I was at Old Trafford when he produced the best performance I have ever seen from anyone.

It wasn’t a shock that Red Star won the European cup, they were easily one of the top European sides from 87-91, people forget they battered a great Real Madrid side 4-2 in the quarter finals of the European cup in 87, they were unbelievabley unlucky against the brilliant Milan side of Van Basten & Gullit , they were always there an there about in the semi’s or quater finals of the European cup during this period , football was a different beast in those days teams like Steau Bucharest , Hajduk Split, IFK Gothenburg, Anderlecht, Ajax, PSV, Porto ,Dynamo Kiev, were superb the balance was there instead of teams like Man City , Chelsea buying trophies teams had chance to build there youth up, better days, and certainly more exciting.

He will never be forgotten 💪😎 i got he's AC Milan Dress i hold it in honors ❤️

👏 "There is no great genius without some touches of madness"

milan fan here and would like to thank you for this video. severely underrated magician

I remember when he came to Rapid Vienna in 99. It was like a dream, that such a great player was transfered to my club. Sadly he was injured most of the time, but when he was on pitch he delivered. The team was 50% better when he was playing.

Yugoslavian players are something different. Imagine that war never happened. Savićević, Boban, Jarni, Prosinečki, Pančev, Mihajlović, Jugović, Šuker, Mijatović, Stojkovic.. World class, all of them.

Will never forget his 1994 European Cup Final display against Cruyff's Barca " dream team ". Absolutely destroyed them! Romário, Stoichcov, Koeman, Guardiola, etc. Up there with the very best European Cup/ UCL Final performances I've seen. Suarez '64, Best '68, Keegan '77, Xavi '09, Messi '11.

Messi is the product of talent and Barca doctors then the rules changed and he could run freely without fouls The Genie is the product of the jugoslavia streets ❤

He was amazing. If he was French, English or German he'd be hailed as an all-time great.

I remember him. He was a talented beast.

I was at Old Trafford that night, he was unbelievable

A Monster on the Pitch!! Great U mention him Brother! Greetings from Germany 🙏❤️

Yugoslavia 1990 was one of the best teams ever assemble.

I remember him well when I used 2 watch football italia on a Sunday afternoon brilliant memories

I know I’m biased (aren’t we all?) but there’s no many players which gave me such enjoyment with lucidity and unpredictability on the pitch like Dejan used to do. That enlightening energy and spirituality in motion I have only felt with Maradona, Kaka and Ronaldinho. Not even with (some of my favorites) Van Basten, Gullit, Baggio, Laudrup, Brolin, Signori, Gascoigne, Zola, Cantona, Ginola, Romario, Djorkaeff, R9, Chiesa, Rivaldo, Hagi, Pirlo, Seedorf, Zidane, Totti, Ibrahimović, Messi, Ribery, Quagliarella, Vučinić, Iličić, Muriel, Dybala, Leao… OK, maybe the glimpse of it, but these 4 (and particularly Dejan) will always have a special place in my heart. It is something completely inexplainable, something beyond the consciousness. He wasn’t nicknamed “Genius” without reason. Shame he couldn’t have the opportunity to compete at the World Cup ‘94. I’m sure that he would outshone Baggio, Stoichkov, Hagi, Romario, Bebeto and the rest of the world’s best players that hot summer.

Red star winning european cup wasnt a shock team had some alltime yugoslav greats...

My childhood hero Good job on the video by the way 💪

small correction on Berlusconi; it wasn't that he lacked any plan or direction for the club, its that he saw himself as a romantic. He wanted a competitive side, of course, but it wasn't about constant trophies or national domination. For him, he was obsessed with the attacking side of the game and cared more about the spectacle of football and the atmosphere in the San Siro. This is why Milan, for decades, would spend big on forwards/playmakers/fantasisti while relying on youth development or cheap transfers in defence. He would happily break the transfer record for Rui Costa while not putting any money towards replacing a 40 year old Costacurta.

Now I know why he was always on the bench, I thought he was injury prone back then.......Such a skillful player.

WOW! What a brilliant video!! Thank you for putting this together 👍

But Capello would later name him in his all-time XI.

This was a blast from the past, when football was without the money and pure! Top top player, silky and sublime.

These players are forgotten they are just ignored by the modern low football IQ narrative... It's sad to see because when I was young, my father would tell me about players he had seen growing up, maybe not even the biggest names like Gigi Meroni, and this made me love football even more. I have been a Milanista since 88 and one of the great debates of whether Donadoni, Savicevic and Gullit could play together as there were always two strikers...

