The Best Footballer From EVERY Country In Europe (2024)

From Bayern Munich's Harry Kane vs Real Madrid's Jude Bellingham for England, to San Marino's star man Nicola Nanni and Filippo Fabbri, HITC Sevens takes a look at the best footballer from every UEFA member nation ahead of Euro 2024.
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[@HITCSevens]

Granit Xhaka doesn't exist, alright.

[@JamJar612]

Exactly

[@seppokuusinen8595]

😂 Owning it, well done!

[@TSG_Ballverlust]

That's why he plays at Neverkusen

[@CleanFIFA]

@@TSG_Ballverlust think youve been living under a rock mate he's just won the league unbeaten

[@TSG_Ballverlust]

@@CleanFIFAdon't talk to me you need to tell Alfie😂

[@adampark..]

The madman's going to go through the entire world again

[@calculator17]

I hope so

[@srbPasulj93]

missed Xhaka tho

[@adampark..]

@@srbPasulj93 yeah I agree on that, xhaka's had a better season than kobel and sommer imo

[@LuigiLuigi728]

Can’t wait to find out who’s the best player from Macau, Rwanda, Tahiti and the British Virgin Islands 🤩🤩

[@calculator17]

@@LuigiLuigi728 I’m also really interested in the best player from st Vincent and the Grenadines, São Tomé and Principe, Nauru, Bermuda and especially New Caledonia!!! 🤩🤩🤩 🇻🇨🇸🇹🇳🇷🇧🇲🇳🇨🤩🤩🤩

[@KUZCOCRO]

Xhaka not even being included as a honourable mention for Switzerland is highly debatable 🧐

[@lordhenry3383]

I would even go so far to say Xhaka is probably Switzerland's best player. He has been pivotal for Bayer Leverkusen this season.

[@TSG_Ballverlust]

What more has this human to prove

[@Brabour]

Biggest miss of the entire series

[@justaguy2735]

Couldn't agree more . ​@@lordhenry3383

[@user-ir8er1bh4q]

Isnt he probably the best Schweizer there is?

[@someonefromaustria1481]

There is also a Swiss guy called Xhaka playing for Leverkusen you might have heard of :D besides that very good quality video as always. Keep up the good work :)

[@pavlikmorozovgaming468]

He's Albanian

[@falsemcnuggethope]

@@pavlikmorozovgaming468 born in Basel, Albania

[@pavlikmorozovgaming468]

@@falsemcnuggethope place of birth doesn't make it your nationality. He represents switzerland cause that's where he grew up and they have better facilities, but all in all he's Albanian.

[@siecheil]

​@@pavlikmorozovgaming468i gotta agree. hes a swiss "international", but is wholly albanian.

[@scottmeehan2422]

​@@siecheilhes Kosovan not Albanian. He wanted to paly for kosovo but couldn't as he played for Swiss at euro 2016.

[@lucaslonchampt613]

I am the best player for France. I am a goal scoring machine for my local B-team playing in the 4th county division

[@Frogunity]

La D4 c'est bien plus dur que la Ligue 1 vu les bouchers qu'il y a

[@bartusaron5909]

Probably you are the only French French soo I could agree😅

[@lucaslonchampt613]

@@bartusaron5909 The hell is that supposed to mean

[@BadselS]

What team?

[@BryanHan27]

@@lucaslonchampt613 I think he is alluding to the fact that the vast majority of Frances team are not 100% French? But why that matters idk, I'll take some elite genetic imports in Ireland we're already pretty good at sport for a 5 mill population. Maybe not football but ya get me hahah

[@krrsantan89]

Xhaka for Switzerland.. not even a mention

[@jackmehoff5541]

Xhaka is not the best player of Switzerland wake the F up

[@jhaych]

Believe it or not but every team to have won the euros have been based in Europe!!

[@euphoriaggaminghd]

No way mate! I don't believe you.

[@Pieroxcing]

I see what you did, however, Israel could actually win Euros without being based there

[@jhaych]

@@Pieroxcing I said won! That's past tense, they've never previously won it before! Good thinking though mate haha!

