The Shocking Truth about North Korean Soccer

[@FivePointsVids]

Correction: The 2010 World Cup was in South Africa, Not Brazil.

[@ethanmx2]

That's OK. We all want to forget those damn vuvuzelas...

[@jetfan925]

Maybe you should fix the video with new jokes coming out of South Africa?

[@manfrommontreal]

No worries, both are South America are they not? 🤣

[@KaiserInGilroy2K]

I remember that 2010 PRK World Cup team and their state thespians posing as “fans.”

[@FelipeYoshioCordeirodeSouza]

Who cares, both are broke now (Brazilian here)

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

Sure Italy might have won Euro 2020, but never ask them what happened on July 19, 1966 when they faced the almighty DPRK

[@FivePointsVids]

Our leader is here.

[@marcitos_9329]

@@FivePointsVids pin this bro

[@YeeSoest]

Too bad that whatever happened that day only had about ten days in the spotlights at best. The Wembley Goal on July 30th took all your limelight, Kimbo...how dare they take away from YOUR nations glory AND MINE with just one big false whistle?

[@SportsBro4901]

Hey Kim, everyone now down to your supreme leader

[@dchegu]

It's Italy, they have extreme peaks n extreme troughs for their national football team. Sometimes they lost to minnows, sometimes they win world cups n euros.

[@jxan3000]

Here's another story about North Korean football. In 2012 the Olympics took place in London in the UK. The mens and womens football contests started before the opening ceremony in stadiums across the country. The night before the games officially started, I went to see the womens tournament start with France v USA and North Korea v Colombia in Glasgow. When North Korea came out for their game, they were introduced with the South Korean flag rather than their own. The North Korean officials took the players off the field and refused to let their womens team start the game for 1 hour. Only once the North Korean flag was used to introduce them was the game started. My picture of the South Korean flag ended up getting used around the world as the Olympics didn't explain the reason for the delay and no-one else appeared to get a decent photo of the incorrect flag (the only other one I saw was from the official video feed taken from the other end of the stadium). No-one explained the reason for the delay in the stadium either. North Korea went on to win that match 2-0, but went out after losing to France and USA. Wonder what happened to the players?

[@FelipeYoshioCordeirodeSouza]

They killed Kim Jong-Il

[@miles12pega]

Cant even view replys. The FBi may be after you bro br careful

[@DeezN1892]

I have a very hard time believing the ‘66 side were “sent to a labour camp” this sounds like classic western propaganda. I’m sick of you all trying to demonise this country and their people because they wouldn’t sign up for liberalism

[@TankEngine75]

They probably defected while in London, that or they went back to NK and got executed

[@__yklim]

You got them killed

[@thebestcentaur]

“Kim Jong-il was so embarrassed by his team’s performance that he died” I almost spit out my food when I heard that

[@kittenyuuuu]

LMFAOO

[@rumblebird9888]

He became ill

[@djremster3755]

The 2010 world cup wasn't in Brazil it was in South Africa. The 2014 world cup was in Brazil but North Korea wasn't there.

[@ptgf1279]

Exactly

[@MCKevin289]

2:26 Just a small correction, South Korea was a military dictatorship until 1989.

[@sammillsy]

Democratic elections were first held in the South in ‘87 rather than ‘89, but yes, South Korea was arguably no freer than its northern counterpart until then. Even then, the dictatorship at the time knew those elections would put another general in office given the divisions in the democratic opposition movement. South Korea was really just hell until the 1990s in all honesty

[@PerryCoxPF93]

Not to mention hundreds of thousands massacred by the park chung hee regime. A really stupid video that sounds like if a wikipedia article became sentient.

[@rl9legend770]

It still is lol. Under US big brother watch

[@brianarbenz1329]

South Korea became a dictatorship in 1954, a year after the end of the war fought to prevent it from becoming a dictatorship. The Cold War sucked.

[@demaszstyo9644]

The real reason why the North Koreans lost that day in 1966 because the team members didn't sleep well the night prior due to the fact they had to stay at a Catholic dormitory in Liverpool (venue of their next match vs Portugal). It is said that the statue of Jesus and Virgin Mary inside the building, not to mention crucifixes at each dorm room, struck discomfort among the squad.

[@Mateus_Carvalho]

Going up against Portugal and the almighty Black Panther himself Eusébio probably didn't help matters much.

[@michaelhartman683]

I believe the 2010 World Cup was in South Africa. Brazil was in 2014.

[@supersasukemaniac]

yes 2010 was South Africa

[@Venom3254]

I remembered North Korea getting slaughtered 7-0 and unlike Brazil that got hammered by Germany that was comedic with memes. It felt tragic cause we all knew what consequences they'll would have gotten for that.

