Souleyman Sané played 174 games (51 goals) as a centre forward in the german Bundesliga and has 55 caps (29 goals) under his name for Senegal. One of his sons is called Leroy Sané.

Javier Hernandez should’ve been mentioned. His grandpa is a Mexican football legend with Chivas. His father was also a decent midfielder.

Diego Forlán’s case is an interesting one, in that they were both great footballers. Forlan’s maternal grandfather, his father and himself all won the Copa América.

I think this pressure will effect brothers too, the pressure on Ethan Mbappe and Jobe Bellingham is so big now its insane. Especially on Jobe who was once touted as the most talented brother. It makes the task so much harder, still possible though and their name might help them get more oppurtunities. It's importent for them to play their own games though.

This is related to the whole father-son football discussion so I'll say this. When Marcus Thuram got booked for diving in the World Cup final, his father who was in the stands had a dead stare on him. Honestly he looked like he was gonna slap him with a shoe after the game and tell him "That's not how I raised you!"

The moment I saw this video I immediatelly thought of Maldini. Few father-son duos can boast this kind of achievements at the very top level of the game.

One I was expecting, at least in the honourable mentions, was Wojciech Szczęsny. His father Maciej was also a goalkeeper, who won 7 caps for Poland, and won the Polish League 4 times with 3 different clubs, in addition to 3 Polish Cups, one League Cup, Polish Supercup, and Runner-up in the League. And Wojciech had to replaced Buffon in Juventus. There are few bigger shoes to fill in football, and he did a great job.

One that deserved a mention, was Javier "Chicharito" Hernandez who played in Man U, Bayer Levercusen and Real Madrid and is one of the all time top goalscored for Mexico, his father Javier "Chicharo" Hernandez was a winger that spent his his career in Mexico and was selected to the World Cup in 86, what is notable of Chicharito is that his grandfather on his mother side Tomás Balcázar was also a a footballer of great renown and even scored a goal in the 1954 World Cup.

Lampard's resemblance to his old man is astonishing.

Alexis Mac Allister has to be the most recent example, having an illustrious career in his national team over his dad, Carlos Mac Allister.

A bit surprised to see no mention of Jamie and Harry Redknapp alongside Frank Lampard Jr/Sr, especially as Jamie and Frank Jr are actually cousins. Worth a mention in part 2. Sad that Jamie's career was cut short by injury. Frank is the classic example of a footballer who worked incredibly hard throughout his career to develop every ounce of his potential. A true professional.

Pretty disappointed not to see the Laudrup Brothers here (Michael and Brian) being the sons of danish international Finn Laudrup

Frank Lampard seniors’ description as breed between his son and joe Wilkinson is brilliant and scarily accurate

Ronald Koeman is a special case, because his father Martin Koeman, a solid player for FC Groningen who won 1 cap, was upstaged by not one, but two of his sons. Ronald's older brother Erwin, although not as successful as Ronald, still played at a very high level with PSV (a European top team at the time) and earned 31 caps.

It's cool to hear about Djorkaeff. A very good player who is sometimes forgotten too quickly.

I think an interesting case is Valentino Mazzola and Sandro Mazzola.... While it's tough to split the two, and if I have to, I will lean towards Valentino; but both of them are among Italy's Greatest All Time players...

You always ignore CONCACAF. Javier Hernandez (Chicharito). His dad AND grandfather were professional players and both went to the World Cup, Javier became Méxicos all time scorer.

Hey Alfie, you should do a video on the rise and fall of Portuguese team Belenenses-SAD or B-SAD. They were a team which was only founded in 2018 and, played in the Portuguese first division last season, but are now being faced with relegation from the second division. They have a interesting history, although rather short, and i’m sure you could turn their story into a very interesting video.

You forgot the Laudrup brothers Brian and Michael.... their father Finn Laudrup was also a professional in austria and a national!

Arnor was such a class player. Patrik Andersson, son of Malmö legend Roy Andersson. Patrik played for Malmö, Blackburn, Mönchengladbach, Bauern Munich and Barcelona. He won CL and Bundesliga at Bayern, Bronze at the 94 world cup and reached the semis of euro 92, being the lynchpin in the Swedish defence at the age of 23 and 21.

