American Reacts to European Football Explained for Americans

Hello! I'm an American on a quest to learn more about history, geography and the universe in general. In this video I get my first taste of how European football works, with some American sports analogies to help pave the way. If you enjoyed this video, please like and subscribe!
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01:46 - Reaction
29:00 - Outro
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[@johnnyjoestar5193]

I still recommend you watch this video it makes it more simple, you dont have to make a video on it but just watch it atleast (only goes over club teams not international) kzbin.info/www/bejne/fIuXmmaBjZd2jZY

[@donovanwray5974]

Hey Sogal, Christian Erikssen, a Danish player suffered a cardiac arrest in the match against Finland so, the stretcher comment was a tad unfortunate.

[@williebauld1007]

You should also learn and react to rugby, the British and Irish Lions are touring South Africa next month. It’s a team of the best players from Scotland, England, Wales and Ireland It’s a very big deal

[@neilgayleard3842]

He got the youth development stuff wrong. Kids are not being paid at that young of a age. It's just training to start with a few hours a week. Then we they get older they start playing games and training most days. They don't become full time professionals until they are 17.

[@joescarecrow]

yeah check out the video Johnny Joestar recommended. then look at Leicester 2014/2015 premier league title win. Loved this reaction and as always how in depth you go. Would be cool to see you react to the current Euro highlights too, maybe just before the final. The copa America is going on at the moment too. USA involved too.. as well as north south and mid american countries too.

[@gantorisdurran710]

"Are Manchester United and Manchester City the same thing"... comments like that could start a riot.

[@nickachief]

FIGHT !!! 😂

[@Dementat]

Yeah they're both shite

[@danesorensen1775]

Rachel Riley is one of the downvotes.

[@rogoth01themasterwizard11]

i mean technically if you look back at the history they were (kinda).

[@barrycharlessearle5253]

Manchester United and Manchester City are 2 separate different teams United play in Red and play at the stadium named Old Trafford and City play in Blue and there Home Stadium is named Etihad Stadium. For More Info JUST GOOGLE...

[@hernanmercado2389]

She: * drinks water from a CocaCola glass * CR7: * visible confusion *

[@evetea9780]

You have Ronaldos respect

[@dondiddy7529]

This was a good comment haha

[@vtpooks2166]

ronaldo and dani drinkwater is a perfect link for fifa 22 xD

[@alexandrenunesdeoliveira9417]

How do you know it's water? It could be vodka or gin...

[@NikolaBlahBlahh]

@@vtpooks2166 also chillwell, Ronaldo's second favorite player

[@SimonSaysSimon]

Fun fact: There are about 220.000 Football Clubs in Europe and each of them can have multiple teams. About 1,5 million matches are played each year in Germany alone.

[@aledcrowlands1619]

Cant believe that 1.5 matches are played in Germany alone I mean that's mad it's probably youth and Sunday league games tho aswell innit but still must be like 40million matches in all of Europe which gets played that's just and tho innit

[@florianbusse8383]

@@aledcrowlands1619 The german football association has about eight million members. Of course this includes men and women "too old" to play but still being members of their respective clubs. Multiple leagues exist in every Landkreis, which roughly compares to a county. Theoretically, a club could work its way up from the lowest level to the highest league. Sad but true, even among these amateur clubs, money is often important, either in cash, expensive football shoes or sponsors who provide a job in their company. What I would like to know is if there are no organized sports for adults in the USA? As far as tv series go, of course that is not reality, there seem to be only friends meeting casually to play basketball etc.

[@GeneralPet]

Unless there are about 1370 football stadiums that host 3 games a day, everyday for a year, then I don't believe you.

[@florianbusse8383]

@@GeneralPet Football is not only played in stadiums. Every little club has at least one pitch and yes multiple games are often played in one day. There are different leagues for men and women, children and adults etc.

[@bjoerkbjoerk4688]

@@GeneralPet Why do you assume that they are played in stadiums? I think what you are failing to account for is that these top teams are not playing in any different series than the smallest neighbourhood club. Theoretically your neighbourhood club of the most basic amateurs could rise to play in the top league given they win their league every year. Ofcourse these small clubs dont play in stadiums they play on the pitch closest tho where they live. There are thousands upon thousands of football pitches. In sweden alone there are about 1 million players (Population of 10 million). There is the main football league pyramid, but there is also youth series and kids leagues and pure amateur tournaments as well.

[@tximinoman]

16:21: "How many teams you guys have?" Well... How many cities and towns are in Europe? Because about that many.

[@bentels5340]

No, no, no. Each city and town has several teams, for different ages, leagues, male/female and specialized (different types of disabilities).

[@senja_official_]

@@bentels5340 many cities have even 2-3 teams for every category you listed,like turin has torino and juventus, manchester has city and united and many more.

[@peterkelly1515]

London has several teams there's about 7 lonodn teams in the premier league alone

[@dhirajsriram1100]

@@peterkelly1515 well not 7 but like 5

[@peterkelly1515]

@@dhirajsriram1100 arsenal, Chelsea, spurs, Watford, Brentford, palace, West ham

[@danielc7657]

This isn't European Football, it's just Football.

[@gonimysh]

Exactly. There is Football and american football.

[@irishpatronimo5875]

This is the very reason I clicked on this video.

[@vineetpandey6787]

@@gonimysh Nope. There is football and then there is the pansy game of elliptical ball

[@Wontar]

It's European football. This is from the point of view of an American. Americans have football already, so that's how Americans make the distinction. If you are outside of the US, you call it football vs. American football. It's a frame of reference.

[@irishpatronimo5875]

@@Wontar It's not just European though, people play it on all 6 habitable continents whereas American football is only played in the US. (As far as I know, correct me if I'm wrong.)

[@cambs0181]

European football, which is exactly the same as African football, South American football, Asian football, Central American football and basically most of the world outside the US.

[@baekdutiger631]

Only reason why it's not popular here is because USA men's team never won the WC!!! Women' wins don't count....

[@xboxheavy]

​@@baekdutiger631 The US were close to win the first world cup in 1930, I think the national team got third place.

[@baekdutiger631]

@@xboxheavy Yep that's why US national team don't get enough support since it's been that long ago...

[@GarkKahn]

And half of those times(like the last one) they didn't qualified

[@JL-so2eu]

You forgot northamerican football (México).. 3 countries in northamerica, Canadá (hockey 🏒), USA (Baseball ⚾, Rugby gringo,🏈 Basketball🏀) and México (football ⚽)

[@franciscojosedasilvapereir27]

"Does Morocco not play? Were they banned or something??" *pointing at the desert*

[@Darbskj]

Laughed so hard

[@galier2]

Mauritania. That's the name of the country in that part of the desert.

