Urban dictionary said it best: 'The Beautiful Game' can be played anywhere, on almost any surface, by any number of players, for almost any length of time. And is. There is no country on earth that doesn't play. It has inspired more passion, more courage and more excitement than any other sport in history and dwarfs everything else. Football is, without question, the defining sporting activity of the human race.
Football is a universal language. I vividly remember a random guy kicking a ball in the middle of my university's square. More and more people joined, barely anyone spoke the same language but we all had fun in a little kick-about. Anyone can join in and have fun.
@@drrd4127 I can't fully agree with that. It's rare to find a sport that is so easily accessible. Most other sports require special equipment to experience the sport. Basketball needs a hoop, tennis needs rackets, cricket/baseball needs bats. With football, all you need is pretty much just a football - you can make goals with piles of coats, bags, bottles or even using chalk on a stone wall.
It's the most accessible out of all the sports anybody of any race any socio economic class any height build can play it's accessibility makes it more marketable to a mass audience not to mention it's the only sport that's played on all six continents and in the islands
Well-explained. Football at its core is the most simple sports in the world. That's why almost everyone, even those with physical disabilities, can enjoy it. Another reason is because it's a team sport so you get to enjoy it with other people.
I wouldn't say it's the simplest sport, that title belongs to track athletics which boil down to 'run'. I'd say it's about as simple as a game can be to allow for complexity in outcome to arise.
@@ferretchad And also, the fact that feet are used for both move around the field and kick the ball, means that there's a factor of dexterity that doesn't happen if the game was played with the hands (i.e. handball), which would be a "more obvious" ball game.
I live in the philippines and basketball is the most favorite sport of the people here but when i was a kid our school didnt have a basketball court and people didnt bring balls to our school so we played football with a bottle filled with rocks, the kids didnt know how to properly play football all we knew was you had a ball and you had to kick it to the other side of the area where we played. It ended up kinda resembling a football game with a keeper and strikers and defenders, crazy stuff. So i really do believe that this is one of the beauties of the game, you can play it everywhere with anything.
In a nation where cricket is a religion, and a state where football is non existent in small towns, once i introduced to my friends. Couple of days later there were 20-30 people calling their friends and playing the game. The ground was earlier used for cricket and cricket only but then there were bricks used as goal posts on either end. But unfortunately, it was during a time when high school ended, all of them moved on to different cities for education and the game died there in the town.
@@crazyforcoffee5950your statement is like : Why are there still conflicts between islam and islam or even christian and christian ; Everything have conflicts in it.
I was transfer student back then in elementary. Hard to adjust to new school life, friends and environment. But once the football game played in school yard, I just jumped into it and scored a goal. This beautiful game really helped me being accepted in new school.
Another reason is that skill and a certain amount of cleverness and required to play the game at a high level. Many other sports place an over-reliance on physical qualities and brute force. This makes soccer athletically democratic, so to speak.
Erm not really, for a ball game basketball requires much more skill and finesse and for sports in general skating requires muuuuch more skill vs physical ability in comparison to football
@@dodgydave1053if I were to compare these sports like you did, I'd have to say that football has people with highest skill level among other sports. It is because it's the most popular one, and that, if we assume that people in every sport try their best and achieve their maximum performance level, means that the most skilled athlete is probably a football player. But there is another factor - the importance of skill. And in that regard it is also football that is amongst the most skill dependent sports because it's a game. But even between basketball and football, which are both games, football is clearly more dependent on skill due to it's strategical complexity.
Kind of linked to accessibility: Football is, traditionally, a working person’s sport. In lots of countries it’s played predominantly by “poorer” people, for the reasons mentioned, and we’ve heard loads of stories of pros having first kicked a ball made out of bags tied up with laces or something. Golf and tennis can be diluted down as well, to a lesser extent (get the he ball in the 🕳) but there is an exclusivity to them and you need a designated space. That’s where class comes in. Many people don’t have access to a tennis court, even fewer have their own one. Everyone has a ball and some space.
Tennis is difficult to dilute. That's really a sport that requires courts and racquets (of some sort), and the balls can't get too old or else they're virtually useless. You could use other sorts of balls, but that makes things harder. Golf is conceptually easier to dilute, but still isn't great. Even basketball needs a hoop of some sort, volleyball needs a high net. Cricket needs a lot, rugby's too rough and big for a street sport, so you come to see that only football and perhaps handball are really so accessible. And for whatever reason, handball isn't that popular. But that's probably down to excitement.
Couple of bricks as goal posts.. Anywhere to play.. I remember playing on the street.. Paved streets on late hours when cars are scarce.. I even played in corridors in apartment buildings.. You didn't even need a ball.. A tennis ball.. A plastic bag full of old clothes.. Even a small roundish rock or a bottle cap.. You make friends and enemies around your block.. Such a beautiful sport
Brilliant video. Reminds me of when we used to play on the streets when I was younger, we'd lose track of time and get a whooping from our parents when we got home. There were no phones back then so you'd grab a ball, we take off our shoes and go play. Sometimes if we didnt have a ball. We'd steal some plastic bags, put a handful of sand into one (that would make the first layer) and wrap as many as we can to make a ball and play until it was tattered. I remember when I get older, my parents would get me the Fifa/Nike/Adidas Size 3 ball. I was a King in the neighborhood. I remember how I lost the first 3. One landed in a yard with 3 dogs; they tore it up, Second was run over by a car and one was stolen when I took it to school. Football holds some dear childhood memories. This was around 20 years ago and my father and father in law tell me about their footballing escapades back in their day!