Btw banning the 3 foreigners max rule killed European football. Porto still the last non big 5 league club to win the champions league in 2004, who lost Mourinho to Chelsea ASAP

He will never be forgotten!🇲🇪

Absolutely ran the show against Barcelona in the '94 final and scored one of the competition's greatest goals in that game. He was even better the following season. How Milan missed him in the '95 final against Ajax.

Matt Le Tissier/Peter Beardsley/Paul Gascoigne,all brilliant players who need episodes.

One of my favourite players, absolute baller!

Big thank you for this video and story. I enjoyed every second. Dejan was one of my favorite players to play the game.

Phenomenal player. Absolutely amazing to watch.

Brilliant video! Thank you so much!

What an amazing vid.May God bless you!!!!

One of my fave players of all time. So under rated imo by most people. Thanks for this video.

Wasn't untill i read a book about AC Milan takeover and manager's talking about how he was a nightmare especially cappello but he had to admit he was world class once he got a chance

Great video. Enjoyed every second of it.

With a attack minded coach that would’ve let him roam free in attack dejan savicevic would be one of the all time greats, in the 90s series there were so many great players like him but unfortunately most coaches had a very defensive mindset

seeing a young maldini and desailly was heartwarming. lovely video

Bloody amazing player 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Unbelievable video mate, your class

Great video about one of my favourite players. One small quibble though, unless I'm mistaken Fillipo Galli wasn't an inexperienced youngster in 1994, in fact he was much older than Maldini and had been a regular starter for Milan for a few seasons before Costacurta came and was a regular substitute after that. The inexperienced member of Milan's defence in that final was Christian Panucci.

A+ for productions!!!

His best performance was the 1994 Champions League Final but he might have been known earlier if he did not miss those chances for Yugoslavia against Argentina in 1990.

He sounds remarkably like the Balkan Cruyff in the way that he trained and his outlook/attitude....great video!

A great, great player - with a pure, smooth style, natural quickness and superb balance. He's right up there with Zebec, Sekularac, Dzajic and Stojkovic in the list of classic technicians who represented Yugoslavia.

Loved loved loved this man what a talent. Should have so much more recognition he has. In todays terms he’d be up there in the best around bracket

Nicknamed il Genio by Berlusconi, himself. One could write books on how good he was, but that nickname story and Silvio's obsession with Savicevic was just so immense that words might not describe it. Unless you've been watching them live or someone makes a tribute masterpiece like this. The guy literally floated above the stadium and was making his own pace and changing the complete coordinate system of the game. Not many players had this good ball touch and control. The ball was glued to his leg all the time and he was annoyingly unplayable, as you say :) Let's see how many people remember him..

Čitam neke komentare da je bio prosek, ti ljudi verovatno igraju fudbal samo na video igricama.., Dejo je bio zmaj s loptom, nije znao rečima objasniti svoj dribling ni zašto ne želi trenirati. Trenera Kapela je psovao i omalovažavao, a ovaj ga je izabrao u svojih Top 11 svih vremena

najljepši i najbolji gol ikada ... finale LP MILAN - BARCA ... Savićević sa ruba 16 m loba golmana, a golman na svojoj gol liniji....

Dejan était un joueur fin, élégant, aérien et doté d'un pied gauche de soie

Finally a quality video about this football genius.

Savićević vs. Bayern in Munich, thats real beauty.. 😍

I'm glad that I have found and subscribed at such an early stage of this channel which will inevitably 100K subs. Fantastic, interesting work

Great video and I always love retrospectives of 90's Yugoslav players. A bugbear of mine is when people call the European Cup the Champions' League though. Red Star won the European Cup, not the Champions' League, Not the same tournament. Great video, and wonderful to be reminded of a great player. I love your inclusion of his philosophy on dribbling too. Fantastic stuff.

Dragan Stojkovic - Piksi !! Since you mentioned him is an excellent video material!!! He did tricks on the pitch way before many greats that came up in 90's evan 2000's , just remarkable talent.

One of the greatest ever

Ehhh il calcio di una volta....😢 Che fantastici giocatori

Great channel. Will only grow. Keep up the good work.

Capello left him on the bench for the 1995 European Cup final. What a fool.

There were some unbelievable talents out of Eastern Europe at that time

He is maybe forgotten in Milano but not in Red Star Belgrade.His nickname Genious is from the Red Star era.And we wil never forget what he did for our club,especially in 1991 when Crvena Zvezda won the champion league. Also,we respect everything what he done after leaving Red Star.And he did a lot!

It makes me so sad to see footage of players representing Yugoslavia in the 90s. What a horrifying and depressing end to a great country.

One of the greatest to ever play the game!! Dejane Dejane Dejane!!!!:)

That Milan 92-93 squad is insane. maldini,baresi,boban, savicevic, van basten, guillt, papin rijkaard.

