The World Cup But With The Worst Countries Possible

[@kakuite]

"Nepal won all the group stages matches so naturally... they lost 4-0 to Singapore" As a Nepali citizen myself, I second this 🤣🤣

[@aa6eheia156]

yeah we always get out of group comfortably and bottle it in the knockouts or final match

[@mr.hiccup]

Kasto hasaaidira 😂😂😂😂

[@infernoroblox9134]

ik all Nepali are here cuz of thumbnail

[@gangnaldo1777]

@@infernoroblox9134 fr bro fr am nepali that so true

[@keshgrg5033]

I m also nepali

[@pulpvictim1900]

Ezra Walian is born dutch, only got his Indonesian passport in 2017. He was a nice talent in the youth teams of AZ and Ajax and played some seasons in the dutch second division and the u15/16/17 national youth teams of the Netherlands. No wonder he is the star at this world cup! What an amazing match between Cambodia and Singapore!!

[@irsyasalim6679]

glad you know about ezra, can't wait to see Vietnam in AFF 🧀

[@irsyasalim6679]

and to add it, Indonesia has Shin Tae-Yong as a manager who managed South Korea beat Germany in the World Cup 2018

[@tannerwilson4843]

@@irsyasalim6679 The Asian Cup is next summer as well. Would love to see at least 1 or 2 Southeast Asian Nations have a strong Asian Cup run. Vietnam I think has the best shot, they had a great showing in 2019 reaching the QFS and nearly upsetting Japan there as well. They also made the Final Round of 2022 Asian WCQ. Not the strongest results they made teams fight big time.

[@guguy00]

And as per usual SG bottled it again

[@shadoekim]

Singapore's skill level is so hit and miss it's not even funny

[@Casii35]

this man should be a football/soccer commentator, hes got all the energy needed

[@JKLGaming933]

I know right he sounds like the aff commentators u should try watching the match Indonesia vs Brunei in the aff mitsubishi electric cup if u want an example

[@Casii35]

@@JKLGaming933 ill consider watching it. thanks for the recommendation

[@thargoff]

He is actually a commentator, he has a Masters degree in digital broadcasting and if you search you can find the appropriate channel on youtube about it. He has commentated in different sports, especially college sports in the US. He still does some commentating as a free lancer / as a hobby.

[@FunnyDudehehe]

Working with sky sport

[@ranjanbiswas3233]

HE IS A COMMENTATOR.

[@Derek-qu8qi]

Scotland still couldn’t qualify

[@kyufuyuvbvbllymjnncuhuhbuh7538]

Samoa is clear of Scotland. In rugby at least

[@GIBBO4182]

Brilliant 👏

[@robbiebalboa]

😂

[@AndreyChichagov]

But the tartan army was still there

[@Derek-qu8qi]

@@kyufuyuvbvbllymjnncuhuhbuh7538 most are I think

[@dgouilard]

If you want more of the chaos that happened in the Singapore vs Cambodia match, you'll be glad to know that the AFF Cup is happening right at the time of me writing this!

[@hungotuan4431]

Can't wait to see Vietnam playing on Zealand's channel

[@huykim4663]

@@hungotuan4431 sucks to see VN always do badly in FM sim videos

[@huykim4663]

Just the match that just ended has enough chaos already lol

[@kevinlleshaj977]

no one cares lol

[@quandaledingle6576]

@@kevinlleshaj977Ratio

[@shakirroulston5369]

That Cambodia vs Singapore match was almost bar for bar the same story as the Arg vs France final

[@wangsengsin2527]

But if it was, Singapore would have won the shootout

[@tanky_fc]

:)

[@yazisbroke]

Singapore losing to Cambodia was really shocking. As a Singaporean myself, I think the Quater-finals were fun to watch. Still think Singapore wouldve won if it was irl.

[@NaturalBornChilla666]

There is a documentary called „The Other Final“, which shows the buildup and the match between Bhutan vs Montserrat (who were at the time the lowest ranked countries in the FIFA world rankings). Kind of reminds me of that…

[@swagdaddydiego6643]

Thanks for pointing that out, as a Bhutan fan who has yet to watch a game, I will watch this.

