How North Korea and Middlesbrough Became Unlikely Football Friends

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How North Korea and Middlesbrough Became Unlikely Football Friends
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The story of Middlesbrough and North Korea's unlikely friendship begins at Ayresome Park in 1966, when Pak Doo Ik's winning goal secured the Asian minnows a place in the quarter-finals. There, a curiosity developed in the Middlesbrough locals, after initial disinterest in the team, and the lowest recorded match attendance in the tournament. What evolved over the games, however, was a connection that warmed the hearts of many and one that has continued into the 21st Century.
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@Sam-yi9fw 4 года назад

This is the most unexpected video title I have ever seen.

@rinzekok7766 4 года назад

Love your vids🔥💪

@NobletheSavage 4 года назад

I was kind of taken back by the title too . I then remembered my Dad's tales of the N Korea exploits in '66. I like these uplifting videos .

@somerandomedgyguy1723 4 года назад

Yes indeed, Middlesbrough and ...friends?! Wasn't sure that's possible

@civilservant9528 4 года назад

No its not

@MrSdsok 4 года назад

Better love story than twilight

@wimwoler 4 года назад

Never thought I’d see Middlesbrough and North Korea in the same sentence

@rabd9881 4 года назад

There’s not much a difference between them tbf

@stuartbooth28 4 года назад

@@rabd9881 yeah, but the parmo's in North Korea are a bit too greasy I've heard. They don't even do cream cabbage.

@dsk1359 4 года назад

@@rabd9881 you can use Middlesbrough's football to torture people in north Korea

@Maxim89Il 4 года назад

Well, it makes sense. North Korea is a dictatorial dump that is forced to look at its cool and successful neighbour, South Korea. Middlesbrough FC is a club that is forced to look at the successful and cool neighbour, Sunderland AFC! Just banter ;-) Don't get offended.

@dsk1359 4 года назад

@@Maxim89Il change Sunderland to Newcastle and then it make sense, and also, good banter!

@stephencooper5155 4 года назад

Somewhere in North Korea there's a kid with a battered VCR of Juninho highlights who thinks Middleborough must be the greatest club in the world.

@JackManEveryday 4 года назад

You mean they're not?

@CJ0101 4 года назад

There's another kid in Boro thinking exactly the same thing.

@JackManEveryday 4 года назад

hoddsy and me

@AnkitGupta-wf2lg 3 года назад

@@JackManEveryday Lmao thinking Boro is the best club in the world. The thought makes me reverse colonize Britain

@joeshan8949 3 года назад

And he’s is correct utb !

@thatguy5165 4 года назад

So that means that Middlesbrough is the safest place in the UK if North Korea decides to shoot some missiles to Europe

@mrivera6975 4 года назад

*missiles landing everywhere* North Korea makes eye contact with Middlesbrough "Thanks for cheering for us" *North Korea marches on*

@HarryWessex 4 года назад

Depends 1. It's super far from London. But 2. Its near important manufacturing part of the country.

@Narrenspiel6 4 года назад

@@HarryWessex If the DPRK would shoot missiles, i doubt they would focus manufacturing. They know that would be the end of Noth Korea, so they would target symbolic areas. In case of an accidental launch (somebody going mad), i doubt the missiles would target anything like manufacturing too. Except for the case of accidental launch, i think the DPRK is one of the most unlikely nations to launch intercontinental missiles. Not just because of technology, but because of them knowing what would happen in retaliation.

@wickedmen030 4 года назад

>Western propaganda There is more change that Trump who behaves like a child on Twitter and attacks every reporter is going to blow up half of the world.

@wickedmen030 4 года назад

@Man on phone if he wanted to crack some jokes maybe he should be considering a career as a comedian instead of having the responsiblity of 320 million people. Every nutjob that would be CEO of a company and that would make "jokes" about drinking bleach as a solution of a problem would be fired the next day.

@danielwing3119 4 года назад

The Middlesbrough ladies team went to North Korea on a tour in 2010 as well

@JackManEveryday 4 года назад

My mams mate was the manager (I think) and she went, obviously said it was bonkers

@JackManEveryday 4 года назад

@Repent man Yeah bang on mate, said she loved it!

