

[@zulfikeralikhanchowdhury3129]

90's was epic, Specially Michael Jackson.

[@khairulamri4196]

Wow! nice video 👍 u've got a new subscriber from Indonesia Keep up the good work, buddy!

[@TrevorSports]

Magnificent - Really well done Sir!

[@NihilSineDeo09]

Never knew that there is a connection btw Premier League and Fox News :D The author failed to mention another great trend which started in early 90s, globalization. The people from UEFA saw the writing on the wall and decided to join the wagon early on. Unfortunately there are big downsides as well. With the exception of the occasional genius, modern football is more and more about athletics (and lately theatrics) than about talent and art. As profits rise and game frequency goes up, players lose motivation and fans treat football more like a boring porn actress rather than a beautiful woman with whom they have a romantic dinner.

[@Pikamoonsault]

I love it that the thumbnail shows BVB's Chapuisat

[@firdausansarifard]

Thoroughly enjoyed watching this documentary

[@hdx4437]

1992: The very same year that I was born, the very same year that the Beautiful Game known as Futbol (Soccer) has experienced a game-changing moment in terms of how big business works with the birth of The Champions League and bringing it massive bank by getting HUGE Broadcast Deals with SKY Sports for the emerging Premier League that brought in tremendous international talent and in the process, other European Leagues followed suit and thus expanded all over the globe in terms of broadcasting on different continents. Awesome job on this video DW Kick Off! :) It's an amazing explanation of the very year that witnessed a Butterfly Effect we witnessed in this sport.

[@benhaney9629]

It’s actually pretty crazy how far European football has been behind American sports...

[@benhaney9629]

I mean not even televising shit in 1990... For example.

[@findcholis]

You didn't mention klinsman to hotspurs. Klinsman's came to EPL was a big impact, players from outside England then saw this league is interesting

[@mediacenterman8583]

Italia 90 was the catalyst [Klinsmann starred there for WG btw]. First WC of the new decade, European friendly KO times, marketed well , a crossover between sport & mainstream culture; this tournament also coincided with a societal shift to how football was perceived. It also was the catalyst for international players to transition between countries and provided a great platform for Serie A's International superstars.

[@chaupiamarighambi5859]

Hearing the champions league anthem just gives you goosebumps

[@dwkickoff]

Just don't listen to the lyrics😂

[@sagarranjan4585]

Pretty much the BC/AD of club football. Good video👍

[@samsicles_jr]

Good timing this video!

[@dwisapto3963]

This is a very good content.

[@dwkickoff]

And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.

[@NihilSineDeo09]

@@dwkickoff Don't forget to capitalize He 😜

[@Veaseify]

This is only partially correct. One match and one person changed football and it happened before 1991. In 1987 Real Madrid beat Napoli in the first round of The European Cup and one guy who had nothing to do with either team was outraged. His name was Silvio Berlusconi and he was horrified that the Champions of Serie A could be knocked out of Europe in the middle of September. He therefore pushed for a seeding system with more teams qualifying and Group Stages for a new 'Champions League'. This would ensure that the top teams got at least 6 games in Europe every year and would be unlucky to be knocked out. He also owned a TV network that would benefit from showing all these games...and so we started on the slippery slope to where we are today.

[@dafunkyshit]

Berlusconi - so corrupt. i didn't know this but this doesn't surprise me one bit.

[@GoodGuyChucky-666]

Early 1990's when satellite TV became prevalent around the world, having channels that show sports from all over the world 24/7, it's great for European football to have this great exposure especially from Rupert Murdoch's satellite networks like Sky sports in Europe, ESPN Star sports in pan Asia & Fox Sports & ESPN in North America and Australia

[@lexkanyima2195]

Thank god it work so well

[@dwkickoff]

It certainly changed the sporting world. Are streaming services now doing the same?

[@naydra199]

@@dwkickoff yep

[@gilmour81]

Will Football ever leave this path? Today is the day of the European Super League announcement, football has just completely sold its soul.

[@dahannes6739]

I hope they will

[@codgamer]

8:18 was that Anthony Kiedis or Carlos Puyol?

