Yemen's Cinderella Story 

This channel has really grown recently into something much more than one which just focuses on football tactical analysis and it's great to see. Bringing some very unknown political situations to light with fantastically researched videos and seamlessly linking them to football, I can see huge things for this channel. Well done lads, you've created something to be really proud of.

Im from yemen and i truly thank you for shedded light on the issues in yemen. I am very happy for my country qualifying and hope we can give it all we got.

Congrats to Yemen! Do well and make us proud! Love from the Philippines

Love the animations in your video !!!!!

These videos are always amazing

Fuck this channel is too beautiful. Will forever share

Abreham mebratu🇪🇹 good coach. Ethiopia💪

Love these short vids really informative. I’m not so convinced by the podcast as yet. I think you should try to compete with world football phone in on that front your not going to do so with the guardian.

Can you made a video about Vietnam?

Tifo please a video on India again and great video!!

Please do a video on the pairing of Fraser and Wilson at Bournemouth... the best goalscoring pairing this season

Tifo, could y'all do a video on the history/fight within the US to impliment a promotion/relegation system?

I am not crying, you’re crying 😢

nothing is left thats for sure

Can u make a video about kuwait

Please explain to us how to become the manager and their different ranks to get license.

Can you do one of these on the current happenings at Charlton Athletic re the takeover??

make a video on AFC cup please

Iran stomped them 5-0 in the first match of the Asian Cup.

A shame they had 0 points

Don't you feel biased? it's good video. However, your description about Saudi Arabia and their allies is always stereotypical. I believe the Houtis and Iran took far more innocent victims than Saudi and co.

Please make video about the Philippine Team

Wow another amazing video tifo you tackle the hardest topics in football and manage to bring light to lesser known news

People need to spread awareness of Tifo Football and the stories you cover. This channel not only covers football, it covers the human condition.

We can all moan about our life’s problems, but nothing any of us say can compare to the struggles the people in Yemen have to cope with in their everyday lives...

i am Iranian and i just watched my country hammer Yemen in Asian cup. i was a little sad when i was watching the game, even though Iran's win was enjoyable, i could see how the players cared and fought as best as they can. i hope they get better results in the next two games. most of the People of Iran do not support the government meddling in foreign soil like Yemen, it would only make matters worse in countries like Yemen and Syria, but as always the governments of the world think only about their own selfish interests and not the people who supposedly chose them.

Good luck to the Yemeni team in the Asian Football Cup, they’ve pulled off a miracle by qualifying considering the circumstances in the country

Tifo telling it how it is, keep it up

This really is a wonderful channel. One of my favourite on youtube! Telling world football stories without pulling any punches to the often harsh realities of these situations. Keep it up, team!

I was at the stadium in Qatar where Yemen beat Nepal last year. Was kind of cool because the stadium was pretty packed with all the Nepalese we have living here. However, their qualification was guaranteed before that game as Phillipines win over Tajikistan hours before had qualified Yemen.

I’m always amazed when countries in such chaos still manage to have a functioning FA

I am from Nepal. can you research and do video on Nepal's football history?

Congratulations to Jordan for their surprise victory over Australia

amazing video as usual tifo. please do make one about the miraculous iraqi 2007 AFC title.

