American reacts to European Football Explained for Americans

In this video, my wife and I as Americans look more in-depth into European Football. The previous video we did on this was short and left us with a lot of questions. So we are taking another go at understanding this sport that is enjoyed by more than half the planet!
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[@dnocturn84]

"Every town or village can have a football team" No, every town and village can have multiple football teams!

[@krashd]

In Dundee we've got two professional teams on the same street.

[@Goatboyfly]

This is mostly about the top leagues, but the depth of leagues is almost infinite. Almost anyone can get involved in a pub team or a Sunday league team. That’s what makes football so great, it’s open to all, you just have to have a passion for the game.

[@giuseppepapaleo3030]

Just watch London

[@jackspencer7535]

@@krashd there's a hill where you can see both stadiums on I remember

[@barryschalkwijk9388]

And they will hate eachother like no other team in the league!

[@klamin_original]

„I thought Premier League was the World Cup“ Ok I think we need to start at a whole different level.

[@joeuser9690]

when you thinkthey are getting it, they drop this bomb

[@TwofourA]

@@joeuser9690 😂

[@TwofourA]

It all goes downhill after that

[@JurgenErhard]

We need to start at the American Level. ;-)

[@roham1176]

😂😂😂

[@rw9571]

The narrator actually pronounced "Ajax" correctly.. I am Dutch, I can confirm that You pronounce it the american way😉

[@michielvdvlies3315]

yes that a-jax thing irritates me

[@JurgenErhard]

They're Americans… ;-)

[@wickedrabbit1173]

We call it " Ayax Amsterdam"

[@unwokeneuropean3590]

J is a Y for most of the world. Except americans.

[@albanpaul907]

Ajax in the US is a brand of cleaning products

[@mattsmith5421]

The English FA cup is amazing, 2 years ago my local team Chorley FC were in the 6th division, the 2nd 3rd and 4th round they got drawn to play a championship team (2nd division) who were huge favourites but every time they lost to our little town. In the 5th round they got drawn against Wolverhampton Wanderers a premier League team and only lost 1-0 it was an epic run for such a tiny team

[@thetimlumbTV]

Wrexham AFC this season was ace. I went to their 2nd round game and had a great time. In 2004, my hometown team Scarborough FC (in the National League / 5th tier) faced Premier League Chelsea at home and only just lost. and the mid 2010s game when Bradford beat Chelsea in the cup.

[@lisah1506]

The world cup is totally different. It's literally countries from all around the world not just Europe creating their best team from that country and the best wins.

[@brian9731]

... often including a team from the USA.

[@MaikonGarcia]

@@brian9731 often including several countries, but always including Brazil, the only country to participate in every World Cup tournament

[@brian9731]

@@MaikonGarcia - what I meant was that although Soccer is quite small in the USA and probably most Americans have no exposure to it, they do field a World Cup team and they often qualify and do quite well.

[@MaikonGarcia]

@@brian9731 Well it's because at Concacaf there is no competition... They have 3.5 places for classification, the only good team in the confederation is Mexico, there's no way the country with the biggest economy in the world can't at least qualify...

[@Haegemon]

World Cup is like the Olympic Games of Soccer.

[@Jmvars]

The leagues are club football. The world championships and european championships are national teams.

[@dubiumguy]

A good allegory for Americans is the NBA which has basketball teams representing different US cities competing against teams from other US cities, but then there's also the USA mens national team which selects the best players from the NBA to represent the USA against other nations basketball teams in competitions such as the Olympics.

[@Jmvars]

@Igor Samojednik I was just mentioning world and european championships because those are usually the ones that get confused with league football.

[@AdventurousNomad007]

what about the UEFA nations LEAGUE?

[@AdventurousNomad007]

He said that leagues are club football... I pointed out one that isn't.

[@AdventurousNomad007]

@Igor Samojednik Follow the thread.

[@alessiovitturi7312]

Not flaming here, but as an Italian it's very interesting to see how normal and obvious all the things explained in the video sound to us europeans, it's insane how we take it for granted, yet u guys can't quite understand how it all works. Also untill a while back i tought that literally everyone knew at least a bit about footbal, guess i was wrong XD. Nice video btw!!

[@sld1776]

In 1973, Sunderland won the FA Cup while being in the English second division. It's legendary.

[@andypandy9013]

I still remember their Manager, Bob Stokoe, running on to the pitch at the end in his hat and mac.

[@lassemadsen607]

It's still an epic game to watch^^

[@caseymclane1972]

What about Wigan Athletic winning it beating Manchester City in the final and getting relegated in the same season, then essentially playing in the Europa League out of the Championship 😂😂😂

[@sld1776]

@@caseymclane1972 Looking like world-beaters one day, then absolutely screwing the pooch. I believe that's the Roberto Martinez special.

[@mikelitorous5570]

The Jim Montgomery double save is the best save ever given the circumstances and the save

[@jonathon3787]

There was a recent attempt to have a similar to the US league in Europe called the Superleague where you essentially were always in the league regardless. That ship sank quickly. Very quickly.

[@chrislyne377]

Man Utd fan of 30 years here. I have not watched Utd since that whole shitshow and I have vowed that I never will until the Glazers are out. My second team, Colchester United, are now my club.

[@sarapesenacker4781]

@@chrislyne377 never agreed with á Manc before

[@joegratton8559]

@@chrislyne377 I’m from Colchester and I’ll always back them, UP THE U’s 😂

[@chrislyne377]

@@joegratton8559 Come on Col U!

[@daim.02]

And it was boycotted right away bcz we don’t want that commercial bullshit

[@bewareofsnow]

This year, a team from English football's 8th tier managed to reach the third round of the FA cup and played against Tottenham Hotspur, one of the top teams in Europe. Their players are semi-professional (which means they have day jobs, like schoolteachers and bin men) and their car park wasn't even big enough for the Spurs team bus. But for that one night, they played against international superstars!

