It's interesting how as someone who grew up watching football and all the main European league everything just seemed so simple and normal but watching someone actually break it down makes me realize it actually can be complicated.
Been playing since I was 4 and this would be my 19th year playing football competitively. Its rly rly rly hard, sometimes my brain gets tired from thinking before my stamina runs out. You have to think a lot in American Football also, but u have time to think and plan each pause and reorganize the structure of ur team. Unfortunately in football we don’t have that luxury. That’s why we do a lot of “fouls” also known as tactics fouls so that the play stops and we can organize ourselves
About once a decade ago a non premiership club will pull of a big enough upset to get to the FA Cup final although this normally co-incides with that team also finishing in the promotion spots into the premiership for next season.
Just this year, the 30 times winner of the Hungarian League, Ferencvárosi TC (after winning against Monaco in the Champions league qualifiers) lost to the 10. place team at their next game in the league, and a few days later got eliminated from the national cup series by a league 3 team
Wigan Athletic 2013 FA Cup. 1-0 win against Manchester city. Only to be Relegated the very next league game. Is a big one that comes to mind. Even Wimbledon beating Liverpool Or Portsmouth winning the cup. Blackburn or Leicester Winning the league.
You'd better clue up, cousin. The next World Cup in 2026 will be in North America, jointly hosted by Canada, Mexico, and the US. One venue (of the 16) will be Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, not too distant from you.
@@madyottoyotto3055 There is a huge potential problem on the horizon for the 2026 World Cup and that is the chanting from the crowds. In US stadiums much of the chanting that English fans do will get you evicted from the stadium. It will be interesting to see how the US authorities react when there are thousands of fans chanting very abusive chants which can be heard on TV coverage.
@@stephenhodgson3506 yer ok let's see the American fed try to control the riots that follow that You couldn't even imagine the carnage that would happen if the match was stopped for a chant American and it's belief it has freedom of speech unlike no other my ring lol 🤣🤣😅 Either way it will be entertaining
@@madyottoyotto3055 I fully agree! I would love to be able to travel to see a match. By travel, I mean, Boat or Flight is almost certainly the only way to get there. I want to feel that stadium feeling, and not worry that I'm going to offend the person I don't know sitting next to me! But I love comedy...so here we go.
Another thing about soccer is that the teams don’t move... Liverpool is from Liverpool, Manchester City and United are from Manchester, Newcastle United is from Newcastle etc. and you tend to support your local team. If it is the two local teams playing it’s called a derby and there is much more tension in the game. Also the fans chants from the stands are way funnier than in any other sport 😂
True and those teams have been there for more than a century which is probably part of why it’s probably one the biggest parts of modern European/ South American culture
Nah. Maybe in America. In countries like germany, we always had positions, even as kids. The „bulkier“ guys defending, the fast and agile kid’s as wing players etc. That may be because almost every kid in my generation played football in a team already. So when we played as friends, our positions where pretty much fixed already.
in serbia we tehnicaly have positions when we were kids and go after school to park or school pitch (literaly every school here have a concrete pitch that is for basketball and football) to play and we "had positions"everyone knows who is defender and who is attacking, but not like literal positions. And rule is fatest kid is a goalie.
The whole "no commercials" during the game I think is one of the greatest things about the sport. Ever since I started watching the premier leauge 5-6 years ago, its at times made watching the NFL and college football unbearable with how much crap they stuff in between plays and turn-overs
This was the other way for me😂😂 as someone who grew up watching soccer, when I started getting into basketball I was like wtf? A break every 5 minutes?😂😂
European football use other ways to get sponsorships without the cancer commercials, like putting the sponsors on their shirts (in some case lasting for decades, to the point they become iconic for your team's shirts) and the trophies/league usually get sponsors deal as well
Another reason is that soccer is based on continuous plays and not short set-pieces. The game may be running for 6-7 minutes without any interruption ( you sometimes see substitutes waiting that long for an interruption to occur and enter the pitch). So you cannot predict how many ads you can inject and when you will do it anyway.
I actually respect how non ignorant and open minded this guy is, every similar video i see people talking about how boring and complicated football is, but this guy wants to give it a chance if it makes sense
Yeah, there is a lot of things soccer has differences and from other sports. And for me the most difficult part is the dedication to preparation. In most European/Asian schools soccer players are so tuned they even play as track and field athletes even if they are not full time track and field and still get medals. Most team has session to run around laps of this huge field like 6 times twice each day and undergo full body fitness muscle training and we haven't still even kicked the ball yet. This creates a very slim yet dense physique that is nearly a uniform to every player. The sessions with the ball consists of preparing against "scenarios that you would encounter on the field" more than coordination. To me it feels like a driving accident prevention course if you have the ball, or a self defence class against mugging and they literally have a squadron of professional muggers dedicated to it that would chase you to the ends of the earth because they are uber-track field athletes. Then they require you to suddenly play golf with your foot while running if you come into target of an objective. It's insane lol
Football is prolly the least complicated big sport out there. The only thing that has to be explained is offside and thats pretty much it. If a person goes to a soccer match with no knowledge they will immediately know how to play, but other sports would still have explanations
My Dad actually explained offside to me in the simplest way I've ever heard......"Imagine if there is no offside....everyone would just camp out next to the goalie"......in this way you begin to understand why it's there and how it functions to keep the game competitive without any ludicrous advantage that defeats the purpose of competing in the first place....
Man, you have my respect. Hats off to you! People who take the time to educate themselves instead of sitting there and talking nonesense are my kind of people. On a side note, it might take you some time to understand the offsides law in football. It's notoriously complicated, which is wht it's the one law that causes the most arguments even among die-hard football fans. 😊
I would argue that since VAR offside not that much of an issue anymore, only in exceptional cases. IMO the rule that causes by far the most arguments is the hand ball rule. Was it in a natural position? Next to the body? Used as support arm when falling? Refs have to basically improvise with this rule, causing many controversies
@@illuminatie2526 you might have a point when it comes to VAR reducing the controversies around offsides, but we'll have to keep in mind that VAR has only been in use for a few years. I am talking from a braoder historical perspective here. Handball is still a little controversial because the refs have to decide whether it was intentional or not. Different refs may have different interpretations of the same action. This is something that will have to be ironed out. When I say the offsides rule is hard to explain, I'm not kidding you. On the surface it looks like a simple rule, but if you start diving into some crazy cases about that law, you might be shocked. Luckily for us, many of those situations are extremely rare in the game. But when they do happen, they often leave people very confused. I'm not going to give specific examples here, but you might want to look for crazy things that can happen with the offsides law in football.
it's funny how as a brazilian I just kinda know those things. it's a huge part of the culture and teams play twice a week, so it's always being discussed by someone around you. a lot of ppl only tune in during the world cup and the olympics because it's the country playing, but even them will know a few things. I've fallen out of watching games the last few years (my team isn't doing well and i got frustrated), but the world cup reawakened something. it was really interesting seeing someone coming from absolutely no knowledge and I'd like if you got deeper into rules and plays. anyway, nice video
Not only twice a week for us, if you think about. Sure, the team you support play twice. But the other team from your city might play in different days, so just in your city are 4 days of the week with people talking about football. Plus eventually there are those important big games, regardless of who you support (a final, a cup game, etc). So at sometimes during the season we have some different game being talked about almost every day of the week.
@@Bill_Gamesh Rangers FC frrom Scotland. And in Scotland there are 2 big teams Rangers and Celtic and they hate each other a lot. Rangers FC was a very important Club in Europe but in 2011-12 they went broke and then the fans had to see how their team got relegated to the 4th division and their all-time rivals Celtic FC winning the league from 2011 until 2020
It's good that you are learning the game, and understanding why goals are celebrated how they are, I couldn't imagine a game where points are scored in almost every attack like basketball, it takes away all the drama, oh and when you learn how offsides and things work you will understand why players don't just go off running down the pitch whenever they want, football is very tactical.
In football goals are more exciting per se but in basketball it’s quite exciting to watch as well because the scoring always comes in waves so it’s not always one team scores a bucket and the other one does as well. Sometimes there are runs where one team scores 20 whilst the other one only scores maybe 3 or so. This makes the dynamics really interesting and these runs can be unbelievable because teams oftentimes catch up crazy deficits within minutes etc. Also it gets unbelievable when a game is so close that every possession basically every bucket counts and it might come down to a buzzer beater you know.
It's more like every other attack in basketball, but I hear you. Teams score a little over 1 pt per possession in the NBA, which means they're scoring about half the time (very roughly). But it certainly doesn't take away the drama, it's just a different kind of drama. I would even tentatively compare the drama to a PK shootout, where they are expected to score in big moments and the drama comes from whether they can pull it of or the defender can stop them.
One thing not mentioned in the video is how difficult it is to organize a team to score a goal and to prevent one against you. In the NBA, it is very much individual, more like indoor football. In football, however, you need to have a clear perception of the all field, where your team mates are and are going to be. E.g., when you a long pass, you need to plan ahead, and predict your teammates movements. And then, you still need to control for the positioning of your opponents, their movements, and their own ideas. It looks easier from above where the cameras are. That's why transfers occur before the season, and it is unlikely that a player will join a game immediately after the hiring (like in the NBA). A coach is basically training an army, and new soldiers need to fit into the strategy.
Man, relegation disputing is one of the best things created in football. When traditional teams are bad in the season, their games become even more important because to be relegated is a kind of dishonor. In Brazil, this type of drama happens a lot.
In the UK there even used to be a system of clubs voting on relegations out of the football league, which led to some clubs dominated lower leagues but not being allowed to promote due to the higher tier clubs favouring each other, thankfully that system is long gone because it was truly stupid as hell
I had trouble understanding offside when I was probably about 8, until my dad just told me, “no goal hanging”. Something all kids do, and shout at each other for. It suddenly made sense what it is and why it exists.
Gary Lineker in the 80s. Hangs around the six-yard box and scores what we'd call "a poacher's goal". Can't do that anymore, stupid offside; because now we have to explain it, and active players, and players who've run through and off the pitch, and when they can come back on, and to make things worse, VAR. Oh, well, it's progress of a sort. 😮💨
Conmebol is superinteresting too!!! In South America you have two football superpowers, Brazil & Argentina, and several of the other teams are quite capable too. The national teams' championship is called Copa América (the US has been invited to participate a couple of times), and it's also quite good. The South American playoffs for the World Cup are the most competitive in the world. Also you may want to check out the South American champions league, Copa Libertadores. So if you focus only in Europe you'll be missing really good stuff!!!
Heck even little ol’ Uruguay is a force to be reckoned with. If you were to pluck their small country up and drop it anywhere else in the world they’d easily be a dominating football powerhouse in their new location. Not only does that say a lot about them but also demonstrates how incredible Brazil and Argentina are that they can basically make their world-class football neighbor look like a mediocre team by comparison (well maybe not in this World Cup since they got knocked out already)
I confirm this as a citizen of Argentina. And until just a few years ago, our local Superclásico was one of the 50 best sport events in the world (arguably still is). Much respect to all SA players
South American football has a different feel to European football, specially when comparing Libertadores with the Champion's League. In Brazil we use to say that Libertadores is to Champions League as carnival is to the theatre. Sure, the best players are in Europe, technically it's better, and all that, but the atmosphere of the games here is more exciting. Plus here it's more common for weaker teams to win tourneys.
I can't explain how much happy I am to see an american actually passionately learning football. In between the video also reasoning and finding out things. This is what sport is actually suppose to do, bring people together despite the differences.
I once saw a programme where an American went to spend a year volunteering at a boy's orphanage in Africa. He thought he would do something good for the kids by ordering some sports goods. An American sports goods store generously agreed to send some baseball equipment to the orphanage. The young boys duly ignored the bats, dropped the balls to the ground and started kicking them to each other, Truly football (proper football) has conquered the world.
tottenham has 24 trophies which are two league titles, eight FA Cups, four League Cups, seven FA Community Shields, one European Cup Winners' Cup, and two UEFA Cups.
For an American who doesn’t know much about soccer, doesn’t he look an awfully lot like a French, Algerian, Muslim Striker who wins world cups in years that end in 18 and ballon D’ors in years that end in 22, but with a longer beard, which works out because said Muslim striker is Muslim and long beards is good for Muslims?
In the UK we have Luton Town, 8 years ago they were in the National League using semi-professional players, last season they were in the play-offs to be promoted to the premier league and this season are pushing for automatic promotion (top 2 in the championship are promoted, 3-6 participate in play-offs with the winner of a mini tournament going up).
One more tip. Don’t just look at the ball all the time. In order to see how a whole team moves with just two eyes… follow the midfield guy that keeps the ball the most and see what he does when he doesn’t have the ball.
Exactly - best way to watch sports is to try to think 1-3 steps ahead of where the ball is. After watching soccer, American football is hard to watch since when the QB drops back to pass I have NO idea what’s going on since all the WRs and DBs are off my screen. It’s a complete surprise what the end result is going to be. Heavily reliant on replays to appreciate the full play.
