Kids These Days Don't Know Baggio....

HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYONE! As a way to start 2022, I decided to bring back a lost classic, now rebooted with more cool details about the career of the magical Roberto Baggio. The original was the video that blew up my channel and unfortunately it was blocked by youtube due to copyright issues when it was about to become my first to hit a million views... thankfully you made sure that by the end of the year a few others got to the iconic 1 Million. Thanks to all of you, 2021 was a year to remember for me, 93 thousand people decided to listen to me speak of football on a weekly basis... unbelievable, love you all, keep safe!

"Since when Baggio retired it's not sunday anymore". He was one of the best italian palyer of all times, and this quote shows it.

Baggio scores that penalty and Italy win that World cup he's a top 5 player all time. That's how fickle people are. If you put him up against any of the greats, his dribbling, control, free kicks, technique, football IQ, vision as well as combination of goalscoring and assisting and overall natural talent are as good as any number 10 ever. All this being injured his whole career. Phenomenal player.

We Nigerians that watched him in US 94 play against the best team that has ever represented us know how good he was. He single-handedly won the match for Italy.

A tragic hero... He played with melancholy in his eyes and magic in his feet .... My humble tribute to the divine ponytail ... One of the best ever ... 🙏💜

Roberto Baggio is so special that he's beloved by everyone here in Italy, even if he played for all the biggest teams in our league. Personally, I had the privilege to see him in his finals year in my hometown Brescia. And it was magical, never saw another superstar on the pitch that was also unbelieveable humble in his normal life. Grazie di tutto Roberto!

I've travelled across Italy a lot over the past years. Here I've also managed to watch a lot of football with Italians. A lot of people actually still think of him as their favourite footballer ever in Italian football history. From Milano (Milan) to Firenze (Florence) a lot of people still see him as their icon.

In the UK we were lucky to have Serie A games broadcast on Sundays in the early to late 90s, this was due to Italia 90 and David Platt moving to Bari, Juventus and Sampdoria + Paul Gascoigne moving to Lazio, we got to see so many wonderful things, that early 90s AC Milan team, Bastistuta at Florentina, Baggio, Parma doing awesome stuff and a seeing Buffon play for the first time as a 17 year old and George Weah running from his own 18 yard box to score! 90s serie A was amazing and Baggio was superb

If you watched Baggio closely, during his career. You were witness to something extraordinary. Watching Baggio play football is like watching Black Thought rap or watching Daniel Day Lewis act. It was absolutely masterful. One of the major reasons why, I'm still a football fan all these years later.

What's even more fascinating is with this knee he played his whole career on the most reckless and toughest defensive era football even seen

The crazy thing about Baggio is that he wasn't theorically able to play that well with the injuries he had, but he played majestically anyways. There was something almost supernatural about him, so fragile yet so phenomenal. He was made of glass but played like he was made of diamond. That elegance, derived by his physical precariousness, made him a magical player to witness. He was so cautious at every move he did, so that he saw things other players couldn't, and made him one of the smartest players of all time. My dad worked at a restaurant in Florence in the early 90s and his boss was sokagakkai, which is the same buddhist "sept" Baggio was in, and they used to do meetings in the restaurant all the time, so my dad encountered Baggio many times while he played for Fiorentina. Even for his '94 World Cup miss, a very few people in Italy wouldn't think of him as the best italian player of all time.

He was devastating, and most of his coaches couldn't take him being THAT good. I've seen him play more than once and it was just poetry.

Some people are born unlucky, but they experience the beauty of life like no other. You can just see in Baggio's eyes, the honest person he is.

Poet is the word, a true football poet, a beautiful player to watch for his entire career.

He was my favorite player growing up, saw him play in the 94 World Cup Semifinals against Bulgaria, absolutely amazing experience...it was insanely unfortunate he missed that shot in the finals or else he'd be arguably one of the best ever

Baggio became world player of the year post not one but two career threatening injuries when he was still very young. It makes his achievements even more remarkable.

My football idol always... Never forget the 94 WC... It was my first and the beginning of my love for football... Baggio was the reason I played football... Hearing Zidane say what he said about Baggio was simply beautiful

Had the luck to watch him play live, in the later years of his career.. He was hell of a player..

I never got to appreciate this legend but now I know why Baggio is one of my dad's favourite alongside Maradona. Maybe do one on Berbatov. Would love to hear his career.

Beautiful. That genuinely brought a tear to my eye. Anyone who says football is just a game knows nothing. Baggio gave everything and more.