[@jacobhargreaves4854]

Yeah and that player who usually never plays for Spurs(I forgot his name) scored a hat trick and did the Mbappe celebration. That was so funny.

[@MarceldeJong]

For Americans, "bin men" are people who ride on the trucks that collect trash.

[@doudy2k5]

@@MarceldeJong thank you bro, lol

[@braddoidge8236]

Spurs aren't a top team in Europe

[@bewareofsnow]

They were literally in the Champions League final two years ago.

[@maxslamer]

I'm so old that I remember the days when goalies where allowed to pick up (deliberate) passes from team mates with their hands. Taking away that opportunity to delay the game was a great decision.

[@scottirvine121]

Was only the 90s mate you’re not that old

[@asmodon]

If I remember correctly a big influence on that decision was the World Cup final of 1990. When Germany scored with minutes to go they got under intense pressure from Argentina. In those last 5 Minutes the German goalkeeper had the most possession of all players.

[@wellesmorgado4797]

Very often and in between, FIFA might make some goodish decision.

[@yeasinulislamefat2837]

@@asmodon nop it was mostly due to higuita aka the scorpion

[@joeybrazil2024]

Before the change, when you had a throw in close to your own goal the opponent didn't even bother to press because you could just throw directly to your goalkeeper. It's very curious to see it in an old taping since we're used to throw ins close to the corner being a good chance for a goal, no matter what team has the actual possession.

[@andrewgalloway6416]

Mate your wife is extremely intelligent please listen to her she understands so much 👍🏿

[@MeehBee]

Exactly, how dumb does this guy have to be to think that opposing teams are passing balls to each other 😂

[@AlanKSimulations]

Its Hilarious, any video ive ever seen from them, he waffles over the video then is asking silly questions he would have the answer to if he just listened to instead of talking over the video, while she just listens and soaks everything in and generally pauses if she wants to talk. The wife generally has a more logical and lateral thinking brain too. Its interesting how opposite they are.

[@beaverboi_]

You went in

[@AlanKSimulations]

@@beaverboi_ it's not really going in, it's just an observation really. He will always speak 1st then think, she will always think 1st then speak, we all know people in our own lives that are the same, heck I know people who speak but never think, I just find it interesting how they are so opposite but yet attract and work so well together .

[@diazinth]

@@AlanKSimulations I guess one provides momentum and the other direction, on average

[@aedards]

You can sign anywhere, for example Christian Pulisic is American and plays for Chelsea.

[@leohickey4953]

Yes. Quite a few US players have had successful careers in Europe and are well respected.

[@NotWhoYouThinkTheyAre]

yeah

[@thomashan4963]

@@leohickey4953 Pulisic, Howard, Dempsey, Donovan .. yeah! Great players, good memories 👍

[@callamtheowl5955]

@@thomashan4963 unfortunately rest of us male team is ass

[@thomashan4963]

@@callamtheowl5955 Tbh .. yeah! I can name more Senegal players than US.

[@sherlockrobin597]

When you sign a child you're signing up young people and offering to train them for the next 5-10 years with the best in the business for free. They don't "work", they still have normal stuff like schoolwork to do, but the goal is that when they're old enough they'll sign a contract and they either play for the team, or can be sold at a profit.

[@stirlingmoss4621]

it's an apprenticeship

[@matthewdearsley123]

i.e look up the career of Trent Alexander

[@ajvanmarle]

There are even training organizations that include their own elementary/middle/highschool.

[@DanHornerPlumber]

I’ve met so many young men who’ve been chewed up and spat out by this system, I’m not saying it doesn’t create some real stars but there’s so many other young people who are completely broken by the experience. I really think there needs to be more support provided from the clubs to support those who’ve been through the program from a young age but don’t make it pro. As an experience it can be incredibly physically and emotionally intense.

[@rbg75]

@@DanHornerPlumber just like any other career path in life. When you dont make it you dont make it, theres no one else responsible to wipe your ass after it, you just got to take care of yourself after that.

[@AP-RSI]

In Germany, we have about 25,000 soccer clubs alone! In my youth (which was some time ago...), almost everyone in my school class (the boys - back then...) was in a soccer club. And some hoped at an early age that they would be discovered by a scout for a bigger club. Because that would have been their chance to play in big games.

[@Gyantonio]

Did they make it big?

[@AP-RSI]

@@Gyantonio Well, I know at least from a classmate that he played for 1. FC Köln back then (i.e. after he finished school). But he probably never made it big, so he probably wasn't good enough.

[@markthomas5044]

Bloody loved this! I was shouting out loud a couple of times but loving the enthusiasm. By the way, the goalkeeper can only use their hands in their own 18 yard box 😂

[@Simon6020]

Worldcup is something else. It's happening every 4 years. All the other leagues happen annually

[@Koen030NL]

European cup is also every 4 years, also good to watch.

[@24magiccarrot]

@@Koen030NL In some ways the Euros are a better watch, the overall standard of play is higher in the Euros lets face it the only quality teams missing from the Euros are Brazil and Argentina.

[@Koen030NL]

@@24magiccarrot Argentia and Brazil you could compare with spain and france. But i guess countries like Uruguay, Costa Rica, Colombia all have decent teams that can compete with countries like the Netherland, Italy or Portugal.

[@24magiccarrot]

@@Koen030NL Fair enough those teams are decent, but my point is the majority of the extra teams in the world cup compared to the Euros aren't adding anything to the tournament in terms of quality. The worse European team that qualified for the Euros would easily be one of the top teams in Africa or Asia if they were somehow allowed to switch confederations.

