US soccer: Will Americans ever care about football? - BBC News
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- Опубліковано 11 лис 2017
- The men's team didn't even qualify for the World Cup. But there's still some hope for the sport...
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Will the rest of the world really care about American Football?
No...
Cause its irrelevant and football i mean reall football not eggball is worldwide, only you americans doesnt care and american football will never get any attention in the rest of the world. Worldwide football is growing everyday but in us is sadly thing.
@@majkokatic9991 Yep just the way we like it. Carry on.
@@majkokatic9991 American Football doesn't need to be popular in other countries. The NFL is the highest revenue generator among all professional sports so it doesn't need to be a worldwide sport. It's an American sport so no one is expecting the world to start play it. Being mad at most Americans for not being football fans is like being mad at someone for liking vanilla and not liking chocolate. Personally, I like both sports, but American football fans aren't as...intense/crazy so I will going to a game, but I am not going to a football match a country of people who live for a sport.
@@jessmabe7376 Thats an really good answer.
@@jessmabe7376 si el futbol es el deporte mas popular del mundo menos en estados unidos entonces es porque estados unidos tiene un problema. es logica comun.
Why americans call it "football" even though they play with hands 🤔
Says the people who watch wimps flop around on the ground 🤨
Might as well go to the movies if you want to watch actors so much.
@Leafy what ever your country is, is gayer than America
@Leafy oo gay person thats gay
In 🏈 theres alot of running you know with your feet
Americans: Turns rugby into *football* and football into *soccer*
English/Europeans: *Look how they massacred my boy.*
@OrthodoxChristianity обожение The world are giving up to use Soccer dude. And football is called football because it's play with the feet with a ball, pal
@@derrickmeade4891 Dude. You don't know anything so shut the fuck up. Football came first, from ancient time. Years after football has association rules, some students in Oxford started calling it "soccer" which was derived from "Association". It might sound cool at the first glance. But not, because it sounds like "socker" or "sucker", and it's also not relevant to the sport played by foot to control, kick, run, tackle the ball. So it's defenitely football and should be called football. "Soccer" is just a slang term that quite a few people in the world are using it, except USA and Canada. Most people in the world will usually consider football to be the game using mostly foot (except the goalkeeper) to control, tackle, run, kick a ball rather than the game played mostly by hand to catch the "1 foot long ball"(although it's not even a foot long). In Australia and New Zealand, people are starting calling it football, maybe 50% of the population. Australian Soccer Federation was changed into Football Federation Australia in 2005. In Japan, people still call football futtoboru.
I'm not from Europe but I still can get that. And I know some people in America also call it football. The real question is: Why are Americans so stupid?
P/s: By the way most people in the world don't give a fuck about whether Americans care about football or not.
Not English/Europeans but WORLD
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@@workspaceofduc dude just chill we got it you think soccer is godly and American football is the peasents but let us play are game and we let you play yours
The mls is a retirement home for the soccer legends
This deserves a million likes
Maybe China as well
Agreed
You could go on for years listing them ten off the top of my head are
Pirlo
Gerrard
Lampard
Ibrahimovic
Schweinsteiger(sorry if I butchered his name idk how to spell it)
David Villa
Kaka
Thierry Henry
Drogba
Beckham
1k subs With no vids *football
Obviously the budget was low when you had to buy a 2 for £5 Sondico ball from Sports Direct
Lol was just about to make that comment
The question is: What will Europeans do when Sharia Law comes down and they can no longer play football?
and go to dulwich hamlet
the question is: When will internet trolls like Scott Humphreys stop to waste everyones time on the internet?
We started with newspapers and elastic bands, old socks and clothes. We played with our everyday shoes and everywhere we could. We had to deal with a lot of angry people, neighbours and family.
Who cares if America will care about football ?
As an American, I respect this comment and commenter.
MrHankey1994 Gaming nobody they can amise themselves with thier church guns and fatty foods
MrHankey1994 Gaming People caring about soccer = People playing soccer = More people motivated to go pro = more pros in mls = evolution of better players and competition = development of national team = chance to compete with other countries in competitions such as the World Cup and Copa America.
Brother Ares that's not idiocy, that's just cultural rooting. Same as when other countries call soccer football.
Brother Ares You wrote this comment on a site created by Americans, probably on a phone, tablet or computer designed by and sold by American company....LMBAO!
Bruh when messi and ronaldo played in la liga it had more viewers than any american sport will ever have...
Cool
350 million Americans are more relevant and important people than the other 6 billion🤷🏻♂️
@@philmccracken179 yeah good luck with your egocentric shit.
@@philmccracken179 lmaoooooo
@Impersonal Immigrant people flee shitty countries and beg to live here and never wanna leave. But we are the joke?👌
00:16 she said the *S* word
OrthodoxChristianity обожение and Britain was smart enough to change it to football while the US is still retarded
@OrthodoxChristianity обожение just because the Brits created it doesn't mean its a correct term
GASP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@OrthodoxChristianity обожение Illogical like a flat wheel. More likely handegg
@OrthodoxChristianity обожение Shut up slavic orthodog.It doesn't make any sense.
Soccer is still the most popular sport in the world
We don’t need the U.S. 😂
We are the best country fax
@@epetrie9459 Best country of what? Having a lot of guns?
