American Reacts to Understanding European Soccer in Four Simple Steps: A Guide For Americans
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This was the wrong explanation video at the wrong time :) There's 2 separate types of football tournaments, (1) club competitions and (2) country tournaments. Club competitions are clubs from different cities playing against each other (I'll ignore the fact that cities can have multiple clubs). This can be on a national level in nation leagues, or internationally with clubs from different countries playing against each other. That's what this video is about, national leagues and Champions League. Club teams can have players from all over the world. The players are contracted, they do not have to be from a certain country or city. The European Championship that's currently underway is a tournament of countries playing against other countries and has nothing to do with club football. Each country compiles a team of the best players from that country. The players need to be citizens of that country. Since the best players are being selected, these will be players that normally play for big clubs, either in Europe or elsewhere. So for instance the French player Griezmann is currently signed to Atletico Madrid, so in club football he plays for Atletico Madrid, in the Spanish leaugue and in the Champions League at a European level. And since he is French, he plays in the French National team whenever France plays either for the European Championship or for the World Cup.
Maybe one way of describing this is that clubs are like companies. They have owners (though very often they are collectively “owned” by locals as members of their club), they can employ people from any country, they are economic actors (they generate income and spend it), and they compete against each other.
National teams are more like national armies. They only ‘draft’ citizens of that country and only play against other national teams. The Euro 2024 is a tournament of national teams from all of Europe (well, there are qualification games spread over nine months carried out the year before to whittle down the number from 55 to a more manageable 32). The World Cup is the same but for the whole world.
Very few sports attract worldwide attention, there are continent-wide and global tournaments of national for all kinds of sports, eg, volleyball, but nothing generates as many fans as soccer. And soccer/football is the only one which attracts truly worldwide audience. Even within Europe, no other sport attracts much across the board attention. Some sports like ice hockey get somewhat close to soccer in a few countries but not across the whole continent. Basketball is very popular in the U.S., cricket is very popular in India, and so on.
And then you have the best players chosen by the coach of the football union for the national team. You know, the orange team for the Dutch. The national team has two tasks. 1. Win the European cup (not the UEFA one, but the other one, now ongoing). 2. Win the world cup. Both tournaments take place every 4 years.
3. play friendlies so that the media can "predict" we are going to win the tournament this year easily.
But offset by two years, so they don't happen at the same time!
Yeah, let's not get the Nations League in here. It's confusing enough already.
European Cup and World Cup are played by national teams like in team sports in the olympics.
The European Cup is of club teams , u are thinking of the European Championships
Hi Charlie; you confuse the Euro24 with the league. In the Euro24 National-Teams from Europe play each other. The teams are the best players of each country (choosen by the National-Coach). Its be held all 4 years in a different country, this year it is in Germany so the fans from other country meet in Germany for the games.
Just call it football, like 99% of all countrys on this planet do, and call american football just american rugby - no confusion any more then 😘
It's been called "Soccer" by the English.
Later when the sport divided into Rugby, Football, Australian Football and America Football the Americans called (European Football) Soccer.
So it's technically more accurate.
The "original" name for the game we know today was soccer.
Even though the rules were completely different...
Even as a european I honestly don’t understand why people get so worked up over if you call it football or soccer, just call it whatever you like
@@Modellbaustammtisch What's not accurate is claiming 'gridiron' as the only football. It is huge arrogance to declare that American football is just 'football'. That's what raises hackles...
@@wessexdruid7598 absolutely! A PSA for all U.S. Citizens* - Call (Association) Football 'soccer' if you want but don't call American Football just 'football'. *(most Americans are not from the uSA but the other countries that make up North and South America)
@@Modellbaustammtisch It was a nickname used by some English people… It doesn’t seem to have really caught on here… That or it fell out of fashion… I believe it was a shortening of the word Association…
Either way it’s pretty weird why you would call any of the other games “football”, when most of them have next to no foot to ball action… I don’t know… I mean there’s a little bit, but next to none…
Oh well, I guess it’s not that big a deal, but yeah…
There are around 120 full-time professional football clubs, in 6 leagues in the UK (67 million pop), while the US has 32 teams (333 million pop). There actually around 40,000 association football teams registered in the UK from a population of 67 million. Every city and town has its own team!
