How An Overweight Striker Got A Goalscoring Award Named After Him
Every year in football, there’s an award given for what pundits usually see as the most beautiful goal scored in football. Some of these goals are absolutely iconic, legendary, and jaw dropping.
But the origins of such an honorary award might surprise you, as it came from no other than Ferenc Puskas - a striker who only reached the peak of his career AFTER turning 30 years old - and age where even today’s players with modern recovery and training routines start to drastically decline at. Because as crazy as it might sound, Puskas would score over 806 goals in 792 matches averaging over 1 goal a game throughout his entire career.
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The Puskas - Di Stefano attacking duo of Real Madrid was deadly, they dominated Europe for half a Decade until a younger Eusebio came along and won the Champions League with Benfica.
It was a front 3. Puskas di Stefano and Gento. Gento passed away a few years ago
Isn't gento the guy that won 6 ucl@@fgarcia2791
Gento has the #1 champipns leagues with 6
It was a front 5, there was also rial, and kopa, but it was more of a front 2 with puskas up there, di Stefano as a box to box attacker( there is no comparative to today football) gento and kopa as wingers, and rial as a key player
Puskas was disqualified from playing football in his prime, from 28 to 30, as he ran away from comunist hungary, so his legacy could have been so much bigger had he played in those 2 years of prime. Absolute legend
Puskas was forced of not training well
Puskas made his career look like he was playing fifa player career mode on amateur difficulty and sliders
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Thank you for highlighting these less talked about greats of the game! Not just Puskas but many of your videos cover and give proper credit to players from older generations that many have forgotten about, and as someone who finds the history of football just as fascinating as the modern game, your videos are absolutely perfect.
Homie was just having fun his whole career
Being overweight definitely doesn’t mean unable to play good football. I myself used to play football being overweight. Could pass, shoot and outrun almost most of my teamates in practice matches. However, I also was the one with the lowest stamina due to my extreme effort to cope not only with tiredness but also the extra weight I was “carrying”. Therefore, it was really hard to make it especially in a high level, without change in eating habits.
I love listening to somebody who’s honest with themselves But what do you mean when you say “almost most”?🤔
One of the best,most technically gifted players that my father has ever seen was called 'The fattest player in England', that being the Danish maestro for Liverpool, Jan Molby, he rarely ever moved from the centre of the pitch but was still amazing.
So the priority was food in a high level.
I had a friend who us overweight too but a playmaker for his team..
@@tyronevaldez-kruger5313 and moving as little as possible
Funfact: Puskas is one of the four players in history to have 300+ goals and 300+ assists in his career alongside Messi,Pele and Cruyff. Absolute legend🇭🇺🇧🇩
Also Alex de souza🇧🇷 with 391 goals and 324 assists
Bro I'm from Bangladesh also❤
Hey man the major Difference between these players in their 30’s and Puskas…. He went to a more difficult league and won it all multiple times!!! These other players went to worse leagues. Not only that he missed to years of his prime!!! He is the best striker of all time.
Puskas was some thing out of this world He’s Argentinian team mate at Real Madrid was a robot Alfredo distefano
Imo both top 5 players of all times
He revolutionied the Striker position
Respect for this video, Raymar. I'm a Real supporter. I've read and watched quite a few about this legend. He was one of one. You did his legacy justice.
What a player, my grandparents left hungary during the 1956 civil war - but my grandad would tell me stories about watching the national team around this time.
mine too to come to australia. my mum would always tell me about how my grandfather would stay up into the night watching puskas
Do you know Tichy or Kocsis ?
@@davisbaumberger6887 my family is hungarian and they've always told me that i look like tichy lajos
@@nicocorbo4153 I was watching some Tichy film, that man was crazy good
He later became a coach too and spent some years in my home country Greece 🇬🇷, he is quite famous . He coached a great Panathinaikos team and led them to the European Cup final where they ultimately lost 2-0 from Johan Cruyff’s Ajax. Till this day Panathinaikos is the only Greek team that has participated in a final of a European tournament (They played against Nacional too the same year at the intercontinental cup because Ajax refused to enter fearing the violent game of the Uruguayans … the Greek team paid the prize at the end 💀). He later coached AEK too.
Question: Was the hungarian league he played in really a "farmer's league"? I mean the hungarian national team in the 50's was by far the best national team around. Like you said they were dominating other teams and only lost one time in almost 7 years. Wouldn't that suggest that the hungarian league would have had very strong competition during that time as well? Also you said that that Puscas was under the radar for the rest of the world until he left Hungary, which is not true. He is known as the first real big international superstar in football. And he really became this famous sensation while playing for the hungarian national team.
