Football's Darker Side is Worse Than You Think

[@enkhjinbattuvshin9457]

true about the U15. I was also involved in an incident where the manager was drunk and touching girls. I was in the room on a bunker bed. as I lalmost hit them people carried him out. After returning to the country, we reported the incidents and he was still employed in the FF. He only got fired when the news media spread the news. There is a coach who abused a player's grandma (calling her and telling her to offer her body to him) so that he will play her grandkid in the international tournament. He was banned for 5 years but that got removed in a year. He is coaching a Premier league team in Mongolia now. And he attends the women's match frequently. Makes me sick to my stomach. The higher ups don't care. THEY JUST DO NOT CARE!

[@itbelikethat914]

💔

[@NMDavid]

This is society now. People with power abuses their power to overpower people. That is what I consider as disgusting. I'm sorry for what happened to you. It's sad that you have to endure this pain. We can't change it cause we are mere people and people can overpower everyone's claims.

[@bestinthewest4697]

I hate how people with a lot of power are always the ones who lack common human decency. It's true what they say, power changes people for the worst.

[@alimakawi1612]

Unlucky sister

[@ddgaxelnilsson7855]

That’s like any sport. If you do good, nobody will care whether you’re a pedo, child abuser, rapist or animal abuser.

[@TheNotSoN3rd]

Football: made by the poor, stolen by the rich

[@robertodanielochoazelaya2632]

most real sh*t ever said

[@CompaSystem]

@Cian MacGana You know LGBT people are often working class right? Just say you're homophobic and go.

[@myworld4257]

@@CompaSystem Who cares about them. I’m homosexual.

[@lp.shakur]

@Cian MacGana I mean bro, touch some grass

[@metalmadsen]

True words

[@dragon_tamerzyt1777]

Romain Molina is the hero we needed but don't deserved, this is the first time i've even heard of this man and he's already going on my top 15 favorite human beings ever.

[@weirdshelf6950]

Same lol I haven’t heard of him until this video, and I’m thankful for the good things that he is doing

[@TrulyWavy]

If Romain is announced "missing" or magically goes "missing" I won't be surprised.

[@Blank-s]

A journalist's greatest achievement is getting killed

[@niggilywiggily]

fax those people have so much money they can get rid of him if this causes a lot of commotion

[@joegallagher9238]

This is heartbreaking, I feel stupid for not knowing but it’s the fact that those in power can hide these horrific acts

[@indigox47cfc99]

Not only you brother , as a life long football fan this shit breaks my heart . What kind of world do we live in .

[@swanwatcher8816]

Last season, the Maltese Premier League was stopped due to COVID-19 as well as the season before. When they ended it, a team called "Ħamrun Spartans" had won the League. They would have gotten a qualifier for the Champions League, but were denied it due to previous matchfixing. It's just sad seeing a humble sport being ruined by all these greedy people.

[@lalitthapa101]

I was shocked how little football fans know about this. From what I saw,this didnt even get talked about and football social media pages just ignored it.

[@Maqwell]

Yeah there was a slight mention from accounts and then everyone just stopped talking about it

[@brendonutjita]

Everyone was talking about it, not for long but ppl did talk about it

[@NMDavid]

I really appreciate this guy having the guts of the corrupt side of football. It's honestly disgusting for some of these acts. Again. Every beautiful thing has a dark side that could ruin it's reputation. It's upsetting for me to completely ignore this side of football. Even the major leagues aren't safe...

[@thekyler9529]

The same kind of shit are happening in other sports, in politics, in cinema, in the music industry, and in other part of society. It is important to point out everything and speak out against all of it regardless whether you support or not that person or institution.

[@entertainmenthub7163]

It’s a human problem

[@homoerectus3355]

This shit happens everywhere the only reason it seems more prevalent in those industries is because they’re in the public eye. For some reason such a large amount of people are just completely terrible

[@stevendchu]

The more "glamorous'" and the more money an industry has, usually it just means the darker its secrets are.

[@addisongonzales1241]

Why do you not have more subs, dude?! This is high-quality content.

[@Maqwell]

Thanks bro! Just gotta be patient haha

[@silvanaromero8658]

Facts

[@venividivici373]

People don't like truth, they are affraid of it...

