Why Football's Greatest Innovators Didn't Win

[@BassUndertow]

Maradona didn't play in the 1978 World Cup. He was left off the squad. Just a small correction.

[@GVike]

Cruyff brought the Dutch philosophy to Barcelona and the rest is history...

[@andrekoerber7334]

It has been strange for decades: everybody still talks about that Dutch team from the 1974 WC but nobody about the Poles who played an equally attacking anf attractive football.

[@forest5306]

It’s crazy man I think if Hungary won a world cup back then it would’ve changed their hunger and drive to continue to be world class but today they are nobodies at the world stage. Crazy.

[@deniskhaidarov9166]

Unfortunately, I think that 1956 events would break them anyways. But it is still very sad that they haven't won anything before that.

[@dewsfutbol]

Hey dude, great video. However, the person who deserves most of the credit for the deep lying forward was Marton Bukovi. Sebes wasn’t an incredible coach, but a great Manager who was given the Hungary job over Bukovi mainly because he aligned with the regimes ideas a lot more :)

[@WilfredMburu-cb5gw]

Very good video with well researched content! Keep it up Samu 👍

[@charlieaylett117]

such good videos dont know how u have only 900 subs

[@alkasolent]

Good video. Unfortunately full of errors. There was no world cup in 1956. And as indicated in the video Maradona did not play in 1978. He was just a kid then.

[@SAMUTHESAMBABALL]

Hey, thanks for watching! I mentioned both errors in the editing process. 👍

[@hernan5940]

he was already a pro and in fact there was a massive controversy for leaving him out

[@shanrahman7841]

Another classic W.

[@YASSERZAHAR-c2u]

men this story is like that friend or person who is genius but fails at the last moment and the average wins

[@jlirl5736]

8:48 Where can I find this full list on Wikipedia?

[@SAMUTHESAMBABALL]

Hi, you can find this chart on the Wiki page for the Magyars. It's called "Golden Team".

[@anthonyleighton4754]

You can innovate all you want ....at some time you have to play the Germans ....and there never beaten type of play....well up untill 2014....

[@SAMUTHESAMBABALL]

Football is a simple game. You play for 90 minutes, and then the Germans win.

[@6dfcx96]

Hi , can you make a video about the recent Uzbekistan rise in football ?

[@SAMUTHESAMBABALL]

I'll look into it! Thanks for the suggestion.

[@6dfcx96]

@@SAMUTHESAMBABALL thanks

[@6dfcx96]

@@SAMUTHESAMBABALL they have some impressive young players ( Fayzullaev Khusanov Aliqulov ) and good results . In asian cup they manged to go in quarter finals without 5 standard starting players who were injured. They lost to qatar on pens

[@682justin]

How did you talk all about this but not mention Rinus Michels

[@SAMUTHESAMBABALL]

True! It's interesting that Michels was able to bring success to the Netherlands at EURO 1988, two decades after taking charge of the national team in the 70s and developing total football.

[@JoGeGoJr]

Good video, but it’s such shame you never mentioned Brazil 🇧🇷. 70 and 82

[@SAMUTHESAMBABALL]

Thanks! I will definitely be diving deeper into Brazilian football history in some future videos.

[@hernan5940]

Cruyff did not play at the 1978 WC

[@SAMUTHESAMBABALL]

I know! It's an shame he didn't but his reasoning was understandable. His contribution to the development of total football and the national team is still unmatched though.

[@HMS1955-hs6zi]

Uruguay was playing better and more advanced football than England already in 1920s. England during the last century has never played best football. Not even in 1966.

[@hanswurst5426]

Sorry, but your knowledge of football is laughable. The Dutch lost to Kempes and Passarella, not Maradonna!🤦

[@SAMUTHESAMBABALL]

Thanks for watching. I mentioned the mistake in the editing!