Bro cooked nothing

That Italian team was far from average. This is coming from an England supporter. Chiesa, Bonucci, Donnarumma, Jorginho and many more superstars. England were a good team that year, but Italy beat Belgium and Spain and had a much harder road to the final. Put some respect on their names.

If I remember correctly, France was the first team to fall Victim of the World Cup Curse, and they broke it... Would be poetic, if Germany did the same with this curse

It is not really a curse. It just shows that it is very hard to win an international tournament even when you are the host. Sometimes it even gives more pressure to perform.

Ngl, as a german I was super confident, that Germany wont make it far in the Euros, but after beating france twice and also the netherlands and then also having those fantastic seasons of Stuttgart & Leverkusen and 3 Semi Finalists in the CL & Europa League. I have to say Germany is back at a very high level. Probably the strongest team since 2014.

How is this weird? These competitions are highly dependent on luck, and they don't happen frequently enough to extrapolate a pattern imo.

Also worth mentioning that Greece had a great manager in 2004 EUROS. One of the greatest to come out of germany and the only foreign manager to win a prestigous trophy with a diff country

To all the ppl saying he's disrespecting Italy, he is saying that it is an average team as far as Italy goes, not that they are average on the European stage

4:42 France hosted Euro in 1984 and won it. But you said that in 2016, France hosted Euro for the first time since 1960.

That Italian team played the best football all tournament. They had to get past Belgium, Spain, and England where all England had an underperforming German side followed by Ukraine and Denmark

The dissrespect against my country italy is crazy

That "average" Italian team played better in that Euro than any other team there and even better most teams in the last 30 years. They also hold the record of longest unbeaten streak in international football (almost lost that record to Argentina but Saudis saved them, lol). And France won the Euro in home soil in 1984. That was their first hosting since 1960.

Fell to an average side? You mean the one that holds the record unbeaten streak in International football history?

Germany is gonna break the curse just like france broke the wc winners curse

2:42 Wrong. Germany didnt defeated Italy. They played 1-1 in the group stage. Until 2016 Germany was never able to win against Italy in a major tournament (EUROs or World Cup) and technically never after 90 minutes. Calling Italy „average“ at the Euros 2020 is ridiculous. The Team who won the group and won against Belgium, Spain and England in the Final, was a group - a team. Thats what wins you titles. Its coming to Rome 🇮🇹💙

Ronaldo was 19 in 2004

So u are telling me Germany will make it into the euro final but wont win it? As a german, we take those LOL

So many big mistakes in this video: 1.Germany didn't actually beat Italy in Euro 1988. The game ended in a 1-1 draw, with both teams progressing through the semifinal. To be honest, Germany has never beat Italy when it comes to major tournament games (Euro and World Cup), at least within 90 minutes. In Euro 2016, Germany eliminated Italy in the quarterfinal, but it was a penalty shootout that's technically a draw. 2.France actually hosted the European Championship THREE TIMES! The 2016 was the 3rd one. The 2nd one was back in 1984, when they won the whole thing after beating Spain in the Final by 2-0 scoreline thanks to a masterclass from Michel Platini. 3.Italy are really deserved to win Euro 2020. Calling this winning team as an "average" was quite harsh. Italy played two tough games against Belgium and Spain, whose squads were seemingly better than the Italians. They didn't played too well against Austria in RO16, but managed to escape the scare thanks to Marko Arnautovic's disallowed goal. On the other hand, England's only tough games was against Germany, who were underperformed in that tournament, and their roads were much easier than Italy because of notable surprising results. The Netherlands, who were England's potential opponent in the semifinal, lost to Czechia in RO16. England instead played against Ukraine and Denmark before that Final, with the game against Denmark being so scandalous because of Raheem Sterling's blatant dive that shouldn't resulted in a penalty for England. I will also add numerous infos regarding this video: 1.The interesting thing about England's potential Euro 2020 triumph is the fact they could become the third (only) country to win both men's and women's Euros, after Germany and the Netherlands. More extremely, the women's version of the last European Championship also took place in England, with the Wembley Stadium being the final venue of both men's and women's. The women's team of England defeated Germany 2-1 in the extra time, only 12 months after that men's team's defeat to Italy. This may be a big coincidence. 2.I think Germany's potential Euro 2024 triumph could made this year being so special. Earlier this year, the Asian Cup and AFCON winners were Qatar and Ivory Coast; both being the hosts of the respective continental tournaments.