@@Gravityplaysfifa I used to play LW and I used to wait for a defender to slip up I intercepted and created opportunities for my team. (Not on a professional level)
Thank you for taking the time to learn about Football! We grow up watching football since we are little and this game means everything for most of the world. ❤
I love that you actually took the time to learn about the game instead of being the typical American who hates on it without even giving it a chance. Growing up in the US as a soccer player, I got more than my fair share of trash talk directed at me by baseball and football players who didn’t realize that I could run circles around them and was far more athletic than them. I’m just glad to see the game I love finally starting to get the respect it deserves.
As a Japanese I remember the time when he had a recreational match for fun. When we played baseball, to their horror the only thing we cannot do is throw technical balls. Hitting with a bat or catching a ball is just something we can get used to. While when they played soccer they cannot even dribble or be prepared in any situation of the field that requires a decision with consequences. Nor they do have the stamina to run the whole game until the halftime. And that is even when our team was restricted to only deploy 3 of our absolute best from our club's team in each half time while the others are from team 2.
@@zeppelincraft1443 Exactly, people are much more used to using their arms and hands, so the foot coordination required for dribbling and playing soccer is a different kind of coordination. That’s why it’s hard for them to play, but as a soccer player I could pick up anything and be good at it. I made my high school’s varsity tennis team and I didn’t even play tennis. I had some friends that told me I should tryout so I picked up a racquet and went for it. I went undefeated all season too.
I've played against inexperienced U.S. servicemen and they wasted all their stamina chasing after the ball. They didn't get the fact that you let the ball do most of the work by constantly passing and moving it between team mates.
Negative football isn't actually negative football. It's called counter-attacking football. And it's all reliant on really fast transitions of play. When the opposing team lose the ball, you pick it up and then transition into attack really, really fast, to catch the opposing team on the back foot.
It's boring to watch though. I'd rather watch an open game and end to end chances for both teams. Watching some games where Mourinho, was the manager, of the opposing team, was a nightmare, of "Park the Bus!"
Each team forms a line and one team have to get past the other line with the football by as much as they can even if it’s just a foot and after a play is done they go back to there lines and do it all over again till they reach their destination within a certain amount of plays and then once one team is down the other team has to do the exact same thing but going form the spot the first team left off at
This really covered the basics, but there's so much more you can learn! The beautiful thing about Football is how unpredictable it is and how a single action can impact an entire season, it's very tense like that. And there are a ton of different tactics and plays you can do, like, 2 teams can find great success and play completely different styles. If you want to get into Football, I'd recommend you start by watching the Champions League knockouts, that start in February. It's similar to the NBA playoffs, so it's easy to understand and you get to watch the best teams in the world play
I really respect you for trying to understand our culture. Many people in your country insult without trying to understand but you're trying to understand it. In a short video, it seems you already understood a lot.
I'm Brazilan and a pretty good player, think as a 3 years old all i wanted was play. Moved to L A and Americans when talking about our Football, they all agree what it was. A game for little girls, they thought was no contact while playing. Got beat up so much, just like times chasing a particular player for some pay back.
It's worth noting that those tiers with the leagues go ridiculously far down. Generally, after the first few tiers, the leagues start branching off into more regional leagues. For example, in England: The top 5 tiers are all 1 league There are 2 leagues in the 6th tier, split into a north and south division, and so maybe only 1 or 2 teams from each league get promoted rather than the 3 or 4 from the higher tiers There are 4 leagues in the 7th tier etc There are I believe 21 tiers in total (although most localities will only have leagues down to maybe the 15th or 16th tier) This really shows you how many of us play football. Probably every village in the UK will have a football team of some sort, all cities and towns will have at least one football team even if they're not very good, and so you often support the team closest to you locally. If your town/city has multiple teams of a similar level, that's when rivalries really start to flare up with the other team, because by supporting one team, you can be seen as having rejected the other. This doesn't apply so much to teams with a much larger ability difference, because those teams don't really tend to play each other, and often that big gap in ability will offer a very different kind of experience. For example, I live in Coventry, and our best team, Coventry City, play in the 2nd tier, whilst our next best team, Coventry United, play in I think the 8th or 9th tier. By the way, the FA cup is only open to teams in the 9th tier or above (and only occasionally will places be offered to teams in the 10th tier if 9th tier teams withdraw), and so open to "basically every team in England" is a bit of an exaggeration. We have 700 odd teams by offering it up to those in the top 9 tiers. France can frequently get 7000 teams by offering it up to the top 15 tiers. The exponential growth in the number of leagues in a tier means that a cup competition grows very quickly the more tiers you add. If really every team in England played in the FA Cup, there would be 6609 teams, a little over 9 times the amount that really play. That doesn't take into account teams that do not play in the football pyramid (and therefore don't have a tier). This is only approximately a seventh of the total number of teams in England (this is an estimate because it is too large to work out). That doesn't necessarily mean that, assuming at least 18 players on a squad, there are 18×42,000=756,000 players registered to a football team, because especially at amateur level, players can play for multiple teams, but that would make well over 1% of the English population a registered footballer (that takes into account infants, the elderly, and as far as I can tell, that stat is only the adult male population, so women or children either). That was my underestimate considering most teams would have over 18 players, some even double. We are football crazy
In Germany, we have the DFB-Pokal, which also has minor lower league teams up to amateur level. And as we like to say "The Cup has laws of its own" - more than once, a minor league team has seriously embarassed a major Bundesliga team who took the little guys for granted, fielded a B-team which didn't really feel the need to exert themselves - and wham, suddenly, they're down 0-1 and the other team starts building an 11 man wall in front of their goal... and while the big team will avoid reading the newspaper the next day where the entire nation will mock them, the amateurs will still tell the story to their grandchildren how they embarassed the high and mighty Bayern Munich or Dortmund In fact, in the 2019/2020 season, a fourth league team made it all the way to the semifinals. In the quarterfinals, their keeper not only held three penalties in a penalty shootout, but also cleared one during regular match time, all against a team playing in the Bundesliga back then...
@Oliver H I remember watching that game, shoutout to Saarbrucken. But the best cup competition in the world imo has to be the Coupe De France. 8 of the last 9 seasons, at least 1 4th division team or lower has made it to the quarter finals, and in fact a 4th division team made it to the final a couple of years back. The French cup forces any team 2 tiers or higher to play away, so upsets are more likely, not to mention that the bigger teams enter the tournament much earlier so there are many more opportunities for upsets. And to top it all off, they allow teams from their overseas territories to compete, which satisfies my love for world football when international or continental football isn't taking place
The beauty of the FA cup is the funding and viewing it gives to smaller teams, even if you don’t win, a good cup run can and does massive things for a club
This was really interesting to see from a European perspective, because you get the context of the novice learning the basics of the game, but you also get to see which parts of the game are notable to a more informed US sports fan
That was a pretty good video, for me the best thing about football is that every year the bottom three teams get relegated and the top three teams from the league below get promoted. This means every game of the season matters for the teams at the bottom and the top in every league, this also creates more engagement for the fans.
Yes but the prem For example is not competitive at the top. American sports have a hard salary cap which makes it far more fair. Like take city for example they won the prem last year and then they go out and sign the best striker. It’s not fair so that’s why imo American sports league are fairer and more competitive. Like it’s always the same 6 at the top of the prem
@@Person-gk5ee u dumb ? Newcastle us literally 3rd in the league rn and arsenal is 1st. No one expected that, so just invalidates ur point.. it's about who's got the most money gets the better players, simple as that
@@Believer3_ you proved my point 😂 whoever has the most money gets the best players is the epitome of why the prem is unfair. Also they’re only halfway through Newcastle will not stay there and last I checked Arsenal are in the big 6. NFL is far fairer because of the cap. Man City would be over 100 million dollars over the nfl salary cap this year. Bear in mind Man City have about 30 less players. NFL more competitive and more fair it’s not who has the most money.
as an american who has grown up with a British father and been raised on soccer I must say this was a very good explanation of the game as a whole for someone who knows nothing and as far as players being dramatic when they fall, thats true, but it is legit pain for the most part when my friends talk about player being dramatic I just take them out to the field and have them start sprinting and then knock them over and tell them to get back up, and generally they can't
it‘s not only getting knocked over. Next time give them a good slide tacke to the shin with spiked boots and then tell them to get up. Yes some players overdo it, but I have played football for 15 years and I can tell you… it is hard being tackled out of no where when you don‘t wear any protection other than your shin pads.
@@french_toast223 you obviously have never played seriously... I played for 15 years and got tackled more than enough. As a youth player I was once tackled so hard, my shin pad broke into two pieces. Yes, you take it, take a rest and contiue to play, but with some tackles you need some time to rest
About being a good team and climbing the divisions, here in Brazil, there's the very interesting and shockingly sad story of the Chapecoense team. In 2009 they were on the Serie D (fourth division), in 2014 they got to the Serie A (main league). Sadly this story came to an tragic ending. In 2016, they qualified to the finals of the South American Cup (the equivalent of the Europa League). They flew to Colombia to play against Atletico Nacional. But they never got there. Their plane fell (because of lack of fuel). Only six survived. Atletico asked to Conmebol (the south american equivalent of UEFA) to give the title to Chapecoence.
This one deserves a separate comment on its own. The FA Cup is LOVED by most fans. The cup itself is a very good trophy to add to any teams collection, but for the smaller teams, having a home game against a big team ensures them ticket sales and TV revenue, revenue that can literally keep their club alive, or possibly even afford a few new transfers to improve their team and look to work their way up the football pyramid (the term used for describing the leagues in football all the way from grass roots to the Premier League). And upsets DO happen. Sure, maybe they don't win the cup, but they get the experience of facing some very good players, and the joy on everyones face when they sometimes manage to win against one of the bigger clubs? The FA cup is much more than just a trophy for big teams to add to their collection.
Another great thing about Football is, at least in Argentina, but i guess it's the same mostly everywhere, is that once you are a supporter of a particular club, you are FOR LIFE. It's unforgivable to switch teams. Even if your team gets demoted you gotta stick with them till your death! My father in law supports a team called Atlanta that won the National League back in the 60s and now is 3 leagues down, and has been since the 80s. But he still watches the games and goes to the stadium, even her daughter is very fond of the team. And it's something pretty normal her in Argentina: same team from craddle to the grave!!
Brazilian here. The video talks only about european football, but I think most european countries don't come close to understand the emotion we in latin america feel with football. Despite the rivalry between our countries, watching you guys celebrate the world cup makes me think: yeah, they get it, they are passionate just like we are. Much better than seeing France win it.
@Otavio Cordeiro in europe we're not passionate about football? Have you seen the Italian players when they score in the world Cup? As a Brazilian, you should remember the 82 world cup. Watch the final, the second goal scored by the Italian player. It's the most iconic celebration in the world Cup history. We do get it in europe too,a lot more in some cases.
@@vinlondon8904 as an Uruguayan I can understand what the Brazilian guy said.. but because I love English football, I can say that he was wrong, lifelong fans exist in all the countries, and the one that have the best league system is England, your team can be so many seasons in the semi-pro league that most south Americans fans would probably just leave as a fan to another one.. but there you have, most of the lowest teams had a great era of being in the top leagues, and even when fans are angry about the administration and the reason of being so low, they still go to most games, they keep being fans, supporting the team every year. A common example would be Wrexham, but I know there are many clubs with same stories, with fans cheering even after decades of low league seasons. Every country has its own culture of football.
Offside rule makes a ton of sense when you think about it. Before that rule, fools probably just hung out around the enemy goal waiting for passes or interfering with the keeper. It would be chaos.
The offside rule has been around almost since football became organised. Originally there had to be 3 players between the striker and the goal for him to be onside, this was changed during the early years of the 20th century to 2 players.
As a Brazilian, I'm a bit insulted they don't mention CONMEBOL (South American Confederation). South American is the only part of the World to ever have World Champions besides Europe, both in club football and countries football. Plus, no country in Europe has 5 World Coupê and Brazil has. Plus Argentina has 3 and only two countries in Europe have more than that.
I don't know if it was mentioned in the original video, but one of the fun dynamics in the big European leagues is there are a number of positions to play for at the end of each season, not just 1st place. In England, for example, you may be in 5th place at the end of the year, but if you're within striking position of 4th place, every match is absolutely vital, as the 4th place finisher (along with 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, of course) plays in the Champions League the next season. The same dynamic happens at 6th place, too, because the #5 and #6 teams automatically qualify to "Play in Europe" in the Europa League. The bottom three, as he mentioned, are relegated, so position #17 is a coveted one for teams at the bottom. The end result is that there are very few teams that are playing in meaningless games, even very late in the year.
Possibly the teams from 7th to 14th in the standings are the most likely to play more meaningless matches through the season. But even then, if the points gaps between them and the European slots or relegation slots are close enough, there are vital matches for them too.