[@NaturalBornChilla666]

@@swagdaddydiego6643 no worries thanks for commenting! Happy new year!

[@liam8664]

I can’t be the only one who would love this to be a thing in real life

[@AlphaXIV]

as an Indonesian, it's quite funny to see how foreigner spelled our players' name. sadly I missed the stream, it would've been real crazy if I was reacting to "that" moment live lmao

[@zxcxz10]

maybe you wanna say "ada indonesia coy" in his stream? haha

[@isanyora567]

@@zxcxz10 🤓

[@AlphaXIV]

@@zxcxz10 true xd, even tho I'm not that type of "overproud" person

[@pramandikarifki2241]

@@AlphaXIV "ada indonesia coy" kan a way to mock our overpoud ass wkwkwk

[@dannykoning5486]

Wow Ezra Walian. Haven’t heard that name in a long time. Use to be a promising prospect in the Ajax youth.

[@pramandikarifki2241]

yeaahh but he's trash now, he's not even called up for the current indonesian squad

[@fiiirahman9523]

yeah that guy doing great in every football manager series, but not in reality though

[@blueblocks3596]

yeah, a massive prospect back then

[@diegomaloney2712]

Next, you could do a Next Best WC with the 32 teams that narrowly missed qualification for this year's WC with the same number of spots allotted to each confederation. Favorites would likely be Italy, Chile, Colombia and Nigeria (maybe Norway makes a run)

[@ahmedramisoufari8820]

I think Tom fm did that

[@jstahuman]

Add Egypt

[@f1peter27]

When you called it the "worst World cup" I thought this was going to be a little disrespectful towards lesser footballing nations. But actually you made this brilliantly! You made it humorous, while still being genuinely interested in the games and results. I also love how you tried to pronounce the player names even though you're likely not familiar with any of them. A lot of content creators would have said just "I'm not even going to try pronouncing that" - so respect for the effort 👍

[@Reppo80085]

Welp, it is most of these teams are shites! they never could even qualify to local respectful continental prestige cup...most of times play in garbage cup sponsored by shitty energy drinks or crap Japanese motorcycle model. Some of these nations football league were banned by FIFA for they couldn't contain themselves from refrain act of violence that caused death every single match.

[@flynndacosta534]

🤣😂 technique to attract viewers

[@idantiroche7312]

Absolutely amazing goalkeeping at the last penalty by Djibouti😂 6:30

[@thalente8074]

Match fixing

[@prateek1.9]

@@thalente8074 bruhh

[@doublevieillidezele]

Fun fact : it seems that Nicky Salapu, the American Samoa goalkeeper that played during the 31-0 terrible loss to Australia... still plays at the age of 43!

[@04gerd]

Singapore vs Cambodia is one of the greatest fm match I have ever watched

[@arkokibria1971]

Love from Bangladesh 🇧🇩 ❤. When elected in 2010 our football federation president promised that Bangladesh will play World Cup in 2022. In 2010 our ranking was 139th and now 192. At least Bangladesh was in your World Cup’s semifinals. 😂

[@pauloa.7609]

lmao what happened? you have plenty of people, right? football isn't popular there?

[@ArianIbraheem]

@@pauloa.7609 no infrastructure really. Football has been historically popular but nowadays ppl watch cricket more as we regularly compete in the cricket world cup. But people still go crazy during the FIFA world cups even though we have to support foreign teams. most choose Brazil or Argentina.

[@tannerwilson4843]

Indonesia is hosting the 2023 FIFA U20 World Cup. Great opportunity to really start turning around their soccer fortunes. Being one of the top 10 most populists nations in the world. A strong Indonesia would be amazing for Asian Soccer.

[@eierkopf4444]

Group stage exit for saying soccer

[@rodrickheffley1597]

What’s soccer I only know football

[@SabeethThePilot]

Indonesia will exit the WC because of the word soccer

[@NanobanaKinako]

Not anymore because of Bali.

[@pauloa.7609]

You know how to improve? Stop calling it soccer, that's a start.

[@2000AD]

Djibouti hipster right here. Back when I used to edit myself into FM as a wonderkid each I allways used to pick a rubbish football country as my primary nationality so that I didn't mess up the international game and Djibouti became my go to when I found them simply because of the name.

