7 Best Current TROPHYLESS Footballers

speaking in January 2019 after his team had been knocked out of both the League Cup and the FA Cup within the space of just 3 days maritzio pettino told journalist quote people wish we could win some trophies but being realistic we are doing so well to win a title here in England like the FA Cup or caribel cup is about being lucky not only about quality in your squad adding sometimes when you assess football you only look at which team W which team lost but you have to consider all the circumstances end quote a cynic might suggest that of course poino would say that famously or infamously if you like despite doing what was widely considered to being an excellent job at Tottenham pochettino never won anything in North London but maybe maritzio has a point Once Upon a Time footballers weren't judge solely upon the size of their trophy cabinets Stanley Matthews was almost universally considered to be the best player in England if not the world throughout much of a more than 30-year career in the game despite only winning his first and only trophy at Club level at the age of 38 Tom finny his old Wing partner and a fellow two-time fwa football of the Year winner just like Matthews was held in similarly high regard despite winning nothing during his 20-year career playing for Preston North End Brazilian Legends Socrates never won more than a state championship at club or International level German genius Ben Schneider only ever won Runners up medals in the Bundesliga dfb pocal champions league and the World Cup and the Little Italian magician beepee senori to the Seria scoring charts Thrice during the League's Glory Days but never tasted any Glory of his own nowadays though in any discussion about a player's talents the honor section of their Wikipedia page is brought up quicker than Sheffield United can race into losing 4-0 at home before halftime in ways it makes complete sense the economics of modern football dictate that players like Stanley Matthews Tom finny and even jepe senori no longer stick around at clubs like Stoke Preston and Lazio with the greatest of respect to all three whil being among the best in their business and the dominance of the top clubs where they inevitably end up means that in theory at least the best players in the 21st century ought to be guaranteed impressive trophy Halles but how does that theory play out in the real world well in today's video as you might have guessed by now I thought that I'd take a look at some of the best current footballers without a single piece of silverware to their name and when I say trophyless I really mean it there is not a super cup Community Shield or even a UEFA Nations league in sight which ruled out the likes of vissen benetta Marcus toram and Wilfred zahar the only trophies that I will allow are amateur or Junior ones in underage competitions because you know we've all won one of those all right maybe not that one but you get the idea and including them would rule out virtually every footballer on the planet I also won't be including particularly young players even if immensely talented hopefully for obvious reasons Florian vers is undoubtedly one of the best active trophyless footballers albe it perhaps not for long but age 20 it would seem a bit reductive to include the likes of him Moises kaiso or even an Ivan Tony who might be about to turn 28 but is currently in only his third season playing in the Premier League you know I could probably have included Tony but I'm just explaining why I didn't without further Ado then who is neither an active footballer nor trophyus having won the MLS Cup with DC United in his first ever season as a 14 and 15y old although that was the only trophy ever one here are seven of the best current footballers who are somehow still entirely trophy seventh Jordan pford picking the first inclusion in this seven was tough I could have gone with newcastle's Callum Wilson who has now scored more Premier League goals than Fernando Torres and Eden Hazard atalanta's turn coup miners who reached two kvb Cup finals with his boy club azed but lost them both or fellow goalkeeper and brucia Dortmund number one Gregor Kerbal who obviously came within inches of winning the Bundesliga last season I know Jordan Pigford is someone who divides opinion but I think much of the criticism of him particularly in recent years is without Merit and ultimately I think that he's a more solid inclusion than those that I just mentioned for a start Pigford is pretty experienced now having recently turned 30 this is pigford's eighth straight season as the Undisputed number one at a Premier League club and he has been England's Undisputed number one as well for at least six of those Seasons CS 58 times to date pick has been outstanding for England at three successive major tournaments saving as many penalties in the Euro 2020 final penalty shootout as his opposite number Jan Luigi donaruma who won the player of the tournament award Pigford has almost won silverware a couple of times with England but at Club level he's never come close in his debut campaign at Sunderland pford tasted relegation and his last few seasons at Everton including this one have all involved relegation scraps in the various Cup competitions pford