What On Earth Is Going On At Deportivo La Coruña? 

Everybody gangsta until HITC Sevens makes a video about your team called ”What on earth is going on at...”

What on Earth is going on at Sunderland? Multiple owners, successive relegations, two seasons of a Netflix documentary (which the players allegedly hated having the cameras around for) scandals off the pitch (Adam Johnson) players like Rodwell screwing the team over, the Ricky Alvarez saga. Its an endless rabbit hole of poor management, with a new owner in a 23 year old billionaire having just taken over.

I’m a Barcelona fan and I remember that when I was little we are were terrified of Deportivo. They really were at the same level of Real Madrid or Valencia in terms of being “the team to beat”. Fastforward a few years and suddenly beating Deportivo was the essiest thing in the world, even at their stadium...truly sad

That 4-0 against Milan has got to be up there with the best Champions League matches in history. And to think that team is now rotting away in the 3rd division... it’s a real shame

It's so sad to see a ,once so competitive Club, get in this situation. I'm Brazilian, and It's specially dramatic, since some Brazilian greats made history with this club: Mauro Silva, Bebeto, Djalminha, etc. And Mauro Silva became the greatest legend of the Club! Even got a street named after him in La Coruña!

Seeing that they're in a group with SD Compostela made me both nostalgic for 90s football round-ups on Eurosport and sad for Depor.

Exactly yesterday I was wanting to see where is Barca B in third La Liga and I was shocked to see that Deportivo was there

Started a career mode with deportivo in football manager. First Season I got promoted to LaLiga2 now I am challenging for LaLiga💪💪

Went from seeing us beating Barcelona and Real Madrid to playing against celta B. Not a nice downfall but I’ll never stop being a deportivista and I’m here for life- not just the good times (if they come back) 🔵⚪️

Two of the best players in Brazil 1994 World Cup winning team came from Deportivo: Bebeto and Mauro Silva.

Djalminha one of the most underrated players I've ever seen. Superb. Valeron, Incredible. Naybet, Mauro Silva, Fran, Pandiani, Makaay... Used to have some great players.

I am and will forever be a Depor supporter, regardless what will happen from now on and regardless what league they'll play in.

Day 1: Can you make a short documentary about Bury FC? Giving the fact that this team is not exist anymore, it will be another great documentary for this channel.

Would love to see a „what on earth is going on at 1. FC Kaiserslautern“, they became german champions in 1998 after just getting promoted and had great players like ballack, klose etc. They are now in the third german tier facing relegation and struggling financially.

I really feel for the fans, they are hugely passionate and don't deserve to be where they are, hope they can get back up, great documentary about them

Depor is my favorite team from Spain. I began supporting them after their victory against AC Milan (being also a Inter fan this was extra satisfying). I played lots of FIFA games with them. I can't believe they relegated 1 year after they almost got the promotion. I watched them last year live on RU-vid and they had good moments. Love from Romania! 🔵⚪

