The Insane Rise and DISASTROUS Decline of Parma FC

[@erdnasiul87]

Hi Adrian, I leave here a personal story: Parmalat was so big that made me a Benfica fan. In 1994 I was in Lisbon almost the entire year undergoing leukemia treatments. For a few weeks I completely lost my sense of taste, to the point where I had to be forced to eat. One of the few things I drank without effort was milk. The milk they gave to the children (I was 7 at the time) in the hospital was from Parmalat... and it was also Benfica's main sponsor that season. The connection started from then on.

[@michaelward5370]

Parma are my favourite Italian team, I have been following them since the early to mid 90s! I used to watch Italian football on Channel 4 here in Scotland and I just loved the way they played! They had some amazing players, my favourites were Zola, Stoichkov, Asprilla, Moller, Crespo! It's good to see them back in Serie A, hopefully they can stay up and build a new legacy!!

[@RabonaTV]

Some absolute icons played for them!

[@BlackRoseImmortal75]

They have a good team of young talents and a good coach. They were unlucky as hell in this season start, they were winning against Napoli until 90', then got a red card and suffered 2 goals during overtime. 😦One thing is sure: Parma is a lot fun to watch.

[@Scotch1927]

Dude, I was literally born there, got to meet Cannavaro and Buffon when I was a Kid. Still have their autographs in my old Pokemon Diary 😂

[@RabonaTV]

What an incredible place to have those signatures!😂

[@MRVenom-cl6gl]

@@RabonaTV Hey could you maybe do a roots of the rivalry on the Slovene derby between Olimpija and Maribor, it has so much history and flare yet always gets overshadowed by the other 2 ex-Yugoslav rivalries (Red Star VS Partizan and Dinamo Zagreb VS Hajduk)

[@IDGAF-x7j]

Adrian is on an uploading spree. Let’s keep the content coming. The fans been starving 🔥

[@aaronm3426]

Great video. Been really enjoying watching Parma play this season, they play some really swashbuckling soccer. Ange-Yoan Bonny is fantastic and plays like a much more experienced player, he's got a big future ahead of him

[@boisesoccer]

Parma in the 90s achievement, especially in European tournaments, is very similar to Sevilla achievements in the 2000s and 2010s.🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆

[@Wizerd-2024]

Top tier content as always. This is the best football channel on KZbin hands down in my opinion. Keep it up and feed editor Adrian from time to time.

[@junglejota2]

Tino Asprilla, he was massive in early 90's for Parma.

[@tomwright8346]

Digging the lower lighting. Makes the neon pop in the background. 👍

[@AtTheBridgePod]

I would argue that their 1998-99 UEFA Cup winning squad is one of the most iconic teams of all time.

[@RabonaTV]

After researching for this video, you aren't far off AT ALL. So many incredible, incredible players in that team...

[@Natalin0]

Another tidbit after the latest bankruptcy, and subsequent auction. On Italian Twitter a year or so ago there was a photo going around of one of their UEFA Cup trophies being used at a random office as a bin to hold umbrellas😂

[@diegodesouza5382]

Absolutely banging video, keep up the good work 👊🏽

[@RoyChamorro666]

I only ever thought ot Buffon in relation to Parma Love to learn a little more about calcio

[@borisborisov4641]

I think it would be awesome to do a video on the rise and fall of Alexandre Pato

[@jpwaitforit5801]

Parma is a perfect metaphor about serie A: really exciting during the late 80's and throughout the 90's, european powerhouse and then with the turn of the century comes the shady things (criminal stuff,etc...), bankrupcy and due to that lost of interest on the brand and becomes an aftertought when compared with their english and spanish counterparts 9:06 that man is the 1st encarnation of tod boehly

[@Billb0418]

Is this the city where parmesan cheese was created?

[@lukeroberts3245]

Yes it is

[@ellemarr7234]

And prosciutto 🎉

[@trevizee806]

To not anger anyone from around towns, let's say it's down to the region in general and not just Parma. The name parmigiano Reggiano which is the best kind of parmesan cheese is derived from the cities of Parma and Reggio Emilia

[@CarlosRojas-hr6ms]

Parma tino asprilla was a menace

[@khutko1477]

Great Video!