[@nedzeo6556]

Subs, football I see what you did there 😜 👍

[@simonrothstein9646]

I would suggest that you don’t film your face since it does not improve tge content

[@foxiflakes8245]

Molina deserves a lot of praise for these leaks, this guy could've ended so many scams and arrested those involved, this man needs to be protected heavily for this

[@Maqwell]

Ey thanks for 12k btw!

[@TGBHammer]

The world cup videos blowing up. Congrats man

[@Zach4ez]

Yo im early

[@forest5306]

Remember the real ogs when you blow up bro

[@mira9640]

Yo wasn’t it like 15 hrs ago I messaged you to say you had 11.7… you’re insane.

[@sabaly7720]

@@forest5306 When did you join maqwell. Fng shouted him out on his community page ages ago whilst maqwell did his Leicester career. Been a fan since

[@thevoshe]

Thank you for making this video, as a lot of people including myself never really thought about the amount of big scandals hidden away in football. It's just really sad and disgusting that the beautiful game of football is being and has always been ruined by these disgusting garbage animals with a lot of power. Luckily there are people like Molina who want to shed a light on these stories and I hope he stays safe. So thank you again for making this video! (BTW congrats on 12k! The channel's really growing fast now, which you really deserve!)

[@Mosquito_Hunter8]

"Leagues in most Southeast Asian, other countries are fixed." Me, an Indonesian: disappointed but not surprised

[@hurricane2358]

Its so sad that many dark side from football and all those footballers who do p stuff should be ashame

[@BassyBoy]

Reminds me of Inazuma Eleven GO. I assume you know it since you've got Asuto as your profile picture 😄 But yeah it's a very sad thing indeed.

[@Choco2007-l9q]

Everything and everyone has a dark side

[@ratedpending]

I feel like we kinda shouldn't be as surprised as we are. Football (and youth sports generally) isn't the first industry that deals with kids in which we've found out that it is ridden with pedophilia.

[@aalamahmad25]

Marcos Alonso of chelsea also killed a women in a car crash and faced no punishment for it

[@Maqwell]

Completely forgot about that but you are very correct

[@aalamahmad25]

@@Maqwell ay maqwell replied, somber topic but still

[@petarmalovic7624]

@@flxquixotic4647 That doesnt make him inoccent.

[@PataMuncher]

@@petarmalovic7624 But explains why nothing was done

[@jordinagel1184]

@@flxquixotic4647I fail to see how the “family friend” part is at all relevant, especially in an excuse. Also, he’s an idiot for driving drunk, so that excuse doesn’t fly either.

[@Dicoivk]

What really scares me is that this happens and yet our "friendly" football clubs are sometimes behind this and responsible for covering it up.

[@PataMuncher]

This is only mostly African and French news, imagine all over the world

[@heichan8657]

I love football. It is the only sports i watch besides the Olympics. These incident break our hearts. What could we do though? The people in FIFA have too much power, and sometimes it feels like we have no ways of stopping these people ruining football. The authority of them are too high. Could these journalist really do a job to save our game? Sure we now know more about the dark side of the "beautiful" game, but I just feel like that wouldn't change a lot, at least not in the higher authorities.

[@Maqwell]

It won’t change much, but it’s definitely better than us blindly following the game without knowing about these incidents

[@robertodanielochoazelaya2632]

Our world is full of horrible people full of power and sadly there is nothing us normal people can do to change that... but at least now we know about this atrocities and maybe we can help others Open their eyes. After all knowledge is power.

[@weirdshelf6950]

I hope Romain Molina can release more of these stories, and I hope he stays safe.

[@yasirshaikh371]

its sickening how main stream medias avoid talking about these topics.

[@DjDolHaus86]

The media has to be super careful about talking about anything until it is proven, you can ruin someones life by making false accusations and be sued for millions if it turns out they weren't guilty. I do feel like they should make a bigger deal of proven cases though, these monsters deserve to be chastised by society and more effort needs to be made to find how far up the ladder the rot goes.

