Qarabağ FK: A Story of Conflict & Success

Qarabağ FK’s obsession with the Europa League & Champions League has its genesis in the sad facts of the club’s expulsion from its homeland.
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[@saadmehdi7697]

I was given Azerbaijan as my country in a model UN, and did a lot of research regarding the conflict. I only studied the diplomatic repercussions, never imagined how it might affect the people in a footballing sense, thanks for bringing this to light tifo❤️

[@orkhansalah4690]

When Qarabag FK was playing one of the latest matches in Agdam the stadium was bombarded during the match

[@Kanal13AZ]

Yeas, was bombarded by armenians and coach of the team Allahverdi Baghirov wss killed by armenian-russion army union in 1992... Russian army always supports Armenian to fight Azerbaijan and helped in 1992 to control the part of the country for keeping impact over oil rich Azerbaijan... That is reality...

[@alfredozavala7441]

@@Kanal13AZ me when I lie:

[@CBponchofunk]

I really appreciate your content about eastern europe clubs! So much history and stories that are worth getting more into spotlight.

[@vahe5967]

You need to get much more of your own research about this one particularly. There is no any Armenian perspective of this topic in the video.

[@kaidendax9992]

i know it is pretty randomly asking but does anybody know a good place to watch new movies online ?

[@nickmain3467]

Amazing piece, as always. I went over to Baku to watch them play Chelsea in the CL, seeing 70,000 people avidly supporting Qarabag was very special

[@elmirallahverdi]

Thanks all Tifo Football team for preparing this video. We do appreciate your effort. Love and peace from Baku, Azerbaijan. Keep going !!!

[@elbeyjamili6654]

Great video, thanks. Appreciate the fact that u explained the story from both countries perspectives. Qarabag FK🇦🇿

[@Jayfive276]

Azerbaijani people seem to be lovely. Amermian people seem to be lovely. I should like to be friends with both sets of people. I just hope they will someday become friends with each other.

[@notepic1058]

it is not going to happen anytime soon,by that i mean at least a century.(aze)

[@alialiyev818]

Never

[@whatafatass1443]

Could you do something about Red Star (Crvena Zvezda) , it's an interesting story that has a lot of ups and downs

[@evonneokafor]

The story is so sad and feel so bad as someone who support Arsenal we will probably win easily. It kinder explains why Miki didn't want to go to Azerbaijan. Shame the British media are not too clever to do want you do.

[@samatkins8340]

I'm not even sure Mhiki would've been allowed to. IIRC Armenians are outright banned from entering Azerbaijan, though I assume they waive this on occasion for things like sporting endeavours and Eurovision etc etc

[@TheMalkavian101]

@@samatkins8340 Armenian athletes (including chess players) were always welcome in Azerbaijan, and not only athletes. Recently even some journalists were allowed to enter for specific reasons.

[@vahe5967]

This representation is biased, one-sided only works for azerbaijan propaganda, but anyway it is sad that politics and wars can affect sports, and some people may chose their security over anything else. But the refusal of Mkhitaryan to play in Baku is not appreciated by all Armenians. I personally think that he could do his step towards peace and play there, but on the other hand you cannot be sure if they can keep his security, what if he scores there?

[@ja1295]

BUT LIKE WHY MCCLEAN DOESNT WEAR A POPPY BUT NOOOOOO HES A NAZI TO THE ENGLISH MEDIA

[@alialiyev818]

You are from England ?

[@sn19901]

What about the fact that they frustrated Atlético to draw home and away, last season? That was quite an achievement.

[@eklezia2829]

Huge thanks for the well explained video, Tifo! To all azerbaijanis , Qarabağ means everything. It’s one piece of our heart which is stolen, but surely will be regained !!! 🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿 Update from 2021: Qarabağ finally returned to its home, to Ağdam city 🇦🇿

[@Niggexp38]

Nothing is stolen, u got no history and everything will come back sooner or later, It was like that for thousands of years, and 4 years where we dont control the area is nothing.

