Ranking EVERY World Cup Winning Captain

From Premier League goalkeeper Hugo Lloris, who won the World Cup with France in 2018, to Ballon d'Or winning centre-back Fabio Cannavaro, who won the World Cup with Italy in 2006, HITC Sevens attempts to rank every FIFA World Cup winning captain from worst to best.
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[@Kiwifreak32]

Fritz Walter was the greatest captain ever. He cared for every single player of the 1954 squad, organized reunions, helped them in difficult times and even cared for their families after they died. A true leader.

[@e.l.b6435]

Fritz Walter is a German legend

[@SOADfreakable]

@@e.l.b6435 He is a legend in world football and in Germany´s (political) history. Invented modern football, was one of the first players who used tricks to score and to pass. Without a doubt one of the best players who ever lived.

[@olayinkaamara385]

The quality of this list is immense, not gonna lie.

[@pierfrancescocosta6336]

That's true! I didn't expect Meazza to rank that high... : D

[@olayinkaamara385]

I knew Meazza would score highly, at least somewhere within the top five. The general quality of the list is unsurprisingly very high.

[@bernhardsonn8996]

Yeah

[@kieronparr3403]

Calling someone a "water carrier" wasn't an insult. It came from cycling and meant a great teammate who supports the more attacking players.

[@br1c3led]

I think Cantona meant it as an insult though. I cannot see them being mates off the pitch, but I could be wrong since they played together at Marseille.

[@m4dm3th0d]

@@br1c3led Cantona was always a bit of a troll, so it was likely a playful rib

[@HITCSevens]

The actual quote was, "“He gets by because he gives 100%, but he will never be more than a water carrier,” and they had a big fallout afterwards, so I think it's safe to assume it was pejorative in the context that Cantona said it.

[@NoName-jo2mm]

@@HITCSevens please can you rank all English teams in order of club size and history please

[@jaredrodney3420]

@@NoName-jo2mm no don't do that please please no

[@JasonSmith-zp1gv]

I’m actually so happy lloris won a World Cup. Will go down as one of the top 10 goalkeepers of his generation and devoted his life to Tottenham. Very happy to see has something to show for it

[@heinzdoofenshmirtz8643]

True. Very true.

[@GrimReaper-er8uu]

Hope he eventually wins something with Tottenham as well...

[@alexanderpehlivanov1653]

@@GrimReaper-er8uu They were close to win PL title a few years ago,but i believe they were unable to handle the pressure.

[@GrimReaper-er8uu]

@@alexanderpehlivanov1653 they've been *close* to a lot of things... But winning them is a different story...

[@michaelduckett7688]

Shame he’s dog shit now though. And top 10? Really? Neuer, Ter Stegen, Allison, Ederson, Buffon, Casillas, Courtois, Oblak, Navas, De Gea, Handanovic, Cech, Seaman, Friedel, Van Der Sar. Shall I go on?

[@florianmaier6286]

Day 27: 7 worst players who scored a hattrick in either the premier or champions league

[@justkick98]

A very opinionated topic? ooh controversy i love it

[@prometheustv6558]

The worst is probably Yakubu, he is responsible for the worst open goal miss ever.

[@n.mirage3904]

@@prometheustv6558 Yak and Torres are tied for the worst open goal miss imo

[@adityaswamy9647]

@@n.mirage3904 sterling is up there he has many such misses

[@roccopiosaracino3681]

Luiz adriano scored 5 goals in a match in the champions league lol

[@benbacharach3977]

Lloris’ game against Uruguay will not be forgotten. Kept us alive

[@ayushman8878]

Finally! A good video to eat to... My meal will be legendary

[@daynahblack3958]

R.I.P Don Diego , the greatest international player to ever do it !

[@mngamer5550]

This is one of the best videos for a while now, I don't love the historical videos, I like the current ones, but a mix between both is genuinely my favorite More lists like this please

[@mehedinafis2692]

when you unveiled maradona and the picture of him up on the screen, i got chills rest in power king 💙

[@mrsomeone846]

1 & 2 are Maradona and Beckenbaur, they pic themselves. The rest however... Think I’ll enjoy this one!