[@omnishambles4477]

@@24magiccarrot Nothing beats the atmosphere of the world cup

[@isiteckaslike]

The matches don't just end when the referee feels like it. The match is in two halves. The refs keep a careful note of any stoppages, injury time, time wasting, pitch invasions by fans etc during the game. This is then added onto the game at the end of each half. The time added for each item IS at the ref's discretion, but they don't just stick on the odd 20 minutes when they feel like it. This can make games very tense at the end when you end up in this injury time period, especially during crucial matches involving team relegation or promotion.

[@cypressdogsy425]

i hate that these "football videos" always say that the ref ends the game whenever he feels like it ffs

[@DaxRaider]

@@cypressdogsy425 he has a point, the ref decides the extra time on his own, there are games with nearly to no injuries and then he says +6 and calls if of after 8 ... and others where the played time all game and he says +2 and calls it of after 1:55 ... as a football fan my life long ... yes the ref calls if of whenever he feels xD at least thats what it feels and thats what fans complaining about xD

[@cypressdogsy425]

@@DaxRaider it's 90 minutes + added time there's no "ending the game because he feels like it" there are rules to calculate additional time,

[@lumpyboo]

@@DaxRaider It isn't just injuries that add to extra time - it's also all the substitutions, VAR and if the ref thinks the other team is time wasting when taking goal kicks, free kicks etc, he will also add on a little bit. It's not an exact-down-to-the-second science, but there is definitely thought and logic behind how much extra time is calculated and played. And even if there are 6 minutes shown on the board after the 90 minutes is up, extra time can be added during extra time for the same reasons above.

[@HellDuke-]

@@DaxRaider any actions that stop the match from happening is factored in. The reason why you could add 3 minutes and after 4 is that the referee will typically allow an attack to finish. So let's say we just climbed over the 3 minute of added time but a team is approaching a goal. The referee will allow it to continue until the defenders basically kick the ball away.

[@OriginalPuro]

"I didn't know Russia had hockey" Canada, Sweden and Russia are always top 3 in the world...:D

[@BygonesAD]

Interesting watching this explanation and their confusion. Born in Italy I learnt all of this my first year of life. Just start supporting a team, it will be easier

[@Persholm1]

Yeah, that's actually fair. That way you can follow the team as the season progresses and know the players for that team. I would start recommending teams, but it's not really up to me who you support.

[@annicecooper8105]

And team loyalty is paramount. Have to stick with them through thick and thin.

[@Glund117]

The world cup is international football, not club football, its all the countries in the world (that qualified) that play with their national team. The Euros are currently being played which is the same but with just European countries

[@sonnythankey]

england are gonna beat denmark tonight

[@Paul-hl8yg]

@@sonnythankey You were right! 👍😁🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

[@_Wolfsbane_]

As is Copa America. Italy won 3-2 vs England for the Euros Argentina won 1-0 vs Brazil for the Copa America

[@ryan1111111555555555]

The "Kicking it back and forward to each other" is done for quite a few reasons, 1, as the video mentions, you keep possession, the other team can't score if they don't have the ball 2, you hopefully frustrate your opponent and draw them out of their positions, imagine two centre backs kicking the ball between each other, eventually the opposition strikers and centre forward will try to press them, this leaves a hole in their position, so one of your team mates goes into that space and receives the ball, now one of the opposition wingers is going to have to press them, leaving a space on the flanks... before you know it the other team aren't in any of their positions as they're having to cover other spaces left behind by their team mates causing disorganisation. 3 it can simply be to run the clock down if you're already winning, 4 it can be used to give your team a breather and a chance to reorganise themselves after being under some heavy pressure. Football is a very cerebral as well as physical game, its like a physical chess match constantly hanging on a knifes edge

[@tornaperinso1484]

If you use it constantly to move the ball from left to right, it also maintains the opposite team running left to right constantly, which in turn produces bigger fatigue that can be taken advantage of towards the end of each half.

[@primereview9727]

The “kicking back and forth” is usually to draw the other team towards pressing the ball to make space further down the pitch.

[@marcosv.renaldini1195]

Que loucura! É incrível ver pessoas que sabem tão pouco sobre o esporte mais popular do planeta.

[@rodrigocortez4092]

americanos né, bicho

[@joaoaugustolandim]

Me irritou no vídeo do cara explicando que ele só fala da Europa e América do Norte, sendo que tem o América do Sul, África e Ásia, continentes com futebol fortíssimo.

[@BrazilianImperialist]

@@joaoaugustolandim porque o futebol europeu é o mais importante

[@joaoaugustolandim]

@@BrazilianImperialist Mas não é o único. Argentina acabou de ganhar uma copa e o Brasil é o único penta. Deixou de ser só sobre a Europa desde muito tempo.

[@HoldTheReggae]

@@joaoaugustolandim Futebol de clube está sendo cada vez mais só europa desde muito tempo...futebol de clube que inclusive foi o tema mais falado do vídeo

[@dylantrinder1571]

I like the addition of "WIFE" to these vids, she comes across as having a cheeky streak!

[@tanah6962]

She seems to get it more easily than her partner. And she seems really fun too

[@scifibob]

@@tanah6962 I liked her comment about the growing brain. She just failed to mention "but not as fast as mine".

[@Noobie2k7]

I think she just generally have more experience with sport in general so she can get it a bit quicker. I think the guy mentioned he hasn't really ever watched much sport at all.

[@Ryan--G]

As per the rules, goalies need to distinguish themselves from the rest of their teammates, that's why they always have something different on. They're the only one that can use their hands, so they need to be easily identifiable.

[@Spect3r.]

Use their hands INSIDE the goal area only. Outside the goal area they are bound to the same rules as every other player.

