Is also worth mentioning the story of Junior Messias, who was a talented Cruzeiro youth player before deciding to quit because he didn't get a professional contract. Then he emigrated to Italy to work as a delivery man, while he started playing in amateur leagues as a hobby and in 7 years he ended up at AC Milan where he just won the Scudetto
Alfie actually talked about him in a previous video! I think the only other reason why he didn't feature here is because at that point in his career, Santi had still experienced years and years of great success (especially at Arsenal), so his career had already entered its final phase, in a sense. But yeah, what a comeback he made ever since!
@@xndjdnnd5837 What have you heard of Zola , Dennis, Wise , Lebouf or Hasslebaink. We literally have fa cups and two uefa cup winners cup from the 1970s-1990s, we literally won a Super Cup vs Real Madrid in 1998.
@Eoin F he does need his own channel. He's wayyyy too talented to be under someone's wing or rules. Alfie is in the Top 0.00001 percent of people with genuine talent.
Trautmann is the only man to have won the George Cross and the Iron Cross. My father saw his debut. Apparently he won the home fans over by half-time. Footballers complain about getting abuse from the stands, but Trautmann had worked for an organisation (the Luftwaffe) that had killed someone close to every person in the crowd within the past eight years. Imagine the hostility. Yet he won them round.
Thiago Silva's story is absolutely inspirational, has been a terrific signing for Chels. I didn't think he would be after a disastrous debut, but he soon became a leader within the side 💙🤍 #KTBFFH x
@@QueerChica Don't want another injury prone winger who hasn't fulfilled his potential. We already have Pulisic. In fact his attitude is a serious problem as well, turning up late to training, reneging in contract talks etc.
@@areebsiddiqui758 dembele is fucking better than mbappe on his day You are comparing him to pulisic and perisic If he just plays game i promise you Stamford bridge will fall in love with him THE MAN JUST GLIDES
I, would like to mention Peter Reid, of Bolton Wanderers and Everton. He started of with Bolton, as a highly rated midfielder, wining the second division championship and going on to play in the first division. His career floundered, with chronic knee injuries and it seemed over for him. That was until Everton took a gamble on Reid recovering his fitness and form, they paid a small fee for him and the rest is history. He won two League titles, the FA Cup, the European Cup Winners Cup and more than a few England caps.
Haven’t even started watching this yet Alfie, but thank you so much for putting something out on this topic. I have been looking for these redemption arc stories for inspiration for a long time. When I was younger, I was touted as some golden child (not in football). But as I got older, things went tits up and I have been trying to recover ever since. So thanks for this, Alfie. These happy endings are inspirational.
A great redemption arc was also the relationship between Vini Jr and Benzema from last season to this one. From “on my mother’s life, he’s playing against us” to the most lethal attacking duo in world football this season.
This made me think of Sam Hutchinson. I know a lot of people unless you watch the English football league, won't know who he is, but he was once a promising player at Chelsea, earning a pro deal and featuring a few times for the 1st back in 2007 - 2010ish. However he retired due to a knee injury in August 10, but came out of retirement in December 11 with Chelsea re-signing him. He never cut the mustard at Chelsea's but went on to make around 200 appearances, mainly for sheff wed in the 11 following seasons. I know he has still been plagued with injuries and never won a trophy l, but he gave absolutely everything when he played football. Could really see he loved playing football.
Best German players in the premier league of all time. (Day 334) I will not give up until the video is made or Alfie himself tells me to stop. Everyone else telling me that will be ignored. If you don't believe my number, just go back to the previous videos. I'm at the bottom most of the time, but I'm there.
100% Verified: Well kinda… I went back and checked the last 30 or so and yep, he’s there. So I see no reason he’s not in the other 300 previous videos. I love your persistence. Keep it up my man. Squeakiest Wheel Gets The Grease!!!
2015/16 Serge Gnabry: 1 league app for West Brom Tony Pulis: 'Serge has come here to play games but he just hasn’t been for me, at that level to play the games' June 2022 Gnabry: 4 Bundesligas, 20 goals in 33 for Germany, 1 UCL Pulis: 2 years retired with a 10% win record at his final club
Day 13 - The Fall and Rise of FK Velež Mostar From a Club that has beaten Borussia Dortmund, Twente, Derby County and many others to a club that was forced from their own stadium, reduced to nothing during the Bosnian War, becoming a mediocre top-level team in the 00s to nearly being forced into folding in 2016 to its amazing rise back to the top-level football which culminated in return to Europe after 33 years which has seen elimination of Coleraine before a suprising win over AEK Athens before exiting 3rd Round against Elfsborg IF and recently continuing in the Cup win this season which has ensured another European summer next season
The Rise and Fall of Dinamo Bucharest from the Romanian League.Relegated this season after 74 seasons in the first Romanian League, the Romanian club with the best fans and with the 2nd most titles and cups .