[@kieronparr3403]

Imagine the scenes if Kazakhstan won

[@chlcrk]

:o

[@joachimhovgaardramlau3064]

Day 14: 7 greatest seasons before Retirement of all time (like Cruyff’s season with Feyenoord)

[@matteohaverkamp9486]

As an Ajax fan, I strongly disagree with your opinion

[@matteohaverkamp9486]

Marco Van Basten would probably rank 1st as I think he won the ballon d'or in his last year playing football

[@finnvandermaas]

Great shout

[@joachimhovgaardramlau3064]

@@matteohaverkamp9486 yeah but you can’t deny it was a great season

[@matteohaverkamp9486]

@@joachimhovgaardramlau3064 yes, it was a great season and probably deserves to be on the list, I'm just a bit salty

[@TSG_Ballverlust]

The madman left out Xhaka... just wow😂

[@mishagelenava2962]

Kvara was an obvious selection, but you named honorable mentions for many countries where there was no real competition or every single player you named were lower level players, so, it's a bit strange that you didn't give an honorable mention to Giorgi Mamardashvili, who is one of the best goalkeepers in the world right now. With his amazing performances he is leading Valencia to possibly returning to Europe and he was definitely the main guy against Greece.

[@Chloethemarxenjoyer]

Or Jodi Jones for Malta, 5 goals and 23 assists in 41 league games for notts county this season.

[@bly1206]

Did you forget about Xhaka?? he is Switzerlands most important player by far. Did you confuse him with Shaqiri?? (because you said "man of the hour", and Xhaka just won the bundesliga title)

[@bazingacurta2567]

Lmao, that's so funny.

[@TSG_Ballverlust]

Probably cofused them, let's not be too hard on alfie now pls😅

[@bazingacurta2567]

@@TSG_Ballverlust He's a football KZbinr with 600k subscribers. It's a very embarrassing mistake, if true.

[@needfoolthings]

​@@bazingacurta2567I agree.

[@TSG_Ballverlust]

@@bazingacurta2567he also made a nearly 1 hour video about the best player of every nation in europe and invested probably weeks if not months into this project (and many others)

[@Adam-uu9tw]

I would like to see a video on former countries with modern national teams. As in which current players would represent teams like East Germany, Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Bavara, Austria-Hungary, the French Empire, Prussia etc

[@jairmorales2017]

I think he did last year or a couple of years ago

[@thejulinks]

Austria- Hungary currently would basically be Austria + Orban and Szoboszlai. Maybe Gulasci if he finds his form again (he's currently awful for Leipzig) and maybe also Sallai.

[@Adam-uu9tw]

@@thejulinks Austria Hungary also had parts of Poland, the Czech Republic, Germany, Slovenia, Croatia, Italy and even Romania and Ukraine.

[@thejulinks]

@@Adam-uu9tw Yeah absolutely stupid comment from me. I'll leave it up but admit, that it was very much a rushed thing. Also in my defence- I played too much HOI IV lately, where you start out by forming Austria-Hungary with just those two countries. I did not think about all of the other crownlands.

[@Adam-uu9tw]

@@thejulinks No worries, mate. Owning up to that makes you more mature than 99% on the planet.

[@StevenM44271]

Swiss viewer here: Granit Xhaka is Switzerland best and most important player alongside Shaqiri. Kobel has been injured for 8 games this season, and often before or during international breaks. Nevertheless, this should have been Xhaka, especially as he led Leverkusen to their first title ever in Bundesliga. Odd choice Alfie, but I suppose you are not a big follower of the Bundesliga or/and the Swiss national team.

[@arron390]

its kinda funny that the two best swiss players are albanians

[@StevenM44271]

@@arron390 the 11 best French players are African. And then ?

[@arron390]

@@StevenM44271 it's different,France had colonies so these people knew French and its culture,albania and Switzerland don't have anything in common

[@1886Joel]

​@@arron390The albanian community is nowaday really well integrated in our country and I am glad we didn't have colonies. The albanians in the seiss team are born and raised in switzerland.

[@AJCrowley0153]

Nah, Berbatov is still the best Bulgarian footballer, despite being retired for years. Second best is probably 60y/o Stoichkov. Yes, things are that bad

[@t0mkat]

21:13 “Kane has scored more goals than Haaland this season while being much better at literally everything else aswell.” What a sentence 😂 says it all about Kane really, absolute baller.