[@gaiusjuliuspleaser]

@@DjDolHaus86 Well, that, and simple financial interest. If viewership drops because of all the scandals, the networks who make truckloads of money off broadcasting major tournaments will lose a lot of money. So it's in both FIFA and the media's interest to keep these stories under wraps as much as possible. That's why only those without a financial interest in football are willing to expose these scandals.

[@justawarlord]

@@DjDolHaus86 just look at who owns the news sites and you will realize its all just propaganda fox news and cnn were owned by warner not long ago while they were pretending to be opposites they were literally controlled opposition

[@donistreece]

I hope this journalist doesn't end up committing "suicide" just like other people who expose big industries etc.

[@jk-gb4et]

yep we have to emphasize the quotation marks

[@BiggieTrismegistus]

Who are these journalists who committed suicide after exposing a big industry?

[@donistreece]

@@BiggieTrismegistus Not necessarily journalists. There was this one guy who was a doctor and would make youtube videos talking about home remedies that your local clinic won't tell you about because of marketing. After sometime he allegedly committed suicide out of the blue.

[@xmillie]

@@donistreece what was that guy called?

[@thehappywarrior4271]

Matchfixing in Latin America, Easter European and especially southeast asia(cases in indonesia too) are rampant no doubt for the latin americas its most likely influenced by the barra bravas too and corrupt officals since the fans have a higher power than club officals, in east europe on the other hand there some cases in the lower leagues since a lack of intrest means its more open to anyone and thats a issue its not heavily guarded like in their 1st divisions. In Southeast asia its sadly still rampant there is a case where in the 1996 AFF championships where a 1 malay and a 2 singaporeans are arrested after attempting to bribe a filipino player to throw the game for singapore. As for the rest of the allegations it would be a heavy blow if all of the sexual/r**e cases are proved that its true.

[@interestingman7458]

Hopefully players will begin to speak up after these, but I don’t have much hope for it. I don’t understand the failure of so many individuals, I guess they feel like they have too much to loose. In my opinion you loose way more by keeping quite.

[@Highwaters24]

This is unbelievable, karma always comes back while I can’t imagine for the victims , disappointing disgusting and heartbreaking

[@nikolalulov]

As a Bulgarian football fan, yes I think our league might be fixed lol

[@ThatBritishSnep]

Lowkey I feel really ashamed to be a football fan, considering it's something we've all loved from day dot, that might be a slight over-exaggeration, but I feel so stupid for not knowing about any of these things, looking up to these people. Now with all of these leaks and the ongoing racism in the sport, it feels like the bad side of the sport will always outshadow the good nowadays.

[@robesterd8132]

Do you feel ashamed to be a human?

[@Mr__Peanuts]

No need to be ashamed to be a football fan. It's not your fault that the hierarchy of this sport allows these monstrosities to happen. We don't follow and support the sport for them, we follow and support the sport because we love the sport, not the people who are encharge of it. I know that some players were mentioned here but the best we can do is to speak up about reports and that way we can help make this sport more safe for everyone.

[@homoerectus3355]

The thing is Mate is that it’s not just football. These exact things happen literally everywhere (look at Epstein sex trafficking shit, involving us presidents Clinton and trump) this is just the way people are. A lot of them are horrific driven by Greed Lust desire for power and inflated egos and these people are the ones who manage to rise higher in hierarchy of society. All of these things that happen amongst these football players and clubs are happening in Hollywood, Wallstreet etc

[@victorsdelcore5191]

Man, your content is AMAZING. I have hard time finding Americans with good football content and this really just makes me happy. Really want to start a football podcast someday and hopefully get to chat with you. Would be great banter

[@naelchahine9857]

as a lebanese i know very well match fixing, it is very common in the lebanese league. Also lebanon was clearly rob against qatar in the 2019 asian cup and more recently against uae less than 2 months ago and Molina talk about this match also in his podcast

[@MikelCSK]

2:02 Dude, there is a lot of sexual abuse and disgusting favors in Colombia's referee organizations. Even a Colombian WC Referee was involved.

[@TGBHammer]

Yep, thanks for the warning. Dont eat food people.

[@Sikthkid]

My dude! I’m at a point where I look forward to every video now. :)

[@Maqwell]

💛💛💛

[@SrSteve404]

this video is the definition of "not what i want to know, but what i need to know"

[@AlexanderGreensmith]

I'm a journalist but had never heard of Romain, thanks for bringing his work to my attention, and a great vid. Also, hearing Maqwell say 'Cheshire' gave me life.