Yes as others have said, this video is all to do club teams. Euro 24 is to do with national teams which is totally different aspect of football not at all covered by this video. Unfortunately as the US plays team sport that no one else in the world plays they don’t have national teams (I am not aware of a USA baseball team or American football team) so difficult concept for our North American friends to understand.
There are ‘world cups’ or ‘world championships’ for all kinds of team sports, things like basketball, cricket, rugby, hockey, handball, volleyball, American Football, baseball. But none really attract attention from the general public because while a few of them are very popular in some countries, none are very popular in many countries.
@@aphextwin5712 I doubt that the 1.4 billion people in India think that the cricket World Cup’s in its various forms is of no consequence to them, and doesn’t “attract their attention “.
@johnnyuk3365 Look, the [baseball] World Series attracts plenty of attention in the United States, but very little outside of the two countries who have teams competing (USA and Canada). That is similar to the cricket World Cup, it receives plenty of attention in India, Pakistan and a few other countries, but already in the UK and Australia it receives much less attention than soccer/football World Cups or European championships.
Soccer/football simply is the most popular (spectator) sport in a lot more countries than any other sport. Google for something like “Most popular sport by country”. Depending on how account for the micro states, their are about 200 countries in the world. Soccer/football is the most popular sport in about 157 of them, with cricket coming in second place with 12 countries, baseball in third place with 9 countries, rugby coming in fourth place with 6 countries, basketball in fifth place with 5 countries, ice hockey in sixth place with 3 countries, plus 8 other sports with one country each.
When it comes to a sport being a contest between nations, cricket is largely limited to South Asia.
Jamie vardy is the best example of the opportunities you mentioned he went from playing in a semi professional division in England to winning the premier league with Leicester (Lester)
Back in the day, Ian Wright was an even more extreme example
each country has multiple club leaguea's. the top one that are most known. and then lower divisions going all the way down into Semi-pro's and even lower into amateurs. So even amateurs can theoretically make it to the top division after several years. the top 2-5 teams of each nation get to play next season in international club tournaments like the Champions Leaguea, The euro league and the Conference league
each country also has multiple cups. a national cup is the most common. it is open to anyone who wants to join including amateur clubs. and during a certain round the pro teams are added to the draft. the winner of this cup will get access to an international club tournament next season. against cup winners of other countries
during the season there are 2 week breaks here and there where the national teams play each other. basically the national organisation gathers their best players to play against other nation teams. this leads to each continent having their own national team cups. and once every four years there is a national world cup.
As you can tell a lot is going on during one season. Multiple leaguea's, multiple cups both national and international. meaning there is always something to compete for...even if you're having a bad season in 1 competition you can still try the others. and unlike american sport competitions which is purely an entertainment business...the sport events everywhere in the world are actually competitive and interesting to watch from a sport point of view while also providing entertainment on the side.
EUFA is the European football organisation
CONCACAF is for american continents
Asia/Oceania has their own
Africa has their own as well
and all of them combined make FIFA the global organisation
*** came here to say this and you covered everything 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Small typo, UEFA not ‘EUFA’.
@@aphextwin5712 yeah typo's when fast typing happen :D
I would say that, at least if you stay away from the biggest countries, it's not only theoretically that amateur teams can come up and play in the top division. In Sweden, over the years, there have been a few village teams that started in something like division 5 and all of a sudden got a golden generation of players who actually stay with the team, bringing them all the way to the top division.