has never got beyond the quarterfinal stage it feels as though pigford's best shot at silverware May well be this summer at Euro 2024 where England are one of two favorites along with France given the fact that he has contracted to Everton until 2027 and a move to a trophy Laden Club doesn't appear to be imminent Manchester United were reportedly interested in pford last summer before settling on Andre and aror instead though at this stage even that move wouldn't come with a guarantee of trophies sixth Lewis dunk staying in the Premier League momentarily and with another England International Lewis stunk has won 55 caps fewer than Jordan pford yet he features one place higher in this seven I would die on the hell that Dunc is unfortunate only to have won three caps for England and his career trajectory starting out at Brighton in League one being sent out on loan to non- League Bogner Regis and then League one side Bristol City when he couldn't get in the Brighton team under Oscar Garcia in the championship is the reason why he doesn't receive the plaudits that he perhaps should dun defied the doubters to establish himself with his Boyhood Club in the championship and he made the PFA Team of the Year the season that the seagulls won promotion to the Premier League this is dunc's seventh successive season in the Premier League and no one has played more Premier League games for Brighton than him while so much has changed around the club since dunk made his debut of the with Dean Stadium he has the one constant in the Premier League alone he has had Shane Duffy Dan burn Benjamin white Adam Webster Levi Colville and Yan Paul Van heck as Center back Partners remaining unerringly consistent throughout that time dunk is big and strong but he also reads the game well and has become extremely proficient on the ball and in terms of his distribution over the years I think that you could slotter him in at Center back for almost any club over the last 6 years and though he wouldn't necessarily improve Pro them all let's say man city or Real Madrid he could do a job and would never look out of place the fact that he has only ever been permanently contracted to Brighton however age 32 means that dunk has thus far won nothing the closest the seagulls and therefore dunk by extension of is reaching the semi-finals of the FA Cup which they did last season losing on penalties to Manchester United and in the 201819 season where they lost 1-0 against Manchester City fifth Matia Zaki though I would put my life on me being the first person to have made this comparison in some ways Matia Zaki isn't all that different to Lewis dunk what I mean by that is that like dunk Zak's career has been a bit of a slow burner and he has progressively improved overtime resulting in him not always getting the recognition that he truly deserves Zak began his career with a tiny semi-professional club called bolaria IGA and the fourth tier of Italian football before being snapped up by halis Verona and sent on loan to then Syria Seas sides venetsia and citadella Zaki managed to establish himself at Verona eventually as they yo-yoed almost every season between Seria and Sera B before an eye-catching campaign brought about a loone move to Lazio With a View to a permanent Lazio only paid 7 million EUR for Zaki owing to the fact that he was already 26 but so far that has Pro proved to be masterful business quick skillful and increasingly productive in the final third Zak made 20 goal contributions in 45 games last season and though he hasn't quite matched those numbers in a massively underachieving Lazio team this season he has still been their star Man by virtue of his steady climb though and the fact that Lazio have won nothing since his arrival he remains trophyus he has the chance to rectify that this season with Lazio through to the semi-finals of the copper ala where they will face Juventus Juventus incidentally are widely reported to be interested in signing zeni who Lazio are desperately attempting to tie down on a long-term deal he may also have a shot at winning the Euros with Italy this summer but having won his first cap in 2022 zaku was left out of luchiano sp's most recent Squad leading to doubts surrounding his potential inclusion fourth Evis basuma the youngest player in this seven I think he basuma is just about a justifiable inclusion based upon his current level of experience age 27 basuma made his name at Le before joining Brighton for15 million three years before Le won an unlikely league on title just before joining Le in fact basuma came even closer to winning silverware when he was part of a Marley team that reached the final of the African nations Championship where his team lost 3-0 against Dr Congo if basuma wanted to end his trophy rout he had a strange way of going about it joining Tottenham for3 million in 2022 I'm sorry Spurs fans it was only a joke please don't drop dog turds through my letter box again basuma joined Spurs despite reported interest from Arsenal Man United and West Ham but his first season at Tottenham after he was cleared of ongoing sexual assault charges was a quiet one under Antonio con Christian stellini and Ryan Mason this season however under an post chogo while practically the entire Tottenham team has been