While other channels say Pelé is a fraud, you take the time to research and make a video like this. On top of that your pronunciation "Campeonato Brasileiro" is perfect. Cheers from Brazil, Alfie

A year has 52 weeks. Brazilian league: 38 dates. Regional league: from 12 to 19 dates (depends on the state and how far the team goes). Brazilian Cup: from 8 to 12 dates (depends if the team starts in an earlier stage). Copa Libertadores: from 6 to 18 dates (like Champions). Copa Sulamericana: from 6 to 14 dates (like Europa League). The Brazilian league does not stop during international competitions. So, in Copa America the teams played without the most important players. Flamengo played 12 rounds without the main team. So there is a lot of work to be done in Brazil.

Do a similair video on the Beneliga, the proposed merged league between Belgium and The Netherlands

If this ever happens and financially, they can compete, we may see an end to Brazil's best playing on European soil at the club level. Some food for thought👍

33 minutes about the hypothetical Brazilian Premier League. You love to see it Now for a 45 minute video about the Mexican Premier League when the Liga MX clubs follow suit after the smashing success of this one

As an Argentinian I really hope they do it. We need to start showing people that public organizations like the CBF can't work. If that ever happens, us South Americans will be set free

Great video, Alfie! As a Brazilian myself, it's so good to see an english Football Channel that makes such a careful effort to dive and to understand the context of brazilian Football, currently and historically! Maybe one or two minor details are off, but as a whole, it's a really solid work! Congratulations! P.s: Although I support the idea of a reforming in my country's Top Flight, I also share the concern about the foreign investments's origins. Don't wanna see a gigantic economic bubble and dubious Business men get hold of all the power over the clubs and the League - kinda like what happened in England and most of Europeans countries, being honest.

Always great to see deep and specialized content about our national league! Well done! You're already doing a better job than 95% of our Brazilian TV pundits.

Request : What on earth is going on with Florentino Perez?

if Brazilian leagues had more TV coverage, this would give clubs international recognition and branding like liverpool and man utd. This would also give more importance and probably viewership of the Club World Cup

Do a similar video about the proposed Liga MX-MLS merger that was being discussed or one about the merger of the Copa America and the Concacaf Gold Cup

Vasco da Gama and Botafogo are two of the coolest names for football teams.

Palmairos actually lost to Tigres in the semifinals not the Egyptian team. That was for 3rd place.

This month Brazil's legislative approved a new law that permits clubs in Brazil to function as corporations, mainly changing tax obligations and leading the way to a possible change in how the teams are run today. Also, there is now huge pressure from the biggest teams in both Série A and Série B regarding the TV rights. Clubs defend that the home team should have the TV rights of the match, not the CBF, discussion that is already in process at Brazil's Legislative. This new model of administration would fit with a Brazilian "Super League", propeling CEOs and chairmans to close a deal between teams and the CBF that is more lucrative, independent and organized, in means of corruption and competitions calendar.

Alfie I am Brazilian and I loved this video!🇧🇷👍🏻

Unbelievable how you all fixate on a single mistake that happened during a 34 minute video🥴

I'm keeping an eye on this league. Especially after players like Douglas Costa, Hulk, Diego Costa, Renato Augusto moved back to the league. Also some insanely talents are right now in this league.

We are just tired of CBF. There's way many competitions for them to organize and they've proved to be very incompetent. The tournaments are suffering from bad games calendar and are generally unorganized. This new league will help clubs wich currently are in ruins to pay their debts and reform (Cruzeiro, Vasco, Botafogo etc.) It will also help with Globo's monopoly of the tournament's transmission on tv, since clubs will be able to choose wich network will show their games.

Sensational video. Brazilian football history is full of scandals and chaos, in a mix of successes and tragedies. Your conclusion is perfect, the comparison is to be made with the English Premier League, not the European Premier League. All that Brazilian football needs is real professionalism in the managing of the clubs and championships. Just as an example, till this day in Brazil the referees are still "amateur", as they don't have formal contracts and salaries with the federation. With more professionalism, there will be no more place for corruption in any level (search for the recent corruption history in Cruzeiro, one of Brazil's biggest sides which now has been relegated for their first time). Along with less corruption, the business environment tends to get better with managerial professionalism, attracting more sponsorships, selling the product for better prices and keeping the rules and organization of tournaments in order. This may help to cease the ever increasing debt of every single club, and collaborate with the economic competitiveness of the league, bringing more talent from abroad and keeping our talent in house. Brazil only needs seriousness and real justice, not only in Football, but in every aspect of its society. God created Brazil with all of its perfections, but the only defect it gave this land is the man that lives in it.

