The Darkest Football Iceberg #2 

What Stories Would You Like On Part 3?

The story of Barbosa has to be one of the most tragic things I’ve heard. He was blamed for something that he attempted to stop.

Robert Enke later had a daughter via adoption, so kept his depression quiet as he felt if it got out, the authorities would take her away from him and his wife. Really one of, if not the biggest tragedy in football to happen to an individual player.

Haven't watched yet but just want to say that these documentary style vids are class Liam, keep it up lad.

As a Benfica fan, my father always told me the story about Enke when i was younger. I remember hjm cryjng when he heard about it. My dad always said that he was one of the best gks he ever saw at Benfica, after Bento and Preudhomme. Always makes me sad when i remember this story. P.S.: on a happier note. Could you make a video about the Benfica curse? The Bela Gutmann curse at Benfica. It is a really good story

The Szűcs story hits home for me. Although I was born in Australia and see myself as Australian, my father was born in Hungary and his father was executed in a show trial in 1951 after speaking out against the communist regime

Hey Liam- I'm a New Zealander and a Wellington Phoenix fan who grew up watching Andrew Durante, and I'd never heard of that incident. Thanks for the thorough research you put into your content, truly outstanding!

excited for a possible part three, football is a wild sport at times

As a Zambian, the story of our heroes really haunts me everyday. It hurts to talk about it honestly. R.I.P to our legends.

Hannover local here, trying to share some insight about his career. Robert Enke has had it really, really rough throughout the entirety of his football career as well. In multiple teams, especially in Barcelona and in Turkey, Enke has had a few difficult performances which lead to multiple teams lacking the trust in him to play him. Being made the Scapegoat for the respective clubs misfortunes on top of rough depressive episodes really isn't something light deal with. In Hannover, Enke became THE star of the show. He was given the confidence by the club, backed it with amazing performances and the fanbase loved him dearly. It was in Hannover as well where he truly began his national team career - with no less than men like Manuel Neuer, Tim Wiese and Jens Lehmann as his competitors. Enke beat them all out and was on the best way of getting himself a starting spot for the 2010 World Cup, before his depression got the better of him. Enke also revolutionised goalkeeping in a way that we see from ALL topclass GKs today: Watch a video of Robert Enke going into a 1v1 situation. The very specific way of sliding into the situation, making his body as big as possible while also making sure not to get the ball through his legs - he's the keeper who truly popularised this. Of course, fate happened to bring germany another GK to bring even bigger revolution, but Enke's effort can not be understated. One really haunting thing was later disclosed by Hannovers substitute goalkeeper Florian Fromlowitz. He was obviously attempting to compete with Enke but had no major shot. During the preparation for Hannover 96 v Hamburger SV, Enke personally went up to tell him that he shouldn't worry as he thinks that Fromlowitz will get more playing time than he thought was possible really soon. This 2-2 draw was happening two days before Enke passed away. To this day, Robert Enke is a legend here in Hannover, every single fan my age or older will immediately start being nostalgic and sad when he's mentioned and the street leading right to the northern entrance of the stadium is called the Robert-Enke-Straße in his memorial. Rest in Peace, Robert. ❤

As a Zambian... 1993 was a dark year for us and it still lives with us, our golden generation of players had fallen that day

After the 1950 World Cup, Barbosa became an idol playing for Vasco da Gama, nowadays his image is painted at the side of Sao Januario’s stadium. He is still loved by us, Vasco’s fans. Rest In Peace Barbosa.

First off amazing video. I just wanted to say that benfica still remembers Enke everyday on his birthday, as a memory to him and as a mental health awareness ocasion. I know this doesn't mean much, but at least I know he will never be forgotten by us, benfica fans.

I remember playing South Africa 2010 on my Xbox360 and seeing Robert Enke as the starting GK for Germany but never saw him in the world cup games. Then I learned about his horrible tragedy, gut wrenching.

As a hungarian I always knew the story of Szűcs I clearly remember my grandpa telling me that story when I was like 7 or 8 and it stays frightening as hell to me to this day. Like you said Liam he died because he fell in love and that was the only mistake he made... And the sad thing this is just surface of what the communist regime did during that time period in the history of the country... Great vid enjoyed it can't wait for a 3rd part if you'll make one

Its crazy/tragic how similar the circumstances are between the Accra stadium disaster and the disaster that recently happened at the football stadium in Indonesia. A small proportion of fans cause trouble, the police respond by firing tear gas, innocent people are affected by the gas because gas doesn't know who to target, everyone runs to the exit, the emergency exits are blocked/locked - people die in a crush. It's sad that people in charge of policing football matches refuse to learn. Even after FIFA issued guidlines saying that police should never use tear gas within a stadium to tackle crowd trouble, it continued to happen.

loved the first one of these you done, you can really see how much you’ve grown as a youtuber and it’s incredible, keep pushing yourself to be better and better each day ❤

One of the craziest stories of Mexican second and first division (because it wasn’t called Liga MX and Ascenso MX until 2012) was in the promotion final between Leon and Irapuato in 2003, when drug dealers and others from the Mexican mafia occupied and closed Irapuato’s stadium to try and postpone (or make them forfeit) the 2º leg and people had to fight them to reopen the stadium for the match to happen If you want I can help you because most of the info on this is only in Spanish

Kabul Soccer Stadium was shown in the abyss but not talked about. Talk about it in the next iceberg.

