7 Football Innovators That Changed The Game

[@GarethWareth]

Surprised Arsene Wenger's not on this list. He made football a truly athletic game. Changing player behaviour and dieting, the way teams train and adopting various Cruyff methods into the English game. I'd argue he's changed football more than anyone, as the way players run and work is different because of him. Agility is much more thought of and hacking players down is much less seen - in large part because of him. But this list is combined of people who changed football in so many different ways, mostly off the pitch. But on the pitch, nobody had a bigger influence than Wenger. The behaviour, dieting, training and favouring of certain athletic qualities have changed football at the top, to the bottom. I'd go as far as saying he was never even a great manager, he was an average manager ahead of his time in England.

[@BLY99]

Gareth Ford-Elliott This is just idiotic, he might have changed some things in England, but this was common practice in France and especially Italy.

[@GarethWareth]

Most of these people of this list only changed stuff in one country. Cyrille Regis is barely recognised outside of the UK. Nothing wrong with that. The point is, Wenger took stuff from France (it certainly wasn't common practice in Italy), Cruyff and various other places. You won't find one original idea on this list. If you think Cruyff's ideas were original you're wrong. He was educated and was just the guy who brought it to the mainstream. Same with Wenger. Tupac once said, "I know I won't change the world, but I know I'll spark the mind that will." Well Cruyff and Wenger were the guys who changed the game - they weren't original ideas. Wenger's ideas were practised in other sports before also. Doesn't mean he's not a revolutionary of the game.

[@BLY99]

Gareth Ford-Elliott Italy invented most of the things Wenger implemented, they were the first to use science and dietary changes to improve footballers.

[@HeyNonyNonymous]

He didn't change anything. He just introduced already existing concept to the English game. Coaches like Valeriy Lobanovskyi and Renus Michels were far more influencial than him in that respect and they came before him too.

[@zAfrobeatz]

Although true for England, you could easily argue that the likes of Valeriy Lobanovskyi Rinus Michels were the first managers to take player fitness really seriously.

[@harshvardhansingh1240]

Messi and Ronaldo are going to change the game forever, Because they have set an standard of 50+ goals every season and with the consistany they have had over the years.

[@ichangedthename]

What about makelele that had a role named after him?

[@Dave-pv3ry]

Bibash Bhatta oh fuck off reported for spam

[@eashansaju8106]

David Molloy let the them be

[@HM-my8wz]

Bibash Bhatta fuck off

[@JonasFilberg]

😂

[@BLY99]

It's only British twats who believe that bullshit, they also claim that he was the reason for RM's downfall, but it was the loss of Redondo that caused it.

[@LGFootballNL]

Cruyff goat! ❌❌❌

[@Pain1903i]

LGFootballNL factual statement

[@Jeevzsk]

Only second to messi

[@AnthonyScott5425]

LGFootballNL it's true, he has to be right up there!

[@AnthonyScott5425]

LGFootballNL Imagine how different Barca would have been without the influence of the Dutch Master?

[@8o8g91]

Still can't spell his name right.

[@ViceCityDJ]

how about a separate whole video dedicated to jimmy hill's chin?

[@tomlesinski9385]

Chin of a whale.

[@crons8584]

That would be Jawsome! 😆👍

[@jack2717]

Why not George Best, he was the first superstar footballer

[@Jeevzsk]

True probably shouldve been here over Beckham

[@erosgonzalez532]

Beat me to it, he was Beckham before Beckham

[@chrisadlc1]

El Beatle!! The original athlete sex symbol. United’s academy is something special

[@Cinco817]

George best was the first to be hugely popular but never used it for anything. He ended up a broke alcoholic. Nobody followed in his footsteps. Beckham however was the first to recognize his popularity as a business opportunity then capitalize on it by building the global brand he did to make himself even bigger. Now we see "CR7" , Neymar etc. following the exact blueprint he left.

[@thebat3888]

Nope the first truly superstar footballer was Pele ✌

[@AnthonyScott5425]

Herbert Chapman....what a legend!! His legacy is, and will always be, greater than any Arsenal manager we've had (and probably will ever have). He lay the foundations that we're built upon today. Cheers, Copa.

[@djstan12345charlie]

George Best did it before Becks!

[@DecourceyOrED]

And Robin Friday did it wayyyyy before him 😏

[@Cinco817]

George best was the first to be hugely popular but never used it for anything. He ended up a broke alcoholic. Nobody followed in his footsteps. Beckham was the first to recognize his popularity as a business opportunity. He capitalized on it by building a global brand to make himself even bigger. Now we see "CR7" , Neymar and Pogba following the exact same model he left.