[@rockymanewasted]

This was a super cool video .... someone should do a modern version of this with American college sports

[@theraggededgeonboardfastes8461]

The first 3 man attacking triumvarate that hoisted the C1 was monickered "BVP" or Boksic, Voller and Pele..👊

[@darlingtonjonathans3861]

pls can i have the list of songs used in the video? pls would really appreciate 👏🏽 @kickoff

[@freakdavis3241]

Bravo for that fresh prince intro.

[@philippoldemanns2824]

Bro nice channel !!!!!

[@Orion4976]

The Bosman ruling ruined football imo. Clubs should still have a limit on foreigners to keep some type of national identity and not just rely on splashing out cash on which ever players they like.

[@rohithraman6488]

Football has evolved, get over it

[@CC-jw8cj]

xenophobic thinking and personally, i wouldn't be interested

[@mskidi]

@@CC-jw8cj Nobody gives two fucks about you being interested

[@ianmalherbe1618]

I'm picking up high frequency noise when you are recording with camera. Not during scenes with file footage.

[@iiReCoii]

3:44 Hugo Sánchez 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

[@saifchowdhury3581]

Great Video

[@PanteraRossa]

Should do a video on the utter catastrophe that is Argentinian football. No league since 19/20 season and reformatted league cups, organizations, and TV broadcast deals over the past decade plus. The economy is also further draining what could be adoom vortex situation over the next couple of years if nothing changes.

[@diegohrestre]

ya ni entiendo como es la liga argentina :( me acuerdo que cuando era TyC quien tenia los derechos de la liga y el formato anterior que hacian que fuera la mejor de latinoamerica.

[@PJ-cm8ix]

I'm sorry but as a die hard fan of Argentinian football, I see the future of your football moving towards a similar fate as your economy in the 20th century ( for those uninitiated, Argentina was actually a developed nation that kinda sorta regressed) Sad because I'm a huge fan of the culture.

[@KiloPage777]

This docu answered every question I ever had about anything lol. Wow

[@habaalshem9266]

Modern day UCL have seen some of the greatest teams and players there ever will be. Top 5 club teams in UCL, who won the trophy (not in order): Ajax 1995 Pep's Barcelona Enrique's Barcelona 14'-17' Bayern.M 12'-13' Bayern.M 19/20-20/21 Worst winners (no order): United 99' Liverpool 05' Chelsea 12' Porto 04'

[@markm9457]

Waaaauw, people complaining about how disgraceful the Super League is should watch this so they can realise what hypocrites they are. I love the idea of the Super League

[@chorathmy]

Ha ha could recall I read Red Star Belgrade in newspapers when I was schooling in early 90's 🤩🤩🤩

[@jericho9653]

My god what the hell happened to AC Milan, what a great club they were, can't believe how far they have fallen

[@dafunkyshit]

they're doing a lot better now!

[@DudleyBlue]

Yeah I do remember 1991!!!! My earliest Football memory was England vs Cameroon in the quarter final of Italia 90

[@germsthegerm4494]

One day we'll watch this video and reminisce about the "old days" with no Super League or joint leagues like the BeneLiga

[@creynolds094]

6:00 I like watching the Premier League match summaries on BBC's Match of the Day.

[@ahmedgalliard6892]

Spending many dollars to a club for having your name in its shirt . That's the most .... Idea i've heard All night .

[@MrWolf-xk8sl]

I miss the different teams making it throughout the Champions Cup, nowadays it's too boring.

[@mrkipling2201]

Eric Cantona was already in England. Leeds bought him in 1991 from Sheffield wednesday and then Manchester United bought him in October 1992. Great video though. Very informative.

[@masivuye4485]

Did he played for Sheffield Wednesday 😳.....? Didn't know that

[@mediacenterman8583]

@@masivuye4485 He had a trail and then dipped to Leeds.

[@mediacenterman8583]

Exceedingly good point, my friend. Also Italia 90 was the catalyst. First WC of the new decade, European friendly KO times, marketed well, a crossover between sport & mainstream culture; this tournament also coincided with a societal shift to how football was perceived. It also was the catalyst for international players to transition between countries and provided a great platform for Serie A's International superstars.

