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
Yeah, truly sad to see what happened to them. My grandparents used to live there and we went there every summer. Apart from being such a beautiful city, they were a true joy to watch. I was and am proud to have seen such a successful club.
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.
Who cares about Sunderland? They were just a yoyo club who managed to last in the top flight for several years before relegation. They never won the top flight like La Coruna or reached any CL quarter finals.
@@accountuser5588 Sunderland have won the top flight 6 times granted it was many many years ago. The fall of Sunderland is interesting given how fast it was. They were Premier League for 10 consecutive seasons and had two relegations in a row. And like I said, the behind the scenes stuff is very interesting when looking at mismanagement
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
@@nikolamitrovic3841 Even though that’s bad, I think their worst moment came last season after the match against Fuenlabrada Allie mentioned. He covered well the story but there’s a lot more to unpack there (and I don’t think it got much coverage outside Spain either). When Depor saw they were getting nothing from LaLiga (because of the blatant conflict of interest Allie mentioned), they started saying that what they should do is to abolish relegation from the 2nd tier just for last season. When that didn’t work, they started campaigning for only 2 teams getting relegated (instead of the usual 4 and obviously not Depor). It got so ridiculous that they started losing the initial public support they had, humiliating the club even further. It’s a real sad story that of Depor
@@jumpmanhammerman1311 an unrelated question, now that Deportivo are competing against Celta B, does it mean that Celta B can also rise through the ranks and compete against their senior team la liga or how does the system work in Spain? Because if Deportivo makes the right moves, they will end up in la liga again, what about the likes of celta B. please enlighten me?
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) 🔵⚪️
I did the same! Cracking team. Although struggling to break the dominance of Barca and Real. Finished top 4 for 3 seasons but can’t manage to beat Barca to the title
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!
That's football, b4 my time teams like celtic forest gladbach parma Newcastle... had their day..new teams like atalanta still do it but its alot harder to reach the very very top these days, when it does happen its clubs like man city and psg. Not the same appeal.
@@crashingdown6924 it sucks seeing those teams make it further in the competition because they have much more vast resources. Those days when a “smaller club” would win a major title is out the window in today’s game.
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.
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.
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.
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! 🔵⚪
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.
@@wonderfulhumanbeingwithagr6381 Malaga's relevance was very short as they're an even smaller club who tried to do what Deportivo did but realised it was simply unsustainable. But for the Andalucia region and the fact that Malaga is a nice city, it would be nice to have them back in La Liga.
@@aidygooner even then you have to remember everyone came up to buy those Malaga players after they crashed out the champions league run. It was a short period but it was enough to put some of the better players onto bigger teams.
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.
Belenenses kept the Estádio do Restelo, while Belenenses SAD doesnt have a home ground of their own. However, B-SAD are in the Liga NOS and Belenenses are an amateur club sadly.
@Fidel Ramirez-Lemus pretty sure they are going up again into the third tier (that will be the fourth tier next season due to some changes in the division system), so they are on the right track
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'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.
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💙🇵🇹
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
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 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.
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?
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
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💪🏼
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!
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
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 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.
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
Only counting clubs who have won a continental title. Right now: two clubs 1. FC Magdeburg, Cup Winners' Cup 1974, now in 3. Liga (German Tier 3) Ipswich Town, UEFA Cup 1981, now in League One Historically: seven clubs (nine in total) AC Fiorentina, Cup Winners' Cup 1961, relegated to Serie C2 (Italy tier 4) in 2002 Manchester City, Cup Winners' Cup 1970, relegated to League One in 1998 Leeds United, Fairs Cup 1968 and 1971, in League one 2007 to 2010 Glasgow Rangers, Cup Winners' Cup 1972, administration and relegated to Scottish League Two 2012 Nottingham Forest, UCL Winners 1979 and 1980, in League one 2004 to 2008 (only UCL winner to ever relegate to tier 3) SSC Napoli, UEFA cup 1989, administration in 2004 and relegated to Serie C1 (Italy tier 3) AC Parma, Cup Winners' Cup 1993, UEFA cup winners 1995 and 1999, administration in 2006 and relegated to Serie D (Italy tier 4)
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!
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 😭
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.
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
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.
The covid break frankly effected a lot of sides, Getafe were going for a CL spot pre covid but have been on a bad run ever since the pandemic. Teams like Deportivo, Espanyol, Malaga etc going down does not bode well for Liga as a brand as they are better known teams in comparison to the Huescas and Valladolids.
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.
@@klaountiotsatsouli3491 Well in the 1985-86 season, former Liverpool defender, Gary Gillespie scored a hat trick for Liverpool against Birmingham City. Also in the 1987-88 season, Steve Nicol scored a hat trick for Liverpool away to Newcastle United. Both of these were Division One League matches
Well funny thing guys today a defender named Farouk Chafaï scored a hattrick in the Saudi Arabia professional League. He’s a Central Defender he plays for Damac.
As a Notts County fan I can relate to the fall of depo. We were once champions of Europe after our success in the Anglo - Italian cup, now we find ourselves playing in the 5th tier of the English football pyramid due to shit owners. We both will be back in Europe soon.
deportivo 04 vs ac Milan liverpool 05 vs Milan Barcelona psg 2017 roma barca 2018 liverpool barca 2019 tottenham Ajax 2019 and chelsea Napoli 2012 them 7 gotta be up there
@@jamieweir645 I'm actually a villa fan and was supporting Milan and barca when they played liverpool so not me im afraid lol I literary just thought of first ones that came to my head there could be others