Is also worth mentioning the story of Junior Messias, who was a talented Cruzeiro youth player before deciding to quit because he didn't get a professional contract. Then he emigrated to Italy to work as a delivery man, while he started playing in amateur leagues as a hobby and in 7 years he ended up at AC Milan where he just won the Scudetto

Surely Santi Carzola deserves a place here. Going from a career ending injury tot he la liga team of the season is incredibile.

The fact Thiago Silva joined Chelsea in his mid 30s and has already become a club icon is crazy

This is a Certified HITC Classic …. 🔥. ⚽️

Trautmann is the only man to have won the George Cross and the Iron Cross. My father saw his debut. Apparently he won the home fans over by half-time. Footballers complain about getting abuse from the stands, but Trautmann had worked for an organisation (the Luftwaffe) that had killed someone close to every person in the crowd within the past eight years. Imagine the hostility. Yet he won them round.

"The best goalkeeper is playing in Manchester, and he's German." - Lev Yashin

Thiago Silva's story is absolutely inspirational, has been a terrific signing for Chels. I didn't think he would be after a disastrous debut, but he soon became a leader within the side 💙🤍 #KTBFFH x

I want a part two just to see Joelinton get the recognition he deserves.

I, would like to mention Peter Reid, of Bolton Wanderers and Everton. He started of with Bolton, as a highly rated midfielder, wining the second division championship and going on to play in the first division. His career floundered, with chronic knee injuries and it seemed over for him. That was until Everton took a gamble on Reid recovering his fitness and form, they paid a small fee for him and the rest is history. He won two League titles, the FA Cup, the European Cup Winners Cup and more than a few England caps.

I was heartbroken when we had to sell Silva due to Berlusconi's mess, he was brilliant at CDM and CB for Milan.

A great redemption arc was also the relationship between Vini Jr and Benzema from last season to this one. From “on my mother’s life, he’s playing against us” to the most lethal attacking duo in world football this season.

Haven’t even started watching this yet Alfie, but thank you so much for putting something out on this topic. I have been looking for these redemption arc stories for inspiration for a long time. When I was younger, I was touted as some golden child (not in football). But as I got older, things went tits up and I have been trying to recover ever since. So thanks for this, Alfie. These happy endings are inspirational.

Best German players in the premier league of all time. (Day 334) I will not give up until the video is made or Alfie himself tells me to stop. Everyone else telling me that will be ignored. If you don't believe my number, just go back to the previous videos. I'm at the bottom most of the time, but I'm there.

This made me think of Sam Hutchinson. I know a lot of people unless you watch the English football league, won't know who he is, but he was once a promising player at Chelsea, earning a pro deal and featuring a few times for the 1st back in 2007 - 2010ish. However he retired due to a knee injury in August 10, but came out of retirement in December 11 with Chelsea re-signing him. He never cut the mustard at Chelsea's but went on to make around 200 appearances, mainly for sheff wed in the 11 following seasons. I know he has still been plagued with injuries and never won a trophy l, but he gave absolutely everything when he played football. Could really see he loved playing football.

I think that Trautmann's story deserves seperate video

I’m a Man City fan and I still get goosebumps when I hear about Trautmann’s story. Astonishing. Thank you for highlighting him here.

Day 13 - The Fall and Rise of FK Velež Mostar From a Club that has beaten Borussia Dortmund, Twente, Derby County and many others to a club that was forced from their own stadium, reduced to nothing during the Bosnian War, becoming a mediocre top-level team in the 00s to nearly being forced into folding in 2016 to its amazing rise back to the top-level football which culminated in return to Europe after 33 years which has seen elimination of Coleraine before a suprising win over AEK Athens before exiting 3rd Round against Elfsborg IF and recently continuing in the Cup win this season which has ensured another European summer next season

The Rise and Fall of Dinamo Bucharest from the Romanian League.Relegated this season after 74 seasons in the first Romanian League, the Romanian club with the best fans and with the 2nd most titles and cups .

One of your better videos. And that means something, because of all my favourite youtubers, you are one of the better ones. Big respect for the consistent quality videos you produce. You need your own show on TV.

Always love to see Modric’s story. Marca is no more than a glorified tabloid in Spain

This video is actually motivating.

