The Darkest Football Iceberg 

i cant wrap my head around the fact that theres millions who havent seen this guy vids since he left fifa this guys a gem

One day, Vizeh just woke up and chose to start making the best content on youtube. Absolutely insane video yet again.

I’m surprised I never heard that Dynamo Kyiv story, that’s one of the best football stories I’ve ever heard and should be made into a movie, very very inspiring how they managed to show that defiance

The Peru disaster is just heartbreaking, as an English fan you see the likes of Hillsborough and the Bradford City fire disaster as some really dark days but nothing can compare to the Peru v Argentina Game

My god I actually had no idea about how deep football could get.This is a really interesting and informative video.well done Vizeh.

Used to watch this channel until I stopped playing FIFA in 2020, now back because of the new style of videos. Keep up the good work man. You're awesome at making this type of content

31:31 Also for the Peru disaster, there was a fan who ran onto the pitch before everyone else. The security responded by beating the man with batons brutally, in front of the whole stadium. This outraged the fans, and then the controversial referee decision just set them off. “We attacked, they defended and this continued until a play came where their defender went to clear - and our player, Kilo Lobaton, raised his foot to block and the ball rebounded into the goal - but the referee said it was a foul, so he disallowed it. This is why the crowd began to get very upset." one of the Peru players later said. Two spectators entered the field of play. The first was a bouncer known as Bomba, who tried to hit the referee before being both stopped by police and manhandled off the field. The second, Edilberto Cuenca, then suffered a brutal assault. “Our very own policemen were kicking him and beating him as if he were the enemy. This is what raised everybody's anger - including mine," one fan also recalled. While some fans who escaped from the stadium managed to open the gates and free those trapped inside, others became involved in a battle with armed police. The official number of those who died is 328, but this may be an underestimate, as it does not include anyone killed by gunfire. There are many eyewitness accounts of people dying of gunshot wounds, but the judge appointed to investigate the disaster, Judge Benjamin Castaneda, was never able to find the bodies to prove it.

6:00 Funny Story i was born early bc of the 1998 WC final, my mother hated that french won. She got so mad that she started having contractions. A lot of pain and 2 days later i was born. 14th July 1998 on the French National Day xD.

8:13 why does it just cut randomly like we didn't even get to see what this it's called

Nicely done, Liam! For the Kanjuruhan Disaster segment I would like to suggest to you to watch Persebaya Surabaya's perspective on the whole event. Whilst most of the international community solely blamed police negligence for this tragedy, it is easy for us to forget that the disaster was a culmination of years upon years of toxicity within the world of Indonesian football. The Arema-Persebaya match is pretty much like West Ham-Millwall in England and the animosity was in an all-time high at the Kanjuruhan on that fateful day. Even before the match ended the Arema fans has been hurling verbal abuse at the Persebaya players and before the whole pitch invasion thing they threw rocks and bottles at the Persebaya camp, forcing them to leave the pitch immediately. Things were also out of control outside the stadium even before the Arema fans made their way into the pitch, with the armored vehicle carrying the Persebaya players being attacked and a number of vehicles being burnt and destroyed, including police vehicles. Safe to say the police was overwhelmed on that day and in such a state of panic they did things that they shouldn't have done with the tear gas. The stadium was also severely overcrowded as the match organizers sold more tickets than they should due to the intense nature of this rivalry potentially bringing them a quick buck. Long story short, was Kanjuruhan a result of police negligence? Yes, but it is also a result of unruly fans and a greedy club that was solely driven by profit without any shred of humanity in them. Arema and their fans actually got a lot of sympathy for the tragedy until Persebaya's video came out, which basically turned the entire nation against them. The fact that the police held themselves accountable (even though in the most bare minimum of sense) while Arema and their fans avoided responsibility for this whole thing infuriates the Indonesian football community until this day.

I guess tragedy can strike easier when there is so much emotion put into a game

Wow vizeh nailing every god damn great topic that could be talked about in the football world ! You've been killing it big time in the last 2 months, let' go WE LOVE YOU !

I can't believe the Cruyff one was only at the tip of the iceberg, that was scary as hell to think he could've got murdered completely changing the trajectory of the sport

Great video! There's also the tragic story of Miklós Fehér, the hungarian benfica player who died on the pitch and it's probably the saddest moment in Benfica history

Some of my older Peruvian family members told me about that riot, how they remember the exact day vividly and all. Just absolutely wild stuff man.

