Looking at Serie A with the players they had in it back then is why some people would argue Maradona was the greatest of all time. To shine in a League full of star players and to play for a team like Napoli who were never really in contention to win anything until his arrival shows his greatness.

The only Super League that we will ever know for.

That was by far the most prestigious league EVER.. hands down

Zico in his first season with Udinese became the 2nd Top Scorer in Seria A, only topped by Platini.. Both Platini and Zico were midfielders..

Matigol ..... that is the cleverest video you could do. My compliments. It's what I always say talking about football: Serie A 1984/85 is literally from another world. You could see an ordinary Udinese-Napoli in an ordinary Sunday of January, a 9th vs 8th ranked match, and you found not only Maradona and Zico, but Maradona and Zico at their pick. The n° 10 is the heart of football, and that Serie A had most of the greatest n° 10s of all time, all together, all at their pick ...... because, until that year, Platini was better than both Maradona and Zico. Suddenly after the end of the season, Fiorentina signed the young Baggio too..... so, for some days, Serie A had Platini, Baggio, Maradona and Zico. Without mentioning Falcao, Junior (fantastic player), Cerezo, the underrated Dirceu (Rip), Socrates, and all the forwards and the others you showed in the video. And a generation of fantastic italian players...... not only the 1982 world champions, but also a vaste quantity of very technic players in every role. I have to say (I'm sorry to ruin the poetry of all the story) Briegel was literally dominant that year: a force of nature that used to mark a sign for Verona on left side in every match, winning most of matches for them, that were for the rest a talented and well compact team. Crazy that to win were Verona, with Turin 2nd! Juve were focused to win their 1st Champions' Cup, AS Roma at the end of their cycle, Inter and Ac Milan not ready enough, and Maradona with a Napoli to build. Stadiums were always and everwhere literally full crowded, and they were times when there wasn't numeration for seats, and not even seats in most of the stands: you got to go to the stadium 3-4 hours before the match, trying to get a good place and then defending from others, with a sandwich and a bottle of water in your bag. The supporting was so pure, passionating and colourful. There wasn't business yet. And every single Sunday, we had ..... 70.000 people in Turin, 80.000 in Rome 85.000 in Milan 90.000 in Naples 50.000 in Florence and Genova 45.000 in Verona, Udine not less than 35-40.000 in the smallest clubs (Cagliari, Lecce, Avellino, ecc.) Unfortunately, there were already ultras fights: almost every match seemed a battle not only outside the stadiums but often also inside. Police didn't do enough All matches were played at the same time, in daytime ... 3 or 4 p.m., depending on the season: it was a civil ritual, but, at the end, we can say that it wasn't only civil .... there were other values, energies and feelings. More than a civil event for sure: the atmosphère around Serie A was simply magic. After the Sunday lunch in family, everybody at the radio and then expecting the first images at 6:30 pm, and then the evening's programs. My generation grew up this way, but also adult men were totally involved, and even mothers and grandmothers used to know the players. The air was electric even during the week. As italian kids, we took that as granted and used to believe it would be that way forever. We couldn't realize we were living a gift, exceptional days that can last little and then won't ever come back. It's been more than 15 years I've not been considering actual Italian league as a real Serie A. Those were the times. Before tacticism and rules' revisionism...... football was pure technic and fight. Perfect for the italian spirit. Just a little critic to the video: Paolo Rossi, Scirea, Tardelli and Cabrini had to be mentioned; they were World XI players those years, and they literally won everything (including all the 3 european cups), except Euro. They can be in a discussion for an All times World XI in their roles. And other italian legends too, such Bruno Conti and Antognoni. But I confirm my initial appreciation: great video 👍👏🇮🇹

Rummenige, Platini, Maradona, Zico, Falcão, Junior, Cerezo, Socrates, Passarella, Briegel, Cabrini, Gentile, Conti, Scirea, Vialli, Mancini, Altobelli, Baresi, Bergomi, Vierchwood

Preben Elkjaer Larsen - one of the forgotten legends. Amazing player. Glad to see him in this compilation.

