The problem is nowadays many young footballers are being called "the next Messi" or "the next Pele". Has modern football turned into a case of "two dribbles and you're GOAT?"

Dear HITC 7, can you do a video about the rise and forgotten talent Sadio Berahino? That would be lovely.

It would seem that the person throwing the "next Pele" label around the most is...Pele.

You had the chance to bust out the most perfect "without further Adu" in the intro and ya blew it! How could you???

Having once been referred to as ‘Beckenbauer’ while playing for a local Sheffield pub team, I’d like to think I understand the pressure these boys were under… Great video as always Alfie. Most successful players outside of the game when they finished their careers?

Really like the segment about Zico. I'm 100% on board with you about how he would've been perceived world wide If Brasil had won the 1982 World Cup. What he has done in his golden years with Flamengo (and Brasil) is among the greatest peaks a player ever had. Unfourtunately, since the World of Football has this "eurocentric" atitude - more strongly in the last 2/3 decades, thinking that the current gap to South American Football was always this large, when in fact brazilian club football could rival Europe's elite at his time - and Zico had a brief period in italian football, a lot of people can't have the notion that he was a top 20 (for some, even top 10) in the history of the game.

I was hoping to see some honorable mentions. Good to see some ‘forgotten’ footballers who were still amazing players in their own right despite not living up to frankly impossible title.

Pele is a genius! The reason he is saying all of these players are his heir is so that it puts more pressure on them and thus ensuring that they never reach his levels of success. Absolute shithousery lmao

I was called a “Gerrard” when I was playing midfield for my school, I was honestly happy with that because he’s my favourite player but then my school coach had the brilliant idea to play me at Keeper because I played it pretty well ONCE. After that I became a “David James” 💀

Romario would be a good contender, he even claimed to surpass Pele's professional record of goals scores

You forgot Pele's greatest triumph: His appearance in the masterpiece, "Escape to Victory" 😆

Day 23: Best XI made of club captain. (Current players)

It was kind of cute the pronunciation of "Arantes" with a more "European portuguese accent" than the Brazilian one. And don't get me wrong, I'm brazilian and it didn't bothered me; just think it was cute! Thank you for always give some atenttion to Brazilian Football, Alfie! It's really rare from english speaking channels to do so! 😁

Pele video made by hitcsevens. Doesn't get much better. Well learning about a football club from 1930s might of inched it out. Great video as always 👏

Fantastic compilation and naration. Thapelo, Joburg, South Africa

Do one on James Rodriguez going to Qatar, or just the 7 best players to have gone to play in Qatar ;-)

What did I miss? I thought you were on Holiday? Still, another entertaining context for an enjoyable trip down memory lane. Cheers Alfie! 🍻🎆

Boy, this really was without Freddy Adu

as it was said in the video there are dozens of players who were nicknamed Next Pelé, so it wouldn't even be the case to call it an omission, but I would like to remember an early 90s player named Dener, who is considered by those who saw him as a very skilled player, yet tragically died in a car accident at age 23.

In the early 90s, AFC Bournemouth signed Chukki Erribone from I believe a local non league outfit. He played up front and in his debut game scored a 40 yd screamer which squeezed into the top corner. Dean Court went berserk believing they had a real life Roy of The Rovers. I have a feeling he didn’t score again for the 1st team before moving to Havant & Waterlooville but certainly made an even bigger impact whilst on the bench when Cherries were away at Reading. Chukki snuk behind their Mascot - pulled off his head and was chased by the headless mascot . From then on he was revered with chants of “ Chukkis’ Gonna Get You “ 🙄

Do a similar Video about The 'Next Maradona's.'

Being an adult now its crazy to think how good pele must have been for the prejudice past to consider him a goat when most black players where forgotten at that time

Alfie, i need you to cover something involving peruvian football. there’s so much interesting stuff there id love to hear you talk about

Lampety had a tough time even as a player. His 2 kids died and Ghana refused to let him bury them in Ghana. The three remaining kids turned out to not be his and when he was in Germany his team rates refused to speak to him or sleep in same hotel room

Do a video on that Controversial Club you mentioned. It sounds interesting.

Day 4. The 7 best center half partnership's in the Premier League era. Please can you do a video on this?

Can someone also make videos of George Weah a very dangerous player could run with the ball box to box and score.

No Graziano Pelle? What's more, that's his legal name!

2020 would be Robinho's 4th spell at Santos! He returned for the second time in 2010, when he played alongside Neymar and won the Brazilian Cup and after the rape case in Italy he played shortly for Santos in 2014.

How many time is pele gonna name someone his “ heir “ ?