Finn Laudrup: Danish pro. With 19 caps for Denmark. His two sons Michael And Brian ended up being better than him.

Lampard Snr made a photocopy of himself.

The first one that came to my mind, purely because I'm a Villa fan, was Matty Cash. Stuart Cash was a decent enough football league stalwart, his son is a Premier League regular who just defended against Messi and Mbappe at the World Cup. If you did this video again in 10 years time - maybe Liam Delap might be one that is mentioned. He looks like a real talent at youth levels. If given the opportunity, I think he could be better than Rory.

Who already knew beforehand that Paolo Maldini would take the 1st spot???😉😉😉😉😉

Worth a mention as well to the late-Pelé. His father, Dondinho, was said to be a decent player before an injury made him hang up his boots early. R.I.P. to one of the footballing greats

Gudjohnsson's bicycle kick goal for Chelsea remains one of the best Premier League goals of all time. He hit such a clean strike that the ball was in the back of the net before the keeper could set his feet.

Kind of surprised Puskás was only an honourable mention

I'm in my 50s and Maldini is the best left back I've seen. Just class, if he lost the ball or got dribbled past it was a real rarity.

Alfie, you could do a video on Father's who signed their sons whilst managers? Kenny Daglidh signed Paul while at Newcastle and Steve Bruce has signed Alex several times.

7 countries never to have qualified for the Euros. 1 - Serbia (as an independent nation) 2 - Bosnia (probably should’ve in the 2010s) 3 - Israel (should have done better imo over the years) 4 - Luxembourg (improving) 5 - Georgia (one to watch in the next decade) 6 - Montenegro (perhaps could have sneaked through a play off by now) 7 - Cyprus (surely one day they will at least get to one finals!)

Cheers Alfie, thanks for depressing me.... as a Bolton fan thinking back to the times we had the likes of Youri & Eidur........... happy days

Love the video. Waiting for the next part eagerly.

Before watching the video, a few that spring to mind. McAlister for Argentina. His father played for Boca Juniors and won a handful of caps for Argentina. Daley Blind exceeds his father Danny, arguably.

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Maybe video the best footballing families, not only-father son, but also brothers, cousins, uncles, nephew etc. BTW if Aguero will have a somewhat decent playing son then just by virtue having in the same family Aguero and Maradono, he would create probably the most powerful football family. Just imagine the pressure if your father is Aguero and your grandfather is Maradona :D

Nigel and Brian clough is a tough one as Brian career cut short from injuries but was a prolific striker but nigel went to to have a better playing career

Paolo Maldini was a worthy winner. As a defender, he was so good at tackling that he could have played 90 minutes in an Armani suit and not got a wrinkle on it.

No Pepe Reina? His father was also a goalkeeper, a player by the name of Miguel Reina and played for Atletico de Madrid and Barcelona as well as represented Spain. An excellent keeper in his own right, Jose Manuel 'Pepe' Reina was even better. It's a shame that Iker Casillas was around then, otherwise Pepe Reina would have 100 caps for Spain, as opposed to the 36.

Great video. Alfie, and glad to see you corrected your initial mispronunciation of Matthias (Sammer). Keep doing what you are doing!

speaking of Frank Lampard being accused of being a beneficiary of nepotism, Giuliano Simeone is likely the exact opposite problem in that his dad doesn't let him play for Atleti to make sure he isnt accused of it, any other player with Giuliano's stats for the Atletico Bs would see him getting minutes (like with Garces, Camello, Mollejo etc. all getting reasonable minutes for the first team). Just an interesting aspect of other problems that can arise when your dad is a coach

few I did not know, great video

Top content my amigo 🎉

Another masterclass from you Alfie, well done.

this is a good little video alfie

Might be cool to see a video about the rise of RC Lens. Promoted (some might say fortuitously)during the pandemic due to France suspending the Ligue 2 season, but have backed that up with back to back 7th place finishes. And this year they look like the team to challenge PSG for the Ligue 1 title after beating them 3-1

Fun fact: LeBron James said to the the press that he doesn’t want to his son pushed into the limelight to put pressure on him and then proceeds to name him LeBron James Jr 😂

A reverse could definitely get made as well i reckon. Justin kluivert for one definitely hasn't been able to live up to his namesake's legacy, though he's still got some years ahead him

Mark Bellingham is a well respected former footballer. Mark played for Met Police and England C and was an absolute goal machine for many West Midlands teams when he came up here. Sadly he got a bad knee injury which curtained his career progression in terms of football. But he scored 40 goals in a season for my team, many of them from stupid angles that aren't possible, lol. That being said he of course had a career outside of football as a policeman in the West Midlands Police force. He was a copper on the streets as well as banging in a stupid number of goals each season. Amongst other roles he was a race relations officer. He is married to Denise and a while later had a kid called Jude. That's a story kidda.