04:47 That's Real Sociedad

Thank you for the video on Deportivo as a fan of the team even if the story is heartbreaking to me personally, it still is a very interesting fall. You covered all of the important information but I wanted to add some interesting facts from the last couple of seasons for the comments: - Deportivo's 3-2 loss to Mallorca in the playoffs was a blown lead, they had won the first tie 2-0 and lost the second leg 3-0 (very similar to Spurs yesterday). - During the previous season in the Segunda Division after defeating Oviedo in the first matchday, Deportivo went on a 19 match winless run. During this time they had 2 different managers with them only winning one match each with Juan Antonio Anquela only winning his first match and his succesor Luis Cesar Sampedro winning his last match (which broken the winless run) before being sacked. - Sampedro was replaced by Fernando Vazquez who had promoted the team back to the Primera Division in 2013-14 but was sacked before the season due to disputes with the board. He is loved by the fans so the appointment was seen as a spark of hope for the team. - His arrival sparked a 6 game winning run including a victory over league leaders and now Primera Division side Cadiz. - Due to this streak Deportivo had the longest winless and winning streak in Segunda Division that season and they happened one after the other. It also represents how bad Deportivo's first half was when a 7 match winning run was not enough to keep them away from the relegation zone. - The team would slow down before the covid break but after the season restarted the team went on an unbeaten run which included victories over the other two sides which were promoted that season in Elche and Huesca (the team scored an incredible team goal against Huesca) and it seemed like a guarantee that they would stay in Segunda Division. After the win over Huesca the team would lose against fellow relegation candidates Malaga, the already relegated Extremadura and a Mirandes side which had nothing to play for. - These three loses led the team to be in the relegation places and the relegation. The remaining match against Fuenlabrade felt pointless for Deportivo but it had to be played due to Fuenlabrada needing to win to replace Elche in the promotion playoffs with a win. When the match was played Deportivo won even though and allowed Elche to participate in the playoffs where they would earn their promotion. - In the current Segunda Division B season the team started winning and began most of the first half of the season at the top of the table but Vazquez and the team were criticised for playing with the same style they had in the Segunda Division the season before: a defensive minded side that sought to win most games by 1 goal. The team won all their games in the segunda division by 1 goal or would draw the matches 0-0 or 1-1. This playstyle was frustrating for the fans who believed the team was so superior to the other teams due to their budgets that they expected attacking football and for the team to win all their matches by a wide margin. After the loss to Celta B and another loss to Zamora afterwards Vazquez was sacked even though the team was in the promotion playoff places. - For now the Barrera reign has been accompanied with mediocrity as for now it has 3 wins, 2 draws and 3 losses (with 3 wins happening during the teams last 4 matches). - The team has been terrible offensively before the match against Celta B, the team had scored 9 goals in 16 games.

in the spanish 3rd tier are 102 teams and only 4 of them get promoted so its truly a graveyard

Been fan of Depor since 20 years and will be always even if they play in fifth. Desde Jordania 🇯🇴 Forza Depor

It wasn't too long ago they were winning La liga & Copa Del Rey's quite frequently....Roy Makaay was top goalscorer. We talk about it a lot on Team Of Our Lives Podcast

I’ve always been a fan Deportivo, sucks I can’t use them on FIFA anymore 😔 hope they come back up the leagues soon

9:18 the relegation battles in LaLiga around that time were unparalleled, will never see something like that

I remember going to their ground around 2005 getting a signed kit and ball then watching them play real shame I wasn't old enough to really appreciate it at the time

Tifo and hitc 7 are the best short documentary football channels

Sad. As a portista I hope to see them back in the first division. They're my favourite spanish team (apart from real back when cr7 played there). From a blue and white to another love to galicia from porto💙🇵🇹

In the early 2000s, Deportivo was the fear and trepidation of La Liga. Even clubs like Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid & Barcelona were afraid of them. I am a Real Madrid fan, but I also simply admire Deportivo. With what hard work they actually just came to LaLiga not to mention winning the championship in the 99/00 season and playing in the semi-finals of the Champions League where they were eliminated by the then champion Porto and barely that. They certainly didn’t just succeed because of the money, because they were struggling with it a lot most of the time. Unfortunately right now it’s just like that again but I really do hope they return to LaLiga because we need them and they still have more history than most of the teams in the 1st Spanish league.

I am a Barca fan, but I watched way more Deportivo games than I did Barca games. The reality is under Javier Irueta, their style was just better than Barca', and they had fewer stars. That was a special team. They fulfilled their potential in my opinion.

I've been a Deportivo fan for around 30 years in part because the city of La Coruña was around the same size as my city (Canberra) and partly because a local TV commentator (Les Murray) pronunciation of the name made them sound like the sexiest club in world. The Blue & White vertical stripes helped as well. I was so excited in 2000 when they finally won la liga, so to see them in the third tier is incredibly sad, but the start to the 2021/22 has been positive, hopefully it will continue and I will see them in the Segunda next year, and who knows what happens after that. All the best Super Depor.