Love the vid! Some of these incidents remind me of what happened recently at a Liga MX game between Querétaro and Atlas on March 5th, 2022. A riot broke out between the fans and it got very messy. If you do a part 2 to this, this one would be a great one to add!

Absolutely love these deep dives. Elite content, Vizeh! 🙌🏽

Part 2 should include a similar incident as the Gate 12 which occurred in Greece, the Gate 7 incident. The biggest tragedy in Greek Sports. In February 2nd of 1981, Olympiacos faced big rivals, AEK Athens for a championship game. The game took place at the old G.Karaiskakis stadium (not the new that you visited with Burnley away day). Olympiacos took an emphatic win against their rivals with a scoreline of 6-0. The fans where ecstatic but that unfortunately led them from joy to darkness... The fans wanted to move from Gate 7 to Gate 1 which it was close to the players, so they could congratulate them for the big win. The big mass of people moving in such small space caused a man in front to slip and fall to the ground. This slip caused a "domino effect", which led to massive body slamming and oxygen depletion, causing many causalities and serious injuries. The total record of casualties was 21 people and the injuries was 55+ people. A lot of them where very young too. Some of the survivors of the incident described it as "horror scene straight out of a movie". Every year it is being memorised from Gate 7 fans and Olympiacos players pay their respects in a statue made in their memory. I think it could be a very interesting topic to do your research and why not include in this series. Keep up the good work!!!

Bro, it's crazy that I'm Peruvian and I live in Lima but I didn't even know about the Lima 1964 Football Tragedy. Keep uploading this kind of content, it's really entertaining and interesting!

ive never watched a soccor match before, or even played soccer tbh, so this was one of the most enlightening icebergs ive seen in a while. we definitely need a part 2

The Death Match was one of the most iconic football games, that Kiev team, especially in times like this when Ukraine faces war, continues to inspire and influence footballers. True heroes with true passion.

If you do another one of these: Alexandre Villaplane French captain at the first ever World Cup Got caught up with gamblers, received a ban but ended up going to prison One of his dark connections recruited him to the Nazis in occupied France, he was an SS officer and regarded as a bloodthirsty sociopath. When he saw the war was turning he started letting people go and making a big point of ‘sparing them’ in hope he would face trials for treason/war crimes. Didn’t matter Executed by firing squad Sandor Szucs Hungarian defender who would have likely played with the golden team at the 54 World Cup (where they lost in the final due to their lack of defending - among other things) Tried to defect to the west after hearing AC milan might be interested, was arrested at the border and later executed. Turned out the entire thing was a set up 1934 World Cup - Coppa Del Duce If you thought Qatar was controversial how about fascist Italy as hosts. They were meant to play a qualifier however their opponents Greece withdrew (not suspicious) there’s plenty of talks of the refs being under pretty clear instruction and the goal they score to beat the Austrian wunderteam (featuring Sindelar) they clearly foul the keeper. 1978 World Cup Argentina Again, if you thought Qatar was bad. Argentina was taken over by a Military dictatorship which proceeded to disappear thousands of ‘dissidents’. There’s been rumours the deciding group game Vs Peru was rigged (Argentina won 6-0 when they had to win by 4 clear goals). The final took place less than a kilometre from ESMA, which was where subversives were being held, tortured and killed. They could hear the cheers from the crowd in the stadium. 1974 World Cup Qualifier Chile vs USSR. Chile has just been taken over by a brutal Military coup in 1973, they immediately started purging the country of left wing citizens. The national stadium was being used as a concentration camp and carrying out executions. The USSR obviously wasn’t happy about this and refused to play. FIFA carried out an inspection of the stadium, the Chileans simply moved the prisoners and hosed down all the blood. FIFA said it was all good, USSR refused to show up. The match kicks off, Chile walk the ball into the empty net and are declared winners. German teams on drugs Now a fairly open secret the West Germany teams of the 50s and 60s took speed (Pervitin- given to the Wehrmakt in WW2 to allow them to go for hours without sleep) as a performance enhancer - this includes the 1954 World Cup final which they won. Ceasefire Massacre/World Cup Massacre Italy vs Ireland 1994 World Cup. A Ulster paramilitary group shot up a pub that they knew would be showing the game and would be full of Irish fans. 6 died 5 injured. Superga Air Disaster - before the Munich air disaster this tragedy hit the Grande Torino team, who dominated Italian football in the 1940s. Jewish managers who survived the Holocaust- Erni Erbstein (manager of Grande Torino) and Bela Guttmann who won 2 UCLs with Benfica, both were Jewish Hungarians who survived the Holocaust by various means but lost family members

Your latest videos are quality, man. I was watching the game live, when Marc Vivien Foe passed away in that Confederations tournament in summer 2003. As a youth footballer at the time, that impacted me heavily.