This can never be recreated again No super league or any other league could match this much star power Absolutely incredible.

Yes, that Serie A was the best league ever. No doubts about this.

I envy the people who could witness the Italian Serie A in those years, I can imagine the whole country paralized the previous days of a Juventus-Milan, Juventus-Inter, Juventus-Napoli or Napoli-Milan. Plus even the middle teams had great stars like Roma had Falcao, Udinese had Zico or Fiorentina had Passarella. Let alone that tickets in that time were affordable by ordinary working class people to go every weekend to watch their teams, whereas now going to a football match can be nearly a luxury.

I was a kid, I saw them all! Maradona, Platini, Rummenigge, Socrates, Zico, Falcao, Junior, Ancelotti, Rossi, Edinho, Boniek, Passarella ... The best years of football in Italy.

I'd like to add an honourable mention for the great Giancarlo Antognoni at Fiorentina. He was a wonderful player - Italy's 'regista' in the 1982 World Cup wining side - but broke his leg badly against Sampdoria in 1984, as a result of which he only returned to play a final few games for la Viola at the end of the 1984-85 season. Glorious at his best.

That’s basically the world top 25 stars at the time maybe except one or two. Never has a league possessed so many talents , though the serie-a was always packed with stars in the 80s

The player that kicked the ball with his head while the ball in goalies hand is Boniek , one of the best polish player in history and one of the best of time.

I saw Maradona..i cry..RIP Maestro🌹

Goosebumps! The now mythical Serie A. As a Finn I learned Italian while reading La Gazzetta hello Sport a few times a week during my university days in the early 90s. We always got the paper a day late into the few stores that carried it here in Helsinki so I often didn't know how the Sunday league matches had ended until the following Tuesday. Welcome to a world pre-internet...! Still, it was fab. It was fun. Even though I only ever saw one Serie A match live on TV; the one between Sampdoria and Inter in May '91, with Samp winning and eventually winning the Scudetto that season. I was happy about that!

La mejor epoca del futbol, sin duda alguna. Italia fue la liga afortunada. Monstruos en todos los equipos. Del 80 al 90

No league has ever come close to Serie A from the 80's to the late 90's. Superstars in every team. Even the likes of Batistuta, Hagi, and Effenberg stayed in Serie B in the mid nineties lol. Imagine that happening now.

Rummenige, Platini, Maradona, Zico, Falcão, Junior, Cerezo, Socrates, Passarella, Briegel, Cabrini, Gentile, Conti, Scirea, Vialli, Mancini, Altobelli, Bergomi, Vierchwood, Bertoni, Elcjaer-Larsen, Baresi, Evani. Michael Laudrup, Zenga, Collovati, Tardelli, Maldini, Ramon Diaz, Paolo Rossi ....... INCREDIBLE LEAGUE!!!!

La mejor liga de todos los tiempos yo soy español y nuestra liga también fue fuerte siempre sobre todo a finales de los 90 y principios del 2000 pero como la liga italiana en los 80 90 no habido nada ni la premier de hoy

almost every team has a legendary player.What a time to be alive witnessing this!.

Extraordinary defense, tactics, creativity and goals...

Serie A is the only football leagues who is neck and neck with 80's 90's NBA

Totally agree, we're never ever watch toughest, hardest and entertaining league like this anymore