[@mrkipling2201]

@@mediacenterman8583 definitely. Very good comment. Gazza probably got his move to Lazio because of his performances in the 1990 World Cup, ditto David Platt moving to Bari. My favourite World Cup was the 1986 tournament but I would say the 1990 one was a better tournament.

[@mrkipling2201]

@@mediacenterman8583 that’s right. He also played 6 a side football for Sheffield Wednesday in those soccer six things.

[@genekwagmyrsingh9433]

I was 13 at the time, but there was basically zero football available in America at that point. I literally didn't know club football existed and thought the only football was the world cup. The frigging dark ages. Still cheered hard for Germany anyway ;)

[@Ivanmaradonaaa]

Football was the most popular sport in America in the 90's and still is

[@genekwagmyrsingh9433]

@@Ivanmaradonaaa buh

[@saus-hd3928]

Great shirt with Lothar from inter „misura“…

[@aandwdabest]

Man, the fresh prince theme song was on point.

[@NoName-jq7tj]

I preferred it prior to 1992. The European Cup was a very Stella competition to win. Just to get in you had to be a champion of your domestic league.

[@dwkickoff]

was it stellar when Red Star were defending their way to the title with the help of pens? I don't think that is now possible with the group stage

[@NoName-jq7tj]

@@dwkickoff Your missing the point. You have picked 1 final from 1991. What about all the rest of the finals. The standard of competition was much higher nothing was guaranteed. Just look at Liverpool in their dominant period they went out a few times to sides like CSKA Sofia & Nottingham Forest. Modern day group stages are rubbish because they are structured so that certain sides get through. Back than just to get in you had to be Champions of your country. None of this finishing in the top four crap. Modern day European football certainly in the group stages is awful and boring to watch because it is predictable. It’s just about the rich getting richer & who cares about the rest.

[@Baller9779]

@@dwkickoff to be fair the prospect of an "underdog" winning is tantalizing and adds to the beauty of football competitions imo (even though having players like sinisa mihajlovic is not bad at all) . This is nowadays much much more difficult and I'd argue the last time it really happened was 2004 with Porto and Greece. Since then the effects of these changes have gone too far to allow this, up to the point where it's almost always the same group of big teams reaching the semi finals in the UCL. And one year where it might happen, e.g. Dortmund 2013, soon after the richer clubs are in a hunt after their players. While today's format is great for revenue and entertainment of the casual fan, imo it has hurt the competition and has led to the starvation of the different european football philosophies and traditions in favour of a stable select elite of clubs.

[@user-qw2lx2pj5u]

@@dwkickoff Red Star played offensive-minded through the whole competition except the final. So you are telling me that a team that consisted of players such as Savicevic and Jugovic, who both won "the" Champions league later in their career alongside all other great players would have no chance in modern football. It is just delusional to think that way.

[@roberthasudungan1546]

Yeah, may as well use the old league format where you earn 2 points for winning a match instead of 3 points. also get rid of backpass foul so goalkeepers can play around until the end whistle. 😂

[@nathanarcher2221]

So nobody is talking about the fresh prince

[@shranobshrestha]

do you remember 1991. me(born in 2001):Nope.

[@LuisDiego1967]

we want more info, thanks.

[@gavinmyloff2230]

I personally think this video should have been called the death of true football, trust me 80's football was dope, now its just a few super leagues, for example the 1987 UEFA Cup Final was between Dundee United 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 vs IFK Goteborg 🇸🇪, that just wouldn't happen now 😢

[@jjryan1352]

2.5 billion/year. Imagine how greedy UEFA is. Probably no more overhead than office expenses, making mountains of money off of clubs with massive expenses, not doing a thing to help clubs during the pandemic, and even threatening them with punishment for daring to consider a more equitable arrangement.

