Why Oceania's Football Stars Struggle in Europe

The A-league's brightest football talents are often scooped up by European heavyweights looking for a good deal in the transfer market.
But where are those stars today? Nestoroy Irankunda has just been bought by BundesLiga side Bayern Munich. A talented young forward from Adelaide United, his future is looking bright.
But will he follow in the same footsteps taken by his predecessors - like Garang Kuol, Marco Tilio and Sarpreet Singh who have all experienced troubled arrivals to European football.
This is a video about football in Oceania, the A-League and young footballing talent taking the next step in their football career. It involves the Australian National Team, the New Zealand National Team, Nestoroy Irankunda, Bayern Munich, Adelaide United, transfer news and loan moves.
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[@martyshirley7017]

You realise Australia hasn’t been in the OFC since 2006?

[@polaria.coronel-gt2762]

I think this is one of the many tragedies of modern football, in the past, big clubs would only buy a player when they were ready to perform for them. These days young players are an "investment" for the future, with a top tier club having 20 "wonder kids" on the books, for them, it does not matter if 95% of talents don't make it, as long as they find the next Pedri, Bellingham, Haaland or Yamal. A player, they invested 0.5~5million in, can reach 100 million market value in just a few years. And thus the European clubs keep bringing new, young players from all over the world, who are not yet ready or mature, give them at most 1~3 chances, and if the player doesn't SMASH all expectations, he will soon be in the never-ending loan cycle. Imagine that, being 17, coming to Europe, knowing no one, massive culture shock, and on top of that switching clubs every transfer window; it is no wonder at all these players fail, and when you think back to how good they were when they first broke through, it is easy to conclude that if given more time to mature and learn, their chances of success at top clubs would be exponentially higher. If Neymar came to Barca at 16~17, he would have flopped massively. Cool video again, thumbs up from me!

[@SAMUTHESAMBABALL]

It's sad but we can't blame them for trying to make it. The success rate for Oceania talent going overseas is insanely low, but I hope this will get better in the future. Thanks for watching again! I really appreciate it. 🙏

[@crazzylion2992]

i really hope irankunda succeeds in europe as bayern in my club and australia is my country

[@finestfootball8464]

If he was Brazilian he would already be in real madrids squad

[@xman6599]

There’s no reason for him to have gone to Bayern he’s not Davies and we saw what happened to Singh

[@CHEDZvlrt]

I'm from adelaide and love nestor, when I first saw him play i knew he was going to be big but as us Aussies all know it's really hard for young players to succeed over in europe.

[@liamlong-sx2bt]

to be honest its to early for him to go he should have gone to a champion ship club or a L1 club but if i was him i would do the same you cant say no

[@nicholasestreich8058]

stamenic and garbett never played in the a league and are still in europe, stamenic just got signed to nottingham forest

[@hamdog9703]

*Olympiacos, he got signed to Olympiacos

[@SAMUTHESAMBABALL]

Hey! Yes you're right, neither played in the A-League. But they are both great examples of players who are currently in the European club blender. Between them they've got 8 different clubs in Europe since 2020. Each club at a totally different level. Thanks for watching!

[@TOTN17]

@@hamdog9703 He is on Loan to Olympiacos from Nottingham Forest

[@ruleoftwo6174]

Remember Freddy Adu

[@xman6599]

Freddy was a fraud who faked his age

[@cereal690]

Ok

[@divad23]

I enjoyed this analysis. I would suggest not doing the whole "please like and subscribe" thing. Why? Because you want organic data to understand when (and potentially why) your different audiences hit "like" during the video, not data that is skewed/biased by the content-creator's prompts. Keep up the good work 👏

[@SAMUTHESAMBABALL]

Thanks for watching!

[@justjames1348]

Because we're shit. Simple. Our history isn't soccer. Australia is the greatest team to play cricket. England and India wish they could be us. We beat India in their own stadiums.

[@Juliano-wz2sg]

football, and also we're actually not that bad. Tim Cahill, Jamie Mac, Mooy and of course Harry Kewell.

[@justjames1348]

@Juliano-wz2sg we're average. Australia has a deep history in sports. We can produce players but like Oceania we suck. We put our focus into sports which we are good at

[@spiz555s3]

@@justjames1348 Because we like playing sports nobody else plays mate.... just saying

[@justjames1348]

@@spiz555s3 rugby and cricket are pretty worldwide

[@aaronnilestoussaint5672]

@@justjames1348 Rugby isnt worldwide and neither is Cricket its just popular in a handful of countries. No on in France gives a fuck about cricket no one in China is wearing Cricket or Rugby jerseys. the highest paid cricket player makes 3 mill a role player in the NBA makes more than that.