14:55...Barthez looks funny with hair....

Maybe next time you could do a video about the many "White Peles" of football, you could talk about Zico, or Osvaldo "El Beto" Alonso, who is one of the greatest ever players in the Argentinian Primera División

you need to do a video on magio,a forgotten genius of the game

Day 8 : Every professional seasons of X player ( Henry or Messi for example) from worst to best

Do a updated football criminals video, players eaither recently retired or still playing

14:18 incredibly generous nickname from school kids. If he's been at my school he'd have probably been called 'Gary Coleman' :)

14:54 .. its that Fabien Barthez with hairs ??

4:10...pretty sure that's Ugo Ehiogu....not Lamptey...

In my mind Robinho isn't a flop. He had great spells at City and Real Madrid and just injuries have ruined his career.

Can we have a "The Next Heskey" video

I scored a goal with Pele on fifa, he came to my house and asked if he could add the goal to his irl tally

Funny story about Abedi Pelé: It is said that when 1860 Munich came calling he actually thought they were Bayern Munich, so he signed for them thinking he had signed for Germany's biggest club. He denies this story of course.

I remember Lamptey in CM. Always the first player I bought!

4:01 Ugo Ehiogu. Not Lamptey mate

Cubillas was a beast. My grandad was from Argentina and he said he was the best South American player at the 1978 world cup. Had he been Brazilian or Argentinian I bet he could have gotten a World Cup for Himself for sure!

Nii Lamptey was an OG Champ Man God tier player

Pele, the real one, seems somewhat Nevillesque in his pronouncements and prognostication regarding other players talent…or perhaps he is attempting to curse them in some way.

Zico has to be the most underrated footballer of all time. He is the only attacking footballer to be ELITE at Dribbling, Playmaking and Goal scoring besides Messi. Most legends of the game only have 2 of these abilities. I can't think of any player (Apart from the two I mentioned) who was elite (One of the best of all time) at all 3. IMO, the top 5 players of all time are (Based on ability): 1) Messi 2) Pele 3) Zico 4) Maradona 5) Cruyff

Best 7 players during the early years of the Premier league up to 1995.

@0:40 "pele changed the game forever" he did indeed but I'm not sure it's exactly the amazing game the Brazilians played in the 70s anymore. It's more like basketball/futsal tactics now...

Could we get a video on players labelled the next Maradona?

As an Arsenal fan I'd like to just add, you forgot about our very own and much loved "Romford Pele".....!?!?!

Peter Maranello was the 1st player I recall being labelled “ the new George Best “ 👍❤️

Top 7 stadiums with the brightest floodlights?

just thinking about the kids who will grow up with the media saying that pele only scored against milkman and construction workers

Neymar should be no 1 here to be honest. He was heralded as the new pele 10 years ago

MBappé is lucky he will avoid the Pele curse as he is the First MBappé not the replacement Pele...

If you love the game of FOOTBALL then you have no reason what so ever to put thumbs down on this MANIFCIENT player, there must be some other reason for the thumbs down on THE GREATEST OF ALL TIMES, KING PELE.

I genuinely forgot Abedi Pele is actually the Ayew brothers dad so you learn something new every day

Pele is a legend in football. A video on Sutton united please how they won the league last season to be in league two A video on afc Wimbledon raise of nine promotions in eleven years Sheriff are doing good in champions league, 2 wins from 2 so far Some of the player stories of the next Pele were interesting What is going on at Oldham athletic could be good because of the fans protest

The tumor he's having removed is actually the 400 other goals he's forgotten to add to the total.

Pozdrav iz Srbije

Anthony Bourdain on the top right at 1:31?

Zico was dubbed the 'White Pele'.

Please do a video on the African Super League

Alfie!!! Back from vacation?

I think it was the same with "Rot-Weiß Essen" which you pronounced "Rot-Weisse Essen" and now the same with "Greuther Fürth". There is no extra "e" that is not in the German club name. "Greuther Fürth" not Greuther Fürthe. Especially frustrating because you pronounce the ü correctly XD

Wtf i was thinking about this literally like a minute ago and then i log onto yt and this is what i see

Ratiod for not including Léo Pelé, far from the closest to Pelé on the pitch, but certainly the footballer who has the most physical resemblance.

I had no idea Abedi was the Ayew's dad! Nobody ever really saw much of either, but it seems to me Zico was as good as Maradona

Leeds had the African Arthur Scargill In Tony Yeboa

First Taskmaster, now this! What a day!