1990, Ljungskile SK played in division 5, the locker rooms were 2 old worker sheds, the only "spectator stands" were a few planks where people could sit right next to the pitch. And there were no entrence stalls, so during the match, someone walked around among the audience collecting entrance fees. 1997 they played in the top league, competing for the championship and the European cup spots. :)
Just for reference: the German league pyramid have 13 levels with 1st Bundesliga at the top and local county level leagues on the bottom.
In this system there are over 2000 leagues played out every season with over 30.000 teams compete in it.
The german football association is the biggest organization in the world with over 7 million active members.
To be more precise, in Germany, it's between 10 and 14 levels depending on the location.
The UEFA European Championship can be somewhat compared to the "Copa América" or the Gold Cup, where multiple nations compete in a single tournament. But since football is very popular here as a sport, it's one of the biggest sports events all across Europe.
There was a lack of explanation that I know causes a lot of confusion for those who don't know anything about football. The explanation given is for all club games. In the case of championships involving national teams, such as Euro 2024, which is taking place now, no clubs enter. The football federations of each country appoint a coach who chooses the best players in the country and forms the national team. These players must have the nationality of the country they are going to represent.They can play for any club, anywhere in the world, but they will represent their country. That's why there are these crowds that are supporting their own country
Well sort of. The nationality is a lot more fluid than that. If your Grandparents were from a different country you could represent that country. That does mean, theoretically, a player could be eligible for 7 different countries. It is worth pointing out that, once you've represented a country in a competitive match, not a friendly, you are only eligible for that country, except when that doesn't apply. Ferenc Puskas played for both Hungary and Spain. He became eligible for Spain after becoming a naturalised Spanish citizen. So it's really simple, you can play for any country you are a citizen of, or your parents or grandparents come from or even occasionally where you were born and you can only play for one country unless you play for more than one country. Granit Xhaka and his brother were both born in Switzerland. Granit plays International football for Switzerland, his brother Taulant played for Albania. Oh yes, one other thing, playing for England Schoolboys does not mean you are eligible to play for England. Ryan Giggs played for England Schoolboys but he is Welsh. The criteria to play for England Schoolboys is that you go to school in England.
😂 Did you know that in Germany, there are at least 11 consecutive soccer leagues leading up to the Bundesliga? The league system is incredibly detailed and comprehensive. Here’s a quick rundown:
1. Bundesliga
2. Bundesliga
3. Bundesliga
Regionalliga
Oberliga
Verbandsliga (Berlin-Liga)
Landesliga
Bezirksliga
Kreisliga A
Kreisliga B
Kreisliga C
This really shows how deep and comprehensive the soccer system here is! 🏆⚽
I recommend the video
(European) Soccer Explained for Americans
It explain things much better.
4:04 „what is the second division“
-> there are about 24,000 football clubs in Germany. How do you think they all compete against each other? They are all competing in leagues, even the youth teams of those clubs, all part of a league system.
The 1st division simply is the highest national league you can be in, you also need a license for professional football as a club to be in that league (which you can acquire though good results as in getting promoted by your competition results and fulfilling the requirements for higher divisions, you can’t just buy your way in like a franchise would do). The 2nd division is the 2nd highest national professional league. The 3rd division is the 3rd highest national professional league. The 4th division however is the division where professional clubs compete against some semi professional clubs, however most players of these semi professional clubs will mostly be professionals as well. And the 4th division also isn’t a national division anymore, it’s a division with 5 leagues on the same division level split by larger German regions so that teams don’t have to travel as far as in a national league. And after that it proceeds with 6th division and state level leagues, after that the next division is split into regions within the states and so on and so on until you reach the lowest divisions where you basically compete just within your own district or - if large enough - city.
But if you’re good enough and the club grows with the results, gets more and more professional and fulfills the requirements the governing football association sets for specific division levels like stadium size or mandatory press seats then you could work your way up to the 1st division one day.
It’s all connected, there is no separate franchise like league, every team competing within the division and league pyramid system can theoretically completely fall apart and get relegated division by division or theoretically grow and get promoted division by division.