Day 12 of asking for a documentary about the 3 way tie of the 1978 CONCACAF Champions League

Oh It's that. As people would say "at the end It will all end in pizza" But thanks a lot for highlighting our football again S2

Another interesting fact about Flamengo and Sport dispute of the 1987 season is that, when Flamengo won their seventh (or sixth) title in 2019, some people started to complain about Flamengo calling themselves "hepta campeões" or "seven times champions", which made CBF promptly responded with a statement basically saying "we can neither confirm nor denied that this true". This is only one of many instances of a problem that we Brazilians have with CBF: the lack of positioning they take on controversial matters choosing to even avoid talking about it. This together with many other noticeable problems such as corruption, poor management of the national team, and youth level national team, lack of monitoring the financial situation of clubs to ensure they are run properly (eg. Botafogo and Cruzeiro), horrible distribution of revenue and the lack of financial help to small clubs during the COVID pandemic (even though they had a record profit) make the majority of the Brazilian people despise the CBF.

Amazing, Alfie! As a Brazilian fan, you managed to summarize the history of Brasileirão fairly well! A few comments: - Since the announcement, clubs have explained that the new league would maintain the relegation/promotion system that exists today. That's yet another argument for how this new league is more akin to the Premier League break away than the ill fated European Super League - 1987 Copa União interestingly played a role in the demise of the clube dos 13. When São Paulo won 3x in a row (06,07,08), it became entitled to a special trophy cup by CBF. However, Flamengo claimed the right to that trophy as well, counting the Copa União as a national title. With two of its founding members fighting among themselves, in addition to other disputes about splitting TV rights, the whole entity fell apart - Besides the challenges mentioned in the video, huge amounts of debt and outdated governance structures are a critical challenge to be overcome at the club level. As you recently explored, Cruzeiro experienced a massive fall from grace and it would not be surprising to see other major club going bankrupt (Botafogo, Vasco, Corinthians).

Another controversy in the 2000's was that Fluminense, one of the members of Clube dos 13, was relagated to third division in the previous season but managed to play the top flight that year and continued to do so ever since. Never playing the Serie C and wasn't promoted from Serie B as well.

Being brazilian, I can only thank you, amazing video!!! This is indeed the people's channel and the best youtube channel when comes to football. CBF is a disgrace and the clubs need to break away fast as possible or Campeonato Brasileiro will continue to struggle. Our clubs don't have the money to hold young and talent players, to buy players and the quality of the games is low, our managers are being left behind when it comes to tactics.

Crikey, you know your country's ruined when you've got a league named after Joao Havelange...

Great video, your content is always a highlight of my day

The real problem with the kick off time for 🇧🇷 is not MLS. It's that your going against every other major US sport. PL and bundesliga is popular because literally there is usually nothing else sports wise on.

The Prince Andrew bit had me in stiches. Great video.

Just recently heard about the disputed title of 1987 whilst watching a Sport Recife game that was streamed in the USA via CBS paramount. The wikipedia article I turned to after that match did not explain things nearly as clearly as you did. Love learning more about this sport every day.

7:39 - 7:42 These two damn names (Portuguesa & Joinville). In the Brasileirão 2013 four teams were relegated Náutico, Ponte Preta (who ironically reached the Copa Sudamericana final losing to Lanús), Vasco da Gama and Fluminense. Whoever Fluminense entered the court against Portuguesa and Flamengo (Who recently had won the Brazil domestic cup but also at the time they were going through several debts.) because both teams had a irregular lineup. The appeal was granted and Flamengo fell from eleventh to sixteenth and Portuguesa fell from twelfth to seventeenth therefore relegating Lusa to the second division. Meanwhile Flamengo redeemed itself by winning 2 Brasileirão 1 Copa Libertadores and being club world cup runner-up Portuguesa fell in a downward spiral that which continues to this day from 2014 to 2017 Portuguesa would relegated from the second to the fourth divison. Joinville was born in 1976 on the fusion of 2 teams from the city of Joinville América and Caxias they would win the third divison in 2011 thereafter they would win the second divison in 2014 but shortly Joinville would be relegated in the same manner as Portuguesa and despite being stuck in the fourth divison Joinville is a traditional team and is always a favorite team to be promoted.

