Yikes

Zealand Playing:
► Twitch: / zeaiand
► KZbin: / @zealandonyt
Zealand Stuff:
► Instagram: / theoldzealand
► Twitter: / theoldzealand
► Discord: / discord
► Reddit: / theoldzealand
Gadjet (Editor):
► Gadjet’s Instagram: / miloszoric7

[@wilsonoliveira7921]

"Same number of stewards as people"💀💀💀💀😂😂😂

[@LiftandCoa]

turkey might copy that going forward

[@Oll1000]

Basically the Saudi league is organising private star-studded games for the stewards. Amazing how well the workers are treated in Saudi Arabia!

[@TheJonBob]

Santa claus isnt real?????😢 This is not the type of reporting i expected from Zealandism

[@parapluie000]

sorry this is how you found out kiddo

[@ObviousLump]

i think he was probably joking about that bit, if santa claus doesnt deliver the presents who else is supposed to do it? wake up sheeple

[@Randomaccount9470]

He's obviously real stop being in deniel

[@safcjcp]

Person who said it is American they know nothing

[@LiftandCoa]

especially because its obviously fake news Santa is real, i saw him drink milk and wat cookies, i spoke to him he kissed my mom

[@magruster]

“the reindeer would disintegrate” that is not a sentence I ever expected to hear in my life.

[@macsikkila]

Long story, but in Finland that is a sentence that would come up in more than one context.

[@magruster]

@@macsikkila i’m a big WRC fan and knowing finland’s wildlife I shouldn’t be surprised haha

[@macsikkila]

@@magruster well I was thinking just regular driving in northern Finland... But now that I'm thinking the WRC speeds... There would be even more disintegration.

[@macsikkila]

Also if you cook reindeer really well the meat will just disintegrate. It has really unique strong flavour. Best pizza in my life had reindeer, chanterelle mushroom, red onions and a bit of garlic.

[@ih1979]

The clip was taken from the semi-final of the Super Cup, which was played in the UAE. The UAE has worse attendance compared to Saudi Arabia. However, when you check the attendance for the other two games in the Super Cup, it's a lot more respectable. The main problem with the Saudi league is that the top four teams receive all the attention from the public, while the rest of the teams receive none. This makes the league extremely top-heavy, resulting in people only attending matches between the top four teams. To improve the Saudi league, it must prioritize the development and support of all teams beyond the top four. By investing in the infrastructure, resources, and talent of the remaining teams, the league can foster a more competitive environment and attract a wider fan base. This would create a sustainable football culture that encourages fans to attend games that don’t feature the top four.

[@humbertoacosta8199]

This is Sunderland erasure

[@bhvillaman4401]

Lowe the Saudi league. We don't need that kind of attitude towards football

[@hrodebrt]

The main problem with the saudi league is that its not serious at all and is just a way to white wash the kingdoms crimes against humanity

[@thydevdom]

"Stewards convention" LMAO

[@WingWingHerro]

“More people have watched me play than watching Karim Benzema play” My man, you don’t have to do him like that 😂

[@CammyBouse]

Zealand really tried to slip Jordan Henderson in there like we wouldn't notice.

[@JuanNunez2023]

If the Saudi league wants to grow, they need local heroes.

[@1KHC]

Nevermind an MLS stadium not looking like that I genuinely think I’ve seen more fans at a USL game

[@SuperJNG18]

Watching the highlights from some of the lower-league home games in the Open Cup so far, and the limbs from the goddamn Lubbock Matadors fans put the Saudi fans to shame.

[@TDBTylerable]

Right now, there are far more people that have watched this Zealandism video... than people in that stadium xD

[@VillaFanDan92]

I remember reading that for one of his games in the Saudi League Henderson had fewer people in the stadium watching him than the Liverpool U21s that same weekend lol

[@lkl3210]

Not saying football can't work for your bread and circus department of the regime, but you gotta build it organically it won't happen over night

[@SuperJNG18]

Yoooo as an NYC FC fan the bada drums thing is SO TRUE. Part of the fun, part of the headaches afterwards.