[@jakobsmith4046]

@@galier2 Its western Sahara

[@flswttr]

my girl thinking she's smart by pointing out western sahara instead of morocco. it is part of morocco, but yeah, politics.

[@TheSyscall]

@@flswttr Well as you said politics... But officially Western Sahara is not part of Morocco. The locals are at war with Morocco because they claim to be an independant state (since Spanish colonisation ended). NATO remains silent regarding the situation there because USA recognised Western Sahara as part of Morocco. So for the locals, Morocco is seen as new colonizers and try to fight for their independance with the help of Algeria.

[@Heithel]

"How many teams do you guys have?" "Yes."

[@elatetunic-wd9ig]

If you count all of them will go to the hundreds of thousands

[@sinisterem]

"How many teams do you guys have?" A lot! Pretty much every city, town, village of hamlet, any place where there's more than 11 people that have a pulse will have a football club! :)

[@NeoMicy]

Even with less than 11 people there would be a football team (speaking from epirence) xD

[@timothymartin5538]

Yeah, then there's the five-a-side stuff, which tends to be quite entertaining, we all remember shirts v skins from school, obviously it's not necessarily league based, but it demonstrates the cultural importance.

[@hope29croatia]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@jamesmarchant7369]

Back in the 80s my dad played sunday league for a pub in his hamlet. There were two football clubs in the hamlet, that hamlet probs had a population of like 200 people! All the people who were in those 2 clubs also played for the hamlet's cricket team, sport is more of a community here in the UK and it is common for some towns and villages to have more than one football club and for those clubs to have more than one team! My hometown there are 3 clubs - A junior club, and 2 town clubs with different names, plus all the villages in the local area radius around 5 miles each have a club which is like 5-6 other clubs!

[@timothymartin5538]

@@jamesmarchant7369 mate that's sounds awesome, but it does call into question the validity of the term hamlet, I swear that's like 5 houses/households, if we're talking a couple of Hundred people then it's a village, but if you meant that it still has that hamlet vibe, then I get ya.

[@davidwood2671]

Essentially every town has a team and the larger cities have multiple teams

[@RodolfoGaming]

In england every local town has at least 2 clubs

[@rbarnett3200]

Some villages also have two teams...pubs have their own teams....there are a lot of pubs....

[@georgesamuels4511]

I live in a village that has a non league club 🤣 Culture in England is different gravy innit

[@joematthews4952]

Not necessarily, Leeds are a one club city.

[@callumlucas4444]

@@joematthews4952 that’s not true

[@MattheusCruzYT]

Important: He talked about club football, he did not talked about international team football, the competition that is going now is NOT the Champion League (club football), the competition you mentioned is the UEFA Euro 2020, that competition involved national teams affiliated with UEFA (England, Germany, Turkey, Portugal, France), not team from the Premier League, Bundesliga etc... I loved your channel. You are really smart and cool. Also the only American who knows well the world map lol (no offense to America). I am now ready to watch your other videos.

[@yellowcactustvz4929]

In your lost you didn't even include us and we ended up winning looool

[@Wellshem]

@@yellowcactustvz4929 It's coming, Rome !

[@lucasanderson6487]

I love you

[@jarmopaakkonen2045]

Marocco? 🤣

[@revolucion-socialista]

"Americans" are all people who live in the American continent, not just in the United States

[@karllaoun8106]

“This LITTLE thing called the Euros” she says 🤣

[@James_McScott97]

I feel like the Euros comes 2nd in the Uefa scandal with the champion's league coming 1st

[@holmbjerg]

Compared to the World Cup it is 😅

[@filmtherapybw]

Lol

[@karllaoun8106]

@Haniff Azman Chill bro

[@yellowcactustvz4929]

@@James_McScott97 The euros are way more important than the champions league, come on. Even non football fans always watch the euros, for the champions league it's different. As an italian just comparing the celebrations in the streets after the win and the silence before the games there is no comparing

[@kietZe]

Fun fact: during World Cup in Germany the water supply in Berlin broke down during half time because everybody was going to the toilet

[@Fabii2000]

Well its Berlin... XD

[@uteriel282]

thats just sunday realy

[@amyw6808]

I lived in Berlin at the time. That must have only happened near the stadium. I lived in Lichterfelde (also west) and we didn’t have any issues.

[@BeneAkaGlyon]

Its a true story but on a wrong assumption: There was plenty of Water available but the workers that manage the watersupply were so busy watching the game that they forgoot to turn on the pumps to increase the amount of water in the systems. Thats als the reason wehy not all parts of Berlin were affected but just the ones getting there water from that station. Greetings form Berlin

[@davidcarcamo5010]

Just dont drink beer lawl

[@noniLaus]

"You can't really get up and go to the bathroom" - the other day my dad was watching the Portugal vs Germany game and briefly switched to the news only to realize that he'd missed 3 goals when he switched back lmao

[@yodef6828]

*Relatable*

[@nicolasrodriguesdossantos1881]

I remember the infamous Brazil vs Germany where my mom was cleaning the room while the match was happening and me and my sister were screaming GOOOLLLL and she would pop her head off the room and ask: Are you celebrating the replay? Me and my sister: No, it's another goal from Germany!!!! After the third goal she gave up cleaning and came to the living room to wacth and set off fireworks to piss off our neighborhood

[@GarkKahn]

I remember during the brazil 1-7 germany my dad left at the beggining of the match and after coming back the game was already 5-0 and i ask him "how are you?" like saying "you missed an historical moment"

[@mobolajiade-aina8643]

Like the time when Lewandowski came on as a sub and scored five in ten minutes.

[@jorgbecker5028]

@@nicolasrodriguesdossantos1881 Shoutout to your mom ❤️ Anyway... Brazil will take revenge in 2022. Greetings from Germany

[@parodyclip36]

"You can't go to the bathroom 2 minutes because you will miss a goal" During the Euro I have missed 5 goals by simply going in an other room for like 10 seconds

[@roryslaine7896]

I was at the United vs City game when Rooney scored that bicycle kick. My friend left the stand to go take a call from his girlfriend who had been blowing up his phone, and he missed it 😂 He was only gone for like 50 seconds. The reason his girlfriend was phoning him? To ask if they had any batteries in the flat and where they were hahaha. He was so gutted and we took the piss out of him for the rest of the weekend.

[@Mirkuzz]

The Portuguese where Jose Morinho is from pronounce J as J, whereas the Spanish pronounce J as H.

[@carlosrementeria2692]

Emmmm no, Spanish pronounce j not h...