greatly improved basuma has been one particular standout a tireless confidence and technically gifted constant outall baser is one the 12 most tackles in the Premier League this season narrowly ahead of former Brighton teammate Alexis mallister and ranks joint 12th in terms of his past completion percentage tied with rodri that is impressive company to keep but whilst mallister is a World Cup winner who won a league title of bcka Juniors and has already won an efl cup at Liverpool and rodry won a treble at Manchester City last season among other things bmer has won the same number of trophies as Lee Camal and has reached fewer finals third Demitri payat I'll be honest before I started researching this video I wasn't actually aware that Demitri pet was trophyless but as soon as I found out he was a shorefire inclusion that's not only because pet was and is a brilliant footballer who made the league on Team of the Year Thrice and the PFA Team of the Year in his only full season in the Premier League but also because of the fact that he is 36 years old that means that there is every chance that pet will retire trophyus with his best shot now starring for Vasco de gam in Brazil probably coming in the campionato karoa Rio de Janeiro's regional state championship which Vasco haven't won since 2016 it has been 5 years since Vasco even made it through to the final where they were thrashed 4-0 by Flamingo meanwhile the campionato brazero seems like an even longer shot for the Frenchmen or be it he does love a long shot given the fact that Vasco only avoided relegation by two points last season and are 50 to1 Outsiders to win the league in 2024 the closest P has come to winning anything today came at Euro 2016 where France reached the final on home soil and Patt made the team of the tournament but they fell to Portugal in the final and in the 201718 Europa League in which Marseilles reached the final and pet also made the Europa League team of the tournament but they were well beaten by Atletico Madrid in the final by three goals to nil Patt was substituted in both of his major final appearances replaced by perennial Trophy winner Kingsley Coman in the Euros Final in 2016 and forcibly withdrawn after only 32 minutes in the Europa League final in 2018 with an injury which ruled him out of the 2018 World Cup up which naturally France went on to win Patt is the only player in this seven to have won a senior trophy in a non-friendly competition namely the coup Dela reunion with excelsia which he won as a 17-year-old football in the French overseas territory including the coup Dela reunion is an all amateur Affair however thus pet is still trophyless with the only three restrictions being on professional senior and competitive trophies Second Son hung men I'm not saying that if you're a great player but don't want to win any trophies in the modern era then joining Tottenham is the best way to go about it but well you know in all seriousness son yungman is a great player since joining Tottenham almost 9 years ago you'd struggle to find too many players who have been as consistently brilliant in the Premier League and indeed for both Hamburg and Byer leusen before that one of the greatest Asian footballers to have ever lived and the greatest of the 21st century since the best footballer in Asia award was launched in 2013 son has won it nine out of a possible 13 times son has also won the Tottenham Player of the Year award thce which is not bad going considering the fact that he had Harry Kane for competition throughout that time and in the 2021-22 season he won the Premier League golden boots jointly with Muhammad Salah this season son been outstanding having made 24 goal contributions in 24 appearances for a Spurs team that is fighting to regain their Champions League status and he is only four goals behind earling Harland in the division scoring charts and yet and you all know what's coming son has won the square root of sod all age 31 well actually that's not strictly true as some of you watching this particularly any Koreans may be screaming into your screens right now son did very notably win the 2018 Asian games which much to tottenham's Delight made him exempt from military service in South Korea son still had to do basic military training but he was able to complete that during the pandemic avoiding missing any games while the Premier League season was suspended football at the Asian Games however if you are wondering why son still features much like at the Olympics is officially an under 23 competition with three overage players allowed to be ready registered in each squad one of which for South Korea was son and therefore the only trophy son has ever won was technically a youth competition that might seem harsh but as some no doubt learned during his mandatory military training rules are rules first Harry Kane the most obvious top spot since my video about the seven tallest players to have played for Portsmouth Liverpool Tottenham and Stokes City and also having performed the robot as a goal celebration or the one about the biggest wrongin who are currently on loan at GFE Harry Kane isn't just the best currently active trophyless footballer he is a historically great trophyless player I'm sure he's delighted at that crown that is