[@leandrociarrapico9256]

Day 2: San Marino XI that beat Liechtenstein in 2004, where are they know? 😂😂😂

[@seanmccombie6379]

where are they now? probably still celebrating that victory somewhere in San Marino

[@starfall8659]

The GK is in The kitchen, defenders are probably somewhere in court defending someone, strikers are enrolled in Italy’s army and midfielders are now fishermen, trying to fish some assists

[@areebsiddiqui758]

Pretty accurate rankings although I'd have put Lahm a few places higher.

[@mafiousbj]

Bobby Moore top 5 just because he is British...other than that the list was mostly accurate, maybe Dino Zoff should have gone higher since he is a bonafide legend of his position

[@mike04574]

@Hidden Sword they weren't as good

[@mihaistan3514]

Since you mentioned Ronald Koeman, we shouldn't forget that today is the birthday of the famous Dutch who won Barcelona their first Champions League. Happy birthday, legend :))

[@heinzdoofenshmirtz8643]

Did you know, he used to play for Barcelona?

[@lalboimanlun1230]

Amd he'll ahain win one as a manager in the future

[@heinzdoofenshmirtz8643]

@@jeswinjames5986 It's a 442oons reference, bud.

[@jackfinn144]

@@heinzdoofenshmirtz8643 why have you commented over 1000 times on this channel

[@spooked2104]

Netherlands never won a wc whut?

[@white_will_smith]

Ranking every world cup winning Manager as Players

[@prometheustv6558]

Hard to do since not all of them were players

[@Berserk-vj8kz]

@@prometheustv6558 wouldn't be the first time. He ranked managers as players before and he literally tried to fiend out how they did in Sunday league 😂

[@amirfilmy]

1.Beckanbauer. Maybe?

[@prometheustv6558]

@@amirfilmy I can’t think of a better player who was a World Cup winning manager.

[@Berserk-vj8kz]

@@amirfilmy Maradona is the only better player who managed at a world cup so yes 1000%

[@mainaknatta6595]

16:35 - Franz Beckenbauer didn't lift the Jules Rimet trophy. Brazil won it for keeps in 1970. In 1974, Kaiser was the first captain to lift the present day version of the trophy..

[@tsprime3114]

Thanks for this!

[@Luckymag-if4dw]

Fun fact: Dunga holds the all time record for most completed passes in a single world cup at 1994, 50 passes ahead of second place Xavi in 2010. He's also the only one to appear in the top 10 twice from his 1998 performance as well

[@kennethwilkinson2095]

Cafu, only player to appear in 3 world cup finals... in a row!

[@naamanmacdonald3335]

Matthaüs did that as well

[@acidrazor66]

@@naamanmacdonald3335 i think Matthaus didn’t play the 1982 final

[@acidrazor66]

but he’s still the one who played most WCs ever; playing 5

[@kennethwilkinson2095]

@@acidrazor66 wasn't even a sub in 82.

[@naamanmacdonald3335]

@@acidrazor66 who Cafu? No he’s not

[@abood103_]

day 1: rank every champions league captains since the 21st century

[@heinzdoofenshmirtz8643]

Teams or players?

[@abood103_]

@@heinzdoofenshmirtz8643 captains I changed it

[@heinzdoofenshmirtz8643]

@@abood103_ So for example, for 2019 Liverpool it would be Jordan Henderson and 2008 Man United would be Rio Ferdinand?

[@abood103_]

@@heinzdoofenshmirtz8643 ya

[@zohaibbashir8394]

Yeah Ferdinand is in the bin

[@purvalama6540]

LOVE THIS CHANNEL

[@encorefootball]

Would love to see an update of this in post 2026 world cup review

[@johngreen9830]

Messi has to top this list now

[@PessiTheFraud]

Pessi dog

[@reinhardhofer6203]

​@@PessiTheFraudmessi>>>>>>penaldo

[@footballh4366]

Love your work brother♥️

[@ferdinandhoessler4861]

Wow, I didn't expect you putting Lothar 3rd, that is awesome. The first two were no brainers. Absolutely with you there. Being German, I actually forgot about the 90 Captain even though I watched the game. Can you do the same for the Euros?