Hey JT, check out what happened when the top teams from Europe tried to leave their countries leagues and make their own 'super league', which had no relegation. It was pushed mainly by American owners of European clubs such as Liverpool's Fenway Sports Group or Manchester United's Glazers. Both of those investors are now trying to sell their clubs, for £4bn and £9bn respectively, because we didn't let them Americanise our leagues. No offence to Americans or their sports, but having one league that you can't be relegated from does not seem very competitive to me; they do it for business purposes so that they're all guaranteed the same income every year, whereas in Europe you get performance-based prize money based on how high up the league you finish and how many rounds you make it through in the separate knockout-style cup competitions like the FA cup (which every single English team competes in, even those below the national / conference league). And if you finish in the top 3 or 4 of any top European league you qualify for the champions league next season, where all the best teams across Europe play each other in a knockout cup and get waaayyyy more prize money in the process. No guarantee of champions league qualification or domestic league retention means better competition because anyone can get to the top or anyone could go to the bottom, and you are awarded money accordingly. Our leagues are 150+ years old and were never designed around business, TV licensing, advertising etc like the American leagues.
Actually, Liverpool was firmly against the Superleague. It's Real Madrid and Juventus that were behind it. To be fair, the US owners have nothing to do with it. It's just some of the biggest clubs getting greedy and wanting a giant Superleague with the giant TV rights that would come with it
@@hugolouessard3914 the American owners were the ones primarily pushing it from England, especially fsg and glazers; that's literally why they're trying to sell their clubs now. But yeah the other big European clubs pushed it too. Lucky the fans were having none of it :')
@@hugolouessard3914 it’s because La Liga and Serie A can’t compete with the PL Sky tv deal. Just too much money in England. Last season Fulham earned something close to Real Madrid in league TV income. Insanity.
@@dav3bassman my dude, most of the English teams said that if any English team signed with that leave they would be excluded from premiere league as punishment. Uefa also threatened to remove them from Champion's League. Most clubs outside of that "League" were against it. Hell, some of the most celebrated football players of the history of those teams public shamed those clubs for that attempt. It was so much pressure EVERYWHERE that eventually only Real Madrid and Juventus were part of that "super league", and then the idea just died for lack of any political, economical or popular support.
No dude you are wrong, behind Super League there are mainly Real Madrid and Juventus, because they play in Liga and Serie a, way poorer leagues than premier League
13:10 That's very much possible. Actually one team has done this just this year. Luton has went from semi-pro league to the Premier league this year, and they don't even have a stadium for a premier league standard yet :)
Words can’t express how happy I am watching my fellow Americans starting to learn more about soccer and starting to become passionate about the sport recently. Now as an American I can say I watch soccer and people won’t think I’m weird for preferring it over American football. Edit: for you guys arguing about terminology in the comments section, the USA, Canada, and Australia call it soccer, stop arguing over linguistic differences, there are better things to do.
I agree it’s good to see cause as a fellow American as well when I used to watch football (soccer) with my Dad on the weekends I felt like the odd man out with my friends. A lot of first gen Americans born here like myself grew up watching soccer similar to how a lot of Americans grew up watching NFL
@@areguapiri True - if you don't know anything about the game and how it is played. No offense - I don't know much about American Football and think it is quite boring to watch a game, where they play for seconds, move for some yards and then discuss for minutes, what they do in the next seconds they play... So, it's normal to have a negative opinion about sports that you know nothing about. But let me tell you: I have seen boring games that ended with ten goals, and I have seen very interesting games that ended 0:0. One of the most intense and fascinating games I ever saw ended 1-0. "My" team was forced to defend almost all the time. The other team attacked and attacked... but they didn't manage to score, because "my" boys fought light hell, and our keeper... just wow... And then, a few minutes before the game endet, "my" team suddenly got this one and only chance to score - and they did and won the game. To be honest, the other team played better football and should have won regarding to that, but football is also about mindset and fighting, not only about nice playing. And... Can you imagine, how all the fans were captivated by this game? How the others got more and more desperate while time was ticking away and the score was still 0-0? How we just prayed, this game would finalley end, after another dangerous scene that had been cleared, because we just hoped to keep that 0-0? And how we all got crazy when our team suddenly scored? You will never have moments like this in most other games. And that's definitely beautiful.
The 3 point win 1 point tie is the best thing in football. It really pushes clubs to risk. But this also made some shady deals in eastern european leagues. There was a system three points for three points, or "343". So, clubs would fix games, when you play me at my home I win, and I return the favour when Im at your home. Basically clubs that werent "in" were screwed, because its better to win one game and loose one game than tie two games. So clubs that werent in would allways fall down since they would get in more ties.
loved this reaction, your opinions were on point. As someone who just started watching this sport like two years ago I deeply relate (we in Argentina REALLY feel fútbol so rn my life depends on beating the Netherlands)
That's something that the video didn't talked about actually. In America you will never understand how we perceive football in the rest of the world, specially in Argentina (more than in Brazil even), this sport is EVERYTHING, we cry, we go to the streets, we scream. Here, your team is your religion, you'll see shirts, hats, tattoos and even houses painted with the colors of your team. If we don't win this world cup, the whole country will enter in depression, and I'm not exaggerating
One cool thing at the current world cup is that smaller nations have become WAY better at playing out of possesion, leading to some major upsets (the most extreme one is Japan having the ball 17% of the time against spain and still winning).
Unofficially there are 20 tiers in england, with about 5,000 clubs, or twenty-plus tiers depending how far you go. Officially tracked there are 11 tiers with 1862 clubs involved. These are multiple leagues per tier for many of them, to give you an idea of just how it's all divided up. For me it's the greatest part of the sport, it engages so many people together in the sport and makes them part of it, gives them a chance to improve and raise their position somewhere in the league no matter how small the team or town.
I’m from the uk, and this was a great introduction to football. The Champions league is really the pinnacle, so I encourage you to look more into that. The best players and the best clubs in the world battling it out
One thing to note with release clauses - in some leagues like Spain, every player must have a release clause. However in most leagues, it isn’t necessary, yet it may be included by a club to convince a player to join them.
Regarding low scoring in football games - think about this - At an English, old private school, there was a game called the Wall game - it has been played for a couple of hundred years and a few years ago it was announced that someone had scored for the first time EVER! It was discussed for some time and agreed that it was not a valid score!
Wow this comment may have caused me to fail University but it was worth it. I just spent so long researching and watching videos about this it is now 5:30AM where I am and I need to get up to do an assignment that due in. Anyway, it's called the Eton Wall Game and has been played since 1766 with no goal being scored since 1909 in the St Andrew's Day fixture. That absolutely blows my mind but when someone scores that next goal it will be incredible. Thank you for your comment cus I loved learning about this sport.
As someone who plays and watches football regularly, thank you for actually being open minded about the sport. Some people just don't get it but you were actually understanding it. Thank you.
Im spanish and i did get astonished by how americans know so little about football, it being the most watched sport all over the world, but dont get me wrong, i am so happy that youre finally really trying to get into it and understand its beauty, even the "true american sportsmen" (just a joke hahaha). Also wanna say that MLS has big potential and if teams work on their infrastructures for training young players and scouting them as the european teams it can become a league to really take in account. Hope one day we'll see teams like madrid or manchester city facing maybe the la galaxy or the ny city in a true world champions league in a ucl style
It's not the most watched, maybe watched in most countries. I think cricket is, there are 1,4 billion people in India... LeBron James has the most followers in NBA at 155 mil. Virat Kohli, a cricket player has 252 mil. Messi has 472 mil and of course Ronaldo 590 mil. Top Ten most viewed events: Cricket World Cup - 2.6 billion. ... Summer Olympics - 2 billion. ... Winter Olympics - 2 billion. ... Women's World Cup - 1.12 billion. ... UEFA Champions League - 380 million. ... Super Bowl - 112.3 million. ... World Series - 14.3 million. ... NCAA men's Final Four - 18.1 million. If the numbers are real.
@@razvanlex it is the most watched in every site that you look at it says that football(or soccer) has 3.5 billion people that watch it. Btw I found the site you found those numbers at and the World Cup is second on that list behind Tour de France with 3.3 billion
@@darkmedos8452 Yeah, I don’t know about the numbers, I found different stories. I doubt about Tour de France. But even if true I know some people mostly women that watch Tour de France for the beautiful scenery they show on TV, not for the race. 😀 Numbers don’t tell the whole story. English language is not the most spoken but it is spoken everywhere.
Mourinho football style is not only about defensive play and counters. It was when he won champions league with Inter. With Chelsea they were dominant in every aspect of the game and compact in defense, middle field and attack.
@@alexwtf80 oh yes. D. Milito, Pandev, Sneider, Eto'o, Stankovic, Maicon, Cambiasso... They knocked out prime Barcelona, Chelsea in Deogba time and Bayern. Remember that year very well.
The only team to recently progress through the league ranks was RB Leipzig from Germany. They went from the 5th division to the 1st division in 9 years. However that's a very rare accomplishment.
It is not that big of a accomplishment, when you buy yourself in on a 5th division club, have a infrastructure of a Champions League-Club and can spend more on your team like the whole division you are in combined, while having the austrian champions as a farm team.
Thats not true, there are plenty of examples just in Italy only. Sassuolo went from 4th to 1st division in 10 years and they also played Europa League 3 seasons later. Monza went from 4th to 1st division in only 6 years. Carpi from 5th to 1st in 12 years.
@@dog4life56 I said it's rare, I didn't say it's not achievable. That's 3 clubs you mentioned. How many other clubs did they play that haven't made it to the top division of their national league. Just 1 of those club probably played 60+ teams just to get there, so that mean in total there's 180+ other teams which haven't made it. 3/180+ teams plus doesn't make it common.
I’d suggest watching blue lock if you’re into anime, it actually gives an idea as to what the players might be thinking while on the field, because obviously football is played with the ball, but it is also played without, with positioning, you can both stop an attacker, or confuse a defender, which can lead to a goal
What impressed me was actually playing on a field, staring at a goal that is so huge, I couldn't believe anyone could miss that... but the distances are unbelievable.. I quit because I had no stamina and I was playing defender... cant imagine what attackers go thru.
One thing to remember when you see players passing backwards or laterally, wherever the ball is is where the point of the attack is. Moving the ball backwards or making a non-advancing pass serves to test and stretch the defensive shape of the opponent. And yeah, goals are really special. Honestly, the closest comparison to being in a huge crowd when a great goal is scored is when they get that big pop in pro wrestling.
As a kid I once sat in the Fulham end with family rather than the Newcastle end as I couldn't get a ticket and there was an American sat behind me who said some of the greatest things I've ever heard at a football game, especially "how many quarters in a game of soccer"
this was a really good video. it’s so interesting to see someone learn football from the ground up, when it’s like second nature to me and so many other people. your genuine interest was very cool to see, it’s made me want to learn about basketball now lol
I think there is one important thing missing in this short explanation: subsitutes/player changeouts during a game. If you compare american football where offense and defense go on and off the field depending on who has posession of the ball, or player subsitution in basketball where the same player can go on and off the field: In Football (Soccer) per team and game usually 3 players can be changed out. If a player gets off the field, he can't go back on it in the same game anymore. If your team already changed 3 players, and one of your players gets injured so he can't play anymore, the team is down one player for the rest of the game! Some decades ago the goal keeper was not changeable at all. In the 1954 World cup in switzerland there was a game that still has the record of the wolrd cup game with the highest goalcount. It was between Switzerland and Austria, and it was so hot and sunny, that the austrian goalkeeper had either a sunstroke or heatstroke (i don't remember) but one of the tteams support perseonel was standing behind the goal and telling him from which direction the ball would come. At least one swiss player had to be changed out for that as well. Austria still won the game 7:5! (but they were pretty exhausted and they lost the next game against Germany. So Germany got into the final where they beat Hungary. The austrians were at least able to win the game for 3rd place.
@@zigzagtoes google said 7 is the minimum. If a team has less than that, the referee can stop the game. Allegedly there was a game in argentinas 5th league at some time that holds the record of 36 red cards in the game before the referee stopped it. (I couldn't believe that that's even possible, but i found a short clip of it here on YT, and basicaly imagine players substitutes, coaches and some spectators on the field throwing punches and him trying to get them off the field...)
Point about José Mourinho: Counter-attack (negative strategy) is easier to score. Because you have more space, when you do it quickly, you can face less defenders (sometimes 1 against 1, which is the golden standard) then slowly progressing passing with the ball. Generally, there always 1 defender to spare against attackers (because who is attacking, also keep 1 extra defender against another attacker).
Also, even though Uefa Champions League is more famous, Conmebol's Copa Libertadores is far funnier and amazing. And yes... most countries have a championship and a cup, also the championship from Conmebol/uefa etc... but Brazil (the country of football) has even more. We do have state championship. Kind of.... all teams of all leagues of Kansas (example) play inside the state for being state champions.
@@eljosende873 The US has the US Open Cup, which is our "FA Cup", usually an MLS team wins it, but there have been many times a non-MLS defeats an MLS club.
Just finding this and it's great to see your process of learning. What you described here at 12:57 is what is termed "Road To Glory". Many people who play the FIFA (soccer) game 🎮 usually do a "Road To Glory" series on UA-cam where they take a team from the lowest league and spend years developing the team and earning money to buy better players so they can challenge for top glory.