[@MsBruur23]

'If I had the choice between dribbling past five players and scoring from 40 yards at anfield, or shagging miss world, it'd be a hard choice. Thankfully, I've done both. What a legend

[@rockzs74r]

But becks didn't become alcoholic, then poor and etc. Beckham succeed. And i met him at the airport the other day and i was starving he bought me dinner and £50 note

[@tbphotoshoptutorials3836]

Wenger pretty much introduced the world of football to sports science.

[@HeyNonyNonymous]

No he didn't. He may have introduced to world of English football to sports science, but that's because English football managers are a bunch of neanderthal idiots who refused to move on with time.

[@Cr33DEXOTIC]

You should have called it 7 Football Innovators That Changed The British Game. More than half of them only had impact on England. Who I really miss is Rinus Michels. The true inventor of Total Football.

[@alanlars628]

so you put a picture of lev yashin in the intro but not in the list? he literally created what the modern day keeper is now

[@erictapia1772]

Neymar changed the transfer window

[@noelara2363]

Eric Tapia. 😂 it's funny cause it's true

[@cando_miasanmia]

Franz 'Kaiser' Beckenbauer

[@posner89]

Bribing referees his whole career WACCOE

[@in-the-moment6276]

Messi and Ronaldo have revolutionised modern football already. With a level of talent and consistency that is unmatched in the modern game . They have set the bar for people to want to progress and get better so they have changed alot

[@callumdoherty4970]

Beckenbaur first modern day cdm and invented the sweeper

[@LordFred69]

RIP Cruyff

[@IamBatman616]

David Beckham truly revolutionized football.

[@MiguelLopez-zn1wo]

Lev Yashin revolutionized modern day goal keeping

[@CesarSanchezfool]

LOL at Beckham

[@nasospapageorgiou470]

Nice vid keep up

[@saswatmohanty1475]

Yashin redefined meaning of goal keeping

[@BhagyanagarRE]

Lol... What about David Moyes ?? Man who Changed ManUtd for ever..

[@zicomitchell]

Pep Guardiola - tiki taka

[@petitnicollas]

Zico Mitchell He didn't create tiki taka.

[@Dench999or911]

Good list, possibly could add Vic Buckingham who bought Cruyff into Ajax's system and played a key role in introducing 'total football' into Ajax's style of play

[@kedrricklobo]

Wenger revolutionised English footballing landscape. He definitely deserves a spot here.

[@alexj1650]

Ruud Gullit is seen as an innovator in my eyes due to his versatility, i don't know if he was the first player to be that versatile but if he wasn't he surely perfected it.

[@michaelturner6335]

Brian Clough!!! come on the man was a genius

[@MattijnPlayz]

Johan ❤️

[@evandroLG2]

Another great modern names that could be included in this kind of list would be: original ronaldo (he brought some new moves to the sport, such as stepover), guardiola (with taktik), , cr7 and messi (longevity, 50+ goals in a season)

[@JonasFilberg]

Herbert Chapman! 🔴

[@HeyNonyNonymous]

Beckham doesn't belong in this list. Either Bela Gutman or Guztav Sebes should take his place.

[@streetsesh80]

What about Yashin?

[@alexsupertramp5600]

Vince Zafra you’re right, keeping would be a lot different without him

[@Jeevzsk]

Johan Cruyff💛

[@Dumdumdoogie]

Jimmy Hill with that Habsburg jaw

[@КатяБорька]

amaze , I have been in shocker from what you saw

[@enriquecampos3139]

Santiago Bernabeu, the creator of the first super club.

[@raulrodriguez8272]

Great list mate so accurate

[@reecejconley]

Sir Matt Busby is a must!

[@rhyswoodbridge3914]

Pep has improved cruyffs system and brought it to more leagues and proved you can play amazing while reamaining defensively solid. Made this style superior to all and has DONE IT IN THE PREM. Plus he has tge formula to make millionaires drop there pride and die for there teams.

[@jogabonito4453]

Rhys Rozanski yes but if Cruijff did not manage Guardiola at Barcelona he would not be the manager he was today. Guardiola even said that he didn't know anything about football until he met Cruijff.

[@rhyswoodbridge3914]

Stijn T Jong yes i wasnt trying to say pep>cruyff i was saying hes equally as revolutiony and should be in thus video

[@HeyNonyNonymous]

I think we need more perspective to evaluate Pep's contribution to the game. Maybe this list should be revisited in 15-20 years time.