[@somedonkus69420]

Hey Zealand, you said you were gonna send me the link to the pre-sale of your jarred farts but you forgot. Can you send it?

[@ninanano]

Speaking of MLS, on this video I got an ad for Coin Master featuring David Beckham

[@donnyjepp]

My team plays in the English 8th tier and average about 150 fans a game. We would of filled more of that stadium than those who were there.....I'm dead serious 😮🤫😉😂

[@lost1head]

My world of warcraft guild would fill more seats than saudi fans.

[@BaxsStudios]

I mean I wouldnt want to go to a match if the stadium wont be at least 70% filled ​@@lost1head

[@h0ndesohn708]

Second Team of my local club played against local rivals first team last weekend. 800 tickets sold. also eighth step on the pyramid

[@benficademacaufan]

In Macau 1st tier there are 100 people at most 😢. Except for Bolinha where the stand is about 80% filled 600/700 fans at the colégio

[@NegaRenGenX2gay2lift]

there is a USL team in my city that has exsisted for only a decade in a city where the sport hasnt had a professional soccer culture and San Antonio FC is at this point, a self sustaning 2nd division team. always getting max capacity in our games of 8k. we can send a few hundred supprters to liven up Al Nahyan Stadium

[@lukee7442]

3:31 my memory of that game is just watching the first half then going to sleep because it was past 6am i figured saudi arabia had no chance of coming back, then waking up and being dumbfounded lol

[@SuperJNG18]

"Little old, kind of a dick" sums up most of the foreign players in the Saudi League, tbh. EDIT: Oof, Kante. That was such a shame. One of my favorite players at Chelsea who also seemed like a really nice guy, but then he goes and does it for the buck like that.

[@Ganganuk]

Tbf to Kante, moslem players have more incentives to play in Saudi. It's basically "free" religious pilgrimage for them.

[@Ren_1090]

@@Ganganukit’s not like someone like Kante doesn’t have the money to do a pilgrimage on his own whilst not selling out to a murderous dictatorship

[@Ganganuk]

@@Ren_1090 it's not only about money, it's also about time efficiency. Basically if they're based in Saudi, they can do the pilgrimage almost every time they want to.

[@Middagetten]

Oh you met maqwell nice I love his content as well similar to this channel

[@dapperduck4250]

Honestly Zealand and Maqwell are probably the top football KZbinrs these days, especially from the US

[@bhvillaman4401]

​@@dapperduck4250no chance

[@sirpsychosussy]

​@@bhvillaman4401 Maybe not in the world, but definitely in America

[@sambenham1945]

47 views in 2 minutes. Zealand is finished

[@TDBTylerable]

More people here than in that stadium xD

[@Pawłos7]

There was recently a game in the Polish league with 34k+ attendance. Saudi has a long way to go

[@KT-ki6gz]

Idk I’d rather spend money to watch Z run than watch Jordan Henderson 😂

[@jacobknock6559]

8:17 sorry Z just got to point out Hendo did actually play for Sunderland as well, not just Liverpool

[@diegomaloney2712]

so that goal was from a super cup semifinal played in the UAE, so though you make great points, there's that to consider regarding the attendance

[@madlad4206]

If my local team played in fucking South Africa, there would be higher attendance, Saudi League is embarrassing

[@joetynan6470]

Last time I was this early, there was no one asking Z to run

[@JavierLuces]

Come on Zealand! Talk about the party at Bilbao after the Copa del Rey title!

[@raphaelpoulain3203]

It's an accessibility issue, it's hard to build a stadium culture when most people can't feasibly make it to the actual stadiums. HITC Sevens covered this topic a while back.