Honestly speaking, you may have home support as hosts, but it isn't always an advantage. The home support can also put pressure on the players, not to mention there is the luck factor or even the strength of the opposition. Honestly speaking, since 1992, only 5 hosts seriously looked to have a chance of winning. They were England in 1996 and 2021, The Netherlands in 2000, Portugal in 2004 and France in 2016. Sweden, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Poland and Ukraine were surely not favourites for their home tournaments, and miracles don't happen every day. For the opposition side, the Netherlands faced Italy in the 2000 semi-finals, and lost on penalties to a very strong opponent. It's hard to beat a team with the likes of Maldini, Totti, Del Piero, Nesta, Cannavaro, Conte and more. Portugal were the best of the 2004 favourites, but Greece weren't in the final entirely by chance. They had made a playing system allowing them to defend perfectly on the opponent, to then counter-attack and score with a header. It wasn't spectacular, but their style paid off, like for Spain with Tiki-Taka. England had strong teams both in 1996 and 2020, but they had opponents either as their match or slightly stronger than them. For France, I think they weren't ready to be taken to extra time, and as the players said themselves, they were mentally impacted by Ronaldo leaving the pitch early. They lacked consistency and endurance, also hitting the edge of the post in stoppage time, bad luck.

The only 'curse' here is the hosts that lost the finals(+ Greece and Denmark that shouldn't have won it but somehow got all the luck in the world). You are acting like Austria, Ukraine or Belgium for example are destined to win it, just because they are hosts. And then they can't even move from the group stage. This whole curse is just the hosts thinking they already won it, when they are in the final and losing it because of their confidence and false thinking. And at least that proves that the Euros aren't ridged so to say, which I'm not sure could be said for WC, where every 2-3 formats there you have a very big conspiracy and almost always the big hosts are winning it.

This current Germany team in my opinion definitely has the potential to pull off an unexpected tournament win, coming from an England fan.

Quality has never been lacking for Germany, some defeats are just pure raw performance. We'll see

The Euros is the hardest tournament to win because Europe has so many top teams. Typically, the best team wins. Italy had the best defence in the world in 2020(1). And Chiesa up front. They weren’t average.

"Average Italian team"

Otto Rehhagel is some hell of a coach 😂

What do you mean, "France hosted 2016 for the first time since the inaugural competition"? They hosted it in 1984 and actually WON. I even saw one match in the stadium in Strassbourg, Germany v. Portugal 0:0. Michel Platini played a blinder in that tournament.

Bro Greece was playing isanely well in 2004, they have beaten Portugal twice , so don't say that we played horribly

I don’t think it’s that weird. Home advantage is good but only counts for so much. The best team will win anyway.

In 2000, even the referee wanted Holland to go the final. When he saw we couldn't beat Italy on our own, he gave us two penalties. Of course by now we know it was useless. May be we could beat Italy, but nobody can beat the curse ;) Holland missed both penalties in regular time, as well as four more in the disastrous shoot that followed 😂

It's time to shine in Euro 24 🇩🇪🔥

"Average Italian side" he says... Pfff you should eat more pastasciutta bruh

Note on Euro 2020: 6 of England's 7 games were played in London, with just their QF in Rome.

Bro that “average Italian side” holds the world record for longest international unbeaten run (37 games). They had donnarumma in goals, bonucci and Chiellini as CB, concerning whom mourinho said that they could give defending lessons at oxford’s university, Spinazzola as left back, who was arguably a top3 left back in the world at that time; in midfield they had Jorginho, CL winner, Verratti, one of the best midfielders in the world (ask Neymar and mbappe) and barella who won serie a with inter that year and its now Italy’s best player. In attack they had insigne who had a great season with Napoli and chiesa in his prime, who was simply unstoppable. So come on man, put some respect on that team! They completely deserved to win that year

The only certainty is that England won’t win it, because we always choke

I'm not sure about a curse, there were many hosts that didn't stand a chance to win the tournament to begin with, should we really consider them to be "cursed"? I guess with this logic Japan, South Korea, South Africa, Russia and Quatar are also cursed for not winning their host world cups, these incredible strong football nations that have to suffer from a curse since 2002. Poor USA, Canada and Mexico, they are all favorites to win the next world cup but it can't be helped, they are cursed.

Greece winning the euros is still the wildest thing I’ve seen in football. I still can’t believe they won it. Incredible 😊

The irony of a super star Portuguese national team bottling the Euros at HOME, just for a weaker side to win it with an injured Ronaldo, a goal from the weakest player on the team, while facing a super star French national team in their own territory. Yeah we didn’t deserve that trophy, we deserved it back in 04, but that’s football I guess. France went on to win the WC four years later so I guess it is all good 😂

West Germany did not beat Italy in 1988. 1-1, Mancini and Brehme. Germany has never beaten Italy at the World Cup or the Euro Cup; yes, they have eliminated them twice in the Euros, 1996 and 2016... but technically with two draws.

Bro is onto absolutely nothing 🤯

Just because your team didn't win any euros in home doesn't mean there's sth weird in it.

France hosted the competition in 84, so 2016 was not not the second time, but the third. And in 1984, France won, beating Spain in the final, 2-0.