[@tibalt966]

Honestly this shit along with the Kyle Beach incident have really put me down on sports recently. Thanks for keeping the good content

[@optimus8493]

This is very depressing to see the horrible dark side of the beautiful game

[@muhdmultazam342]

came from Hayasakan Hey Hey in US WC Qualify video. Never disappointed and you deserved this sub lad🔥🔥🔥

[@Maqwell]

I think that’s the funniest way someone has called that video haha. But thank you!

[@muhdmultazam342]

@@Maqwell loool had to do it 🤣🤣

[@itbelikethat914]

Players lying about their age is a huge thing in Africa 😹

[@jesussilva201]

I always found that Megan Rapinoe was little bit odd and suspicious and i really don't know why. Specially after what Hoper Solo said about her. I'm not really surprised about her hypocrisy tbh. If it's true what Molina said about her, then is a shame.

[@wotintarnation8388]

And we thought Gylfi was the only sicko in football...

[@jenogellert4039]

@Maqwell Your just incredible.... Im watching all of your videos. This is the first time when im commenting under your video. You put all of your energy into a video. Good job Man, I would love to talk to you someday.. Im joining your patreon now. Great content

[@Maqwell]

Much love my man!

[@HugoSanchez-ir3bv]

My friend who played in Ecuador was offered a contract for one of the better sides in the first division. When he met with the president of the club he said they had to go on a vacation, clearly hinting at them having sex. As you said in the video these things aren’t surprising the football world is dark.

[@robertodanielochoazelaya2632]

Hope your Friend is allright... but he should report this and take legal action as this May happen to others.

[@HugoSanchez-ir3bv]

@@robertodanielochoazelaya2632 he moved out of Ecuador and came to the US.

[@siprut9352]

@@HugoSanchez-ir3bv wft is he Ok

[@PataMuncher]

@@HugoSanchez-ir3bv Do you know what team? Or any suspicions? Because this is really serious and disgusting from the President

[@Fxrno]

I literally grab a bannana to eat as soon as you say "i advice no one eat whilst watching the video" looool

[@stanyamish3996]

I'm French and I've been following Molina before he started investigating sexual abuses. He's been making videos for a while about the dark side of football but not the crimes at first: bribery, bad management of teams, etc. After he made a video about the bad management of Haiti football federation, someone told him it was way worse and sexual abuses were mentioned. That's when he started to investigate sexual abuses in Haiti and other countries. He said that France was the worst because to tackle PSG, politicians are very quick but to tackle the FFF for the sexual harassment, paedophilia in the FFF academy, they try to block him. I have to remind you that France is the country of the Human's rights. I love his KZbin channel and if you could speak French, you would be able to better understand the game behind the doors.

[@aakashsuryi9098]

10:43, BINGO, BINGO You nailed it in ways you yourself don't even realize. Your very mature observation is a prelude to Geopolitics.

[@davidsingo1333]

Been waiting for this vid!

[@frand6326]

speaking on the matter. I live in Iraq and so many of people I know that played very good football and when they wanted to go professional there always was a coach or someone from the higher ups that demanded "to have s*x with them or they will never go professional" mind you they were all under 16. they all quit football now.

[@PataMuncher]

Yeah this is what I’m talking about, all that pure talent and desire can blind so many people and it’s sad hearing that many players that we see are victims of p*dos

[@emmettshea]

12:38 my guy lmaooo happy thanksgiving

[@Maqwell]

Hahaha my bad man, happy thanksgiving!

[@emmettshea]

@@Maqwell nah it was totally ok I actually thought it was funny

[@4Valentinus]

10:57 I speak for all Kenyans when I say "We are not surprised" Corruption has ruined football here

[@olivergakuya6939]

😂😂😂😂 faxxxx

[@that3401]

Hopefully this video gets a lot of views so people can learn about this situation

[@kingramsey_j]

Plz don't stop, we need peeps like you

[@jkara0302]

Really disgusting behaviour and really upsetting to hear these stories. Really scary how the people at the top have so much influence in covering up these atrocities.