Cool video,its a burden to be compared to Pele. Likes of Robinho and Adu were hyped up by the media and Pele himself and their talents did not manifest as promised.But the case of Kylian Mbappe was started by Aserne Wenger in 2017,he boldly stated that Mbappe can be the next Pele and everyone just laughed at him.His bold statements were completely dismissed and forgotten for more than a year until Round of 16 World cup match between France and Argentina.In that match Mpabbe scored twice and after the match,Historians searched the record books and realized he had just equaled a Pele record. So result of that match suddenly shifted attention of the entire Tournament to Mbappe and see if he can go all the way and score in the final like Pele.When France reached the final all eyes were on Mbappe and that Pele record. A few days before the final Mbappe was told by his advisers that should France attain a 2 goal cushion in 2nd half,he must pursue the PELE record. So if he got a chance to shoot from outside the Box,he must take a shot rather than dribble.Coz if he takes the shot and misses,he has nothing to lose,but if the shot goes in then he gets the Pele record for ever. After teams last training session,he stayed behind to practice his shooting from 25 yards out,to get his mind ready to pounce on any shooting chance from that range. As the Final match progressed,France got a 2 goal cushion after the hour mark and Mbappe began to focus on chasing that Pele record. He received a clean pass from Hernandez from 25 yards out and since his mind was so ready for it,he went for his long range shot without hesitation, and the ball went in.So he got that Pele record which changed his life forever. Now he is the most sought after Player,his club PSG turned down a record 200-220 million offer from Madrid,coz they don't want to sell him.His charisma,goal scoring prowess has made him a must for PSG to attempt winning their 1st ever Champions league. At the time of writing,he registered 2 assists in his recent match against City,he seems to be the one who is on the trajectory to getting close to the man himself.We have to wait and see if he gets any better as his aerial skills have improved recently ,he needs to tone down his ego coz that might get in the way of his success. So apart from Mbappe,many children would be advised to shun all Pele comparisons coz they are hard to live up to.

Who hasn't at some point of his career? 🤷‍♀️😌

A mate of mine told me the other day, that he had seen the white Pelè… and he goes by the name of Wayne Rooney

Well today I found out that Andre and Jordan Ayew's dad was the fake Pele from old Classic XI on fifa's 😂 Thanks Alfie, my pub quiz knowledge improves.

Alfie is the youtube Pele

Now in 2021 as long as ur an amazing scorer u can be the next goat .

I never heard Freddy Adu get marked the new Pele, the US was just gaga over him because he was 15 when he signed his first professional contract with the DC United, who then proceeded to ruin the poor kid.

This was good...

Pat McCourt the 'Derry Pele'. What a wizard when he chose to be.

Theory: Alfie overrates every player who retired before he was born because he never actually saw them play.

Best player from every decade.

Video on Romario who has more goals than messi or Ronaldo

Freddy Adu is still nuts to me since he is only 32, like…he just hit his athletic prime. I’m over here thinking he is 43 or some shit 🤣

Wait , No Stuart Barlow or Preki ?

You should make 7 players named as their country's Messi.

Football Best young talent That sadly didn’t live up to the hype . kelivin Ganso Robinho Michael Owen joe Cole Denilson Gaizka Mendieta David Bentley

I am convinced if Robinho had gone to Chelsea, he would have had a better career, the City move was a true sliding doors moment

Hope the Romford pele gets a mention

By 1972 Pele had retired for Brazil n I think playing for Cosmos

@3:15 Who knew the Dutch and other big Euro teams wandered the slums of Ghana and beyond for teenage talent instead of the downtrodden estates of Alkmaar, Gronigen or Grimsby. Why is that?

you're missing hugo, who são paulo fans used to call "the black pelé".

Bristol City Video about how much of a failure we are

After watching this video I feel like Pele tries to actively jinx other players by calling them "the next Pele" himself 😂.

As a football fan, first and foremost, I worry a bit about Mbappé. He has seemed a bit off-colour for the last year or so. Maybe he needs a change of scenery because he can't be motivated by Ligue 1 anymore, even if PSG hardly win every title. But compared to his first 3 years at Monaco and PSG he seems to have lost the hunger. I hope he's not burned out or satisfied, because he could become a legend of the game if he just keeps working hard and improving, like Cristiano Ronaldo. Always wanting to improve, be better, work harder.

Alfie ok there is argument over the best football players in the world. On talent my 1 is maradona 2 pele 3 Ronaldo cr7 and 4 messi. But who is the best role model. I'd say 1 pele 2 Ronaldo 3 messi 4 maradona i'd like your thoughts

No ray parlour?

What happened to Panathinaikos?

How about next Maradona?