16:30-17:00 I’m a Bolton fan, this is the best summary of our last 10 years I’ve ever heard

Really enjoy this videos, a good one to do is What on earth happened with Belenenses. They were kicked out of their own club and had to start all over again. They are on of the only 5 champions in Portugal.

I really didn't expect this, someone as big as you making a video about my club and my city. Thank you so much!!

You and Tifo are my football plugs. Shout out to all my UK gang all the way from Manassas, Virginia, USA.

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I feel sad for the Los Turcos. It was and is still a beautiful club. Hope they come back stronger. They were so close in 2019.. they were in the play off finals for the La Liga. How thing can change within 1 year

These obscure videos are your best ones!

4:48 uh isn’t that real sociedad

I really love videos like this. I do remember how big Depor was and i totally didnt realize they aint in la liga anymore

Alfie, your passion for football laid out as these spectacular documentaries is phenomenal. Keep it up 😇

4:44 A Real Sociedad fan dropping in unannounced

And now they’re back in the professional leagues 💙congrats Super Dépor

Remember watching them in the mid 2000’s in la liga with the scoreboard where you couldn’t tell what half it was lol, always took a liking to them. Gonna start a football manager save with them💪🏼

My first ever match at Old Trafford was to see Utd vs Deportivo in the champions league in 2001. Diego Tristan scored a brace and from that day I was a massive admirer of Deportivo La Coruña. Very few people seem to remember Tristan though, for a time he was a seriously top striker. Does anyone else remember Tristan fondly?

Glad to see this video. Deportivo was my favourite team during their famous CL campaign back then.

I'm really enjoying these deep dives on clubs in crisis. Keep up the good work, Alfie!

I have to say I heavily sympathized for the club during the recent years, since their latest relegation to the second tier. Even though last season truly ended up in disaster for them and they were still in financial troubles, it was odd to see them be still able to sign players such as Gaku Shibasaki (11:42, a former Japanese international and a good feature for Getafe) and Victor Mollejo (13:12, the one in the front and to the left, a young promise from none other than Atlético Madrid). It's true, most of them were already gone at the start of the current season, but I think that's a good sign for Deportivo's fame. Even in the third tier, they've got players such as the captain Alex Bergantinos, the promising Lucho Garcìa and Mujaid Sadick, Celso Borges (a Costa Rican international who already played for them in LaLiga) and Claudio Beavue (who previously featured for Celta!). I wonder what could have happened if the team had more confidence and enough stability to keep around players like Mollejo or Shibasaki... No matter where they'll be headed at the end of this season, Deportivo's story is still unique and fascinating, and I'm happy that someone has re-mastered it. I really hope the best for them. Thank you, Alfie! : )

I didn’t think I was the only one who saw a lot of similarities between the rise and fall of Deportivo and the rise and fall of Leeds. Their tale sounds all too familiar, although it looks their happy ending is a lot further away than ours was

Still cannot believe what happened to our great club.

We'll be back for sure!!!We have more than 20k supporters in the 3rd division. FORZA DEPOR! Great Video 😊

This can't be real. This is EXACTLY what I asked myself today after searching for a new FM21 save. I also did my research, but your videos are far better than any article on a cheap website!

Yessss these videos are the best, love the content Alfie!

Great video, please do more videos like this. It is more enjoyable to watch than the 7 best .... Videos. Also thank you

Tifo and hitc sevens are far and away the most insightful football channels around Extensive research and insight makes their videos amazing

This was a really interesting and well researched video! 👏👏👏

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I remember in the 2008/09 season after they qualified to the UEFA Cup through the Intertoto cup they were to face my local team Aalborg BK in the round of 32 and my cousin and I, who always went to all Aalborg's games, were scared shitless after we saw what Villareal did to us in Spain in the years CL. We talked about them being 6th in La Liga and Felipe Luiz at left Back playing really well...... And then they came to Denmark, facing a team on its winterbreak, got spanked 3-0 and lost 1-3 in a 5 minute implosion at the end of the first half, at home after getting ahead. To me that's when the started tires coming off the buss and they slowly declined.