@menzies09er 4 года назад

@Gerson Guevara bonkers=crazy

@JackManEveryday 4 года назад

Gerson Guevara yeah it’s not a real word 😂 just means crazy

@JackManEveryday 4 года назад

Gerson Guevara Yeah pretty well known in the UK x

@tamoghnamukherjee7871 4 года назад

It's time for Kim to take over Middlesbrough and take them back up to the Premier League 😂

@crizzledizzle6146 4 года назад

FACTS, lets make it happen

@revolutionarymarxist-lenin7252 2 года назад

I would actually like to see this happen.

@CxAgar 2 года назад

Where the reds and where from Middlesbrough and we stand and sing Kim Jong-un is king where the reds and where from Middlesbrough follow follow follow!

@MangaSamte 2 года назад

This could make a bloody good Football Manager career game. 😅

@anteveic327 2 года назад

If they fail, players will switch to mining in Korea!

@nazmulkabir3774 4 года назад

This is weirdly wholesome

@dilksjoel 4 года назад

Wholesome like the food in North Korea?

@rorybessell8280 3 года назад

@@evan2173 I have no doubt that the people and the land of the country are lovely and having watched documentaries on that is affirmed. However, the Kim regime is nothing but a brutal, disgusting dictatorship where they have brainwashed most of the population. You appear to be a tankie so you probably think that's fine as long as communism reigns, even if millions of people die or have their lives ruined

@octavdumitru 4 года назад

This story about cheering on a team that isn't yours reminds me of the World Cup final in 2018. I was at a pub with my friends that afternoon and there was a group of French supporters there. I'm Romanian, I bare no ill will towards the French, but I felt it would be nice to give them a bit of excitement, so for 90 minutes I cheered for the underdog. Soon enough the whole pub caught on. When France went 1-0 up they were extatic, but when Croatia got the equaliser the whole pub erupted. After the final whistle and trophy celebration, I was about to leave when one French supporter saw me, shook my hand, smiled and said "Good game!" I've never felt so connected to a stranger and a team that isn't mine ever in my life. It was at that moment that I truly experienced and understood why we call it The Beautiful Game.

@goodyking6732 4 года назад

Octavian Afrasinei When one wonderful story inspires another to be told. Beauty can be found in the oddest of places.

@um5566 4 года назад

Too bad the refs gave france the game.

@octavdumitru 4 года назад

No...I said there were some French supporters at the pub so I decided to root for the underdogs (Croatia) to give the French a bit of competition.

@octavdumitru 4 года назад

@@zainashfaq7329 No harm done. ;)

@TheAXia74 4 года назад

I mean football is bringing people together. Last time I was in a pub in Scotland for Liverpool-Atletico. I was cheering for Atletico while the rest of the pub was for Liverpool. At the end of the game, I had a really friendly chat with those guys about the season of both teams and the game

@OngoingDiscovery 4 года назад

“Ooh football friends”

@Pessidog10 4 года назад

Best friends forever and ever

@amanb5727 4 года назад

Was looking for this one 😂

@GyitMulhaneski-GloriousYears 4 года назад

Probably more welcome guests than Ch*na would be at the moment.

@owlgharacitykaskus 3 года назад

Man of the culture as well

@revolutionarymarxist-lenin7252 3 года назад

😂

@DesertSt0rm44 4 года назад

This was unexpectedly heartwarming

@dilksjoel 4 года назад

Heartwarming? What about the starving folk of North Koreans? Worse yet, what about the starving folk of Middlesbrough?

@JackManEveryday 4 года назад

@@dilksjoel We're eating good in Middlesbrough you just crack on with ya dead fortnite streams son x

@dequanmsealey1356 4 года назад

first appeared on the North Korean Athletic.

@NobletheSavage 4 года назад

Hahahaha, inspired.

@arthurjacquemin4979 4 года назад

Very Funny

@paulsheehan2998 3 года назад

Beautiful

@Mlaargaar 4 года назад

What a heartwarming story that was. Your content is so vast, and truly fantastic. Thanks Tifo Football.

@ex.martian 4 года назад

The Supreme Middlesborough Football Club!