The ones that started the curse, must defeat the curse.

A good observation another point, the name of the competition ... its called The European Championship's or for short "The Euro's" ... its original name from its inception was The European Nations Cup.

How is this even a curse when teams like Switzerland and Ukraine weren't expected to win the tournament? It is always difficult to win an international tournament, and being the hosts only makes it slightly easier, or adds even more pressure. Going so many years without the hosts winning is not something that is that out of the ordinary IMO. This video is just making things out of nothing.

thanks for the betting advice yo u a G

How is that a curse? 3 out 16 host nations? Last I checked, we now have 24 teams playing the tournament, fairly less is in the past, but still. The expected value of winning the tournament should still be less than 3/16 = 18,75%, last I checked

1) How can this have started in 1988 if it’s only been won by the host 3 times? 2) That Italian side was average? Did you look at that roster?

Dortmund made it to the finals, Bayern made it to the semifinals and Levurkusen have gone undefeated. If German clubs with mostly german players are this good than surely they will win the euros, right?

By this logic , the world cup has been weird too😂

Average Italien side?? Are you drunk??

France would have won in 2016 if they hadn’t taken Payet off

This video doesn’t really make sense if you’re looking at probabilities. There are 16 teams in the euros so the fact that 3/16 host teams have won it makes the host team 3 times more likely than a regular team to win it which makes sense considering they have home advantage it’s not really that crazy. And lots of the host teams weren’t favourites and are smaller countries who are just worse than other teams.

How boreing it would be if the hosts always won

Im German and we are going to fail group stage as always... 😂

Christ, when will you people realise that 'It's Coming Home' didn't relate to England winning the Euros in '96 but the fact that the tournament WAS BEING HELD IN ENGLAND. How many fucking times.

It's called the Netherlands tho, not Holland.

Playing at home can be a double - edged sword , as expectations can lead to nervy performances.

eh humans love patterns, and even the World Cup winner curse is broken now. If you look back to the earliest EUROs or World Cups you can find any pattern suggesting basically any team could win.

...I always felt, that hosting a national championship has a serious drawback, because the team does not have to qualify...we see a similar pattern with the world champions, who never need to qualify for the next tournament, and then in recent times often catastrophically fail to sometimes even get further than the first round... my thesis is, that those teams didn't develop enough bonds & guts on the challenging path towards qualification, and then get thrown into the cold water... not too weird for me - rather logical...

In the end its quiet simple. Smaller host nations are playing better than expected because of the home advantage but in the end there is a better team who will eliminate them sooner or later.

Intriguingly no team has ever won the Euros or World Cup as hosts since France in 1984 and 1998 respectively: Euro winnes post France 1984 1988 Netherlands 1992 Denmark 1996 Czech Republic 2000 France 2004 Greece 2008 Spain 2012 Spain 2016 Portugal 2021 Italy World Cup winners post France 1998 2002 Brazil 2006 Italy 2010 Spain 2014 Germany 2018 France 2022 Argentina

Safe to say Europe has a lot of good teams

I tried to watch this video last week but it said "this video has been taken down by UEFA"

Cool video. For the record: It´s "The Netherlands", not "Holland". Holland is just the name of the region around Amsterdam.

There is nothing bewildering about this. Home field advantage is not an advantage. On the contrary, the crushing pressure of the expectations can infringe the lightfootedness of players who might be willing to risk more but also be less prone to over zealous mistakes when the stakes aren't so high. Brazil - Germany 2014 world cup semi final on home turf is the best example. You see this in world cups a lot too.

Ronaldo was not 17 years old in 2004

I think this year might be different since thia year has been mark by the host team winning the competition it's regiona and it happened in the Afcon and the afc asia cup wirh ivory coast and qatar

That's not really a curse... Many of these hosting nations were not great, and even if you're one of the best teams you still have about 20% chance of winning (every time there's about 3-4 great teams and a few underdogs so 20% is normal for a knockout tournament). So 3-13 is a normal win rate for hosting nations.

Club and nation is not the same I think there will be a underdog at the final with Germany and the curse will continue

The Italians play with passion. I expect a semi-final finish from them.

After losing the first game 1;0 to Greece I found a bookie who gave 13/2 for Portugal to win tournament . I stuck £100 on and let it ride ,By the time the final came with both Greece and Portugal contesting final . Portugal had dropped to 7/4 with the draw 5/4 and Greece 5/2 as far as can remember? I decided against covering my bet for an outright win by betting on Greece £200 at 7/4 because I was convinced Portugal and Ronaldo would go all out for revenge and win easily but lightning struck twice !