[@Genesisrequiem]

The team I support did a big climb when I was a kid. Division 2, upto Division 1, and now floats around mid to bottom of the Premier league, sometimes dropping back down to Division 1 etc. Teams are owned by a board of directors and during transfer periods can purchase players from other teams

[@MA-rf6bd]

The boxing reference for the defensive tactics used by jose was quality, I can rate tht

[@historywithmike296]

In regards to signing kids it works kinda like this, in the UK (and most of the footballing world) , individual teams having scouting teams that scan practically everywhere with a lot of these being childrens leagues practically (U9s through to U18s) and approach them into joining the clubs academy. Where they'll train football practically daily, as well as have their schooling - it's here where obviously some go onto to eventually reach the first team, others get loaned out to other clubs and some unfortunately fail to make the cut. So for us our schools and University teams are there like you're school/college system, but it's a positive side effect that scouts can attend these matches looking out for talent. But generally most players who enter the footballing pyramid are spotted from amateur/non-league football the world over. Some huge players in the premier league now were originally scouting like on the streets of Brazil and Africa playing barefoot when they were offered the chance to move country and try to make a career out of it. Equally in some of these lower league clubs (say a League one or two club), if a promising player comes through their academy and a Top team comes in to buy them, a sell-on fee can be useful as say the top team buy a promising player for £5mil with a 20% sell on clause. Say that player turns out to be amazing and is sold in the future for say like £80 million, 20% of that £80mil will go to that original lower league club. Which can absolutely change the fortunes for that club, the sums I listed are a bit extreme but you get the point.

[@WKogut]

24:37 he said "to youth academies", most professional teams have their own academies that they develop young players in (they are mostly local kids, very rarely you see a foreign kid there) and when they get older they may join your main team. The club has several youth teams and most often a reserve team for players old enough to be pros, but not good enough to be in the first team. You are full on pro from the age of 16 most of the times, there is no school/college system like in the US. .

[@SkyIon]

14:01 - That's what I find so special with football leagues as a Canadian watcher that started back in January ish. There are stories of small teams making it to the top flight (the highest league - for England, it's the Premier League) and small teams beating large teams. 15:47 about that, I think it's like a in between. There are definitely much more opportunities in leagues overseas if you're from America, but teams in the MLS are trying to get more home grown talent.

[@existentialdiet279]

I love your genuine curiosity! Find a team to support, it's the best way to get into Association Football ⚽️

[@hwarangboy]

American soccer players Landon Donovan, Tim Howard, Brad Friedel, Kasey Keller, Christian Pulisic and Clint Dempsey have all played in the English Premier League

[@CraigWrightStraygoat]

John Harkes too, back in the early days. And Brad Guzan.

[@colincharliesdroneadventur9102]

claudia reyna also

[@charlies.98]

@@colincharliesdroneadventur9102 reyna play with man city ?

[@colincharliesdroneadventur9102]

yeah think so if memory serves correctly would have been in the time they had the thai owners 2003/04 time. He was some player loved him when he played for Rangers.

[@charlies.98]

@@colincharliesdroneadventur9102 i remeber he because i play PES 2006. Good team,samaras,lrleand and richards and more young payers

[@carlosbernard8859]

Thank you for reacting for my video recommendation. The video was only talking about club football, not the world cup. How you guys can wait the final for the Euro 2020, which is this Sunday and Copa America final, which is this Saturday between Brazil and Argentina. There is Euro match today the semifinals, between England and Denmark at 2 pm, but im not sure if you guys can be able to live stream that one, in such a short time. Hope to see you live stream the Eruo and Copa America finals this weekend. Keep up the great work and much love from Jamaica 🇯🇲.

[@sachithraindrajithsiriward9366]

I hope they watch the two finals. So much is at stake, specially for Messi and Argentina, and not to discount Italy and hopefully England. It'll be a good showcase of footballing talent and the passions involved with "the beautiful game".

[@LadyQAB]

@@sachithraindrajithsiriward9366 it would also be very cool to see Denmark win, with the way the started the tournament. It is also a very good underdog story which is always fun

[@sachithraindrajithsiriward9366]

@@LadyQAB It's sad that the deciding factor was cheap penalty. I am an England supporter but I do wish it was a more clear goal. And I do agree that Denmark's performance, specially with what they had to go through has been exceptional.

[@LadyQAB]

@@sachithraindrajithsiriward9366 Yeah that penalty was a bit harsh and it then there was the incredibly safe from the keeper they deserved better (but I do think England is the better team just not in this match)

[@FneK-ue9oh]

About the fact that every year you can see new teams and that every team has a chance; a few years ago an amateur team ( I think it was Quevilly) trained and performed so well they managed to enter the national championship and give a strugle to many pro teams (amateur team meaning that they had day jobs and basic remuneration if not at all); it has been a great moment in french football, I'm not even a sports fan and I remember it

[@Van_Wilder]

Watching your channel for the first time. This made me really happy that you made the conscious decision to learn the sport. Well done you guys 👍🏻

[@TheMissymoo221]

I believe there are currently about 42,000 teams in England. About 2000 of these are professional or semi-professional. There are 11 tiers to the National League System, with the top 5 tiers being professional. There are 20 teams in the Premier League (tier 1), 72 clubs in the English Football League (divided into 24 clubs in the Championship aka tier 2, 24 clubs in League 1 aka tier 3, and 24 clubs in League 2 aka tier 4), 68 clubs in the National League (divided into 23 clubs in tier 5, 22 in tier 6, and 22 in tier 7), 228 clubs in Southern League/Northern Premier League/Isthmian League (tiers 7-8), 680 clubs in tiers 9 and 10 (that contain 17 different leagues and 34 divisions), and tier 11 has about 900 clubs and 60 leagues. And this is just for England (apart from 5 welsh clubs lol) so put simply, there are a lot.