[@FelipeYoshioCordeirodeSouza]

In their first televised game

[@jureklemencic7316]

thing is except for speculative articles there is no proof that any of the players had faced any consequences

[@MarloSoBalJr]

@@jureklemencic7316 I wonder why... 🤔

[@jureklemencic7316]

@@MarloSoBalJr most of if not all of them are proffesionals all of them went on to appear for their perspective clubs the following season, with many of them playing outside NK

[@jureklemencic7316]

@@MarloSoBalJr look up uday hussein if u want a real 100% confirmed instance of something similar to this

[@fyrecracker7201]

The funniest part is North Korea's bitter enemy South Korea has turned out arguably the best winger in world soccer at the moment in Son Heung-Min.

[@YeeSoest]

very much arguably but still true enough;)

[@adamramirez2144]

COYS!

[@jansporis1548]

The best winger ? 😂😂😂😂

[@fyrecracker7201]

@@jansporis1548 who would you take at lw over son

[@jansporis1548]

@@fyrecracker7201 sadio mane, vinicius jr, neymar, leeroy sane just to name a few

[@bizmen81]

I also know that the Korean womens ice hockey team in the 2018 Olympics was a mix of players from North and South. South players said that Northerners were polite and totally amazed at seeing smart phones. The HC said that Northerners had to learn int'l hockey terms as NK does not allow any outside lingo into the country. Needless to say, the team got completely wrecked by other teams in the group stage.

[@rl9legend770]

Better no smartphones than most people having theirs 24/7 I do it too sometimes but it's kind of taking our precious time away

[@greysnake2903]

@rleglegend770 Didn't ask

[@DarkForce852]

​@@rl9legend770 the future is now old man

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

Thank you for saying there hasn't been a peace treaty, because the situation on the peninsula is much more complex than just "division, war, and here we are". The DPRK and ROK don't recognize each other as countries. Rather they view Korea as one nation with two different governments. With each government claiming to be the sole legitimate government. Because of this, if they have a DPRK or ROK passport, they cannot visit each other. And it doesn't help that when it comes to finding a solution for the peninsula, nations like the US, Israel, Japan, France, Estonia, and Botswana don't recognize the DPRK. While South Korea is recognized by all except the DPRK for the reason I already listed. It's sad that the same culture has been divided in two for so long that they have drifted so far apart from each other...families who are separated because of the DMZ have been given very little opportunity to see their loved ones again. 2000 and more recently under Moon Jae-in brought hope for change. But now, all that hope with increasing tensions has been crumbled up

[@jake2001c]

I literally see you on every video

[@romiarkan450]

And it's also why every young South Korean men has to go to a mandatory two year period of military service. Because when you live next to a nation ruled by a long line of mad men ready to pounce at the slightest of opportunity, you gotta learn how to pick up a gun.

[@MCKevin289]

Can confirm, had a professor in college become a US citizen, renounce her ROK citizenship to go to the DPRK for her dissertation.

[@MCKevin289]

@@romiarkan450 My professor in college’s brother was one of the ROK border guards. She said that according to her brother, when their officers weren’t looking they’d talk to one another and bum cigarettes off each other.

[@ranelgallardo7031]

Canada and the Philippines don’t recognize them either.

[@felipebatistadeoliveira211]

In 2009 a small brazilian team called atletico de Sorocaba played against North Korea. It was supossed to be small game, they were given yellow shirts, which made them confused but they played along, and then when they arrived at the stadium they were surprised to see 80k people and by the fact that the big screen said PRK x BRA. The players realized the situation, and understood that the goverment wanted the population to belive they were watching the oficial brazilian team play against the nacional team. The players from atlético wanted to go for the win at first, but realized that they didint know what would happen to the korean players and decided to go for a draw 0x0.

[@ajduker]

The Steeler fan comment at the end was gold. As a born and raised Yinzer, I couldn't agree more.

[@Monatio79]

As others have already pointed out, the 2010 World Cup was held in South Africa and not Brazil. It's interesting how the only times North Korea made a World Cup appearance, in 1966 and 2010, resulted in their humiliating defeat by the same country. Portugal really knows how to embarrass the Kim squad.

[@madhatten00]

but it's cristiano ronaldo and before then it was eusebio kim's squad was never going to win once the stars went into do or die mode

[@JohnRitchiejd23]

Well... I certainly wasn't expecting this one. Good on ya, FivePoints. I'm intrigued if this will lead to a flood of soccer related videos in the leadup to the World Cup.

[@joeypersinger6352]

I could only imagine how serious they take the game when your life is on the line. Be hard to try to play by the rules and not cheat or anything else to win.