There is another Cinderella story that I wish you would make a video on. You’ve made Iraq Yemen and Thailand, covering Asian football before. This doesn’t get much attention because afc doesn’t make news in football anyways and it’s an under 23 tournament. But I would like to bring you: vietnams run at the 2018 afc u23 championship. It could be made into a MOVIE. Many people won’t even know Vietnam plays football because they’ve never really been on the footballing map, not even in asia. A completely irrelevant team that can’t even play in the Asian cup tournament except for being the cohost in this very 2007 tournament. Until..now. They are a rising dark horse in asia. A golden generation. Qualified for the final World Cup qualifying round this year. And it all started in 2018, one of the greatest underdog stories in football. Vietnamese football struggled, the senior and u23 failed, lost, failure after failure after failure even among their own southeast Asian region, which itself is very generally irrelevant in the Asian continent. Meanwhile the national team struggled ….some youth players came through academy ranks to the youth national teams.. playing for vietnam in the 2016 AFC u19 championship….Vietnam shockingly reached the semi finals. Made history to qualify for their first World Cup at any age rage. The u20 national team gained 1 point in the 2017 u20 World Cup, great experience. But this wouldn’t be the real shock or story. With the u19 rising success, at the same time, the u23 team was battered by Thailand 3-0 in 2017 seagames, eliminated in the group stage. This was only an under 23 southeast Asian tournament. Coach resigned. Fans began to stop watching viet football. Disappointment after disappointment. Expectation was low. Vietnam would never dare dream of asia. They struggle in their own region. Then came the hiring of park hang seo. Met with skepticism for his poor k league manager record. Little did everyone know. He would become the greatest manager in Vietnamese history within a year. A Few months after seagames, Vietnam u3ds played in a friendly tournament also a few months before the u23 afc championship. Facing Thailand again, with park, the rematch was 2-1 in favor of Vietnam. In that same tournament. They would play Uzbekistan. Coincidentally…foreshadowing the final of the real tournament….a few months later. (Some of the details like this, are just too perfect to not be made into a movie.) One thing I forgot to add. Vietnam was in a group with South Korea and Australia. It was a death group for them. And a death group in AFC terms. (Both these teams are the usual AFC World Cup participants.) Another perfect underdog movie moment. Vietnam was in the hardest group of the tournament. What was their expectation? To get demolished. The goal for manager park hang seo? Hopefully get 1 point, maybe against syria. And they began the campaign with a 2-1 loss to South Korea. Better performance than expected. Still not making it out the group..and yet.. The next match against Australia was a shocking 1-0 win for Vietnam. A draw against syria would bring them into the knockouts. They did just that. 0-0 hard defending draw against syria. Many viet fans began to start watching the tournament….but no way Vietnam wins in the quarterfinals right? Facing Iraq, somehow Vietnam escaped to extra time 1-1. One of the most thrilling match of the tournament, both traded extra time goals, at 2-2, vietnam scored again and went up 3-2. Nobody could believe what was happening. But then Iraq scored again to tie. Penalties. Vietnam would win. Advancing to the semi finals. Viet fans celebrated in disbelief, all of a sudden…the entire country would stop and tune into the tournament. The semi final against Qatar. Tied at 1-1….minutes away from 90, Qatar struck. 2-1. It’s over isn’t it? Somehow the Vietnamese players showed resilience and Nguyen quang hai equalized just minutes later, his 2nd goal of the match. Unbelievable. Extra time again. The entire country held their breaths as Vietnam held on for another penalty shootout. Vietnam would win. Adancing to Their first final in the history of Vietnamese football at any AFC tournament. The whole country exploded. Partying in the streets and waving flags. You can search this up on RU-vid, it was like they had won the World Cup. In the final, against Uzbekistan..months ago they played in a friendly and lost. This time..the match was a blizzard. The field was entirely white. Why the afc let this match play is a mystery. But for some of the players, this was the very first time they had ever seen snow….and they played against a country who has and is used to snow and cold weather…(again some of these details are just too perfect for a movie) The whole country of Vietnam paused to watch this match…watch parties all over, even in the 40000 capacity national stadium was a gaint screen… Uzbekistan scored early. With halftime approaching, Vietnam awarded a free kick. Nguyen quang hai took the spot. And converted. Nicknamed the “rainbow in the snow” the whole country erupted. (There’s a very emotional image of the players falling and celebrating in the snow after the goal. (If this is made into a movie it would be a great cover lol) Vietnam held onto extra time. Holding on for another 119 minutes..close to another penalty shootout once again..the entire country held their breath as the previous matches might repeat again..Vietnam wins in a penalty shootout! No. Uzbekistan struck. In the very last minute of extra time. Shock. As the snow fell down and down..the players collapsed to their knees. The whole country cried. The players cried. Vietnam had lost, so close to perfecting the miracle Cinderella story. (But perhaps the fact that they lost in the last minutes in a damn blizzard once again the details are just so perfect for a movie!) It didn’t matter to fans, they still partied and wave the national flag, singing and shouting patriotic songs. (Search this on RU-vid!!) When the Vietnamese players returned. They were treated like heroes. Heading on a bus, driving across a bridge, thousands of fans followed the bus behind. It was like a World Cup parade. The whole country was behind the team. Faith restored in Vietnamese football. Hope was back. A hope for a golden generation. Future was bright. They might have lost. But it’s like they won. (This would be such a good ending scene!) I would LOVE for this to be a movie. A story of resilience and perseverance, and beating the odds. And I would love for you to make a video on this too.

The UK government is complicit in the tragedy in Yemen. Maybe not to the extent of the US government, but we follow their lead in destroying countries who have elements with (sometimes just tangential) ties to nations who contradict American geopolitical interests. If any plausible link to Iran can be made (sometimes even this dubious threshold is not met) this is treated as carte blanche to cause as much "collateral damage" as is deemed "necessary". In this case, the lives of millions of innocent Yemenis are destroyed in the process. This is not to defend the government of Iran or Houthi rebels or anyone else for that matter; merely to say that western governments (including the one which supposedly represents me) greatly exacerbate humanitarian crises if it means maintaining relationships with (in this case) the murderous authoritarian royal family of Saudi Arabia.

