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The Berlin Wall fell 35 years ago this month. To celebrate, we’ve cobbled together a few stories from the history of East German football. First off: what better way than to celebrate East Germany’s one appearance at the World Cup in 1974.
Then, we’ll take a look at each of the nation’s three European finalists before the civil war between BFC Dynamo and Dynamo Dresden that took place in the 1980s. This is Behind the Wall: Tales from East Germany.
00:00 – Intro
00:30 – East Germany, 1974
05:00 – Magdeburg, 1974
09:45 – Carl Zeiss Jena, 1981
14:30 – Lokomotive Leipzig, 1987
18:15 – BFC Dynamo v Dynamo Dresden, 1979-1991
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The Champions of Europe just drip off your tongue, don’t they? Real Madrid from Spain, Milan from Italy, Manchester United from England and Bayern Munich from Germany. There’s been a few you might not know of from lesser leagues but today’s video is about THE Forgotten Champions: Hamburger SV, a team from a big nation who played against the best teams and were crowned Champions of Europe.
00:00 – Intro
00:30 – History of HSV
05:15 – The Glory Days
17:50 – Legacy
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We all love Der Klassiker, don’t we? When the biggest German sides battle it out: Bayern Munich and Borussia Monchengladbach.
Wait, you expected to see another Borussia didn’t you? Whilst Dortmund and Bayern participate in the game known as the Klassiker now, it isn’t the Original Klassiker. No chance, because in the 1970s Bayern’s fiercest rivals were Gladbach, and they were competitive in a way that Dortmund have never been.
00:00 – Intro
00:30 – Before the Rivalry
04:10 – The Original Klassiker
19:45 – Legacy
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Red Bull gives you wings, as the marketing strapline goes. Certainly, Red Bull has had the ability to give wings to several non-descript football clubs you might never have heard of: from the MetroStars to Austria Salzburg and SSV Markranstadt. But have they given football the wings to fly away from tradition and community that it was founded on, to create something rotten to the core?
00:00 – Intro
00:30 – Salzburg
03:10 – New York
06:50 – Leipzig
11:05 – Rangnick
19:25 – Legacy
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There hasn’t been a more unbelievable rise in modern day football from continental Europe. At the start of the 21st century, Union Berlin were broke, they were in the fourth tier and they needed their fans to re-build their stadiums. But since, they’ve got up, up and up right to the summit of the Bundesliga and have participated in every UEFA competition. This is the story of how they did it.
00:00 – Intro
00:30 – Eisern Union
04:30 – Schiesse!
12:20 – European Union
20:00 – Legacy
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The Czechs have been successful at the top of international football: precisely four of them that made up their 1976 European Championship squad. Since the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, not so much.
Except for two glorious summers that straddled the new millennium so delicately. This is the story of a new age of Czech football, of 1996 and 2004, the Outsiders of Europe’s Twin Peaks.
00:00 – Introduction
00:30 – A Successful History
04:20 – EURO 96
14:25 – EURO 2004
21:05 – Legacy
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Despite being known as the European Brazilians, Yugoslavian football had a habit of being nearly men. But in the late 1980s, when the country was at breaking point, they were blessed with the greatest crop of players ever. They won the world youth championship, almost won a World Cup and, for the majority of their players, got to taste European Cup success in the Final Days of Yugoslavia.
00:00 – Introduction
00:30 – A Substantial History
05:00 – 1987 FIFA World Youth Championships
11:30 – 1990 FIFA World Cup
17:05 – Legacy
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In the early 1990s, Croatia were one of a new band of nations admitted into international football after the dissolutions of multiple European republics. Whilst the rest of them stuttered and failed, Croatia prospered and became one of the great stories of the late 20th century.
This is the story of the Birth of Croatia, in a football sense, and the rise of the Dark Horses of International Football: the great Croatian team of 1996 and 1998.
00:00 – Introduction
00:35 – A Violent History
05:25 – EURO 96
13:15 – 1998 FIFA World Cup
22:05 – Legacy
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Wales, the red-headed stepchild of British football. They could never have the glory or expectation of England, they couldn’t even lay claim to the history or moments of hope that belongs to Scotland.
When England were winning the World Cup, when Scotland were going to major tournaments: Wales watched them on the telly. They spent a literal lifetime in the wilderness, between 1958 and 2016. This is a film about those times.
00:00 – Introduction
00:30 – A Brief History
04:50 – 1976
10:20 – 1980s
17:45 – 1992 and 1994
22:30 – 2004
26:30 – The Generation of Qualifying
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1970 meant the most colourful spectacle on Earth: the FIFA World Cup held in Mexico. England were reigning champions, Brazil had a lad called Pele, Europe brought its heavyweights in Italy, West Germany and Soviet Union and the Latin countries of Mexico, Peru and Uruguay had homefield advantage. It remains one of the best World Cup’s in history, a World in Colour.
00:00 – Introduction
00:30 – Road to Mexico
12:15 – Group A
14:45 – Group B
16:40 – Group C
19:40 – Group D
22:20 – Knockouts
32:00 – Legacy
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They were never supposed to win the Champions League. They had a new manager in a foreign land, they lost Michael Owen and Steven Gerrard almost followed him. They were seconds away from elimination against Olympiakos, were up against it in Turin and in West London and that’s before we get to Istanbul, where Six Minutes of Magic helped lift Liverpool’s fifth European Cup.