[@opinionatortv6457]

I remember an Asian Cup qualifiers game between south and north Korea. I think it was in 2019? I can't remember. It was a brutal and very emotional game. Luckily for the North Koreans, it ended 0-0

[@bundesautobahn7]

Fact: When East Germany made its first and only trip to the World Cup in 1974 (ironically, in West Germany), the "fans" were mostly people from the MfS or the most loyal of loyal to the regime (including party apparatchiks). The same went on with other international events like Euro qualifiers or the Olympic Games. Even in international club competitions, East German teams never took their actual fans along for any trip along unless they were themselves in the MfS or an apparatchik.

[@philipstrangio4887]

What a psychotic country. Though, as a teacher, I can sympathize with Anderson appreciating the mentality and the fact that the guys listened :D

[@edwardmerriam6970]

While the "North Korea wins the World Cup" thing was definitely a hoax, I remember watching a documentary on North Korea that briefly showed a sports museum, and I believe they had a mural painted in dedication to their 2007 women's team, who managed to tie the USWNT 2-2 and advanced to the quarter-finals. It even depicted them playing the United States which I thought was fascinating.

[@Patrick61804]

That is actually true, they did tie the US 2-2 and made the QF

[@bioLarzen]

Good video. Just one small side note: the 2010 World Cup was in South Africa, not Brazil. And it's REALLY hard, neigh-on impossible to really know what happened and didn't happen in North Korea. The horrific tales the survivors and defectors say are not always true (though, sadly, many times the are) - many have been caught lying to make it look worse (although, once again, many told the pure truth which was just as horrific - North Korea is a genuinely horrific place). There has been an urban legend around that the North Korean state media (and there's no other kind of media there really) reported that the team won the 2010 World Cup (which in reality they didn't come even close to being close - it would be like the New York media claiming the Super Bowl last yar was played by the Jets and Giants). In reality this probably didn't happen - but there is this "probably"... Here is a good viseo about this, btw: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y4etfoefibN4etk

[@GarkKahn]

That's a curious case The truth behind it was that some people from south korea made it to laugh at their northern neighbours, but it went viral all over the world and people in the west bought that crap thinking it was happening in north korea and people actually believed it, so the real idiots were the westerners By the way in north korea they could watch the results 24 hours after the match according to sources from that region, they have censorship but not as ridiculous as the joke video stated

[@bioLarzen]

@@GarkKahn Yeah, the "pretty, pretty, pretty bad, but not THAT bad" type.

[@E-Brightvoid]

I thought this was a Qxir video. I’m very excited now

[@LancasterResponding]

I did too!

[@markramirez491]

3:58 dude's quad though! OMG!

[@lukecatterson1959]

I’m from Middlesbrough which is where the game N Korea beat Italy was held, the stadium it was played at was knocked down and houses built on it but there is a little bronze football boot placed in the exact spot where the Korean striker would have taken the shot from, it’s a pretty famous story here

[@otaviofrnazario]

two players that were forged in the greatest generation São Paulo FC (the club that I cheer for) ever had in their youth academies are held in high regard over there: Juninho and Doriva. I think Juninho went to Boro the first time around right when Riverside Stadium opened

[@whogotbarslikethese7563]

Kim jung un's explination of sports and war is not far off. American football was basically invented to a mirror a military strategy game and they used the sport to promote the military. (They still do even) wide receivers used to be called flankers, the formation names shotgun and pistol are not accidental, and the term blitz is a reference to blitzkrieg the nazi era tank strategy that almost won them ww2.

[@brentjones886]

This is what happens when five points meets infographics. Love it

[@otaviofrnazario]

wrong infographics... to think the 2010 World Cup was in Brazil. Five, contact me to give you some soccer consulting

[@ranelgallardo7031]

I’d like to see a video of you about the MLS, the history of it, and todays state of the league.

[@otaviofrnazario]

man, I would like him to give a hot take on the video and support a promotion/relegation system

[@zscout370]

I would also definitely recommend the videos done by HITC Sevens about the North Korean squads.

[@Venid16]

The 2010 World Cup was held in South Africa

[@Joserider123]

I love that he compared North Korean athletes being publicly shamed to the Atlanta Falcons 28-3. God bless America

[@NoahRicks1999]

“Unless you’re Steelers fans!!” Was that a subtle jab at Tree?