[@Strelok473]

You know what you need? A counter on the screen at all times.

[@johanericsson7309]

As someone who watches a lot of (ice) hockey, it’s interesting to see how this list is dominated by defenders and central midfielders, compared to hockey where the offensive star players usually get the captaincy at very young age.

[@DaleRojoDecaf]

I can't really understand why compared to hockey, as i don't watch much hockey, but there doesn't really seem to be a midfield in hockey. In futbol the midfield isn't just bigger and more important, but its own battlefield. Having a stud that can defend in midfield and create chances by winning possession is so critical. Watching Argentina for years, Mascherano pretty much held it together almost all his own at times but Argentina pretty much failed Messi and the generational attackers with the midfield.

[@johanericsson7309]

@@DaleRojoDecaf That does make a lot of sense. In hockey you have 2 defenders (who have become more active playmakers in the modern game, very similarly to CBs in football), a center who basically plays like both a creative and a defensive midfielder in football (some more offensively skilled and others more defensively inclined) and 2 wingers. With the smaller playing surface, positions become much more fluid also (defenders can end up in the opponent's corner and a center can sometimes be the last man defending a 2v1) . But there's definitely a different view on captaincy there, with seniority not being as big of a deal as in football (also defenders usually break into the pros at a later age than centers or wingers).

[@ramonvella1952]

Great content

[@arzhi_azis]

Day 3: Can you make a short documentary about Bury FC? Giving the fact that this team is not exist anymore, it will be another great documentary for this channel.

[@looneylogic6479]

Bury FC have gone but now there reborn as Bury AFC

[@RoseColored_]

I am firmly of the opinion that Alfie underrates Fritz Walter.

[@BurnRoddy]

Nasazzi was one of the first Sweepers in football. Back then the outside rule was prominent since there were only 2 defenders but he was one of the first players that actually went up the field to link up with the centerhalf whom was - and to a lesser extent still is - the engine of Uruguayan football att. As far as Varela he was so furious at Brazilian attitude towards the Uruguayan team that the day before the final he purchased 22 newspapers whose front page read ''Brazil Supreme World Champions and Nothing Else Matters'' and told his team mates to urinate on them.

[@michealyakubu5007]

Could you do a documentary on the Spain team of 2010

[@BOABModels]

What a squad this would have been - the only issue of course would be that it would be very defence heavy. If it was to be a starting 11 you may need some of the full backs to play as wingers.

[@kel9855]

Can't believe Jose Nasazzi is that low. That Uruguay team a century ago was an absolute world beater. They won 3 international tournaments in a row, the Olympics in 1924 and 1928, and the World Cup in 1930. I would put Nasazzi in the top 10.

[@jakobkristensen9445]

Agree. Top 5-6 for me. I rank him as the fourth greatest central defender of all time, only second to Beckenbauer, Baresi and Moore. He is south americas best central defender - better than Passarella and Figueroa.

[@Posterchild19]

It's good to see the argentinian captains so high, they truly were amazing players

[@TheBarrier]

Rank every World Cup Golden Ball winner next! And although the award started in 1982, use your best judgment on who should’ve won in the prior editions

[@ammarhabibrotk]

Should bobby Moore not be lower in the list?

[@mannytuzo]

English players being overinflated, nothing new.

[@thomaskendell8146]

Especially by Alfie

[@mannytuzo]

@@thomaskendell8146 or any English person in general

[@Erikaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

Putting Moore ahead of Lahm is just insane

[@CIMAmotor]

@@Erikaaaaaaaaaaaaa Why?

[@David-cy3qm]

Nice Video 👏

[@Emmet-do4jq]

I pretty much agree with everything in the list, although I’d but Lahm a few places higher. The top 3 is spot on.

[@Abhisat_mlg]

Here's a video idea:- Ranking the 10 best captains of national teams ranked 100 or higher in FIFA's ranking system.

