7 Craziest 'Butterfly Effects' In Football 

I wonder who that 1860 player was and if he ever realised what he did?

It’s crazy to think that 1860 were a bigger club than Bayern. How the tables have turned since then!

there is an interview, did not regret it too much - and later worked in the butcher/meat bussiness - similar to Ulli Höneß @@dj71162

you could make the same case for Gerd Muller, since 1860 did not want to spend the money to sign him from regional side Nordlingen, so he also went to Bayern instead

RIP Beckenbauer

Nah he would’ve been snatched up by England or France

You sound like Niran from FNG 😂

And your father wouldn't be on welfare all his life

@@finbarobruadair2761lame ass comment

@@finbarobruadair2761where tf did that come from?

I would not call Kepa one of the best keepers in the league, but yeah that season at Athletic cemented a very solid career for him

@@KaijuofSteel he was talking about Unai Simon.

Thanks for the heads up,i just saved 2.5 minutes!

Really football and Argentina history, as Martinez would never have become Argentina #1

@@FlyOverVisualsI can go further back than that. The whole reason why Martínez was even in a position to take the #1 spot for Argentina was that Scaloni's job as the national team manager was saved by the worst penalty saving keeper in our history. Franco Armani is embedded forever to Atlético Nacional and River Plate folklore, having been the hero of both teams' most recent Copa Libertadores wins, so naturally it led to a huge outcry for him to be selected for Argentina amid heavy criticisms towards Sergio Romero and His lack of playing time at club level. So he finally got his chance in the middle of Argentina's ill-fated 2018 World Cup campaign, where he left a very mixed impression, but still there was not much competition in his position, so interim boss Scaloni kept him in goal for the 2019 Copa América in Brazil. Argentina were drawn in a group with Colombia, Paraguay and guests Qatar. Not easy, but manageable. It still started in the worst way possible, with the team getting soundly beaten 2-0 by Colombia in the opener. They needed a result against Paraguay to stay alive in the competition, and went 1-0 down. Then, still in the first half, Armani had an absolute blunder on the ball and conceded a penalty. Had Derlis González scored, Argentina would have gone 2-0 down and probably lost the game, Scaloni would have been sacked and the national team would have never exited the downward spiral that had started in 2016. Players like De Paul, Romero, Paredes, Mac Allister and of course Martínez would have struggled for chances, like with other managers who favoured experience. But Derlis González hit an awful, awful penalty, low to Armani's right, and he saved it throwing himself almost in slow motion. Argentina eventually found an equaliser that kept them alive in the tournament and gave a really good account of themselves, only losing to eventual winners Brazil in a highly controversial semifinal encounter. The AFA bosses liked what they saw from Scaloni and how he managed the team during adversity and signed him permanently. All those players, including Martínez, broke into the team. And Argentina are now the current continental and world champions.

The funny thing is, Maupay is actually of Argentinian Ancestry.

Aston Villa have a fantastic history. That's literally all Villa have you can't say that.

Exactly. The bit about Michael Laudrup was off, but otherwise the story was great.

wanna explain this mate

@@siler22 Farina was managing Brisbane Roar who were doing poorly. Drink driving, lost his job, club had few options for a replacement. Ange was managing a semi-pro team in Melbourne - suprise appointment to Brisbane Roar. Showed off his "Roarcelona" style of play that he's since used thru Yokohama, Celtic, and now Spurs. All because a guy had one too many wines

Caught drink driving on his way to training (Frank not Ange). @@siler22

I would even go as for to argue the now famous interview with Craig Foster on the World Game regarding his time with the Olyroos and his subsequent fallout with the Australian soccer elite that made it impossible for him to even get a lower division job put a chip on his shoulder so large that we still have felt the end result of. Honestly you could realistically argue that had he not been born in Australia and suffered the adversity he had to endure that he may not have been as successful as he has been.

@@ZeBoy85 good shout. What about this one; if the Hungarian Revolution never happened Puskas would never have been coach of South Melbourne and Ange would be just another Greek electrician living in Essendon.

nothing to do with the butterfly effect

I mean, not really, because Nigel Pearson didn’t have his contract renewed after that season, and wasn’t a first team manager in almost a decade, i like the idea though

@@vinnyjefferson2085 I get that but in this scenario even if he did leave I'd say he doesn't manage any club in the top three tiers of English football afterwards and no one hears from him again

If they didn't sell Caig, or if Knight didn't get injured, then there was every chance that they still would have stayed up that season as those two were both better keepers than Jimmy Glass. They might not have needed that last minute goal against Plymouth.

@@johnmitchell2269 Fair enough. Probably I should have been more simple and just said if they had to bring him in, and he didn't score that goal.

My exact sentiments, this is fantastic.

There is nothing worse than paid laurels...

I had another scenario. The John Terry racism scandal led to Capello's resignation, and Harry Redknapp was linked with the England job. That saga, and his tax evasion charges (in which we found out he couldn't read) distracted him, Spurs bottled a 10 point lead over Arsenal and ended up in the Europa league, which sent Spurs on a backwards spiral, but if that didn't happen, they would get UCL football, the likes of Modric and Bale would stay, Wenger would be in the Europa, they would be on a backwards spiral and he would resign a few years earlier than he did, and considering Pep Guardiola said he was leaving Bayern in 2015/16, he had lots of clubs in for him, but Wenger didn't step down when he probably should have at the time so Pep was never going there, but Arsenal's demise being accelerated would have led to Wenger leaving in 2016 and Pep Guardiola replacing him instead of going to City. So in my alternate scenario, if it wasn't for a racism scandal and Harry Redknapp's inability to read, Arsenal could right now be dominating English and European football

@@rohithraman6488 I don't think so. Arsenal was never a destination for Pep. At the time, the only club he desires to go to are the rich kids, Man Utd, Man City and Chelsea. Even if Arsenal made a bid for him, Pep would still refuse because Kroenke certainly wouldn't be willing to afford him.