At its core it's really just three rules 1. You have a ball 2. You can't touch it with your hands 3. Who scores more goals wins It's so mindbogglingly simple. American sports, for the most part, have these weird rules and starts-and-stops that they're essentially institutionalized.
American sports have too many commercial breaks depending on the person that can be annoying football is pretty straightforward and not super long 90 minutes
In both codes of Rugby Football the objective is also quite simple get the ball across the white line on the other side of the pitch or kick the ball between the posts. Most of the rules are fairly simple: pass backwards, no tackling above a certain area of the body, releass the ball when tackled and your tackler or tacklers must release you, no eye gouging, tripping up etc, do not knock the ball on, or make it go into touch.
Once again, another lovely video addressing a simple, yet complex, topic. Been following Tifo Football for over a year now; hoping to see the fellas start a 'Tifo Baseball' channel - I am pretty sure the viewership is out there.
I finished growing up watching the NFL and since I started watching multiple sports, Football/soccer is just about to take the number 1 spot, only difference is I live in the U.S and I have Way more people to talk NFL about that soccer, most people I work with can’t understand how popular soccer is world wide
It’s the same here in Australia where AFL and NRL are king. Nobody talks about soccer unless it’s the World Cup. I’m a rugby union fan and soccer to me is a wussy sport
When I was a kid we liked basketball better, but there were limited playgrounds with hoops, which were usually occupied by older kids or even adults, so we mostly played football.
I never thought of that with basketball. I guess in the US you don't because there are hoops everywhere. Multiple ones at parks, playgrounds, schools, people's houses, and when in a pinch monkey bars or some trash cans will do.
@@joeleuer1842beside hoops, you need a ball that can bounce well, while in football all most any kind of ball can be used, When i was a kid it was a litte hard to buy a standard football ball, so we played with plastic ball, rubber ball and even volley ball (volleyball were popular in my place that time)
The accessibility of football is certainly one part of it, but I feel that the reason why association football specifically the #1 game in the world has a lot to do with how association football was popular in the UK during the 1800s-1900s and the British empire and trading network took that around the world. The number of prominent clubs founded in places like Italy, South America and elsewhere by ex-pat Brits shows this. So, football became global as the first sport to really become so, and then things like global radio and then TV embedded that. The accessibility aspect is probably why football gained prominence in places that were merely connected to rather than part of the Empire - see how the prominent nations in rugby and cricket both correspond pretty closely to the commonwealth to this day (with a few exceptions) and theres maybe a class element there - guys working on ships are more likely to play football, and a pick up gamer on the dock side is more likely to get locals involved and hooked but posher folk putting down roots in their colonies are more likely to establish cricket/rugby clubs etc. Similarly, those sports that developed in the US ended up being stuck there during the period of US isolationism before WW1 and by the time they could gain a wider audience, football was already established elsewhere (and in general, is more accessible so why change?)
which is weird, im filipino and normally i hear people argue the reason we don't play football or its not as popular here is because we barely have space or its not as acessible. weird reasoning.
@jmgonzales7701 I guess if you don't already have parks/pitches it's not so easy in an urban environment. I'd guess basketball is the go-to then? Probably the team game needing thr least space.
A sport that truly tests your athletic ability and doesn’t give you a break in any sort of way makes for great entertainment compared to many sports that are diluted with way more commercials
I guess in your specific community the percentage of people who were alive and watched it is even higher than in the entire Population. We are here for our love of football and your amazing content regarding that topic after all.
You forgot the most kicked football of modern times, the humble paper covered in parcel tape football. This football at some point has some how made its way into every work place in the World.
In school we used to use a tin foil ball from our sandwiches and we'd play some panna, and when I was at home I'd use my dog's toys for a little kick around, as the living room and dining room linked with an arch. The dining table was the goal 🤣
One important aspect not mentioned is about entertainment. I watch many sports games in different places. Football is immensely entertaining as game with different aspects of play: Goalkeeping, defending, dribbling, attacking, etc. It is not like motorsport or tennis.
When i was young we were so broke we had a hard time finding money for food. I would play after school until sunset outside with my friends right next to a trash dump, we didnt care that we had a a hill and being on top was a major advantage. Now i still own a fancy world cup ball even though i havent played in years, just cause football means so much to me and the fact that i can buy this ball now ans feel proud of where i came from. Football is more than just a game.
Accessibility and team ethos are the dual important things here. They can speak to the aspirations of people around the world, as anyone with talent in football can get some chance of success/glory. With golf, tennis, horse racing or rugby you can't get the same feeling.
which is weird, im filipino and normally i hear people argue the reason we don't play football or its not as popular here is because we barely have space or its not as acessible. weird reasoning.
There's only one language barrier. When the most avid British and American fans talk to each other about it using only words coined in England. Let the fun commence.
In Football you dont need a partner or other people to play with, you can just play alone just you and the ball anywhere in the world, you see thats the beauty of it
Great video brings back some of my favorite childhood memories!Me and my friends used to make balls of plastic bags and kick them and we would sometimes play in the local tennis court since there was no field
Some of my fondness memories ever are playing football with my classmates between classes or when the teacher was late. We would just push all the chairs to the sides, two chairs on each end of the classroom were the goal. 2v2, winner stays on and the ball was made out of paper and tape. That was it. Simple. But it would get crowded by people from other classes. Just waiting for you to lose so they get a chance to play. You had to be alert because an inspector may be around and would take the ball. You had to be quick to get all the chairs in order and start drying your uniform all messed up from the sweat under the fan on the ceiling. Good old days.
the beauty of football is its simplicity of the game,just take the ball,kick the ball.and it is affordable game for poor people.and another factor is its short duration of the game.