[@cessare2467]

@@carlosrementeria2692 "J" in spanish isn't pronounced like "j" in english. For example, in *jalapeño* you pronounce it like the "h" sound in *halloween*. Meanwhile the "j" in english in *jelly* sounds like the "y" or "ll" in spanish (see for example *yo* and *lluvia*). Of course this letters do not sound EXACTLY THE SAME. There are differences, mostly subtle. That's what the first comment is saying

[@cessare2467]

*Mourinho

[@chetahthegod5824]

@@carlosrementeria2692 he means the J in Spanish is pronounced similarly to the h in English not that the h in Spanish is pronounced

[@schipp3525]

I think in Spurs till I die he said it was pronounced hosé

[@Glund117]

The Champions League isn't happening right now, that happened weeks ago, thats the club competition. The Euros are happening now which is all Europe's national teams

[@charleskett6438]

Didn't chelsea just win the champions league? She just watched them win that tournament

[@shoutinghorse]

Think of it as a world cup just for European nations.

[@ayeready6050]

@@charleskett6438 Chelsea won the Champions League last month. Club football usually starts around August and ends around May which is referred to as a 'season'. Competitions like the Champions League are played every season. Therefore, Chelsea won the Champions League for the season 2020-21. The season starting this August will be called season 2021-22. International tournaments are played in the Summer every 4 years (like the Olympics), although its 2 years between when the World Cup and the European Championship (Euros for short) are held. The last World Cup was in 2018 (won by France) and the previous Euros was in 2016 (won by Portugal). The Euros that is being played now was meant to be played last Summer but it was delayed a year due to covid. Club football is played amongst private clubs. International football is played amongst countries, whose teams will consist of players from many different clubs so long as they share the same nationality. The term 'club' usually refers to a private team. If you wanted to talk about a international team then would usually say the "Scotland national team" for example. Lots of the information in the video was related to club football, particularly the bit about contracts and transfers. Hope this helps. Don't hesitate to ask any more questions you have 😊

[@bobbybingle1662]

Like she is interested. 🙄

[@ayeready6050]

@@bobbybingle1662 She does seem interested to learn. I don't know why you would say that.

[@simonread8713]

If a club like Barcelona sign an 8 year old, they'll fly them into the city where they essentially have a boarding school (La Masia - owned by the club). They get full school education, football training, and whatever else. They'll even re-locate the family of the child, if need be. Other clubs work a little different, but this is an extreme example.

[@mrpk188]

Like Messi he came to Barca when he was 13.

[@simonread8713]

@@mrpk188 Yes, exactly. My mother works in a school (Cardiff, Wales) and one of their 8 year olds has been taken to Barcelona. They have superb scouting.

[@mrpk188]

@@simonread8713 hope he became a pro La masia have given someone of the all the greats like Inesta, Xavi and Messi.

[@stevebardella_farm-nature7bis]

@@mrpk188 Messi joined Barcelona after passing through Italy from Como Calcio, he was 10 years old. He was discarded despite costing little or nothing, 2002/2003 season, he was 15 years old, but he had already passed 5 years before from Brescia Calcio, also in northern Italy, he was 10 years old at the time. Discarded because physically unsuitable (Flea)

[@stevebardella_farm-nature7bis]

This happens throughout Europe, or almost, in Italy there are football schools both of the Federation and of the most important clubs that have a sector called "the chicks" aged between 8 and 11 years, Francesco Totti Roma grew up in Rome, his the first football team, from one of the districts of Rome, was Fortitudo, in which he started playing football at the age of 7. Later he moved first to Smit Trastevere, another central district of Rome, where he played his first amateur championship playing two years under age in the beginners' championship and then, in 1986, he joined Lodigiani. [78] [79] Lodigiani (Rome) in 1986, Serie B rookie team In 1988 Ariedo Braida (tried to bring Totti to Milan but without success. In 1989, at the age of 12, Lodigiani reached an agreement for his sale to Lazio, but a blitz at the player's home by the then head of the Roma youth sector, Gildo Giannini, convinced his parents to choose the Giallorossi. Italian Federal Football Regulations: First year chicks, matches 5 vs. 5 Second year chicks, matches 7 vs. 7 Third year chicks, matches 7 vs. 7 Mixed chicks, matches 6 vs. 6

[@alt1f4]

This is not "european football" this is football for the whole world

[@theabba1758]

It’s Football for everybody

[@theabba1758]

@@StokesburyUSA its Football

[@theabba1758]

@@StokesburyUSA Its a ball and people use their foot to play it. Simple Football.. da

[@fran-yv1xc]

@@theabba1758 stop crying, its soccer for americans

[@paspax]

@@theabba1758 .. It's a type of football (played on foot). It has a proper name. That name is soccer.

[@MemerMaestro]

"If you went full press for the entire game you would become exhausted" Leeds Players: "You guys get tired?"

[@dylankeville1026]

😂😂😂

[@filipfilipov8716]

Bielsa screaming in background

[@paul-juniorblack6151]

Facts😂😂😂

[@henriquepontual5361]

@@filipfilipov8716 and crouching on his knees

[@temporaryuseraccount0012]

This comment did not age well (Leeds not far from relegation zone).

[@michael_177]

The Euros is not for european teams. The Euros is for the european NATIONS, big difference

[@Hunter27771]

And Scotland, Wales, North Ireland and England. So not only nations^^

[@skjold9121]

@@Hunter27771 but... those are nations.

[@s4migitman]

@@skjold9121 they are countries but not nations

[@merlin4084]

@@s4migitman To be fair, Northern Ireland isn't a country....legally speaking anyway. More of a province at this point. Only reason it is allowed in the international game is because the IFA (Irish Football Association) was the original one for Ireland before Partition in 1921 and as such has a right to play internationally. The Republic of Ireland set up the FAI (Football Association of Ireland) in 1923 which is why there are two Irish teams.

[@Hunter27771]

@@skjold9121 The nation here would be the United Kingdome.

[@arfallaennzu1853]

"700 teams is insane" Coupe de France: 8,506 teams just sayin'

[@vraelatao2264]

Yeah I laughed my ass off, 700 is not that much compared to other european countries.

[@mats7492]

Germany has over 25.000 teams competing in hundreds of leagues

[@vraelatao2264]

@@mats7492 Well the number of clubs in the country is not what's being discussed, but the number of clubs allowed/qualified for the cup is. France for instance has around 18000 clubs, and 8500 are qualified for the cup. England has 42000 clubs, more than twice the number of France. Knowing that only 700 English clubs are qualified for the Cup is mad.

[@pebbleyt1357]

@@vraelatao2264 but yet the uk is tiny compared to germany, france, spain, just sayin

[@vraelatao2264]

@@pebbleyt1357 Indeed but why would that be a problem ?

[@samatarMohamed]

Lady: "Is his name Jose or Jose" Jose Mourinho: "RESPEEEEECT MAN!!!!!"

[@M-Soares]

Funny thing is it is neither lol

[@teotonioviolante8374]

@@M-Soares mesmo

[@joaovictor20101]

@@M-Soares yes hahahaha...