They can't really spend " YEARS " doing it because each year when a new game is released you have to start over. You don't get to carry over your team or money or anything really. Its a fresh start every year. Road to Glory is basically slang for not paying to advance. So these people will not buy fifa points and go crazy opening packs until they have a good squad. They just start off with what they have and use ingame modes to gain XP, complete objectives, squad building challenges and various versions of competitive gameplay to earn certain players , packs or coins etc..
@@Gravityplaysfifa i mean to be fair almost all fifa youtubers i see call their no microtransaction ultimate team series a "road to glory" and a career mode series just a career mode
Just to say, its Premier league not Premiere Premiere is like the first showing of a movie or something.... Premier means the best! (both words are pronounced slightly differently too)
bro imagine if have to understand the game from a southamerican perspective. It is amazing watching this explanation how faaaaaar away is the understanding of the game and it development, not only the love for the sport itself
Relegation is ruthless. Not only you go to the lower division, you lose a lot of prize money from just playing in that division and making the fight back to the top division harder. Some teams who got relegated have not returned to the top division for years. In England, the third division has a number of these clubs. Edit: It's also worth mentioning that players can choose to leave the club if the club gets relegated, depending on their contract.
However relegated teams get injection drops from the FA with (I can't remember the specific numbers so don't take this for granted) around 60% of Prem profits injected in season one,35%in season 2 and 10% in season three
It’s such a cool idea! Makes thing much more intense at the end watching the crap teams of that particular season. A team in 18th place can stay up on the last day and avoid being relegated and people probably party harder than if their team won the league lol.
In the UK, half time is mostly used for pundits to talk. On the BBC, there are no real adverts. On other channels, you might get maybe 8-10 minutes of talking out of the 15 minute break with two short ad breaks either side.
One of the uks foremost soccer academies was near my school (lilleshall) long story short former England players Michael Owen and sol Campbell came to my school for their academic lessons. I had geography lesson with germain defoe, another former England player. And I can't tell you how old it makes me feel that he's not in football anymore!
AHH wow now that's a beautiful house and grounds at lilleshall 👌 stayed there for abit when I had footy trials ⚽Amazing times thanks for the trip down memory lane 🙏👍
Fun fact: if you were to start a football club in england today and got promoted every single year it would still take something like 23 years to do it. So yeah pretty unlikely but possible. If you want to hear a story about the team who moved from the national league up to the premier league the fastest look up Luton Town, they just mad it to the premier league for the first time this year, they were in the national league a decade ago after a giant point deduction and multiple relegations in a row. Amazing story really, theyre doing terrible and are probably going back down to the championship next year but theyre just happy to be there right now.
Going to the bathroom during a game can lead to severe disappointment. 🙂 Some years ago we watched the Germany:Brasil match (7:1) with a group of friends at a sport bar. Or more precisely the Biergarten outside the bar. After a goal by Germany one of my friends got up and went to the bathroom, thinking he wont miss much and said so. Because we were outside it took him some time to get back. In the meantime Germany scored twice. Man, was he pissed.
I was at man united 9 Ipswich 0 in 1995 and missed 3 goals in one trip to the toilet. My 13 year old bladder screwed me over. My old man spent the next 15 years telling me to go again every time we needed a goal.
It's not the premiere league, but the Premier League. There are actually 5 national leagues in Europe that are considered elite, the 5th being the French "Ligue 1". These are some of the mistakes in the original video. He also didn't mention that clubs can loan players to each other. A loan is when a player from one club goes to another club for a short period of usually 1 or 2 seasons. After that, he will either be returned to the first club, transfer to the club he's been loaned to or be transferred or loaned to a 3rd club. His salary will jointly be payed by the 2 clubs involved in the loan. This can create awkward situations where a player loaned to a rival team in the same league can score a winning goal against his club and then return to that club the next season.
I like the 3 point systems. It rewards consistency. If you have the most point it means you have won the most games and thus deserve the 1st place in the league.
Hey JT, love that you have been watching the world cup, Football really is the WORLDS sport and brings so much joy to millions of people. Would happily watch any other football related vids you do, would love to see you react to some of the amazing football documentaries there are available :D
Per the actual rules of the game, there are indeed only two kinds of players: the goalkeeper and everyone else. But for practical purposes the coach will assign positions to players. Much the same applies to some other football codes such as Gaelic and Australian. (Australian doesn't even have a goalkeeper.)
18:30 this is a really good point and one of the reasons supporting a football team is great, you’re always invested in what’s going on because you’re almost always playing for something. Whether you’re at the top of the league fighting for the title, at the upper end you’re trying to get into European places, if you’re near the bottom you’re trying to stay in the league and even if you’re just in the middle you’re still able to play as the spoiler to all those other teams and get joy out of their misery, plus the two cup competitions and since those are just straight knockouts and football is one of the most advantageous sports to the under dogs every team at least has the chance to put a run together.
There is a lot more to Mourinho's game then just defending he broke scoring and points records at chelsea and Madrid. The main thing with Jose's way is he is pragmatic in the important games and this is more likely to win when it matters and you don't have to have the strongest team to be effective just defend correctly and score when our chances happen
a cool info is that in Brazil, besides the league, the continental cup and the national cup, we also have de “states tournaments”. There is a tournament for each state/province. It’s a tradition here. Even though we consider it useless, we also consider it “mandatory to win”, because winning it means that you own your land and thar you are better than your rivals. It’s like if there was a London tournament… I bet Chelsea, Spurs and Arsenal would give it all to win, bc it means you defeat your rival.
I doubt any of the big London clubs would compete seriously (they already complain about too many games). In the North East of England there is the Northumberland Senior Cup, Newcastle United usually enter their Under21 or youth side into the tournament.
Really good point - possibly the main difference between American and UK sports. It takes so long to score in football that when we do it's an amazing celebration! In American sport scoring happens a lot, and those rare scores that win you a game are celebrated like we celebrate a goal in football (which is at least once per match, unless you support Everton like me, when it's even more rare)
Talking about Football cups. In my country Norway in 2012. The then 2. divition team Hødd, beat the then Eliteseries team Tromsø on penalty shootouts (3-5) in the Cup final. They got to play the eu-cup the next year as a result (obviously they didn't stand a chance). But on their way to become Norwegian champions they had to defeat 4 team from the top divition. And for their supporters it was magic. It's rare, but when it happens, football is something magical.
Here (in Argentina) passed too, in 2014 Huracán, one club from B Nacional (2nd division) won the Copa Argentina (the national cup) but here the winner go to LIBERTADORES (the Champions League of here) A few weeks later Huracán won the prom to Primera División (1st division)
It's interesting how as someone who grew up watching football and all the main European league everything just seemed so simple and normal but watching someone actually break it down makes me realize it actually can be complicated.
Been playing since I was 4 and this would be my 19th year playing football competitively. Its rly rly rly hard, sometimes my brain gets tired from thinking before my stamina runs out. You have to think a lot in American Football also, but u have time to think and plan each pause and reorganize the structure of ur team. Unfortunately in football we don’t have that luxury. That’s why we do a lot of “fouls” also known as tactics fouls so that the play stops and we can organize ourselves
It's complicated when watching something like this, the best way to learn it us by playing it and watching games
It’s not complicated unless you’re American
Yooooo exactly! I didn't think about all these things as things until I watched this video.
Agree.. this American are So STUPID!!!
“If you have the ball as much as possible, you are going to win.”
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"Do the small teams upset the big teams?" YES.. YES they do.
About once a decade ago a non premiership club will pull of a big enough upset to get to the FA Cup final although this normally co-incides with that team also finishing in the promotion spots into the premiership for next season.
Just this year, the 30 times winner of the Hungarian League, Ferencvárosi TC (after winning against Monaco in the Champions league qualifiers) lost to the 10. place team at their next game in the league, and a few days later got eliminated from the national cup series by a league 3 team
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Wigan Athletic 2013 FA Cup. 1-0 win against Manchester city. Only to be Relegated the very next league game. Is a big one that comes to mind. Even Wimbledon beating Liverpool Or Portsmouth winning the cup. Blackburn or Leicester Winning the league.
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It warms my heart seeing people realize how great the beautiful game is.
Football is dead is ruled by oil money know don't call it beautiful anymore😢
@@bolajitaiwo9032the whole world is ruled by oil money
@@bolajitaiwo9032 Even if that's true, and that's a big if, I still wouldn't watch American football.
I’m glad more ppl can realize that football/soccer is the best sports by far
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As one legend once said:"Playing football is very simple, but playing simple football is the hardest thing there is."
Johan Cruyff one of my favourite players
@@blazingpanther519he seems gay to me
@@Human_traain And you by saying this seems gay to me
@@Human_traainlike yo daddy
@@Human_traain like you mom 😂
You'd better clue up, cousin. The next World Cup in 2026 will be in North America, jointly hosted by Canada, Mexico, and the US. One venue (of the 16) will be Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, not too distant from you.
I wonder how they police it as violence will happen in a country without the death sentence or heavy oppression from the police like russia
@@skillspronto3401 most likely the same way the UK do use the police to keep them separate and keep peace where possible
@@madyottoyotto3055 There is a huge potential problem on the horizon for the 2026 World Cup and that is the chanting from the crowds. In US stadiums much of the chanting that English fans do will get you evicted from the stadium. It will be interesting to see how the US authorities react when there are thousands of fans chanting very abusive chants which can be heard on TV coverage.
@@stephenhodgson3506 yer ok let's see the American fed try to control the riots that follow that
You couldn't even imagine the carnage that would happen if the match was stopped for a chant
American and it's belief it has freedom of speech unlike no other my ring lol 🤣🤣😅
Either way it will be entertaining
@@madyottoyotto3055 I fully agree! I would love to be able to travel to see a match. By travel, I mean, Boat or Flight is almost certainly the only way to get there. I want to feel that stadium feeling, and not worry that I'm going to offend the person I don't know sitting next to me! But I love comedy...so here we go.
Another thing about soccer is that the teams don’t move... Liverpool is from Liverpool, Manchester City and United are from Manchester, Newcastle United is from Newcastle etc. and you tend to support your local team. If it is the two local teams playing it’s called a derby and there is much more tension in the game. Also the fans chants from the stands are way funnier than in any other sport 😂
Tell that to Arsenal XD
True and those teams have been there for more than a century which is probably part of why it’s probably one the biggest parts of modern European/ South American culture
I was going to comment on clubs not moving city's but you beat me to it and probably did a better job than me, too.👍
Apart from MK Dons of course
@@robbpatterson6796 Everton are also moving to a new postcode near Stanley Docks
Well when we're kids there are no positions, just the goalie and everybody else 😂
kinda
Nah. Maybe in America. In countries like germany, we always had positions, even as kids. The „bulkier“ guys defending, the fast and agile kid’s as wing players etc. That may be because almost every kid in my generation played football in a team already. So when we played as friends, our positions where pretty much fixed already.
in serbia we tehnicaly have positions when we were kids and go after school to park or school pitch (literaly every school here have a concrete pitch that is for basketball and football) to play and we "had positions"everyone knows who is defender and who is attacking, but not like literal positions. And rule is fatest kid is a goalie.
Every body goalie, and everybody the defender..
As a German the popular kids are strikers and all the others are forced to stay behind. It’s sometimes a 8 defender chain
The whole "no commercials" during the game I think is one of the greatest things about the sport. Ever since I started watching the premier leauge 5-6 years ago, its at times made watching the NFL and college football unbearable with how much crap they stuff in between plays and turn-overs
clearly you've never used the free streaming sites 😭
@@tugs8689 there is alot of free streaming sites that has no ads during the game i watch the free stream almost exclusively
This was the other way for me😂😂 as someone who grew up watching soccer, when I started getting into basketball I was like wtf? A break every 5 minutes?😂😂
European football use other ways to get sponsorships without the cancer commercials, like putting the sponsors on their shirts (in some case lasting for decades, to the point they become iconic for your team's shirts) and the trophies/league usually get sponsors deal as well
Another reason is that soccer is based on continuous plays and not short set-pieces. The game may be running for 6-7 minutes without any interruption ( you sometimes see substitutes waiting that long for an interruption to occur and enter the pitch).
So you cannot predict how many ads you can inject and when you will do it anyway.
I actually respect how non ignorant and open minded this guy is, every similar video i see people talking about how boring and complicated football is, but this guy wants to give it a chance if it makes sense
Yeah, there is a lot of things soccer has differences and from other sports. And for me the most difficult part is the dedication to preparation. In most European/Asian schools soccer players are so tuned they even play as track and field athletes even if they are not full time track and field and still get medals. Most team has session to run around laps of this huge field like 6 times twice each day and undergo full body fitness muscle training and we haven't still even kicked the ball yet. This creates a very slim yet dense physique that is nearly a uniform to every player.
The sessions with the ball consists of preparing against "scenarios that you would encounter on the field" more than coordination. To me it feels like a driving accident prevention course if you have the ball, or a self defence class against mugging and they literally have a squadron of professional muggers dedicated to it that would chase you to the ends of the earth because they are uber-track field athletes. Then they require you to suddenly play golf with your foot while running if you come into target of an objective. It's insane lol
Football is prolly the least complicated big sport out there. The only thing that has to be explained is offside and thats pretty much it. If a person goes to a soccer match with no knowledge they will immediately know how to play, but other sports would still have explanations
Football is the least complicated sport out there.