Btw England has about 40,000 football clubs. They have 5 divisions that run as national leagues, not just 3 like in Germany. Starting in 6th division they then begin to split teams between regions, but first just between North and South, so two leagues in division 6 and in division 7 it’s then 4 leagues on the same level.
The euros going on ATM is about national teams, that videos club teams
For your information tonight 9 PM dutch time, so about 2 pm your time i guess, croatia will play italy and albania will play spain. Italy will display a masterclass of defensive play and spain will just score a lot. Probably. We'll see tonight.
This is about the club football. Every 2 years there is a big national tournament between countries. World cup 2 years later Euro cup, 2 years later World cup. And so on. This are the best players of the country. Dont matter witch team. The trainer of the National team select the players.
In the video they keep mentioning an important distinction: "club competition". What you saw isnt directly related to the euro cup you were wondering about. Of course, players who do well in the club competition are likely to be picked by the coach of their national team. But the clubs themselves do not represent their nation. In fact, most clubs have foreign players so more than half of any winning club isnt able to play for that club's national team.
Good Reaction but in England the difference between p[playing in the Top 2 Divisions is TWO HUNDRED and 40 Million Dollars NOT $40,000,000 lol England, also, has a League Cup for the 92 teams in the MAIN 4 English Divisions, collectively, known as THE Football League. The Top 4 English teams in 2023/2024 play in The Champions League in 2-24/2025 starting in August. These Top players ALSO play in their 38-game Premier League PLUS The F A Cup PLUS The League Cup PLUS playing, occasionally, for their Countries. These are all individual teams or Clubs like L A Lakers , Denver Broncos or Chicago Red Sox. CURRENTLY , The EUROS are taking place throughout 4 weeks in Germany. This competition is for NATIONAL teams like England, France, Spain etc and THAT is when the best players are chosen to represent their Country. The only Tournament that is bigger is THE WORLD CUP, which is every 4 years, for Countries.
5:08 The top of second division promotes to first, last of first division demotes to second division.
I don't know about Germany, the Netherlands, etc. but in the UK there are loads of leagues, every town and city has a club and loads of leagues. People tend to just think of the top 3 or 4 leagues, but even the lower leagues have their supporters - it can be quite tribal. Football, (and most team sports), is what I think of as "ritualised tribal warfare" (and sometimes that can lead to read fighting off the pitch).
There are also national teams made up of players from their home countries (whatever the club they play for in the leagues) and then it is "ritualised national warfare". Credits to the Scots supporters, they distinguished themselves excellently it seems in Germany (even if their team lost).
When you win it is Football, when you lose your the Soccer ;)
It's not complete but it is good enough for starters, but it says nothing about the National team's competitions. National teams have the best National players to be selected by the National team coach(ing staff) in this case for the current national teams EU Cup, 26 players (no matter in what country they play for their club teams) get selected to play for their country. There is a selection process to make the final tournament cut, but that is not that important to know.
The Group phase, for the current EU nat. Cup 4 teams have to play each other only once, 1st place group winners, progress to the playoff phase. Some best 2nd placed group nat. teams will also progress to the playoff phase. Then it's a matter of staying in the playoffs by winning(if the game ends up a tie, overtime and/ or penalties will force a winner) until you play the final game and can become the European national country team champions.
The World Cup ( never in the same year, always 2 years later/ earlier than the EU nat t. Cup so the next WCF nat. teams will be in 2026)for national teams is kinda the same structure, and the club team championships from the Americas (played every year)are kinda the same as the EU Champions League Cup (played every year), the world cup for club teams is decided (played every year)between the winner of the Champions League and the Copa America Cup.
Yeah we do both of that 3:06
There's way more than 2 leagues, it's all in one huge pyramid system. In England there are like 60 leagues, The top league has all the richest clubs with players worth multiple millions getting paid millions, the lower you go the less professional the leagues are to the point where they become amateur for people who have another job and just play at the weekend for fun and some side money. Theoretically those teams in the lower leagues could make their way all the way to the top if they keep winning promotions. Ryan Reynolds is attempting something like that when he bought Wrexham, he's already won a couple promotions he wants to get them to the top league (the premier league).