[@abbba2007]

Loving your video inclusion of clubs east of Germany, this really makes my smile knowing something behind names and rare descriptions that are normally presented on UCL or UEL nights. Such a wonderful representation of how global football truly is, not only in big superleagues but also smallest clubs and nations.

[@mattnorris7124]

That's probably the greatest thing about this sport, you can go anywhere in the World and someone will have a life or death passion for the game. In any continent, in any country, in any culture, the love for football is rivaled by no other sport. I don't really know too much about Far Eastern Europe & Western Asia but I'm trying to learn as much as I can about it, and stuff like this is really interesting.

[@SacClass650]

Great stuff, as ever. A further point of interest in Azerbaijani football comes in the form of talented coach Roberto Bordin: who, after great success with FC Sheriff, is leading Neftçi PFK to the top of the table and, perhaps, even a league title. His career has been in low profile, obscure leagues so far - but there's something about the Italian..

[@shokhrukhturaev8234]

The amazing video from Tifo once again. Just love this kind of content about small football clubs. In the comments people are clearly missed the point. Tifo is not taking the side, they are just explaining the situation from point of view of the football club.

[@dralakbarov]

Qarabag is a great club with difficult history and I hope it achieves more. A lot of butthurt trolls will not understand that.

[@davidjavid8681]

What a curt yet profound and clearly outlined explanation 👏 Tifo Football, I hope you folks become mainstream with millions of followers all around the world. You're that spot on!

[@bwabymafia]

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[@manmeetpannu6816]

Brilliant, as always.

[@scottlake92]

This channel is incredible.

[@sophuswong7195]

Is anyone here after their draw agaist bayern leverkusen

[@weditz9201]

They did incredibly well against may be the most dominant team of the season. Leverkusen barely defeated them with last minute goals.

[@AdmiralMakati]

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[@44Ulas97]

Another great informative video, thanks!

[@nihatmmmdli4804]

Qarabağ FK 🇦🇿❤️

[@irfannn4959]

This video was genuinely beautiful. tifo football, know that you make content that has the upmost quality and continue to please your fans every upload

[@DannyTheGFP]

Tonight after the game my podcast will be doing our usual live show, ill mention this and your channel, very interesting stuff, Bergkamp Wonderland, i can see now why Mhiki didn't go to the away game

[@rohitkundu6458]

Your contents are absolutely amazing.❤️

[@MattJames37]

Great story, and the background music simply adds to it

[@georgetware2098]

Please do a video on the Persepolis Esteghlal derby

[@mehrabsuleymanl193]

Thank you video. Qarabagh is Azerbaijan 🇦🇿🇦🇿

[@tongchen1226]

This story goes on... I wonder what happens to the club now that Agdan is returned to Azerbaijan in the ceasefire. Will the club move back to Agdan after many years of reconstruction?

[@Alwadie07]

As perfect as always 👏🏻

[@Calmaressurgebat]

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[@nural9]

Yo I'm crying because of this video. Thank you people for doing this, THANK YOU

[@rexlongfellow]

Heartbreaking.

[@ramilhasanli9892]

Thank you for Video👏👏👏

[@cavadmaharramli2839]

yasasin azerbaycan yasasin qarabg

[@Caswell19]

Great video!

[@jarmankhehra2867]

your loyal subscriber is here😊

[@akbarakbarov2062]

Karabakh is the historical home of hundreds of thousands of "native" armenians? Are you serious?The original inhabitants of these lands were azerbaijani turks. From the 1820s, during almost 90 years, over 1 million armenians were relocated to the South Caucasus from Iran and Ottoman Empire. Just read the history, guys.

[@Tifo]

Please watch the video again, specifically around the 3:45 mark, where we explain that the Armenian side of the story equates to the quote you mentioned above.