Wow goodluck Yemen. I didnt know their coach was Ethio

Even with ongoing war countries like yemen play better than Pakistan and nepal.

Tifo Football, you bring out the beautiful in our beautiful game.

The illustration are always A+

Your content is amazing! That has become the usp of this channel. keep up the great work going

Good luck yiemen

I can't believe this only has 50k views still god I love as these old tifo videos that deal with football politics

i'm a yemeni thanks for your video much appreciated

People who say sport is pointless, need to watch this channel.

I hope they will win something 💪🏾 🇾🇪

one of the best video ever.. Thanks for good work Tifo

Amazing video yet again ,tifo.

Your videos are amazing. They make you so empathetic and the are so informing

This channel is really amazing ; it focuses on the very blind sides of the footballing world and i love it as it talks alot about middle eastern football very accurately ❤️

Could you make a video about Ipswich

It is why Football is beautiful. Great video

How much would you charge to make one of these presentations on me? Serious question!?

Can you u guys do a video on the Philippines’ football team? We just lost to South Korea 1-0, but it was our first asian cup appearance and we lack publicity 🇵🇭

my advice, stick to football and stop spreading political propaganda...the situation in Yemen is NOT a civil war, but rather saudi aggression

Very big passion shown by the Yemeni team for football. Seriously the Indian subcontinent should also develop some passion.

I once was accosted on the street by a man with a suitcase who told me he was from Iraq, lost his family in the war and now had no possessions and no money. He showed me his papers which looked official, and said he needed to take a train to go to a refugee centre. I gave him all I had on me in cash, which was not much. Was this man really a war refugee from Iraq or have I been scammed?

Another outstanding video, extremely well informed and a great story. Weirdly relevant to me as I’m (meant to be) writing an essay on Yemen right now

Just want someone to invest in youth bangladeshi football. You guys wont believe the amount of talented young players we have but they become something else because of not much academies and other youth development programs and the parents puts too much pressure on their education.

This is why Tifo is the best football RU-vid channel. The content is first class. Keep it up guys!

Great video, thanks for doing this 👍

Can you talk about match fixing in Indonesian football? The problem has been getting a lot of media attention lately

You guys should also do the videos in spanish. You already have the research and animation just need a translator. Double your views that way

North korean cinderlla story 2010 south africa?

Did you consider creating political/social videos?

Good luck yemen from iraq🇮🇶🇾🇪

please create one for the philippine football struggles on creating a pro league.

One of the greatest channels about football.

Please do video about pique club.

Please make video of Jordan win over australia

Make a video about azkals they really deserved it

Damn the war, the hideous side of life

Yemen had a good success in the under 17 teams in 2002 and 2003. A finalist in the Asian Cup and a qualification to the 2003 World Cup.

Is this channel sports or political 🤔

Mashallah

Great video. I was hoping you could perhaps do a video on Madagascar's recent debut qualification to AFCON?

We did it Alhamdulillah

اعه

Nepal 🇳🇵🇳🇵🇳🇵🇳🇵🇳🇵 😊😊😊😊😊

Please get a new narrator. Please.

Free the Yemenis people

Football is a religion ❤😢

Do you call this a civil war ?

Dislikes = Warlords

**YEEE MEN**

DO LAMPARDS DERBY

Thank you for this.

absolutely beautiful, I am so happy that Tifo is giving much more attention to AFC tournament. I would like to see a story of other small countries in AFC like vietnam. Like so tifo could see!!!

Yemen will be in the group with Iran, Iraq & Vietnam for the AFC Cup. Good luck to all.

How about the Philippines and it's incredible story.. From being minnows of Southeast Asia, to one of strongest..They are even close to qualifying in 2015, just lost to Palestine 0-1..

how about describing how dwight mcneil played at burnley?, he's starting to impress at the first team

I only really discovered this channel recently, and I want to tell you I think it's great. You and Copa90 are the best places for football info because it isn't whitewashed - we only ever hear about Europe and how brilliant it is, so it's fantastic to hear more interesting stories from around the world.

Surprised at how in-depth and well-researched this is on a topic that most would overlook. Tifo deserves our full support for all their fantastic football content.

Lets go YEMEN

This's such a heartbreaking story.We'll meet them in group stage. Let's play for the beautiful game.

It's the most beautiful story I've heard

If there was a Nobel prize for broadcasting or RU-vid channels. Tifo Football will definitely be in my top 3 nominations. Keep up the great work!

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thank you

Please I beg of you to do a video of Iraq in 2007 🇮🇶