Yup I agree with all of this. If it was a farmers league Hungary would not have dominated the way they did!
Spot on
I agree with you completly. Back then there were basically zero foreign players playing in any domestic league thats not their own nations. So the hungarian team that is one of the best ever national teams, was made up of hungarian league players exclusively. If anything that proves it was one of the best leagues on the world at the time, instead of being a farmers one.
It wasn't a farmer's league at all, but as in every communist country back then, we had some teams backed up by the government. Honvéd (where Puskás was playing) was the military's branch technically (honvéd literally means national guard which is also the title of the lowest ranking soldier in the military), and the league was dominated by these clubs. Not too different to some of the top EU leagues nowadays though where a couple of teams dominate :D
@@youtubedrifter5594mostly all good players play in the same team back then and even nowadays in many small countrys. 1 or 2 clubs where all the best players of the Nation play. So mostly farmers league
Crazy to think one of his Hungarian team mates had a better goals to games ratio for Hungary. Sandot Kocsis
Can you do Sir Tom Finney he is highly underrated and and is one of the most loyal players who also rejected a world record transfer fee whilst simultaneously being a plumber who is barely talked about
Puskas is really a definition of pure footballer than Hazard.
i watched some highlights when he was adden as icon in fifa dude was insane for his times
He was way much better than Alfredo di stefano don't forget the fact that he joined Madrid in his 30s still became top scorer for the club
Shocking that there arent that many videos about Puskas, hes in the GOAT debate for sure (Day 4 of asking for a vid about Cannavaro)
He is real GOAT all others are wannabes
😂😂😂 sure2..just like penaldo@@Belligoal.5
@@power279 Just like pessiswine as he earned cups with paidcelona 🤣🤣🤣 Now ghosting in 63rd ranked pornstar league MLS at 36 🤣🤣
@@power279sure just like pigessi
pretty sure this video was reupload ?
For me puskas is the greatest forward❤
Till Eusebio came, Puskas and Di Stefano dominated all of Europe at Real.
Puskás es a TOP 3 Madrid players of all time imo. He and Don Alfredo elevated our club and made it what it is today - the greatest club in world football. Eternamente agradecido!
Yes I agreed puskas and Stefano definitely top 2 best Madridista of all time
Actually General Franco did that
@@1313tennisman You’re entitled to assume so; it doesn’t make it anywhere close to being true.
Thank you again. Learning so much!!
I was once reading about Korean football history, which included the vs Hungary game in the 1954 World Cup, where we lost 9-0, and Puskas got himself a brace. The author interviewed the goalkeeper, who mentioned that when he dove in vain to block Puskas' shot, he actually remembers hearing the sound of wind from the ball screaming past him.
The closest "modern day" case that I can think of this happening would be with Ronaldo, being very fat and out of shape during his late 20s and early 30s and still somehow being able to dribble past top defenders and run at 30mph speeds. I love when this happens.
And he also has the most assists in history, and he is the only player to score 4 goals in a UCL final
He recently got surpassed by Messi. With OPTA(official stat), he has 359 assists, Messi surpassed that and is currently at 361. I again emphasize opta stats because I know a lot of people tend to refer to non opta stats that aren't official.
Was this video skipping around for anyone else??
I thought no one would say that
Great video 🎉❤
Please make a video on Dixie Dean and his 60 goal season in the English Top Flight. I was casually scrolling through the top scorers in the English top division and am surprised by how he is not mentioned amongs't the likes of Di Stefano, Puskas, etc, despite the genration gap.
Because his career was nowhere near as good. Puskas won everything. Was consistent and had two miss two years of his prime due to having to flee!!
This is the award pendu fans celebrate every year, Bet they don't even know Puskas played for which country. Kudos to Reymar for making a dedicated video to a legend!
Great Video!
Great vid as always, would love to see you talk about Di Natale or Miccoli as well!
Raymar you were born to story tell and make football mini docs
they were built different back then. Legend.
CR7 bicycle versus Juventus not winning the Puskas award is criminal.