Futbol is the world’s sport because you don’t need to be the biggest or tallest to play it. All you need is skills and passion. Just a ball ⚽️ find a net and shoot. No need for fancy gear. Futbol is the most inclusive sport from a poor man’s country to a rich man.
When I was very young- I didn’t get it while other kids darted around the playground. When I was 11 I was the smallest, skinniest kid blown away on a full size pitch and the last to be picked in the team. But when my love for the game emerged outside of trying to play it, and away from that social hierarchy- I relaxed, enjoyed expressed myself and even scored a few on my left peg. I’m now 47. Did try a bit of seven a side pre covid infection and was roasted despite the cries of man on. No matter, I’ve got good memories of playing some matches- but even better ones of talking a good game.
My neighbors and I used to play it in the vacant lots behind our houses. We'd be cleaning the place in the spring when all those weeds started popping out and in the fall, right after my uncle harvested his corn or wheat we would be playing in his crop field. Pick-up football games were my childhood entertainment.
To simplify this sport It can be played by anyone anywhere no matter the numbers or the field side. We all got potential and can show our own creativity
I think along with this, the sensation of kicking a ball is (for whatever reason) a far more enjoyable sensation than most others…your feet *are* the bat, the club, the racket.
It's ironic that here in India people prefer to play Cricket rather than football while playing in a confined space. And almost every house here has a bat. Cricket played on streets is called Gully Cricket, but there is no gully football. So, you don't need to be simple in order to become most popular sport in any region, all you need is cultural acceptance. Despite being extremely long and difficult to understand game, cricket in India has become a parallel religion.
its because of culture. Same goes here in the Philippines, a lot will say we cant play football because we don't have that much space or its inaccessible. Football wouldn't be the most popular sport in the world if its inaccessible. You can play football in the streets like what we do with basketball, You don't need a big field or anything. PLus in the metro areas sure there are less space but in the province there is plenty of farm fields to play with yet you would see the people make makeshift rims and paste it on a tree just to play basketball. Simply cultural and if there is a will there is a way. FIlipinos like fast paced action scoring it is why we like boxing, MMA, volleyball (for women mostly) and basketball because it gives you fasy entertainment. Heck if Americans taught us American NFL football i personally think we would enjoy it as well.
@@monsieur1936 well to be fair football is played mostly by more richer folks. The working class plays basketball, but ofc that is not the rule. Many workinh class people still play football but basketball is the most dominant sport. I have a indian-filipino friend he was the one who introduced football to me.
@@jmgonzales7701 I never heard about basketball being played as a dominant sport outside of America. Glad to know that. Even in India you can find distinctions mostly among the states, like eastern and north eastern states play football more than cricket meanwhile wrestling and hockey is popular in some Northern States. Cricket however is a sport which is played by rich to poor everyone, both in City and countryside. However most of the cricket legends are from select few cities like Mumbai and Delhi.
Can you do a documentary on the San Marino national football team (football's biggest underdogs) and their never-ending struggle in international football. Loving the content ❤
i would argue nfl style football is even more simple, problem is the gear which involves padding and helmet. But carrying a ball to the other end is more simple than having to kick a goal.
The thing about different physiques is what I really like. I don't like how the most popular sports in America require peoplr to be freaks of nature just to be an average player. In football, size can be an advantage but the majority of players are abot average if slightly above height, and someone like Messi can be the best in the world at an average stature
I think it is simply that comercialized, that it is brought to every corner of the world. Once it's there it will grow, as more and more will notice it. I know its a somewhat less optimistic and peace-and-love theory, but thats not a falsification yet.
When I was in hostel we used to play putting clothes and paper inside a socks and play the game. Hours and hours were spent playing it. We even used to get punished for playing but it was all fine.
Same here and im sure we are not from the same country or region, the Game is the game every where, it finds expression in all frlorms across different cultures
Bruh if there were 7.6 billion people on earth (I think it was closer to 7.7) during the 2018 world cup... there will be 8 billion people on earth for the next one. That's a scary amount of population growth. ~100 million people a year being added.
The simplicity is what makes it amazing. And to digress a bit, that's why Pool is way more popular than Snooker. Snooker players are more technically gifted than pool players, but the fact that any drunkard in a bar can take a cue and start shooting balls in fairly sized pockets makes pool more popular.
Simply availability and ease of play. There are way more exciting sports out there that just don’t have a large following because of the barrier of entry *cough* hockey. A poorer country is never going to enjoy a game where you need to maintain a surface of ice and spend $1500-$2500 on gear.
it is a simple sport because you need a ball, but at the same time it is extremely difficult to be a successful player, a child already has to come with talent from the base or else he will just be an ordinary player, at the same time that it is simple it is extremely difficult millions try to be players and they can't, it's a dream of all children where football dominates, but millions don't succeed, it's very sad.
been an Arsenal fan for almost 2 decades now. Give me anything last minute goals, 25 yard screamers, red cards nothing and say absolutely nothing in football could ever come close to a nail bitting last ball thrilling finish in cricket.
Agree 💯 it's the best sport in my opinion and the only sport where fans get emotionally involved eg crying having meltdowns idk I could never get into any other sport outside of football
Because you don't need to be a hulking giant (American football), a skinny giant (basketball), or live at the North Pole (hockey) to play. And relegation adds quite a bit of spice to the whole thing. Baseball just sucks.
as a baseball fan, i agree with you tho. Too much problems at my sport to the point in thinking why im doing this. Sometimes, I'm watching highlights of football games like world cup, epl, or bundesliga. Im also researching on how pro/rel and domestic tournaments works.