[@flswttr]

@@M-Soares sempre é mais parecido com o que o gajo disse no video, se é pra dizer entre a versao inglesa ou espanhola que digam a inglesa

[@mffmoniz2948]

Spanish: hose. Portuguese: jose. Think Jo-seph.

[@charybdisfgl2048]

“The UEFA Championsleague” “That’s what’s going on right now!” Nope, wrong again. What’s going on right now is the European Championship (Euros)

[@Daveydoodoo]

Jose is like 'joe say'. That is the Portuguese pronunciation. You have probably only hear 'Ho say' which is the Spanish pronunciation

[@matyy_.]

Hoh-zay is spanish pronunciation portuguese in fact is not joe it's more like Zho-Zee

[@Jonsson474]

Well Jose can’t pronounce English names either so i guess it really doesn’t matter. 😉

[@garibaldilebeau]

@David Poole you watched the All or Nothing: Tottenham Hotspur series as well, didn’t you😎

[@zahrans]

@@Jonsson474 *Respect Respect Respect*

[@BrunoBarata78]

@@Jonsson474 I'm Portuguese and that just cracked me up.

[@timcliffsmith]

A few points: 1. A centre-forward and a striker are the same thing. He got a bit confused there. What he labels the CF is known as a number 10 or attacking-midfielder and is usually the most creative player. 2. Yes, any player can go anywhere. He is referring to their primary responsibilities. Midfielders have to get up and support the attack and get back to defend (unless you have a specified defensive or attacking role, but even then you should always contribute to attacking and defending in your own way). 3. It's Jose with a hard J because he is Portuguese, not Spanish. 4. The Champions league is a continental competition in which the top teams from each European league play each other. 5. There are 92 teams in the top 4 divisions. These are professional teams. From the National League downwards, more and more teams are semi-professional, and there are hundreds of divisions in what we call the pyramid because they become increasingly regional and feed into each other. 6. What's happening now is the European Championships, which is between national teams. He is talking about the Champions League. See point 4. 7. That's not Morocco. That is Western Sahara, a disputed territory. 8. Some countries, such as Spain, have mandatory release clauses in a players contract, but they are often very high. However, most countries do not include release clauses as standard, though they can be negotiated by individual player's agents. 9. Regarding kids, yes, that is real. Almost all teams run youth programmes starting at that age. However, you cannot technically 'sign' anyone under the age of 16 (though money does change hands sometimes!). Clubs will have scouts at school games and local youth games and invite talented kids along to the club. A club will run under-10s, U-12s, U-14s, U-16s, U-18s. Think of it like a filter system, with the most promising kids from each level progressing into the older teams. Once someone is 16, they can sign a professional contract. 10. An alternative to FIFA and PES is Football Manager, which is more about signing players and tactics. You set up the team and then watch them play. 11. It is difficult to just dip into a sport if you have no context about the significance of the games, or even what the players are doing and whether it is good or not. Overall, this wasn't a bad video, and good for you for wanting to learn about this stuff.

[@roy_for_real2674]

scouts at school games? where?

[@timcliffsmith]

@@roy_for_real2674 I mean at inter-school level, you know, like town championships, that sort of thing. I don't mean just normal sports lessons in school.

[@shubashinvictus]

That's really long 😂.. even tho ik everything it was interesting to see someone explain it...who.do you support?.

[@timcliffsmith]

@@shubashinvictus Cardiff City

[@shubashinvictus]

@@timcliffsmith you are in championship right now?. Good luck mate

[@Inferiis]

"How many teams you guys have?" To be fair pretty much every city has at least one football team, even towns. Bigger cities may have 5-6 or even more

[@luca_castellari]

this is the most American reaction I've ever seen hahaha

[@revolucion-socialista]

"Americans" are all people who live in the American continent, not just in the United States

[@davguev]

@@revolucion-socialista How would you call people from the US, then? Unitedstatetians? If that's the case, Mexicans could also be called like that. Mexico is Estados Unidos Mexicanos. But they're Mexicans. Same with the USA. Sucks that they chose America for their name, but it is how it is.

[@johnjungkook2721]

@@revolucion-socialista in theory, but not in practice

[@jdrancho1864]

There's no need to call it 'European Football', just 'football' will do.

[@fran-yv1xc]

American perspective, not so hard to understand..

[@everything_usmnt5300]

When will people ever stop feeling the need to say this. Get over it

[@Muschelschubs3r]

@@everything_usmnt5300 No. Out of principle. The world does not revolve around 'Murika.

[@damasogaymmer9497]

@hfc He literally explained it

[@everything_usmnt5300]

@hfc stop wasting your breath bro. These people are snobs.

[@Alfred_Domke_antispace-sounds]

„Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.“ - Gary Lineker

[@juangutierrez4644]

as an argentinian who lost 3 finals against them.. i agree xD

[@Alfred_Domke_antispace-sounds]

@@juangutierrez4644 You only lost two. 1990 and 2014. In 1986 you won. I still remember Burruchaga.

[@juangutierrez4644]

@@Alfred_Domke_antispace-sounds looool.. didn't notice the typo.. thanks for the correction

[@wilfswann]

NOT TODAY :D

[@isabellacavaliere3501]

Boy, did that age poorly 😆

[@esburnside]

At least you're trying discount Jodi Foster

[@cesargomes2378]

20:48 americans and their geography, i didn't want to say it but the joke wrote itself hahahah

[@revolucion-socialista]

"Americans" are all people who live in the American continent, not just in the United States

[@klaxoncow]

When he said that the midfielders can "go either way", what he means is that they're in-between defence and attack. They do both jobs. If the team is pushing forward, then the midfielders might join the attack. But if the opposition gets the ball and is pushing forward, the midfielders will drop back and become additional defenders. There is no restriction on movement - or, indeed, role - in the game at all. Well, besides the "offside" rule and that goalies will almost always stay at their goal, for obvious defensive reasons.

[@whodis113]

Then we have Manuel Neuer, honorary CB and sometimes, CM :)))))))

[@elatetunic-wd9ig]

In the 1974 Netherlands if you ask where you play, they will say yes

[@janwojtyna3392]

Every player has to play D.

[@michielvdvlies3315]

it depends on the tactics

[@michielvdvlies3315]

@@elatetunic-wd9ig Total Football. just like van Gaal did with the Netherlands in brasil just let an attacker play right wing defender

[@johndare3576]

Morocco place in the African federation. You may be getting a bit confused looking at the map because part of Morocco seems to be left out.That’s because it’s not Morocco. It’s the Western Sahara which Morocco illegally occupied and is not recognised as being part of Morocco by the rest of the world

[@rbarnett3200]

Ceuta is a part of Morocco but is actually owned by Spain and is thus Spanish territory with all that that implies...