I am from Germany and the Robert Enke topic legit made me tear up again. Back then I was still in my teenager years but this thing impacted so many in football Germany I feel like. The Kicker the biggest like football reporting media in Germany spend a lot talking about mental health in sports at the time following his tragic passing, as well as did Germany's biggest sports shows, it did feel all bittersweet though since it took this passing to talk about it seriously.

As a congolese person, I'm glad you covered the Zaire vs Brazil game

Jogadores brasileiros no vídeo: 16:55 Goleiro "Barbosa" da seleção que perdeu a copa de 1950 para o Uruguai. 26:28 Goleiro Bruno. Não precisa de apresentações.

Loving the content Liam!! Gets constantly better, best football RU-vidr out there!! For the next one, I’d recommend a little look at Flamengo vs Atletico Mineiro in 1981, the referee ridiculously sent off 5/6 players leading to the game being suspended and Flamengo winning the group. A really strange game that to my knowledge hasn’t been proven as fixed in any way?

Amazing video as always mate; informative and interesting to watch. However, I couldn't help but notice that two stories listed on the title cards were missed in the explanations: Otávio Jordão da Silva Cantanhede: a 20 year old amateur brazilian referee, murdered after an altercation with another player. After issuing a red card and the player refusing to leave the field, a fight broke out, and after being punched Otavio drew a knife and stabbed the player (later succumbing to his injuries). When the crowd found out, including Otavio's family and friends, they stormed the pitch, stoning him to death before decapitating him and placing his head on the center circle on a stake. All over a young amateur game. Kabul Soccer Stadium: used by the Taliban for public executions and decapitatings, with the regime forcing packed stands to watch them harshly punish criminals by lining them up behind the penalty spot and forcing them to kneel under the goalposts before being punished at close range, with the results of which often hung on the goalposts. Locals say that few dare to go near the stadium at night because the spirit of the victims of this tragedy is said to still live there.

ok is the cadence of this guys speech driving anyone else crazy rn?

Hey vizeh, another great video by you and as for the next iceberg video. I got some more stories that you should check up: Evald Mikson - Former Estonian national team goalkeeper in the 30s, was a collaborator during his time as deputy head of police in tallinn during german occupation of estonia. accused of committing crimes against local jews in ww2. He's also the father of two famous icelandic footballers, johannes and atli edvaldsson. Fabio Pocas - former portugese footballer who played at sporting lisbon's academy and later travelled to syria to join isis. Luzhniki accident, Patrik ekeng, the argentina peru game in 1978 world cup and abdul baset al-sarout.

Excellent video, but I think you left out the section on the Kabul Sports Stadium in the abyss section - I think a number of fans are aware of the tragedies that transpired there, but it's still very important to cover.

part 1 was my first encounter with ur channel and u gained a subscriber for it , keep iu up 👌

Hi Viz, been loving the content recently, as a united fan I would love a video on the story of George Best and his issues with alcohol and women. Also going into him finishing his career with a non league team in australia which many people arent aware of. Keep it up❤

Very well done once again, you gotta make the football icebergs a series! There’s a lack of iceberg videos by bigger football channels and the 2 that you have made have been the best on RU-vid in my opinion

you HAVE to make a part 3, this series is godly

Vizeh is quickly turning into one of the best football youtubers on the platform

Haven't clicked on a video this fast in a minute. Loving these videos lately man. Please never stop, your quickly becoming one of my favorite RU-vidrs, and definitely my favorite football RU-vidr already.

For anybody wondering what happened in the Kabul Stadium: The Taliban hosted many executions in the stadium, and I'm pretty sure they did the same to soccer players that underperformed

You deserve more views and subs with this content mate, genuinely. Well done👏

I like these football essays Liam. Love them and keep it up

Niice! I really enjoyed the first one of these. This should be good! Keep up doing what you do. And what you want to do.

Yessss thanks for making another one 🙏🙏

Liam!! Another class video!! Really enjoy your content . Much love Liam

Rubbing my hands with glee to watch this! Loved Part 1 As for a suggestion for a future video, Survival Sunday at the end of the 2010-2011 Season, arguably the greatest final day at the bottom of the table in Premier League History, a video covering that in your style I think would be pretty excellent

It isn't a known story, but the story of Israeli footballer Roni Calderon, who went from playing in clubs like Ajax and Feynoord (in the 70's!) to be a part of a mafia in Brazil. I heard the story some time ago and I found it very interesting, would be glad if you'd tell about it!