[@antfa]

Great video Alfie. Two small corrections regarding the segment on Greece: 29:18 Donis has never coached the Greek NT. The manager of the last campaigns was Gustavo Poyet. In the playoff final against Georgia, both teams were playing with 11 players. The red card was given to the outfield substitute Georgian goalkeeper Loria for something that happened between the two benches. PS. In my opinion, Pavlidis is a good pick but he has not performed well with the NT. In contrast, the best performer of the last campaigns has been Bakasetas (NT captain). Probably the best footballer player in terms of talent is Fortounis (which is no longer playing with the NT) Keep up the good work!

[@nektarpanagiotis6707]

Fotis Yunadas

[@georgiospapadopoulos9294]

Cyprus mentioned! Great video Alfie!

[@Anarchidi]

29:20. Pavlidis has been straight up a$$ for the national team. And he contributes much less to the team's build up than Ioannidis, who is a tank (and imo, will surpass Pavlidis in the future, and I say this as an Olympiakos fan).

[@stephenkountourou8657]

Ok....a couple things. Giorgos Donis isn't Greece manager, not yet at least. Gus Poyet recently left the job. Also Pavlidis didn't play a minute for Poyet bc he "didnt fit his style". Also I would've at least nominated Kostas Fortounis in there as he is the best Greek player of his generation despite retiring for the national team and Fotis Ioannidis who is the starting striker for Greece and is having an excellent season for Panathinaikos. Other than that great video Alfie

[@nektarpanagiotis6707]

Fotis Yunadas was mentioned

[@picassawi5578]

There are few people that I very much enjoy listening to, that piss me off so much as you Alfie. And treat that as a weird complement. Another very entertaining video, good job Lad. And if you are looking for ideas before Euro here's one for you: players (I believe you can narrow it to 7 so it's not THAT laborious) for whom Euro will be the last tournament (Modric inspired, but being Polish - Lewandowski is probably in there too). Cheers

[@Tobk0SK]

As a Slovak, currently it is deffinitely Dávid Hancko who is our best player

[@Hyde_Hill]

Yeah he should get a big money move this summer definitely. Great left center back who can also play left back.

[@Tobk0SK]

@@Hyde_Hill exactly,iam sure he will deffinitely move to a big club and i think that club is going to be Liverpool 🤠but as a Slovak citizen and a barca fan,i would love for him to join barca

[@Fragum19]

As a totally unbiased Feyenoord fan, I agree

[@seandelap8587]

I'm just dying to see who is the star player of San Marino or Gibraltar

[@jackmehoff5541]

Probably your mother

[@kelvin_ruweta]

Your content is so good Alfie, I thank you for constantly delivering these blockbuster videos. I have been writing about football (but stopped after AFCON, for some reason) and you always remind me of going back to write about the sport I care about the most. Top football channel on YT, keep it up! With love from Tanzania 🇹🇿

[@localidiot5136]

Alfie, do a top 10 players from Hull and surrounds. I'll get you started. Nick Barmby, Dean Windass, Stuart Pearson, Paul Robinson...

[@ifan_1234]

it would be truly magnificent if you did a video about the Cymru Premier. the league doesn't get much attention, but it is growing, and team like Caernarfon, Colwyn bay and Barry have decent fanbases.

[@barnbersonol]

Hardd y gwel y fran ei chyw!

[@ifan_1234]

@@barnbersonol be ti'n feddwl?

[@barnbersonol]

@@ifan_1234 mae'r ddihareb yna yn golygu fod tabeth sy'n perthyn iti wastad yn ymddangos yn Well ba Beth yw e mewn realiti achos ti'n ffaelu help bod yn biased. Sdim anifail yn fwy hyll na babi bran ond nid i'w fam ei hun. Ti'n meddwl fod league Cymru yn gret ond mae'n waeth na'r blydi Icelandic C league.

[@ifan_1234]

@@barnbersonol dwi'n dallt be gen ti wan. ydy mae safon y gynghrair yn wael, dim ond 3 cynghrair sydd yn waeth yn ôl uefa. ond dwi'n obeithiol am y dyfodol, yn enwedig gyda'r 6 miliwn mae'r cymdeithas bêl droed am fuddsoddi yn y gynghrair.