[@so-tk7eh]

Do a video about the first club of every country to get to the group stage of the Champions League

[@stivstilianos980]

Ranking every world cup winning squad

[@danielfrancis7798]

Maybe a ranking of all World Cup runners up captains? Might be a more varied list

[@LuCii-chan]

11:49 my 2 Favourite players of all time in one picture 😍

[@sirdaddy2714]

Day 1: ranking every World Cup golden ball winner

[@javiermoreno5898]

I knew from the get-go Lloris was going to be 21, even so, I haven't seen you speak so well of so many consecutive players since your top 100 a couple of years ago. Appreciate the love especially for Fritz Walter, that is a player that gets almost no recognition for just how good he was.

[@johnclough1737]

A series ranking each country's greatest captions of all time

[@Harry-rq7hm]

You should do a similar video to this one but rank every world cup winning manager as a player

[@footballdays5548]

I literally asked for this everyday 😃

[@ephraimlokuagabana5450]

You are lucky😂 hopefully mine is next.

[@tsprime3114]

It was me

[@footballdays5548]

@@tsprime3114 both of us I emailed him

[@archiemacdonald6394]

Day 1 - Could you do a documentary on Miura the oldest current footballer

[@faris66._]

Danny Aaron’s

[@pierfrancescocosta6336]

Oh, that's a great idea! : )

[@HassaanAttariLEUK]

Video idea ranking england players who currently are not playing in england

[@LoonaVanza]

All time Premier League 11 vs All time La Liga 11 And same could be done for other Leagues SeriesA, League1 and Bundisliga

[@roguegamer6969]

Laliga won easily. I mean they have R9, Zidane, Messi, Puyol, Xavi, Iniesta, Casillas, Di Stefano, puskas, Ramos, Raul, Cannavaro, Dani Alves, Roberto Carlos, Hierro, Ronaldinho, and many more. I didnt even include CR7 who is more of a real Madrid legend to me rather than MU

[@TwoFootball1998]

Come on😂😂😂. It would be much more interesting comparing the Serie A all time 11 and the La Liga all time XI. Premiere League wouldn’t win against them on a single position🤣🤣🤣.

[@roguegamer6969]

Maybe even add Cruyff to that list

[@roguegamer6969]

@@TwoFootball1998 yup atleast they Will put a fight

[@TwoFootball1998]

@@roguegamer6969 I think the Serie A all time XI would beat the La Liga one.

[@zolazraizolkapli3643]

El Diego!! Great analysis!!

[@charliegreen1200]

video idea ranking all 20 premier league best gk of all time

[@morrisbeumer7360]

When you see a Ballon d'Or winner on 14th place, you know you're in for a good list

[@rodrigolyra7312]

Ranking the best World Cup top scorers from worst to best

[@juancardoza6918]

the top 3 are spot on

[@ushmiaster]

The rise and fall and rise again of rangers. Will be happy to have it next 6 weeks

[@renovandermade2051]

Great vid!!! Please do a All Time XI series with each letter of the alphabet(based on the last name or name the player is known by)!

[@maxclarke7119]

Day 1 : comparing world cup winning squads with the euros winner 2 years before or after

[@danielnoah7719]

Video idea : *Every golden boot winner since 2000 in la lilga*

[@202Chris]

Yes !!

[@ephraimlokuagabana5450]

Please do a video by rankings pele's 125 greatest living players of all time list. Also love the content.

[@ephraimlokuagabana5450]

@DaGe PaPo true that is why I want Alfie to make that list so it will be interesting as Pele added in weird players such as Diouf Emre and Saviola and many more but added in some great players but left out players such as van Basten.

[@ephraimlokuagabana5450]

@DaGe PaPo yh true

[@ephraimlokuagabana5450]

@DaGe PaPo 👍

[@bux4332]

Alfie you should do a ranking the best ‘head it kick it’ defenders in the prem

[@filipeorldp95775]

Video Idea - Best 11 who have played with Messi or Ronaldo

[@roboticaljohn8299]

Day 70: what did you have for lunch?