Having learned a good portion of the iceberg through HITC Sevens, I have to say this is a well-researched well-produced bite-sized summary of each event

@vizeh , I think you forgot about Athletic Bilbao V Barcelona in the super copa. Maradona started absolutely beating the hell out of their players, Really hurting the goalkeeper.

The supposed "big video". VIZEH la 🐐. Carrying Yt football

@ 14:15 to 15:05 the actual photage there is from a match in South African Premier Soccer League from October '98 between Moroka Swallow and Jomo Cosmos in Johannesburg. the score was 2 - 0 and yes nobody died that day. Unfortunately Cibi (with jersey no 10 ) died in 2016 from kidney related issues.

I am learning new things every day from you. Thanks Liam for this

The most disturbing experience i had in football has to be that france vs england game while there was the terrorist attacks in paris in 2015

Truly an amazing video, it’s videos like this that highlights the importance of RU-vid. I had never heard of the Estadio Nacional disaster until today. Liam, you are a legend and you need to make more videos like this. May all those who died in the disasters you talked about rest in peace

These iceberg videos are awesome man! I'd love to see a LaLiga one in the future, considering its rich history. Keep it up!

you should check out Graham Johnson book "Football and Gangsters". its 15 years old now and a lot of the younger generation wont be aware of a lot of the things discussed. Big names involved too, very intersting book.

The Kanjuruhan stadium tragedy still haunts most of us Indonesian football fans even until now 4 months later. Good video as always, Vizeh

Mate you made a mistake with this story 14:20 1.This took place in Johannesburg, South Africa. 2. The game was a Premier soccer league match between Moroka Swallows (dark red) and Jomo Cosmos(White and Blue) 3. Johannesburg has a lot of thunderstorms due to its subtropical climate as well as the fact thats its in an elevated part of the country.

Respects to Matthias Sindelar, best footballer in Vienna‘s and probably Austria‘s history😓

The thing that annoys me the most about the gay footballer was even if it was “consensual” it is illegal for anyone older than 18 to engage in sexual relations with anyone under 18. So even if the kid agreed to it it’s still illegal and he would’ve gone to jail either way.

Loving the context Viz and hey I recommend you take a deep dive into the death of Bury

those Ukrainian players are heros, they had more reason to throw the games but instead decided to put their country ahead of their lives and win to lift their countries spirit. truly inspirational

What about Ledger Ritson (and later, Derek Dooley), the man who lost a leg to football? Poor Ledger was a fair standard footballer who might have been a bit special, but he broke his leg, and came back, then broke his leg, and came back and had a decent run in the first team, then broke his leg, and came back, and had another decent run in the first team, then broke his leg and tried to come back, and (you guessed it) he broke his leg. Finally, the doctors had a good look at him, and a combination of bone disease and eventually gangrene claimed his leg. Although Ledger eventually managed clubs in the football league, he was never the same again.

i’ve been watching you since the dean marney days and i can’t believe these videos aren’t blowing up they are such high quality and really fascinating keep up the great videos mate

legit one of best videos you’ve ever made. well researched and right tone. you’ve come a long way from your early fifa days. i hope to see more football related content like this

Honestly some of the best content on RU-vid right now. The switch the the mini-doc style is brilliant and the research put into it is incredible, would love to see one made of the bradford city fire disaster around the time it happened (last game of the English season incase some don't know) as I feel like it's slipping away into obscurity and is really interesting on the horrific build up that led to the fire in the first place

To be fair, every side on kanjuruhan stadium disaster share the blame: the organisers for ignoring the police advice to reschedule the match and reduce the maximum spectator, the police for using tear gas and whoever the genius who decided to seal the gates, and the fans for forgetting that this is just a game

Glad to hear you mention the story of Dynamo Kiev, it's an incredible story of perseverance. Also the story of Sindelar, examples of people taking a stand against fascism that we should all remember

Excellent video. But there is something wrong. For the Bena Tshadi vs Basanga match, there is actually no known footage of the incident. The footage on the video is from a Premier Soccer League match between Moroka Swallows and Jomo Cosmos, which coincidentally happened in the same year. In that game fortunately no one was killed. Otherwise, this was a very interesting video to watch.