[@akbarakbarov2062]

@@Tifo Well, if I live in somewhere for 150 years, it means these lands are "historical" for me? They are not indigenous people of Qarabag. Additionally, you can't even find the word "Armenia" in the maps of South Caucasus of 1810s.

[@pike8290]

@@akbarakbarov2062 Armenians have been majority population in the area long before there ever was such a thing as a "turk"

[@maxg18]

Akbar Akbarov Armenia is an ancient country. They were the first Christian country in the year 301 AD. Where was Azerbaijan at that time??

[@TheRalacator]

Jo Jo and Luis Nani first ever Azerbaijani discover was found in Azikh mountain about much earlier. I don’t know that you originated from Syria or Libya. There was only us and Georgia.

[@DEEDUBZ]

Very good information about it's history. That's what all that Azerbaijan beef with Armenia is all about. No wonder Mkhi couldn't play against them in their country. And even yesterday at the Arsenal Stadium a 'fan' ran onto the pitch making a statement, and the Qarabag captain wanted to fight him. Was probably Mkhi's mate lol

[@pike8290]

The azeris and turks genocided the armenians about 100 years ago and tried to steal all their lands.

[@DEEDUBZ]

From research, tried to steal all their lands yep I can agree with that but genocide..basically wipe out, I don't think it was that bad when you consider Armenians are still in existence today

[@DuduPRT]

Now im feeling sad that my club (Sporting CP) Humiliated them in their own home by 6-1.But they did also deserve round 32

[@erkangunes7143]

Qarabag fk 🇦🇿⚽

[@he-man7718]

Can you do a video on Alaves? Their rise has been impressive

[@vlsv4076]

You could make a similar video about Red Star Belgrade since the Yugoslavian war! Would be great!👍🏻

[@PiedmonBatista]

Karabakh is internationally recognized as Azerbaijan’s territory. End of discussion. Borders are not drawn with bedtime stories.

[@seadkolasinac7220]

PiedmonBatista just like Kashmir is part of India lol. ‘End of discussion’, the call of someone who refuses to think

[@pphyjynx8217]

Sead Kolašinac Might Is Right

[@xFanXAnime]

only channel i like before watching

[@Ulquitous]

Wow. After hearing this story, I'll pray that they win against Arsenal. It'll not be a easy game but nothing is truly impossible.

[@javidibad]

Make a video about Tofik Bahramov. 1966 world cup final linesman.

[@canadiansyrup50]

Make one about Red Star Belgrade in the Champions League, or about the biggest rival of Red Star - Partizan, which wanted to leave the super league because of one match played during snow, and the draw they made, was deciding for their already poor season.

[@imanidiot9808]

LET’S GO BOYS!

[@lucen12]

Could you please make a video on Markus Rosenberg and his impact on Malmö FFs’ recent success?

[@IkeSan]

After Azerbaijan won I hope they can play again in their home.

[@eliasmikealson4476]

For all the good work you do it wouldn't be much of a stretch to make an effort on the pronunciation.

[@revolution5385]

Qarabag is Azerbaijan! artsakh is very very wrong word.and Tbilisi Qarabag Irevan Tebriz Derbend Igdir are the part of Azerbaijan.pls write right sentences.QARABAG IS AZERBAIJAN

[@danagana2996]

A video about Ludogorets Razgrad-Bulgaria!

[@muhammada7459]

QARABAG EUROPA CONFERENCE LEAGUE WINNERS 2021-22

[@tsetso99]

Make one for Botev Plovdiv! :)

[@ThePerks2010]

When are you guys going to be doing a video on the shambles that is Coventry city it'd help some city fans actually understand what's going on there cos even after a few years nobody really has a clue what's going on.

[@stenstensson304]

Make a video about AIKs tactics in their title win this year

[@banthachannel5132]

please can you do a review about the ucl group stages this season

[@Ese96Agoaye]

Its strange that if Arsenal qualifies for the final, Henrihk Mkhitaryan won't be available.

