8 legendary football players reunite on the pitch to discuss national rivalries, reminisce and laugh together - and see their ethnicity breakdowns revealed through the MyHeritage DNA test. See more at footballdna.myheritage.com/
I am half Czech and I feel at home in Prague, but apparently My Heritage says I am Balkan and they include Czechoslovakia and I was there in May 1992 when I was 16.
@@francesca_415 Yh I know that obviously. I was trying to make sure you know he has no french in him at all and can’t look a little bit french because his parents are french migrants. Yes I know he’s a bit Italian
@DriftZ TwoSeven viking is just a word for a practice that was common around the globe... Africans sailed with tribes from marocco and southern spain.. and those sailed with vikings.. so its not farfetched
@DriftZ TwoSeven You dont understand my words i guess. Or you choose to. No there probably were no black vikings but one black guy from a foreign sailors tribe finding his way to the Norse is not a weird idea at all. Im actually a 100% confident such a thing happened. The Norse didnt write very much so maybe we will never know. But your idea of how ancient times worked is cute tho.
@DriftZ TwoSeven funny to speak about culture and religion. We find viking tribes from at least 3 different religions and 5 cultures. But whatever. What you know today as "Norse religion" is a mostly christian pseudo bible made from pieces of actual Norse mythology, filled with slavic christian folklore and catholic symbolism. We dont know the actual "viking" religion in its full extend. If you read the islandic versions its not viking religion as you mean it.
argentinians have inherited a massive amount of culture from the immigration from Italy, so it's obvious that even if many are mostly genetically related to spaniards they kind of feel in touch with Italy. The thing that relates argentinians and spaniards is history and more importantly the language, and that's a massive cultural connection we must not underestimate.
No he didn't, the first thing he said was that he thought his heritage would be all European. "I don't want to say a %100 Spanish but more or less". He thought only Spain (Iberian) would appear.
One of the brightest footballer around. A polyglot, with master degree level and I believe is the only player to have won the UCL with 3 different teams.
So you don't the Roman empire conquered what is not Spain? Then the Spanish made the Latin language easier that is what Spanish is......De La Torre Italian or Spanish to you ?
@@inthahous87 He knows everything better. Like he is a professor in everything. He has missed 2 important penalties for the Netherlands. While he was not allowed to take the penalty from the coach, he has never been forgiven here. I always liked him btw.
Imagine international selection was based on DNA. Italy would of had the likes of Maradona and Messi playing for them. African countries would have a whole load of Brazilians playing for them.
True but Argentina abd Uruguay have germans polaks croation serbians greeks, its nation full of immigrants, if surname is spanish he probably has %50 spanish DNA and 30% Italian if Italian surname its opposite, I suspect Messi is about 70% Italian and 30% spanish because his father parents were Italians and his mother father was also Italian but his grandmother on his mother side was pure spanish
Italian and Spanish may be in the mix, but the mix includes more than that: Native South American is quite significant, despite the desire of most Argentines to bury that detail; Middle Eastern is also statically significant, Argentine presidents in contemporary times have had Arab blood; and let us not forget peoples from Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa.
No it wasn't. But hey, they are just football players don't set your expectations so high and to be fare they don't need to be really fluent to perform well.
Yeah they need to mask that these tests are 100% bullshit. They arent only extremely inaccurate if there arent actual stemcells analyzed but also the data presentation was horrific from a dna research standpoint. Haplogroups like swedish german and english cant be differentiated from your spit so the show just split them how they liked. Thats probably why Matthäus was so english and the low percentages are probably just inaccuracies
This is so beautiful. Some of them was rival during their playing days and now when you see those legend smile and hug each other it is so good to watch.
Crespo was one of my favourite strikers when I was a kid watching Football Italia... Always thought he looked like a Greek statue. Him & Batistuta were my favourite in 90's Serie A.
I love Argentina with all my heart, I’m Italian and I sadly never been to Argentina but I hope one day I’ll make my dream come true >.< much much love to this wholesome country 🇦🇷 with the best telenovelas ever XDXD
Christian Ponce Incas are extinct and that empire was in current Perú and Bolivia. South America has a lot of indigenous communities, hundreds. I'm South American and know what I'm talking about.