00:00 – Introduction
00:25 – The Houllier Years
06:25 – A Miserable Season
11:10 – The Road to Istanbul
24:20 – Rafa’s Legacy
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The Boot Room was dead. Kenny Dalglish burned out. Now what was there for Liverpool? The Premier League was sneaking up on them, Europe was back and they needed to be in the mix to receive all the heightened riches, fame and glory that came with it.
Instead, it was a decade to forget in terms of trophies. In terms of entertainment value? Well, it was spicy to say the least: this is Anfield Spice—and Liverpool in the 90s.
00:00 – Introduction
00:30 – The Souness Years
05:40 – The Spice Boys
20:35 – The Legacy
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Any normal football club would’ve folded. A stadium disaster that left supporters dead, a European Cup final lost and the lineage of great coaches culled abruptly. 1985 was a formative year for Liverpool.
They had been carried by the weight of the Boot Room, through Shankly, Paisley and Fagan and were now picking up the pieces of a near 30-year footballing odyssey. What next? This is The Last of the Boot Room.
00:00 – Introduction
00:35 – The Rise of the Boot Room
10:25 – The Dalglish Years
18:45 – Hillsborough
26:35 – Legacy
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Total Football was dead. The eighties killed all hope, with its wing-back system, sweepers in the backline and rampant hooliganism and stadium disaster. Football needed a bit of light injected back into it, and so too did Ajax.
Johan Cruyff came back, and tried, but was quickly lured away by Barcelona again. Up step Louis van Gaal, a football war of philosophical ideas and Ajax’s Total Recall to the top of the European game.
00:35 - Since Total Football
04:30 - Total Recall
19:55 - Legacy
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Pele called football “The Beautiful Game”, Cruyff declared “winning is an important thing,” and Mourinho said “if you have a Ferrari and I have a small car, to beat you in a race I have to break your wheel or put sugar in your tank”.
Let’s forget about that last lunatic and focus more on the guy who said the second thing: Johan Cruyff. The leader of Total Football, the thoroughfare that explains the history of football tactics. This documentary hopes to explain the Totality of Total Football.
00:00 – Introduction
00:35 – How we reached Total Football
03:55 – How Ajax reached Total Football
07:20 – The Michels Foundation
17:10 – The Kovacs Success
24:35 – The Legacy
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The Champions League—i.e. good football—is finally back, except UEFA have decided to be wet wipes and change the future of the sport with their Swiss Model format change. So, we’re looking back instead and creating dozens of alternate histories from the CHAMPIONS LEAGUE! Let’s gooooooooooo.
00:00 – Introduction
00:25 – What if Juventus beat Real Madrid in 1987?
02:05 – What if Luis Figo scored the penalty v Juventus in 2003?
04:20 – What if Juventus qualified for the Champions League in 1999?
06:10 – What if Juventus qualified from the Champions League group in 2000?
07:50 – What if Juventus qualified from the Champions League group in 2009?
09:35 – What if Juventus qualified from the Champions League group in 2013?
11:20 – What if Lazio qualified for the Champions League in 2002?
12:50 – What if Lazio qualified for the Champions League in 2011?
14:10 – What if Lazio qualified for the Champions League in 2018?
16:20 – What if Inter beat Atletico Madrid in 2024?
17:55 – What if Torino won the UEFA Cup in 1992?
19:40 – What if Napoli beat Spartak Moscow in 1990?
21:30 – What if Napoli qualified for the Champions League in 2012?
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Rome both is and isn’t a football town. The people who live there might be crazy about the
sport but the clubs who also live there aren’t really that successful at the sport.
For a brief window in the late 90s and early 2000s, that changed. This is the story about when Rome ruled Italy, in a football sense of course, but only too briefly.
00:00 – Introduction
00:30 – Lazio
08:35 – Roma
14:30 – 1999/2000
21:35 – 2000/2001
28:55 – Legacy
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Napoli were just existing, living day-to-day with the survival in the jungle known as Serie A in the 1980s. Up north unimaginable glories and successes that never got handed down to the little people in the south of a country harshly divided in football.
All it took was one little genius to change Calcio forever. Napoli, the House That Maradona Built.
00:00 – Intro
00:30 – Napoli
04:45 – Diego Maradona
08:45 – Magica
18:45 – Legacy
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Italian football has a big three: Juventus, Milan and Inter. One’s successful back home,
the other more so abroad and the other… neither here nor there.
This is Inter Milan, a team that can dominate but often prefers to keep its success brief,
with long distances between. However, there was a moment—just one moment—when they
might just have been the best Italy had ever seen. And it is when Germany
controlled Calcio.
00:00 – Introduction
00:35 – Inter
05:40 – Trap
10:50 – The Germans
13:50 – Germany x Inter
23:25 – Legacy
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If you were told to mention the greatest teams in the history of Italian football you’d throw in clubs like Juventus, Milan, Inter, maybe even a Napoli or one from the capital. You’d mention players like Baggio, Platini, Zidane, Maradona, Totti and the like.
But they’re not the best Calcio ever seen. This is, and it’s the story of Il Grande Torino: the best football team you’ve never heard of.
00:00 – Intro
00:30 – A Brief History of Italian Football and Torino
03:15 – Erno Erbstein
06:35 – Lucchese: The Blueprint
09:20 – The False Start
16:35 – When Torino Became Grande
23:35 – Il Grande Torino
31:05 – Up On Superga Hill
36:25 – Legacy
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