Every single of the leagues are able to join the FA cup which is a cup tournament separate from the league system, and again theoretically any team could win it but realistically the teams with the most money and best players will win. There has been many famous underdog upsets though where a team of basically amateurs beats a huge team worth millions.
National and club football are totally separate. The National teams are made up of the best players for that country by their birth status, but those players may play their CLUB football in many different countries (outside Europe too). This video is about CLUB football. nothing to do with the World Cup (which is for NATIONAL teams) or the currently playing European Championships in Germany. All cuntries have several levels of play, depending on the size of the country. The big countries like England, Spain, Germany, Italy and France have 3 or 4 fully professional leagues and teams can work their way up or down these Dlevels depending on how they finish each year.
a common mistake that makes it confusing for na people,is comparing eu countries to states,than the whole usa nation.euro 24 is the equivalent of copa america or copa africa.also the divisions are more like connected leagues and there are several tiers in each country.england has like 10 in total or something. imagine this like bottom 3 mls teams will be moved to usl,and top 3 usl will take their place.
another detail is that teams compete in all those competition at the same time.
By the way, a national team can have players from clubs from different countries and leagues. In fact, they can even be free agents. The only requirement is their nationality.
And, of course, clubs can have players from different nationalities. Some leagues allow more foreign players in a team than others. In the European Union the restrictions are far smaller (if any).
In Europe or at least some national leagues they had stricter rules way back, allowing only two foreigners to play in any given game.
@@aphextwin5712 That was before Bosman. Now they're workers like everyone else.
@@ItsJustAka The Bosman ruling might be a good illustration as what the EU common market means.
Every sport basically starts as a hobby by amateurs, whom basically choose this sport because out of all sports this was the one thy liked most. Usually the common people work 40 Hrs a week and so they usually train at least once (maybe twice?) a week evening after work, after dinner to gain tactics an condition, so on Saturday or Sunday they are fit to play. This of course is for those whom are professionals in this sport of a total different thing; These pro's basically train very very often and intensively, and they can since there is no other employer but this sport-club demanding high results. This is not a black or white situation--> one goes in stages from amateur step by step into paid sport pro. All of the domestic (within one country) leagues you just saw are build that way. You basically play against equal opponents. So amateurs play against amateures: 4th league , partially paid amatuers/semi pro's play against partially paid amateurs/ semi pro's (3rd league) and fully paid pro's play against fully paid pro's (2nd league) and outrageously paid pro's play against outrageously paid pro's (1st league); everything within the country.
Local clubs also can play within Europe against clubs from other European countries each other within their own league obviously (so no country against country)
Football clubs can purchase players locally (so within the country) at other local clubs or in other countries at foreign clubs to play for them
And All European countries can also play against each other by national teams. In this case European countries call their Internationals back (By selection) to play in the national team.
And then there is the World Cup which basically is exactly what it looks like: every country across the globe can apply to take place in these matches by selection. Especially Europe and The South American countries are usually very very good.
I really know nothing about football, I do not even watch football now in this season, since I personally am not interested in football.
I do like F1 though! So go see this video about Formula 1--> formula 1 cars, explained for rookies with max verstappen
Well. 1. Bundesliga is 18 teams. Only last two are relegated. Team from 16th position is playing relegation play-offs matches, with 3rd team from 2. Bundesliga. I think Ligue 1 in France is also the same system.
In Premier League (England), La Liga (Spain) and Serie A (Italy) there are 20 teams. 3 teams are relegated.
I don’t quite understand why he didn’t get the national team thing right. I mean even if you don’t know anything about football, there’s a US basketball national team and people obviously must have heard about it at some point. Olympics? World championship?