[@CeemPlay]

The land of the mountain king

[@shinglemcdingle4093]

Make a video about croatian football teams and ultra groups

[@brendonutjita]

Do something about ipswich please

[@youtubedelisi2058]

Qarabagh is historical Azerbaijanian territory

[@pike8290]

Even though it has been populated by a majority of armenians since long before the bible was written?

[@vasifmammedov8437]

​@@pike8290 Just because Armenian live there doesn't it mean that it belongs to Armenians. You probably the kind of people who support Russia in the Krim situation.

[@pike8290]

@@vasifmammedov8437 Crimea is a whole different story, it isn't the ancestral homelands of russians like Artsakh is for the armenians.

Many years ago russia planned to take Armenian people to west Azerbaijan and karabag from all over the world. It just because they want to do their dishonest and dishonor policy which is invade Azerbaijan by the use of armenian people. Several years ago the conflict has began and now we can not solve it peacefully. I offer you to research the history of Caucasus. I hope you will see the truth

You can see the corrupted results of russian policy. Just look at abhazia, krim, osetia, east Ukraine, Darband, Chechnya and others. Now Russia and Armenia clearly are friend and we suffer from the dishonorable policy of them

[@jorgemoreira3856]

You can do the Marcel keizer tactics?

[@castoffcrown]

please do a video on fc start

[@nightpanda2109]

is winning premier league harder than winning champions league?

[@umutgokhan2174]

Just search how armenians massacred azeri people in qarabag,and how armenians chose a head massacre maker as their president.

[@millymahinra3900]

I feel bad for them since we will rip them to shreds tonight .always good to have some background knowledge on an opponent

[@izreenimzan]

Can you do a video about Southeast asian football?

[@apexmva7614]

Hey tifo

[@Krustenkaese92]

what's up with Turkey missing on those maps LOL :'D

[@edgarvardanyan2581]

Nagorno Karabagh republic hosted the world championship of unrecognised states, which is the continuation of the story

[@diariodibordoafootballvlog5515]

I have been there last summer as a volunteer for CONIFA, it was the most beautiful trip I ever made. I was astonished about the kindness of people from Artsakh and the food was delicious. Such a shame the country is suffering from this war.

[@fazildadash2825]

@@diariodibordoafootballvlog5515 well i am sorry that region is ours mate

[@aitaziz4871]

Tifo Good

[@TheGroundHopper]

So glad you gave a rounded presentation, ultimately Qarabagh are funded by the state in order for Azerbaijan to grow support in reclaiming loss lands

[@abbba2007]

Just a question - are there any club that isn't funded by the state in the Azerbaijan Premier League?

[@pike8290]

But the lands have always been armenian, how can they claim "lost" lands they never inhabited?

[@TheGroundHopper]

@@pike8290 because Qarabag started their football team there

[@pike8290]

@@TheGroundHopper But they occupied the lands. It's as if some american soldiers would start a football club in Iraq and then saying it's their ancient homeland.

[@vasifmammedov8437]

@@TheGroundHopper Jo Jo doesn't know what he/she is talking about. We never occupied the lands, Stalin gave us the region.

[@vahe5967]

I like this channel, you are doing great stuff regarding football, but in this video you did a one-sided representation of the conflict, it seems that azeri propaganda through this club made a huge impact. There are many incorrect (or should I again say one-sided) language, vision and facts both politically and historically. There is no occupation of Nagorno-Karabakh by Armenian forces, you may say occupation of some bordering regions, but even that is a term to discuss. Aghdam and it's neighboring territories (and the whole Artsakh region) were historic Armenian lands for centuries before turks even came to this region, and the vast majority of it's population was ethnic Armenian before soviets came. Being a European you may not know this, I don't judge you for not knowing, but before making a video, you need to do some basic research, and there is no any way you wouldn't hit to this facts. So I suppose you either didn't do a research, or you intentionally made it a part of azeri propaganda. Watching old videos in this channel (like the one about Ivan Savvidis, Shakhtar Donetsk's Rinat Akhmetov, Roman Abramovich, Katar 2022) I thought you are doing research and making unbiased and unprejudiced points as much as it is possible. Now I wonder if this one is the only one that went so biased.