[@teddythewriter]

As a Sri Lankan, I got nothing to say.

[@reshavchand4451]

As someone from Fiji this was pretty cool to watch cause we're probably never qualifying for the actual world cup. Great stuff Z

[@reshavchand4451]

Also losing due to a sending off is pretty accurate. Our discipline is horrendous in real life

[@OG_DouG]

well, who knows? OFC now gets a guaranteed spot in the World Cup, on top of a play off spot. maybe Fiji can win a play off at some point. New Zealand did. still unlikely as shit, but it maybe could happen

[@akashfewell7841]

Ezra Walian... Andik Vermansyah... Febri Hariyadi... all three crucial in my Football Manager save with Persib... absolutely massive win

[@bkak2245]

Lol all 3 is light years ahead of everyone on Liga 1, Ezra and Andik always easily dominates the league in my save

[@akashfewell7841]

@@bkak2245 Ezra and Andik were good also Evan Dimas, though I found the best player was newgen Agus Santoso, ended up a regular player at Leicester

[@nathanoliverkurniawan3433]

As an Indonesian. This is probably as close as we get to a real world cup, so im happy

[@ignito8616]

As a Bruneian, I'm not surprised Brunei finished last in the group stages. The footballing world here is in shambles nowadays unlike the 90s, 2000s and the 2010s. Btw great video, very enjoyable keep up with the great videos mate ! Salam dan terima kasih dari Brunei 🇧🇳

[@zondor8123]

With little population also has little chance to have wonderkids appearing. Indonesia in other words have large pops but the FA are corrupt AF so wonderkids are undeveloped

[@ignito8616]

@@zondor8123 that's true, the talent pool in Brunei is not as large in number as other countries making more harder for us to really develop various fields/crafts not just football. But the development of the sport has gone downhill in recent years especially with the pandemic. So yeah some of the factors are talent, management, and budget. Some..

[@bernieadams4057]

maybe brunei and singapore should petition to join the malaysian league like the nineties... those were the very good old times

[@akmalbasyhaazis]

they forgot to call up The Box™

[@blueblocks3596]

u know what, im currently doing my indonesian save and im telling you that brunei is actually doing well in 2029 with reaching 160th rank in fifa and beating afghanistan in the afc cup qual

[@itmkoeln]

When you realise that Indonesia (as the Dutch East Indies) ist the only country out of these that ever qualified for a World Cup in 1938

[@KT-ki6gz]

Manchester United are watching this and going to sign Song Ui-young after missing out on Gakpo 😂

[@thargoff]

I was there! It was hilarious and a great thing. I loved the fact that it gave/gives exposure to these smaller footballing nations without patronizing them, and how much of a great entertainment it was. :) And: Mouuuuuuzzzinhoooooooooooooooo!

[@Dz73zxxx]

7:50 as an indonesian, i lol'd sooo hard. For our national team, opposition down to 10 men isnt advantage, its shts on bricks and roller coaster 🤣🤣 we would suddenly scared putting ball on net

[@cig5582]

*indonesia vs thailand flashback*

[@001AlexG]

Saw you posted this and now 5 hours later I've just finishing watching the whole live stream and I can't tell you how gutted I am! BOOTY SHARKS FOR LIFE!

[@craiggibbons8228]

Absolutely great commentating. Best ever m8 You should be a tv pundit dude

[@macario8836]

Ezra Walian... In my FM20 save, where I started in Portugal's 4th tier (not in ODFC, but in my hometown's team) I started to sign what I called "the best of the worst". Basically, I searched through some national teams with 100+ in ranking to get some of their best players. Mostly, it was a fruitless job. ALAS, there were three (!!) signings made from that, one mozambican that ended up not doing much, got dropped and easily forgotten by me (no, seriously, can't even remember his name, now), one heck of a young (was 21 yo, when i signed him) malaysian AM/striker that evolved with the team (they got 2 promotions and got to UCL group stage in 7 seasons with him) and got a prime Ezra Walian! And oh boy what an assister he was (I often played him as AM or winger, rarely as a striker). Edit: In the improbable case anyone is wandering the malaysian's name was Mohd Faizal Zakaria and I am fairly sure he was a regen. I say "fairly" because in that same save I signed Stefano Turati (he does exist IRL in Sassuolo, I think?) fully believing he was a regen.