[@uztre6789]

@@rbarnett3200 Nobody was talking about ceuta

[@TheGarryq]

Then again, Spain simply walked out without leaving behind a proper government. As far as the UN is concerned that leaves Spain, as the former colonial power, responsible for the area

[@Ambitwine]

@@TheGarryq Morocco invaded the place with a massive civilian force, Spain was on the verge of the collapse of the dictatorship, they just left because that was the easy thing to do, wtf do you expect?

[@jorgeferdenav]

@@Ambitwine Spain is still responsible for it. Spain chose to have colonies, so it's Spain obligation to fulfill the pertaining obligations. Can't handle the responsibility? Don't have colonies.

[@aranchuica1936]

When they talk about signing 8 year olds they mean that they sign them unto their youth academies. Some teams have more pretigous ones than others, the most prestigious ones kinda act more like a private school until they're in their mid-late teens when they actually start helping them work towards being a professional athlete.

[@klamin_original]

16:30 "How many teams do you guys have" Well every town has one. And some simply managed to be better than others and so found their way into the top leagues. That's the beauty of the whole relegation thing, you can reach the top league when 30 years earlier you were just another local club.

[@user-ed5bu3xp5m]

Yep there literally like Sunday league teams

[@HrHaakon]

Correction: Every town has at least one...

[@hasibalfuad9652]

"The only thing I hesitate to do is to play with Barcelona. Cause I can control Leo Messi and who am I to say god what to do" Best quote in the history of Mankind.

[@tonybroderick4808]

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[@mobolajiade-aina8643]

@@tonybroderick4808 Messi is arguably the greatest football player of all time

[@Fenet2000]

16:00 yeah, we have about 24,000 football cubs in Gemany. That makes a LOT of leagues just in Germany

[@altemzwo8390]

The thing that I haven't seen properly explained in any of these videos is that European league pyramids combine pro, semi-pro and amateur into one giant thing. Organised sports isn't done primarily in schools and colleges, instead we go to our local sports clubs, those play games within said league pyramid (which is being called a pyramid because at lower tiers, there will be multiple leagues at the same tier). In theory, anyone can form a club, have the club join the applicable sports association and get promoted into the top flight, the only practical problem being that this will take 10+ promotions to get from the bottom tier to the top tier.

[@murderboytje]

That arent just profesional teams.... Thats what they talked about. Not the amateur stuff there is all around Europe. The US has that as well. This was just about the pro leagues.

[@Spuddowww]

@@murderboytje The point is that these leagues all feed in to each other and are all part of the same system. For a good example checkout Hashtag United on KZbin. A club which was formed and is now climbing the leagues from nothing, it can help to explain how the semi-pro teams work. Effectively anything from national league and below would be 'semi-pro' but you could get promoted to the pro leagues with enough work and skill.

[@lellab.8179]

17:22 That's exactly what happened in Italy with ChievoVerona: Chievo is a fraction/part (I don't know how exactly you say it in English) of the city of Verona. They started from the minor regional leagues and arrived in Serie A, where they managed to stay from 2001-2002 until 2018-2019, even competing in UEFA Champions League.

[@NaftaliAndrade]

José has two different pronunciations based on where the person comes from. If they come from a Spanish speaking country, the pronunciation is "Hosé". However, since both Brazil and Portugal have a strong presence in football, you'll likely find players with this type of names (that look Spanish) with a different pronunciation. The portuguese sound for "jo" in José has no equivalent in English, so people usually use this "djosé" sound (try to say this but imagining that there's no leading d in the sound and you'll come close to saying it in Portuguese). The same applies to players with names like Jesus, Joaquim, etc.

[@Hawk762ii]

J = Zh There is equivalent pronunciation in French, Japanese and Mandarin Chinese.

[@vaudevillian7]

Champions League is a cross-European League for each of their teams from their leagues What’s going on now is the Euros, which is for national teams (e.g England and Scotland) - essentially it’s like the World Cup but just for European nations. It also takes place every four years, and fits in-between the World Cup (like the Summer/Winter Olympics)

[@Uncle_T]

This ^ :)

[@michael_177]

700 football teams isnt much, thats just the number of teams who entered the FA cup lol, theres thousands here

[@strategiefan277]

and only a fraction of those are professional teams, most of them are free-time clubs

[@michael_177]

@@strategiefan277 Oh yes of course, not all thousands of them are of a professional level, but there are a hell of a lot

[@BlameThande]

I think the difference is that here (or in a European country or South America or wherever) if all the professional players and the TV coverage and the money vanished overnight, kids and amateurs would still play football for fun. Whereas if US sports vanished overnight, I'm not convinced anyone would still play them without money being part of the equation. So the idea of every town and village having its own team is alien over there, sports is a top-down money making exercise not a bottom-up people's activity.

[@dorianevans6638]

@@BlameThande Is this something to do with the insurance based US health care system ? In movies, the sport you see being played in the US by adults are non contact sports such as baseball, basketball & 10-pin bowling - not soccer or rugby, where the risk to injury is much higher.

[@9thbloodandfire508]

@@BlameThande The reason football is the - THE - most successful sport in the world is it is easy accessible. All you need is a ball (or something alike a ball). No bat, no protective gear, no ice-skates, no basket, nothing. You don't need rich parents, and you yourself don't need money. Just a ball. Second, the basic rules are pretty simple: Do not touch the ball with the hands, and kick it into a goal more often than your opponent does. But by far the most important part is, wether you are a top pro, or just some freetime kicker, you play this game with your heart! It is competition, it is fun, it is feeling, emotion. It affects your body and your mind, and both need be to sharp to overcome your opponent. As a freetime player, you easily can relate to any professional, cause he faces the same struggles (for sure on a different level). Football is more than just a sport for a lot people all over the world. It is very near to religion. Therefore, you are absolutely right. Put away all the money in football, and yet you would still have the same players, the same league organization, and still people all over the world would play it.

[@tavitsmith1284]

Great video!! Thank you. I learned a lot!!

[@arposkraft3616]

@7:15 no....3 subs for the whole game all players collectively... including if there is; overtime and penalty shootouts ... and usually you need to keep 1 sub aside for the case of an injury , so recon 2 subs as per standard and you might use the 3rd in the last 10 minutes to try and force a goal

[@carlos_takeshi]

"Parma vs. Bologna... Are these teams good?" Sometimes...?

[@tjampman]

But remember to check if you are on the food network, before you state they are good teams

[@senja_official_]

i mean they were in serie A at some point

[@alessiobaruzzo1679]

Last year were both in Serie A, but Parma got relegated at the end.

[@yellowcactustvz4929]

Daje cazzo, non sono così male. Imo batterebbero la nazionale americana

[@roryslaine7896]

Parma had a great side in the 90s/early 2000s. I think they were just shockingly mismanaged and were spending above their means. Like Leeds around that same time period. Great squad but an absolute train wreck behind the scenes.