@JackManEveryday 4 года назад

UTB

@GeneralGrizzy 4 года назад

Middlesbrough*

@tttremendousss 4 года назад

“Football friend” 👍👍

@TheBlondeCrusader 2 года назад

My grandparents always speak fondly when it comes to the North Korean team. I can tell it hurts them when North Korea is in the news for something bad, they will always cherish the memory of those footballers who came to us

@XBR4Da 4 года назад

Never expected a story involving North Korea to be so wholesome

@CJ0101 4 года назад

I think you mean Middlesbrough.

@Speeder76 4 года назад

As a portuguese, I didn't knew this part of the story about North Korea national team. But I can tell you that the quarter-finals game is still the stuff of legends over here, after all this time. As you mentioned it, they were winning 3-0 until Eusébio scored four of the five goals that gave us victory, on one of the most epic wins of the portuguese national team and scored a golden chapter on "Pantera Negra"'s career. Watching this video about the NK side on the first stage of the 1966 World Cup was pleasant to me, a part of football history that I didn't know. Thanks, that's why i'm your fan.

@darhaha3391 4 года назад

In Iran that North Korea team of 1966 became known as the "Yellow Storm". Or something to that effect. All of Asia was proud of their performance.

@gabrielgarcia7554 4 года назад

This was really one of the most wholesome stories I have ever heard. It is a shame that politics divide us from other people, but it is amazing to see the effect of football overcome this divide. The governments of our respective nations may not be great, but that doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t reach out and establish connections of friendship with the people of the world, regardless of where they are from.

@patrykjasnowski6374 4 года назад

I live in darlo just few miles from boro, never heard of this story, sooo epic

@TheXodius 4 года назад

Patryk Jasnowski haha same here, Haughton area. First I’d heard of it like

@isaiahjones8731 3 года назад

If you’re in darlo ask the bloke who runs there football club if they want Britt Assombalonga, I’m fucking sick of him

@JimInProgress 3 года назад

@@isaiahjones8731 good thing he’s fucked off now thwn

@andrewlarsen502 4 года назад

Australia lost 9-2!?!? This video just made me judge our history

@gabrielgarcia7554 4 года назад

Yeah that was pretty funny hahaha.

@davidmorrissey5075 4 года назад

Craig Johnston once said of representing Australia in football would be akin to representing England in Surfing. Times have obviously changed, but they were a backwater in football probably up to the mid 90s at least

@sophonphotirut5789 4 года назад

At least Aussies have cricket and rugby league dominance, still good.

@ranjanbiswas3233 2 года назад

Your team destroyed American Samoa once so yeah "judge" your history.

@mike04574 2 года назад

australians have never been the craziest at soccer/football

@alexanderlytle4694 4 года назад

once again shows that football>politics. The beautiful game at its finest

@milanstanic6240 3 года назад

BEST COMMENT

@brendanobrien8198 4 года назад

It’s 1:00 am in Chicago and I’m up for this great video.

@brandonblanco8379 4 года назад

Brendan O'Brien And it’s 11:18 pm in San Francisco.

@Yugoslavia_memes 4 года назад

Brendan O'Brien 2:33 am here in Toronto

@ethanfanning9360 4 года назад

Liam Howe EST gang rise up 😤😤

@ITJustMeKG 4 года назад

STFU pansy

@Dazard10 4 года назад

Anonymous User my man said pansy........

@c.collins6859 4 года назад

Genuinely one of the nicest things I've heard in the last 3 months

@eastcoast5103 4 года назад

Great video! Just for future ref Ayersome is pronounced ‘Air-Some’

@martinr9109 4 года назад

Glad you said this. Some of his pronunciations really do wind me up.

@danpreston564 4 года назад

I think his mispronunciations must be a deliberate trolling.

@VVIIFINEST 4 года назад

Ayre fik some

@liamgbooth 2 года назад

And they spelt Middlesbrough wrong in the graphics 🤔🤦

@georgebamber6871 4 года назад

Reminds me of the rugby game between South Africa and Japan in Brighton, they only had a 5000/1 change of winning and the noise from the England supporters was insane every try

@JAMIEFORSTER 4 года назад

Great video, I'm from Middlesbrough and my grandad speaks of this fondly and in detail whenever I mention the 66 WC. He went to every home game but didn't have the money to get across to Merseyside at the time. I think the general psyche of the town is very self-deprecating, as 'nobody really gets us and everyone who hasn't visited here thinks we live in a sh*thole' so we absolutely love an underdog (lots of Tyson Fury fans, not many Anthony Joshua fans, lots of Ricky Hatton fans, not many Mayweather fans - to reference another popular sport in these parts).