[@jameslewis2635]

While most cities, towns and even larger villages in the UK tend to have football teams, generally it is just the city based teams that have the resources to get into the more competitive leagues. In theory they could all compete, in reality smaller teams just couldn't afford to pay professional players. Also as long as you can get a working visa you could join a team as a professional player (assuming you have the talent and opportunity). The Premier league is the top UK based championship that happens every year while the World Cup only happens every 4 years. Also the World cup is an international championship which is separate from all the other championships that consists only of national teams like England, Germany, Italy, etc. I would suggest watching the England matches if you do decide to go through this years world cup as you will be most likely to get commentary in English as well as having a few less confusing names being mentioned.

[@abdullahkaanturker4656]

10:40 what she said is actually accurate. Best football games always between great defensive team against great offensive team which keep tension at the highest level for long time. Waiting one or the other cracking up makes it more exciting. Most boring ones are between two defensive team that have no goals to chase. They are middle pack team and they both happy about it. It's nearly end of the season so even players don't care that much and ball always stays in the middle of the pitch. It's a nightmare for people who watching it.

[@henryhunter3400]

I love how they just completely miss understood the jose tactic. It doesnt mean they just line up in the goal. It means they spend a lot of the game defending and dont attack often.

[@chrislawley6801]

Great to see InnocentAmerican bringing on your best player - Striker Wife : )

[@SparkytheBlade]

Are you trying to spell the word streaker!

[@lauz-im3ov]

The goalkeepers do wear a different strip to the rest of the team. They can go anywhere on the pitch but can only touch the ball with their hands/arms within the penalty box - that's the big rectangle in front of the goal. They wear a different colour so it's easy to spot them and know if the person touching the ball is allowed to.

[@miguelabreucoelho]

15:34 Yes, you can. Players can be sold and sign with any team in any country in the world. Transfer fees really vary a lot, depends on the quality of the player, how much money a club has/is willing to spend and how much can they offer to a player for salary (nowadays, a team can pay another team from 15 to 40 million $ for a good player, a great one can go up to 80 and some superstars today have been sold for 100+). 16:40 not exactly. The relegated teams are decided based on the final league standings. When all the games have been played, you have your champion and then the 3 teams on the bottom of the table (the ones who finished 18th, 19th and 20th, in a 20 team league of course) drop down to the league below and have to play there the next season. At the same time, the opposite happens too: the teams that finished in the top 3 spots in the lower leagues climb to the one above and get to play there for the next season.

[@butnooneshome]

To illustrate a couple of your questions; my team finished top of the English Championship, and as a result we're playing in the Premier this year. Unfortunately we are likely to finish in the bottom three this year, so will be relegated back to the championship next year. And we have just signed a Yank, who we signed from a team in Germany.

[@neuralwarp]

Goalies can do anything. They have been known to score goals (as well as own-goals).

[@mxlexrd]

Everything in this video was talking about club football, meaning teams associated with towns and cities. The World Cup, and the European Championship (e.g. Euro 2020, what's happening now) are between national teams.

[@KhaledRasool]

teams keep passing the ball to make spaces in the other team's defensive line because the other team has to track the attacking players, the players who don't have the ball will keep running into spaces. The defense has to chase them while this is happening spaces in the defense line will be made .. stronger teams will make fewer defensive errors that will cause spaces, and another reason for the high position is to tire the opponent players without having the ball.

[@lordomacron3719]

think of it like this you play the ball around between your teammates trying to pull the defending team out of position to create openings to attack into

[@alancook]

"Can an American football player play in Europe?" This year Chelsea won the Champions League (Europe's biggest football competition). One of their star players is Christian Pulisic, an American. He earns £3.2m per year. The World Cup happens every 4 years. This is for national teams (like England, Scotland, USA etc), not Club teams (eg Chelsea, Man Utd etc). Goalies are the only players who are allowed to handle the ball in their own goal areas - hence they wear different coloured shirts to their team mates so the referee can quickly identify them. Refs will award the other team a penalty if anyone other than the goalie handles the ball.

[@mermaidman1985]

Lynden Gooch is from California and has been at my local club Sunderland since he was a teenager.

[@nikaabuladze3105]

Saying that Christian Pulisic is a star player is kinda sad and just plain wrong ngl

[@duntalkin]

You should really try to watch a Premier League game

[@nonautomaton6230]

Or "Pwemeeeeer", as the narrator of the video would have it.

[@leventevincze1034]

Some friend of mine bought a couple of football jerseys, joined to the regional tournament (3-4 city's teams), won then they got a small contract and continued playing in a small league for fun. They got a little payment from sponsors which is enough for the travel/clothing/equipment. It's easy to start, you just need some players, a guy who will be your formal manager (could be anyone) and you can ask your city's sport organisation for registering the team. + a place where you can train (whatever field will do)

[@totallybored5526]

It’s shirt not a jersey 😾

[@Bjowolf2]

The passing back and forth and sideways is to lure the other team forward in their pressure to be able to surprise them with a fast deep pass forward or a quick rush with the ball by one player or a drible with the ball past some opponents - or even a very long pass towards their goal area to create a scoring chance against the now (locally) depleted opponent team.

[@eddhardy1054]

24:46...technically a football club doesn't buy a player when they're very young. They'll sign them to the club's academy and if when the player reaches 16 they might offer them a professional contract...or they might release them in which case another club may show interest.

[@hasibalfuad9652]

React to Messi. He is the ultimate GOAT like the video says. When you watch both of them you'll see the difference.

[@undemaaflu]

You may notice there are two rectangles in front of the goal. If you just touch the opposing goalkeeper while they are in the smaller rectangle, that can be considered a foul. The bigger rectangle is where the goalkeeper is allowed to touch the ball with their hands. If they go outside those rectangles, they become just another player and have to follow the same rules. Also, if the defending team fouls the attacking team inside the bigger rectangle, the attacking team gets a penalty kick 11 meters from the goal with nobody but the goalkeeper allowed to defend.