Great video Alfie as always. I feel Benzema has had a great redemption arc over the past few years. Due to the scandals, his massive dip in 2018, and being exiled from the France squad, to now being the front runner for the Ballon D’or is a fantastic redemption story
David Martindale is one of the best managers in Scotland he’s lucky to have Livingston and Livingston is lucky to have David! They’re a great little club
Day 38: Considering that the last player who played in the miracle of Bern died about 6 months ago, I would really like to see a video about the whole story between Germany and Hungary, especially because it meant so much to at least the German population
I was actually happy watching the bit about Alenichev, up until the politics part: by joining United Russia, he undid all his previous great redemption work
One of your better videos. And that means something, because of all my favourite youtubers, you are one of the better ones. Big respect for the consistent quality videos you produce. You need your own show on TV.
You brought up Alenichev and I was like "oooooh, I remember that name!!" I'm Portuguese, grew up supporting Benfica. Alenichev was a name I remembered with respect.
a documentary on the afc Wimbledon on the nine promotions in eleven years, how they’re a fan own club and how they have a stadium in plough lane now. The story of they lost the club, how the F A allowed that and won’t allow that anymore. How they were very close to moving to ireland How they went up the English football leagues. It would be a good documentary video if you can do this. #thepeopleschannel
Junior Messias and Thiago Silva are the biggest ones for me, Ian Wright still has a redemption arc because he was in prison when he was young and turned his life around
Truly remarkable achievements respectively by these respective players who have sacrificed themselves to become a world class player and I hope to see more of the same from the current players in near future,good friends!!!🙏
Alfie really won't let go the fact Beckham supports 2022 World Cup :)) and I like Alfie for that, Bekcs is my childhood hero but obviously he's too much of an opportunistic entrepreneur nowadays
Surprised there are not more spectacular redemption arcs. Plenty of rags-to-riches-to-rags cases, few the other way round. And I feel a redemption arc should really be where someone got lazy and lost it for a time, rather than fighting back bravely from injury. A good example would be Paul McGrath whose career went off the rails at Man U and even Alex Ferguson couldn't get him to stop drinking, but he went to Aston Villa and regained his talent. I have happy memories of Paul Merson in Portsmouth's promotion season. In fact managers seem to have more spectacular redemption arcs than players; look at Ranieri, written off after Chelsea and Greece, taking Leicester to the Premier League title, or Roy Hodgson from failure at Liverpool to success at Fulham and Palace, and most recently David Moyes.
Great video Alfie! Just a tip: most non-English words that end with an e, have to be fully pronounced with the extra syllable at the end, like Juventude and Luftwaffe having four and three syllables respectively. In English this is usually signified by writing it as é, like café or Beyoncé (although there are the very few exceptions like catastrophe or recipe), but in other languages it usually isn't.
Brilliant video, suggestion based on this though: maybe a video on the most impressive player reinventions would be a good idea? I.e. players who started out in one position and ended up successfully changing their role later on. A Good example would be Philip Lahm, when he went from being a world class full back to a world class DM just like his successor Kimmich, or Joelinton having gone from a failed striker to a brilliant box to box midfielder etc.
Beckham was never to blame for England's loss... Alan Shearer elbowed the goalkeeper and we had a goal disallowed because of it... and nobody remembers!
17:36 I'm pretty sure that this is the saddest injury in football. The best of the "what if" cenarios. Ronaldo would end his career with +700 goals easily if not for that
A video about the success story of Port Vale since Carol Shanahan took over, considering we just won the playoff final.Her charity work, bringing in Darrell Clark, then the things he went through this season. Plus we were on a winning streak and 1 point off the playoffs and she voted to end the first covid season early.
Gary McAllister signing for Liverpool at the age of 35 (although he looked like 40 at that time) helping them to a Cup treble in 2000 could be included here
That's gotta be the worst supposed redemption arc I've ever heard how does mcallister doing good at Liverpool have anything to do with a pen for Scotland
Truatmann did a lot for ex nazi POW’s in the Wigan area, my great grandad being one of them. He helped lobby (bribe) the newspapers into realising these were just young lads who were brainwashed and change local opinion. Ian McKellens father used to take those young lads for weeks at a time to try to help de nazify them and see the real way of life. Randomly enough I now own and live in Ian McKellens childhood home near Wigan park, I found out this information after he popped round for a brew once a few years ago dong a document on his life. So I guess you could say through his fathers educated and non bias eyes everything has gone full circle.
I know the video is about redemption arcs but an arc doesn't only go down and back up, it can also be the inverse. I appreciate your priority for the positive though. Are we also going to see a video where people came from nothing to greatness and then back down again? I can think of two players from my own supported team (Mendy and Johnson) who fit that bill. Your intros are really good and they remind me of the Squires comments before they became just pun threads ad nauseum. Keep up the good work.
I only wanted to watch the Thiago Silva one but I am glad I stayed for the Trautman part. I will be watching the movie. As a Jose Mourinho fan, I am not a big fan of Alfie's videos so I am happy I put aside my biased and finished this. Soldiers can be victims too. Given the current Ukraine war, I hope people see it this way, God Bless you all