[@petervr6795]

The singapore vs cambodia match was like the wc final, 3-3 pens, an amazing comeback from 2-0 down and a last minute save

[@timgee5658]

Great video, good fun to watch. As an Asian football fan I’m surprised Indonesia qualified ahead of Taiwan or Hong Kong though! 😂

[@muhammadsifaulrizky2298]

At some point me as an Indonesian I believe that our ranking is not that low as that if compared to the quality of national team but it would be nice with Indonesia vs Singapore in the final (remembering AFF 2020 Semifinals). Still happy though.

[@kiddo8597]

that indonesian squad is also 2018-2019 squad tho. we're improving quiet alot tbf with the new coach.

[@kor6514]

If ranking is excluded, Philippines should be here. They are worse than all three Indonesia, Singapore and Cambodia imo

[@huykim4663]

Yeah, should have had Myanmar. Especially when in all the FM future sim videos, I see Indonesia has a bright future all the time

[@dariogutierrez6716]

Indonesia is probably the easiest league I've won in FM. But at the same time the calendar is a nightmare, specially the qualies for the Asian Champions League, they're played in the middle of the off season, its terrible

[@Mister-Mayor]

@@kor6514 AFF 2010 between Indonesia and Philippines is such a banger match

[@rashidv9525]

Finally Seychelles in a football video 🙏it would've helped if we weren't a horrendous footballing nation but hey it'll take what I can get

[@iEvansy]

This was amazing and I loved the commentary

[@xorotnib]

its so unreal because the leader of indonesian fa didn't lift the cup and post on instagram like he do it himself sorry inside jokes

[@colin3393]

More enjoyable than the actual world cup! This should become an actual tournament, would be brilliant to watch some of the smaller nations and help develop the game. Top stuff Z!

[@arhammusfique4115]

As a Bangladeshi I will take a semi final spot We absolutely suck in football lol And its kinda obvious indonesia would win. They had the best team among this bunch Good vid❣️

[@munqualibfaruqui6234]

Sad the video didn’t have a highlight of any of our goals 😭

[@innocuouscircumstances4210]

@@munqualibfaruqui6234 right 😭 I was so sad

[@Sparquz]

I think with our current form we'll easily make the semis against the teams in this video. We just drew against Lebanon who are ranked 104 recently

[@erickserrero3037]

I love that u took out the conmebol teams cause they could win it so stupidly easly

[@didntwantmyrealnameanymore]

so I just did a deep dive on song ui-young, and he's actually quite a good player. he's a flexible midfielder who can even play as a false nine. he reminds me of debruyne in some ways, so maybe he could be a mezzala. he's technical and good at turning and crossing, and also through balls. he's strong, fast, works hard, and isn't afraid to try things on the field. his wikipedia calls him one of the most technical and accomplished players in the singaporean league. i'd say 100% sign him if you can on FM if he's around your league's level. he's good at positioning in posession, but not very good at positioning on defense, but his work rate makes up for this a little.

[@SrSteve404]

cambodia and singapore was like argentina and france. 3-3, being 2-0 at HT, with one of the sides having a hat-trick, an amazing save at the last minute and everything coming down to a pen shootout. Same script

[@alternatehistorysports]

Shots fired at FIFA!! 😆 The last great FIFA was Road to the World Cup 98, where you could actually use these teams

[@veraldimv]

I LOVEEEEE THIS VIDEO hahaha! finally Indonesia won the world cup🤣. I definitely clicked the subscribe button!

[@onizuka255]

As a Djiboutian if only we could be this "good"in real life...😅

[@MohAkbarRAlitu]

i dunno why, the final made me so emotional. the commentary has so much weight for it. thanks zealand...