Watched other Americans do exactly the same. I don't understand why they seem to have difficulty comprehending the distinction between clubs and national teams so often.
Hmm, in the US they call their NFL Champion "World Champion" - maybe that's why. 🙈
Now is an awesome time to watch soccer as you say. Tonight there will be 2 good matches in the eurocup.
This has nothing to do with the Euro cup or World cup, this is club football, kinda like the NHL or NFL but with very different streuctures etc. Not national team football like The UK vs Germany, that's an entirely seperate deal
In club football, players from any country can join any team in any other country
Just look at "soccer" like american football. You have vertical zones to get across and it's mostly territorial and counterplay until you get to the end and score. But unlike American football, there's a goalkeeper.
1) They Kneel
2) You turn of TV
3) Profit
We do not kneel for The BLM @ Millwall....lol
So this video is just a Basic guide. There is another video created by a American for Americans.. I think this one is better ua-cam.com/video/6winTSyOePg/v-deo.html it goes into more detail. So lets look at the history of both and why American's call Football Soccer and not "Football"
the best comparison is american baseball where the entire MLB is the first division, AAA is the second division, AA third division and so on. this pyramid set up goes all the way down to friends playing for fun with some beer (non proffesional divisions). no team owns another team, they are all independent of each other. so in this example the Yankees can have a horrible season and get kicked out of MLB down to AAA, loose a shit ton of money (not alot of TV money in AAA), loose players they no longer can afford, loose attendence at the stadium making them loose more money that could leade to a downward spiral that makes them go bankrumpt or play against highschool teams.
FIFA is not a leauge, that's the governing body of all Football, like what the FIA is to motorsport
FIFA is the world cup if I remember well, I only watch Darts, the Dutch are very good at darts, Darts is simple, it has only two rules, don't drop your pint, and don't stand in the way when they throw,
FIFA is a confederation, the international governing body of association football (I wish people would call the sport by its full name instead of European football, if they don't want to call it soccer). The FIFA World Cup is the major FIFA tournament for national teams whose finals are held every four years.
The first problem I noticed, in the video you react to, is "European Soccer"....
It's simply the title that is broken...
Soccer is acceptable.
Football is prefered.
European Football (I would be indifferent about this one)
But European Soccer... It's like American Baseball, or American Basketball. Those games are played differently in the U.S...??
A exemples you can play for a team in italy be portugues and play for the portugues national team you just be very good 😊
Note: sorry for thw ingles a don t kown vey ritgh wht to "escrever" (portugues word i dont kwon sorry)
Don't call it Soccer 😏 It's football! Real Football
Well you need to consider he's spent his entire life hearing it referred to as soccer, hard habit to break....
Soccer is divided into 2 sections. Clubs and national teams. club teams and national teams never play against each other. When it comes to clubs its like saying the Lakers or the Cowboys. The Lakers wouldn't participate in the Olympics because that just doesn't make any sense. They literally cannot do that. Clubs play in leagues .. just like the Lakers play in a league in the United States called the NBA. Who goes and plays in the Olympics... National teams... In this case "team USA".. or USA. The world cup and the European CUP are national team tournaments. So let's say lebron wants to play in the Olympics, he can, but he also plays for the Lakers. Now going into the Olympics he will play for USA and not the Lakers. Same thing with Ronaldo or Messi. Messi plays for a club in Miami, but when it's time for the world cup or in this case right now the "Copa America" (a national team tournament that is being played across the United States.. we are the host of the tournament) he will play for Argentina.. because that's where he was born and that's what he identifies as. It's that simple. The different amount of leagues may get complicated, but separating clubs and national teams is easy because they never play each other. Same thing with the FIBA world cup. Luka doncic plays for the Dallas mavericks but when the FIBA world cup comes around he won't play for USA he's playing for his country Slovenia.
Its waaaay more complicated then this though.