[@filmtherapybw]

Our Town alone has up to 20 teams. And it is a small town of 30 000 people. You can actually create your own team, and play against the big teams. All you have to do is register your team, and try your best. Your team can end up being in the National Tournaments or some thing. There is actually a tournament dedicated to small and new teams to try their luck in joining the bigger leagues.

[@davyyoung7785]

One thing that wasnt mentioned which is a huge part of our love of the game is the atmosphere. You can feel it in the stadium but on really good games you can feel it on tv. Watch rangers v braga highlights. You can feel it.

[@judithjanneck1719]

There is not just one mayor league per country. Here in Germany, we have multiple leagues with different levels where teams can go up and down (that's then relegation). Every season 2 teams at the top and bottom will switch leagues. It stays interesting

[@stalfithrildi5366]

1 major league per country *unless you're looking at the northwest peninsula where theres a Welsh league and all the best Welsh teams play in the English league, one English team plays in Scotland, and one Northern Irish team plays in the Republics league

[@DanoFSmith-yc9tg]

World Cup is a special country vs country tournament every 4 years that is totally separate from everything explained in this video. It’s kinda like when NBA players go the Olympics, everyone plays for the country they are born in, but just one sport. All these championships are club level where they playout their normal career, Like the NY Knicks or LA Lakers.

[@ItsNessaTho]

Ajax was pronounced correctly in the video btw (I know Ajax is also a cleaning product so you were probably joking lol)

[@smey02]

"Every town can have a football team" lol XD Actually can have much more than just one, for example in the Premier League out of the 20 clubs, 7 come from London XD Thats also another huge thing in football here, the rivalry between the clubs in 1 city, like liverpool vs everton, real vs atletico, city vs united and so on

[@InterMalager]

Well if you wanna watch one theres a HUGE game in a few hours at 8pm (UK time) one of the biggest in Englands history

[@Matahalii]

FIFA World cup is a special tournament held every years competing national teams. Every nation gatheres their best players from the clubs into a special team to beat the other nations. This also happens continent-wide for Europe or Asia or the others. This is sometimes interresting because opponent players from the league join forces for the countries pride, ending up playing against their clubmates who may be in a different nations team.

[@PeoplecallmeLucifer]

14:20 well there is a process and you have to spend a few years rising trough the ligues but yes potentially every team can rise to another ligue (there are stadium capacity requirements and such though)

[@daKurmler]

Could you pls react in the future to more european videos like that? Would be great 🤩

[@alancook]

eg "Understanding European Soccer in 4 Simple Steps - A guide for Americans" by Pen and Paper.

[@daKurmler]

@@alancook Yeah that‘s great

[@richardcarter5082]

You should react to Best of Ronaldo highlights to appreciate the "beautiful art" at its best.

[@ChrisBetton]

The World Cup is its own tournament that happens every four years with national teams playing each other (e.g. England vs USA) and that tournament happens during the "off-season" once the club leagues have all ended. The Premier League is the top league in England for English club teams (e.g. Liverpool vs Manchester City). The Champions' League is a tournament for the best club teams from the different leagues in Europe to play against each other (e.g. Liverpool vs Real Madrid).

[@aidanm5849]

When he was talking about signing kids and then selling them later, he's talking about academies, over here we don't have secondary school or university football in the way you guys do for your sports, or atleast they aren't as professional or important as yours. Instead we have academies, which is where professional and semi professional teams will not only have their senior teams but also youth teams for each age group, usually from about under 9s to under 23s (which is usually just a reserve team). These academies find the best young players they can and train them until they're either old enough and good enough for the first team, or not good enough and too old to ever be good enough, if they're good enough they'll either be started or loaned out or sometimes poached by bigger clubs, if they aren't good enough, they might be released for free or sold to a smaller club. This system means that young talents get the professional coaching they need and provides a source of income for smaller clubs, take carlisle united for example, they allowed Manchester United to take their 14 year old youth keeper dean henderson for free on the condition that he have many bonuses in his contract. Now he's a good goalkeeper for man united and carlisle united get paid every time he plays for man united, and if man united ever sell him carlisle will be paid 20% of what they sell him for. And this isn't even carlisle's only example of this either, there's also players such as jarrad branthwaite, who was sold to Everton on a relatively low fee, but has similair clauses in his contract.

[@raggmedia]

I loved this. Never seen such cluelessness, it's actually cute

[@weasyweas]

you guys should react to the rugby ref nigel owens and rugby in general :)

[@Prayingmantis78]

Rugby>Football

[@nichemphill8321]

The greatest rugby union ref has now retired

[@Prayingmantis78]

@@nichemphill8321 o7

[@riowarner0617]

@@Prayingmantis78 I personally love football but it's a dishonest sport, and rugby is becoming more enjoyable now. I'm also gonna start rugby soon. For me they're both cool sports but if I'm not watching southend England or Liverpool I'd probably rather watch rugby

[@michael_177]

Rugby is for men who are insecure about their masculinity. It's all they can talk about xD, 🤔 compensating? repressing?

[@sabaziosthorn7259]

Possession football is good at wearing out your opponent, chasing the ball takes more energy than keeping it. That's why you'll see defenders just passing it between each other, the opposing attacking players will be pressing to get it back, kinda like forechecking in hockey, if the defence play right the attackers wont have the energy to do anything with it when they do get it, while they are doing that they are also looking to exploit the space left by the midfielders who may have also moved out of position to pressure the ball carrier. For the team trying to get the ball back, pressure is essential! You cannot allow the team in possession too much time to think, that constant pressure will eventually cause them to make a mistake... there is soooooo much strategy involved in footy, it really is a thinking person's game.

