Dejan Savićević: The Forgotten Legend with "More Flair than Messi"
2023 ж. 3 Қыр.
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In the 1990s, AC Milan had a number 10 called Dejan Savićević.
A grumpy and argumentative individual, he frequently fell out with Fabio Capello, frustrated at his lack of game time.
Why wasn't the gaffer playing him?
He hated to press or track back and there were accusations of him being lazy throughout his career.
But, when he was on form and in the mood...
Well let's just say they didn't call him 'The Genius' for nothing!
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I was at Old Trafford when he produced the best performance I have ever seen from anyone.
That good?
@@TeamDogFanYeah..Sir Alex Said that MU had luck that night and that Red Star over played them.
@@TeamDogFan He terrorised Paul Ince. No mean feat.
super cup
@@sasajankovic840yes, saf said red star was best team he ever seen and played against. And Savićević was pure genius, simply 3 levels above anyone else
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.
it's a shock for the internet generation tho.
@@nilianstroythey did park the bus and play for pens against Marseille in the final though
@@MrSupplementScene Which happens pretty much every single cup final, right?
So crvena zvjezda was the best team of all time during old yugoslavia but its like real madrid and barcelona. They were the best because they had the most money to get the best players. If i recall pancev and prosinecki were playing for them at the time. You know back then capital was Beograd and all the money in yugoslavia funneled thru beograd and there you go.
Stoijkovic played for Red Star and captained them until 91 when he moved to Marseille then ended up losing to them in the final , in 93 Papin who’d played for Marseille up until then ended up playing for Milan and losing to Marseille in the 93 EC final .
He will never be forgotten 💪😎 i got he's AC Milan Dress i hold it in honors ❤️
do you sleep with it ???
👏 "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.
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 ❤
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.
Rivera '69
En esa final destrozó a uno de los mejores equipos de la historia del barsa. Fue sencillamente intratable, no había manera de pararle
I was at Old Trafford that night, he was unbelievable
I remember him. He was a talented beast.
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.
Ibra too!
and Susic...Susic the best
Alen Boksic
They could have won Euro 92 and World Cup 94 with that dream team.
@@alexanders4911
A Monster on the Pitch!! Great U mention him Brother! Greetings from Germany 🙏❤️
Fury
He was amazing. If he was French, English or German he'd be hailed as an all-time great.
No , like the vid said with a better work rate and attitude he would , there are lots like he I was in my teens when he was at Milan barely noticed him
@@yorkshirelad346 You barely noticed that he won two UCLs (almost 3) as the most attractive and the most influential player of Milan and Crvena Zvezda. Can you imagine what would’ve happened if Henry, Bergkamp, Shearer, Ian Wright, Gascoigne or Cantona did what he did?
@@yorkshirelad346 He was such an elegant player. I still remember a CL goal he scored in the final against Barcelona, from an impossible angle. With him on the pitch, you’d be glued to your tv screen. What a delight to watch, but then they talk about Platini. Anyhow, these could be subjective. But I loved watching this guy play, most of the time he was out for muscle injury and Capello would make him play even when he was not fully recovered yet.
@@yorkshirelad346yes you have point but berly notice DS it is more than funny.
Oh come on man Nothing special Absolutely nothing For that time just a good player You got to be an idiot to compere him to Messi
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
Channel 4, great memories
Channel 4, great 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.
A nek u tom nabrajanju top veznjaka nisi našao mjesta za Prosinečkog i Modrića......🤣 Inače da, Dejo je znao s loptom sve, samo tako
@@zeljkobedenikovic9253 Nemam ništa protiv njih, samo mi nisu među omiljenima. Bobana i Šukera sam više voleo, Rapaić mi je bio simpatičan, Bokšića sam se plašio, Mandžukića poštovao… a najgotivniji od svih kroasana mi je Srna. Šteta što ranije nije došao na Apenine. Od ovih “aktivnih” - Broz i Perišić su privlačili moju pažnju.