[@rhyswoodbridge3914]

HeyNonyNonymous yh sure but hes certaintly have way there, dount he will be managing for another 20 years tho😂 remember he likes golf

[@MJ-zn8iu]

Juninho was the first ive seen to use the "knuckleball" technique. Ronaldo seems to get the credit for it but Juninho was doing it way before and he was treating free kicks like penalties.

[@tylerramian1352]

Rest in peace Cyrille❤️

[@__freewill]

Alex Ferguson, Pele, Maradona, Ronaldinho

[@kevinmcnelis9388]

Wa about lord bentener

[@ernst_marais_smartonlinetrader]

I think Maradona brought individualism to the game, something that few people have seen before 1980

[@brendangraham5277]

Bosman was a MF not a GK

[@TheGamingJerkk]

What about Lev Yashin? He changed the role of a goalkeeper drastically

[@pusbccfc3424]

Two of them are Coventry city legends 💙 #PUSB

[@luckyredzebra2166]

great to see 2 sky blue legends on this list #PUSB

[@Healingson]

What division is this team in?

[@pusbccfc3424]

khwezi c league two (fourth division in England).

[@Kyle-qw4cq]

Sky Blue Army

[@ruary3243]

Arsene Wenger???

[@BLY99]

Ruary Marshall For what? For doing what the French and Italians were already doing?

[@NewKidsNitro2011]

Jimmy Hill is bloody Crimson Chin man

[@guichi111]

I know this is a British channel but come on! Chapman, Hill and Regis are unknown outside of the UK. Pele and Eusebio were the first black icons in world football, not Regis.

[@HeyNonyNonymous]

Chapman is very well known. Hills made remarkable contribution to the game regardless of whether he is known or not, and Pele and Eusebio weren't breaking grounds as black players. Becks shouldn't be on that list, though.

[@guichi111]

HeyNonyNonymous yeah, you are right. Being the first black player to win the Ballon d’or and be remembered as the first african superstar and the greatest african player ever isn’t groundbreaking at all

[@MotRi1986]

I actually think Beckham belongs on this list but that is not a good thing. as the video said he where the first super celebrity of football. He build a whole brand around his name much in the same way Neymar, Zlatan and Pogba did later. Before Beckham footballers where just that after him the biggest stars is so much more. Chapman might be unknown for most people but he is one of if not the most important figure in the history of football, there are so many elements in modern football that we take as granted that can be traced back to him. He was also extremely important when it came to spreading the game from Britain to the rest of the world.

[@U_C_G]

Man, sucks that Wenger isnt on this list after all he did for modern football

[@ys-if8mk]

This vid was good and all but one thing that really triggered me is that the small long diagonal line that was coming across the screen never actually made it the whole way once usually ending a centimeter or 2 before and the clip changing

[@ramjan_.f]

Wenger transformed the premier league and became a legend maybe not now but he will always be centre talk for the new premier league

[@sallago2110]

nakata, the player that change asian and europe mind

[@AD-hj7cw]

I know that the English dont see beyond europe but Beckham, really? It was a normal to bad player, it was popular but nothing else, where is Guardiola, Menotti, Maradona, Campos, Chilavert, Di Stefano, Messi, without Spain and Latin America football is nothing. specifically English "football"

[@user-em9mw9ch3y]

you actually didn't mention what INNOVATIONS Cruyff made !

[@simonbrahane3996]

cryuff revolutionalized Barca game to dominate world football

[@bdt5096]

Helenio Herrera should've been on here

[@MK_kizz]

Rest in peace Johan Cruyff

[@milanmagar4660]

Herbert Chapman the man who made the Arsenal

[@MOONSPORTS]

It's such a disappointment that arsene Wenger isn't on the list. He changed and revolutioned English football. from hygiene to football.

[@tdyerwestfield]

You forgot the innovations Jimmy Hill made with chins.

[@lukemetcalfe4682]

Midland Road at the start 😂

[@Kira-gi7sn]

Cruyff #1

[@BhagyanagarRE]

My list Brazil Rinus Michel & cruyff Heleno Herreira Madrid Arrigo sacchi Maradona ( for proving that one man can be a team)

[@frostythesnowman3533]

What about William McGreggor, he created the world's first Football League

[@uchoobe1876]

What about Wenger?