[@Avatar2312]

Simply put, there are two types of tournaments. Club tournaments/leagues (such as the europa and champions league), where team members can be traded from all over the world from other clubs. And nations tournaments (like World Championship or Europa Championship), where a national team plays. So the club players from all over the world return to the countries they are citizens of and the nation forms its own team out of those for the tournament. In many instances players can then face club team members on the field as opposition, like David Alaba - until recently one of the top players of Bayern Munich, a german club, but an Austrian citizen - can face his team members when Austria matches Germany (and in most cases loses against them), because a lot of players from BM are also national team players of Germany. Club matches are often more intense and exiting than national matches, because the club teams play and train most of the time together.

[@luccaventurini1011]

21:36 No, the World Cup happens every 4 years with teams composed by players of the same nationality, and no, it's not just Europe, actually the Country with the most World Cups is Brazil, and the next World Cup is in Qatar, that is in the the Middle East

[@zackmackin1131]

i cant wait for england vs denmark later today

[@DennisVlaanderen]

The part about young players is more of a training programme agreement rather than an actual contract, since contracts imply labor and child-labor is forbidden. A friend of mine from grade-school had a similar thing where he got scouted playing in the little leagues and got promissed a spot in the training programme for PSV, one of the bigger clubs in The Netherlands. It basically meant that he would follow a training and diet programme set out by them to train him as a football player and he would follow schooling with an associated high-school/college programma that allowed him to follow a more strict training regime by setting out seperate homework tasks that give him some breathing room in that respect. After the programme he got loaned out for 3 years, since that was part of a later contract from when he turned 18, to another club in the same division. After those 3 years he was transfer free and moved to play in the States after two more years of local football. He played in Orange County FC and now plays for Cheonan City FC. So the youth-player thing is just a seperate educational programme that allows young players more time to train for the sport alongside their regular educational programme.

[@Heaventhia]

Here is some breakdown for the Champions League: 1) Qualifying for Champions League : Champions to Top 4. (Slots allocation depends on club's nation coefficient ranking. Higher coefficient point = Top 4, Lower coefficient point = Champion only) 2) Coefficient is based on countries ranking on Continental football organization. 3) A 3rd tier European Club competition was introduced, called UEFA Europa Conference League. Directly focus to lower ranking domestic clubs. The qualifying criteria is similarly to Champions League but the opposite in terms of qualifying spots.

[@carmelek3640]

13:30 every avwrage city has AT LEAST ONE team

[@DanielLopez-up6os]

The European Football Cup's Final is Coming up Next Week, so i'd reccomend that to see the BEST of the BEST in europe play.

[@ollysimmons3761]

Not really the best of the best considering like 90% of the best players aren't in It

[@michael_177]

@@ollysimmons3761 Yet they couldn't manage to reach the final 🤔 Stay salty its coming home

[@ollysimmons3761]

@@michael_177 what about lewandowski or ronaldo. They’re better than any players in the final but their teams weren’t good enough

[@michael_177]

@@ollysimmons3761 Well guess what Olly... It's a team sport. You have to have a solid team. You can't just have a sparkling diamond in a pile of crap. Lewandowski and Ronaldo are great players, but it takes more than 1 great player in a team of 11

[@ollysimmons3761]

@@michael_177 yea that’s what I’m saying. It doesn’t make them not the best players in The world just because their team didn’t reach the final. Phillips and pickford are in the final but they are no where near the best in Europe

[@AdrianMareEWEASANTE]

The world cup is an international tournament which happens every four years. It involves the 32 countries put in 8 groups of 4 teams. UEFA Champions league is European club tournament which happens every football league calendar year.

[@TheWarpseed]

Just a point on the passing back and forth in defence- Sometimes you do this in order to 'bring the other team on'. Which means basically you draw them out of their 'deep' defence positions to 'press' the ball leaving space for your team to exploit. Oh and the World cup is played not between clubs but between nations. So if you play for Liverpool but are an American you would play for the American national team at the World Cup.

[@clairemorgan8750]

Watching this after England just got In the EURO final - FUCK YES!!!

[@735337707]

After a very questionable penalty rule. I wouldn't be surprised if the ref will be reffing in the small leagues from now on. And the laser thing..

[@clairemorgan8750]

@@gtaonline-oldgiga7729 No it didn't, but still nice to see England reach the finals. Always going be tough when you are playing one of the toughest teams. They just need to learn from it and improve.

[@seanriley199]

To answer your question about can an American can join a European team, yes they can and many have over the years and as a Fulham (small borough in London, in the shadow of Chelsea) fan we still regard Clint Dempsey as a hero. COYW!

[@Asendra01]

The US has some amazing players rn. Christian Pulisic Giovanni Reyna Weston McKennie Sergino Dest The most prominent example from North America at least is Alphonso Davies 🇨🇦

[@xEvilAliv3x]

For Example Spain Divisions Sysytems has been reworked this season. It will have now: -La Liga Santander (1st division * named after a bank due to ad revenues), 20 teams, last 3 demote -Liga Smartbank ( 2nd division), 22 teams, 1st and 2nd promote. 3rd to 6th POs for the last promo spot. Last 4 demote From here on team are semi-pros but if good enouhg can promote - 1st RFEF Div. ( RFEF stands for Royal Football Spanish Federation), 40 teams in 2 groups - 2nd RFEF Div. 90 teams, 5 groups of 18 - 3rd RFEF, 324 team in 18 groups of 18 ( Some ream here are full amateur teams already) - Regional leagues ( which up till now had 4 division each ( Preferent, 1st, 2nd and 3rd) and few groups each

[@umbrapolaris1]

- World Cup is every 4 years and is about qualified national teams (countries) competing for the trophy. - UEFA Champions league is European tournament involving the qualified clubs (cities/towns) of Europe, every major football continent has its own version. - National major leagues (also called ''championship'') involve the 18-20 best clubs (cities/towns) of a given country. Then you have minor leagues (also called ''2nd/3rd/4th divisions'') also using the promotion/relegation system. - The Cup involves every clubs from every division of the given country, some low division clubs managed to win the trophy. American players can play in any European clubs (or elsewhere) if a club is willing to hire them and fill the proper paperworks in time, just like any regular worker hired by a foreign company. A very young player can be hired on the expectation that his talent will grow enough for him to be a top player but he will mostly play for the amateur/youngster team of the club, usually 16yo is the minimum age i saw a player in a major league.