This needs to be updated For countries that have qualifications games to play for WK or EK African cub Asian and South America.. And in between years a league for EU countries there is the nation league. Ranked in groups. And after al is played the best for go to the final day. For best.ua-cam.com/video/Vn3pWjave3A/v-deo.htmlsi=6kZBw8w1IDNWSrpg
So second division is basically teams worse than all teams in first division
That's the idea. Then third and fourth... in bug countries there might be 10 or more levels. At some point it becomes regionalised within the country though as travel becomes prohibitive for people who are playing amateur football. There are probably more registered football referees in Europe than registered players in the USA.
you just jumped from club competition ti countries just like that? why? NBA also got clubs from US and Canada, it is also there not suddenly nations
Soccer is my favourite word because of how many people go rabid for no reason just by uttering the word.
There are actual playoffs in several leagues across Europe in what y'all would call "post season".
In England only the top two teams in the (equivalent) second division are promoted to the Premier league - teams in spots 3-7 have a two legged playoff series and the winning two have a single match for the promotion place at the national stadium.
Some leagues at various points have had a two game playoff between a bottom twam in the top league and a top team in the second league go decide *if* a relagation happens.
England is a bit like Star Wars films. The Premier League is the top division, the Championship is the second division, League One is the third division and League Two is the fourth division. In my youth it was much easier, division one, division two, division three and division four.
When did Jason Momoa start a utube channel? 😂😂 cool vid though
Should had a major rule up in front of all the steps... Its FOOTBALL, just like it says in International Federation of Association Football, aka FIFA.
That been said, I see you still have questions.
2nd division: every country has ALOT of divisions, going from amateur regional leagues to national leagues. The only thing different between a lot of countries is how many leagues there are under the top league. There are a few clubs owned by big clubs but the majority of the clubs are city/town related.
Playoffs is some sort of competition AFTER the regular competition is done. Basically the top 6 clubs play each other to determent who becomes league champion, the next 6 clubs in the league standings play each other for a Europa league ticket. This is NOT the champions league tho, the last 3 play each other for who stays in top league etc etc.
European football is not that complicated, it just takes the right amount of explanation and interest to understand how it all works.
"European" "Soccer" my arse!!!
The modern game, as played all over the world, was first codified in England in 1863. And the game is called FOOTBALL because you use your FOOT to control the BALL. NOT your hands. That is all!!!! 🤣🤣🤣
UEFA is for teams, not for the national teams.
UEFA is for both. The UEFA Champions League is for clubs, that's what you were trying to say.
Try a Scotland fan video
Scotland is out.
@@renehansen590 naw Scottish fans on tour reaction, we all know that
this video explains badly the divisions principle. every country has several division from the best (1st) professional players division, to the lower, local small "amateur" club division.
The International Federation of Association Football (French: Fédération Internationale de Football Association):FIFA...[World Cup:nationals teams (best/top players contry)]=they compose : 6 Federations :
AFC (Asia and Australia)
CAF (Africa)
CONCACAF (North, Central America and Caribbean)⬅️🇺🇸😉
CONMEBOL (South America)
OFC (Oceania)
UEFA (Europe) :The Union of European Football Associations [European Championship :"EURO" ,like a World Cup but only europeans countries (or associations):associations or federations:for exemple:FA (England)
The Football Association (1863)...the first,the inventor...of course
So, general overview. It's going to be rather long.
Fifa = top boss. Organizes everything on a global scale. See "fifa world cup". The fifa games until last year.(the game basically said "fuck you fifa, we're bigger than your name now" so they no longer want to pay fifa. Dumb move imo but hey) etc.
We divide the world in several parts. UEFA(Europe), Concacaf(North-America)(+Africa, South-America, Asia, Oceania) etc. It's not all geography. Israel is part of UEFA for example. Australia is Asia.
Now, here is what's important to understand. These regions do both the national team cups. Like the Euros, Golden cup(North-America), etc. every 2 or 4 years.