You can show the perfect context of brazillian league, impressing! Congrats for the good job you always do

If Brasil Serie A could find the wages and finances of even France or Portugal then the league would become arguably one of the best on the planet and I mean top 3-4. If they had as much money for salaries across the board from top player to squad, as a top 5 league in Europe, then there could be some serious development in play and quality.

Brazilian league so underrated

GREEEAAAAAT work as always.

Flipping hell, I got lost a few times trying to keep up with the intricacies of the different league set ups. 🤔

Imagine a scenario where City wins the prem, but has to face Norwich to be proclaimed the real champions of England... That happened with Flamengo

Good content yet again!

Man, i'm impressed on how much you dug up, your knowledge of football is amazing. But yes, the problem with the brazilian league is the same as politics and day to day life in general: corruption, bad administration and the "jeitinho brasileiro" (Brazilian way) a term used to arrange terrible solutions to a problem instead of tackling the main issue, like fixing a broken leg with duct tape and paper clips.

After Rojo's antics yesterday,I really have to start looking more into South American football😂

Did someone ever watched a match of Brazilian Serie A? I'm brazilian and I can say to you that will not happen at least in the next few years, the football practiced today in Brazil it's a bad mix of the worse tiki-taka you ever see, with diving football and constant pressure on the referee from the players... it's awfull, the situation got so bad that we practicly broke the VAR iniciative because, they were able to make VAR even worst (waaaaaay worst) then already it is...

day 3- the original european cup teams or the original ucl clubs-where are they now?

'MLS is getting too big' Brasil: Laughs in Original Ronaldo.

Great video and description. Neat research as always. I would just add Marin at the end of the video, who was CBF's president and was arrested for corruption.

Great video, Alfie.

Great video, Alfie As a brazilian I hope the league can get good again, and we can compete against the europeans as equals

Possibly the best hitc sevens video yet

Best video i’ve seen coming from a non-brazilian about this topic. Very well researched. But there are some points that are of major importance to this desire to break away from CBF. Unjust and disproportionate alocation of TV rights to Flamengo is one of them, and the feeling that brazilian referees arent exactly trustworthy (see the “Mafia do Apito” scandal for reference, its the brazilian equivalent of the calciopoli) is also a good enough reason. Aldo, most importantly, brazilian football as a whole is a facing an unprecedented crisis, best noticible after the infamous 7-1 loss in 2014. One fact that ilustrates this deep crisis at club level is the presence of 3 of the 12 biggest clubs of brazil in the second flight of the national championship. 2 of those clubs, Botafogo and Cruzeiro, for example, own close to 1 billion reais, and the third, Vasco da Gama, was relegated for the fourth time since 2008.

Another interesting topic is the proposed joining of the leagues in Northern Ireland and the Rep of Ireland to create a league across the whole island.

Alright, we all know the drill now. Day 1: 7 biggest scandals in Brazilian football history

Hey HITC, great vid! There were a couple of misconceptions in it, but great vid nonetheless!

Wow. I can't even imagine how many hours of research this took. Kudos. For me, the simplest solution (and for the sake of fixture congestion) is to retain the state championships and have the national championship operate like the Champions League (with an auxiliary equivalent to the Europa League). The states of São Paulo and Rio would have more places guaranteed in the Brazilian "Champions League" just like the biggest European countries have in their Champions League. So from a standpoint of T.V. broadcast contracts, the biggest would be for the Champions League, the second biggest for the São Paulo League, the third for the Rio League, the fourth probably for their equivalent of the Europa League, etc. Promotion/Relegation would be strictly within the State Leagues just as it is only within the European countries themselves. So for example, because Rio would have more guaranteed places, a club like Vasco de Gama would always likely qualify for the Brazilian "Champions League", but it's not guaranteed, leaving at least some sense of merit, unlike if it were inside a pure breakaway league.