Looking at it from a birds eye view it’s no surprise Futbol is as big as it is. You don’t need a rule book or have it explained to you that the goal of the game is to get the ball in the net using your feet. It’s accessible and easy to understand at face value. Combine it with the fact that damn near every major country in the world has its own league and you get why it’s the biggest sport of all time.
Hello tifo soccer good video I wanted to ask you something and it's about why you don't make a channel of yours but with Spanish dubbing? I am Hispanic and I like your videos. And the truth is that you would do a great favor to your Hispanic subscribers, there are many interesting topics, thanks. If you are wondering how I can write to you in English, it is because I am using the translator
Because it's a poor people sport and most of the world is poor. And most of the audience are poor people who love to drink and act crazy. Also, big money are involved to promote it and make fields and coaching facilities.
Couldn’t agree more. Not being a snob, I’m not wealthy at all but the game is boring, repetitive and overrated. it’s only popular because it’s the only game poor people are exposed to.
@@crazyforcoffee5950 Yeah, and the sport of masses. And masses are easy to control and sell tickets to because they are lots of people. They big companies used lots of money to make this sport as popular as can be so that they could make tons of money.
@@Sora_3347 I didn't call any country rich or poor lol you didn't read correctly. I said the poor layers are most involved in football, it's even known as a poor man sport cuz of the accessibility. And most people on the planet are poor or kinda poor so they are the masses and the masses are easy to control and make money off.
Also No discrimination against race, gender, environment, or age or even species.Even animals can play it like chimps, dogs. N Always brings harmony even with strangers
Urban dictionary said it best:
'The Beautiful Game' can be played anywhere, on almost any surface, by any number of players, for almost any length of time. And is. There is no country on earth that doesn't play. It has inspired more passion, more courage and more excitement than any other sport in history and dwarfs everything else.
Football is, without question, the defining sporting activity of the human race.
Don't know about entertainment factor
Many sports challenge that
@@samarthbagwe1736 Where does it same entertainment
Well some countries can't play it since they're in the fncking desert...
@@flux202 well you cant play other sports there either
@@Hubbabubba465 so we can't be holding world championships in a desert.
Football is a universal language.
I vividly remember a random guy kicking a ball in the middle of my university's square.
More and more people joined, barely anyone spoke the same language but we all had fun in a little kick-about.
Anyone can join in and have fun.
You can say that about any game or sport.
@@drrd4127 I can't fully agree with that.
It's rare to find a sport that is so easily accessible.
Most other sports require special equipment to experience the sport. Basketball needs a hoop, tennis needs rackets, cricket/baseball needs bats. With football, all you need is pretty much just a football - you can make goals with piles of coats, bags, bottles or even using chalk on a stone wall.
I like to think it transcends language. You don't even need to speak the same language to have a kick about with someone. Truly universal.
It's the most accessible out of all the sports anybody of any race any socio economic class any height build can play it's accessibility makes it more marketable to a mass audience not to mention it's the only sport that's played on all six continents and in the islands
Back in the old days of no jerseys, one side play shirtless and the other side any color shirt.
You can say the same about baseball though, the second most popular sport
Well-explained. Football at its core is the most simple sports in the world. That's why almost everyone, even those with physical disabilities, can enjoy it. Another reason is because it's a team sport so you get to enjoy it with other people.
I think this is a good point about it being a team sport. Most popular sports are team sports, not just football.
i'd also add while a team sport - there are elements you can still do on your own that can be enjoyable, doing tricks or even just using a wall.
I wouldn't say it's the simplest sport, that title belongs to track athletics which boil down to 'run'. I'd say it's about as simple as a game can be to allow for complexity in outcome to arise.
@@ferretchad And also, the fact that feet are used for both move around the field and kick the ball, means that there's a factor of dexterity that doesn't happen if the game was played with the hands (i.e. handball), which would be a "more obvious" ball game.
Exactly 💯 it's the most accessible which makes it the most popular
I live in the philippines and basketball is the most favorite sport of the people here but when i was a kid our school didnt have a basketball court and people didnt bring balls to our school so we played football with a bottle filled with rocks, the kids didnt know how to properly play football all we knew was you had a ball and you had to kick it to the other side of the area where we played. It ended up kinda resembling a football game with a keeper and strikers and defenders, crazy stuff. So i really do believe that this is one of the beauties of the game, you can play it everywhere with anything.
Rugby is the same too. Really easy to play and understand. Loads of fun
In a nation where cricket is a religion, and a state where football is non existent in small towns, once i introduced to my friends. Couple of days later there were 20-30 people calling their friends and playing the game. The ground was earlier used for cricket and cricket only but then there were bricks used as goal posts on either end. But unfortunately, it was during a time when high school ended, all of them moved on to different cities for education and the game died there in the town.
big ups!
@@mitooro *So What ???*
@@skoch9995 he was just asking
It didnt died. You released a sport virus
This begs a different question. Why cricket is still so popular in like ... 8 countries.
Football is a religion. No other sport in the world unites people quite like this.
Then why are football fans segregated (like the UK)? Why is there also hooliganism and working class scum causing trouble?
@@crazyforcoffee5950your statement is like :
Why are there still conflicts between islam and islam or even christian and christian ;
Everything have conflicts in it.
@261i7rugby is also boring but yeah is still more entertaining than football
@@That_was_meCuz of the new rules which I think is still but still beats soccer any day
I don't want to be united with anyone who believes that
I was transfer student back then in elementary. Hard to adjust to new school life, friends and environment. But once the football game played in school yard, I just jumped into it and scored a goal. This beautiful game really helped me being accepted in new school.