[@madlad4206]

Womp womp

[@gugga2745]

the 100th video on this channel gotta be something special

[@footballfraud23]

just checked and attendances have halfed since last season at most clubs

[@subhiqutob7055]

Imma ruin your day because there are two large reasons as to why the stadium is empty for this match. This match was played in Abu Dhabi, not Saudi, and it took place right before Eid. But the major reason as to why its empty was that, also in Abu Dhabi, at the same time, was the semifinal match between Al-Nassr (Ronaldo, Mane etc) and Al-Hilal (Currently on the world record winning streak) and that game was sold out. The final between Al Ittihad and Al Hilal was also sold out so Benzy did get a full stadium to be humiliated 4-1

[@akunwanneprosper7016]

You can only name a match between the top two teams as evidence How about Ettifaq vs Damec Lmao🌅😏,dunce

[@subhiqutob7055]

@@akunwanneprosper7016 You really picked a game between clubs that are 1300km apart to try to prove some point? You probably can't even name 5 teams in your home country so respectfully, stfu

[@subhiqutob7055]

@@akunwanneprosper7016 Do you know how to read?

[@jdevlin1910]

Doesn't matter, the fad will fade quickly.

[@MatSjo]

The main reason that there aren’t any fans in the game would be that there is not anyone caring about the Saudi league or the teams in it.

[@SuperJNG18]

As others have pointed out, just to show a problem with the fans who DO show up, a player on Al-Ittihad (Moroccan player with a name that's hard to type out, forgive me) was WHIPPED BY A GUY IN THE STANDS. Like, not with a towel like in a locker room, with an ACTUAL WHIP.

[@MattMcMatt]

The mom_bot who stole Christmas

[@Lesidy]

I‘m watching this video not concentrating for 30 seconds and hes speaking about santa claus Whaahhttt ahhhhh

[@SamButler22]

Highest attended match this season was 52,037... lowest was 133

[@bready1331]

bro the match was in the uae and in the last few days of ramadan when most people would spend time at home with there families. I agree that the attendance in some saudi matches is embarrassing sometimes but this is not one of these times lol

[@gavinmallett9331]

I just checked out Transfer Markets attendance records for the Saudi Pro League & its shocking.... the bottom 10 teams average attendance ranges from 1,500 -5,500. Thats National league level attendance figures!! But nobody is playing in Saudi Arabia for the money? 😅😅😄😄

[@SomethingLegit1]

More fans would show up to see you running fr

[@OmR713ro]

I'm guessing this wasn't the match an Al Itihad player was whipped with a whiplash?

[@TomaszRyszkowski]

This is the type of channel, that perfoms worse than your main one, but you definitely read like all of the comments you get lol. I really enjoy the vibe this channel gives me

[@Dench999or911]

But, but…Ronaldo told me the Saudi league would be top 5 in the world?

[@pauldrake9312]

Kinda off topic, but in a way not. i just watched a video of a game from 1901, Newcastle V Liverpool (might even be worth a video in itself), and the thing that strikes you immediately is the crowd. Its huge (comparatively)...and this is 1901. Even more than who got to Zealand keep in the Miami semi final...second thing btw is the quality, they had a decent level even back then... third is all the advertising boards

[@LiftandCoa]

7:00 I have a few things to say here: 1. Persumably there is no "Board" meeting. 2. Like you pointed out, they have been successful with (Golf; dunno bout that), F1 and WWE coming to their country. But football is different gravy - and works differently to the other sports mentioned. They go directly into the cities if Riyadh or Jeddah - where the people are, where people might go out for a night and buy a ticket on a whimper. While football clubs are localised in culture and national in driving distance. But the money the saudis invested into the WWE contract or the building/upkeeping the street race for years can me measured in CR7 yearly salaries. To build Jeddah for F1 is costed between 2 and 3 yearly CR7 salaries, yearly upkeep is easily another one, to get wwe there it costs about 4 yearly CR7 salaries. But thats the thing, remodeling cities and making global media juggernauts come to you or paying ONE of eleven (seventeen if were overly correct) people of ONE of your dozen teams - one of that is a bad financial decision. Also the utter state if disinterest of Saudis for its league is somewhat surprising.