David Martindale is one of the best managers in Scotland he’s lucky to have Livingston and Livingston is lucky to have David! They’re a great little club

Great video Alfie as always. I feel Benzema has had a great redemption arc over the past few years. Due to the scandals, his massive dip in 2018, and being exiled from the France squad, to now being the front runner for the Ballon D’or is a fantastic redemption story

This is a great arc! One of your videos to date!

I really like Trautmann's story.

I was actually happy watching the bit about Alenichev, up until the politics part: by joining United Russia, he undid all his previous great redemption work

I think your introductions are brilliant!

One of your best video and i am a fan!

I really enjoyed that one. Thanks.

a part 2 is needed alfie

2015/16 Serge Gnabry: 1 league app for West Brom Tony Pulis: 'Serge has come here to play games but he just hasn’t been for me, at that level to play the games' June 2022 Gnabry: 4 Bundesligas, 20 goals in 33 for Germany, 1 UCL Pulis: 2 years retired with a 10% win record at his final club

The most enjoyable football channel 👏🏻😀

I’m usually against it but I think a pt 2 would be great loved this video!

Day 38: Considering that the last player who played in the miracle of Bern died about 6 months ago, I would really like to see a video about the whole story between Germany and Hungary, especially because it meant so much to at least the German population

I love your intros mate

Great vid

Love your intros Alfie!

class video and idea 👏🏼👏🏼

Great vid!

Lifelong Chelsea fan but Santi Cazorla is one of my favorite comeback stories... truly a fighter

Great video Alfie! Just a tip: most non-English words that end with an e, have to be fully pronounced with the extra syllable at the end, like Juventude and Luftwaffe having four and three syllables respectively. In English this is usually signified by writing it as é, like café or Beyoncé (although there are the very few exceptions like catastrophe or recipe), but in other languages it usually isn't.

Truly remarkable achievements respectively by these respective players who have sacrificed themselves to become a world class player and I hope to see more of the same from the current players in near future,good friends!!!🙏

Brilliant video, suggestion based on this though: maybe a video on the most impressive player reinventions would be a good idea? I.e. players who started out in one position and ended up successfully changing their role later on. A Good example would be Philip Lahm, when he went from being a world class full back to a world class DM just like his successor Kimmich, or Joelinton having gone from a failed striker to a brilliant box to box midfielder etc.

Part two definitely

Martindale's interviews are even better than his life story

I love a redemption story. Gives us a little hope that the romance is still in the game.

Make a part two!!

Big Davy is a legend. Says it how it is and does phenomenal press conferences at Livi

a documentary on the afc Wimbledon on the nine promotions in eleven years, how they’re a fan own club and how they have a stadium in plough lane now. The story of they lost the club, how the F A allowed that and won’t allow that anymore. How they were very close to moving to ireland How they went up the English football leagues. It would be a good documentary video if you can do this. #thepeopleschannel

Loved Alenichev entry as a FCPorto fan he is still one of my favourite porto players ever. pure class and a great player

Junior Messias and Thiago Silva are the biggest ones for me, Ian Wright still has a redemption arc because he was in prison when he was young and turned his life around

Day 478: Ways to fix VAR with your suggestions

You brought up Alenichev and I was like "oooooh, I remember that name!!" I'm Portuguese, grew up supporting Benfica. Alenichev was a name I remembered with respect.

Bert Trautmann's movie "the keeper" is a really great movie to watch.

Glad you included martindale

7 best premier league loan signings (players like Landon donovan or henrik larsson who only ever played on loan)

You're introductions are hella dope now

A video about the success story of Port Vale since Carol Shanahan took over, considering we just won the playoff final.Her charity work, bringing in Darrell Clark, then the things he went through this season. Plus we were on a winning streak and 1 point off the playoffs and she voted to end the first covid season early.

Part 2 please Alfie

Alfie really won't let go the fact Beckham supports 2022 World Cup :)) and I like Alfie for that, Bekcs is my childhood hero but obviously he's too much of an opportunistic entrepreneur nowadays

Jamie vardy would in fact have an arc, however it would be upside down than the one showed in the intro

Part 2 please

Hey that's Steven 🇿🇦with Modric

You don’t mention “Bend it like Beckham” from 2002, which I believe played a role in furthering his redemption and growth in world wide popularity.