This is so sweet. Reading that made me happy :) futbol really does bring ppl together
Same thing to me
yes bro football⚽really does bring people together
Another reason is that skill and a certain amount of cleverness and required to play the game at a high level. Many other sports place an over-reliance on physical qualities and brute force. This makes soccer athletically democratic, so to speak.
ehh personally i prefer the brutish athleticism like nfl football
@@jmgonzales7701 Brutish is a bad way of describing it
Erm not really, for a ball game basketball requires much more skill and finesse and for sports in general skating requires muuuuch more skill vs physical ability in comparison to football
Physical qualities and brute force makes it more interesting. Plus the natural skill
@@dodgydave1053if I were to compare these sports like you did, I'd have to say that football has people with highest skill level among other sports. It is because it's the most popular one, and that, if we assume that people in every sport try their best and achieve their maximum performance level, means that the most skilled athlete is probably a football player. But there is another factor - the importance of skill. And in that regard it is also football that is amongst the most skill dependent sports because it's a game. But even between basketball and football, which are both games, football is clearly more dependent on skill due to it's strategical complexity.
the simplicity of it all makes it beautiful. You can literally explain the rules in 30 seconds to a newcomer and they will have fun.
It’s boring to play and watch
@@crazyforcoffee5950 you definitely coming from the US do you
@@crazyforcoffee5950 not really now go back to watch that insignificant sport that they rugby.
@@crazyforcoffee5950 it's boring to watch while it's hella fun to play
@@crazyforcoffee5950 if you not interested in strategy aspect like posession, formation, yes it can be boring
Kind of linked to accessibility: Football is, traditionally, a working person’s sport. In lots of countries it’s played predominantly by “poorer” people, for the reasons mentioned, and we’ve heard loads of stories of pros having first kicked a ball made out of bags tied up with laces or something.
Golf and tennis can be diluted down as well, to a lesser extent (get the he ball in the 🕳) but there is an exclusivity to them and you need a designated space. That’s where class comes in. Many people don’t have access to a tennis court, even fewer have their own one. Everyone has a ball and some space.
Tennis is difficult to dilute. That's really a sport that requires courts and racquets (of some sort), and the balls can't get too old or else they're virtually useless. You could use other sorts of balls, but that makes things harder. Golf is conceptually easier to dilute, but still isn't great. Even basketball needs a hoop of some sort, volleyball needs a high net. Cricket needs a lot, rugby's too rough and big for a street sport, so you come to see that only football and perhaps handball are really so accessible. And for whatever reason, handball isn't that popular. But that's probably down to excitement.
Football is played by poorer people only in Africa ,Asia ,south America
European football is played by rich class mostly
@@iameverywhere8551Not true.
football is not just a game its a need for many to live happily.thats the reason its the most popular game
wouldnt this just be a symptom of its popularity, and not why it is popular
Couple of bricks as goal posts.. Anywhere to play.. I remember playing on the street.. Paved streets on late hours when cars are scarce.. I even played in corridors in apartment buildings.. You didn't even need a ball.. A tennis ball.. A plastic bag full of old clothes.. Even a small roundish rock or a bottle cap..
You make friends and enemies around your block..
Such a beautiful sport
Brilliant video. Reminds me of when we used to play on the streets when I was younger, we'd lose track of time and get a whooping from our parents when we got home. There were no phones back then so you'd grab a ball, we take off our shoes and go play. Sometimes if we didnt have a ball. We'd steal some plastic bags, put a handful of sand into one (that would make the first layer) and wrap as many as we can to make a ball and play until it was tattered.
I remember when I get older, my parents would get me the Fifa/Nike/Adidas Size 3 ball. I was a King in the neighborhood. I remember how I lost the first 3. One landed in a yard with 3 dogs; they tore it up, Second was run over by a car and one was stolen when I took it to school. Football holds some dear childhood memories. This was around 20 years ago and my father and father in law tell me about their footballing escapades back in their day!
At its core it's really just three rules
1. You have a ball
2. You can't touch it with your hands
3. Who scores more goals wins
It's so mindbogglingly simple. American sports, for the most part, have these weird rules and starts-and-stops that they're essentially institutionalized.
American sports have too many commercial breaks depending on the person that can be annoying football is pretty straightforward and not super long 90 minutes
You can say the same about baseball though, the second most popular sport
@@ninjalectualx Isn't cricket the second most popular sport?
@@nsh1772 Cricket is easily #2, 3rd would be harder to define cut probably Rugby followed by basketball
In both codes of Rugby Football the objective is also quite simple get the ball across the white line on the other side of the pitch or kick the ball between the posts. Most of the rules are fairly simple: pass backwards, no tackling above a certain area of the body, releass the ball when tackled and your tackler or tacklers must release you, no eye gouging, tripping up etc, do not knock the ball on, or make it go into touch.
There's just something beautiful about the game that I can't explain. If you love it then you know it.
Football is very elegant it kinda looks like a ballet I think that's why I prefer it there is more artistry and it's just beautiful to watch
Would rather watch paint dry
Once again, another lovely video addressing a simple, yet complex, topic. Been following Tifo Football for over a year now; hoping to see the fellas start a 'Tifo Baseball' channel - I am pretty sure the viewership is out there.
I finished growing up watching the NFL and since I started watching multiple sports, Football/soccer is just about to take the number 1 spot, only difference is I live in the U.S and I have Way more people to talk NFL about that soccer, most people I work with can’t understand how popular soccer is world wide
It’s the same here in Australia where AFL and NRL are king. Nobody talks about soccer unless it’s the World Cup. I’m a rugby union fan and soccer to me is a wussy sport
@@crazyforcoffee5950nobody care about your rugby Aussies
When I was a kid we liked basketball better, but there were limited playgrounds with hoops, which were usually occupied by older kids or even adults, so we mostly played football.