The US is the strongest nation in the world, like it or not all of Europe needs us. 😎🇺🇸
@@gregryans4649 Mmmmmkay
NetflixAdicta ikr
Ten Biggest sports in the USA
1. American Football
2. American Football
3. American Football
4. American Football
5. American Football
6. American Football
7. American Football
8. American Football
9. American Football
10. Basketball
baseball is bigger than basketball
Don Hennessy HAHAHAHA no its it not baseball is a dying sport, teams can't even fill their stadiums
Yes. Basketball, if anything, would claim the throne...not soccer.
Don Hennessy check the ratings
SAM TV fuck that dying sport only white people and Dominicans care about it
How is American football called football when you use your hands more than your feet
When it first became a sport the kicking aspect was a much bigger part of the game. Over time it's been reduced to the current style but the name has stayed the same.
In American football, the football is around a foot long. Gotta love our creative names
Christine L. So thanks a lot imperial system
@@toddhowardsnoseismystand1965 shite way to put it.lmao americans mess everything up
@@law6115 I’m sure you wouldn’t say that when you realize almost all the technology in your home was invented by Americans
As an Indian I felt that cricket was the strangest sport as it is popular in 10-15 nations only.
But American football is here to give my sport some sympathy.
Cricket seems very well know in Asia and Oceania. It's big enough.
Here in South America if you show images of the game people will assume it's baseball.
@@Guizambaldi Yup,but south africa has definitely produced some legends in cricket.(Acknowledging the fact that they started playing from 1992)
I am also an indian. But i like to watch soccer rather than cricket.
Cricket is like our national game, while soccer is most thrilling game.
I do watch only important t20 matches in cricket, while i watch almost all soccer matches especially epl, champions league and laliga.
@@abhikdixit2066 cricket is international, america, england asia and the caribbean all play cricket
Cricket is prevalent in all ex British Empire Lands….
american football, 99% use hand. 1% use foot.
"American" Football´s name comes from the ball being foot-long, not because you kick it...
Stop acting dumb and do research before commenting some stupid comment.
american foot long ball. nice name
its like subway..lets throw some subs
So when the US properly adapts to the metric system like most of the world, perhaps football (soccer) will grow there aswell? :D (hinting towards the feet measuring naming of the sport).
Still using their feet tho
America can't even use the metrical system how can he play properly football
Um okay?😂🤦♂️
LMAO,...dipshit, can't and don't are not the same things, but understanding that clearly requires more IQ than you can muster.
There are two types countries in the world ones who use the metric system, and the ones who have been to the moon.
“metrical”
We do play football, ever herd of the NFL
Who cares american football except americans.... none😂😂
Italy,Germany,Poland,Austria and more Europe Countries,Dickhead
@Person Person sure thats why more countries care about it
@Person Personmy friend I'm tlaking about American football
Ashwin no one is asking for you to care but some b-tier reporter that needs something to do
America is the 🌎.
Cr7 is the most followed person on earth. Now name a *Football* player near it
Who?
Messi :)
Lies again? Mature Captain USA Football
Didn't America goes crazy for the world cup a few years back? America did very well and all of a sudden the fans woke up and started going mental for British Football, but when they got knocked out, the fans mysteriously disappeared lol.
Meh american football is easy
It has nothing to do with soccer as a sport, it has to do with supporting the national team.
The USA never went crazy..... Seriously most ppl here never even knew that we got close to winning anything. Maybe the british media painted the picture like that but unfortunately most Americans wouldn't care even if we won. Maybe more Americans than usual attended games but there are also 300,000,000 Americans. Maybe 1% are interested in soccer and 3/4 are most likely forign expats.
@@gt5228z Who said you would ever win in a football world cup?
@@hmmm1635 probably wouldn't, our athletes never usually consider soccer. In fact, most soccer leagues in the USA are for women and kids. Every kid plays little league soccer, but seldom do they pursue more soccer after 8yo.
You know Americans got the word Soccer from the English. By the way come to Portland Oregon, folks are completely mad about the sport and their team the Timbers.
tomuscranius no they didn't. Lots of German is in the US language. Also American Football comes from Rugby Football Union.
+Joey Karate Portland is cool and I'm an American but WTF is the US language? There is just as much German in American English as in British English.
Oliver Linehan soccer is a word we got from the English dumbass
They're also mad bout Portland Thorns, the Women's team.
Joey Karate portland is special because they dont have an American football team.
There is just nothing better than playing in a summer evening football ⚽ with your friends at the next park or even on the street
Julian .H And crying 😢 because someone touched your foot
@@tems5280 no way the only reason they cry is because it is very painfull when u get kicked in the leg very hard.
@@dark_forest8271 I tried soccer and football 🏈 is more painful
@@tems5280 nah football is more painful than 🏈
@@dark_forest8271 You made my day🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂
This is real ⚽football⚽
Bruh you can’t even tough someone else. It’s barely a sport
@@itsjordanf4320 yes please stick to the nba and nfl. Don't ruin our beloved sport❤️
@@aryanraina5727 no I’m good
@@aryanraina5727 nice job liking your own comment 👍
Both of u shut up admit ur an American, ur country only cares about their selves and think all there stuff is world famous, when it's not
Instead of American football let's call it American rugby ay
American Rugby Football ay?
why don’t u just create a new world jeez guys, have some creativity, or are you limited to only putting two already existing words together.. life is not like a lego
Vegan Foodie I said It's better not the best.