[@nathanjm000]

Ranking every Champions League winning captain

[@jakobkristensen9445]

You are really underrating José Nasazzi. He was clearly the best defender before the WW2 and probably the greatest central defender before the likes of Bobby Moore, Franz Beckenbauer and Elias Figueroa entered the game in the 1960s-1970s. 1. Diego Maradona 2. Franz Beckenbauer 3. Lothar Matthäus 4. Bobby Moore 5. José Nasazzi 6. Giuseppe Meazza 7. Dino Zoff

[@arjunkishore4080]

It’s a good thing Messi and Argentina won because this list can just be moved one over

[@ajsavini7562]

you should do a runner up version of this

[@h.mc13]

next one should be ranking the top scorers at every World Cup (unless this has already been done?)

[@lil5inches]

Day 14: 7 defeneders who's scored a hat trick Edit: Thanks for the corrections. Sorry English isnt my first language, and Idk why I did "an" cause in all my other comments I wrote "a"

[@LuCii-chan]

A hat trick not an hat trick

[@jayhyams3209]

@@LuCii-chan smart arse

[@TarAlanshori]

you both wrong it's a Hat-trick Hat Trick is a Trick involving a Hat, usually shown in magic show

[@jackrobbins1837]

Aden Flint at Walsall

[@lil5inches]

@@TarAlanshori I think your right, but if you use common sense it's obvious that I'm talking about football, so I refuse to chage the hat trick

[@boney__70]

Ranking every World Cup best player winner

[@bradleystobbs827]

Can you do a video on Lajos Tichy the most prolific goalscorer of all time according to the R.S.S.S foundation?

[@javimarquez13]

Happy birthday to Lothar Matthäus, the captain of the best German WC squad ever, only the best on his 60th birthday 🎊🎉🍻😉❤⚽️🇩🇪

[@murasame1450]

Overall I think that the 2014 Squad was way better. Especially in GK and Defensive department. But of course in the midfield and attack the 1990 squad had some of the biggest names of german football.

[@javimarquez13]

@@murasame1450 You underestimate the defenders in 1990: Augenthaler was a great sweeper, Buchwald and Kohler made no mistakes during the tournament, well, Brehme and Reuter were world-class. 1990 had it all and the better coach 😉

[@murasame1450]

@@javimarquez13 Well if you had to make a team out of both of the squads I would choose as such. Neuer in Goal is a given, Lahm is one of the best RB of all time, I think that Boateng and Hummels in 2014, especially Boateng, are the best CBs. Kohler instead of Hummels could be debatable. For LB Brehme is an easy pick. Then Midfield is really difficult But I would pick Matthäus, Schweinsteiger, Müller and Thon. Of course Khedira, Özil, Kroos, Littbarski and Häßler are also top picks. And finally Klose and Völler as attackers. Götze was also really in 2014 and Klinsmann of course is also a good choice. So in the end my team with the best players would be 7 to 4 for 2014.

[@javimarquez13]

@@murasame1450 Kohler and Buchwald in their prime 1990 were way better than Hummels and Boateng in 2014, Litti instead of Thon, Völler and Klose, easy but overall the whole 1990 squad 😉

[@cameronmaccallum1018]

You should do the history of the west German 1954 team

[@lcgw9062]

Footballers who might play for Jamaica at the 2022 world cup

[@davidharriott6633]

Rank every champions league winning captain

[@bernhardsonn8996]

Good vid

[@LouisPrescottReselling]

Last 5 players to score a debut hat-trick: where are they now?

[@user-qi2gq5tq7c]

Rank every world cup winning team

[@brolinfernandez3956]

7 Best Individual Seasons of the last 30 years

[@sugamgautam4318]

Can you do the same but with managers?

[@kayodeakinwumi6182]

How do you rank Cannavaro 14th when he won the ballon d'or and fifa best player that year (even if they were debatable)? This is perplexing

[@depekthegreat359]

Good friend Alfie,this is unfortunate that your beloved Hull City drew away at Shrewsbury Town by 1-1 yesterday but still at the top of the English League's (Third Division Football) standings by 69 points,3 points ahead of Peterborough in the second and 5 points ahead of Sunderland!!!:):-D

[@ye7242]

best 7 managers for barcelona and then follow up videos for the other major clubs

[@bakulshah4367]

Day 24: Most shocking/surprising FA cup winners. By that I mean, the most surprising team that went onto win the entire tournament.