Been watching for a while and love your new style of vids bro. One of the first footballing channels I ever subscribed to and happy to see you still going strong. Supporting you all the way from Vermont USA.

Vizeh , I am an old guy by RU-vid standards. But all you new videos have been quality. From FIFA player to serious documentary maker, good luck and continued growth and success.

I wanted to make some corrections on the Narcoball segment. 13:15 The guy on the right is Chapo Guzmán, a mexican drug lord, so he has nothing to do with the subject. 13:38 The match was between America and Medellin, yet you mentioned and used a picture of the argentinian team Independiente, which had nothing to do with it. And I think it's worth mentioning that after the murdering of the referee, the league was cancelled and there was no champion that year. 14:10 By 1994 the Medellin Cartel had already been taking down with the death of Pablo Escobar in december 1993, so while there were threats against the national team in the USA World Cup, they weren't made by Escobar or the Cartel as you suggest.

The lightning strike DID NOT happen in the DRC, it was the South African PSL match between Moroka Swallows and Joni Cosmos. The story made headlines especially because players from Jomo Cosmos were unharmed and only Swallos players suffered including their star player who also played for the National team and he was never the same since.

If I am not mistaken. The prank by the Brazilian RU-vidr was to prove that you can make up any lie about North Korea and people would be convinced by it. Which they did. Edit: also think my grandmother got caught up in the stadium in Peru incident since she used to sell food in the stadium. She managed to get away but I heard it was awful.

What a w video bro. The amount of effort is crazy. I’ve learnt so much😂. Thx lol

The Gate 12 - or Puerta 12- is the hillsborough disaster for us, Boca Juniors fans. We still remember them and honor them. They were just kids that died because of the corruption and ineffectiveness of police and River Plate's authorities by locking that gate. Honor y gloria a los 71.

Since you made the darkest football iceburg, why not brighten up from this sad side of football to the beautiful and wholesome side of our beloved game

Thank you for opening my eyes. It still astounds me that events such as these could even occur over what is literally a game. I am frightened but also thoroughly informed

That USA win in 1994 correctly depicts ‘we won, but at what cost.’

Liam yourself and these vids are becoming a staple in my life. I can't thank you enough🙏

one thing he left out was the atlas vs queretaro match in the mexican league that happened last year. during the match both team supporters were clashing back and forth until some of the security gates were broken into and the queretaro fans started beating up and killing atlas fans with whatever they had in hand. many used custom pick axes, the corner flag, and even using broken seat parts. one of the most sad and famous pictures from the incident is the family that has 2 children running away with the queretaro jersey on and the other kid with nothing on bc he was wearing the atlas jersey. another pic that went viral was some queretaro fans posing after the situation with visible blood stains in the shoes. and after all of that… the media lied to everyone saying no one died when in reality 30 to maybe even 50 ppl died from the incident. it made the league from now on make sure that if these teams play each other again it’s either a closed door game or no visiting fans from each side.

Ain’t no fucking way there’s match fixing going on with Pierluigi there. That’s nuts fr

I still cant get over that Escobar death he didnt deserve it. Rest in Peace

There is an iceberg method of going from most known to least known, maybe you can put the well known ones in the part 2 at the top of the iceberg. Great vid as always

Liam, great video as always! I think one that could've been added was Alexandre Villaplane, a French collaborator who hunted Jews and committed crimes with the underworld during WWII. It's one that isn't always mentioned. But keep killing it with videos!

Marc Vivien Foe's death hit me hard. He scored the last goal scored by a City player at Maine Road. I remember just before it was knocked down, my Dad took me to there for one last walk-around and I went to read the graffiti. It was all tributes to Foe. He was so good. Lots of childhood memories

there was a saudi player that got kicked in the head and then he wakes up dances awkwardly and falls again. Doctors said he had a seizure that the body controlls themselves instead of the mind to keep circulate the blood

I have a question, why on earth would you invade the pitch, you are practically asking to get injured or killed

Liam if you’re continuing down the path of making more tragic football story videos then I suggest you make one on the Zambian Air disaster of 1993 with the national team. I don’t see nearly enough coverage on RU-vid and other platforms then what it deserves.