[@swapniI]

As a Bangladeshi I'm really surprised that we came to the semi finals 😭💀

[@Sparquz]

I think with our current form we will easily make the semis against the teams in this video

[@thebungalawang6841]

😭😁😂

[@jeremye3]

Those 10sec clips of you commentating the games, was 2000x better than anything Fox puts out

[@smiis3149]

Watching the stream, I'm pretty sure you selected only players that were *based* in the nation as opposed to national team players? That explains why no Liechtenstein players generated, and top players from other teams (Kaltak for Vanuatu, Awad for Somalia etc.) didn't generate

[@onefreeboy]

Would have been great if you put the direct Twitch video link because I couldn't find any such videos on your channel there.

[@ungface]

I remember winning the world cup as vanuatu on fifa 98 so im rooting for them

[@ungface]

Quarter Final, not bad lads

[@cherrycolareal]

@@ungface How in the world did you win the world cup as vanuatu

[@ungface]

@@cherrycolareal probably playing on easy mode cus i was like 8 years old :p

[@cherrycolareal]

@@ungface Yeah, I played on easy mode with England and won the 2022 world cup only getting 2 goals against me and always winning.

[@samuelmeier1617]

Your commentary is top tier...I'm proud of djibuti though...one tenth the talent pool ofvindonesia! 😂

[@nicolaszan1845]

That Cambodia-Singapore game was remarkably similar to the Argentina-France final

[@guguy00]

And that will be the last time ANYONE would compare the not-so mighty Lions to Argentina or France.

[@samiracharya5683]

Man your commentary voice is just epic!!

[@IAmThatBit--]

Not watched yet but, as my wife is Sri Lankan and I am English, I am supporting Sri Lanka!

[@GIBBO4182]

Nearly as bad as supporting England…😂

[@ProGamrX_Editz]

Best commentary ever

[@hippie1906]

Finally dream came true for Nepali football😂😂🤦.🇳🇵🇳🇵

[@pecavlahovic]

I love your passion man like, really... You lowkey have outstanding commentary skills

[@liam3104]

He has a masters in broadcasting and has commentated college sports

[@nguyenductien9098]

Indonesia is not as bad as you’d think, they are a force to be reckon with in the SEA region, they even qualified for the 2024 Asian Cup

[@blackfalcon1324]

They are also like the 5th biggest country in the world.

[@amiles780]

Can you put together a "worst world cup" team made from the legends from this video and see if you can win a domestic title/Cup? Would be awsome

[@Smonserratm]

LMAO Andorra too good to qualify

[@cathalmp]

Love how much fun you had with this

[@lucabonfatti7283]

As a Djibouti supporter that was heartbreaking

[@AndreskoGaribaldi]

make a CL tournament, with 16 champions of UEFA lowest 16 leagues + 16 runner-up from the next 16 leagues.

[@BoG_City]

Ezra Walian, he played here at Almere City for a while. Love to see him shine!

[@meassoreach104]

I'm Cambodian and this shit is gold. Aint't no way I enjoy watching a simulated match than the actual game . Yaty was clutch in the crunch time bro. 🤣

[@justsomedude168]

Imagine a whole continent not being allowed to comete at the world cup in the modern day and its actually a good thing

[@Fkacu]

Or we need something like europa league types but world cup

[@shawnmason5551]

Absolutely brilliant!

[@AndjongoRaoul]

This might actually be enjoyable to watch! Let's go to Zurich and pitch this idea to the fifa bosses 😅

[@Carl-Gauss]

There’s already a European version called League D in the Nations League so we have to give UEFA credit with this one

[@Santhiish9]

Saw this on your live twitch stream. It was fun and engaging enough to watch all the way. But wished you have played the 3rd place match also. Cheers!

[@gabrielandrade9083]

Impressive win by Indonesia even without Ketut Setiwan

[@joshualiley]

Legends will remember Billy Ketkeophomphone, but they won't know that he switched his nation to Laos. I never see him popping up in these types of videos

[@alittleshepherd]

As an Indonesian, I truly believe that we have the capacity to go through and actually win the World Cup... but that's never gonna happen as we will get absolutely battered 4-0 by Thailand in the final.

[@lontongstroong]

Everyone in ASEAN nowadays got battered 4-0 by the Thais btw.

[@nendest]

Personally, australian speaking here. Would love to see some ASEAN talent come here. the J-League isn't really ready for them yet, maybe the thai league, but if they need quality, we would like to see them here. Abimanyu did come to Newcastle on loan, but didn't play much, now scored against Brunei a couple of days ago.