[@arnodobler1096]

so innocent 😂😍

[@kuteken6312]

Watch the euro 2021 final it's Italy vs England 👍🏿

[@Dreyno]

You pass it around in your own half to retain possession, to tire the opposition who need to constantly readjust, the pull the opponent’s defence out of shape and to probe for an opening. Basically they’re waiting for their opponents to mess up and/or one of your teammates to make a move.

[@kurtkesters6043]

you are part of the national football league even in you play in a small-town team. those teams compere in a regional competition and rank up if the win, or rank down if they lose the competition. teams can progress as a whole, individual players can also get scouted, but transfers are restricted to a period outside the competition, and a agreement usually also need a fiat from the original team.

[@timglennon6814]

Can I just confirm that Jose Mourinho is NOT the best football manager, he is s only 8th in the Top Ten successful managers. Number one in the top ten is , Sir Alex Ferguson with 48 Football Trophies to his name. Mourinho has only got 25.

[@hw2508]

And who cares? I don't understand why Mourinho or any other manager needs to be named in a video that tries to give the basics of a sport. Who cares for exact tactics at this stage? There are different ways to defend and different ways to attack. Now watch a match and find out for yourself how that might look. Don't care about trophies and records.

[@hman8338]

@@hw2508 you're right. I only got into football in the last 5 years, and it was far easier to see the formations and strategies in play with the commentators explaining at times than read or hear about it.

[@LukeGB003]

Pretty much every town has a football club. My town does. But my town isn’t very good. The town I was born in, Harrogate, has a football club called Harrogate Town AFC, they are now in League 2. However I support Leeds United and they are in the Premier league Which is the best in England. They were promoted from the Championship.

[@undemaaflu]

The guy explained the club competitions. A club team can have any player that agrees to play for them, including from different nationalities. Apart from that, there are national teams, where every country is allowed to use only players from that country. The World Cup is a competition for national teams. There is a "Club World Cup" where teams from Europe face teams from other continents, but it's not nearly as popular.

[@vangough10]

There are 2 types of football teams, your football club is the professional teams like Barcelona, Manchester United/City, these resemble your NBA teams, where you basically try to build the best team you can buy with players from around the world. The world cup is for national football teams, like the olympics, where players have to play for their home nation. Usually National Football Team tournaments happen during club football off days. Each region also has their own Tournaments for National Teams. The World cup is the biggest one where every country plays qualifiers until the big one where the top 32 teams come together.

[@penningtonlfc]

brits hate commercials,ethan always have.

[@dufflepod]

Two people talking, and the one with the ovaries definitely has wayyyyy more sporting savvy :)

[@gudmundursteinar]

One thing I've noticed is that the concept of National Teams isn't explained properly. Players can play both for their Club team and their countries 'All Star' team. The various All Star teams from the various countries also compete in the big summer tournaments viz the World Cup and the European Cup. For the All Star team for any country, e.g. Denmark, The Danish FA (that runs football in that country) picks a manager for the national team and picks players of Danish Nationality, they can pick ANY players, no matter what club they play for, and put together a team to represent Denmark the country and they play againt other countries.

[@arnepietruszewski9255]

There are like 6 or 7 leagues in germany. From league of your county to Bundesliga. Basically it starts with League of county to league of state to league of region to 3rd league, 2nd league and Bundesliga. If you are the best in your league you go up if you are 2nd or 3rd you have to play relegation vs. the 2nd or 3rd last of the higher league to go up. World cup is nation vs nation. Champions league is club vs club. Many people start playing soccer very young in europe so starting at 8 or 9 isnt unusual. There are scouts out there looking for those talents and they go to the parents and ask them if they would like to have their son playing for team x if they do and the kid wants too they sign him up.

[@dobythedog]

THANK YOU. I HATE it when people here in the UK call it "The game" It's the MATCH. It's a football MATCH.

[@alexwinterborn36]

The Official Premier League Handbook Season 2020/21 uses the term 'game' 212 times. For example, "Kick off times for evening games - 19:45 unless stated otherwise." So...

[@dobythedog]

@@alexwinterborn36 I know. They are using Americanisms as well. Doesn't make it right! It will always be a "football match" for me.

[@alexwinterborn36]

@@dobythedog Lol... "They" is THE EPL, chief. What they say is, by default, right when it comes to them. What anything is to you is no more important than what anything else is to anybody else. And I'm 100% certain I can go back 100 years in English media to find the term 'game' applied to football matches. You shouldn't worry so much about defining who you are by playing with words. I can assure you that only you care.

[@lordadjei6987]

It was actually painful watching him trying to understand 🤣🤣 he’s getting there though 🤣

[@richardcarter5082]

The part where he thought the World Cup was just the Euros hurt my brain a bit....only kidding though, it's great he is making the effort..kudos!

[@Crowned-Qwesi]

The world cup and continental cups are for National teams. The tournaments mentioned in the video are for clubs.

[@pakimonsas]

The winners of the Champions get to compete in the FIFA Club World Cup with the winners of the other continental tournaments and is annually. But, all countries have national teams, which the best players are selected to play on FIFA dates. Those national teams end up qualifying for the World Cup which is every 4 years