Man's got a cheese toasty ready in a minute. This video and that munch is like a Cole/Yorke level combo.

Love your videos, please do what the hell is going on at 1860 munchen

I know the video is about redemption arcs but an arc doesn't only go down and back up, it can also be the inverse. I appreciate your priority for the positive though. Are we also going to see a video where people came from nothing to greatness and then back down again? I can think of two players from my own supported team (Mendy and Johnson) who fit that bill. Your intros are really good and they remind me of the Squires comments before they became just pun threads ad nauseum. Keep up the good work.

Surprised there are not more spectacular redemption arcs. Plenty of rags-to-riches-to-rags cases, few the other way round. And I feel a redemption arc should really be where someone got lazy and lost it for a time, rather than fighting back bravely from injury. A good example would be Paul McGrath whose career went off the rails at Man U and even Alex Ferguson couldn't get him to stop drinking, but he went to Aston Villa and regained his talent. I have happy memories of Paul Merson in Portsmouth's promotion season. In fact managers seem to have more spectacular redemption arcs than players; look at Ranieri, written off after Chelsea and Greece, taking Leicester to the Premier League title, or Roy Hodgson from failure at Liverpool to success at Fulham and Palace, and most recently David Moyes.

I'm so early, HITC Sport is still being hosted by the Irish Guy...

That “in all seriousness” picture is gold, please say that phrase most often if only just so we see that Frank meme again

Let's hope we can see hazard in this list in a few years

Beckham was never to blame for England's loss... Alan Shearer elbowed the goalkeeper and we had a goal disallowed because of it... and nobody remembers!

Great video....Aleynichev scored the second goal...Derlei got the winner...

Part 2 would be cool.

17:36 I'm pretty sure that this is the saddest injury in football. The best of the "what if" cenarios. Ronaldo would end his career with +700 goals easily if not for that

Please do a video on the 10 weirdest kit changes in Malaysia’s 3rd tier

Can’t imagine that Ronaldo, Davie Martindale and hitler have all come up in one 22 minute video before

I feel like Modrics story shifted during the night Vs. Manchester United. When he scored a golazo + contributed to winning

bojan and powell in the intro as failed wonderkids, even though they’re two of my favourite players as a stoke fan

Number 1 needs his own documentary

Gary McAllister signing for Liverpool at the age of 35 (although he looked like 40 at that time) helping them to a Cup treble in 2000 could be included here

Number 4 is my favourite 💯

Great video can we have some background music tho

Oooh Thiago Silva 🎶

You should do in depth story about the number 1 spot

Truatmann did a lot for ex nazi POW’s in the Wigan area, my great grandad being one of them. He helped lobby (bribe) the newspapers into realising these were just young lads who were brainwashed and change local opinion. Ian McKellens father used to take those young lads for weeks at a time to try to help de nazify them and see the real way of life. Randomly enough I now own and live in Ian McKellens childhood home near Wigan park, I found out this information after he popped round for a brew once a few years ago dong a document on his life. So I guess you could say through his fathers educated and non bias eyes everything has gone full circle.

7 Best Premier League players that never played for their country.

Alinichev scored the second goal in the 2003 UEFA Cup final. Derlei Silva scored the winner

The ”however” Hoever joke 😂😂

You should do 7 best football films you've watched

I think Jonas also needed a spot in this video.

an Arc can be the other way round too, Goes up and then comes back down.

I'd have said Henrik Larsson after two leg breaks still ended the GOAT at Celtic and playing for Man Utd and Barcelona.

How did Eduord Mendy not get included????

I only wanted to watch the Thiago Silva one but I am glad I stayed for the Trautman part. I will be watching the movie. As a Jose Mourinho fan, I am not a big fan of Alfie's videos so I am happy I put aside my biased and finished this. Soldiers can be victims too. Given the current Ukraine war, I hope people see it this way, God Bless you all

Can you make a video about your seven best videos.... creativity, views, and content all considered

If you do the reverse or a “fall from grace” you have Anatoliy Tymoshcuk front and center of that thumbnail

I beg people watching find interviews with Martindale. Genuinely inspiring

Hopefully Jordan Rossiter (former Liverpool prodigy) can revitalize his career like this, as well...

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