I grew up watching Savicevic wouldn't say he was forgotten, just maybe isolated because of the drop in quality of the eastern european clubs after Dynamo Kiev in the early 2000s. But a great shout out.

Greatest dribbler that football has ever seen, kind of Messi before Messi... What a fabulous player Dejo was, a pure magician, sort of Ronaldinho/Messi/Zidane, but more gifted than any of them. Lack of stamina, lack of discipline and too much strong will for his own good...but a great career nevertheless.

wohhhhhhhht an amazing portfolio sire :)

Il Genio rossonero ❤🖤

Savicevic was a genius. I still remember that 1994 Champions league final against Barcelona.

My favourite moves from him was his self wall-pass, thats brilliant and genius.. Surrounded by 2 players, savicevic often knock the ball to one of them so the ball will bounce back to him behind another defender, self wall pass i called it.. He doesn’t need another team mates to do one two pass, so freaking genius..

You forgot a short return to Red Star where he scored the same goal as against Barcelona in the final. Genie

I was in attendance twice in the mid 90s at the San Siro. Dejan was a generational talent. The best playmaker of all time alongside Michael Laudrup. Capello stifled his genius. His career and legacy would have been significantly stronger under am attacking coach.

Dejan wahr brutal gut und seine team kollegen wahren die besten der besten in dieser Zeit

Cheers for this video. I literally never heard of him, sounds like the Balkan Le Tissier

Great player. Would win ballon dors in this era. Very comfortably

People don't understand how Godly he was

His performance vs Bayern in Belgrade in '91.... world class!

THE Magician. Still our best dribbler.

The master of the dribbling and poor discipline! A unique player, a unique great guy!

Dragisa Binic from that Red Star team was also a world class player who played at some small clubs before and after Red Star but would today worth like 150 million. And unlike Savicevic who could be "argumentative" Binic was a real bad boy who did crazy things. Different times. Savicevic did make it big in AC Milan in mid 90s but I think he should have go to Spain where game was not as strict and demanding as peak 90s Serie A

Commentators were required to use his full name: The Man They Call 'The Genius', the Montenegran, Dejan Savićević. Milan's destruction of Barcelona in the European Cup Final remains the greatest team performance I've ever witnessed, and he was the best player on the pitch.

Messi doesn't have flair. He just gets it done better than anybody. He doesn't have time for flair.

We called him GENIJE/GENIUS

Genio was in his prime when he went to Milan and Capello took 2 years to understand how great was Deajan. His awful 4-4-2 was a shceme where there was no space for improvisations, which Dejo was all about. He would play in every other great team and would be remembered much more if it was not for Capello... and his injuries, of course ...

More flair than Messi is wild bro 😂

excellent!

DEJAN SAVICEVIC 🇲🇪🇲🇪🇲🇪🇲🇪

He's like many East European players, hard to manage, but can produce great things. When they had Italian football on Ch 4 around this time, he was one of the few that didn't make me fall asleep with the boring Italian way of playing.

YES

Savicevic was magician with a ball !!!! And many from his generations !!!! Messi and Ronaldo are good soccer players , but not the best in history !!!! You ( we ) can't forget and "erase" those legends/geniuses/maestros : Del Piero , Zidane , Gerrard , Drogba , Eto'o , Maradonna , Gulit , Figo , Henry , Rooney , Shevckenko , Carlos , Robben , Deco , Maldini , Pirlo , Inzaghi , Ibrahimovic , Beckham , Ronaldinho ..........

What's the famous track you play at the beginning of the video?

A greate player, I remember him well playing for Milan and Yugoslavia (big team all good players) but you can't compare him with Messi

Can anyone tell me what's the song that starts in the background at 0.40 pls?

I used to know it's name off head, now it eludes my memory.

I remember a story I read about how on his bad days he'd even demand his teammate hand him the remote control which was sitting right next to him

Dejo Genije

The forgotten legend indeed.

What a player ! How such a small place on Earth can create so MANY Talented Champions ?! As a PSG fan, for me he's a nightmare. I was a teenager in 95 and he destroyed our dream, just himself alone, he did beat one of the best team in Europe in that year. Life's cruel 😅 I don't wanna play the old man but football in 90s was more technical, intelligent and physical (in terms of strength), more improvisation and magic too (you can't find any R.Baggio now, or a Le Tissier). Ok they have actually a tons of equipment to be performant, but it's robotic. Before, talent was everywhere, in almost every team or nation, Hagi, Litmanen, Leonenko, Stoichov for example. It was difficult for a striker to hit 25 goals and needed a lot of intelligence. I'm pretty sure a Mbappe wouldn't have all that fame and performance in 90s.

He was best of his era.

Was the player i identify with, class act ! Zidane before Zidane