Good post but don't talk about outshining Baggigoal and (Super) Romario (my nicknames ; ) that's silly talk, lol. x
Red star winning european cup wasnt a shock team had some alltime yugoslav greats...
WOW! What a brilliant video!! Thank you for putting this together 👍
You're welcome. It was my pleasure really, he's such a fun player to watch.
He will never be forgotten!🇲🇪
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...
Now I know why he was always on the bench, I thought he was injury prone back then.......Such a skillful player.
Actually he was injury prone, but his character prevented him to play more games as well. However, his biggest obstacle is a fact that he was born in a “wrong” country so he missed 3 major international tournaments (in his prime) because of politics and wars. Football history could be much different if he was allowed to play at EURO 92, World Cup 94 or EURO 96.
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.
What's funny is that the defensemen are usually the ones people remember in Italy. Italy had it all ......
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.
He was injured.
But Capello would later name him in his all-time XI.
And he still put him in the wrong position 😂😂
@@vanderpant2116lol. True.
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
Phenomenal player. Absolutely amazing to watch.
One of my favourite players, absolute baller!
Matt Le Tissier/Peter Beardsley/Paul Gascoigne,all brilliant players who need episodes.
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
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.
Bloody amazing player 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
seeing a young maldini and desailly was heartwarming. lovely video
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.
You are indeed not mistaken. Well spotted! Glad you enjoyed the vid despite the small error.
sorry, 1 more error, lentini scored the overhead kick not van basten against pescara . Great goal though and well worth showing. Brilliant video - thank you for making it and bringing that era to life@@flashbackfootball1367
@@flashbackfootball1367 One more factual error (in the same sentence): Capello hasn’t moved Maldini in the midfield but Desailly (another great defender) to put more pressure on Barca midfielders and to provide more freedom for Savićević as well. That was his touch of genius and a coaching lesson to arrogant Johan Cruyff.
@@andjelkozlotvor Yea but that means Savicevic was used to not Vietnam.... But some world war 2 type of football scenarios. They just stunned the team.
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..
And that goal vs Barcelona, though...
One of my fave players of all time. So under rated imo by most people. Thanks for this video.
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
That’s right. Late 80s and 90s were horrible years for classic 10s in Italy. That’s why Savićević’s worst decision was to join Milan. On the contrary Maradona chose a smaller side of Napoli which provided him less pressure and more space for dribbling and creativity.
Brilliant video! Thank you so much!
Big thank you for this video and story. I enjoyed every second. Dejan was one of my favorite players to play the game.
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!
What an amazing vid.May God bless you!!!!
Great video. Enjoyed every second of it.
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
One of the greatest ever
Dejan était un joueur fin, élégant, aérien et doté d'un pied gauche de soie
Unbelievable video mate, your class
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
A+ for productions!!!
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.
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!
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
Here's hoping! And comments like yours motivate me to keep going in what can be a slow process, thanks :)
najljepši i najbolji gol ikada ... finale LP MILAN - BARCA ... Savićević sa ruba 16 m loba golmana, a golman na svojoj gol liniji....
Savićević vs. Bayern in Munich, thats real beauty.. 😍
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.
@davidferguson1785 Yea, thats big of a deal, that name is so important to mention, its all about name of that competition, not clubs that played in it.😂😂😂 To be honest, winning that Cup was much harder then winning CL in this years. In that time, it wasnt all about money, and eastern clubs could compete against western which is not the case today. Now, its all about money and players are spoiled so much. Clubs are money printing mashines but, that is some other subject...
it was a cup that included only actual first division champions of all european countries which was a truly fair deal there were also cup winner’s cup with all country’s cup winners & uefa cup for the clubs from 2nd to 5th place in previous season & that was the europe of truly equal now it’s the europe of predominantly money oriented competitions from inclusive to exclusive in 30+ years
The Red Star is engraved on the cup. The Champions League exists in this format only for money. Liverpool have won several CLs and have not been champions for almost 30 years. Is this normal? Of course it is not. The competition is the same, the format is not. Are the trophies less valuable before the CL? Not in my opinion. As far as I'm concerned, the best example is Liverpool. They were not able to win the title in England and they played CL. Funny
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.