to say even going back to the era of retain and transfer where players literally could not leave their current clubs without their express permission and 12 a week maximum wages which meant there was little to no Financial incentive in joining a bigger Club the still haven't been many players better than Harry Kane at this stage of their careers who hadn't won a single piece of professional senior competitive silverware yes I regret to inform you that tottenham's success in the 2019 preseason Audi cup which was the last ever Audi cup as things stand where they beat Bayern Munich 65 on penalties in the final with Kane converting against his current Club in the shootout doesn't count as a trophy and unlike in the case of son I don't think anyone would consider that to be remotely harsh Kane has of course come pretty close to tasting success he reached two efl Cup finals with Spurs one in 2015 and one in 2021 starting both but Falling to 2-0 and one- nil defeats against Chelsea and Man City at Wembley he along with son of course reached a Champions League final in 2019 playing the full 90 minutes once again as Spurs lost 2-0 against Liverpool this time and he reached the final of Euro 2020 with with England captaining the three lines as they gave up a 1-nil lead and went on to lose against Italy on penalties so last summer following years of rumors Kane finally left behind a team that is Infamous for not winning major trophies Tottenham to join one that is Fame for winning them to an almost tedious extent in the form of Bayern Munich Bayern have literally won 11 Bundesliga titles in a row in addition to winning two Champions Leagues and five dfb pocal during that time and yet as most of you probably know this season their prospects don't look quite so Good by leusen currently enjoy a massive 10-point lead at the top of the Bundesliga table and show few signs of letting up whilst sping are only four points above stutgart in third if there is one glimmer of hope for kanaine it is perhaps that leusen are essentially the Spurs of the r in the sense that winning trophies isn't exactly a force of habit leusen are nicknamed Visa cin in German which literally means second Cen owing to the fact that they have been Bundesliga Runners up five times without ever winning the league they've lost three dfb pocal finals having only ever won one and they lost the Champions League final in 2002 having never been crowned as European Champions by and by contrast have winning in their DNA but it would take a collapse of unprecedented proportions even by leus and standards and a turnaround which defies anything that bay has ever done before for Kane to left a first League title this season and they have already been humiliatingly knocked out of the dfb pocal this season in only the second round against thir zuken Kane and bayern's best shot at a trophy this season therefore is probably the UFA Champions League which they are the third favorites to win behind Manchester City and Real Madrid having overcome Lazio in the round of 16 there is this pernicious Slightly bizarre idea that somehow still persists the because of Kane's troph streak perhaps teams are better off without him with the greatest of respect anyone who actually thinks that has feces for brains and ought to be sectioned the idea that Spurs England or Bayern would be better off without one of the best players in the world at the peak of their powers is as should be obvious absurd Kane is already Tottenham and England's all-time leading goal scorer and he has scored 36 goals and made 11 assists in 34 games since signing for Bayern he has averaged a goal every 74 minutes in the Bundesliga so far this season arguably he has been the best player in the league and if the rest of the Bayern team had held up their side of the bargain and even if they now went on to win the Champions League Kane could well win the Balon door as things stand however he has won nothing and there have been few finer 30-year-old footballers in the entire history of the sport who still hadn't won anything at this stage of their careers anyway that is it for today's video but thank you all very much as ever for watching I hope that you enjoyed it hit the like button if that was the case let me know your thoughts Down Below in the comments and of course goes without saying by this stage at least uh make sure that you are subscribed and have notifications turned on for both this Channel hitc 7s and also my second Channel Alie Poots Arma both of which should be on or about to appear on your screens now along with a couple of videos that you might enjoy watching after this one you can also find me on Twitter Instagram or threads via the username @ h7s on all three and all of those links plus a whole lot more should be down in the video description below cheers

Channel: HITC Sevens

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Keywords: HITC Sevens, Football, Soccer, Best, Footballers, Trophyless, Trophies, No, Current, Harry Kane, Kane, Bayern, Premier League, Bayern Munich, Bundesliga, Champions League, Dimitri Payet, Everton, Brighton, Tottenham, Tottenham Hotspur

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Length: 21min 40sec (1300 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 13 2024