[@howbizarrepodcast5421]

Alfie, you are the best football KZbinr by a wide margin. No one comes even near to you, your knowledge of the game and it's role in society as a whole is amazing. Keep the great work and I wish you all the best.

[@Lavassin]

What's blud wafflin about He didn't even Mention Xhaka

[@JasonWilliams89]

​@@LavassinOne mistake from hundreds of hours of research and you're mad

[@ArielRamirez-vx8kh]

My German brother. I’m a fan of your channel As a Mexican American I am traveling to your country for the first time for the euro. My fanatical footballer family is going to enjoy your country. I look forward to it. And in 2 more years you can come our way for the World Cup.

[@vegetasef]

when talking about bulgary you showed a photo of serbia. i love it

[@Tmbeo]

I know it would be a big ask but the all time best XI from all euro 2024 teams would be great. Maybe the substitutes as well. Your videos always have such great research so it would be fun to learn about some absurd players i have never heard of.

[@Jean-ClaudeCampell]

I love your channel (in fact, this is my absolute favorite football channel) and greatly appreciate your great analytical skills, humor, knowledge (of the game and in general) etc. I do have one remark on this clip, regarding the best Swiss player at the moment (and I would argue at least of the past two seasons). It seems to me that you forgot about Granit Xhaka, who Mikel Arteta shaped into a mature leader at Arsenal and who has been crucial to Xabi Alonso’s Leverkusen Bundesliga title this season. No disrespect to Kobel or Sommer, who both played great seasons with their respective clubs, but Xhaka tops them by far, in my opinion. Cheers, all the best to you! Keep the great work up!

[@Rebaek1]

Hi Alfie. Where would you get the idea from that Mads Boe Mikkelsen is the best player of the Faroe Islands? That seems a bit random. Currently, Jóannes Bjartalíð, Brandur Hendriksson Olsen, Jóan Símun Edmunsson, Jákup Andreassen, Adrian Justinussen, Árni Frederiksberg, Hallur Hansson (although he hasn’t played for a long time), Sølvi Vatnhamar, Peter Knudsen, Páll Klettskarð, Viljormur Davidsen and René Shaki Joensen are all better players with more international experience. Again, where did you get the information from that Mads would be better than these?

[@NickAnthony-fq9yg]

Alfie! You left me hanging wondering if there would be any further Addo! I rely on you clearing that topic up in your introductions!

[@trisdj]

Elite video. Keep it up you madman.

[@BlueflagAlpha]

You left out Xhaka

[@brolindres]

Alfie can you please make a video on the ridiculous decision to have Israel possibly compete in the Copa America and what it would mean for football in UEFA and CONMEBOL

[@user-jw5qj8kv2y]

Luka Modric without a doubt is one of the best midfielders of our generation and even amongst all the greatest to have ever played the game. He’s in elite company alongside names like Zinedine Zidane, Xavi, Iniesta, Pirlo, Cruyff, and many more.

[@testadalord01432]

Madridistas don’t still sing “balon de oro Lukita balon de oro” to this day for no reason, the old dog’s still class even with lessening gametime

[@bazingacurta2567]

Nope, he's better than all of those. He's the second best player of all time, in my estimation, just behind Pelé.

[@MrIkOgNiTo]

@@bazingacurta2567 Is this sarcasm?

[@bazingacurta2567]

@@MrIkOgNiTo Absolutely not.

[@MrIkOgNiTo]

@@bazingacurta2567 Ok good to know. Just wanted to make sure if it's sarcasm or delusion. ✌🏻😂

[@cliffffff111]

crazy that the last time you did this was 6 years ago, didn’t realise ive been watching for that long

[@chechenknightslaillaillall2047]

I agree with Dejan Kulusevski. I am Swedish, that's for sure, and he is our best export currently.

[@HamiV]

Surely each continent gets this video again

[@benculley4707]

Not sure how difficult it would be, but Alfie please could you consider to create an audio format only version of these for Spotify? I think lots of people would be interested!

[@justaguy2735]

Xhaka not even a mention? You must really really hate him .