[@LB-uw5cy]

This video isn't that balanced to me, it favours Azi's side. Tell both sides if you're going to cover such a turbulent topic.

[@iskender1327]

I can’t say anything bad about Armenia because I am Turkish, so I will just be called a Nazi. But they have done some pretty bad things

[@Nemanja-cj7tc]

Yes, they committed genocide. No, wait, Turks did, sorry.

[@sleros8646]

@@Nemanja-cj7tc actually the Armenians tried to commit a genocide then the Turkish army showed up and Armenians started crying like "they are genociding us"

[@maxg18]

Berkay Ergin Armenia started to commit genocide? You’re telling me that the Armenians were committing genocide against the Turks in Turkey?? How does that work?

[@sleros8646]

@@maxg18 according to Wilson principles a nation has rights in the lands that they are majority. So Armenians wanted to become majority in Eastern Anatolia to claim these lands for themselves. What followed was a barbaric and ruthless massacres of thousands of Turkish civilians. In Turkey our elders tell us stories about how Armenians massacred their families and some of them even burnt alive. When the Turkish army arrived there Armenians simply hid behind Russia and claimed those murdered people were Armenians and Turks did all these. And there you have so called "Armenian Genocide". I am not saying Turks didn't kill any Armenians but we didn't have intentions for ethnic cleansing. We were defending our people and we were already majority in Eastern Anatolia, Armenians had intentions for ethnic cleansing. Thus Armenians tried to commit a genocide.

[@erosozberk4898]

Do başakşehir 😆👍

[@sarahjessicafarter7383]

You sympathise with the Azerbaijani government over Artsakh/Nagorno-Karabakh but I see it differently. The people there have never wanted to be a part of Azerbaijan. They've for a hundred years now wanted to become an independent state with very close ties to Armenia but Azerbaijan blocks this. Armenia occupies them right now and were they not then Azerbaijan would be occupying them. If I was an ethnic Armenian from there then I'd far rather the current set up to being at the mercy of the Azerbaijani state.

[@jimcondon7935]

Sarah Jessica Farter I don't know,I live in Azerbaijan and have met lots of people who had to flee from the region who very much want their land back as Azerbaijan

[@Niendorf_an_der_Stecknitz]

You didn't watch the whole video did you?

[@seadkolasinac7220]

Sarah Jessica Farter excellent comment, spot on.

[@seadkolasinac7220]

@Alp Erol haha those who committed actual genocide, exterminating over a million people, they would 'intervene' to restore fairness. Not a biased perspective at all mate

[@OkThisllbeMyName]

Alp Erol where were the Turks when Tigran was flexing his muscles? The truth is both ethnicities inhabited the region, Armenians much longer, but Azeris and Turks (and other Turkic tribes) came in and became the ruling class. And Armenians were clearly the majority when the 20th century come by.

[@hahaahahahaah2309]

Qarabag is Azerbaijan

[@pike8290]

Why? It has always been populated by majority armenians.

[@hahaahahahaah2309]

@@pike8290 Karabakh was occupied by Armenians and their patrons KARABAKH IS AZERBAIJAN

[@pike8290]

@@hahaahahahaah2309 It's their native homelands, you tried to commit genocide and they defended their lands.

[@TheRalacator]

Jo Jo no way, we always wanted peace.

[@alialiyev818]

@@pike8290 where you from you ***** ?

[@maxg18]

This video was kinda biased.. don’t portray Heydar Aliyev as a good guy. Also I think it was wrong to bring politics into this. Of course you had to mention it somewhat but you shouldn’t have gone into detail because you were bound to get hate. You live and you learn and I hope you learn from this.