That doesn't mean it's easy though
It's heartwarming!
Offsides is actually pretty simple than most people actually think, but it's also where most of the sport's controversies occur from
WTF REF THAT WAS OBVIOUSLY ONSIDE
-Any football fan that exists
@@See_nnWTF REF THAT WAS OBVIOUSLY OFFSIDE
- Any football fan on the opposite team
And the penalty box along with the advent of VAR
@@methatis3013 WTF THAT REF IS GETTING PAID
- Also any football fan
My Dad actually explained offside to me in the simplest way I've ever heard......"Imagine if there is no offside....everyone would just camp out next to the goalie"......in this way you begin to understand why it's there and how it functions to keep the game competitive without any ludicrous advantage that defeats the purpose of competing in the first place....
Man, you have my respect. Hats off to you! People who take the time to educate themselves instead of sitting there and talking nonesense are my kind of people.
On a side note, it might take you some time to understand the offsides law in football. It's notoriously complicated, which is wht it's the one law that causes the most arguments even among die-hard football fans. 😊
I would argue that since VAR offside not that much of an issue anymore, only in exceptional cases. IMO the rule that causes by far the most arguments is the hand ball rule. Was it in a natural position? Next to the body? Used as support arm when falling? Refs have to basically improvise with this rule, causing many controversies
@@illuminatie2526 you might have a point when it comes to VAR reducing the controversies around offsides, but we'll have to keep in mind that VAR has only been in use for a few years. I am talking from a braoder historical perspective here. Handball is still a little controversial because the refs have to decide whether it was intentional or not. Different refs may have different interpretations of the same action. This is something that will have to be ironed out. When I say the offsides rule is hard to explain, I'm not kidding you. On the surface it looks like a simple rule, but if you start diving into some crazy cases about that law, you might be shocked. Luckily for us, many of those situations are extremely rare in the game. But when they do happen, they often leave people very confused. I'm not going to give specific examples here, but you might want to look for crazy things that can happen with the offsides law in football.
Offside is not that complicated on the surface it’s just a bunch of leagues add a bunch to the rules
Okay now you go and try and understand American sports 😂
it's funny how as a brazilian I just kinda know those things. it's a huge part of the culture and teams play twice a week, so it's always being discussed by someone around you. a lot of ppl only tune in during the world cup and the olympics because it's the country playing, but even them will know a few things. I've fallen out of watching games the last few years (my team isn't doing well and i got frustrated), but the world cup reawakened something. it was really interesting seeing someone coming from absolutely no knowledge and I'd like if you got deeper into rules and plays. anyway, nice video
Not only twice a week for us, if you think about.
Sure, the team you support play twice. But the other team from your city might play in different days, so just in your city are 4 days of the week with people talking about football. Plus eventually there are those important big games, regardless of who you support (a final, a cup game, etc).
So at sometimes during the season we have some different game being talked about almost every day of the week.
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@@pienewr SP
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This game can be deeply cruel. My heart always goes out to fans crying in the stands when their team is relegated.
Even more sad when clubs that have been around over a hundred years cease to exist, so much history for the fans just gone
That's part of why it's so popular. Because it reflects life.
@@kieronknight2560 to which club happened?
@@Bill_Gamesh Bury FC,CF Reus etc.
@@Bill_Gamesh Rangers FC frrom Scotland. And in Scotland there are 2 big teams Rangers and Celtic and they hate each other a lot. Rangers FC was a very important Club in Europe but in 2011-12 they went broke and then the fans had to see how their team got relegated to the 4th division and their all-time rivals Celtic FC winning the league from 2011 until 2020
It's good that you are learning the game, and understanding why goals are celebrated how they are, I couldn't imagine a game where points are scored in almost every attack like basketball, it takes away all the drama, oh and when you learn how offsides and things work you will understand why players don't just go off running down the pitch whenever they want, football is very tactical.
@@paulguise698 Nope, that whole idea is alien ha ha.
In basketball it can be more exciting when they don't score! At least it's different!
In football goals are more exciting per se but in basketball it’s quite exciting to watch as well because the scoring always comes in waves so it’s not always one team scores a bucket and the other one does as well. Sometimes there are runs where one team scores 20 whilst the other one only scores maybe 3 or so. This makes the dynamics really interesting and these runs can be unbelievable because teams oftentimes catch up crazy deficits within minutes etc. Also it gets unbelievable when a game is so close that every possession basically every bucket counts and it might come down to a buzzer beater you know.
@@paulguise698 Lmao
It's more like every other attack in basketball, but I hear you. Teams score a little over 1 pt per possession in the NBA, which means they're scoring about half the time (very roughly). But it certainly doesn't take away the drama, it's just a different kind of drama. I would even tentatively compare the drama to a PK shootout, where they are expected to score in big moments and the drama comes from whether they can pull it of or the defender can stop them.
One thing not mentioned in the video is how difficult it is to organize a team to score a goal and to prevent one against you. In the NBA, it is very much individual, more like indoor football. In football, however, you need to have a clear perception of the all field, where your team mates are and are going to be. E.g., when you a long pass, you need to plan ahead, and predict your teammates movements. And then, you still need to control for the positioning of your opponents, their movements, and their own ideas. It looks easier from above where the cameras are. That's why transfers occur before the season, and it is unlikely that a player will join a game immediately after the hiring (like in the NBA). A coach is basically training an army, and new soldiers need to fit into the strategy.
Man, relegation disputing is one of the best things created in football. When traditional teams are bad in the season, their games become even more important because to be relegated is a kind of dishonor. In Brazil, this type of drama happens a lot.
June 26, 2011. Buenos Aires, Argentina
In the UK there even used to be a system of clubs voting on relegations out of the football league, which led to some clubs dominated lower leagues but not being allowed to promote due to the higher tier clubs favouring each other, thankfully that system is long gone because it was truly stupid as hell
@@tomasmonzon207 River?
@@tomasmonzon207River 😂😂😂
@@tomasmonzon207Boca >>> River
I had trouble understanding offside when I was probably about 8, until my dad just told me, “no goal hanging”. Something all kids do, and shout at each other for. It suddenly made sense what it is and why it exists.
I just learned by playing fifa
had a friend from school that used to stand by the goal post and just score goals.
There's a huge difference between soccer offsides and hockey offsides but they have similar concepts. Hockey offsides is no goal hanging
@@lemonslice1733 everybody has this friend who leaving inside the net and we call him goal’s thief 😂
Gary Lineker in the 80s. Hangs around the six-yard box and scores what we'd call "a poacher's goal". Can't do that anymore, stupid offside; because now we have to explain it, and active players, and players who've run through and off the pitch, and when they can come back on, and to make things worse, VAR. Oh, well, it's progress of a sort. 😮💨
In Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Uruguay we usually say that "without (emotional) suffering, there's no passion for football"
Se sufre pero se Goza dijo Maradona una vez.
As a Mexican i can confirm. Damn Saudi Arabia, but holy fuck was that Luis Chávez free kick a fucking SCREAMER
mexico: me invito un amigo
@@KingViper645 💀💀💀
My team is Coventry City. We know ALL about the suffering😂😂
American Football just inflates the score artificially. If you think about it a 21-7 game is really just 3-1.
Conmebol is superinteresting too!!! In South America you have two football superpowers, Brazil & Argentina, and several of the other teams are quite capable too. The national teams' championship is called Copa América (the US has been invited to participate a couple of times), and it's also quite good. The South American playoffs for the World Cup are the most competitive in the world. Also you may want to check out the South American champions league, Copa Libertadores. So if you focus only in Europe you'll be missing really good stuff!!!
Heck even little ol’ Uruguay is a force to be reckoned with. If you were to pluck their small country up and drop it anywhere else in the world they’d easily be a dominating football powerhouse in their new location. Not only does that say a lot about them but also demonstrates how incredible Brazil and Argentina are that they can basically make their world-class football neighbor look like a mediocre team by comparison (well maybe not in this World Cup since they got knocked out already)
I confirm this as a citizen of Argentina. And until just a few years ago, our local Superclásico was one of the 50 best sport events in the world (arguably still is). Much respect to all SA players
South American football has a different feel to European football, specially when comparing Libertadores with the Champion's League.
In Brazil we use to say that Libertadores is to Champions League as carnival is to the theatre. Sure, the best players are in Europe, technically it's better, and all that, but the atmosphere of the games here is more exciting. Plus here it's more common for weaker teams to win tourneys.
@@SmokeyChipOatley Yeah, they're Europe's Croatia. Both have less than 4 million people but they punch well over their weight
"The South American playoffs for the World Cup are the most competitive in the world"
I can't explain how much happy I am to see an american actually passionately learning football. In between the video also reasoning and finding out things. This is what sport is actually suppose to do, bring people together despite the differences.
why you are happy ? you should not give a f.. about some random guy learning about football
@@aladinjelizi2338 why can't we just be happy having more people enjoying the game.
@@vjk098hi why?
@@aladinjelizi2338 so you don't care that this sport is getting more popular in USA? 💀💀 Ok bro
@@marioionion2 ofc i don't why should i?
I once saw a programme where an American went to spend a year volunteering at a boy's orphanage in Africa. He thought he would do something good for the kids by ordering some sports goods. An American sports goods store generously agreed to send some baseball equipment to the orphanage. The young boys duly ignored the bats, dropped the balls to the ground and started kicking them to each other, Truly football (proper football) has conquered the world.
Do you recall the name of the programme?
@@CORFrags Sorry it was a few months back.......
It’s a movie..title: Machine gun preacher
@@mrlivewire5105 yup
football just the easiest game to play....people can use bottle or canned drink to play football....
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Fun fact:
In 1901, Tottenham Hotspur (an English team currently in the Premier League) won the FA Cup while being in the National League.
Their only trophy lmao💀
our only trophy 😭
tottenham has 24 trophies which are two league titles, eight FA Cups, four League Cups, seven FA Community Shields, one European Cup Winners' Cup, and two UEFA Cups.
@@egorkaa_2289 you need to learn some history about them
@@youraverageslime what kind of fan are you they literally won the fa cup or something in 2008 (i know this and im not even a spurs fan)
It's great to see an American learn about and appreciate football. Well done! 👏👏👏
For an American who doesn’t know much about soccer, doesn’t he look an awfully lot like a French, Algerian, Muslim Striker who wins world cups in years that end in 18 and ballon D’ors in years that end in 22, but with a longer beard, which works out because said Muslim striker is Muslim and long beards is good for Muslims?
@@mohamedkaba5139 Benzema?
@@Neno_6610 Nah, just the average French Algerian Real Madrid striker ballon d’or winner that’s Muslim. But doesn’t he look like him?
We know a lot about football its our national sport we don't care about soccer
In the UK we have Luton Town, 8 years ago they were in the National League using semi-professional players, last season they were in the play-offs to be promoted to the premier league and this season are pushing for automatic promotion (top 2 in the championship are promoted, 3-6 participate in play-offs with the winner of a mini tournament going up).
They’re now in the play-off final! Incredible times ahead for Luton Town potentially! 👀
@@AbCd-lw5vs Prem promotion!
Top G hometown
Congratulations on Luton Town's Promotion! 🤝
I think Luton Town will be relegated with the lowest number of points in premier league history
One more tip.
Don’t just look at the ball all the time.
In order to see how a whole team moves with just two eyes… follow the midfield guy that keeps the ball the most and see what he does when he doesn’t have the ball.
yep im usually watching the cam or cdm
Exactly - best way to watch sports is to try to think 1-3 steps ahead of where the ball is.
After watching soccer, American football is hard to watch since when the QB drops back to pass I have NO idea what’s going on since all the WRs and DBs are off my screen. It’s a complete surprise what the end result is going to be.
Heavily reliant on replays to appreciate the full play.
That’s why statistics don’t apply to soccer that much, the reason is simple for some of us, cause you also play soccer “without the ball”.
@@Gravityplaysfifa I used to play LW and I used to wait for a defender to slip up I intercepted and created opportunities for my team. (Not on a professional level)
2 complicated for americans
Thank you for taking the time to learn about Football! We grow up watching football since we are little and this game means everything for most of the world. ❤
I love that you actually took the time to learn about the game instead of being the typical American who hates on it without even giving it a chance. Growing up in the US as a soccer player, I got more than my fair share of trash talk directed at me by baseball and football players who didn’t realize that I could run circles around them and was far more athletic than them. I’m just glad to see the game I love finally starting to get the respect it deserves.
As a Japanese I remember the time when he had a recreational match for fun. When we played baseball, to their horror the only thing we cannot do is throw technical balls. Hitting with a bat or catching a ball is just something we can get used to. While when they played soccer they cannot even dribble or be prepared in any situation of the field that requires a decision with consequences. Nor they do have the stamina to run the whole game until the halftime. And that is even when our team was restricted to only deploy 3 of our absolute best from our club's team in each half time while the others are from team 2.