[@adriangeremia]

Such a shame to see what this sport is nowadays...

[@simonvanderschuren2417]

Even this year, in my country (Netherlands), Dutch player Rai Vloet (Heracles Almelo) was arrested for drunk driving and driving 200km per hour (the limit at night is 130km per hour), then an accident happened where he drove into a family's car (a kid of 4 years old died in the accident). His club (Heracles) still played him the next match. Though, when he was pled guilty, his club (Heracles) fired him (also because he lied to the coach and president of the club)

[@lbsvonzeppe]

For those who understand french, Molina has a youtube channel.

[@samzy9358]

Adam Johnson, Robinho, Barry Bennel and Benjamin Mendy all are linked to the same club, Man City

[@zuffin1864]

a kid just wants to kick a ball and people do stuff like that to them... imma just go to bed and hope i don't have any nightmares

[@alexasweeney901]

Thank you for this video people really need to know the dark side of football players they love and support 🖤

[@ramuelcruzada3207]

Southeast Asian football league fixed... I thought it was a basketball league here in my country, the Philippines...

[@HarcusCGTV]

The Philippine league its getting better season by season... still a long way to go... Cambodian league is growing faster than any other SE Asian league.

[@ramuelcruzada3207]

@@HarcusCGTV yeah right. Our football leagues here in the PH is always on and off

[@KNYX.]

I loved Mendy but what he did is unforgivable

[@rjmm3425]

its still not proven yet

[@captainyank138]

@@rjmm3425 does it matter ? Nowadays it’s guilty until proven innocent

[@MrRiad-lf8xl]

@@captainyank138 that's a bad way to think about things, it foes matter, some people have been sentenced for years in jail because if something they never did because other used the mentality of Guilty until proven innocent

[@captainyank138]

@@MrRiad-lf8xl I know it’s bad. But that’s how the media treats victims nowadays. I most of the time innocent until proven guilty.

[@HugoSanchez-ir3bv]

@@captainyank138 it has to be 50/50. Believe both sides until the truth is actually told. Making someone guilty is so wrong for so many reasons. Media and people definitely need to change the way that is.

[@MortanAMrk]

honestly as a football it is sad how you actually just become desensetized to this stuff, sometimes i just want to stop watching football.

[@PabloMartinez-vy9sp]

awesome video man, you’ve earned yourself a new subscriber 🙌

[@Maqwell]

Appreciate it!

[@LuisOC-oc3zl]

*clicks on video* *first thing he says “ don’t eat during this video”* *me who put it on bc i’m eating* 🧍🏽‍♂️

[@WidgetWagyu47292]

The world is such a gross play, idk how many times I’ve heard of someone in a position of power. Babysitters, Teachers, Coaches, Talent Agents, Music labels just filled with Sexual Abuse cases.

[@jaycfc3909]

Man this is terrible, but this what happens when you have power. It sucks how corrupt football is. Thank God for Romain Molina leaking these things.

[@demonz3943]

Me eating a hot dog literally as the video starts Maqwell: I would advise you dont eat Me: Keeps eating

[@lukestephenson50]

7:15 Alonso moment

[@jaysvthashtag8825]

Thanks for speaking about this but I can't continue with the video

[@mrmeeseeks2534]

a lolly pop was quite possibly the worst choice of food to eat during this video

[@Alex-mq6qi]

Something I've heard about the p*dophilia stuff is that, not only does it give them a sense of power, but it's a great way to blackmail them and "keep them in check" if need be

[@TheRoseBoy11]

Romain is such a Hero for exposing the dark side of the beautiful game. He should absolutely be nominated for a Nobel peace prize

[@TrulyWavy]

But again, the people with higher power won't do it. Because obvious reasons that Maqwell said in the video

[@xxdavi95]

Learned more in this video then in my entire time in high school

[@ganaed]

This is just what we get to see. It's scary to think that most of this filth won't be exposed.

[@dinzehhh]

i’m new to your channel but i can already tell that your content is amazing dude keep it up

[@snowgoddess5758]

Bit surprised Luke McCormick didn’t make this video after killing two kids in a car crash and playing over 200 games after his release.