Jesus Christ instead of telling us what words to use, you can just fuck off
Rodri Labarre it is not white and has round oval edges
Football and Handegg
FRISHR *eggball
FRISHR Actually, the American FOOTBALL isn't an egg. It's a prolate spheroid.
Arsenal Fan It's not an egg, it's a prolate spheroid.
Nailah Saquee is that other name for egg too?
FRISHR when u just take the piss out of the name, just shows how ignorant u are there are a lot more jokes u can make about Football
Why are we obligated to care about it? I'm sure soccer in Europe, Asia, South America is very profitable without us. We don't particularly care for soccer...so what? Let us like what we like. Our country doesn't have to follow everyone else's preferences.
The real question is will the world ever give a damn about rugby
Edit: I meant American football
Not bout rugby
all mighty Babatunde U do realize that theres a difference between rugby and gridiron football right?
@@cklee22 you realize he is tellin you we don't give a damn lee?
Rugby is better than American football. Sorry every sport is better than American football.
I used to be a big gridiron football fan. But I've watched Tri-Nations and Super League, and I once got to view a live exhibition match between USA Rugby All-Stars and London Wasps, and except for the forward pass the American game doesn't really have enough to make it even equal to Rugby. The latter flows, the former has constant stoppages, and Big Hits AREN'T action. I watch a Rugby match and I'm fully engaged in the contest whereas I've often found my attention wandering through an NFL game that now drags on for nearly four hours. And lately I've gotten disenchanted
I love football ENGLISH football and I’m American
PL 💙
Don't acting like you're American!!😂🙄
@Unforsaken Lion You just lying people, you say that you're American even you're not American, you did that because you really hate America
@@gamingforaday5446 just bc you like soccer doesnt mean you arent an american
@@gamingforaday5446
Or, maybe, he just likes football.
I'm an American and would like to say that you shouldn't get your hopes up. Don't get me wrong, soccer is growing in the US, but her reason isn't why. We now get a lot of EPL games in the US, and that is growing it (I even occasionally watch it). What is not growing it is youth soccer. Soccer has always been a big youth sport in the US because of the nature of our 2 national sports are either too complicated (baseball) or too dangerous (football) for children to play when they are very young.
I also would like to point out to the people making fun of the US for calling it soccer that the British came up with the name and brought it over here. By the time the UK settled on Football for the name of their sport, our football had already gained the number 3 spot in the US so we never changed it. Your indecisiveness led to the linguistic confusion. It ain't our fault.
Patrick Stump shouldn't American football be called hand ball because the ball is normally in the hands of the players
ben smith google why we call it football
The UK settled upon the name Association Football as the name of their game by 1857. The linguistic confusion over Rugby/Football has entirely been an American, not British, problem.
@@LordZontar You guys brought both sports here and introduced them as Rugby Football and Association Football, Rugby exploded in popularity here and dropped the Rugby from the title after the games evolution into the modern American Sport.
I love football as an American, but it is hard to find football pitches and other friends who love the beautiful game
Same I'm super in to football it was the first sport ball I ever played with and I cherised the sport I just can't find people who feel the same and it's sad
*soccer, fields
@@chilidavis9894 *football
@@knives4lives589 You dont suck up to them either. Read my above comment. Calling it soccer is completely fine.
@@alfredosauce3727 soccer is a disgusting name for football, Americans should call their hand egg sport American football if they like the term so much
Me: what is american football?
American: 3:00
Me: Ah ok so porn with helmets?
I’ve never watched women’s football
It's not a porn, and you just said that because you really hate America
@@gamingforaday5446 r/wooooooooosh!
Bro they just mad cuz all the do in soccer is flop unlike in football they take real hits
@@johnin5935 W
Football (Soccer) is passion
Alex Almandoz so is American Football.. your point is?
I'm just a sexy Kurt I see no emotion in American football anyways
itzMason ReusHD what does that even mean. The passion is in the person not the sport they play.
Alex Almandoz so is football please tell why american football isn't actual reasons, football and school is my life. Talk about passion
itzMason ReusHD probably because you don't watch it
American Football is boring af. I hate the discontinuities in games, which is right opposite to the football.
Mill Burray its the most exciting sport ever i mean who doesn't like watching someone they hate get destroyed on the field? Go to the NFL's twitter and see how the fans fight about things. Its a passion not a 90 minute waste of time.
Watching people butt heads with eachother and diving into the other half is more exciting than pure Movement skill with feet? i like both sports but Football is better to watch because it is a hard sport that requires alot of training, alot of thinking and alot of tension.
A game can be exciting without goals, as long as the ball is going near the penalty area, with the crowd cheering for them to come in and shoot, you see them dribbling past the defenders only to hit or miss, and try again.
Lol, every sport on the planet requires training, thinking and has tension.
Are you saying soccer doesn't have discontinuities? Have you actually watched a game? All the stoppage for subs, diving, fouls, set kicks, etc.
Akhibrass Those aren’t as common anymore. When they are, it is much more exiting than breaks every 2 minutes.
Soccer in the states is something you do as a small child because it’s easy to play when you’re younger, as Americans get older they have more choices in other popular sports like: football, baseball, hockey basketball. In the States soccer is seen more as a “kids game”
I was born in America but have never cared for American football. That's not football to me. Football is the glorious beautiful game that is called footy .