@@zeppelincraft1443 Exactly, people are much more used to using their arms and hands, so the foot coordination required for dribbling and playing soccer is a different kind of coordination. That’s why it’s hard for them to play, but as a soccer player I could pick up anything and be good at it. I made my high school’s varsity tennis team and I didn’t even play tennis. I had some friends that told me I should tryout so I picked up a racquet and went for it. I went undefeated all season too.
I've played against inexperienced U.S. servicemen and they wasted all their stamina chasing after the ball. They didn't get the fact that you let the ball do most of the work by constantly passing and moving it between team mates.
Quand tu joues au foot t’es déjà plus athlétique qu’un joueur de baseball, avec un joueur de foot us c’est égale
Negative football isn't actually negative football. It's called counter-attacking football.
And it's all reliant on really fast transitions of play.
When the opposing team lose the ball, you pick it up and then transition into attack really, really fast, to catch the opposing team on the back foot.
The strategy I use in Football Manager 23 currently
Break away play 😀
It's boring to watch though. I'd rather watch an open game and end to end chances for both teams. Watching some games where Mourinho, was the manager, of the opposing team, was a nightmare, of "Park the Bus!"
@@andreanecchi5930 I tried that and lost my first ten games 😂😂😂😂
@@lucyh7205 absolutely
You can tell this guy understands sport and would pick up football really quickly. Respect
The worst thing is that Chelsea owners know much less about football than you.
As a Brit, thanks for taking the time to learn it, I feel like I should try and learn something about American football now 😂 Cheers mate
Yeah ngl your gonna be lost for a lil bit😂😂😂
@@sinister9th926 probably 😂
@@sinister9th926 just read up on it, yep I'm very confused lmfao
Okay so a DRASTIC oversimplification of it is basically think of a sport version of ww1 reenactment.
Each team forms a line and one team have to get past the other line with the football by as much as they can even if it’s just a foot and after a play is done they go back to there lines and do it all over again till they reach their destination within a certain amount of plays and then once one team is down the other team has to do the exact same thing but going form the spot the first team left off at
This really covered the basics, but there's so much more you can learn! The beautiful thing about Football is how unpredictable it is and how a single action can impact an entire season, it's very tense like that. And there are a ton of different tactics and plays you can do, like, 2 teams can find great success and play completely different styles. If you want to get into Football, I'd recommend you start by watching the Champions League knockouts, that start in February. It's similar to the NBA playoffs, so it's easy to understand and you get to watch the best teams in the world play
Great advice
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Mexico vs. Brazil during the 2014 world cup was one of the best scoreless games I remember.
The Mexican goalkeeper was man of that match. He was on fire!
@@paulogramacho866 world cup ochoa is the best goalkeeper to ever exist
@@tibotierenteyn World Cup casillas left the chat
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Chelsea x Liverpool last season on the carabao and FA cups were awesome games also
I really respect you for trying to understand our culture. Many people in your country insult without trying to understand but you're trying to understand it. In a short video, it seems you already understood a lot.
I'm Brazilan and a pretty good player, think as a 3 years old all i wanted was play. Moved to L A and Americans when talking about our Football, they all agree what it was. A game for little girls, they thought was no contact while playing. Got beat up so much, just like times chasing a particular player for some pay back.
It's worth noting that those tiers with the leagues go ridiculously far down. Generally, after the first few tiers, the leagues start branching off into more regional leagues. For example, in England:
The top 5 tiers are all 1 league
There are 2 leagues in the 6th tier, split into a north and south division, and so maybe only 1 or 2 teams from each league get promoted rather than the 3 or 4 from the higher tiers
There are 4 leagues in the 7th tier etc
There are I believe 21 tiers in total (although most localities will only have leagues down to maybe the 15th or 16th tier)
This really shows you how many of us play football. Probably every village in the UK will have a football team of some sort, all cities and towns will have at least one football team even if they're not very good, and so you often support the team closest to you locally. If your town/city has multiple teams of a similar level, that's when rivalries really start to flare up with the other team, because by supporting one team, you can be seen as having rejected the other. This doesn't apply so much to teams with a much larger ability difference, because those teams don't really tend to play each other, and often that big gap in ability will offer a very different kind of experience. For example, I live in Coventry, and our best team, Coventry City, play in the 2nd tier, whilst our next best team, Coventry United, play in I think the 8th or 9th tier.
By the way, the FA cup is only open to teams in the 9th tier or above (and only occasionally will places be offered to teams in the 10th tier if 9th tier teams withdraw), and so open to "basically every team in England" is a bit of an exaggeration. We have 700 odd teams by offering it up to those in the top 9 tiers. France can frequently get 7000 teams by offering it up to the top 15 tiers. The exponential growth in the number of leagues in a tier means that a cup competition grows very quickly the more tiers you add. If really every team in England played in the FA Cup, there would be 6609 teams, a little over 9 times the amount that really play. That doesn't take into account teams that do not play in the football pyramid (and therefore don't have a tier). This is only approximately a seventh of the total number of teams in England (this is an estimate because it is too large to work out). That doesn't necessarily mean that, assuming at least 18 players on a squad, there are 18×42,000=756,000 players registered to a football team, because especially at amateur level, players can play for multiple teams, but that would make well over 1% of the English population a registered footballer (that takes into account infants, the elderly, and as far as I can tell, that stat is only the adult male population, so women or children either). That was my underestimate considering most teams would have over 18 players, some even double. We are football crazy
spot on
In Germany, we have the DFB-Pokal, which also has minor lower league teams up to amateur level. And as we like to say "The Cup has laws of its own" - more than once, a minor league team has seriously embarassed a major Bundesliga team who took the little guys for granted, fielded a B-team which didn't really feel the need to exert themselves - and wham, suddenly, they're down 0-1 and the other team starts building an 11 man wall in front of their goal... and while the big team will avoid reading the newspaper the next day where the entire nation will mock them, the amateurs will still tell the story to their grandchildren how they embarassed the high and mighty Bayern Munich or Dortmund
In fact, in the 2019/2020 season, a fourth league team made it all the way to the semifinals. In the quarterfinals, their keeper not only held three penalties in a penalty shootout, but also cleared one during regular match time, all against a team playing in the Bundesliga back then...
@Oliver H I remember watching that game, shoutout to Saarbrucken.
But the best cup competition in the world imo has to be the Coupe De France. 8 of the last 9 seasons, at least 1 4th division team or lower has made it to the quarter finals, and in fact a 4th division team made it to the final a couple of years back. The French cup forces any team 2 tiers or higher to play away, so upsets are more likely, not to mention that the bigger teams enter the tournament much earlier so there are many more opportunities for upsets. And to top it all off, they allow teams from their overseas territories to compete, which satisfies my love for world football when international or continental football isn't taking place
Mate we don't even have a proper league in our state of Nagaland, India after you guys left, so many local lads here would love to play football😭
Thought it was 24 tiers?
Regardless, it is pretty damned mind-boggling.
The beauty of the FA cup is the funding and viewing it gives to smaller teams, even if you don’t win, a good cup run can and does massive things for a club
Even one away game at a big club can bring ridiculous fortunes for a team even after you lose 7-0
This was really interesting to see from a European perspective, because you get the context of the novice learning the basics of the game, but you also get to see which parts of the game are notable to a more informed US sports fan
Having moved to Canada 2 years ago, I find I need a video like this for hockey, American football, baseball, etc.
That was a pretty good video, for me the best thing about football is that every year the bottom three teams get relegated and the top three teams from the league below get promoted. This means every game of the season matters for the teams at the bottom and the top in every league, this also creates more engagement for the fans.
Yes but the prem
For example is not competitive at the top. American sports have a hard salary cap which makes it far more fair. Like take city for example they won the prem last year and then they go out and sign the best striker. It’s not fair so that’s why imo American sports league are fairer and more competitive. Like it’s always the same 6 at the top of the prem
@@Person-gk5ee u dumb ? Newcastle us literally 3rd in the league rn and arsenal is 1st. No one expected that, so just invalidates ur point.. it's about who's got the most money gets the better players, simple as that
@@Believer3_ you proved my point 😂 whoever has the most money gets the best players is the epitome of why the prem is unfair. Also they’re only halfway through Newcastle will not stay there and last I checked Arsenal are in the big 6. NFL is far fairer because of the cap. Man City would be over 100 million dollars over the nfl salary cap this year. Bear in mind Man City have about 30 less players. NFL more competitive and more fair it’s not who has the most money.
@@Person-gk5ee I dont know where ur getting ur information from but EPL is the most prestigious and competitive league in the world
@@Person-gk5ee NFL is inflated by the USA to seem like the richest and most competitive league... yet ur the only country that plays it. Ok lol
as an american who has grown up with a British father and been raised on soccer I must say this was a very good explanation of the game as a whole for someone who knows nothing
and as far as players being dramatic when they fall, thats true, but it is legit pain for the most part
when my friends talk about player being dramatic I just take them out to the field and have them start sprinting and then knock them over and tell them to get back up, and generally they can't
it‘s not only getting knocked over. Next time give them a good slide tacke to the shin with spiked boots and then tell them to get up.
Yes some players overdo it, but I have played football for 15 years and I can tell you… it is hard being tackled out of no where when you don‘t wear any protection other than your shin pads.
Did your father disown you for calling football soccer? Or, do you keep this dirty secret to yourself?
@@bayasgalantsogtgerel3346 he has learned to ignore it 💀
@@meganoob12 There comes a point where you have to man up and take it. You play a contact sport so get the fuck up.
@@french_toast223 you obviously have never played seriously... I played for 15 years and got tackled more than enough. As a youth player I was once tackled so hard, my shin pad broke into two pieces.
Yes, you take it, take a rest and contiue to play, but with some tackles you need some time to rest
About being a good team and climbing the divisions, here in Brazil, there's the very interesting and shockingly sad story of the Chapecoense team. In 2009 they were on the Serie D (fourth division), in 2014 they got to the Serie A (main league). Sadly this story came to an tragic ending. In 2016, they qualified to the finals of the South American Cup (the equivalent of the Europa League). They flew to Colombia to play against Atletico Nacional. But they never got there. Their plane fell (because of lack of fuel). Only six survived. Atletico asked to Conmebol (the south american equivalent of UEFA) to give the title to Chapecoence.
Atlético Medellin has a shady af history, but that was a beautiful gesture from the club and their supporters
Dude, what did I just read. That’s a modern and real life Shakespearean drama
@@matthewgoodman6579i'm brazilian and the whole country was mourning for them. truly terrible tragedy.
@@anasa4100not only brazil. In europe it was a really big shocking news for a really long time, everyone was talking about it
@@lunecker Was about to say.
Even we Germans heard about it.
That was just tragic man.
This one deserves a separate comment on its own. The FA Cup is LOVED by most fans. The cup itself is a very good trophy to add to any teams collection, but for the smaller teams, having a home game against a big team ensures them ticket sales and TV revenue, revenue that can literally keep their club alive, or possibly even afford a few new transfers to improve their team and look to work their way up the football pyramid (the term used for describing the leagues in football all the way from grass roots to the Premier League). And upsets DO happen. Sure, maybe they don't win the cup, but they get the experience of facing some very good players, and the joy on everyones face when they sometimes manage to win against one of the bigger clubs? The FA cup is much more than just a trophy for big teams to add to their collection.
Another great thing about Football is, at least in Argentina, but i guess it's the same mostly everywhere, is that once you are a supporter of a particular club, you are FOR LIFE. It's unforgivable to switch teams. Even if your team gets demoted you gotta stick with them till your death! My father in law supports a team called Atlanta that won the National League back in the 60s and now is 3 leagues down, and has been since the 80s. But he still watches the games and goes to the stadium, even her daughter is very fond of the team. And it's something pretty normal her in Argentina: same team from craddle to the grave!!
Brazilian here. The video talks only about european football, but I think most european countries don't come close to understand the emotion we in latin america feel with football. Despite the rivalry between our countries, watching you guys celebrate the world cup makes me think: yeah, they get it, they are passionate just like we are. Much better than seeing France win it.
Exatamente
@Otavio Cordeiro in europe we're not passionate about football?
Have you seen the Italian players when they score in the world Cup?
As a Brazilian, you should remember the 82 world cup.
Watch the final, the second goal scored by the Italian player.
It's the most iconic celebration in the world Cup history.
We do get it in europe too,a lot more in some cases.
@@vinlondon8904 as an Uruguayan I can understand what the Brazilian guy said.. but because I love English football, I can say that he was wrong, lifelong fans exist in all the countries, and the one that have the best league system is England, your team can be so many seasons in the semi-pro league that most south Americans fans would probably just leave as a fan to another one.. but there you have, most of the lowest teams had a great era of being in the top leagues, and even when fans are angry about the administration and the reason of being so low, they still go to most games, they keep being fans, supporting the team every year.
A common example would be Wrexham, but I know there are many clubs with same stories, with fans cheering even after decades of low league seasons.
Every country has its own culture of football.
@@vinlondon8904 Like we make? JAMÁS se van a acercar
As a brazilian who grew up playing and watching football it brings me joy to see people discovering it. Great video, both the content and the react.
Offside rule makes a ton of sense when you think about it. Before that rule, fools probably just hung out around the enemy goal waiting for passes or interfering with the keeper. It would be chaos.