I never thought of that with basketball. I guess in the US you don't because there are hoops everywhere. Multiple ones at parks, playgrounds, schools, people's houses, and when in a pinch monkey bars or some trash cans will do.
@@joeleuer1842beside hoops, you need a ball that can bounce well, while in football all most any kind of ball can be used,
When i was a kid it was a litte hard to buy a standard football ball, so we played with plastic ball, rubber ball and even volley ball (volleyball were popular in my place that time)
The accessibility of football is certainly one part of it, but I feel that the reason why association football specifically the #1 game in the world has a lot to do with how association football was popular in the UK during the 1800s-1900s and the British empire and trading network took that around the world. The number of prominent clubs founded in places like Italy, South America and elsewhere by ex-pat Brits shows this. So, football became global as the first sport to really become so, and then things like global radio and then TV embedded that.
The accessibility aspect is probably why football gained prominence in places that were merely connected to rather than part of the Empire - see how the prominent nations in rugby and cricket both correspond pretty closely to the commonwealth to this day (with a few exceptions) and theres maybe a class element there - guys working on ships are more likely to play football, and a pick up gamer on the dock side is more likely to get locals involved and hooked but posher folk putting down roots in their colonies are more likely to establish cricket/rugby clubs etc.
Similarly, those sports that developed in the US ended up being stuck there during the period of US isolationism before WW1 and by the time they could gain a wider audience, football was already established elsewhere (and in general, is more accessible so why change?)
Football is originally Aztec sport.
which is weird, im filipino and normally i hear people argue the reason we don't play football or its not as popular here is because we barely have space or its not as acessible. weird reasoning.
@jmgonzales7701 I guess if you don't already have parks/pitches it's not so easy in an urban environment. I'd guess basketball is the go-to then? Probably the team game needing thr least space.
A sport that truly tests your athletic ability and doesn’t give you a break in any sort of way makes for great entertainment compared to many sports that are diluted with way more commercials
I guess in your specific community the percentage of people who were alive and watched it is even higher than in the entire Population. We are here for our love of football and your amazing content regarding that topic after all.
You forgot the most kicked football of modern times, the humble paper covered in parcel tape football. This football at some point has some how made its way into every work place in the World.
In school we used to use a tin foil ball from our sandwiches and we'd play some panna, and when I was at home I'd use my dog's toys for a little kick around, as the living room and dining room linked with an arch. The dining table was the goal 🤣
It is more than just a game. It is life. You win or lose but you enjoy it..
One important aspect not mentioned is about entertainment.
I watch many sports games in different places.
Football is immensely entertaining as game with different aspects of play:
Goalkeeping, defending, dribbling, attacking, etc.
It is not like motorsport or tennis.
When i was young we were so broke we had a hard time finding money for food. I would play after school until sunset outside with my friends right next to a trash dump, we didnt care that we had a a hill and being on top was a major advantage. Now i still own a fancy world cup ball even though i havent played in years, just cause football means so much to me and the fact that i can buy this ball now ans feel proud of where i came from. Football is more than just a game.
Tifo are a blessing to football community
It’s quite popular in England, I know a few people that like it
LMAO
Number 1
Hey tifo are you doing tactical previews for the world cup groups? Those were great for the euros and 2018 world cup
Accessibility and team ethos are the dual important things here. They can speak to the aspirations of people around the world, as anyone with talent in football can get some chance of success/glory. With golf, tennis, horse racing or rugby you can't get the same feeling.
which is weird, im filipino and normally i hear people argue the reason we don't play football or its not as popular here is because we barely have space or its not as acessible. weird reasoning.
beautiful game with no bounadry or language barrier❤️
There's only one language barrier. When the most avid British and American fans talk to each other about it using only words coined in England. Let the fun commence.
In Football you dont need a partner or other people to play with, you can just play alone just you and the ball anywhere in the world, you see thats the beauty of it
Same with rugby, cricket
@@crazyforcoffee5950 yeah the only difference is that Cricket is boring and Rugby isn't
@@josebertel7000 this happens when u know nothing about cricket and bark the stereotypical comment
@@crazyforcoffee5950cricket 🏏,☝️
2:44 Jumpers for goalposts! Small boys in the park? Enduring image! Isn't it? Marvelous!
Simple- Football is life❤
Great video brings back some of my favorite childhood memories!Me and my friends used to make balls of plastic bags and kick them and we would sometimes play in the local tennis court since there was no field
Some of my fondness memories ever are playing football with my classmates between classes or when the teacher was late.
We would just push all the chairs to the sides, two chairs on each end of the classroom were the goal. 2v2, winner stays on and the ball was made out of paper and tape. That was it. Simple. But it would get crowded by people from other classes. Just waiting for you to lose so they get a chance to play.
You had to be alert because an inspector may be around and would take the ball. You had to be quick to get all the chairs in order and start drying your uniform all messed up from the sweat under the fan on the ceiling. Good old days.
the beauty of football is its simplicity of the game,just take the ball,kick the ball.and it is affordable game for poor people.and another factor is its short duration of the game.
Great video Tifo! I love learning Football!👑⚽🏆💯✨
Futbol is the world’s sport because you don’t need to be the biggest or tallest to play it. All you need is skills and passion. Just a ball ⚽️ find a net and shoot. No need for fancy gear.
Futbol is the most inclusive sport from a poor man’s country to a rich man.