Not an avid football watcher, but this makes me want to support them. I like Bellingham, but this video made me root for Germany

if portugal managed to play as a team, we would be scary to play

Technically Italy won the euros while hosting in 2020

As someone who watches sports. Lots of different sports. You really never know whats gonna happen. Thats why sports betting is a thing. At least when it comes to team sports, theres soo much going on. The pressures of being favorites is an unpredictable thing. Home advantage in football seems like its a thing when its knockout game or round robin. But if you watch american sports where there are 7 game series, youll know home advantages are not a deal breaker. And for euro cups and world cups travel isnt a thing because all the teams are camping in the host country. This euro cup is really hard to predict, i wouldnt bet on Germany doing it. They could but this is sports dont bet on anything.

I hate to be that guy, but isn’t it mathematically the exact thing that we would expect the most? That the chance of the host aka a single nation winning the euros is far less than any other country winning it? And therefore the outcome of the past 12 euros shouldn’t be anything surprising right? At least that’s what I’m thinking. It’s a great video nonetheless, don’t get me wrong. It’s just that the maths wasn’t mathing for me lol

Portugal is the kinda the only team where when you seperate their players they'de do better.

At first glance yeah, but because there isn't a real "home field advantage", the probability of the host nation winning is almost 0. Not to mention, everyone wants to beat them the most. Because it's the "hardest hit". But a trend you found, none the less.

This kind of a weird take. It makes it sound like it's pretty normal or expected for the host nation to win

The logic of this video is a bit weird. There are a lot of teams competing and there are only a hand full of teams that you can consider a contender. Multiple times there have been a host that was just not a good enough team to win it like austria, switzerland, poland and ukrain. If you take the only 3 out of 16 host nation winners used in the video, that is still a 18% win percentage for the host which is actually a good percentage.

Denmark won in 1992 yay

Italy should of had 2 players sent off in the 2020 final with 20 minutes left and England would of scored again

Since toni kroos is back, they might break the curse

1996: Gareth Southgate cost England the euros missing a penalty... I believe that there is the actual pattern

Average Italian national team that also beat Spain and Belgium.

In fact, you were splitting some fun facts so it my turn, since Germany will be held for the Euros this year it almost gonna start in June according to you something will also happened weird, as I predicted England to win the euros because they have more chances to win than Germany we all know some nations are strong but England this season is 🔥💀, since they have Cold Palmer, Kane, Belligol, Rice, Mainoo, Foden And last but not least is Branthwaite their performance is about scoring a hattricks & a lot of goals I don't think my prediction will be true if not, I'm picking 3 Nations: France, England And Germany

@0:11 Ronaldo was 19, not 17

I think a lot of European teams are just struggling with their identity and lack of real talent. Spain, are trying to replicate 2008-2012 and that’s very very hard considering how great their players were, and how much depth they had. Germany also tryna replicate 2014, but their team is just not good enough, a lot of their positions are filled with some people no one have even heard of. (Also may be due to their historical clubs kicking the buckle after years of Bayern dominance and Bayern also realizing those German talent producing clubs aren’t there so they can’t just snatch up all the Germans, and now have to buy players of different nationalities. Italy won the euros because they were good, but a lot of those good players are gone, or past their prime. Netherlands just don’t seem cohesive enough compared to other teams And actually all these teams have goal scoring problems. There seems to be a epidemic of where there’s no real strikers anymore, no one you can hope will find their way onto a ball as long as it’s in the box. I mean really, there’s only a few countries that really have clinical strikers and some of those teams have like 3 or 4 while others don’t have any.

Average Italy side who was heading towards 37 games unbeaten gaining a world record. Average Italy team that defeated Belguim, Spain and England who were ranked in the top 5. You continue to celebrate mediocrity in England

The Czech Republic National team really fell off, They used to have Pavel Nedved: Ballon d'or winner, petr Czech: best keeper in the world at the time, And Tomas Rosicky top premier league player. Now their just not the same.

I mean you can say that with most international competitions😅

its hard to win a tournament. i'd be more surprised if the host won it more often than not.don't think it qualifies as a curse. a curse would be something like, being one of the best strikers in the world, not winning a trophy despite playing in a couple of finals, moving to a team who has won the league every year for over a decade and then procede to win 0 throphies. 😜

You failed to articulate any pattern here. Aside from the hosts not winning for awhile, there is absolutely no pattern here.

Now i'm not looking at this Euro as a football competition as I always do, now this is like a good tv series and I can't wait to see Germany losing the final in the last episode. I'm portuguese btw and thank god i was too young to care about the euro 2004 final, and thank god again for the absolute experience that was 2016, it was insane for us.

1992 should’ve been Denmark because they won without even qualifying.

Correction: Cristiano was 19, not 17, during EURO 2004.

Bro i'm german, stop it, please😂

No such country as ‘Holland’ Holland (North & South) are the two largest regions of The Netherlands.

Its not curse, its very dificult to win the european cup, even if u play home

Holland? it’s 2024 already, it’s called The Netherlands…