My teams are Liverpool and Cardiff .
Did you know that the total game of NFL only lasts about 5-10 minutes worth of play without the stupid ads?
It's not worth watching.
Now 90+ minutes of running and passing and a goal here and there....yes! Give me that.
You know nothing of football lmao
Lol soccer is 100% ads. Do you not notice the electronic flashing billboards flickering around the field the whole game?
10 minutes of football? Ur an idiot
So it's ok to shit on american football but not regular football??
Actually the majority of America couldn't give two shits about the Queen of England
Barbara Debel Shut up mexican.
CJop27 Actually mexicans are more smarter.
Stalin Not when they are illegal ;)
Cleveland Steamer Americans should be illegal too ;)
Cleveland Steamer I was joking. Mexicans are people too. And mexicans work, not like immigrants which are coming in europe.
Americans will never care about football as they are not obligated to care about football just because a majority of countries care so much about football. It's not just Americans, Canadians don't care about football either. They prefer hockey. Just like Indians prefer cricket, Australians and New Zealanders prefer rugby. So stop with the whole "Dumb Americans call football as soccer" and "Will Americans ever care about football?" thing and let people enjoy whichever sport they like!
That’s way too rational of an idea for people on the internet to go along with.
That's why they had the worsts teams
Dexter Morgan NO, YOU WILL PLAY THE REAL FOOTBALL AND YOU WILL LOVE IT!
THANK YOU. People are so petty. They fail to realize there are a lot of cultures and sports in this world and that people can choose what sports to enjoy.
EXACTLY What I'm saying. Everyone always seems to expect Americans to do everything like "everyone else" and I'm sick of it. They don't realize people have different cultures. Literally plenty of other countries call it soccer and care more about a different sport, yet it's only AMERICANS who get flamed for it.
CL finals > Superbawl
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Oh, and not to mention EURO, Copa America, World Cup finals
Terb best joke I’ve heard. You literally kick around a ball for 90 minutes while in football, it’s way more complex and interesting.
dickcheese mongolia You rush into each others like a bunch of bufalo. How is that complex ?
hairbuster ribert what about rugby u stupid shit
Chilling Spree shut up with your messed up teeth.
Everytime i here that word i feel pain in my heart
Be strong
Ok then
Soccer, Soccer,soccer,soccer,soccer, soccer
@@Ghost_riley958 I’m now dead are you Happy now
@@TheLeader-jl5iz like American
@@danielg1680 what’s your problem?
Soccer has an uphill battle in the USA because it has to compete with several national sports that were already extremely popular and mature before soccer started to grow here. It continues to be seen here as a sport that kids play to learn sportsmanship and get some exercise, but then they grow out of it right around the time they hit high school and choose a "real" sport to play.
By the way, it's wrong to assume that Americans largely reject soccer because they don't understand it, as if they would give up loving baseball, basketball, American football, and hockey if only they knew more about soccer. Maybe, just maybe Americans do understand soccer and yet still see it as a second-tier sport. Crazy, I know!
Like golf, we Americans find Soccer BORING. Period.
@@walterhicks5520 but how? It's fun to watch and play
Nitro what’s fun to watch about it?
@@rikellski its intense
@@nitro1823 not as much as hockey or any other contact sport.
The only way the US is ever going to create quality players is to change its model. There is no Premier league in the US (where if a team is crap, they get relegated, like they do in Europe). It's nothing but closed leagues, and quality will not come from the likes of that model. Unbelievable but true - which is why a Country as tiny as Iceland is headed for Russian this summer while our men's national team is no where to be found.
Northern Thai Garden Guy they already have a quality player in pulisic
There’s also need to be a better scouting system to discover local talents and funnel them into feeder teams to prepare them for MLS or European leagues. Also the “pay to play” system needs to be eliminated.
Northern Thai Garden Guy a
Northern Thai Garden Guy The relegation/promotion tiered system is completely foreign to the US as we have no sports that work that way. The countries that really embrace association football usually have at least one if not more. They have grown up with a system like this. Here in the US, try to get a city to pay the millions of dollars to open a franchise knowing that in a few years there is a real risk of it suddenly becoming a minor league team. It won't happen. But I don't think that is what generates quality players. Or at least not the main reason. Soccer's low popularity here and competing sports is one of the main problems. Creating phenoms is a numbers and culture game. We have the numbers, but the genetic freaks get wrapped up in American football instead of soccer. If not for that, we would probably already be producing top-flight players, but that requires a cultural shift.
Uhhh, Iceland doesn't even have a professional league so wtf does that have to do with relegation making them better???
Says the one who calls their sport Football and play it with their hands. Lmfao
@@Kayodoms nope it is 11 inch , a foot is 12 inch so yeah this makes no sense
Um, the name of the American game has absolutely NOTHING to do with the length of the ball.
@@aldindorafiarnan119 No idiot. You dont make sense. It is called basketball as the ball is put into a 'basket'.
@@KBShow-bw4lj It used to be taller European
dont really care for rugby, dont call it soccer its a crime tbh, football is the real name
Soccer ⚽
@@nope6908 para 300 millones de estados unidos y canadienses tal vez, el resto del mundo sabe cuál es tu verdadero nombre
Soccer
@@arturobustinza6265 still soccer lmao
More Americans bought tickets to the 2018 World Cup than any nation other than Russia, and that's without the U.S. even qualifying for this World Cup
Vance Lawrence bs
FAKEEEEEEEE
Actually you were 5th behind Germany but still ahead of England who just sucks at Football keep watching other countries because damn you suck at Football at least the US have the Women’s team who dominate in the WC Germany & Belgium will always be better than England
She’s really good and explains it well, the BBC should hire her more often.