Great channel. Will only grow. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for the support!
Finally a quality video about this football genius.
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.
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.
Lay down the pipe Sasha c'mon 😁; first of all Dragan Stojkovic was a better dribbler than Savicevic (although Savicevic was a better overall player than Stojkovic in my opinion but not a better dribbler). His flair and ability to beat numerous opponents was great but nowhere near guys like Ronaldinho, Messi, R9, Henry etc.
I watched this video, still waiting for the dribbling part. He seems like a decent overall player but absolutely not a dribbler. I could compare him to Kaka (maybe), but Messi or Ronaldinho?😅
@ferencnagy1205 Yeah, because you watch shorts clips. Probably 2-3 years in his career, the best footballer in the world.And believe me , best goals , passes and dribbling not even showed. But Messi have 10-12 years, and that is a fact.And , believe me he is the only player on thet time who received the ball on your own half and all stadium get up on feet. Different time
There were some unbelievable talents out of Eastern Europe at that time
And then, Western Europe created EU & UCL to kill their competitiveness. Legit, but sad.
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..
One of the greatest to ever play the game!! Dejane Dejane Dejane!!!!:)
The master of the dribbling and poor discipline! A unique player, a unique great guy!
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.
People don't understand how Godly he was
Capello left him on the bench for the 1995 European Cup final. What a fool.
To be fair, Dejan in a recent interview admitted he was injured. I think he told the truth
@@davidemaglio5745 Then why let him suit up at all? Or maybe sub him on at the 86th minute and hope for a miracle?
@@tomwalker389 maybe you're right. But I was only reporting what he said in this interview kzhead.info/sun/kruJc7VunnStqIU/bejne.htmlsi=DOqp9ABgtHOtXoJX
@@tomwalker389 I linked the video with the interview but You tube canceled the comment. You can check yourself, look for Pellegatti Savicevic and of you speak Italian you'll decide for yourself
That Milan 92-93 squad is insane. maldini,baresi,boban, savicevic, van basten, guillt, papin rijkaard.
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
I think that Vladimir Jugović refused to drink champagne from the cup when he won the CL with Juventus. On that occasion, he said: "If they knew what Dragiša Binić was doing with that cup, they would never think of drinking anything from it!" Of course, Dragiša peed in him! That was Dragiša Binić!!!
Savicevic was a genius. I still remember that 1994 Champions league final against Barcelona.
Dejan wahr brutal gut und seine team kollegen wahren die besten der besten in dieser Zeit
Great player. Would win ballon dors in this era. Very comfortably
More flair than Messi is wild bro 😂
THE Magician. Still our best dribbler.
His performance vs Bayern in Belgrade in '91.... world class!
You forgot a short return to Red Star where he scored the same goal as against Barcelona in the final. Genie
Ehhh il calcio di una volta....😢 Che fantastici giocatori
DEJAN SAVICEVIC 🇲🇪🇲🇪🇲🇪🇲🇪
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 ...
Cheers for this video. I literally never heard of him, sounds like the Balkan Le Tissier
Oh much much better, more agile and faster, deff more like vintage Messi
Ah ah Balkan Le Tissier . It's about one of the best european players ever, and you talk about Le Tissier (who was a genius on his own, I know...but there are levels in football)
A lot better than that.
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.
wohhhhhhhht an amazing portfolio sire :)
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
We called him GENIJE/GENIUS
Messi doesn't have flair. He just gets it done better than anybody. He doesn't have time for flair.
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.
What's the famous track you play at the beginning of the video?
Can anyone tell me what's the song that starts in the background at 0.40 pls?
Il Genio rossonero ❤🖤
excellent!
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.
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 ..........
A Modrič ne spada u taj niz ili .......? 🤣🤣
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
YES
He was best of his era.
Imagine what a more attack-minded coach would have done with Savicevic, Baggio and Weah!!
I used to know it's name off head, now it eludes my memory.
He doesn't have more flair than Messi.