Great video!

Wow HITC Sevens coming up regularly with long form research vids was a surprise. Big thumbs up and a subscribe from me! I have a bizarre request regarding the curvature of the pitch, specifically about how it can make the ball run out of play. Less specifically if if there is stats that reinforce an assumption that 'closer boarding's limit high speed aggression at the edge of the pitch,?

As a Brazilian, I must applaud the good and generally precise work behind this video. About the "Super League" (its being called "Libra" for now), the obstacle at this point is the disagreement between two groups of teams: one comprised of fewer, but bigger clubs (in terms of number of supporters and current revenue - with a few stragglers that are desperate for quick cash); another comprised of a greater number of clubs. Their disagreement revolves around money division criteria (particularly TV money) between the league clubs. The first group is defending a more unequal approach, in which less money is split equally and more money through performance criteria and supporter-based criteria (IMO, they are defending some questionable means of evaluating supporter engagement). The second group, naturally, is defending a more equal money division. The ”ease of doing business” in Brazil part of the video remains largely true - I believe that Bolsonaro government didn’t change (for worst or better) this situation, despite the repeated horsesh*t that splurges out of his mouth (or used to: its election year, so he’s a bit tamer now). Corruption grew a little again (after the dismantling of “Lava Jato” federal operation), but some business-friendly legislative reforms also took place. Anyhow, just because of a (justifiable) fear that foreign investors have in putting money towards Brazilian “distressed assets”, this time the efforts are being spearheaded by big Brazilian investment banks, which are used to operate here (BTG, partnering with some influent sports and judiciary types, is with the first group; and XP - which has a somewhat fierce rivalry with BTG - remains with the second, in a kind of partnership with Spanish La Liga). I can only wonder that they intend to organize the league, give it a more palatable packaging, and then sell parts of operations to foreigners, a common deal regarding Brazilian “distressed” or “special situations” assets. Also of note is the recent law that created a new model of “private enterprise clubs” (the SAF), allowing for a type of club conversion / spinoff (most clubs in Brazil are non-profits, what protects them from bankruptcy, but perpetrates the low professionalism). This model is already in use by clubs in a more precarious financial situation (such as Vasco, Cruzeiro, Botafogo). This list will certainly grow in the near future, as the law allows for some exceptional creditor protection measures and tax breaks (in practice, enacting a “privilege” for private investors who buyout clubs). As always, only the market can pressure the Brazilian clubs (at least, the ones that want to stay competitive) into greater professionalism and internal cohesion. And some clubs - specifically, Palmeiras, Flamengo and Red Bull Bragantino - are already somewhat attaining a European level of organization, buying players for European level sums as well, so there is some light at the end of the tunnel…

19 out of the 20 Série A teams have signed for this break away league. The only team who has not signed is Sport Recife, and they didn't do it because they currently have no president, their previous president resigned to try escaping corruption scandals and so did the second in charge, leaving the club to try running elections. But the club's board support the break away league.

Hey man! Brazilian fan of your channel here, great video btw! :) Do you watch the Campeonato Brasileiro? If yes, support any team? I'm a super fan of both Brasileiro and Premier League, not missing a single game from both São Paulo and Liverpool, keep up the great work :)

request: 7 footballer who only had one manager at senior level

This was a very interesting video! Would love to hear you talk about the proposed merger of the Dutch and Belgian leagues, the BeNeLiga.

Why's no one talking about the thumbnail......

No, Palmeiras lost to Tigre in the semifinals And than lost on penaltis for the third place

Look at the caliber of that Vasco team on the picture… Junior Baiano, Edmundo, Romario, Jorginho, Juninho Pernambucano…

People: How corrupt are you Brazilian football: yes

Actually Palmeiras was defeated by tigres from Mexico in the semi-final, they lost to the other team in the 3rd place dispute.

5:43 brasil really was ahead of time but not just in football...

Nice video

I had that Copa União album! That was my first or second one. Good old times!