I am Dutch, I never knowed Nigel de Jong his dad was a football player aswell

I love this content

Maldini senior also coached Maldini Jr in the 1998 World Cup!

Claude Mak-ah-lay-laay. 😂 Haha love ya work Alfie!

*ummm i feel a need to correct the record about eidur gudhonsson being a regular during his Barcelona spell. In truth he was played a lot more sporadically at Barca and the majority of his appearances were from the bench. His transfer was a somewhat strange one from a Barca perspective but the timing of it explains a lot. It was a transfer that was brilliant for Chelsea given Eidur’s age at the time. He was one of the players signed in what was to become Frank Rijkaard’s final season as Barca coach. It was a very scattergun approach that signed players more for superficial reasons over what they can offer relative to something the team needs. Gudjonsson for all his goals scored at Chelsea struggled to really convince in the Barca system. By the time Barca had had unbelievable success in their first season under pep, Txiki Beguiristain was forced to sign only the players specifically requested rather than giving a whole bunch of random players that the coach never asked for thrown in his lap and forced to integrate. Still in spite of all that Pep still gave him minutes during that treble season and Eidur accepted the situation and didn’t complain or create unnecessary drama that would destabilize the team. He was a pro all the way through and I’m honestly happy for him that he got to be part of that amazing team that was having that incredible moment, albeit with minimal involvement in the decisive matches.

I already feel bad for the Messi brothers 20 years ahead of time. lol.

Footballers who are better than their fathers: - Every footballer whose father never played

Cesare, Paolo and Daniel Maldini have all won Serie A, that should have been mentioned.

When mentioning Frank Lampard and his uncle, i'm surprised you didn't make more of a point with Jamie Redknapp at the time, other honourable mentions missed Daley Blind and with further research a lot more that should've been in this top 7.

Hey really like your videos. I recently found out that since the WC 1982 in every final there is at least one Bayern player Munich player. Can you do a video of 7 clubs with the most appearances in the World Cup final match Happy new year

Since you mentioned it, could you make a video on the frankly outrageous amount of talent that could have declared for the Surinamese National team? Silly good names like Virgil van Dijk, Nigel de Jong, Gini Wijnaldum and a smathering of others all would have been eligable.

Haalands dad is more famous for Roy Keane's horror tackle than his skill as a player

It's arguable that Tiago Alcántara was better than his father. Mazinho was a world champion in 1994 and the finest defesive/creative midfielder you can imagine. When I see beast of burden like Roy Keane in lsit like "the best defensive midlfielder of all times" I cry.

We need a part 2 Alfie!!

Wow!!!This is an extremely so fascinating topic,mainly when there are some of the respective Interracial players who have thrived this sport more than their respective fathers and the first inclusion where,if the legendary Paulo Maldini sir chose to play for Slovenia instead of Italy,the national team could have at least be in the top 100 in the FIFA World Rankings!!!The most fascinating stuff is about the French legend Youri Djorkaeff sir who has French,Polish,Mongolian and Armenian heritages through his ancestries who could have have played for the three of the latter respective national teams but for sure,they must surely speak their respective ancesterial languages to their respective people and follow the respective ancestrials' traditions daily and ever in this world and other planets,good friends!!!LONG LIVES TO ALL OF THEM RESPECTIVELY,GOOD FRIENDS!!!:-D

Hi Alfie Can you do a video on the PSV Eindhoven treble winners from 1987-88? I feel like this team is never spoken of, compared to any other treble winning side

Vladimir Lenin was also a quarter Kalmyk Mongol

Bro daniel maldini's team's name literally means "the spice"

Another interesting case is Eden Hazards Father and Mother both played for Belgium at some point in their careers

Thiago, i would argue, is a better footballer than Mazinho. Surely at least an honourable mention, especially considering that his dad is a world cup winner

Can you make one of these videos about footballers who are brothers?