[@SuperJNG18]

Karim Benzema plays for Al-Ittihad, last season's champs! This team has the likes of him, Kante, Jota, Romarinho, Fabinho, and Luiz Felipe. And THIS is the turnout a team with those players gets.

[@haytham3308dz]

League leaders? They are like sixth Al Hilal are 1st

[@bready1331]

lmao we are definitely NOT league leaders

[@SuperJNG18]

@@bready1331 You are dead on, I was looking at the Wikipedia page and they had the info from LAST season.

[@collintrachsler2576]

Did you see the fan who hit a player with a whip at the end of the match?

[@WingWingHerro]

I saw that. He whips him like he owned the man or something 😂. He was like “you didn’t perform to my expectation bòy!”

[@collintrachsler2576]

@@WingWingHerro Tragicomic.

[@NoobMaster-zw4oq]

The USL championship has more full stadiums than that, and the mls is trying to supress them

[@mw7851]

I agree with you fully. I never understood how they were gonna try to turn this into a top league without having a massive football culture. Do they want to pay each player of each team 2-3x the salary compared to the EPL clubs just so they can fill the spots with the best teams? Then pump insane amounts into marketing to build up international followings? It's not realistic. They may be able to establish a decent league with older stars and some selected players in their peak but that's not enough to become a global league brand.

[@human0_0skull]

The Saudi top teams and those of the other golf countries should merge and form the super league. I think they'd get a lot more attention from the local public and benefit from (abroad) big TV contracts and huge audience.

[@josephduffy6795]

A preseason friendly between Arsenal and Manchester United sold out MetLife stadium which holds almost 90,000 people. The fact the Saudi league can’t get more fans to the games is shocking.

[@footballeditzwithyousuf4006]

This game was played in the uae and in eid night (Muslim celebration) which is why there was no one as this was a super cup game. Please do research before judging (not trying to be rude just saying)

[@Morgan_Black]

That's nothing new really. The Saudi Pro League has an (artificially boosted by the Top 4) average attendance of ~8.4k people. That's fewer people than the 3rd divisions of Germany or England (both 9k+). There's games in the SPL with fewer than 1000 people in the stands, even though the stadiums are more than capable of fitting a lot more people inside.

[@flaviusinc]

can you make a video about FCSB from Romania ? ... the owner of the team is also the guy who picks first team players and makes changes for the last 10 years or so :)

[@mexicorolls]

Dang 5k at a highschool game is kinda wild 🤯

[@maxl.b.m.y.g.5918]

COYBIB

[@WalterOlivos]

Where is the video about the dude who used a whip on the player in the final of the saudi cup?

[@jonaszahid3892]

Even worse is Abderrazak Hamdallah being attacked by a fan after the Saudi cup final 😮

[@s--cn8ee]

I am Saudi. There are basically four teams in Saudi Arabia that have fans. Even the majority of people in small cities support these teams, and we do not have a culture of attendance for many reasons that I will not go into here, but certainly weak interest in sports is not one of them.

[@madlad4206]

Womp womp, shit league

[@StandardRossoneri]

Run.

[@Jewish.Hotdog]

This looks like an USL game😂😂

[@justali248]

The game is not in Saudi Arabia in its not the league it is the semi final of super cup and at the same day in the same city Al hilal was playing al nasser ( Ronaldo team) in the semi final the two game were played at Abu Dhabi

[@akunwanneprosper7016]

Attendance for Ettifaq vs Damec? Always running to point at Hilal vs Nassr matches 😂😂

[@justali248]

@@akunwanneprosper7016 I was correcting the information that he said nothing more mate

[@the_master1715]

Thumbnail isn't stretched enough 😡😡

[@ganaed9954]

Jordan Henderson? Lmao

[@henrycharalambous8311]

Also Saudis infrastructure makes it almost impossible to watch your team if your playing away so away attendances are close to nothing.