[@mnetti2444]

Great video and very intersting to hear about those small countries. But your Swiss pick is miserable. Gregor Kobel?? Sommer is chasing records in Italy & is by far the better goalkeeper atm and Xhaka is Xabi Alonso's reincarnation on the pitch. Only Topps made it worse by picking Okafor as the Star Player!!

[@liquidswords9540]

Absolute banger once again, could maybe have mentioned Emreli for Azerbaijan and Laifis for Cyprus but that’s splitting hairs tbf (only got as far as England in the vid so far)

[@wife9571]

i live for these videos alfie

[@PanosGR99]

Unfortunate Wikipedia moment, but Greece coach for the last 2 years (including of course the Georgia game) has been "Gus Poyet", but for some reason someone changed it to Donis, even though no one knows who is going to be the next one.

[@joonasehro7089]

Please keep this going, Alfie. Please. We need the entire world

[@liammcdonagh4242]

How long have you been cooking this up behind the scenes 😂

[@BOBINKINGA]

My favorite series is back 6 years later......👌🏾👌🏾

[@jonpon0182]

It's funny that hapoel Jerusalem, a pretty anonymous club In general managed to sign sapinen. He tore his knee to shreds on his first game 🫣 maybe it wasn't ment to be

[@Aemond2024]

Pavlidis was a great shout. He plays brilliant football as a mini Harry Kane for AZ

[@fiftylaren]

FC Augsburg mentioned. ++ Video

[@MichalT_03]

Do a video picking the second best player in every country. Exclude goalkeepers too to make it interesting

[@mikegnk4994]

Excellent work once again Alfie, I just want to point out that your pronunciation of PAOK is slightly wrong. You’re pretty close, but you seem to add an “A” at the end, which isn’t needed. It’s simply PAH-OCK. I only mention it because you may be one of the few people that cares about this sort of stuff. Either way, you still get bonus points for not reading it as P, A, O, K. Same goes for AEK Athens btw, it’s just AH-ECK.

[@poliver1980]

Welcome to Czechia. It's lovely here now, if a bit wet this week. I guess that you're coming here to see the newly reopened Jiřího z Poděbrad Metro station. Or possibly to spend all day drinking Pilsner and not be hungover

[@SamOGr]

I actually think Ogbene is Irelands best player currently, Evan has a higher ceiling, but Chio fears no fullback and is great whemever he plays

[@thejulinks]

8:00 David Alaba has not been ruled out for the Euros yet. His recovery process is going well and while nothing is certain yet, the current optimistic hope is that he can play in the tournament.

[@yatman6305]

Please do a video about the success of Croatian football

[@pedluc2010]

Good. Now make a video ranking them.

[@Gabriel-er1fo]

37:08 Barreiro actually has a pre-contract agreement to sign with Benfica at the end of the season

[@_trailers]

In few years for Bulgaria it could be Marin Petkov who plays for Levski Sofia and Steven Gaote who just left Levski's academy to go to Rennes

[@Dubbudha]

Watch the game and the speech before the penalty shootout against France at the last European Cup and you will know why Xhaka is by far the best and most important swiss player.

[@devonbuxton9185]

You should do a series where you name the best player from each top league in the world instead of each country to change it up a little.

[@highentropy2468]

You going to make a video about my team Ipswich ? Last two seasons we have been riding a wave.

[@darthvader4338]

Wining the Euros is way easier than Wining Copa America or the World Cup just for the fact that none of the European teams will play with spirit and passion well apart from Italy, of course

[@RespecTheLevYT]

These video formats is why Alfie is the GOAT

[@ambesmith5601]

Kind of noticed the recording was done in separate times when you mentioned two Leverkusen players one saying about to win the bundesliga and the other saying who just won the bundesliga..

[@MrReese]

It has to be said that while it is a race against the clock there is still a small hope that Alaba will be fit again in time for the EUROs. It's possibly more wishful thinking than anything, but the general notion so far is that there is a small chance it could work out.

[@callito9846]

My Club Leverkusen winning their first championsship and Alfie doing another EVERY COUNTRY VIDEO. Life is good.