[@charlestaylor3027]

That's 700 professional or semi-pro teams in England alone. Scotland has 3 leagues of its own. There are 17 professional teams in London.

[@antonycharnock2993]

Don't forget Welsh teams are included in the English leagues but Wales also has it's own league. Also Berwick on Tweed is in England but is included in the Scottish leagues. Oh this is so simple 😂

[@paulguise698]

@@antonycharnock2993 Hiya Anthony, the reason Berwick is in the scottish league is there would of been 93 football teams in English football league, that's why they put Berwick in the scottish league to make the scottish and english leagues an even number of teams

[@williebauld1007]

Scotland has 4 leagues mate

[@charlestaylor3027]

@@williebauld1007 technically 3 leagues, one of which has 4 divisions but I was in the wrong.

[@kannattini9190]

@@paulguise698 Berwick got relegated from the league few years ago, the played in Scotland because other teams were closer in Scotland

[@dasy2k1]

You have to remember that out of those 700 teams only the first 3 or so divisions are actually full time professional... As you move down the leagues you will start to find part time professional teams (they get paid to play (generally per appearance rather than a salary) but also have a day job...) go further down and you end up with pure amateur teams

[@SNP-1999]

I really liked this - your honesty and cute questions were refreshing. Hope you enjoyed the Euros - England versus Scotland wasn't representative of how England can really play, or of how international football can be when really exciting. My tip, watch the match Italy against Belgium in the Euros - now that was an excellent match, even if I must say so as an Englishman. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@Ozzpot]

The three subs a game is exactly that. You can only make a substitution three times. So at least 8 players out of the 11 will have to play the full 90 minutes. At the European Championships right now though, they're allowing five per match. I think that might become standardised in the near future.

[@13dg]

Not just in the Euro. In some leagues they did it as well. The reason is Covid.

[@jiansonz]

Yes, five subs allowed, but still only during three occasions.

[@tonytynebridge510]

It wont its just because of covid the players have played lots of matches so more subs

[@bigcheese6212]

Before the 65-66 season the English League didn't allow subs at all and when they did, only one was allowed

[@GarkKahn]

Yeah but this is for covid only If that didn't happened then we'll still have 3

[@joeloates1685]

Why are people disliking? The video been up 6 minutes and she's trying to learn ffs.

[@alansmith1989]

There are those on You tube who put dislike to as many videos as they can-just to be like that!

[@markwilliamson2864]

Probably a bunch of people searching KZbin for a free stream of the live Italy vs. Switzerland match and finding something quite different.

[@joeloates1685]

@@markwilliamson2864 probably. 🤷‍♂️

[@michael_177]

I had a theory its one guy with sock accounts, theres a string of comments on this video in very bad english saying some mean stuff that doesnt make any sense lol. Just ignore em' SoGal if ya see this

[@Dementat]

Welcome to the internet Joel

[@pisos95]

Hola from Spain! I honestly admire your honesty. There's something in me which makes me feel so uncomfortable when I have to show people I don't know something. Keep it up with the videos and, by the way, that is not Morocco 🤣

[@nathanaelhawke8722]

absolutely loved this

[@foggy951]

You should watch "Soccer in Europe in four simple steps: a guide for americans" it gives you a better simple overview and is only 4 minutes long.

[@Deadralord777]

Personally I really don’t like that video. I think this video explains tactics and how leagues work much better. If you can get past the presentation which I can, I don’t really care. The other video doesn’t bring up the multiple cups and the FIFA stuff. If you are wanting to learn rules the best way to do that is by watching games and playing FIFA that’s how I learned.

[@talkshowhost85]

I especially like how football fans can talk about various leagues around the world and their teams. Also, football fans know a lot of players from different part of the world. Truly, the world's favourite sport.

[@Kevin-bt4wb]

For the most part, they only know teams, leagues and players in the bigger leagues in Europe.

[@nickchivers9029]

When he talks about "midfielders who go forward or back" he's referring to basically a particular midfielders specialty - a defensive midfielder will hang back and help defend when your team are in the opposition half and collect stray balls, attacking midfielders join the attack to overwhelm defenses or sometimes hang a bit deeper and are used to execute key passes to the forwards. Some midfielders are a mix of the two (sometimes known as box-to-box midfielders - referring to the fact they operate primarily from the middle of the pitch to the edge of either penalty box)

[@ApolloNasty]

Finally, what reaction videos where always meant to be :D

[@scipio764]

”Are Man Utd and Man City the same thing?” That's like asking is Lakers and Clippers are the same. You might've just burned down the city of Manchester with that comment.

[@MrNifts]

I applaud you for taking the time and interest to learn about footie

[@bobbobson3098]

So when he says midfield can go either way, they mean they will be a regular part of both the attack and defense at most points of the game, since it is a flex position. Some teams will have formations that have center-backs or center-forwards, that are mid-fielders that play slightly more defence/attack, sorta like how a tight-end is a combination of a receiver, o-line and running back. Whereas defenders in soccer usually will only be in the attack if they were out of position and they are taking the opportunity, or if it's a desperation play, and the defender is acting as attacking player.

[@rosco3]

24:40 Also good to mention that release clause for some players, especially the most valuable ones are just too high, basically impossible to pay off.

[@generaldreedle2801]

Live reaction to England v Scotland. Good luck with that. Bring popcorn, beer, a tin helmet and a flak jacket. It will get spicy.

[@johnashtone7167]

Flack jacket, nah hide in a Nuclear bunker, especially when Scotland lose :-).

[@reecedignan8365]

Oh, the Tartan Army’s going to own the stadium mate no debate about it 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@generaldreedle2801]

@@johnashtone7167 I wouldn’t be surprised if the SNP blame England when they lose👍👌😁

[@generaldreedle2801]

@@reecedignan8365 So long as they don’t wreck it😁👍

[@reecedignan8365]

@@generaldreedle2801 ehh they probably will. But at the same time if we win enough and get to the final… we may also get a national holiday too

[@dapablo2]

in 1872 the first ever International football match was played, England vs Scotland, Final score 0-0. There is some history here. :)

[@jacobtierney4419]

And in 2021, history repeats

[@mikael884]

Nothing international about that game..Scotland is just a English region.

[@jacobtierney4419]

@@mikael884 head out in Glasgow one night and say that pal, be some funny last words 😂😂

[@dapablo2]

@@mikael884 Sorry but that is just factually incorrect. Scotland has it's own parliament and is part of a group of nations called the United Kingdom which is seated in England. England is not in charge of anything Parliament is.

[@mikael884]

@@dapablo2 Sure...as did the "homelands" in South Africa...as did the occupied countries of Nazi Germany...Mock up parliaments taking orders from Westminster.

