Here's a tale about a team which is as anti-"modern football" as it gets - the Czech team Viktoria Plzen.
The team is owned by the City of Plzen (no Jewish Gangsters or Arab Sheiks, thank you very much), the budget of the whole club is a grand total of 3.2M Euros (80M Czech Crowns according to this article http://www.praguepost.com/news/10058-viktoria-plze�ˆ-wins-huge-payday.html ), i.e. their whole team's yearly budget is worth about 15% of Balotelli's transfer fee from ManCity to AC Milan!
And yet they managed to win the Czech Championship last year, and played in the Group stage of the Champions league, finishing third in a tough group behind Barcelona and Milan.
This year they play in Europa League and just destroyed the Italian giants Napoli - currently second in Serie A - (3:0 in Naples, 2:0 in Plzen) and advanced into the round of 16 where they will play against the Turkish team Fenerbahce.
Oh, and did I mention their roster is completely white and almost completely Czech (with a couple os Slovakians)?
The Napoli fans complained all over the internet about their team of super-fit billionaires being trashed by a team whose players appear to have beer-bellies. Indeed, here's the picture of Viktoria's captain and best player ever, the 37-years old Pavel Horvath :icon_mrgreen: :
Le's hope this fairy tale continues. Go Victoria!!!!
Athletic Bilbao and now Pizen are 2 of my favorite teams.
Also, Napoli has no Africans or Brazilians on their team, which is a miracle, just a couple of Colombians, Uruguayans, plus 1 Argentinian.
How many teams don't have an African or South American on their team?