If he would have lost vs Zlatans bicycle vs England ok but vs Salah? Wtf 😂
When I was kid, I bought our newspaper and in those newspaper was one book as a present(I gave someone that book and never saw It again, remember one thing-Never loan anyone book because they will never give you back). Book was called "Secrets of dribbling" and of course in book was Puskas. When Puskas was little kid, he played football on the Budapest streets with Josef Boszik and other friends. One day, Puskas came to his mum and said:"Mum, give him something to eat, he played football better than me today". That was Puskas, always full of praise to his opponents. When Dragan Džajić played some friendly game against Real Madrid he destroyed their right back(Sol was his name I think), and Puskas applaude him. Big man was Puskas, to bad he died from Alzheimer, he didnt deserve that. Respect from Serbia. ❤
Could you do a video on someone from the mid-80s everton teams? Neville Southall, Peter Reid, Graeme Sharp, Kevin Sheedy, gary stevens etc could all make pretty good videos imo.
My favorite striker, Ever. 5. Ronaldo (the one who won a World Cup) 4. D Bergkamp 3. T Henry 2. S Kocsis 1. F Puskas
It is interesting how he signed for RM and not FCB. Considering Barcelona want independence from Spain and have wanted it for as long as I remember. Barcelona signing a player like him would’ve been very fitting and perhaps could have changed the landscape of football with RM maybe not winning the first five and FCB winning 2 of those last 5 and adding another in 1966. It would’ve been a huge 🖕 to the mainland of Spain had they snagged who may have been the best player in the world at that time and not RM.
Thanks for the video. I think he is still underrated a little bit, and he was better than other European players except for Cruyff. His stats and records are amazing. A player who had one of the most goals and assists of all time.
Hungary mentioned! 🇭🇺
That was a different era, as there were no where near as many people playing the game. There are billions of players worldwide now and you have to be physically fit to compete with the best. In those days the game was slower and talent was all that mattered, he couldn't play in today's game
With his body he probably sent flying those skinny defenders and the goalkeeper feared his goals
Legend
He played like a cross between Stoichkov and Maradona. Postecoglou trained under him and was inspired to stick to attacking football.
What video should I make next? 🤔
Foden’s rise
more icons
Frank Beckenbauer, Gento, Gerd Muller, Yashin, Buffon, Garrincha, Zanetti, Lahm, and Gerrard are good players to do about, idk if you did some but these are my ideas
Valverde plz
Del perlo
Öcsii! 🇭🇺
Not mentioning that hes the only player to score 4 goals in a european cup final is criminal
Next video should be on Carlos Alberto please 😊❤❤
Josef Bican Next, Please!!!! ❤❤❤❤
I missed the times when footballer are in different shapes and sizes in their physical features. Some small and lean, some bulky, some tall and thin, some players with one big pack. But they're ballers, true ballers with natural skills. Nowadays everyone's going to the gym trying to get that standard shape🤮
nice video
For whatever reason an unpopular opinion but for me Puskas is the GOAT. Goal a game, 0.6 assists a game, nearly won the World Cup with Hungary, Hungary! Also couldn't play football for 2 years due to political reasons, then casually went to Madrid, scored a goal a game in his mid-late 30s, retiring with the European Cup.
Imagine what would happen if he still played in those 2 years
This makes me love Real Madrid even more. This club always knew how to take risk on talent. Puskas is definitely a GOAT. He did so much, and went through so much, but he played soccer better than everybody 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾💐👑🫡
“being so out shape to point where he literally looks like one” diabolical 😭
OMG i love you sooo much thank you for making!❤❤❤❤❤
Wow this is so inpiring
Some context though: At those times,south American club/country football was stronger than Europe. Thus some of these European records are overstated and do not hold the same weight as records in European football from the 80s and up. Di Stefano was a sub in River Plates Maquina and destroyed the Spanish league and European competitions when he was past his 30s. Independiente beat real Madrid 6 -1 in the old Chamartín stadium in the 50s.
I think Puskas case is similar to Juan Manuel Fangio in Formula 1. They both shined in 1950s when they were 30+ yrs old. It's clear that back then athleticism was a bonus, not a necessity. They compensated lack of that by being absolute masters of their craft in terms of intelligence, precision and decision making. Astonishing
Yeah true, they even had smoke breaks. Athleticism, diet wasn't a priority until the 70's, the beginning era of modern football.
8:45 fish puskas got me on the ground
What is the background music that you are using in this video?
A chalenge for you I belive, Dejan Savićević should be in some of your video!
you should make more defender videos
Greatest Striker of all time
Blud looks like christian bale 💀💀💀
Where was the goal that inspired the Puskas award for the most beautiful goal? Have you ever heard of Chekhov’s gun?
that one friend in school football
I "love" arguments like "he was only good because he only played there or there". Yes, sure, must be why such players can then deliver on the international stage. With that logic I might also make an argument that Messi wouldn't have been as good if he hadn't played for one of the greatest Barcelona teams of all time. Cristiano Ronaldo might mot have been as great if he hadn't played for great teams for most of his career.