The good old days, when everyone loved Football ⚽️

Serie A in the late 80's to 1995 prior of Bosman law was the NBA of football so far, the strongest and hardest one ever I have seen where one of the best Top 3 teams in the history and very sadly moments as a Real Madrid fan was born: AC Milan. I am 55years old and i started to watch football since the 70's with Johan Cruiff and that Ajax that made me feel in love with this sport, I am RM fan and i was suffering all the time when we played against AC Milan, it was impossible to beat them, i really enjoy Marco Van Basten so so much, but not just him, Rijkaard,Baresi or Platini was in that list, my fav team there was Inter Milan with the German tryinity, I was so fan of Matthaus, what a player!!! From 1995 La Liga from Spain reigned in the world so far as a league and all those trophies that our teams were achieved since there: Real Madrid of Capello with Raul,Suker,Mijatovic or Hierro. Super Depor since 1992 to 2000, Valencia 2000-04, Barsa, Sevilla, ATM, Los Galacticos with Ronaldo,Zidane,Figo,Roberto Carlos, Pep Team, Real Madrid of the 4 Champions with CR7,Ramos,Modric or Benzema. For me the Serie A was the best before Bosman law and the most genuine before everything changed. Viva Italia y Arriba Espana! Italy and Spain: Mediterrean rules.

this was crazy, such class in every team big and small, calcio was a galaxy.

This is pure gold...thank you for another time..always and forever love 80's.. and its true,maybe the best season with 89-90 season in serie A. Best Hugs from Greece

The good thing about those times is that big clubs weren't so insanely stacked with the best players in the world as they are today, which left lots of great players for the smaller clubs. In those times Juventus, Milan, Inter, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Manchester United, etc... would only have 3 or 4 great stars, the other players would typically be just good or average players. That allowed for teams like Udinese to have Zico and Carnevale, Fiorentina to have Socrates and Passarella, Verona to have Elkjaer Larsen and Briegel, Sampdoria to have Vierchowod, Mancini, Vialli and Souness, and so on, so talent was more evenly distributed. In that way small teams could actually challenge the big teams. These days all of those players would be in the big 3, some of them even on the bench, and small teams have to manage with the leftovers. Let's not even talk about Maradona, today a player like him would be in either Real Madrid or Barcelona, not a chance that he'd play for a team like Napoli. Personally, I miss those time when the difference between big and small teams was not so brutal as it is today.

We'll never see something like this again. So many stars and competitive teams around

It was a show. Udinese, Fiorentina, Verona, Juvr, Inter Milan, sampdora, roma, Torino etc... all teams had superstars and it was very competitive you could enjoy any game. It was sort of like NBA of 90s.

Just think Zico was playing for Udinese, I think I don’t have to add nothing more

In 1984/85.. Hellas Verona (team of my city) win the Scudetto. I was 8 years old. But i still remember..

Best league ever..best legends.congratulations

Ah those were the days...when Maradona, Zico and Planiti in the same league. Aside from those great number 10s, there were Socrates, Falcao, Paolo Rossi, Rummenege, Bergomi, Baresi,etc....

1984/85 Serie A feat: all the 80/85 Ballon d'or winners, all the 82/85 World Soccer Player of the year winners, all the 80/85 Onze dor winners, all the 79/85 Guerin sportivo player of the year winners and finally the 79/83 South America Ballon d'or winners! You cant beat that!

ah, when Serie A was king... for a 15 year period from the early to mid 1980's to the late 1990's it was the best domestic league in Europe with the best players and it was also probably the most competitive with plenty of clubs competing for championships and cups and European glory --> Falcao's Roma, Platini's Juventus, Maradona's Napoli, Inter Milan with their German trio, Arrigo Sacchi's Milan, Sampdoria with an attack of Mancini and Vialli, Milan made 3 straight Champions League finals in the 90's as did Juventus, Lazio won European trophies in the 1990's as did Fiorentina and Parma, Inter won 3 UEFA Cups in the 1990's etc... a great time to be a fan... a great video, as always

And then Maradona single handedly won everything here.

When I discovered Football and fell in love with Inter . I was 8 years

This was the only season Doctor Socrates played outside Brasil (Fiorentina)

Nel periodo 1980*-2010, in Italia hanno giocato i migliori calciatori italiani, europei e sudamericani. *Il decennio 1980-1990, in particolare, è stato grandioso.

The most beautiful and though league ever. Won by my fantastic Hellas Verona, which made history 💙/=\💛

Championnat magnifique, stars fantastiques, maillots sublimes!! Grazie Italia

PS: How great were Verona that season? An astonishing scudetto.

it was stronger more enjoyable and more attractive than champions league.

