The Entire History Of Football – Transcript

00:00how did football go from looking like this to this then you see like most things nowadays football was made in China it all started about 2,000 years ago when some Chinese villagers got bored and made a ball out of leather feathers and hair and boom the first football was made the game was simple back then none of that offside and red card nonsense just a couple of guys kicking a ball between bamboo cones in the streets of China and

00:27it was called cuju this kuju was played during through Medieval Times in Europe but roll on a couple thousand years to 1863 and modern football was born on October 26th 1863 the English Football Association was formed and the original football rule book was written they prevented players from carrying the ball with their hands banned violent play and even introduced the offside rule or some weird version of it with this new standard set of rules and the British

00:52Empire taking over the world the game started to spread like wildfire on May 21st 1904 FIFA was born around this time some of the biggest football clubs we know today were created as leagues started to form and clubs started to play against each other but in 1930 football would change forever the first ever World Cup was played football became a global phenomenon but not for long because football was about to enter its Dark

01:23Ages in 1939 some Austrian man with a mustache wanted to conquer the world and kicked off some War you might have heard of football was shut down all competitions were cancelled most players were drafted into the military and football was at its lowest point in decades but in 1955 one player would make his debut for Brazil and change the game Forever at 15 years old P made his debut for Santos and just two years

01:50later became the youngest player ever to play in a World Cup 17 years of age and Pelle tore it up two goals in the final and Pelle became the youngest World Cup winner a record that he still holds today this world cup birthed the first football Superstar a player who was not only a football player but a cultural icon Pelle picked up another two World Cups for Brazil and a few goals along the way even though most of these goals

02:17were in friendlies that doesn't stop him from flexing them on the grab but at the same time that Pelle was cooking up a Brazilian Legacy Europe was about to cement itself as the home of football with the creation of the European Cup 16 teams from across Europe came together to fight for the trophy Real Madrid won the first edition of the cup and the second and a couple more in a row after that they had what was considered to be

02:43the first ever super team with football icons like Alfredo D Stefano fence pkos and Raymond compa who cemented Real Madrid as a European Powerhouse in the years that followed football became known for its Superstars players that transcended the sport like Bobby Charlton and Uso but in 1966 two football players were about to rise to the top of the world and Chang the landscape of football in very different

03:14ways picture it 1966 England had just won the World Cup red cards weren't even a part of the game yet and two stars had just made their debuts for Man United and ax George best and Yohan C they both had more Talent than you could even imagine and both dazzled fans on the pitch C was part of an aox team that revolutionized the style of football played around

03:40Europe he was at the center of the new Total Football philosophy this wasn't the direct long ball into the box football that was known at the time they played sexy football Dynamic positions OneTouch passes High pressing which made for a better viewing experience for the fans along with better results on the pitch but George best on the other hand was more focused on the Rockstar life don't get me wrong best was a pure

04:06talent on the pitch I'm talking dribbles and goals that England had never seen before but man preferred to score off the pitch best was a celebrity all the women wanted him and he wanted all the women parties booze cars he wanted a lot and he had the lot he famously said if you'd given me the choice of going out and beating four men smashing a goal in from 30 yards against Liverpool or going

04:33to bed with missor it would have been a difficult Choice luckily I had both C and best enjoyed the late 60s and70s at the top of the game and both retired in 1984 making way for a new football icon to take over the 1980s were a great time for football it marked a significant rise in televised football and also saw the rise

04:59of a Italian football with a 1982 World Cup victory for Italy and great success in the Champions League from AC Milan Inter Milan and Juventus but the most notable part of this rise in Italian football was marked by the arrival of one player on the 5th of July 1984 Napoli unveiled their new signing to a stadium full of 75,000 fans this was none other than Diego maradana the

05:26Argentinian arrived on the shores of Naples and trans formed the club from a b-tier Italian side to winning their first ever league title and their second he was the Catalyst for napol Golden Era in a time when Italian football was so strong although he did have a couple of controversies along the way most notably in the 1986 World Cup quarterfinal the goal that broke England's Hearts the

05:52hand of God maradana sent England out of the world cup with a clear cheating moment that wasn't caught by the referee maradana went on to lift the trophy for Argentina cementing himself as one of the greatest players to ever live in the early 90s meridana started to slowed down a career of substance abuse had finally caught up with him and his

06:19talent could take him no further after testing positive for drunks maradana was given a 15-month ban from football and left Napoli he made a return to football a couple of years later but history repeated itself another drug test and another ban until he eventually retired in the late '90s now the '90s were a significant time in the history of football the offside rule was changed to the way we know it today