[@flclfan85]

nothing subtle about that

[@mikedrop4421]

They should just march the dear leader out onto the pitch. He would single handedly defeat all of Europe's teams

[@graysonschmitz6464]

I was just thinking this. After all his father, the Great Kim-Jong Il, once bowled 13 score 300 games of bowling in a row in his first time bowling. Additionally, when first playing golf he got 38 under par with 5 hole in ones. This athletic prowess must run in the family. It is still the world's greatest tragedy the cameraman forgot to press record for BOTH Kim's bowling and golf record. Truly Devastating.

[@tiemhgo408]

My question is why the kims thought the dprk national team would ever beat any team in soccer

[@otaviofrnazario]

until they are wiped out they think they can do anything. I bet that Kin Jong Un, with his excessive layers of fat and a lifetime of chain-smoking, thinks he can please a porn actress

[@ryans756]

The most impressive thing about North Korean football is quite how North Korea have managed to win every single World Cup since the tournament began, and how Kim Jong Un manages to score 25 goals EVERY game. He truly is a God among men, that Kim fella.

[@curtisconnor6217]

The narrator really knows his stuff. I'm definitely going to hit the subscribe button!

[@FelipeYoshioCordeirodeSouza]

Funny enough, the 2019 Asian Cup, was won by Qatar, a team that never made the World Cup by the qualifiers. Also, in the same year Russia hosted the World Cup, the team that won the Asian Cup was... you guessed it, SOUTH KOREA!

[@sazidulhuq3898]

There was no Asian cup held in 2018.

[@GarkKahn]

Sorry but... which sport or alternate timeline are you talking about??? There was no asian cup in 2018 and also south korea only won it in 1956 and 1960

[@FelipeYoshioCordeirodeSouza]

What did I do?

[@iconpoet]

Thanks for bringing up 28-3. Haven't heard that one in a while

[@rogerszmodis]

Lawn darts is also pretty dangerous.

[@arizonawildcat3821]

comparing us falcons fans to a north korean soccer team is most definitely the most five point vids thing to do. I almost forgot I was watching a Fivepoints Vid until he did us all like that.

[@sazidulhuq3898]

He just said 2010 world cup was held in Brazil and we are supposed to believe everything he said.

[@revertrevertz5438]

I think the the government saying they won the World Cup in 2010 was more of an internet rumor. They even showed the games in main-squares.

[@WriteHookTV]

Excellent vid, boss

[@LittleIker19]

The 2010 World Cup was in South Africa 🇿🇦, NOT Brasil 🇧🇷. They played against Brasil in the group stages though.

[@clovergannon]

And the US never flaunts its own failures as victories? *MISSION ACCOMPLISHED banner waves unironically overhead*

[@Primallunacresenteclipse]

9:20 as an Atlanta falcons fan I laughed at this 😂

[@adln7335]

gotta love it when you end a serious video on a steelers fan joke

[@yousefreno2089]

I guess the saying “play like your life’s on the line” really is real in North Korea

[@GamePro0012]

That ending, though... UrinatingTree would like to know your location.

[@Dust210]

Great video, would love to see more soccer videos in the future!

[@thesunkenlocker]

2010World cup was in South Africa and the 2014 one was held in Brazil

[@sominboy2757]

2010 was sent to the labor camps. 1966 was treated pretty good

[@KonradAdenauerJr]

As it emerged later, the World Cup '66 North Korean team wasn't purged because of partying, or anything like that. At the time, Kim Il-sung was conducting a sweeping purge of his government ministers, many of whom had been guerrillas with him during the 1930s. The Sports Ministry was one of the targeted ministries, and the country's national football/ soccer team was a collateral victim of the purge. That's it.

[@DoBap_]

That moment when North Korea has the toughest athletes in a sport.

[@matthewlerma7248]

People in DPRK love to party so the idea that they partied and were with women isn't much of a stretch. But this idea that they sent the national teams to labor camps is ridiculous.

[@thepenguinsrafterme]

A little tardy to this one, because why would I care about Korean Soccer? Glad I got around to it though. Really deep video

[@pittsburghbob69]

Saddam’s son also punished Iraq’s soccer(football) team harshly.

[@CommodoreFloopjack78]

Pescatarian? I know them, my grandmother used to go to their local church all the time. Always wanted money as I recall.

[@buckodonnghaile4309]

That explains the jesus fish symbol on the back of cars.

[@sircliffordmalcolmjac5870]

When you introduce the dear leader i couldve sworn you said "JIM" il sung and i had a nice laugh for a minute at his expense! Like he was just a regular guy just bein an electrician like "hi there, names jim! Jim il sung! Im here about the breakers!" HAHA!

[@JDW1110]

Congratulations to the 2010 World Cup Champions!

[@musicnightlyrics120]

CONGRATULATIONS

[@JerBuster77]

I heard Kim Jong Un threw a perfect game in baseball and won the Tour De France. He's that good.