[@bigdaddycambrian9337]

my goat

[@akunwanneprosper7016]

It can buy all the old past prime players, only the big 4 would benefit

[@thetriple-double6865]

Game happened during the last few days of Ramadan, people have priorities over watching a football match

[@peteriddqd]

excuse me did you really put henderson into benzema and kante pile ? apologize now

[@markuswiig4707]

What the game needs is a MLS saudi pro league transcontinental super league / merger

[@yapdat7036]

You cant shortcut league football. You can drop a billion and make an incredible race course or golf course that the already rich people can and will go to. Thats not how football works. You need fans and culture and history

[@drww1]

90% of clubs in the WOSFL in Scotland have higher attendances than this league, its just plain sad

[@jdevlin1910]

To be fair I was watching a bit of a match recently, and I've forgotten the home team so don't want to guess wrong, but Celtic fans took up 3 sides of the stadium and the remaining stand wasn't full!

[@lovessniping]

Ruben Neves went to Saudi last summer. 60 million + for Wolves. Hes making more money than most countrys. Well done to him. But hes the only one of the folks who went out there whos in his mid twentys. Hes the only one, and I've not heard anything about him since.

[@madlad4206]

He’s making more money than most countries? What are you smoking?

[@madlad4206]

He’s making more money than most countries? What are you smoking?

[@akunwanneprosper7016]

Only matches among the big 4 have the attendances Anything more, you're asking for too much

[@dapperduck4250]

Bro even the Canadian Premier league's club with the lowest attendance (York United for those curious) gets more people at their games than the Saudi Pro League

[@ABiggles]

As soon as I hear Zealand say "Sardi" I have to switch off as it give me brain ache.

[@madlad4206]

Mussy

[@alazraq97]

This is a super cup game and it is in uae not saudi

[@flameofthegame]

The only argument for the Saudi league over MLS is the top 6 that are funded by the government ,outside of that the MLS is imo a least 1 tier above the Saudi league overall ,but the top 6 of the Saudi is probably better than the top 6 teams in the MLS

[@thequietswan4060]

World cup in 2018?? thought they got beat in 2022/3😂

[@house382]

Backup goalie? You've always struck me as a weak side wing back/full back.

[@SuperJNG18]

*based ON

[@Firefnaff]

Stopping kids from saying first Yes I was 1st😊

[@donnyjepp]

🥇or ⭐or 🌟.....pick your prize Halil 💪😉

[@Firefnaff]

@@donnyjepp🥇I guess

[@alazraq97]

And usually ittihad have full stadium in home games but this season the fans are angry because the club president did stupid things

[@iirovaltonen4258]

Z, run, ?

[@Bredz.mp4]

Video 17 asking for a video on coventry

[@nyanrxenawang]

Santa Claus at Bar Mitzvah? Do Jewish kids also believe in Santa?

[@TheFudgewaffles]

Should’ve told your little brother for the story

[@mikexstad1121]

USL2 has more atmosphere

[@Jesusismiddleeastern123]

Maybe people that side of the world don't care too much about football

[@jigglebiggle2799]

As an American The saudi league is easily more competitive than the us its not even close tbh, hate Saudi all you want the mls is just garbage through and through

[@madlad4206]

MLS is garbage but Saudi league is way worse, cry about it

[@SomeGuyFromBahrain]

You’re better than this Z , the game was a semi final of the Saudi super cup and it was played in the UAE during the month of Ramadan, specifically the end of Ramadan and almost all Muslims are preparing for “ Eid “ which is the what comes after Ramadan and it was between Al-Ittihad ( top team ) and Al-Wehda ( lower team ) ، but if you have seen the final which was played yesterday ( 11/4 ) the stadium was almost full

[@madlad4206]

If there was a game on Christmas day in England’s 5th division, there would be higher attendance, stop crying lmao

[@SomeGuyFromBahrain]

@@madlad4206 Christmas day for you is about presents and partying , unlike you we take our religion more seriously so we don’t care about anything else if it clashes with it

[@jottomojo4574]

There are a lot of Saudi league matches with similar attendance levels.