@jackmiller-johnston8689 4 года назад

How can this not make you smile with delight? Even as a Sunderland fan, it's a story that can only raise my respect for Boro. As for the 5-3 loss to Portugal, how much of a beast was Eusebio?!

@uniboio2437 4 года назад

A nice surprise to see my club mentioned on here for once. UTB!

@kizitobob6597 4 года назад

This is a football channel that deserves millions of subscribers. So informative!

@asifshahriar4503 4 года назад

Yeah, and there are some football channels with million subs that really don't deserve at all

@ianseerey5872 4 года назад

great story, nice to hear a positive story on North Korea for once! Respect to boro fans for this one!

@bitik9847 4 года назад

I always love to support underdogs. That thrill is different

@akamiguelsanchez9985 3 года назад

My dad was at this game with his mate who was Italian, he said he walked out at half time in tears

@michelroitberg2479 4 года назад

This is the most wholesome football story I've ever heard

@NanobanaKinako 9 месяцев назад

This is probably the most unusual friendship between teams. Never thought this crossover exist.

@DangArif 2 года назад

Football is nothing but a beautiful game that unites people despite their differences. ❤️

@LindaHarlemCarter 4 года назад

For some reason this video made my eyes very watery 😢 😢

@octavdumitru 4 года назад

It's the beauty of the game, really. Football has no borders and everybody deserves a fair chance and being cheered on.

@Maxim89Il 4 года назад

Who did you feel sorry for more, the people of North Korea or Middlesbrough fans.

@MrSdsok 4 года назад

Your last birth was in North Korea that's why

@CJ0101 4 года назад

Well Middlesbrough are known as the smoggies...

@nikhilvallabhan1036 4 года назад

Simply brilliant! Brought a tear to my eye as well

@KillerGhostV 4 года назад

Your videos have helped learn some really interesting things during these difficult times. Thank you, Tifo!

@daxthaxe 4 года назад

TIFO dropping gems as per usual - keep up the good work guys - im a football wiz as I'm sure most fans think they are but had no idea about this magical story! Thank you for enlightening myself and the other subscribers!

@COB2403 4 года назад

Didn't expect this at all!! Love you Tifo ❤️! Superb content.

@borobrad97 4 года назад

That pronunciation of Ayresome 😬🙈 Quality video though. I'm from Middlesbrough and didn't even know this story!

@jasonbourne9114 4 года назад

Love your unique content and the way you present it man! Keep it up

@peterngetich4477 2 месяца назад

This is the best video I've watched this week. I love Tifo

@kvnofcolour 4 года назад

God this channel's content is amazing. Content over Everything. Thank you Tifo!

@ezrankala 4 года назад

More than a football channel thank you Tifo ♥️

@alfiehaigh8412 4 года назад

I live ten minutes from boro and I legit had never heard of this story, really heartwarming despite all the controversy

@KingBritish 4 года назад

Best Football channel on RU-vid. Great work and detail put into the videos and the narrator is spot on

@njp9554 3 года назад

So happy to see my beautiful team Middlesbrough, live in Manchester now but I miss my boro so much. UTB

@zattwik 4 года назад

Another story of the Romance of Football. Beautiful! :'D

@VictorRay 4 года назад

Your contents are truly fantastic, you bring every edge of the football world to light.

@thechopchopgirl 4 года назад

Your content is unfailingly wonderful!

@Ese96Agoaye 4 года назад

That’s the thing I love about such tournaments.

@kamraankamil2573 4 года назад

This was pretty heartwarming.......

@jasonaspobre 4 года назад

This is utterly bonkers. I love it.

@SebastianGomez-uj8iu 4 года назад

Great stuff. Never knew this was a thing

@QianBing 4 года назад

What a heartwarming story.

@niismo. 4 года назад

This is really wholesome and cool.