[@andiershad6285]

@@nendest fyi, couple months ago a persija player was training at brisbane roar. But i just hope that there would be an indo player playing at the a league, considering indo and Australia is really close

[@acsedef]

cant wait for fm24 edition of this. will watch live.

[@sanjeepgurung4574]

As a Nepalese citizen i feel my country finally included by a foreign youtuber 😂

[@samsonchitalu5568]

loved every minute

[@mariogotze4952]

Love from Bangladesh. At least we made it to the semis.

[@GIBBO4182]

In a save in the last game I saw Mali genuinely and legitimately get to the final of a World Cup! They got destroyed by Brazil though

[@aamirbhatti6688]

You got a dope commentary voice.

[@anonymous71207]

I have an indonesian striker in my save with Omonoia in Cyprus, and i love him (he has 140 CA and has 2 jumping reach at 5'10) so I'm glad Indonesia won

[@_fearn0t]

Must be a regen right? No way a real Indonesian player has CA that high

[@anonymous71207]

@@_fearn0t yeah, he genned at a lower league spanish club

[@dava_arvarabi]

@@anonymous71207 Makes sense he regenned in Spanish lower leagues, I think at one time the Indonesian decided to do youth setup stuff somewhere in Barcelona.

[@tallesmagno201]

@@_fearn0t Ezra Walian was at Ajax academy for a few years and was regarded a decent prospect, but never materialized.

[@rahmatramadhan9874]

If you want more Southeast Asian football shenanigans, watch the AFF Cup!

[@Youknowhrishi]

His energy is unparalleled

[@mynameisarya]

When I was playing as Leyton Orient, I bought Indonesian DC named Elkan Baggot. His potential ability reach 140, great defender.

[@LainiWeiz]

Well this was a great silly idea =D Also why did FM remove the scores from the penalties?

[@tuminiballfm5188]

Hahaha Indonesia Champione ! Berkat Pak Iwan Bule 😁

[@hairsstandonend]

I've been explained countless times by friends and neighbors why Indonesia is such a bad team when they have a giant population and football is the number 1 sport. I kind of get it... but how they are in with this lot is still beyond me. And I'm still surprised they won,,,

[@numchacar]

nothing compared to china

[@lontongstroong]

Simple, achievement in sport (especially really physical sports like football) is super strongly related to economic level and prevalence of malnutrition (especially consumption of meat). It has *very* little to do with population count, just look at countries like Bangladesh which never won any medals in Olympic Games so far. Conversely, the *real* anomaly are those rich countries whose football is their number one (or close to number one) sport that do equally terribly, such as Malaysia and Singapore (yes it's not that small, it has 6-7 million people which is larger than Uruguay, most Balkan and Central European countries).

[@aukan22]

honestly i feel bad for cambodia giving it all agaisnt singapore in the quarter finals but getting destroyed 6-0 in the semi finals

[@NathanHeaver]

we need San Marino vs American Samoa match

[@thenotoriousdig610]

Djibouti dared to dream, you love to see it

[@farhi411]

Indonesia finally won a tournament ffs😭

[@darioferrar]

This video is spectacular

[@dasadman]

Let's go Bangladesh 🇧🇩

[@Rafid.0]

We actually need a real tournament like this😊

[@masondooley2494]

Low key having a World Cup of the worst teams from every qualifiers and the best teams from the qualifiers in 2 different world cups could be fun

[@kushagratiwari3585]

India couldn't even qualify in this

[@shifmeister]

Which sound FX do you use for the matches ? As they scream goal when someone scores...

[@Derek-qu8qi]

England would still lose on penalties in the quarters

[@LazarouDave]

Only recently started watching, if it wasn't for you talking in-between match sections, I'd never guess you were from the U.S, with how you talk during commentary 😅 On that, class commentary work, btw!

[@AnwarRosly]

3:55 even in the game we suck horribly! 😆🤣c'mon Brunei!

[@mireiacastello7041]

Props for an original idea for a video!

[@MrJorge3010]

Hey Z, Mozza's stuff is not in the description FYI