[@OkThisllbeMyName]

I think you did a good job in covering the football part of football history, but not the history part. Nagorno Karabakh was and is inhabited by Armenians and they comprised the majority there. It was only because Stalin that the region became part of the Azerbaijani SSR. Most karabakhis were strongly anti-Azerbaijan, and without mentioning this makes people think that Armenia is a foreign invader that wants to suppress the locals and even kicked out their football club. Also praising Aliyev as a savior without considering him, being a corrupt de-facto dictator, was using this to maintain Azerbaijanis’ anti-Armenian sentiments to solidify his legitimacy is a bit ironic, eh? It’s like saying Hitler is a savior to public health because he implemented the first anti-tobacco campaign. I like your channel and most of the videos you made, but this one really sounds biased and you presented a controversial topic badly.

[@seadkolasinac7220]

Tifo, I love your videos, but I don’t think there was enough effort to make the history here balanced. The context of the Karabakh conflict is genocide and ethnic cleansing, over the 20th century, perpetrated by the Azeris. They aren’t innocent victims as the video - perhaps unintentionally - implies.

[@jakle52]

The Aziris are not Turkish. Turkey committed the Armenian genocide, not Azerbaijan.

[@whatisawitch2550]

@Sead The conflict has been violent from both sides, you're pretendning to be neutral but in fact you side with Armenians.

[@liteyagami6364]

what you're actually complaining about is that they made the video too balanced, and not as biased as your thoughts on the matter...

[@OmakP]

@@jakle52 Azerbaijan was responsible for the Baku pogroms in the 1990s, and September Days.

[@seadkolasinac7220]

The Karabakh region itself is not Azeri. That’s why they lost it in the war despite having military superiority on paper - the Azeri conscripts didn’t care enough to fight for it, the soldiers were hardly trying.

[@civilservant9528]

Will you shut up already?

[@asikkanarya]

Shut up you butthurt moron

[@vasifmammedov8437]

You want the video to be neutral but you support Armenia? If the Karabakh region is Armenian, why did Armenia occupy territory beyond that?

[@anikohesenov2315]

QARABAG IS AZERBAIJAN

[@havardjohansen3234]

Do a video on Sarpsborg 08

[@aramaiskhachatryan8491]

You could have told the story of a club without going into politics as you don't have enough information to do those kind of statements guys.

[@forzainter5292]

it sounds like a typical azeri oil/government funded propaganda video...

[@Erivanci]

“Liberating” Not “Occupying”. You got this one wrong. Your double-standards are disgusting.

[@Axuramazda]

Fortunately, since November 2020, FC Karabakh ceased to be a refugee club, because Aghdam was liberated from occupation, like the rest of Karabakh, including Nagorno-Karabakh :)

[@forzainter5292]

Yeah, let's leave out the part where azerbaijan took part in September Days, and the Baku Pogroms...stick to football please...

[@abhishekkar1]

So Henrikh Mkhitaryan vs FK Qarabagh today hmmm

[@rashadtalibli3582]

henrik playing english club Arsenal not😂 armanian club))) but Qarabagh Azerbaijan Turkish Power⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽❤️

[@TheKidJswizzY]

There is match fixing problem in this nation:(

[@varlam1568]

Unsubscribed.

[@Qul1yevedits]

🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿

[@killercaos123]

I hope Miki scores a hat trick

[@SotirisMavris]

killercaos123 he didn’t travel with the team i think cause he’s armenian and they travel to azerbaijan a land stolen from armenia

[@wavedave840]

@@SotirisMavris mate theyre playing at home in london

[@SotirisMavris]

@@wavedave840 ok man im not an arsenal fan to know

[@wavedave840]

@@SotirisMavris fair. i wasnt saying that as a bad thing, i was just letting you know.

[@alialiyev818]

F**** you armenian b*****