[@tricky1506]

Shout out Molina for exposing this level of corruption and atrocity. Man is a hero

[@multimate_]

GOT DAMN last time i was this early zaza was still running up for his penalty

[@NoCluYT]

I should’ve listened to the warning. Now I’m cleaning the table

[@idontmakecontent4870]

“Disgusting animals” That’s an insult to animals

[@petarmalovic7624]

True.

[@ItzJayFtbl]

6:08 is probably not true imo because the source is literally called “FC Barcelona Noticias”. You know how heated madridista media is with Barcelona, and culer media is with Real Madrid.

[@danielalbertohernandezmerl7451]

In Mexico there was a case that started with some guys, America's u-18, who mocked on feminist movement by dancing on tiktok and it finished wit two of these guys in jail because these two guys killed to a raptist.

[@PataMuncher]

Dilo en español porfa?

[@PataMuncher]

Dos jugadores del sub 18 del América bailaron y fueron a la cárcel por matar a alguien que hico esas cosas?

[@danielalbertohernandezmerl7451]

@@PataMuncher no, ellos bailaron en son de burla con la canción feminista de fondo y lo subieron a tiktok, el America los mando alv por andar haciendo eso, dos de los chavos fueron a dar a las fuerzas básicas del Veracruz, en dicho lugar había un tipo que pedía favores sexuales a los chavos para dejarlos jugar, estos no aceptaron pero le tendieron una trampa, fueron a su casa a según darle estos favores y mocos, lo apuñalaron y ahora ambos están en el bote debido a esto.

[@PataMuncher]

@@danielalbertohernandezmerl7451 Que bueno de su parte, conoces a los nombres de los jugadores?

[@danielalbertohernandezmerl7451]

@@PataMuncher no, no se

[@thomasellis445]

The vast majority of these cases are from third world countries where you can get away with much more if you have status. Saying that this is a problem in the entirety of football is misleading and dangerous.

[@PataMuncher]

France

[@seabookarno123]

Thank you for speaking out. This is enraging and totally not surprised.

[@Aliben_8347]

10:20 as a moroccan this saddens me

[@ensastudent7109]

من نيتك و الدليل أن المغرب هو أكثر منتخب متوج في افريقيا و الفرق ديالو ماكايتظلموش ديما

[@avg_user-ty2eg]

no it's called being Based

[@jooeelng]

7:50 I am eating right now, I have stopped. Thank you.

[@danielthunberg9248]

Good quality content, can't wait to see your channel grow

[@infinitfootball9262]

That's crazy about the Qatar media outrage, I had no idea. There's so much wrong with that world cup.

[@RGabrielPerez]

Perverts will seek out avenues where they can attain access to their victims. Whether it be a church or a youth team, evil will infiltrate.

[@notthanos8580]

Ayyy maqwell with the 6am upload

[@damjanmedvescek3776]

Gonna start this one early: Molina didn't kill himself

[@axelhernandez3091]

Nah you deserve more views,likes and subs

[@Maqwell]

Appreciate man!

[@thedude5600]

Rapinoe wont comment, and only cares about money. Followed by, I can’t say as I’ll be de-monitised…. The irony here

[@ciaranmolloy1204]

I think we should just get rid of France for now just give them a timeout

[@kristi4113]

I don’t even know what to say right now…

[@rafaidan]

It sucks that the famous female athletes (IE, Megan Rapinoe who was mentioned) didn’t do anything about this kinda stuff

[@naffo1314]

*White liberal feminism moment*

[@Mr__Peanuts]

It sucks that no footballer has done anything about this.

[@chotenque6877]

They don't have the platform male athletes have. A single statement from Messi or Neymar could have an infinitely greater impact. Either way, why do you fixate on them and not on all athletes? lmao

[@kaustavchakraborty6811]

Algorithm has chosen you, my guy

[@NoCluYT]

For every incident reported, I will assume that there are 99 more.

[@MultiFelix39]

My old coach for Chicago Fire juniors,(his name is Fernando) was actually accused and thrown into jail for grooming the girls u13/12 team…NASTY

[@PataMuncher]

Nevermind, Fernando Calderon right?

[@moel6235]

Got recommended to me after greenwood lol

[@franklinclinton6313]

underrated channel