[@babajidesanusi3526]

02:31 Nwankwo Kanu and Finidi George 🇳🇬

[@Justdisco2]

It’s not mentioned here but the first champions league in 1992/93 did not feature a single English club in the final group stage, But it did in fact feature a Scottish club, Glasgow Rangers were within ninety minutes of reaching the 1st champions league final, A draw against Marseille put an end to the Rangers dream as the club went out on the away goal rule, But were unbeaten in the tournament As it turned out later Marseille ended up winning the CL with a 1-0 victory over AC Millan but should have stripped of their victory by UEFA after allegations of match fixing were proved to be true.

[@rohithraman6488]

Marseille were stripped of their league title not the UCL cause it only affected domestic games

[@Justdisco2]

@@rohithraman6488 fair enough I stand corrected, I was under the impression they were stripped of their UCL, The bottom line of it though is they were cheats, Perhaps UEFA did find evidence of wrong doing, But didn’t want the first ever champions league to be tarnished formally with match rigging. Mark Hateley spoke of a telephone call he received from someone saying whey would put &50K his way if he feigned injury and didn’t play against Marseille, The night before the big game in France. Mark told them where to go.

[@harrisonokoro7002]

1992. The backpass rule! Nothing actually changed football on the pitch itself as much as the backpass rule.

[@VladimirShkrobtak]

Круто! Очень интересное и занятное видео!

[@LegendNinja41]

good vid.

[@johnhernandez2910]

It was also the fist year names on shirts became common, like in the euros that year.

[@cfcmoi11]

92 is the year when football is becoming a money orientated sport and the sport we watched are long gone.

[@manuelcapela7620]

2:08 🎶LASAGNA!🎶

[@danonck]

Enjoyable video! The only thing is in the nineties there was no € to be spent :-)

[@SafwanNet]

By the way the tumbnail is not from 1992, although this report was about three incidents that happened in 1992

[@aidygooner]

The Covid pandemic was the perfect opportunity for FIFA, UEFA and the FA's of each domestic league to reset and make sure football clubs are financially more stable by forcing wage caps and also limit agent fees for a couple of years until the debts are reduced but when you have out-of-touch and weak leadership in all levels of football then it will lead to unsustainable and unexciting football which could have BAD consequences.

[@samykiani944]

Back then it was more about the game itself and passion. Today it's just a business. I feel the next milestone was the 2006 World Cup. Football changed even more after that World Cup with investors starting to pure money into the game.

[@dwkickoff]

why 2006 exactly Samy?

[@djembadjemba5339]

@@dwkickoff can you please explain why before it was more passion.

[@Emmanuelminerin18]

@@djembadjemba5339 it's simple, players would play for the clubs they loved, and play football because they actually wanted, not because is a very payfull job. I'm from Brazil and the reason why Brazil sucks in football these days and have players like Neymar is because modern football destroyed Brazil. The last legends from Brazil are from the 90's

[@shred896]

What's the name of this song 8:16 ?

[@auliaiskandar5898]

30 yrs ago, I thought he would talk about 70s-80s

[@onlyhonestpersononyoutube]

1992 was first champions league final, but that seasons champions league started in 1991. Red star belgrade won the last european cup, barcelona won first champions league in 1992 in wembley So, although yep, 1992 had big impact, it was started in 1991. In england, those years were also last of standing fans in english top league, that for me was biggest change in football, as it changed how people saw football. When i was a kid watching arsenal on north bank, i think i had to pay £4 in last 80s. I assume football prices were similar across europe. You leave out that major change was forced onto english football because of hillsborough in 1989. That event in april 1989 changed football forever, it began the process of destroying clubs links to there communities in england, by taking away cheap ways to watch your local team. So hillsborough is the event really that changed football, it brought change in england, and that change spread across europe. ie clubs teams went from being center of communities in england, to international names, and clubs lost there roots and foundations to the community there were born into, as those communities created these teams, for the locals, and it grew from there.

[@qubitqudin6273]

1992 at euro game was a last time back pass allowed to do..danish win tournement with this back pass tactical..score 1 goal and do back pass to goal kipper(peter shumichel)danish last man that time..no need to park the bus..just do back pass to kipper...kipper will pick ball by hand...know day was a foul if happen like that..

[@fabioabello5224]

What’s the song in 8:18?

[@Indioprophecy81]

Its funny how the NFL and how it was broadcast was the inspiration for changes in 92.