06:47or at least most of us do Sir Alex Ferguson had just been appointed as Manchester United manager sparking a 26-year dynasty Yan C took charge as the manager of Barcelona implementing his Total Football philosophy the European Cup was rebranded into the champions league and most notably the English league was transformed into the Premier League this shift to the Premier League structure saw a focus placed on TV

07:13rights and more focus on generating Revenue this would be the start of the big money coming into English football this decade saw man united rise to prominence in England capping off the century with the first treble in English football Real Madrid and Bar Elona battled it out in La Liga ending the decade with five titles to Barca four to

07:38ra the Seria was largely dominated by AC Milan thanks to iconic Defenders like Maldini and baressi the players that would rise to prominence in this decade are known as the greatest generation of football players Zinedine zidan made his move to Juventus in 1996 where he would quickly become the best playmaker in the world and over in Brazil there was a striker with talent that nobody had ever

08:04seen before Ronaldo Nazario would make the move from cruso to PSV and then to Barcelona his scoring rate was unheard of having 200 career goals by the age of 20 he picked up back-to-back Balon doors in the 96 and 97 seasons and was undoubtedly the best player in the world at the time zidon and Ronaldo faced each other in the world C up final where the

08:30Frenchman came out on top bagging two goals to take home the trophy Ronaldo made the move to Inter Milan where he continued to fire goals in but started to pick up a couple serious injuries which became a common problem throughout the rest of his career as the century came to a close and the 2000s came knocking Real Madrid weren't playing around fantino Perez was

08:55collecting Infinity Stones making a team full of stars the galacticos Figo Beckham zidon and Ronaldo signed one season after another saw Real Madrid lifted champions league and a couple of League titles but this meant more than just trophies this was a blockbuster lineup that saw football shift Focus From the power on the pitch to the commercial power of football but there was still hope for the clubs without the galactico budget as Porto had just

09:23appointed a manager who would go on to do the impossible in 2004 Mourinho would lead Porto through the Champions League group stages a round of 16 last minute winner against man united a quarterfinal win against Leon and a semifinal win against deportivo landed the underdog team in the final a dominant game Saw Jose Mourinho lift the Champions League title for the first and only time in the

09:50club's history putting Jose in the spotlight as the special one at the same time Chelsea were just bought out by Russian billionaire Roman ramovic marking the start of oil money in football Mourinho jumped on the Chelsea train making the Premier League a three team League Chelsea Man United and Arsenal Mourinho Ferguson and wingar this was box office entertainment but

10:16man united were about to shift the tides in their favor when they signed an 18-year-old kid from Portugal that would become the face of football Chris IO Ronaldo landed in Manchester in 2003 he was a raw talent lots of potential but was ineffective lots of dribbles and tricks but no end product Sir Alex Ferguson saw the talent in the kid and knew that he could turn

10:43him into a superstar with each season that went by Ronaldo just got better four League goals in his first season five in the second then nine 17 and in the 2007 season he broke the Premier League goal scoring record begging 31 League goals also lifting the Premier League the champions league and his first Balon door one more season with United saw him lift a third premier league title in a row before Real Madrid

11:11smashed the transfer world record dropping 100 million on the Superstar this transfer was the start of the La Liga dominance that would last the next 10 years because as he signed for Real Madrid there was a kid playing in Barcelona who was making headlines week after week Lionel Messi made his debut for Barcelona in 2004 after graduating from

11:36the academy and just like Ronaldo there was a season by season buildup but his talent was undeniable but Messi's career would explode when Pep Guardiola signed as the Barcelona manager in 2008 one year later Barcelona would lift the tremble beating Ronaldo's man united in the final where Messi scored 34 League goals and picked up his first first Balon door so now the year is 2009 one

12:03Balon door to Messi and one to Ronaldo a Champions League each two and they were now playing for the two biggest clubs in Spain with a rivalry that spanned a century was about to get interesting Spanish Football was taking over the Spanish national team would go on to win three tournaments backto back with Legends like Chavi Iniesta Ramos and Cass yes Pep Guardiola and Messi

12:30would go on to win three champions leagues in four years only losing one year out to Jose mourinho's interm Milan Messi would pick up four Balon doors in a row leaving Ronaldo for dust that was it Messi was the greatest player of all time at just 25 years old he had set records nobody would ever break like his 91 goals in a year or his four Balon doors but Real Madrid and Ronaldo would

12:57bounce back in 2013 and 14 winning the champions league and Ronaldo picking up back-to-back Balon doors the season that followed Barcelona formed one of the most iconic attacks in football MSN Messi Suarez and Neymar would score 122 goals between them in their first season together seeing yet another treble go to Barca and yet another balandor go to