There are so many gifted, hardworking athletes in the US, they would have done great if they dedicated themselves to the world football. But they already have their own sports they enjoy. It’s not a problem.
America runs the Olympics and does well in Ice Hockey too.
The moment the next Tom Brady chooses soccer instead of American football the US will begin to be a powerhouse.
@@AlexRN crazy u say that, as tom bradys son Jack says he loves soccer and wants to be either a pro soccer player or swimmer
Short people can play soccer so there's that.
Messi: 5"7
Maradona: 5"5
Pelé: 5"5
On this planet , Football was, is and will remain the greatest game forever. ⚽🎊🎉🍻
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Yeah! I love soccer! It doesn't matter what it's called, we all love the game equally! :D
@@donovandempsey-jones1702 we definitely don't love it equally,all true football fans find the name soccer really stupid and don't give but the English invented the word because I supposed they invented English aswell
“It’s a goal-den opportunity”
That ruined the whole video!
Nope it's not...i love when she said that
Simple answer is because they aren't the best at it, America usually dominate the Olympic medals table but when you think of the best footballing nation they're nowhere near the conversation. The best players in the world don't go to play in the MLS, they're going to go to La Liga, Serie A, the Bundesliga or the Premier League because Europe has way more of a footballing culture.
Andy Benji we're not the best cause our best athletes don't give a shit about it, if they practiced it since birth like other countries athletes do we would be.
Lmao, you guy's are really stuck up your own ass. Have you thought about the other side of the medal? 90% or more of the people in Europe play soccer, at a high or low level. All the left over athletes go to the other sports. If the participation was more spread, US wouldn't even dominate their own sports. You can take a look at big global team sports, like cricket, rugby, soccer, handbal, volleybal, field hockey etc. The US isn't a factor there, because there is to much competition.
Andy Benji
they went to MLS when they were about to retire... its just too much competition in Europe
Andy Benji The best players anywhere in any sport play where the sport is the biggest. If you have a great American soccer player, he's most likely going to play in Europe, just like any great European hockey player is going to play in Canada or the US. The sport they play is always going to be weaker back home, for that reason, which is why soccer can't take off in the US.
On the positive note stadiums in the USA are not filled with racist fascist making racist chants at players of colour like they do in Europe
PLEASANTGIFFT mate that literally never happens
Are you reading Buzzfeed LoL SJW
I imagine you cried shouting that trump will destroy the world in ww3, cringey sjw
We also don't have fans come on the field to punch the players. You know what that says? Nobody is afraid of SOCCER players. LMAO imagine someone trying to punch JJ Watt.
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She say "you are not allowed to call it soccer" and then whole video keeps calling Football soccer......
Tons of people care about soccer, it’s just we have shitty academies/programs to develop players
JmanGaming why have Shiite academies when you make it 100x harder for a player to make it in the big time,you should look to promote the game for America by Americans with American talent,academies and trials made for Fitch white kids are the reason why soccer is taking in the u.s
its called football not soccer
Francisco Soveral Sorry to offend you mate 😌
Francisco Soveral get over it.
JmanGaming We don’t have shitty academy’s its just that most academy’s only want money, they don’t care about the good players thats why US soccer players suck
NFL viewing is going down year to year. Soccer, as we call it here in the US, is growing exponentially. I love it. I really could care less about footballs and the worst sport ever baseball.
Shred City why you called baseball as worst ever sport
Idiot shut up and fucked up if you not like sport than you have no right hurt someone who like that sport which you hate
Baseball is life
Shred City lacrosse will sooner be the next big American sport before soccer is even muttered under the breath of any major broadcasting network
Soccer: 90 minutes of running and no scoring
Football: an hour of concussions
Its the reason soccer will never grow in the US.
walios hiramilus soccer is so huge because of English imperialism and because all you need is a ball and 2 cones to play.
walios hiramilus its the same with football do you know how many hours i cried for when the cowboys lost to the eagles? No you don't and you shouldn't because thats weird but i was being roasted so bad by bandwagons you don't how it feels i said the score would be 35-7 before the game but it all went wrong.
British play: Football and cricket
Americans: Fuck their sport, we will invent our new, Baseball and American football.
so wat is ur point
Baseball wsa invented in England
The real Football is the one you play using your feet and a ball.
Demian Collazo soccer for some people
3:00 My new favourite sport right there...
I see what you did there
That sport has to be the most American thing I ever seen.
timmy D ahahah
no.20
I mean most Americans don’t even know that it exists...
Soccer is love, especially in Europe
Plus mls is growing a lot with fans in america
Its easy to grow when you're nowhere.
what is soccer??
soundofprice if your not joking right now then I have no words
what is soccer
Raging Gamer Here it is llife and death
I feel bad for Americans Imagine growing up watching American football . Depressing
I’m not a sports guy. I like to play soccer(football). I don’t like football(soccer)
Honestly, American football is a pretty cool sport once you learn the rules and in many parts of the US, football is a religion
@@metrofilmer8894 no passion whatsoever
@@Max-kq2jp all sports have passion lol just look at the cults and riots
@@nope6908 wtf is that
Honestly I didn't knew for many years that USA even had a football team for FIFA world cup.