[@SomeGuyFromBahrain]

@@jottomojo4574 Im not saying all matches have stacked stadiums , but I hate it when people punch down on the Saudi league and thinking it’s only about money , and I don’t agree with Z because the Saudi league is better and more competitive than the MLS

[@jonathanmeyer459]

@@SomeGuyFromBahrain Yeah, people will always punch down because "Middle East = Bad' when there are so many examples like this. I mean look at Portugal. Only Porto, Benfica and Sporting have a high attendance compared to the rest of the league but they'll be quick to forget that.

[@vereehdjj2078]

my friend... before you do any of these video about saudi league PLEASE check why there was no fans in the stadium!! 1st reason is religion!!! ramadan ended and ppl stay at home with the family for the eid 2st reason they didn't play in saudi arabia but in abu dhabi so you telling me that 2 of the most followed club that averrage 20k fans at the home stadium randomly get 0 fans in the game??? btw for someone that don't know alot about football and saudi arabia (i am maroccan and i have friends from there) there is the culture of watching football at home

[@Ren_1090]

Then it’s just poor planning on the part of the Saudi League. They organize the match schedule and where the cups are held. People see the Saudi league as a laughingstock and organizing games that they knew ahead of time no fans would be able to go to is not helping.

[@Caraviaggio]

The MLS may not be so big and soccer so popular in the US, but still, it's not like you're watching a sport mandated by the regime to sportwash human rights violations. Cmon

[@veldrensavoth7119]

7:39 you need to get off KZbin and get back on the pitch bro plain and simple. An American Highschool is more legit then a Saudi Pro league. Go play in the 2nd Bundesliga or something

[@Cliphaven3]

7th

[@jaquandrejones]

MLS fans? Existing? What lobbyist group is paying him.

[@NegaRenGenX2gay2lift]

search up any mls gameday highlight vids. fuck it, go search USL ones

[@waynekeebler6755]

I would not defend the Saudis over anything, but then again I was in the South Tower on 9/11 and remember who planned, financed and provided the vast majority of Terrorists that day. What ever happened to “never forget”?

[@erwinrammelbrutalo7961]

Oil happened

[@habeebakintoye4404]

The American government happened

[@Randomaccount9470]

Americans forget tragedies happen every where we sick of hearing about 9/11 Besides blame your own government it was literally warned twice but they wanted a reason to convince people to be soldiers

[@relax557]

Zealand, I don’t want to use the word ignorant here, but you kinda are here. First this is not is Saudi Arabia, it is in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Second I agree there are problems with the Saudi league, but not having a fan culture is not one of them. I think the main problem is that the support is mainly for the 4 big teams ( Alahli-Alhilal-Alnassar-Alitihad), and not focusing on the other teams or the other league tiers. Just to clarify I don’t think you are doing this intentionally, but it is annoying. 👍

[@Ren_1090]

Saudi Arabia is a massive country; they have the population to fill stadiums if the league was run correctly. But it’s been run terribly, and that’s the root cause. Why would they host the “Saudi Super Cup” in another country? It’s insane. But even then, when they hosted the Spanish Super Cup in Saudi Arabia, which is much further from Spain than the UAE is from Saudi, thousands and thousands of fans flew out. Well-run clubs organize ways to get their fans to far away games. Clearly Saudi Arabia did not do the same thing here. It’s just mismanagement.

[@madlad4206]

Another mussy and/or ronaldo fan making excuses for Saudi League lmao

[@joshuakelly6668]

Hallo! I'm a journalist for the club I support, Cork City FC, 2nd tier Irish football. 3.5k people at most of our home matches, i heard saudi league gets a few hundred at the small club games. By that logic, Irish second tier is a healthier league than Saudi. Cmon the rebels 🔴🟢

[@jonaszahid3892]

Even worse is Abderrazak Hamdallah being attacked by a fan after the Saudi cup final 😮