[@kennethwilkinson2095]

@@Alexbouvet1 I would be more than surprised if any of these teams you mentioned ever won the FA cup... I mean, you wrote all that looking for an argument and aren't even staying within the limits of the original statement 💁🏻‍♂️ PS no team from the northern hemisphere had ever won in the south so nobody, upon nobody expected Germany to win in 2014, neymar was the 2nd coming. I know because I backed them at long odds and won pretty.

[@Alexbouvet1]

@@kennethwilkinson2095 what the hell are you talking about This doesn't make any sense

[@kennethwilkinson2095]

And now that I have read your comment it's even more laughable, France could not score a goal in 98 and needed extra time and penalties, nobody expected them to win. Brazil were wrote off in 2002 having barely qualified if I remember, Italy in 2006 was not only an aging, slow, methodical team but had hardly set the world on fire, it was zidane s tournament. The only non surprise winner in my life has been spain in 2010 and Germany in 90. It was baggios tournament in 94, going back further England were not supposed to win inbetween Brazil who won 3 either side, pele got injured and in previous world cups usa finished 3rd and Uruguay won but you'll just discount that yea. ps he was talking about the fa cup anyway !

[@Alexbouvet1]

@@kennethwilkinson2095 Oh jeez My mistake ahah

[@kennethwilkinson2095]

@@Alexbouvet1 Have a good day my friend and Ronaldo, r9 was the fenomeno 👍

[@ibrahimali70]

Extravaganza

[@Brad_Horn]

Best teams to have hosted the Euros (Rank them by performance)

[@85CCM75]

Rank the most unexpected victories in football history

[@lcgw9062]

Jamaica starting 11 at the 2022 worldcup

[@delfincastellino-dominguez1607]

Day 49: Top 7 ranked National teams' golden generations if they were compiled into a league format

[@louiepearson2817]

sheeeesh good idea

[@user-my4qf2fe9r]

Brazil will dominate

[@delfincastellino-dominguez1607]

@@user-my4qf2fe9r I think so but I wouldn't be so sure. I feel like Hungary and the Netherlands could really compete

[@elias5752]

HITC SEVENS: Football Channel HITC SEVENS too: Lahm on 12

[@gabrielmeireles8851]

Great Video! I only consider Carlos Alberto Torres and Bellini should be higher on that list, but that's my personal opinion. I have a video suggestion to make: you could talk about, from a englishman perspective, which individual award is more prestigious and has the fairest criteria - the Ballon D'or x The Fifa Best Player Award (today known as FIFA The Best). It's funny, 'cause from a Brazilian perspective, the FIFA award' is normally more renowned, for being the more "official one", from Football's main Entity. The Ballon D'or got more well known around here arguably in the last two decades, since it was exclusively for Europeans up until 1995. To me, It seems the France Football award is more important for europeans, due to It's tradition. I'd like to hear Alfie's opinion on this topic. Greetings! 😁🇧🇷

[@ahmedst290]

Video idea: Full documentary of rise and fall of Bolton Football Club.

[@Splurrged]

Ranking the best debut of the last 30 years

[@user-fy6vx8gw2u]

5 years, don't wanna hear about ppl from the 60s lmao

[@mongoliantaxevader]

@@user-fy6vx8gw2u 30 years would only go back to 1991....

[@user-fy6vx8gw2u]

@@mongoliantaxevader pretty sure people from the 60s were still playing back in the 90s

[@archiemacdonald6394]

@@user-fy6vx8gw2u no one could have a 30 year career

[@user-fy6vx8gw2u]

@@archiemacdonald6394 KING KAZU 👑

[@demswagger]

best defences of all time

[@mdp2873]

Suriname XI if all eligible players declared for them

[@depekthegreat359]

In this and other worlds,I am the 5th liker of this video and these are favourite FIFA World Cup captains of all time daily in my life forever and every generations that we would be born,good friends!!!:-D

[@EagleEyes77]

How did I miss this video?😢

[@jacobsalter2322]

can you make a video about the rise of barnsley, they went from championship relegation favourites to being in playoff places