I hope that the BBC doesn't think that any country whose most popular sport _isn't_ soccer is "missing out", because it's the case not only in the United States. Japan and Taiwan are head over heels in baseball, Canada has ice hockey, South Asia has cricket, Oceania has rugby, etc. Please, BBC, SOCCER =/= MASTER SPORT.
But football is still very popular in Japan , Canada, and South Asia. By the way, Taiwan is not even a country
@@mjatonyperry8508 Canada and the USA both call it Soccer and it's on the same level in both places. Some names and teams are somewhat relevant cultural but it's seen as a children's game to develop into playing "real sports"
@@mjatonyperry8508 Taiwan is literally a country but ok
Philippines are basketball country… only south east Asia country doesn’t like football
Im from the country that knocked the us out
Lol
hehe
Matthew Swiss you want a medal?
Matthew Swiss trash talking the united states you get a worthless medal here ya go. But we got the greatest country in the world medal.
The Combine i rather be retarded than have trump running my country
Can’t believe the bbc would air something like this 🤦🏽♂️
Why
The BBC are a great waste of space . They are as thick as thieves. More so when it comes to football.
In American football we don't have fake injurys unlike British football
Yeah u got real head injuries that makes u unable to think straight lol.
American football= same thing in all matches with different players.
Football= use of the entire pitch and use of skills, hardcore defence and attack, crazy foreign commentators and game hype when player shoots at goal
Baltimore Ravens xd you salty and just commenting to fight cause that's the only thing you know how to do and therefore like watching other dumb people right and also tackle
Lol can we just all get along? Both sports have their own merits I think American football has some great flair players I love watching Julio Jones for E.G. And the stereotype of diving is overplayed it happens just not that much and it annoys everyone anyway
Baltimore Ravens the final score is always 0-0
Soccer can end in a tie, while American football also can, soccer ends in a tie WAY TOO MUCH.
hence why amerian football is more popular
American football is boring. Play for 30 seconds. Stand around for 10 minutes. Play 15 second. Stand around for 5 minutes. It's not high scoring either, the numbers are high because a touchdown is 7 points.
obviously you have never played, so your opinion is moot
no a touchdown is 6 points. it's only 7 points with the extra point that is kicked into the goal. just shows how ignorant you are of the sport. standing 30 seconds of play and stand around for 10 minutes? what the hell are you talking about
yep i think it's on average 11 minutes of action and the rest is commericals. Shit sport.
I’ve played that shit and i dont know what is the most borring egghand or baseball.Football rules the entire world , 🇺🇸USA sucks
You don't know what you're taking about.
“We have big players”
Shows a 6’2 guy
Average American football players are 6’2
@@saucyisawesome And most centre backs are at least 6'2
@@samhirst2830 that’s good. You’re going to need to be tall to win headers.
@@samhirst2830 But is there any players as big as 6’7 360lbs playing soccer
@@juancapurro7499 Obese
The only way to make them care about football “soccer” is if they win the world cup or something, but that will never happen.
Edit: I mean the men team
Mal Mal or if they have a player that is globally famous. The most famous one now is Pulisic, but I haven’t seen him for a while
Sorry sir but it's Called *World Cup*
@@ticluna5295 Clint Dempsey also
@@workspaceofduc Tim Howard, Landon Donovan
Well the US could win the World Cup EVERY TIME IT HAPPENS, it still wouldn't make it close to replacing American Football in the US. Most Americans could care less about it at all, probably don't even realize when it's happening.
Soccer in U.S is not going to grow until they actually have good leagues and a good national team
Learn from mexico
Cállese cagajo
@@tucaferreti8848 even tho mexico is a fan of futbol/soccer it is still very corrupt and poor people dont have the opportunity to play or go pro
stop crying kid
Team Handball as in the Olympics has a 100% growth rate. They went from 100 players to 200 players. Phenomenal! America's fastest growing sport!
Lies again? MLS NFL
Americans have their own version of handball not the European one your thinking of
I DONT CARE WHAT 300 MILLION PEOPLE SAY, compared to the billion of football lovers world wide
England:scout
Mexico:scout
France:scout
America: and that will be $1000 dollars please
What?
NFL is trying to push American Football onto the UK,. While Wembley Stadium's a sellout and the games get the primetime slot, it's not at all succeeding. Schoolchildren don't play it, the average Brit don't watch it, it's not promoted outside central London, and the spectators include American expats, the niche European fanbases, and people who just want an novelty experience. That's not a lot of people considering that there's only a few games a year in all of Europe. Out of all the team sports popular in USA, basketball has the most potential in the UK. The games focus mostly on the sport and played by by both sexes, so it's more interesting, and as it's an indoor sport, it's different to what there is in the UK.
Basketball is a fun sport, and is already pretty big in the uk, we can all agree all of our high school sports halls have a basketball net
The beauty of football is that if you happen to be big or small you can still be world class whereas in basketball American football you can have all the talent in the world but if you’re not 6”3+ or built like a brick shithouse then your chance of playing top level are almost impossible. You could be the most talented player in your school system but then be overlooked purely because your teammates outgrow you.
It's a suprisingly simple answer, we are just not as interested in soccer as other sports. It's just a culture thing at the end of the day. Nothing wrong with that.