[@LLCL2012]

Also Pelé he was the fisrt player who make the first true 10, besides the fact of giving a real meaning to the numbers of the players, and also helping with the law Pelé in Brasil.

[@zizoushifty1483]

Pele wasn't even a number 10 he was a striker

[@LLCL2012]

That is like saying that Messi is just an Striker, He was the first 10 and 10-9 of the history.

[@HeyNonyNonymous]

Pele may have worn a number 10, but he was more of a 9. A very versatile, somewhat withdrawn 9, but definitely not a 10. Players like Hidegkuti and Sindler also played in a similar position before him.

[@mikeyhumphries8917]

Where is bill shankley?

[@sudharshanve8519]

Imagine if Man United picking Cryuff over Ferguson in late 1980s!! I would have loved to see Rooney-Ronaldo-Park Tango of 2008 in a Tiki-Taka style!! 😀😀😀😀😀

[@mikeyguy3288]

Obviously Brendan Rodgers

[@vikhyath.]

What about Robbie from Arsenal FanTV? He revolutionised post match rants

[@DomingoTV4]

Rinus Michels taught Cruyff

[@lautarosottile33]

You forgot about Carlos Salvador Bilardo

[@nintendogamer4703]

Jimmy Hill looks a bit like Hazza Kane!

[@daxxkid101]

Rinus Michels should be on this list ahead of Cruyff.

[@alexanderpetersen3419]

HCH Millwall not particularly ahead but he does deserve a place

[@daxxkid101]

Alexander Petersen Michels invented total football. Without him there's no Cruyff or Pep. Of course he deserves to be here over Cruyff.

[@daxxkid101]

R. DB The inventor of total football. The man that influenced Cruyff should be here ahead of him.

[@LLCL2012]

Bosman, after that law the European footbal stop being competitive, and started focusing in just a few clubs, and those ruled by a magnate, also disarming the football clubs of South America.

[@samc125]

Plz do the Fifa icons videos please

[@ojeojeoje1990]

Where is Ernst Happel, who invented „pressing“?

[@Killafire7]

Haven't watched the video but if graham potter and Östersund are not in this video you have missed something

[@dominikharrison2759]

There's so many that you can't just put 7

[@diccidictator8110]

Seems like a british dominated list. I would like to see a list of the 25 Gamechanger in Football history in a objective international point of view. I have even one or two more brits in mind that had a big influnece to the game.

[@marcucasa5107]

Ajaccio derby please

[@bbcmotd]

Lev Yashin? Introducing a goalkeeper role playing the full penalty box instead of always staying at goal. But of course a black english player is more trendy.

[@ntedeschini]

Beckham? Really? There is a World around Who disagree.

[@ffn4s08]

I Unsubscribled instantly after saw DB on the thumbnail :))). What a joke :))

[@TISZALAEGERSZEG]

Kubala did a bit more than 5 on the list

[@mezoa3775]

messi? maradona? ronaldinho? ronaldo?

[@devanshsanghavi]

Busquets

[@ThatGuy-qp6dv]

Scott Sterling

[@valdirleijose7717]

What about Vanderlei Luxemburgo????

[@kevincordoba-llanos4856]

No Georgie Weah, The original Ronaldo or Romário??? Come on!

[@devanshsanghavi]

Ronaldinho

[@P0UTY1]

PELE, HOW DID YOU MISS HIM?

[@Adam-vg4sq]

I scored my first Sunday league goal in 5 years hahaha am a cb 90th minute header to win us our cup

[@Dave-pv3ry]

Bibash Bhatta legit you fuck off begging for people to visit ur channel on every comment. Just fuck off

[@Buffalo1967]

That chin

[@byb7915]

RONALDINHO WAS THE LAST PLAYER TO CHANGE FOOTBALL.

[@joaoserra3714]

Jean Marc Bosman was a midfielder not a goalkeeper

[@BurnRoddy]

Beckham an innovator? HAHAHAHAHA! Le God had more talent in his pinky toe and Gazza is from another Universe compared to the poster boy of Calvin Klein.

[@ShortalayPlays]

BurnRoddy Did you pay attention to the video? It didn’t mention his talent but instead how he used his popularity to become a brand and businessman.

[@jisunggoat960]

Before Messi and Ronaldo everyone care more about the World Cup then the ballon for even they would rather have world cups then ballon dors but now younger players want the ballon dor

[@Aditya-iz8rt]

Pog Boom are you 12

[@jeffescanto]

arsen wenger.... didnt he introduce the whole fittness and healthy standards a player must maintaine we see today?