So true
When I was very young- I didn’t get it while other kids darted around the playground. When I was 11 I was the smallest, skinniest kid blown away on a full size pitch and the last to be picked in the team. But when my love for the game emerged outside of trying to play it, and away from that social hierarchy- I relaxed, enjoyed expressed myself and even scored a few on my left peg.
I’m now 47. Did try a bit of seven a side pre covid infection and was roasted despite the cries of man on. No matter, I’ve got good memories of playing some matches- but even better ones of talking a good game.
My neighbors and I used to play it in the vacant lots behind our houses. We'd be cleaning the place in the spring when all those weeds started popping out and in the fall, right after my uncle harvested his corn or wheat we would be playing in his crop field. Pick-up football games were my childhood entertainment.
To simplify this sport
It can be played by anyone anywhere no matter the numbers or the field side. We all got potential and can show our own creativity
please make a video on how clubs share the same stadium
Just gave a speech about this topic in class, and this video helped me out a ton. Thank you guys for the assist!
It's the easiest game to understand. Kick the ball into your opponents goal. Make sure you do it more times than they do within the allocated time.
becouse everyone can end up on top no matter the background, wealth or place of birth. No other sports creates such emotions
Football - more than just a game.
I think along with this, the sensation of kicking a ball is (for whatever reason) a far more enjoyable sensation than most others…your feet *are* the bat, the club, the racket.
2:27 funniest animation I’ve seen in a Tifo video lmao
Wonderful vid! I spotted however a typo: 0:57, the map says Kazkahstan instead of Kazakhstan.
Football is being human, inclusive adaptable , dynamic and competitive
Whoever said football Is the beautiful game was a genius
Beautiful? No chance 😂😂
@@crazyforcoffee5950football is becoming an irrelevant sport and also is declining rapidly
@EvilKicksMon joke of the year 🤡 here take the L
It's ironic that here in India people prefer to play Cricket rather than football while playing in a confined space. And almost every house here has a bat. Cricket played on streets is called Gully Cricket, but there is no gully football.
So, you don't need to be simple in order to become most popular sport in any region, all you need is cultural acceptance. Despite being extremely long and difficult to understand game, cricket in India has become a parallel religion.
its because of culture. Same goes here in the Philippines, a lot will say we cant play football because we don't have that much space or its inaccessible. Football wouldn't be the most popular sport in the world if its inaccessible. You can play football in the streets like what we do with basketball, You don't need a big field or anything. PLus in the metro areas sure there are less space but in the province there is plenty of farm fields to play with yet you would see the people make makeshift rims and paste it on a tree just to play basketball. Simply cultural and if there is a will there is a way. FIlipinos like fast paced action scoring it is why we like boxing, MMA, volleyball (for women mostly) and basketball because it gives you fasy entertainment. Heck if Americans taught us American NFL football i personally think we would enjoy it as well.
@@jmgonzales7701 thanks for enlightening me, I always thought Fillipinos love football more than anything.
@@monsieur1936 well to be fair football is played mostly by more richer folks. The working class plays basketball, but ofc that is not the rule. Many workinh class people still play football but basketball is the most dominant sport. I have a indian-filipino friend he was the one who introduced football to me.
@@jmgonzales7701 I never heard about basketball being played as a dominant sport outside of America. Glad to know that. Even in India you can find distinctions mostly among the states, like eastern and north eastern states play football more than cricket meanwhile wrestling and hockey is popular in some Northern States. Cricket however is a sport which is played by rich to poor everyone, both in City and countryside. However most of the cricket legends are from select few cities like Mumbai and Delhi.
@@monsieur1936 yeah from what i heard cricket is a big thing. Its mostly unheard of here but our indian minority groups play it.
love from ilam nepal!
Too bad watching it now on tv has become a financial burden that many people can't afford
Football is life, as in the real one that has to do with using your foot to play the ball…
Oh don't start.
personally i prefer american style football but that's just me
My excuse is that I am Brasileiro and I have loved the sport due to all my life due to it being a big part of my culture.
thank you Tifo for always producing such great content
Can you do a documentary on the San Marino national football team (football's biggest underdogs) and their never-ending struggle in international football. Loving the content ❤
you won something or just want to joke about your team? :D
Tifo will make the video once San Marino finally wins their first international game.
@@Darwinek They did! That win over Liechtenstein in 2004 counts!
and I'm here, a football fan, born in the basketball crazy country.
Quite funny, i remember myself lifting up a basketball with my foot and messing around with it before training sessions began
Simple answer everyone connects to the game and has emotional bond both playing and watching
This video is beautiful as the game itself
The beautiful game!
The simple answer is that it is so simple. Anyone can play a form of football as long as they have a ball of some sort.
i would argue nfl style football is even more simple, problem is the gear which involves padding and helmet. But carrying a ball to the other end is more simple than having to kick a goal.
Football is popular because football can be popular. Mind blown.
It's the most accessible so it appeals to everybody anybody of any race height socio economic class can play that's the difference
I play a sport which is called for a reason " the gentleman game "❤️😌
Cricket ❤️❤️
@@Soul_Hacked greatest sport ever 🙏
@@Mfdoom534 Boring af loo
@@Soul_Hacked what is that?
@@Soul_Hacked an insect?
"Every kick of it massively mattering to someone, presumably!"
You don't even need a ball. Me and my mates once played invisible football, though I think we may have been a bit drunk
See, one of the other sports that is equally popular is Sprinting. And it has very similar needs .