I guess the tip is don't get too good. Cristiano Ronaldo will keep telling us his son is his own man but the legacy of his father will forever hang over his head.

We need another one

aka, the Max Verstappen of football

You should look into the Alonso family. His Grandfather is a Madrid legend and his father also player for them. All 3 of them went on to represent Spain at the National level. Not sure if anyone else has had this kind of success.

Missing Michael Laudrup. Even played a few minutes with his dad if I remember correctly. Otherwise cool video!

Make a part 2

In part 2 can you mention Brian Clough and Nigel Clough,also kwame ampadu and Ethan ampadu

Frank Lampard, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Jamie Redknapp, Erling Harland, Jack Cork, Michael Owen, probably Charlie savage

I totally lost it at 4:20 with the doppelganger curveball.

Michael Laudrup (and Brian Laudrup), with father Finn Laudrup are also a good shout

HM to the Alonsos, where we have a peculiar case of one son being (arguably) better (Xabi) and the other worse (Mikel), than their father (Periko).

"Ragnar Klavan" and you got me, FCA Legend

Gudjohnson and Djorkaeff were among the first that came to mind for me

Do one on Fathers being better than sons such as Abedi Pele better than Jordan and Andre Ayew and Onandi Lowe who was a star for Rushden and Diamonds and Jamaica being better than his son Damion Lowe.

Another honourable mention to former Manchester United player, Argentina International, and Libertadores winner Juan Sebastián Verón. One of the best midfielders I've seen play. His father Juan Ramón "La Bruja" (the witch) Verón was a great Estudiantes player who won the Libertadores thrice and even beat Manchester United in the Intercontinental Cup in 1967. This is even more impressive when you understand that Estudiantes has never been one of the big clubs in Argentina. But his son was better, Juan Sebastián "La Brujita" (the little witch) Verón also got to win the Libertadores in 2009 and just barely lost to Pep Guardiola's Barcelona -perhaps the best team of all time-, where they were about to win before Barcelona tied it in the 88th minute and eventually won in extra time. Verón by then though had already played in Manchester United and been one of the best players for Argentina for years, even getting to be captain. One of the best midfielders Argentina has ever had.

12:15 Brian Bosworth or The Dog? Either way it's one hell of a mullet.

New arrival (in next 20 years) Pendu Jr and his Arabian Father...

I'm kind of assuming most professional footballers are better than their fathers, other family members and pets for that matter.....

This is the perfect list at the perfect timing for Pele to be at no. 1 but you left him out entirely

Do best football dynasties

Lampard has the same name and the same face as his dad

Why not a video on 7 female footballers who are better ( or achieved more ) than their fathers? Dutch ex-international player Manon Melis ( daughter of Harry Melis) comes to mind (as does Jill Roord, daughter of René Roord for that matter).

Need to do a part 2. Michael and Brian Laudrup are better than their Dad. Daley Blind possibly. Thiago and Rafinha. Maybe. Pepe Reina. Maybe again.

Messi,Ronaldo,Mbappe,Suarez,Van dijk, de bruyne, benzema. There you go

You didn't add these: 1.Sergio Busquets enjoyed a great success with Barcelona and Spain compared to Carles. 2.Rio Ferdinand's Manchester United won numerous Premier League titles and 2008 CL, which is better than his father (Les) and brother (Anton).

Anyone else think Nigel De Jong looks a bit like Jordan Peele in some of his pics?

Could do an amolst opposite of this. Son's that would be just under their fathers. Like Justin Kluivert, Marcus Thuram, Timothy Weah, etc. Playing/played professionally, have caps, good careers, but still in their fathers shadow.

Common lets get this to 1m view. Alf @hitc sevens, how about doing a video on a father and son who played for the same club, i.e Haaland, Ince, Lampard, Maldini, Cryuff. Or a video on a Country which used players who could have played for the Countries of their origin, i.e. France, England, Germany etc

i like that these "nepo babies" are genuinely hard workers

How about video about the best daughters and fathers combos. The daughter's career could be club, international or University.

The way Josh windass is going , he could be on a future list lol