What would have happened if Columbia DID host the World Cup in 1986

i thought you were going to talk about the Chapecoense plane crash in 2016 since you put their jersey in the intro, really hope to see it in part 2, it's a really sad story and i think it deserves to be known worldwide

My uncle fought in the 100 hours war and told me it was the most traumatizing moment in his life

man i live in egypt and me thinking of the port said stadium incident is sad like about all the people that died was very depressing

I think the story about the players being struck by lightening is South African. I remember it happening, I think there were 2 lightening strikes in the same game, which only affected players from one team. I think one of the teams was from Limpopo, a province in South Africa the rest of us accuse of prominent witchcraft. The footage you used for that story is PSL footage, which is our top tier football league.

Liam , been watching your vids since you played fifa - very happy to see you grow and evolve as a content creator and person. Keep it up !

While this may not be directly football related, but I think in a potential part 2 you should include the mass execution of political dissidents in Equatorial Guinea on Christmas Eve 1969, where brutal dictator Francisco Macias Nguema rounded up and murdered 186 people on the grounds of his country’s national football stadium, while „Those Were the Days” by Mary Hopkin were playing on the stadium amps. Pretty horrifying.

To me the saddest part about Justin Fashanu's story is that his own brother disowned him, for the fear of the abuse that he would get by the fans for having a gay brother, and that having a gay brother would somehow ruin his career. He has since claimed that Justin "was not gay and was just an attention-seeker." What a prick.

This man went from stroking his deans to this, HOW TF DO YOU GET THAT GOOD SO QUICKLY

A hungarian footballer was executed aswell, with no reason. He played with Puskas Ferenc too, but it is believed he had connections with corrupt hungarian people. This happened in the 1950s i believe.

Another incredible video Vizeh. Your content really has stepped up a level. Very cool.

The lightning striking the pitch incident actually happened in South Africa, not Congo. It was Moroka Swallows vs Jomo Cosmos.

I’m a Swindon fan and had no idea about that akcelrod guy 🤣😭

Tell Me What You’d Like In The Part 2?

the ones where the fans invaded the pitch and the police using tear gas, i mean the fans definitely aren’t supposed to do that so idk how to really feel about that…

finally a great football iceberg video! great work mate!

Absolutely smashing it with these documentary style videos mate, Alfie from HITC Sevens is the only comparable guy to you imo, and yous are both unreal with the amount of time and effort yous put into the videos. Much love brother, keep it up

Can we just appreciate the fact that even with 300k+ subs vizeh still replys to almost every comment on his videos and still puts out some of the best content on footie RU-vid. Thank you for your service duder.

When I had learned about the 100 hour Football war, it was weird. Still is. The countries are closer now than before. But because of my bias, Honduras sigue número uno 🇭🇳💪

Why am I discovering your channel so late! Quality

I've only just got onto your channel the past 2 days , but I reckon this kind of content is your strong point !

You've truly leveled up your videos. Love it. Been following for a few years now 😬💯

Actually amazing video!! Can’t believe you went from lacazete fatal to this!! Well made and edited video and something unique in terms of the topic

as a colombian Im very happy you shed light in the teams though luckily teams have come back though most teams are in heavy debt, for example the team that just won the league, Deportivo Pereira are in 20 million USD in debt and are in serious contention to be dismantled

Allright mate. I've followed you on twitter for a while, but only just discoverd your RU-vid channel. Im really enjoyed the research that went into this and your Mario Ballotelli video. Keep up the good work

i hope the icebergs dad doesn’t get upset about this one

I think Otto "Tull" harder should be on the Iceberg, he was one of the best German Footballers before WW2, however he was also a hardcore nazi even being named administrator of a Concentration Camp, were later on even one of his former teammates got murdered. He survived WW2 and never showed even an ounce of regret for the things he did.

Never knew that Cryuff story! half way through now, definitely need more of these!!

Love ya videos man. Appreciate the hard work👏

You are really inspiring me with the types of videos you make. Thank you. You're a gem yet to be discovered.

Very good video mate, very well handled, keep up the good work

as a salvadoran thank you for including the football war. an important (and dark) part of our history

No disrespect for your older vid. But these videos are so much better

This has to be the best video you’ve ever done Liam

I knew a decent bit of these, which I was surprised about since I am pretty new to soccer, awesome video!