Imagine if my heritage was discovered back in the 60’s and those originally players from Nigeria knew it then. Maybe Nigeria would’ve won a world cup title by now. History is magnificent
This is brilliant, true legends of the game. I do suspect that since this was filmed the accuracy of the DNA test has improved, therefore current results may be somewhat different.
Argentina has a lot of people with Italian heritage. Actually total number of immigrants from Italy was greater than from Spain. How come Crespo didn't know that?
Misha Gelenava It's more like being a national football legend better not declare something about un-Argentina thing before it happens from the test. Careful when you talk.
Not really, he said he expected mostly Spanish heritage and pretty much only European heritage. Recognizing that a lot of Argentinians have Italian ancestry should not really be a big deal, if you recognize Spanish ancestry so easily. I think he knows about Spanish immigrants simply because they speak Spanish in Argentina, but he doesn't have much knowledge of the history of Argentina. Probably because he was good young player when he was in school and put much time in football, rather than learning history and math and etc. It's OK, I'm not throwing mud at Crespo. I just noticed it and commented about.
And language is also Spanish. Maybe because Spain was there first and they formed the colony. Italians emigrated later, maybe some people even had to switch family names. One thing I know likes of Maradona, Messi, Di Stefano, Di Maria have Italian ancestry. Every "Di" something is Italian with the roots.
It also must depend on region. I know Uruguay had also big number of Italian Immigrants and Brazilian state's at Argentine border have big number of Italians, probably north-East regions of Argentina has more Italian.
I think there can be a connection to land even if you've never been there before. I took a trip to England back in the 90s. I felt so at home there and I kept seeing people that looked like they could be in my extended family. I stood on the dock in Liverpool and wondered if any of my ancestors may have left for America from there. I recently took the Ancestry DNA test and it came back 83% Great Britain. That's pretty huge - most modern day Brits don't have a percentage that high. Its no wonder I've always felt connected to that island.
I had a similar experience in Tunisia where everyone looked like my grandma, who was welsh. Years after I found recent research that shows the Welsh have berber origins from North Africa.
Grande video! Grazie mille per i sottotitoli in Italiano....! P. S. Kelly sei BRAVISSIMA e BELLISSIMA...! P. P. S. Pires BENVENUTO fra noi Italiani...!
This was great. I really enjoyed watching it and I absolutely love that it shows we are from the world as a whole and not just the man made boundaries that we call countries x
I like how they're all sitting together smiling and befriending each other, 15-20 years after they fought like they were at war on the field. Gotta say that Crespo and Pires aged really well
Gil and Hernan, love their english.Love all these guys, legends. Love how Lothar keeps saying "i sink this, i sink that" hehe.. Vat are you sinking about? Lol.
Yes because they went to other countries to learn different languages. Have you ever listen to Leonardo who use to play for Brazil and Milan?....in 1994 he spoke speak English very well!...at that time I was shocked!
Sorry Diversity Causes Division. just ask North American and European nations. There is so much division with national groups these days countries are literally falling apart along cultural lines. Russia and China are much more stable with their monoculture and monolanguage. They dont put up with minority and religious groups telling them how to run the nation
@Ben Harris in a perfect world yes but not in this mess where people take advantage of the country social systems and in many western countries treat foreigners and give them better benefits than the struggling locals. Here many government jobs hire based on diversity rather than most qualified which is total rubbish
@@mish375 maybe, but we traced our family history through a paper trail of marriages, deaths avd births. My maternal side camr from scicily, the family name was Italian, it was Revelli, I think it's amazing to trace your family ancestors back in generations 😊
Although I'm totally compelled to get my own dna test after watching this clip, the message at the end of the video suggests that we are all children of humanity and it doesn't matter where you come from, so thank you MyHeritage for saving me the cash in the end. Cheers!
@@adibazmi9107 yes, i am Brazilian. My family came from Aleppo, Siria hundred years ago. None of us speak arabic. We are purê Brazilians, vir se make arabic food.
@Christy Dolan dats not accurate, Nigeria fought a civil war that ended in 1970, and hasn't been at war since then, West Africa was stable too, only 2 countries out of 15 were at war in the 90's. Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Mathaus el jugador mas completo que yo vi. Maravilloso, que goles espectaculares, defendia, y era un gran orquestador d los que ya no hay. Cd. De México