[@heichan8657]

Honestly for Georgia mamardashvili deserved a very honourarble mention

[@johndroos9486]

Few months ago many of polish fans said that Zieliński or Szczesny now are better than Lewandowski. But on this year he play much better than previous one.

[@plaipa]

I'm Lithuanian and I like football. But yes, we need more support for the beautiful game

[@owenthfc9055]

Israel has to be Oscar Gloukh tbh

[@callumbishop1193]

Fake country

[@elldotms]

Honey wake up! New Hour long Alfie Video just dropped!

[@konstantinpobedonotsev5589]

Oh sweet! Hope we get the other continents too!

[@paweborkowski6959]

Most people mainly come to see their country.

[@t.robinson4774]

55 Minutes! You're lucky I've got the morning off. Kettle off, coffee made, sitting back and...

[@Will_Shaw_Vols]

Alfie over here like, “I know what I must do but I don’t know if I have the strength to do it.”. You have opened Pandora’s box yet again brother lol.

[@S1XMedia]

I see what you’ve done there Alfie, the tactical snubbing of Xhaka to boost engagement in the comments. Alfie Potts-Harmer, he’s done it again

[@Jekubman]

How about trying something really difficult and try to list the second best player from every country (historic or current).

[@SanFranFan30]

Ilya Shkurin is the FM GOAT, Zealand fans know.

[@jackhurst8104]

Surprised that Israels player wasn't Leil Abada... mainly because he is the only one I've heard of/is a beast on FM 😂

[@goncalomoura8156]

« My mate Henderson… » 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Oh Christ how I laughed with that one!

[@OnlineAlbatross]

my cousin plays for gibraltar and the fact you didn't pick him is a travesty and i'll never forgive you

[@johnkeegan9957]

Day 1 of requesting a new video about the FAI. Since your last video, they've failed to qualify for a World Cup and the Euros, let the manager's contract run out and failed to replace him for 146 days, and had a CEO sacked for misappropriation of funds.

[@simas2626]

great take on Alessandro buongiorno amazing player

[@theov527]

29:17 what are you on about? Donis isn’t the head coach of Greece nor did he manage that game against Georgia, the head coach role is currently vacant and gus poyet managed that game. You probably made a mistake because Wikipedia says that, very good video otherwise!

[@MadeByJuaan]

I ate too many edibles and the British man is back, great videos though

[@GrafitiWall]

Missed opportunity to include Olivier Boscagli for Monaco. Just won the league with PSV as one of their starting defenders!

[@Osama-KIN_TMZ01]

Would love to see one about Africa and the Americas.

[@jacknoone3725]

Khvicha Kvaratskhelia's dad used to play for Azerbaijan, the one that got away for them?

[@Eric_Hunt194]

You're heading to Czech Republic to pick up a Dukla Prague away kit?

[@owenfitzgerald5928]

I am from Northern Ireland and Conor Bradley is definately the best choice desppite Johnny Evans being Man UTDs best CB this season

[@Glockas]

Biggest upside about the UK home nations being individual FIFA members, England comes pretty early in the alphabet compared to UK and therefore not needing to wait/scroll as long/far. Sorry Wales, but as you have the choice to use the name Cymru and don't, it's fully on you.

[@Joe-MT]

Can we please have a video about Maltese Football ⚽ Thank you

[@LuigiLuigi728]

Now it’s time for you to figure out who is the best player from Macau, Rwanda, Tahiti and the British Virgin Islands 🤩🤩

[@supersueca1]

Great and obvious choice for Portugal. Bernardo is at the moment, our best player. CR39 wouldn’t even qualify for our final 23 men squad, if someone at the Federação grew a pair and forbade picking player from camel leagues!

[@markknox1295]

Loads of respect and love for you Alfie, but Roma aren't second in Serie A (as stated in the Armenia, Mkhitarayan post), sorry 😊. Also big shout out for 7 best seasons before retirement video, that would be amazing and very informative 😉

[@sebussin8263]

i havent watched it yet but i sure hope he doesn’t forget my favorite swiss player granit xhaka, one of the best of all time!

[@danielcunningham6727]

' he was sweating out of pores he never even knew he had " 😂😂

[@C-R-A-C-K-E-R]

Do "The Best footballer born in every day of the year (Jan 1st-Dec 31st)"