[@yozzu5101]

Lazio rise and decline please

[@ML-mm2th]

A - "If we are here to stir controversy, we have finished. We are here, in this place, to reassure the city of Parma. The money is arriving, one or two days...we just have to wait the tecnical time of banks" G - "Can i answer?" A - "No!" A - "You are not well-informed" Those were the words (among many others) of a great man 10:09 You should look into details of the 2015 saga. Do it please, you won't be disappointed. Non-Italians need to know this legendary man

[@viniciopellicelli7561]

Hi, i'm a parma fan since i was a child thanks to my dad who gave me the passion for football and for my favourite team, thanks for talking about it, I hope one day I too can see it among the best in Europe

[@thabanakabo4370]

Always wanted someone to do a video on Parma 🔥 😂 man Italian football is used to be madness and the destination.

[@beckton11]

I loved Parma FC from the 90s that was my Italian 🇮🇹 team as a Brit Asprilla, Zola, Vialli R.i.P, Thuram these guys were very important to that experience football Italia on Saturday Mornings on Channel 4 was the one

[@jacobbair6116]

I remember peak 90s Parma - such a fun team - I always wondered what happened to them

[@samuelschonenberger]

A simple throughlibe through many of these rapid downfall stories is how often the private owner being bad led to the club falling off While a lot of the time these investors can be the reason of success, a change to a different owner is often the beginning of an end. So while there are clubs that are fan owned and mismanaged Schalke04, Barcelona, I think that the English style private ownership model of football club organisation is much more volatile to complete collapse

[@Ed44503]

Can you do Sampdoria

[@pejko89]

Favourite club of my childhood. It will always have a special place in my heart

[@TheOnlyTaps]

Fantastic watch

[@BlackRoseImmortal75]

What team that was.... it's been a shame no person (or investment fund actually competent in football) when Parmalat crack happened in 2003 stepped in to aquire the club and save it from failure. Some fancy oligarchs preferred to start from scratch elsewhere. But that's it. Cheers from Parma.🥰

[@alius5]

Forza Parma!❤❤❤

[@maximus1318able]

Who had the bigger falloff, Parma or Palermo? Atleast Parma was able to get promoted to Serie A.

[@peterfighter]

Parma of course. Parma won Coppa Italia 3 times, UEFA Cup twice, UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, UEFA Super Cup, Supercoppa Italiana and almost won Serie A 1996-97. Palermo did not win anything.

[@720zaka]

No mention of doping ?

[@mikexstad1121]

[@lukeroberts3245]

My dawg woof woof

[@MohamedAli-xu3uw]

Juventus won the coppa italia in 1995😅

[@jasoncavari]

👏🏼

[@yhg7ygo7g7igoi]

How do you lose 14 billion dollars? Lol that would takes decades

[@ricardomoreira8451]

Fernando Couto!!!! Do u really have to be so Benfica blind??

[@RabonaTV]

Don't be silly my man.🤣But seriously, if you're curious as to how I work, that doesn't come into play when I am researching for a video like this. Why would I be thinking of Benfica/Portuguese football when researching Parma? That would be counter intuitive. This happened before my time, so I wouldn't remember someone like Fernando Couto as well as you do perhaps. Most of my research was on HOW Parma rose, details of HOW they collapsed, and then adding in some of the most iconic players to contextualize the fall. Couto isn't as famous as Buffon, Cannavaro, Thuram etc. went on to be, that's why he was forgotten and wasn't mentioned. I also didn't mention Brolin in the intro, another guy I forgot... from a Parma perspective, he should have been. Make sense?

[@ricardomoreira8451]

@RabonaTV ok, i was a little silly. But Couto had a big impact on his arrival. With his goals, celebrations and toughness. I'm kinda old and Couto was my ídol when i was a young teen. Love your channel dude, sorry for the "tackle"