@thekksinca824 4 года назад

Sports transcends boarders, ideologies, and race like nothing else.

@Taskotjoe 2 года назад

As an Australian who’s dad was born in and supported Middlesbrough his whole life, This is amazing! Even down to the World Cup Qualifier, Very little about that result is mentioned in Australia of those games... 😂

@ze5258 2 года назад

Heartwarming

@francocrosa1073 4 года назад

Beautiful story.

@DisobedientSpaceWhale 4 года назад

One is a place of hardship, misery and despair.... And the other is North Korea

@ryangriffin18 4 года назад

What an interesting story 🧐 Amazing!!

@rayneTheWolfe 2 года назад

This truly is the beautiful game. There is no other sport that can do something like this.

@arnoldwandagoogutu4886 4 года назад

Where do you guys get these stories? Absolutely amazing. Keep it up!

@jayemare 4 года назад

When football surpasses politics, truly the world's game ♥️⚽

@rchopra535 4 года назад

Awesome video, sad times though now, that matches might be played without fans for a long time.

@samuelmarron5875 4 года назад

Oway boys it’s Middlesbrough not Middlesborough!!

@Aysome 4 года назад

Let’s just not talk about how he says Ayresome haha

@samuelmarron5875 4 года назад

Callum Barnes Agreed haha

@penaltygallery 4 года назад

It wouldn't be a Tifo video with at least one spelling/pronunciation mistake

@deancossins8557 4 года назад

Nah it's boro

@MasonGreenWeed 2 года назад

Mittelburg

@absbabs6153 4 года назад

Seriously, how do you guys get all this info. And the way you put it all together must be a lot of work but you do it so well. Respect 👌👍

@jasonourne3543 2 года назад

Most wholesome football story I’ve ever heard of

@69gvfb 4 года назад

Cool story bro

@anglo-irishbolshevik3425 4 года назад

Had North Korea beating Portugal in the quarter finals they would have played England in the semi-final. That would have been interesting and I expect their supporter base would then have included Scots, Irish and Welsh.

@Andre_vyent 4 года назад

amazing

@HellmuthOnTilt4 4 года назад

I live down the road from where the old ayrsome park was. There is a plaque in someone’s garden where pak doo ik scored the winning goal against Italy.

@Svalbaz 4 года назад

Beautiful

@ramuelcruzada3207 2 года назад

Man, this could be a great film.

@Keddeadkedemption 4 года назад

This was quite wholesome ngl

@dansimpson1729 2 года назад

Politics aside, this is a beautiful story of what football truly is about

@coryhansbury4772 4 года назад

You should analyse specific roles of players in certain positions such as a box to box midfielder, an anchorman, target man etc.

@jeropage95 4 года назад

Amazing that Middlesbrough had the USSR, the DPRK and Chile (on its path to becoming the first democratic socialist nation at the moment) play in their local stadium. Neat coincidence.

@panaproanio 4 года назад

Wow, I hadn't noticed! Shame about the CIA-backed coup by Pinochet.

@KanyeTheGayFish69 4 года назад

panaproanio you’re a communist?

@ImtheHitcher 4 года назад

@@KanyeTheGayFish69 You don't have to be a communist to be against military coups and fascism...

@KanyeTheGayFish69 4 года назад

Czarface they were acting like they were happy about Chile electing a communist government

@ImtheHitcher 4 года назад

@@KanyeTheGayFish69 You sound unhappy about democratically elected governments

@muonmeizap 4 года назад

Awesome ❤❤

@CJ0101 4 года назад

Ayresome :)

@DantieuS 4 года назад

Born and raised in Billingham just 4miles from Boro and I have no idea this even happened! Cheers Tifo this was well interesting! P.S. its was pronounced Airsum park haha. Strange name i know

@JoshAston23 4 года назад

Billog 🤝

@DantieuS 4 года назад

@@JoshAston23 Billog 👌👏

@chazord888 4 года назад

Best team ever thanks alot for listening

@DanielGooaaall 2 года назад

Believe it or not but I own several autographs from the players of "chollima" 1966. The director of the documentary "the game of their lives", which featured their amazing world cup run 56 years ago. Its quite funny that my country is labeled as "North Korea of Africa" 😂😂😂😂😂