It also makes it so much easier, (coming from a goalkeeper), to shove the offence backwards with your defence!
Literally 0-0 ALL matches...
The offside rule has been around almost since football became organised. Originally there had to be 3 players between the striker and the goal for him to be onside, this was changed during the early years of the 20th century to 2 players.
@@marianomartinez3008 cry ameritard
@@marianomartinez3008 Those matches barely happen
As a Brazilian, I'm a bit insulted they don't mention CONMEBOL (South American Confederation). South American is the only part of the World to ever have World Champions besides Europe, both in club football and countries football. Plus, no country in Europe has 5 World Coupê and Brazil has. Plus Argentina has 3 and only two countries in Europe have more than that.
I don't know if it was mentioned in the original video, but one of the fun dynamics in the big European leagues is there are a number of positions to play for at the end of each season, not just 1st place. In England, for example, you may be in 5th place at the end of the year, but if you're within striking position of 4th place, every match is absolutely vital, as the 4th place finisher (along with 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, of course) plays in the Champions League the next season. The same dynamic happens at 6th place, too, because the #5 and #6 teams automatically qualify to "Play in Europe" in the Europa League. The bottom three, as he mentioned, are relegated, so position #17 is a coveted one for teams at the bottom. The end result is that there are very few teams that are playing in meaningless games, even very late in the year.
Possibly the teams from 7th to 14th in the standings are the most likely to play more meaningless matches through the season. But even then, if the points gaps between them and the European slots or relegation slots are close enough, there are vital matches for them too.
In Italy:
- 6th Conference League
- 5th Europa League
- 4th to 1st Champions League
Hey JT, check out what happened when the top teams from Europe tried to leave their countries leagues and make their own 'super league', which had no relegation. It was pushed mainly by American owners of European clubs such as Liverpool's Fenway Sports Group or Manchester United's Glazers. Both of those investors are now trying to sell their clubs, for £4bn and £9bn respectively, because we didn't let them Americanise our leagues. No offence to Americans or their sports, but having one league that you can't be relegated from does not seem very competitive to me; they do it for business purposes so that they're all guaranteed the same income every year, whereas in Europe you get performance-based prize money based on how high up the league you finish and how many rounds you make it through in the separate knockout-style cup competitions like the FA cup (which every single English team competes in, even those below the national / conference league). And if you finish in the top 3 or 4 of any top European league you qualify for the champions league next season, where all the best teams across Europe play each other in a knockout cup and get waaayyyy more prize money in the process. No guarantee of champions league qualification or domestic league retention means better competition because anyone can get to the top or anyone could go to the bottom, and you are awarded money accordingly. Our leagues are 150+ years old and were never designed around business, TV licensing, advertising etc like the American leagues.
Actually, Liverpool was firmly against the Superleague. It's Real Madrid and Juventus that were behind it.
To be fair, the US owners have nothing to do with it.
It's just some of the biggest clubs getting greedy and wanting a giant Superleague with the giant TV rights that would come with it
@@hugolouessard3914 the American owners were the ones primarily pushing it from England, especially fsg and glazers; that's literally why they're trying to sell their clubs now. But yeah the other big European clubs pushed it too. Lucky the fans were having none of it :')
@@hugolouessard3914 it’s because La Liga and Serie A can’t compete with the PL Sky tv deal. Just too much money in England. Last season Fulham earned something close to Real Madrid in league TV income. Insanity.
@@dav3bassman my dude, most of the English teams said that if any English team signed with that leave they would be excluded from premiere league as punishment. Uefa also threatened to remove them from Champion's League. Most clubs outside of that "League" were against it.
Hell, some of the most celebrated football players of the history of those teams public shamed those clubs for that attempt.
It was so much pressure EVERYWHERE that eventually only Real Madrid and Juventus were part of that "super league", and then the idea just died for lack of any political, economical or popular support.
No dude you are wrong, behind Super League there are mainly Real Madrid and Juventus, because they play in Liga and Serie a, way poorer leagues than premier League
13:10 That's very much possible. Actually one team has done this just this year. Luton has went from semi-pro league to the Premier league this year, and they don't even have a stadium for a premier league standard yet :)
Yessirrrr Luton Town!
Luton Town were in the top division in the 1980s. They didn't come from nowhere, they just were very, very rubbish for a while before coming back.
The funny thing is that American Football has way more rules to understand than Football ⚽ yet most Americans won't still get it 🤣🤦
"Wait a minute, there is positions?" :D That got me on the floor laughing!
Words can’t express how happy I am watching my fellow Americans starting to learn more about soccer and starting to become passionate about the sport recently. Now as an American I can say I watch soccer and people won’t think I’m weird for preferring it over American football.
Edit: for you guys arguing about terminology in the comments section, the USA, Canada, and Australia call it soccer, stop arguing over linguistic differences, there are better things to do.
I agree it’s good to see cause as a fellow American as well when I used to watch football (soccer) with my Dad on the weekends I felt like the odd man out with my friends.
A lot of first gen Americans born here like myself grew up watching soccer similar to how a lot of Americans grew up watching NFL
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@@theGreatCommenterofUA-cam Kun Aguero would be proud of u my guy
@@liberum968 thanks
Please. Start calling it it’s proper name. Football
There’s a reason why it’s called “The beautiful game”. ⚽️
Kicking a ball around for 90 minutes and 0-0, 1-0 games. Hardly beautiful.
@@areguapiri it's the intensity and hardship of the game that counts and makes it beautiful.
@@areguapiri True - if you don't know anything about the game and how it is played.
No offense - I don't know much about American Football and think it is quite boring to watch a game, where they play for seconds, move for some yards and then discuss for minutes, what they do in the next seconds they play...
So, it's normal to have a negative opinion about sports that you know nothing about.
But let me tell you: I have seen boring games that ended with ten goals, and I have seen very interesting games that ended 0:0.
One of the most intense and fascinating games I ever saw ended 1-0. "My" team was forced to defend almost all the time. The other team attacked and attacked... but they didn't manage to score, because "my" boys fought light hell, and our keeper... just wow... And then, a few minutes before the game endet, "my" team suddenly got this one and only chance to score - and they did and won the game.
To be honest, the other team played better football and should have won regarding to that, but football is also about mindset and fighting, not only about nice playing. And... Can you imagine, how all the fans were captivated by this game? How the others got more and more desperate while time was ticking away and the score was still 0-0? How we just prayed, this game would finalley end, after another dangerous scene that had been cleared, because we just hoped to keep that 0-0? And how we all got crazy when our team suddenly scored?
You will never have moments like this in most other games.
And that's definitely beautiful.
The 3 point win 1 point tie is the best thing in football. It really pushes clubs to risk.
But this also made some shady deals in eastern european leagues. There was a system three points for three points, or "343". So, clubs would fix games, when you play me at my home I win, and I return the favour when Im at your home. Basically clubs that werent "in" were screwed, because its better to win one game and loose one game than tie two games.
So clubs that werent in would allways fall down since they would get in more ties.
loved this reaction, your opinions were on point. As someone who just started watching this sport like two years ago I deeply relate (we in Argentina REALLY feel fútbol so rn my life depends on beating the Netherlands)
That's something that the video didn't talked about actually. In America you will never understand how we perceive football in the rest of the world, specially in Argentina (more than in Brazil even), this sport is EVERYTHING, we cry, we go to the streets, we scream. Here, your team is your religion, you'll see shirts, hats, tattoos and even houses painted with the colors of your team. If we don't win this world cup, the whole country will enter in depression, and I'm not exaggerating
@@samimbecil turned out good for you folks
One cool thing at the current world cup is that smaller nations have become WAY better at playing out of possesion, leading to some major upsets (the most extreme one is Japan having the ball 17% of the time against spain and still winning).
Unofficially there are 20 tiers in england, with about 5,000 clubs, or twenty-plus tiers depending how far you go. Officially tracked there are 11 tiers with 1862 clubs involved. These are multiple leagues per tier for many of them, to give you an idea of just how it's all divided up. For me it's the greatest part of the sport, it engages so many people together in the sport and makes them part of it, gives them a chance to improve and raise their position somewhere in the league no matter how small the team or town.
Yeah but 1000s of those teams are sunday league pub teams.
Pretty sure my local team sits at the bottom of all of them, so relegated to watching a team lose that I ended up supporting Palace instead.
5000 clubs and we still can't draw a successful national team from them. Ridiculous.
I’m from the uk, and this was a great introduction to football. The Champions league is really the pinnacle, so I encourage you to look more into that. The best players and the best clubs in the world battling it out
One thing to note with release clauses - in some leagues like Spain, every player must have a release clause. However in most leagues, it isn’t necessary, yet it may be included by a club to convince a player to join them.
Yep that’s why clubs like Barcelona have ridiculous release clauses like €1 billion so no one can buy them as long as they are under contract 😂
This man is coming in at the end of probably the best 15 years in soccer history 😂
Literally, so many good and bad memories these last years
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Hopefully it somehow get better (probably won’t)
Only got super into club football a few years ago, but was always super into the world cup.
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1990 - 2000 Italian prime, 2000-2010 English prime and 2010 - 2020 Spanish prime.
Regarding low scoring in football games - think about this - At an English, old private school, there was a game called the Wall game - it has been played for a couple of hundred years and a few years ago it was announced that someone had scored for the first time EVER! It was discussed for some time and agreed that it was not a valid score!
Wow this comment may have caused me to fail University but it was worth it. I just spent so long researching and watching videos about this it is now 5:30AM where I am and I need to get up to do an assignment that due in. Anyway, it's called the Eton Wall Game and has been played since 1766 with no goal being scored since 1909 in the St Andrew's Day fixture. That absolutely blows my mind but when someone scores that next goal it will be incredible. Thank you for your comment cus I loved learning about this sport.
@@rhysscale912 The man that formulated the handicap system for racehorses in England announced after he had finished "There! now no one can win.
As someone who plays and watches football regularly, thank you for actually being open minded about the sport. Some people just don't get it but you were actually understanding it. Thank you.
Im spanish and i did get astonished by how americans know so little about football, it being the most watched sport all over the world, but dont get me wrong, i am so happy that youre finally really trying to get into it and understand its beauty, even the "true american sportsmen" (just a joke hahaha). Also wanna say that MLS has big potential and if teams work on their infrastructures for training young players and scouting them as the european teams it can become a league to really take in account. Hope one day we'll see teams like madrid or manchester city facing maybe the la galaxy or the ny city in a true world champions league in a ucl style
It's not the most watched, maybe watched in most countries. I think cricket is, there are 1,4 billion people in India...
LeBron James has the most followers in NBA at 155 mil. Virat Kohli, a cricket player has 252 mil. Messi has 472 mil and of course Ronaldo 590 mil.
Top Ten most viewed events:
Cricket World Cup - 2.6 billion. ...
Summer Olympics - 2 billion. ...
Winter Olympics - 2 billion. ...
Women's World Cup - 1.12 billion. ...
UEFA Champions League - 380 million. ...
Super Bowl - 112.3 million. ...
World Series - 14.3 million. ...
NCAA men's Final Four - 18.1 million.
If the numbers are real.
@@razvanlex it is the most watched in every site that you look at it says that football(or soccer) has 3.5 billion people that watch it. Btw I found the site you found those numbers at and the World Cup is second on that list behind Tour de France with 3.3 billion
@@darkmedos8452 Yeah, I don’t know about the numbers, I found different stories. I doubt about Tour de France. But even if true I know some people mostly women that watch Tour de France for the beautiful scenery they show on TV, not for the race. 😀
Numbers don’t tell the whole story. English language is not the most spoken but it is spoken everywhere.
@@razvanlex then why use numbers in your first comment? Why come after me saying numbers don’t tell whole story bs when that all you used.
@@razvanlexIt is, I would recommend you to do some more research
Mourinho football style is not only about defensive play and counters. It was when he won champions league with Inter. With Chelsea they were dominant in every aspect of the game and compact in defense, middle field and attack.
The dude explaining stuff only got into football 6 years ago, so he gets a pass😅
that Inter was something special that year... triplete
@@alexwtf80 oh yes. D. Milito, Pandev, Sneider, Eto'o, Stankovic, Maicon, Cambiasso...
They knocked out prime Barcelona, Chelsea in Deogba time and Bayern. Remember that year very well.
He broke the record for the most goals in a single la liga season with madrid
@@Josip9888 Brings tears of joy to my eyes just thinking about it.
The only team to recently progress through the league ranks was RB Leipzig from Germany. They went from the 5th division to the 1st division in 9 years. However that's a very rare accomplishment.
And its not a fin accomplishment when u buy urself up
It is not that big of a accomplishment, when you buy yourself in on a 5th division club, have a infrastructure of a Champions League-Club and can spend more on your team like the whole division you are in combined, while having the austrian champions as a farm team.
@faenwulf7540 More than your division and the two before you
Thats not true, there are plenty of examples just in Italy only. Sassuolo went from 4th to 1st division in 10 years and they also played Europa League 3 seasons later. Monza went from 4th to 1st division in only 6 years. Carpi from 5th to 1st in 12 years.