With Michel Platini , Paolo Rossi , Socrates , Diego Maradona , Franck Riydkard , Marco Van Basten , Ruud Gullit , Alessandro Del Peiro , Paolo Mauldini , Del Pirlo etc in the same Serie~A ... Yes , the Serie~A in the 1980s & 1990s were Magical! 🙏🕯🌷🌿⚽️🌏

Warriors and legends all. When the game was a passion for both fans and players. Gone but never forgotten.

Brividi!!! il meglio del calcio mondiale in italia, il totocalcio, le partite sentite alla radiolina e poi tutti a vedere 90 minuto.... che ricordi, che malinconia

Wonderful footage. Ah, the good ol days...

Each teams has their own stars, beautiful

The market value of an average football player of the 80's and 90's would be incalculable nowadays... Totally priceless.

Great video. It's like sensory overload. Brings back good memories of watching it with my Dad. I started following Serie A regularly in 92 but I was vaguely aware as a little kid of all the greats that were there before + was already obsessed with it by Italia '90. I can see why people don't want Serie A to flourish again as the potential is huge!

What a splendid video. So many historical greats in one league. While english football might be the new face of football, and tikitaka is the new phenomenon of tactics, Serie A and Italian football is the real DNA of football. To be successful in Serie A is to be worthy of greatness. When italian football is `healthy´ it reflects on all aspects of football. You got tactics, discipline, bravado, drama, scandals and talents. As a spectator and a fan they make you feel like you are playing with them. Highly tactical and defensive, any player who makes it in Serie A can make it in almost all other leagues. Most of the greats have played in Italy. Thank you for this awsome video 👍

This is what the EPL wants to be, but never will.

Quanta nostalgia ma sono felice di averli visti tutti dal VIVO e non su un telefono.....ITALIA CAPUT MUNDI

Serie A anni 80: l'Olimpo del Calcio mondiale!!! Con Platini, Maradona e Van Basten al vertice della loro bravura. Per non parlare dei vari Scirea, Baresi, Falcao, Conti, Matthaeus, Tardelli, Maldini, Cabrini, Zico, Careca, Gullit, Rijjkaard, Baggio, etc... comunque complimenti X il video: assolutamente strepitoso e a tratti commovente.

Greatest Football league ever... heaven.. !!

When Italian football attracted the cream of world stars.

The real Super League

Minute 2.20-2.30 Elkjaer scores a goal against Juventus kicking the ball with right leg without wearing the shoe. He lost it moments before while tackling the defender. Take a look carefully!

I wish saw this league in the 80s but my time with Serie A was from 1996 until 2012 when I accepted that the league was no more after Milan, Inter and Juventus faded away

At this time Serie A was the super league.

The Winner of 1984/1985 season was Hellas Verona people think Leicester City triumph in 2015/2016 season was a beautiful fairy tale but we had that moment 30 years ago

Mi fermo già dopo due minuti per scrivere VIDEO MERAVIGLIOSO

The fact that a Udinese could afford Zico.. Insane. Such was Serie A.

Fantastique souvenirs d’enfance 🥲😍😍🤩🤩😎😎👍🏻👍🏻✅✅✅✊🏼🤲🏻🤲🏻🤲🏻

For me your channel is by far the best on KZfaq. Your content are amazing.

I had no idea Souness could kick a ball so well. I knew he could kick other players, but the ball...

back when seria a strongest club league more than champions league all legends was there believe me.. and the champion was Verona..

From 80 to 98, Italy was the best league in the world.