In Usa if football football was famous instead american football of it would be bigger than any european league
@@dppd3721 Maybe true. But our culture is just different and has no interest in being the best at soccer unless it's the Olympics or someone gets far in the world cup. Other than that, not too many people love Soccer/football here. American Football,Basketball, and Baseball are very ingrained in our culture. Hockey is very popular in the midwest too. Soccer leagues need to work on their marketing.
Ahora (2024), ha crecido el fútbol ⚽ en USA? Viene el mundial 2026, hay entusiasmo?
The issue is that many studies have shown that soccer/football players have minor concussions and also have cte from heading the ball
jimmy neutron Shut the fuck up
America likes to play there own sports.
The world. America.
Football Basketball
Rugby NFL
F1 Nascar
Cricket Baseball
Tennis Hockey
Yankee's don't worry we will come and take over your sports just like we're already doing in mma and boxing.
Waywen Dukin You'd have to force your best athletes away from the sports y'all love in order to do so, so no.
I use to love the Premier league, until it went PC route like NBA/ NFL / , all overpaid tools to keep the sheeple occupied and fighting over useless sports rather than say , a controlled invasion in Europe , by our treasonous sellout selected officials. Do your own research and come to your own conclusions folks
Omg. Almost nobody in Germany plays Rugby or Cricket (which does not mean that nobody plays it, but it is not so popular).
Formula One is a thing here in Germany, but in my opinion it is pretty boring.
Please talk for yourselves, and not for the entire world because you do many things different than the rest of Europe. It starts with your currency.
VieleGuteFahrer
Bro I'm just saying these sports are more worldwide and Americans only play among the themselves, I didn't say every single country in the world plays these sports
Waywen Dukin Still...
The way we view soccer is the problem. When i was around eleven i played soccer for a while and i remember my dad telling me after practice one day "isn't it about time you started playing a real sport?" when i was growing up at least it was perceived as a sport for women so if you where a man playing soccer you got made fun of.
i really hope that perception changes. it would be nice to compete internationally with a male and female soccer team, but i don't think it's gonna happen anytime soon there is just not enough interest.
If has someone has the determination skills that it takes to be a professional athlete and make a national team, I really doubt their dad saying that is going to stop them.
@vaggelis marinakis I don't know about that. i can only really give anecdotal. But as far as i can see, it's UFC, NHL, NFL. American's like contact sports or sports that give them a shot of Adrenalin like Bull Riding.
"Football" in America.
BARELY uses the foot.
Not even a ball.
Should be called "Handegg".
It's used a fair amount and it doesn't resemble a egg. A egg has a round bottom and a pointier tip but still round while this has 2 points and laces unlike a egg but the football is also dark brown eggs aren't dark brown they are white to dark brown and we kick the ball a fair amount maybe 30 times a game and there are only 150 plays so a fifth of the time and we use our arms when we run with the football not our hands
@@patrickhiggins5970 Facts.
There are a few really football (/soccer) cities in the US:
Portland, Seattle, the Kansas Cities, Atlanta, Minneapolis and Philadelphia. And Cincinnati. And it's growing.
LA an much of California it’s self
All Democrat places with a bunch of illegals
you shouldn't include Canada on that red map. we preferred rugby football too. The first written rules for hockey were adapted from rugby football rules too.
DarthSchwartz Canada has CFL. I'm in California, but my classmates and I also recently started taking interest in it (also recently started NFL to be fair). I streamed the Tiger-Cats v Stampeders. Great stuff.
Maybe in Toronto soccer is dominant, but Canada does still prefer gridiron. In the prairies the CFL is maybe as popular as ever. Canadians watch/follow NFL too, maybe even more so than CFL. The Portugal/France Euro final averaged 2.4 million viewers in Canada. Grey Cup 2017 averaged 3.9 million, and the Super Bowl usually gets double that.
Also TFC plays twice as many home games as CFL teams, so total attendance isnt really an apples to apples comparison. TFC's average attendance this season was 27 647. The Saskatchewan Roughriders, who were terrible the first half of the season, averaged 32 762.
These soccer communists just make up fake statistics. They don't care about the truth.
@@lukestrachan3677I wouldn’t say that soccer is dominant in Toronto. It might be more popular than elsewhere, but that’s mainly because there are so many immigrants in Toronto. Soccer is not popular at all among Torontonians who are born in Canada, including among the children of immigrants.
Haha the U.S didn’t even make it to the 2018 World Cup
We Americans are happy because we didn't qualify.
User name Jokes on you most Americans don't care or cry about it like Brazil and other nations. We'll beat all of you in Olympic medals in the winter and summer. Soon enough we'll take over soccer. We already have a lot of talented Blacks, Whites, Hispanics, Polynesians and Asians going into sports like UFC, NHL, PGA, BOXING, NFL, NBA, MLB, Tennis and the Olympics. Plus we still have enough talent to go into Soccer. Talk about talented country. Hands down we are a country who excels in a lot of sports and who stands at the top of a lot of sports. Besides cricket, rugby and soccer. What happens when USA starts taking Soccer seriously? What happens when we start getting really good. You're laughing now, but don't cry when we start taking over your favorite sport.
hooollllyyyy s h i t why are you sooo maaad
Seriously, why?
And of course you have a lot of talented people- you have 323.1 million people in your country. There better be talented people at sports.