These documentaries are worthy of watching over eating lunch or a great meal. Very insightful

I always look forward to these videos now they're very interesting! Could you please add any stories about Jamaica/Carribean if you can, thank you🔥

One of the most inspiring football creators, every vid you upload is a masterpiece

Part 2 this is gonna be brilliant

Been waiting forever for a part 2 vizeh❤️💙🐐

I know maybe it's not interesting like the big leagues but you can do the violence era in between 2002 to 2015 in Algerian football, or the 2010 scandal between Egypt and Algeria thank you

since you switched into these typa videos, all vids have been a 10/10🔥🎉

Yes Liam loved the last iceberg video can't wait to watch this one 👍🔥

Love it!! Gets better everytime!!

Quality as always mate, keep it up :)

Ideas for a Part 3: Hakan Suker & Recep Erdogan Garricha post-football Greek Football post-Euros win Peter Clough snubbed by England Robert Hoyzer Mexican Chicken-Gate Incident Di Canio & Fascism K-League match Fixing in 2011 Ronaldo in Vegas 2009 Hatzipanagis forced to stay in Greece 1956 FA Cup Final & Bert's neck

I remember the story about Robert Enke. So sad 😞. Great video buddy. Also, loving the new content 👊

Class vid mate, Happy to see u enjoy making vids like these and I do to. Keep it up❤

Great video as always! However, i didnt see anything on Kabul Stadium. Was that missed in the final upload?

Part 3 needed 🙏🏽🙏🏽

Great video! keep these coming bro your doing great :)

Happy to see you bro 👊🏽 keep it coming

Love these vids viz ❤

Great video! Congrats!

i remember my dad lived in ghana as a boy and remembered the ‘91 disaster and as a ghanain, he said that it felt like there was an aura of fear around football in general.

Absolute class video mate. Loving them. Thank you for the effort for the longer videos .

As a Jewish man, that story about hamill that I was told when I was a child always breaks my heart, amazing video

Thank you for adding the Zambia National disaster. I never saw them play but they've always inspired me. RIP Legends and may God be with their families.🙏🏼🔥

Can you do a whole video on Jeremy Winsten? It's a devasting topic that needs to be talked about.

Also check georgios katidis, a man known for a very controversial salute after scoring a goal in a certain match in greek league

Thanks for mentioning my team Raith Rovers, shame that amazing team couldn't win anything. Keep it up!

You can tell your enjoying yourself more making these 🧡

Hey only discovered your content recently, been on youtube since 2007 and I like your videos mate. Subscribed!

Quality content mate! Keep it up🤝

Nice. ...2nd part of iceberg video!

These are prolly the best videos you’ve made ever

i'm a new sub and i'm liking your style of narration keep it on👌

Absolutely love these videos keep it up!

Hi Liam, loving the content! Could you please cover the Golden Whistle (apito dourado) Portuguese scandal please? It’s one of the biggest corruption scandals that almost never gets mentioned.

Superb video mate.

Been waiting on this ! ❤️

havent even watched yet but can tell this gonna be a banger

You had to include Zvonimir Boban’s famous kick of the policeman after the match against Crvena Zvezda!!

How on earth have you made 2 football icebergs and neither of whom mention Masal Bugduv? 😂🐐

Great editing from a RU-vid 🐐, Vizeh on a Wednesday>>>>>>

Another banger Vizeh

I could watch this all day

Thank you for talking about the Zambia disaster. Am zambian and I feel for the families each day ❤

Im a wellington Phoenix fan and im proud to see my club being represented here love to see it!!

i love these iceberg videos

Best documentaries on youtube ❤️

Keep up the great work I can’t wait until you have million subscribers

7:19 being Brazilian and not knowing how to play football should be a crime

One story you could cover is the story of Czesław Michniewicz, ex Poland & Legia Warsaw manager, who is still accused of corruption during the mid 00s in Polish football, it’s a dodgy story & still ongoing

thanks vizeh for this video

Perfect to watch before PSG Bayern match

That Zaire story is so depressing

I find this interesting pls do part 3

I lived in Germany at time of Enke death was so sad and as a depression sufferer myself was so said but glad there is more awareness for men's mental health. Bruno is back in jail after a re trial recently

Do the Brian Clough story from the greatest goalscorer in England of all time to alcoholic then to greatest manager of all time he had a goals per game ratio of 0.92 still not beaten by anyone yet in any english division he mostly played in division 2 but did get promoted and got into the England team but soon after his career was cut short after a horrible injury and soon came the alcohol

These deep Dives are Quality Liam have you thought about doing big clubs of yesteryear like Oldham, Bradford,Barnsley,charlton,Bolton Ipswich who were in the premier league once upon a time or even Notts County the oldest English football club now non league or even Wrexham who once knocked Arsenal out of the FA cup keep up the good work 🙌🏻🙏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Just wow 🤩🤩 what a video 2023 is vizehs year

Been a wellington phoenix fan my entire life... never knew this about Dura... mad

These are my favourite ever videos