[@usctrojanfreak]

it takes guts to put out a video like this lol respect to you

[@gustavoolinto1816]

I really love when the youtube recommend me a little channel from the other side of the world and when I watch it is pretty good. Anxious to see more of your firts contacts with football, wich is the most popular sport in my country, wich is the country who had won the World Championship more times. Cheers from Brazil. Nice to meet you.

[@hexoslaya3696]

Football isn’t an esport

[@gustavoolinto1816]

@@hexoslaya3696 lmao Already edited. Thanks

[@Nightknight1992]

my condolences for watching scotland vs england hahaha. what an unlucky one to try and get into it. germany portugal wouldve probably been the more nteresting one :D

[@jon62punk]

Couldn't pick a more boring side to watch than England , basic tactic put opposition to sleep , and I am English . To many fans I would say your club side is more important than country , I am a Leeds supporter and though they have had many lean years in recent times , I always put club first .

[@Nightknight1992]

@@jon62punk yeah agree, also clubs always play and also have the relegation stuff at their hands, plus the transfer economics part. your match vs croatia was pretty entertaining though

[@jon62punk]

@@Nightknight1992 Must have been an accident if England had an entertaining game . Usually in these competitions , World Cup , Euro's , if I want a good game to watch I avoid England ........ but I guess with Marcelo Bielsa at Leeds we have been spoiled by the quality and entertainment , win or lose . England tend to have one entertaining game per decade and we may have had this decades one !!!!!!

[@vaudevillian7]

Last comment, I promise 😂 yes they will sign 8-10 year olds, because professional sports outside of the US isn’t tied to schools and college it’s all extra curricular. A kid might be scouted at a middle school game though (although teams also hold tryouts so kids will go along) and then be put into that teams development system, so they’ll be going through their training academy and playing for their youth teams (they’re not being signed for the main team) And yeah it’s 3 substitutions only, for the whole team, again that applies to most European sports including rugby etc. most players will play the entire game.

[@freshjuice457]

The video was not boring at all! It explained european football very well but just as a short summary! Yes there were blank screens, because he put more emphasis on explaining it!

[@CitroTeam]

Here in Portugal almost every village and town has a football team. Many cities have 2 or 3 or 4 clubs, or even 7 clubs. Some clubs have more than one team that must participate in different levels.

[@mtth6758]

I love how surprised Americans are that there are literally thousands of Football teams (hundreds making it onto tv) and not just major cities like they do over there lmao

[@emobx02]

I mean, I think she’s understanding this as them all being professional, whereas these numbers include semi pros, and some amateur leagues. If you included all the American football leagues, including “amateur” aka colleges and high schools, many of which generate millions and play in stadiums bigger than NFL and premier league stadiums, then there are thousands (maybe hundreds of thousands if you really got down to it) of football teams all over the US too, literally every town has a high school team, no matter how small, and every state has multiple major NCAA college teams, which like I said, are actually much more popular throughout the whole of the US than NFL. NFL is just highly commercialized and obviously the top 🏈 league so it’s understandable why people think of that when they think of American football, but it’s hardly an accurate picture. A guy at my university that was from Germany had a hard comprehending that we were at a college game and not a professional game because we were in a 100,000+ stadium, and he couldn’t get over the crowd compared to an NFL game he’d been to, as well as the tradition and team loyalty amongst fans. He still keeps up with our college team years later and before Covid, he would try to make the trip over for at least one game every year. Just an example though. As a football (⚽️) fan myself, I have many teams in Europe on my list to visit, but the more I speak to European (or anywhere else tbh) football fans, they are usually just as ignorant about American football (🏈) culture as most Americans are about their football (⚽️). I just love and appreciate it all haha.

[@yellowcactustvz4929]

@@emobx02 Yeah but american football is basically just american, football is incredibly international. Being ignorant about american football is absolutely not as bad, you would need to learn cricket first since it's more played than anerican football lol

[@yellowcactustvz4929]

@@emobx02 Also we definitely have more teams per population than America by quite a bit still lol

[@emobx02]

@@yellowcactustvz4929 Idk if I believe that if you're counting every single high school, college, and professional team. I mean there are thousands in each state alone, and the UK is smaller than a lot of single states, but I doubt there's an actual statistic for it (and I certainly don't doubt that there are many in the UK too btw haha). Totally agree that American football is, well, more American and therefore just not going to be as well known outside of the US lol. But that's what I mean, especially on the internet when people from outside the US think they have this perception of it that's actually hardly accurate at all. In particular, every European I've met doesn't realize how in, especially smaller towns and cities, football teams are integral to each town, city, state, etc. Like, these are teams that are far from professional but have histories that go way farther back than the NFL's existence, and many have similar formation times to the period of history when (⚽️) football was being forged in England. People outside the US just tend to have a much more "NFL" view of American football, which is hardly an accurate or total view was my point, and why I shared the story about my friend from Germany. But on the whole, I get what you're saying!

[@emobx02]

@@yellowcactustvz4929 Just looked this up because I'm curious, but there are around 16,000 high school football teams across the country. Some are in small run-down towns (usually the most passionate fans) and some of these kids go to huge schools and play in stadiums that rival professional arenas. There are 893 colleges (university) teams spread out over 3 different divisions, the largest of which most teams are older than professional American football and play in stadiums that hold over 100K fans (because a lot of American football fans have a stronger allegiance to these teams than to any NFL team, as NFL teams are only in big cities, and contrary to popular belief, nearly half of all Americans don't live anywhere near a big city... remember, it's a huge country, and many states are the same size or bigger than the whole UK, so it's not like you can just pop up to an NFL game whenever if you don't live close). I stress the stadium size because it's not an exaggeration to say you feel like you're in the middle of nowhere, and all of a sudden there's this HUGE stadium that attracts more people than even live in the town where it is. It's hard to explain in a youtube comment haha. Then you have different semi-pro and lower-level professional leagues. Idk if you're even considering completely amateur Sunday league-type teams, but there are thousands, if not millions of those. Sorry for this long reply, I honestly just got curious about this and looked it up myself. I figured sheer size difference would play a part, even with a higher population density in the UK, and it appears so.

[@liverbot4854]

"How many teams do you have?" We have 92 teams in the top 4 professional leagues in England. Those teams cover almost all (semi) urban residences in England and Wales, so theoretically my hometown of 120,000 people could win the biggest club competition in Europe. That can’t happen in the US.

[@carkawalakhatulistiwa]

220.000 teams all Eropa

[@Kevin-bt4wb]

Just to clarify for accuracy... it's 92 teams from the *Top 4* professional leagues in England. YNWA

[@liverbot4854]

@@Kevin-bt4wb Thanks! I’ve edited my comment now. YNWA.