But the thing is, as you said, most of those talented people aren't native Americans, they are "Blacks, Whites, Hispanics, Polynesians and Asians"...
Digital W H I T E F A C E " soon enough we'll take over soccer ", but u didnt qualify for the world cup and lost against a shit team LOL, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN MY ASS
ItsSuffian Dude we could care less. We beat every country in a lot more sports, where are you from? We aren't pansies like you soccer fans, who cry for not making it to the world cup.
I live in the UK, go watch my Tottenham every week. But American football is such a good sport. People are just ignorant to it
I have played both sports, I respect both sports. But lets be honest, those who say that football (soccer) is easy are likely Americans or have never played in Europe or South America (the fouls are often).
The amazing thing is that Soccer is played in every corner of the WORLD, other sports are just local and even thou, they play SOCCER TOO. You know what is weird, why they call it football, i it is played with the hands?????????
The reason why it doesn't succeed yet is because the best youth soccer players are usually rich kids.
Maybe in the West Coast is easy to find soccer fields, but a lot harder in the East Coast.
rachelmcadamslover yeah the youth system is set up for wealthy kids
well that' d be really weird, since football is a poor mans game, all you need is a ball basically, and so many great players come from poor backgrounds (like brasilian ghettos)
Exactly the best rich kids get on the best teams. Some kids get scouted but not everyone can get that opportunity. Football is a poor mans sport all over the word but in America their football is a poor mans sport.
I mean the youth system in the US
Kuba Polaczek poor mans sport your a dumbass gear cost more than your gay ass socks
And remember...America is not a country, it is a continent
Who is in 2020 when is have a lot of talent including pulisic, dest and mcKennie
Watch hockey and then you'll understand why Americans don't like soccer. Hockey has finesse like soccer but also the physicality of our football.
What is she talking about? The Us made it in Group L along with Chile, Italy, and the Netherlands
Miguel Orozco drugs ?
Oh yeah sorry my bad
L for Left Out?
JonnyTainment yeah 😂
Hard group
we do not care. let us play what we want and we let you play what you want.
No
Umm you brought the estimated of football in america if you bring up worldwide that 13 billion dollars would not even be something
Will the world ever care if they care about it.
I am a brazillian, love the sport and was happy with you guys trying to spread the word
BUUUT
not cool quote the study about the brain injury without context, the brains that were studied wasn't from a random group, they were already brains that they thought had injuries, shame
Gabriel ND
I love football, go Ravens, but the game is horrible for the human brain. It is what it is. Football people need to figure out equipment and rule changes to make the game safer or American football won't last another generation. I'm not going to let my kids play and I played.
William Levy
My earliest ancestor to what would become the United States immigrated to Maryland in 1650. Attacking the game is not attacking our identity it is caring for our fellow citizens at this point. Why are you so sensitive about the subject? You aren't even one of us.
Gabriel ND Yeah, obviously you don't get diseases which come from getting kicked in the head too much from getting kicked in the head...idiot
Its football not soccer
It's soccer, get over it.
@@Grimpmann should be called sucker
American Eggball vs Football
I’d you look at an egg though, it’s shape is closer to a sphere(or association football) than it is an to the shape of an American football
One of the main reasons the 2014 received more mainstream attention because of the favourable time zone.
Short answer:No
Juan Martinez Yes
We already do. It's just that USSF discriminates against those of us who do. US Soccer's entire goal is to keep us mediocre to protect NFL (which basically owns US Soccer). We have several million kids playing pickup soccer in SoCal who don't get scouted, because US Soccer only scouts rich white kids playing "elite" club soccer or college soccer which is really just an extremely physical soccer-like competition.
Americans love the Queen? I'm going to have to call shananigans on that. We had a war about that. Two of them.
Juan Martinez short answer:fuck off
Short answer. You're wrong.
Why do Americans call a brown egg that hold in your hand "Football"?
I love football (soccer). It was simple, you never hurt your head or back at the end of the days
You never hurt yourself? You didnt play competetive
Cuz the sport is soft💀. Football has a 100% injury rate, this is why top players earn more than anyone else in the world. This is the closest sport we have to the gladiator fights of rome
@@purpleirklegrovestreet I have forgot I made this comment. Football can be painful, from the leg to head, but isn't like this.
I have an experience with American football lol, and I tend to enjoy football more not because it being a "soft" sport or whatever you like to call it
@Rehan Choudry lmao, if anyone is feeling anyone up, it is 100% ur little soccer players with their died hair and booty shorts. I know u european ‘men’ are very in touch with your feminine side, but in america, we act like actual men. And I never watch soccer and know nothing about it, but u seem to know alot about football, shows which truly draws more interest. The only reason football isnt big outside of america is because america is the only country that its “trendy” to hate on, yet u people come trying to move here in droves💀💀
@@youwantmyname9208 english please
In the US the following sports are ahead of soccer in popularity: Football, Baseball, Basketball, and ice hockey. It would take a lot for soccer to pass those four sports. College Football is also ahead of soccer as well, and is wildly popular.
what is soccer
"It's a *goal*-den opportunity."
Take it away, Peter.
**Peter Griffin tries to strike his baseball, but misses**
Peter: Aw, your joke wasn't good enough.
Ok, I'll leave..
Thanks for the vid I wrote an essay on this vid
Real Football is confusing for Americans