AND they let the best clubs(not nationality bound) fight it out. Often referred to as the champions leagues. Club teams(just think cities to keep it simple) compete to be the best of the continent.
Hence, UEFA champions league if you heard of it is for Europe. But teams from the US do compete with teams from Mexico and Porto-Rico as well.
Now we get to the national level. Every country has a league(well, dozens but we're talking the top league) and every league has a "score" based on their performance in the continental competition. Depending on how high you end up the more spots you have. For the top 4 leagues in Europe. England, Spain, Italy and Germany, we're generally talking about the top 4 teams in the league getting into the competition. This competition provides a lot of cash. Not getting in several years in a row can really hurt a top club. If you're Hungary you might get one spot. If you're Belgium you get 3. etc. It's all based on your performance.
The cup has different rules everywhere but basically every country has one. Before the season gets fully underway the winner of the league will often face a single game against the winners of the cup. It's technically a trophy but let's be fair, nobody really cares. Cups, the single game I just described, etc. all have different names in different countries. In England it's the FA cup and then the single game is for the community shield.(I swear, I'm keeping this shit simply people.)
I want to make it clear that club football is about 90% of games most top players play. If you hear wages, massive transfer fees, etc. that's club football.
Fun fact. The Asian part divides their champions league up similar to the US does their sports. An East and West. Only in the final will the clubs from Iraq/Iran be able to face a team from Japan/South-Korea for example. Not the case anywhere else as far as I'm aware. Egypt flies to South-Africa if necessary.
And while touched upon, the way the leagues are structured is called the pyramid basically. The lower you go the more leagues on the same level to prevent them from having to travel too far. In England the first 5 leagues are all national(the 5th is literally called the 'national league'). But the Sixth is divided in a North and South. The one below adds a West and East, etc. until you just play very local teams which fits with the poorer clubs of course.
So club -> compete in league, compete in cup. Win league -> compete in champions league the year after. End at the bottom -> get out. You compete in the lower league next year.
And then we have the CLUB(city, not country) world cup. The winners of the regions basically compete against each other. Europe mostly wins, not taken seriously by most. Short tournament.
National team -> world cup every 4 years. continental cup every 4 or 2. Depending on where the fuck you are. I know African countries have one every 2 years. Europe is every 4.
The above is the basics and is very, very, simplified. Global sport is big. Lots of moving parts.
Dude doesnt know about sport in general and yall bully to watch an outdated video??? But why??
There is no such thing as "European soccer." The game is called football, it's called football all over the world. Within Europe there are various football competitions. and of course each country has it's own national team, with people with the correct nationality. The football that you're watching at the moment is between European nations....
Nope, the national team is made out of the best players of all the teams in the country in this EU competition, this video is confusing the EU, with UEFA team championships. you got the competition for national teams, and a championship for teams, like for instance Feijenoord Rotterdam, Or PSV Eindhoven, or Tottenham hotspurs, Barcelona, etc etc..
Soccer ??? Is FIFA a name you recognize? perharps SIFA in the USA ...
Change the title. It's European Football. not soccer. We play the ball with our feet. Not caring an egg in our hands, like "American Rugby"
Soccer? Its football
Someone should have told the Brits who coined the term soccer, to distinguish association football from the other forms of football like rugby.
Compared to American football, when one foot hits ball per play, so baseball is just catch right@@whocareswho
American's inventing "football", it's hard to kick the ball why can't I use my hands, because it's called football dingus
@@mikryan6567 Football is not one sport. It's an umbrella term covering all sorts of somewhat similar sports, from ancient, to old, to moden ones. Calcio Storico is football. American football is football. Aussie Rules Football is football. Soccer is football. Rugby is football. They all fall under the umbrella that is football.
@@whocareswhoyes I think like you am very laid back about Americans using the word “soccer”. Us Brits did invent the word so can hardly complain about other countries using it. Brits need to get over the football/soccer issue. There are more important problems in life.
European Cup and World Cup are played by national teams like in team sports in the olympics.