Hi, can you do one of the baddest betrayals of all time Sol Campbell? 😊
can you make a story video about Josef Bican
anyone know what's song name in the back ground ?
Hello bro kindly make a video about Elias Figueroa. I read about him that he was the greatest center back from South America. I tried to find more information about him but I couldn't. Kindly make video about him..
Great video otherwise but i have to disagree with the idea that a lot of Puskas’ goals were scored in a “farmers league” Back in those days there were essentially 0 transfers between countries, so national teams were almost always just the selection of best players from a given country’s domestic league. Therefore i think hungarys dominance in that period, as well as the amount of top quality players they produced in the era, shows that the hungarian league was in fact one of the very best leagues at the time.
Bro is a knock off, daily dose of football
No. He's been doing videos like this for 6 years.
As a 5’11” 270lbs soccer player
I'm surprised nobody talks about that epic handshake with slight bow
noone cares wtf
bom video👌
Real Madrid legend
bro hates salah💀💀
"How was he able to score so many goals even when he started to slightly resemble one" -💀
Bring back the chunky strikers build!!
Aguero?
@@DC-zi6seRonaldo nazario
@@tnix80 Nah... Chunky R9 was past his prime. That's like after 2003. Aguero's always been a little chunky.
This is the reason why in my opinion Puskas>R9. I don't get why ppl say"too many injuries and lack of discipline" caused R9 to not be the best. It was his choice on the discipline part. Injuries nobody can control. but still if Puskas can take Hungary to a WC final and not get a draw due to office shoes his level.
Well who won the World cup?
one almost won a world cup with actively being cheated out of it by the refs, that says a lot@@eplisoilleague
@@eplisoilleaguewatch the whole game, maybe. There were many ridiculous refereeing.
@@eplisoilleaguePuskas lost because the Germans corrupted that World Cup.
1. Pele 2. R9 3. Puskas 4. Marco van basten 5 Gerd Muller
1. Puskas 2. Pele 3. Gerd 4. Zlatan 5. Lewandowski 6. Benzema.
I would put Puskas over R9
why is the audio on all of ur vids so choppily edited at points, just cutting off entire sections.
Let's be honest, one of the greatest midfielders of the late 50's to early 60's wore glasses!😅
Am I the only person, or is this video actually a repost of the video made years ago
why reupload ?
The actual GOAT
Bro plz review your videos u sometimes mess up the montage . Great videos otherwise ❤
double it up with florian albert
Why do you reupload ur past videos??????!!
it was not "farmer's league", they were finalists world cup
are we watching the same video?????
Messi in 2012 drank cola and ate junk food and ice cream and scored 91 goals his prime 😅
What are you including in his goals to jump up to 806 is it second and third division youth national team, Olympic goals because this isn’t counted for players like Messi or Ronaldo, or anyone else for that matter for modern players not preseason friendly Puscas is a fantastic score one of the greatest of all time, but official goals is marked 707 or 740 something at most or 730 something
746 I believe
Is it Roger Black?😂
genuine question, who was better Di Stefano or Puskas?
Different players, Di Stefano was good at running the game, the ball went through him like a Messi or KDB role type of player who would play anywhere. Puskas was more of a goalscoring genius
@@phistoltv5196Puskas was also a playmaker, it's just that when he went to Madrid, they forced him to be a poacher since they already had Di Stefano to do the playmakin
everyone knows that west germany cheated to win that game to 3-2, atleast everyone in Hungary knows :)
it's 14 goals in a single Copa del Rey campaign but COOK
Viduka ? R9 ? Akinfenwa?nvm just watched im willing to bet old r9 weighed twice as much as puskas lol thats how big r9 was .imagine that dude running straight at you as a defender id get out the way
R9 was crazy, but Puskas was only 172CM and playing very differet playstyle. R9 was powerplayer with tricks and powerfull shots, but Puskás was every single time optimal. Not fastest, not crazy, just using ultimate shooting style for perfect passing and really special shooting. And: Puskás was more left or right link.
To be fair, he gained much more weight in that 2 years he was banned from training, but when Madrid signed him he lost most of it. Was still a bit overweight and not as slender as he was before, but even top athletes and their coaches/support people didn't know much about the connection between diet and performance. The whole professional diet thing started to develop in the '80s and we still don't know everything.
Hazard should have learn from him.