A video about Málaga situation would also be good 👍

Now I wonder how many teams have gone from Continental success to below the second tier.

Loved the video Alfie I was wondering if you could make a video about the Uefa Intertoro Cup

As an Arsenal fan, I remember us playing Deportivo in the Champions League a few times and us struggling against them - who'd of thought both are not even involved in it 20 years later although Deportivo clearly suffered the worst of the two

I want to watch replays of old historically amazing matches like deportivo v milan. I used to be such a Ricardo kaka fan as a kid

Lot of my early champions league nights i remember being petrified of Diego Tristan

LOVE THIS CHANNEL

I really enjoy these videos wish there was more engagement about the video in the comment section though.

Love this series. Keep it up.

Love these type of videos

wow you’re one of the first people to do a video on my favourite club

As a Milan fan I have immense respect and immense heartache at seeing a great rival like Deportivo go down like this

Love deportivo. Used to always be them on LMA 2003!

You should do a video on Dinamo Zagreb. It's crazy how much they have risen these last few years

I recall when la riazor was a damned ground for Real Madrid...good times

In that quick rundown of their former excellent players Mauro Silva should have been mentioned... he’s their best ever player and generally considered one of the 3 best Brazilians ever to play in Spain Great video!

The only Spanish football club I used to love and follow way back as a child, what really went wrong, hhhmmmm❤❤😢 that famous win over a star studded AC Milan team will forever remain one of their greatest achievement

A very interesting video, such a great history as a club. This has given me an idea for a potential video of my own. I have been planning a return to content creation on RU-vid with the release of Football Manager 2022 on November 8th. This video has inspired me to make a series trying to get Deportivo back to La Liga, win the league and hopefully win the champions league. Obviously when I make the videos I will credit this channel for giving me the idea.

Dreamcast was their sponsor. That was the start of their downfall.

Can you do a rise and fall of Malaga ?

We will be back! An Deportivista living in Dublin we will be back! Voltaremos!! 💪

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Anyone remember Kick Tv’s series on Deportivo La Coruna? Loved that channel

Being a Sunderland fan. I wasn't surprised we were mentioned in a video about Deportivo. 🤦‍♂️🤣😭

great job with this video.

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As a Celta de Vigo fan i love to watch that downfall. They even lost to our "B" team this season

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ayyyyyy this was a suggestion like 10 videos before

Alfie can you do a video on former Austrian Bundesliga side SV Mattersburg? Also I continue to love the content you keep uploading on here. Cheers!

Deportivo, along with Werder Bremen, are actually one of only two clubs to have been ranked among the best ten teams on the continent, via UEFAs club coefficient ranking, to not be among the hundreds of ranked teams at all. That ranking has been around since the 2004/2005 season by the way, meaning plenty of different teams have cracked that top 10.

thank you HITC

Mate you have such a buttery voice, it's like audible chocolate

i've been a depor fan since that win against ac, been so sad to see the downward spiral of this club.

I wanted to do a career mode on them this year so I picked the team called deportivo in the 1st division thinking it was them , took me till January to realise I went alaves instead 😭

Refreshing video although is heartbreaking for both my teams (Cruzeiro and Depor) have a "what on earth is going on at..."

It really sad to see depo like this, they used to be a very strong team

I remember it was my first club for my PES 2009 Be A Pro character. Stayed there for my first 3 seasons 😁

Can't believe this was the same team that won the 1998 99 la liga trophy . Now they are no where in spain

Who remembers REAL ZARAGOZA too from Spain? They're bigger than Deportivo and really bottled promotion last season because of heavy pressure compared to other tinpot teams in the Spanish 2nd division where there's less pressure to succeed. It's bad for football when well supported teams don't thrive.

I believe still I don't see any team on the planet that can come close to Depo then......They got a unique style of game...hope they come back to Laliga

Do the Gretna fc story, it was great to watch when it was happening

After watching both videos This one is Way better than the tifo video.