The thing about different physiques is what I really like. I don't like how the most popular sports in America require peoplr to be freaks of nature just to be an average player. In football, size can be an advantage but the majority of players are abot average if slightly above height, and someone like Messi can be the best in the world at an average stature
Heck i used to play it with socks inside my house. That's how obsessed i was with it.
It can be played by anyone you can be the goat at 6'2 or a goat at 5'7 as well you can be one of the greatest goalkeepers at 6'5 or at just 6'0
I think it is simply that comercialized, that it is brought to every corner of the world. Once it's there it will grow, as more and more will notice it.
I know its a somewhat less optimistic and peace-and-love theory, but thats not a falsification yet.
Bingo. You nailed it
wholesome and based. What else does one need...
Very elaborate 👏👏👏
Unfortunately that 'round object' that gets a kicking is too often somebody's head. Play nicely people. 🙂♥️⚽
Sometimes the hand too, scored a hand of god which made my team won the local schools cup, sneaky me!
2022 world cup gathred 4 billion wich is 4/8 half the earth was watching
Not me 😂😂😊
@@crazyforcoffee5950 ohhh man you don't know what you missed out
@@josebertel7000 Meh, couldn’t care less. Much prefer Rugby that’s my passion.
Because it is so beautiful to watch and play football😍
When I was in hostel we used to play putting clothes and paper inside a socks and play the game. Hours and hours were spent playing it. We even used to get punished for playing but it was all fine.
Same here and im sure we are not from the same country or region, the Game is the game every where, it finds expression in all frlorms across different cultures
Beautifully put gents!
Thrill that is there in football matches, I dnt see it anywhere!
Coming World Cups
Cricket 10 teams
Rugby Union 20
Basketball 32
Football 48
Bruh if there were 7.6 billion people on earth (I think it was closer to 7.7) during the 2018 world cup... there will be 8 billion people on earth for the next one. That's a scary amount of population growth. ~100 million people a year being added.
The simplicity is what makes it amazing. And to digress a bit, that's why Pool is way more popular than Snooker. Snooker players are more technically gifted than pool players, but the fact that any drunkard in a bar can take a cue and start shooting balls in fairly sized pockets makes pool more popular.
i wished pool was more popular
Simply availability and ease of play. There are way more exciting sports out there that just don’t have a large following because of the barrier of entry *cough* hockey. A poorer country is never going to enjoy a game where you need to maintain a surface of ice and spend $1500-$2500 on gear.
Because the games are actually more talked about than the commercials.
it is a simple sport because you need a ball, but at the same time it is extremely difficult to be a successful player, a child already has to come with talent from the base or else he will just be an ordinary player, at the same time that it is simple it is extremely difficult millions try to be players and they can't, it's a dream of all children where football dominates, but millions don't succeed, it's very sad.
now how did you not add ''your mom's living room''😂😂😂😂 2:41
been an Arsenal fan for almost 2 decades now. Give me anything last minute goals, 25 yard screamers, red cards nothing and say absolutely nothing in football could ever come close to a nail bitting last ball thrilling finish in cricket.
I just LOVE football!!
Agree 💯 it's the best sport in my opinion and the only sport where fans get emotionally involved eg crying having meltdowns idk I could never get into any other sport outside of football
yes bro same
FOOTBALL ⚽️ IS LIFEEEEEEE!
Because you don't need to be a hulking giant (American football), a skinny giant (basketball), or live at the North Pole (hockey) to play. And relegation adds quite a bit of spice to the whole thing.
Baseball just sucks.
as a baseball fan, i agree with you tho. Too much problems at my sport to the point in thinking why im doing this. Sometimes, I'm watching highlights of football games like world cup, epl, or bundesliga. Im also researching on how pro/rel and domestic tournaments works.
Looking at it from a birds eye view it’s no surprise Futbol is as big as it is. You don’t need a rule book or have it explained to you that the goal of the game is to get the ball in the net using your feet. It’s accessible and easy to understand at face value. Combine it with the fact that damn near every major country in the world has its own league and you get why it’s the biggest sport of all time.
Hello tifo soccer good video I wanted to ask you something and it's about why you don't make a channel of yours but with Spanish dubbing? I am Hispanic and I like your videos. And the truth is that you would do a great favor to your Hispanic subscribers, there are many interesting topics, thanks. If you are wondering how I can write to you in English, it is because I am using the translator
This is beautiful
Football ⚽️
The ball that you Only need your feat to enjoy
No equipment just a ball and your feat
Boring
@@crazyforcoffee5950 boring for you ! And majority not !
@@crazyforcoffee5950rugby 1 touchdown= 6 point
Calling Cuju "football" is like calling American football "football". It's a different sport.
Because it's a poor people sport and most of the world is poor. And most of the audience are poor people who love to drink and act crazy. Also, big money are involved to promote it and make fields and coaching facilities.
Couldn’t agree more. Not being a snob, I’m not wealthy at all but the game is boring, repetitive and overrated. it’s only popular because it’s the only game poor people are exposed to.
@@crazyforcoffee5950 Yeah, and the sport of masses. And masses are easy to control and sell tickets to because they are lots of people. They big companies used lots of money to make this sport as popular as can be so that they could make tons of money.
Braindead take, is Europe poor? Is India Rich? If anything, football is the sport who most unify the poor and the rich.
@@Sora_3347 I didn't call any country rich or poor lol you didn't read correctly. I said the poor layers are most involved in football, it's even known as a poor man sport cuz of the accessibility. And most people on the planet are poor or kinda poor so they are the masses and the masses are easy to control and make money off.
Also No discrimination against race, gender, environment, or age or even species.Even animals can play it like chimps, dogs. N
Always brings harmony even with strangers