@@dog4life56 I said it's rare, I didn't say it's not achievable. That's 3 clubs you mentioned. How many other clubs did they play that haven't made it to the top division of their national league. Just 1 of those club probably played 60+ teams just to get there, so that mean in total there's 180+ other teams which haven't made it. 3/180+ teams plus doesn't make it common.
I’d suggest watching blue lock if you’re into anime, it actually gives an idea as to what the players might be thinking while on the field, because obviously football is played with the ball, but it is also played without, with positioning, you can both stop an attacker, or confuse a defender, which can lead to a goal
What impressed me was actually playing on a field, staring at a goal that is so huge, I couldn't believe anyone could miss that... but the distances are unbelievable.. I quit because I had no stamina and I was playing defender... cant imagine what attackers go thru.
Actually I think most people would agree midfielders have the toughest job stamina wise
Central midfielders are the ones that run the most
@@ymiras7881wing backs???
@@Connorseawingbacks are rare for youth teams
@@SemRB Yeah, just look up Park Ji-Sung, he's nicknamed "Three Lungs" because of his endurance.
One thing to remember when you see players passing backwards or laterally, wherever the ball is is where the point of the attack is. Moving the ball backwards or making a non-advancing pass serves to test and stretch the defensive shape of the opponent. And yeah, goals are really special. Honestly, the closest comparison to being in a huge crowd when a great goal is scored is when they get that big pop in pro wrestling.
As a kid I once sat in the Fulham end with family rather than the Newcastle end as I couldn't get a ticket and there was an American sat behind me who said some of the greatest things I've ever heard at a football game, especially "how many quarters in a game of soccer"
Appreciate you taking the time to educate yourself on the sport instead of dismissing it, much love homie 🙏🏽
this was a really good video. it’s so interesting to see someone learn football from the ground up, when it’s like second nature to me and so many other people. your genuine interest was very cool to see, it’s made me want to learn about basketball now lol
It’s a rare self-aware American. Respect to you my friend
I think there is one important thing missing in this short explanation: subsitutes/player changeouts during a game. If you compare american football where offense and defense go on and off the field depending on who has posession of the ball, or player subsitution in basketball where the same player can go on and off the field: In Football (Soccer) per team and game usually 3 players can be changed out. If a player gets off the field, he can't go back on it in the same game anymore. If your team already changed 3 players, and one of your players gets injured so he can't play anymore, the team is down one player for the rest of the game!
Some decades ago the goal keeper was not changeable at all. In the 1954 World cup in switzerland there was a game that still has the record of the wolrd cup game with the highest goalcount. It was between Switzerland and Austria, and it was so hot and sunny, that the austrian goalkeeper had either a sunstroke or heatstroke (i don't remember) but one of the tteams support perseonel was standing behind the goal and telling him from which direction the ball would come. At least one swiss player had to be changed out for that as well. Austria still won the game 7:5! (but they were pretty exhausted and they lost the next game against Germany. So Germany got into the final where they beat Hungary. The austrians were at least able to win the game for 3rd place.
They can switch 5 players now.
@@romeufrancisco7041 Just looked it up, that fact had completely bypassed me.
@@romeufrancisco7041 I didn't know that they changed this either!
@@veridicusmind3722 Changed because corona, but most teams liked it and now it's permanent
@@zigzagtoes google said 7 is the minimum. If a team has less than that, the referee can stop the game.
Allegedly there was a game in argentinas 5th league at some time that holds the record of 36 red cards in the game before the referee stopped it. (I couldn't believe that that's even possible, but i found a short clip of it here on YT, and basicaly imagine players substitutes, coaches and some spectators on the field throwing punches and him trying to get them off the field...)
When I hear Americans talk about "Soccer", it makes me appreciate FOOTBALL more
Point about José Mourinho: Counter-attack (negative strategy) is easier to score. Because you have more space, when you do it quickly, you can face less defenders (sometimes 1 against 1, which is the golden standard) then slowly progressing passing with the ball. Generally, there always 1 defender to spare against attackers (because who is attacking, also keep 1 extra defender against another attacker).
Also, even though Uefa Champions League is more famous, Conmebol's Copa Libertadores is far funnier and amazing.
And yes... most countries have a championship and a cup, also the championship from Conmebol/uefa etc... but Brazil (the country of football) has even more. We do have state championship. Kind of.... all teams of all leagues of Kansas (example) play inside the state for being state champions.
@@eljosende873 The US has the US Open Cup, which is our "FA Cup", usually an MLS team wins it, but there have been many times a non-MLS defeats an MLS club.
And than you face a weaker team that does the same thing and your screwed.
@@mrsensei8878 when you face a weaker team you release your wingers to advance and play normally.
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Yeah but Mourinho doesnt change play those matches. Thats why he has so much results but also many failures.
Just finding this and it's great to see your process of learning. What you described here at 12:57 is what is termed "Road To Glory". Many people who play the FIFA (soccer) game 🎮 usually do a "Road To Glory" series on UA-cam where they take a team from the lowest league and spend years developing the team and earning money to buy better players so they can challenge for top glory.
They can't really spend " YEARS " doing it because each year when a new game is released you have to start over. You don't get to carry over your team or money or anything really. Its a fresh start every year.
Road to Glory is basically slang for not paying to advance. So these people will not buy fifa points and go crazy opening packs until they have a good squad. They just start off with what they have and use ingame modes to gain XP, complete objectives, squad building challenges and various versions of competitive gameplay to earn certain players , packs or coins etc..
@@peterjones3460 think hes refering to manager mode and ingame years.
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Didn't even know that existed , my bad haha
@@Gravityplaysfifa i mean to be fair almost all fifa youtubers i see call their no microtransaction ultimate team series a "road to glory" and a career mode series just a career mode
Just to say, its Premier league not Premiere
Premiere is like the first showing of a movie or something.... Premier means the best! (both words are pronounced slightly differently too)
PREMMYer not PremmyAIR
Premier literally means first not best.
@@paperguyeu it means first in importance if you want to be specific
@@paperguyeu My comment was about the pronounciation, not the meaning.
bro imagine if have to understand the game from a southamerican perspective. It is amazing watching this explanation how faaaaaar away is the understanding of the game and it development, not only the love for the sport itself
Relegation is ruthless. Not only you go to the lower division, you lose a lot of prize money from just playing in that division and making the fight back to the top division harder. Some teams who got relegated have not returned to the top division for years. In England, the third division has a number of these clubs.
Edit: It's also worth mentioning that players can choose to leave the club if the club gets relegated, depending on their contract.
Also as you go down the leagues there are certain places where you find bottlenecks where getting promoted is incredibly difficult
However relegated teams get injection drops from the FA with (I can't remember the specific numbers so don't take this for granted) around 60% of Prem profits injected in season one,35%in season 2 and 10% in season three
13:30 this has happened. Leicester city was a team originally from league one I believe and within just 5 years won the premier league.
As an uruguayan, football is part of my life since I have memory, so this is so much fun for me
Props to this guy for calling it football 😂😂
13:03, I loved see him come to the realization of how nice of a system relegation is lol.
It’s such a cool idea! Makes thing much more intense at the end watching the crap teams of that particular season. A team in 18th place can stay up on the last day and avoid being relegated and people probably party harder than if their team won the league lol.
MLS is clown Closed League Monopoly Soccer League .!!
Pay the Level of League .!! 👎Clown .!!👎
In the UK, half time is mostly used for pundits to talk. On the BBC, there are no real adverts. On other channels, you might get maybe 8-10 minutes of talking out of the 15 minute break with two short ad breaks either side.
One of the uks foremost soccer academies was near my school (lilleshall) long story short former England players Michael Owen and sol Campbell came to my school for their academic lessons. I had geography lesson with germain defoe, another former England player. And I can't tell you how old it makes me feel that he's not in football anymore!
@joshcahill9551 just yo clarify for the Americans :)
AHH wow now that's a beautiful house and grounds at lilleshall 👌 stayed there for abit when I had footy trials ⚽Amazing times thanks for the trip down memory lane 🙏👍
Fun fact: if you were to start a football club in england today and got promoted every single year it would still take something like 23 years to do it. So yeah pretty unlikely but possible. If you want to hear a story about the team who moved from the national league up to the premier league the fastest look up Luton Town, they just mad it to the premier league for the first time this year, they were in the national league a decade ago after a giant point deduction and multiple relegations in a row. Amazing story really, theyre doing terrible and are probably going back down to the championship next year but theyre just happy to be there right now.
Haha love his reactions. "Wait, there's positions?!?" 😂🤣😆
Probably like my reaction if someone were to explain Baseball, Cricket or Lacrosse to me 😊
Going to the bathroom during a game can lead to severe disappointment. 🙂 Some years ago we watched the Germany:Brasil match (7:1) with a group of friends at a sport bar. Or more precisely the Biergarten outside the bar. After a goal by Germany one of my friends got up and went to the bathroom, thinking he wont miss much and said so. Because we were outside it took him some time to get back. In the meantime Germany scored twice. Man, was he pissed.
Not going might be even worse. Espicially if you're a player.
Like that time Gary Lineker shat his pants, on the pitch, during World Cup
I was at man united 9 Ipswich 0 in 1995 and missed 3 goals in one trip to the toilet. My 13 year old bladder screwed me over. My old man spent the next 15 years telling me to go again every time we needed a goal.
It's not the premiere league, but the Premier League. There are actually 5 national leagues in Europe that are considered elite, the 5th being the French "Ligue 1". These are some of the mistakes in the original video. He also didn't mention that clubs can loan players to each other. A loan is when a player from one club goes to another club for a short period of usually 1 or 2 seasons. After that, he will either be returned to the first club, transfer to the club he's been loaned to or be transferred or loaned to a 3rd club. His salary will jointly be payed by the 2 clubs involved in the loan. This can create awkward situations where a player loaned to a rival team in the same league can score a winning goal against his club and then return to that club the next season.
that's why countinho never win culer's heart
I like the 3 point systems. It rewards consistency. If you have the most point it means you have won the most games and thus deserve the 1st place in the league.
Hey JT, love that you have been watching the world cup, Football really is the WORLDS sport and brings so much joy to millions of people. Would happily watch any other football related vids you do, would love to see you react to some of the amazing football documentaries there are available :D
Soccer those weak floppers aren't playing football
Per the actual rules of the game, there are indeed only two kinds of players: the goalkeeper and everyone else. But for practical purposes the coach will assign positions to players. Much the same applies to some other football codes such as Gaelic and Australian. (Australian doesn't even have a goalkeeper.)
18:30 this is a really good point and one of the reasons supporting a football team is great, you’re always invested in what’s going on because you’re almost always playing for something. Whether you’re at the top of the league fighting for the title, at the upper end you’re trying to get into European places, if you’re near the bottom you’re trying to stay in the league and even if you’re just in the middle you’re still able to play as the spoiler to all those other teams and get joy out of their misery, plus the two cup competitions and since those are just straight knockouts and football is one of the most advantageous sports to the under dogs every team at least has the chance to put a run together.
There is a lot more to Mourinho's game then just defending he broke scoring and points records at chelsea and Madrid. The main thing with Jose's way is he is pragmatic in the important games and this is more likely to win when it matters and you don't have to have the strongest team to be effective just defend correctly and score when our chances happen
a cool info is that in Brazil, besides the league, the continental cup and the national cup, we also have de “states tournaments”. There is a tournament for each state/province. It’s a tradition here. Even though we consider it useless, we also consider it “mandatory to win”, because winning it means that you own your land and thar you are better than your rivals. It’s like if there was a London tournament… I bet Chelsea, Spurs and Arsenal would give it all to win, bc it means you defeat your rival.
Yeah, most people get surprised when they hear this, but Brazilian states are like mini European countries.
In Argentina we only have "Copa de Santa Fe", like Estaduales there
Siempre la ganan Central o Newell's...
I doubt any of the big London clubs would compete seriously (they already complain about too many games). In the North East of England there is the Northumberland Senior Cup, Newcastle United usually enter their Under21 or youth side into the tournament.
We don’t get the 15 minutes of commercials in the UK, mostly football pundits analysing the first half. No commercials whatsoever on BBC though.
Really good point - possibly the main difference between American and UK sports. It takes so long to score in football that when we do it's an amazing celebration! In American sport scoring happens a lot, and those rare scores that win you a game are celebrated like we celebrate a goal in football (which is at least once per match, unless you support Everton like me, when it's even more rare)
Real, as an Everton fan
Talking about Football cups. In my country Norway in 2012. The then 2. divition team Hødd, beat the then Eliteseries team Tromsø on penalty shootouts (3-5) in the Cup final. They got to play the eu-cup the next year as a result (obviously they didn't stand a chance). But on their way to become Norwegian champions they had to defeat 4 team from the top divition. And for their supporters it was magic. It's rare, but when it happens, football is something magical.
Here (in Argentina) passed too, in 2014 Huracán, one club from B Nacional (2nd division) won the Copa Argentina (the national cup) but here the winner go to LIBERTADORES (the Champions League of here)
A few weeks later Huracán won the prom to Primera División (1st division)