17:07 Old Trinidad and Tobago $1 bills, and a $10 bill spotted 😁

Nice vid,I am Brazilian,and my team is São Paulo

If the Americans, that are the greatest at marketing and organizing sport events, put their hands in the Brazilian league the world will start to hear about the Brazilian league. Look what they did to Formula 1, spreading its audience. Once people around the world start to watch our league and buying our football merchandising, the clubs would grown amd have more financial power to buy and keep good players.

This might mean the Premier League takes its finger out of it’s arse and starts training up English coaches. It could also persuade more English players to play abroad.

Amazing “not many likes and views, but a sensational video”, as always

That prince Andrew bit was class 😭

You should talk about the African Super League which the past week was ratified the by African Football Confederation itself.

I guess it really depends what form and organisation it takes. Rival maybe not however it could become a firmer no6 worldwide and like you said they could keep hold of their players longer and sell them for more.

24:30 The state championships are actually being strongly questioned, and before they started in 2021, it was even questioned if they should be completely terminated. Both the media, clubs and even players question their relevance, altho they have huge impact in smaller teams finances. In summary, they dont hold as much relevance as you pointed out, but still seem to be able to keep existing for the next years, at least. And, to add to the CBF history, recently the players from Brazil's national team almost denied to play in the Copa America, as a protest to how CBF managed the situation and to the questionable President of the Federation. They only confirmed their participation after the former president was kicked from his post. Sorry if I had some Grammar Issues, but I hope I could help giving my insight as a Brazilian

Please can you do a video about how underrated juninho paulista is

Bela análise!

Mentioning a tiny bit about Indonesia and how big football is in the country, you may aswell research and make an interesting video about how chaos and messed up Indonesian Football Assosiation, how the league format keep changing every couple years and why a crazy football nation as big as Indonesia can’t speak enough in international football yet in asia. Thanks Alfie cheers for the wholesome content👍

Love these types of videos you do! Please could you do a video of a 23 man UK squad excluding English players (Wales, Scotland & N.Ireland)

Day 2 of asking : ranking the managerial careers of Alex Ferguson's ex players

Very interesting!

your definently a football hipster as the irish guy would say

There's a reason why Terry Gilliam named his surrealist movie take on Orwell's 1984 "Brasil"...

Good work. Sadly football in Brazil lost it's identity, we even don't have amateur clubs anymore, they're all dead.

On the history part, you missed the one year passage that Bela Guttmann, the famous Hungary coach, had in Brazil which utterly revolutionized our game before we won our first world cup. On the rest of the video, I agree with a lot of what you say. As a local, this is one of the best discussions of Brazilian football by someone that doesn't live here.

Brazil and corruption go together like Norwich and relegation (Norwich fan here so I can joke about it).

It would be cool to see a resergance in Brazilian professional football, sad seeing it go from the best league in the world 70 years ago to mediocre now

Meu, que fita. Não conhecia essa história não.

Can you do a video on the top 7 games never to happen? ( eg. Chelsea vs Dortmund)

You should do more videos about Brazil

Short answer - no Long answer - noooooooooooooooooo

I remember in SWOS Athletic Mineiro was the only team to have all their players over the magical £1 million 😄

Can you pls do a video on afc Wimbledon story, are you attending any Hull city matches in preseason ? Afc Wimbledon have a home match in July 31st

Im pretty sure yes. The quality players, the competition having 15 teams with chances to win... the the passion ..... size of the event ... makes all chances if well organized...

It’s such a good league to watch

To get an idea of how the managers of Brazilian teams squandered the chance to make soccer in our country the same or greater than that of Europe and rivaling the American leagues, it would be the same as comparing the semi amateurism of the previous NBA to the year 1980 and before David Stern. Brazilian soccer has never had the 90% of the greatest basketball players in the USA, but it has had approximately 40% to 50%.

Great video, learned some things even being a Brazilian myself If it helps, some tips about pronunciation: The "s" in 'Palmeiras' and 'Guimarães' is pronounced just like in english (e. g. the ending 's' in "Wolves"), no need to read it as 'sh' ("Palmeirash") Same goes to the "c" in Internacional, where the correct pronunciation is "Internassional" But all around, good job, there were mostly correct pronunciations.

please do one video exposing CBF scandals, is top notch content and you will have many many views

Make a video about the decline of other South American leagues as well(like Argentina)