Congrats my friend for a satisfying video, it gave me a nostalgic feeling though I was not even born at that period. It is weird how football "industry" has changed today. Cannot imagine seeing a league with much talents evenly shared between different teams nowadays. I may agree that this would be the best league ever and lucky you who witnessed such beautiful football

A GLORIOSA Serie A Italiana. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

In the first half of the '80 the three best players of the world were Rummmenigge, Platini and Maradona. The three played in Italy simultaneously

All of our football memories at 80s'. The best moments of our years like children and teenage & young ultras. ....The Real ULTRAS and the Real Football. This now, is not football !!! FUCK & DESTROY MODERN FOOTBALL ! !!! Very Nice video ! !!!!! 👍👍👍👍👍

Forza Italia Calcio! Interista here. 🇮🇹

I remember channel 4 showing live games after gazza signed for lazio. First game was a 3-3 thriller vs sampdoria. Growing up watching English football at the time, it was miles ahead. All the players were slim, and had great technique.

This could be bias but I feel like these teams would murder modern football clubs

This channel is absolutely a treasure, thank you Matigoldvidz for sharing such precious content with us🙌🏻

Thank you for not ruining your excellent video with mindless electronic music like so many others too - music in this post is fantastic and complements the footage

Bellissimo video,avevo 10 anni..questo era il vero calcio.complimenti all'autore

I think the 2020s we will see the rise of Italian clubs competing in Champions League and Europa League glory.

Wish i could have lived that era 💔

Cuando la liga italiana era la mejor del mundo tenian las mejores estrellas de la epoca y su seleccion una potencia futbolistica grandes recuerdos saludos desde Mexico.

Con este video me emocioné...me acordé de cuando era niño y habia todos estos campeones que jugaban en SERIE A....que recuerdos

Briegel vs Maradone, epic clashs

Great great upload mate thank u my dear sir

I was 15 and living in Sicily this season. Incredible

Grazie per questi video meravigliosi！ti prego non smettere🙏👌

I totally agree, it was impossible to play Italian clubs. The two top leagues were Calcio and La Liga. I feel that the football is no longer the same.

how anyone can say Messi and Ronaldo are better than Maradona after watching this is beyond me

It's amazing! Thank you for this video!

That time, Serie A was the greatest league in the world with the greatest players.What a fall from grace for the Serie A. Today Serie A is a pale shadow of its glorious past.

what great days , great footballers and great teams , each team had a legend or two since only two foreigners were allowed to play ,even smaller teams contained big names to join them , Verona did win a league once while they were the underdogs having Preben Elcjaer Larsen and Hans Peter Brigel within the team, it was football's paradise during then ,magnificent , beautiful matches ,Platini was booming , so as Zico , Rumminigue was great but sustained many injuries elegance of Socrates was provided and many others thanks for the memories

No doubt it was the best football I have even seen. Best players as well

Some amazing players here ❤️

what a great video, THANKS!!!!!!

The kits are so iconic from this era?? 😍🙌👌

Some of the players that Season: Milan: Baresi, Maldini, Hataley, Wilkins Fiorentina: Gentile, Passarella, Antognoni, Socrates, Massaro Roma: Ancelotti, Falcao, Cerezo Atalanta: Donadoni, Strömberg Verona: Hans-Peter Briegel, Preben Elkear Inter: Zenga, Bergomi, Altobelli, Causio, Rummenigge Juventus: Cabrini, Scirea, Platini, Tardelli, Boniek, Paolo Rossi, Trappatoni Lazio: Laudrup, Giordano Sampdoria: Vierchowod, Souness, Trevor Francis, Vialli, Mancini Napoli: Maradona, Bertoni Torino: Junior, Aldo Serena Udinese: Zico Avellino: Ramón Diaz, Barbadillo, Angelo Colombo And coaches like Liedholm & Svennis

Io ero un ragazzino e ho avuto la fortuna di vedere giocare al Comunale di Torino tutti questi campioni, vorrei ricordare anche Ruud Krol con i suoi lanci impressionanti, Ray Wilkins eccezionale a centrocampo, Dirceu, Williem Kieft, Walter Shackner, Gerets, Trevor Francis, Liam Brady, Falcao poi era immenso anche se io sono della Juve l'ho sempre ammirato...

Two of my favourite songs and a great topic = awesome video !