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

It's true

[@MCKevin289]

I actually know someone who’s been to North Korea.

[@ranelgallardo7031]

What did he say about the place?

[@MCKevin289]

@@ranelgallardo7031 She was there for her dissertation on the formation of Juche. She was Korean so she was treated better than I would. But she was the first American to be given unsupervised access to Kim Il Sung University library. Her experience of North Korea can be summed up with this, “Take everything you hear about North Korea from anyone with a massive grain of salt”. She was my professor for my Korean history class I took in college. Funnily enough she had to renounce her South Korean citizenship and become an American citizen to be allowed to go. She was afraid of getting arrested and thrown into South Korean Guantanamo if she returned to the south.

[@leethecomedian]

Love those 28-3 slip ins.

[@theMoerster]

Wow...Italy in a World Cup?!

[@anhanh8724]

😅

[@stonedcaterpillar3342]

I'm kind of bummed we didn't get a "I'm five points vids and you made it to my next video"

[@Alanbaseball]

2010 World Cup was in South Africa not Brazil

[@aaronperezsomarriba8504]

The 2010 world cup was held in South Africa not Brazil

[@FelipeYoshioCordeirodeSouza]

Please bring Rodman here, Eric André too

[@Jets287south]

2:59 lwk cool

[@albertmiller2electricbooga897]

More soccer videos would be cool aha, maybe even aussie rules hehe

[@kevsmith6783]

2010 World Cup was in South Africa...Brazil hosted 2014...North Korea didn't qualify in 2014

[@jamesfowler1486]

Don't know how you got all this info 5points but thanks for not letting me look it up

[@carolinaturbo4572]

Anyone else get Blades of Glory-Iron Lotus vibes?

[@matthewshaw9259]

Was this the inspiration for that boondocks episode?

[@nicestoriesnottherealstori3006]

I thought the 2010 world cup was in South Africa, not Brazil which was on 2014.

[@DANGMQ]

That was a shot at Tree at the very end wasn't it?

[@nexion2189]

“It’s not like they can google that shit” lmao good one

[@Sick_Boy_Rick74]

“America, Füçk yeah!!!!” A truly wonderful film that should’ve won the Oscar for best picture and all the other ones too! Lol. Great movie though. I still watch it from time to time.

[@RedRhino49]

I have a bad feeling fpv is going to disappear in a few days because of this video

[@chrismoore488]

3:58 Look at the size of that guys legs 😳😳

[@austinkenchel8280]

As a Steelers fan, I lost it and laughed as soon as I heard the Steelers fans bit 😂 Your damn right we crazy!

[@enanebres6481]

Love this content

[@jvgaming7348]

if your north korean why would you ever want to play for this team

[@moffjerjerrod1579]

Dude yeah the Falcons had that huge collapse, but really? You throw them into a N Korea soccer video on top of it all? 😂😂😂😂😂 Brutal!!

[@AltJake]

7:48 - South Africa The 2014 WC was in Brazil

[@Giratina1999]

Baldy believe me when I say this video damn near made me suffocate myself laughing

[@rafa521NOLA]

great video, but the 2010 world cup was played in South Africa, not Brazil. Keep up the great work tho.

[@AlxzAlec]

Can you prove that they were sent to a labour camp? A source?

[@jorgeabud1133]

North Korea has played a couple matches against semi-professional Brazilian team Atlético de Sorocaba, which is said to be the seleção, because of their yellow shirts

[@falloutfan6649]

I feel like the team could have won the World Cup and they’d still get punished for something

[@codymac4958]

Love ur content always interesting stories and ideas. Love all the click bait guys, yall are goons and I love ya.

[@bw-leftturnracing7779]

That cut off abruptly

[@igorivanov299]

2010 was in South Africa and not Brazil. 2014 was the year Brazil hosted the World Cup.

[@auxbentb9385]

The world cup for 2010 was not in Brazil, it was in South Africa.

[@QrilliantEditz]

Imagine if mid-game a player runs and hides into the crowd.

[@metsrus]

greatest underdog story? If it weren't for Eusebio, they would have upset Portugal too.

[@Yerminator4000]

Wouldn’t mind a FivePoints history channel

[@caleblestermusic]

While he was in Switzerland he would travel to the San siro?…which is in Italy… I find that hard to believe

[@WRXGrizzly]

The fact I looked up steelers news after this speaks truth

[@FelipeYoshioCordeirodeSouza]

Eusébio was just that goddamn good in Portugal, only getting surpassed by Ronaldo (not Figo)

[@Matatabi6]

I wouldn’t describe the early years of South Korea as “freedom”