@@kwanlinus6999 Oh fair enough. I thought the only reason Arsenal never went for Pep was because Wenger just wouldn't step down

@@rohithraman6488 Pep was a hot, and more expensively, expensive commodity back then

@@kwanlinus6999 okay then. So maybe if wenger left in 2015, one year earlier, they could have got Klopp from Dortmund

And Boca Juniors would have still lived under River Plate's shadows without coach Bianchi taking them to 4 league titles, 3 libertadores and 2 intercontinental cups

​@@reintaler6355two central defenders Bianchi employed at Boca, Walter Samuel and Nicolás Burdisso, would end up playing for Roma at different points in their career. These two (especially Burdisso) would end up influencing Daniele De Rossi's idea of playing for Boca, which he would do in 2019, that being his second and last club before retiring.

He would still eventually played

People say Rafa Benitez accidentally fielding the ineligible Denis Cheryshev in a Copa Del Rey match whilst Real Madrid manager led to the Real Madrid 3 peat UCL team

⁠@@rohithraman6488maybe him going to Newcastle sealed the takeover 🤔

aah yes good old becks

damn😢

That's n9t a butterfly effect. That's a cause.

also, he played for RFC Liège, not Standard. Those are two different clubs

well, ever since he moved to Lazio, he starts over such an underrated player like Kamada, so yea, even though the drop off is huge, he isn't doing that bad either

*Cries in Erling Haaland*

Neymar's move to PSG kick-started his career as an active retired player.

Who asked?

It also led to Manuel Neuer becoming Germany's #1 goalkeeper (Enke was ahead of him in the pecking order before his death).

@@jmorrison230582 YES.. youre right!

Enke’s death leading to a young Manuel Neuer getting WC experience combined with Boateng injuring Michael Ballack leading to giving the captaincy to Phillip Lahm have laid the foundations to Germany winning the World Cup in 2014. Might not have been possible otherwise.

​@@jmorrison230582Wasnt Rene Adler also ahead of him and injured before 2010?

Not quite but it does have a case

Tbh, he had already done miracles with Derby County before hand. If only he hadn't left for Brighton...

That Red Star team was incredible, I remember as a teenager watching the European Cup highlights every week on Midweek Sport Special and seeing them absolutely destroy everyone they played with amazing, fluid football.

Can't think of how they played football back in the days, must have been super boring

This isn't actually true. It was introduced due to the 1990 world cup being dull, not because of denmark in 1992

Positives with the negatives. The game was undoubtedly slower given that there was no need to press as intensely as players do today. However all that space afforded to individual players allowed for the more technical players to be adventurous. It just wasn't seen as all that effective to hold back a player of Riquelme's elk because those guys had the freedom to make all the difference.@@justhuy7960

Costinha (I didn’t check the spelling though) scored the goal that won the tie & led to Mourinho running down the touchline, not McCarthy

@@Phil26599 Did you know that Scholes scored a perfectly good goal in that game that was ruled out for offside? If it was given then Porto don't go through.

That's not really what the video is about. People getting selected or goals being disallowed would logically and directly lead to the team's results.

Strange sense of humor. Liked and suscribed

Is he the father of Nemanja Gudelj, the Sevilla player?

​@@k.more1995 no, however Nemanja's dad did play and had a good run in the Netherlands

They hire Pochettino at the end of the season

meaningless babble

Let's hope Stein's heart attack doesn't end up resulting in a world cup every two years.

Remember when the Irish guy made a scenario of "what if Roman abramovic bought spurs instead of chelsea" and "what if Ronaldo stayed at Man united in 2009"

Thiago Ribeiro 2014

What's this story?

@gertjan3329 essentially, a kid gave an assist to Ronaldo in a youth game, and that goal was really important because it secured his spot to keep going in the youth academy It's a small thing, but it's so cool to see those guys we view as legends getting their beginnings

you could have plenty of stuff like that with youth players ahah. Like.... thousands. e.g. Kylian Mbappe had a trial at Chelsea, but they did not sign him right away and wanted to extend his trial, because they were not convinced by the defensive side of his game. However Mbappe's mother told them to either sign him right away or he will leave. They didn't, he left. Also thousands of players were released by academies for being "too short" e.g. Joao Felix was in the Porto academy and they released him and he went to Benfica instead

@maciejbala477 I know, and I find that very interesting Because how many players would have completely different careers and how many wonderful players never made pro due to something random

That story is fake af

are you drunk?

Who on earth are "united"?

@@santinopaone-hoyland i'm talking about man united

You could even pushed that back to the 3rd round vs Nottingham Forest, had Ferguson lost that game, he would have been sacked

@@shanemcgaley8322 yup

Botafogo's insane choke by itself would be a great video btw, lots of crazy plot twists like the Rebelde show being a major influence

Both are fine

Tbh, from Franco's era until Luis Figo and even today, Real Madrid has benefitted greatly from the Spanish political establishment. During the late 2000s, when Spain was in financial turmoil, Florentino Perez was still able to lend low interest loans with local banks against regulations at the time due to his close personal relations to the banking sector.

For a scot, sure, but normally the pronunciation isn't wrong.

It was actually Greece's humiliating own defeat against Faroe Islands in 2014 that really enabled Leicester to win the Premier League, as Ranieri was sacked after this defeat.

Interesting // that Lampard decision was heartbreaking

I don't think you're quite getting the point of the video. Leicester was a club on the up, so was Watford. They would have eventually went up. Like Watford did. It would've changed their fate in the short term but not of the implications your suggesting.