[@BrentTJo]

Except for when the Green Bay Packers are winning. Population is about 100,000 with the closest larger city being 190 km away.

[@arroe8386]

the substitution rules changed due to the very full calender in todays club football. You can now substitute 5 players (+1 if it goes to overtime)

[@Uzodesign]

I think the guy who explained the video did a great job. Could it have been better on the visuals? Yes. He has a nice soothing voice. Could definitely be a voice actor, narrator, or voice-over guy. I never quite realized how complicated understanding World football could be for someone new to it. You have the clubs and their tournaments and then you have the international tournaments. I suppose they would like to know when are they played? Which teams qualify etc. Well, the first thing is baby steps...immerse yourself in the culture by playing, going with friends to watch games and with everything else the more you do it the better you understand it.

[@alexanderwilliamhassaikay]

20:50 you mentioned that Morocco isn't included in the CAF which is not true it is included and football is extremely popular here as well but the thing is that map (like many other maps) doesn't include the disputed western Sahara region into Moroccan territory but Morocco does control that region in reality

[@Alban_Gaultier]

American and geography ...

[@shanwyn]

"How many teams do you guys have?" Answer: consider that each larger city has at least one top and a few minor teams... more than sand in the desert LOL

[@yarriddevogelaere2005]

You can only substitute 3 out of your 11 players over the whole game. It's been cranked up to 5 during the pandemic because the schedule was very condensed after leagues being on hold for 2-3 months during the first wave and then having to make up for lost games, basically doubling the physical strain. For some reason afterwards most competitions decided to stick with 5. When he says the midfielder can go either way he doesn't mean there are any regulations. He's mainly talking about tactical instructions they get from their coaches. Most coaches give their players a lot of tactical and creative freedom to do what they think is most beneficial in any given moment but some coaches very much prefer to restrict the actions and movement of their players depending on their position and their tactical role. Easily put, there would be 3 midfielders most of the time but all 3 would have different roles. The CAM (centre attacking midfielder) does not do a lot of defending and is mainly active when his team has the ball. The CDM (central defending midfielder) does a lot more defending than attacking and usually stays in position as a guarding player when his team has the ball. Should his team lose the ball he's there to either win the ball back quickly or to stop opponents from going forwards too quickly and buying his teammates time to get back into defensive positions. The CM he was talking about is somewhere in between those 2 and goes forwards and backwards about equally. The often play the aptly named box-to-box role. (fyi the boxes are those large squares you see on either end of the pitch) Jose Mourinho is Portuguese so yeah it's 'chosé' not 'Johwsay'. However, many people (even non-Brits) use the English pronunciation for most names in football because the English League is the biggest and most popular one and all competitions that are played internationally are organized in English. It's kind of the sports official language. Yes every country has their own series of leagues. The Champions League is the European competition where the best teams in all of Europe compete. They don't play in a competition format like the domestic leagues do but in a play-off/knock-out format. Morocco is included. I think you might be mistaken. Morocco is directly below Spain. It's the most northwestern country in Africa. They're part of CAF: Confederation Africain de football or African confederacy of football in French. The greyed out part is just an unclaimed part of the Sahara that's uninhabitable I think, could be mistaken. Release clauses are very, very rare. At least outside of Spain. In Spain it's obligated for teams to include a release clause in contracts with players but in other countries it's not. In some, like France it's even prohibited. I know of 3 players in the Premier League right now who have a release clause as far as the public knows (contract details are not made public so you're never sure as an outsider). Even in Spain big clubs like Madrid and Barcelona have to abide by the rule to include a release clause in every contract (which theoretically puts them at a disadvantage compared to other European giants) so they just make it a ridiculous number like 1 billion Euro's, which no-one will ever pay. That way it's the same as if they didn't have a release clause included. Only the biggest clubs like Madrid and Barca can do this however because players and their agents have a say in this release clause and they won't agree to something as outrageous as that unless they feel they've reached to peak of football and there's no way to go up any further so they won't mind if no club ever buys out their contract. Yes, players are 'signed' at a very young age. Most professional clubs have their first team which usually consists of around 25 players. Other than that they have a youth academy that consists of up to 20-25 different teams divided in different age brackets, the youngest often being 7-8 year olds. These kids can however leave as they please and are not bound by contracts. Most countries don't allow a child to sign any professional contract with a club before the age of 18, or in some cases 16. That means they're not getting paid but they're also not legally bound to a club and are free to do as they please. However, if a club comes and poaches an academy product right before they've signed their first professional contract that club is often obligated to pay you a development fee to compensated you for the money and time invested in developing this young player. This can often range in the hundreds of thousands of Euro's. Also most countries don't allow clubs to go and get kids under the age of 16 or 18 from different countries so whole families don't get lured with promises of fat paychecks to move to a completely different country and culture as that would not be healthy for the child obviously. For instance, Brazil has a lot of very promising talent all of the time. Their league is quit good but nowhere near the big European ones, not in quality nor in funds. So the best Brazilian kids get signed by European clubs. However, they're not allowed to sign for a foreign club (officially) untill the age of 18. They are allowed to sign a professional contract domestically at the age of 16. What happens with the brightest of them, the likes of Neymar, Vinicius etc and now probably Endrick, is they sign a professional contract for their youth club in Brazil at the age of 16 and if they're good enough they start playing for the first team immediately. However, European clubs have probably know the kid since he was 13 or 14 and they're waiting to pounce. So in their first professional contract they often include a release clause (60 million in Endricks case). Just a couple of weeks or months after they signed their first professional contract a big European club puts the money on the table and signs a pre-contract with the player stating that they'll sign with them the day they turn 18. Next to the sporting part, the tactics, the squad, the games and so on, football is also just big business. Much more so than most US sports, which is strange to see. The worlds capital of capitalism getting 'outcapitalismed'. The euro's are not the UEFA. The Uefa is the governing body of European football, like the FIFA is for the world. The euro's is short for the European Cup. A tournament organized every 4 years for European countries to compete in, like the world cup is for countries all over the world.

[@tdrxy]

I signed my first "contract" when i was 8 for my local team. I didn t become a footballer but yeah it s a regular accurence

[@nigelfennell4860]

I loved this video, I love to see Americans learn about football. I see the football culture from a different angle. I'm English living in Thailand. All the Thai football fans support Manchester United, Liverpool or the like. They support those teams because they are expected to win. I support my home town team, Brighton and hove Albion. We don't win often but when we do, the feeling is amazing. In general, English people support their local team regardless of how good they are.

[@ha22el5]

As other comments already asked, you should reaally watch European soccer in 4 simple steps, the video remains true to the title and it says "europe" but the it applies to every continent, it works kinda the same way everywhere. I subscribed this channel 'cause of the history videos, I'd never expect some football content, but i love it, hope you keep going.

[@smedia2991]

Umm no. European leagues and other leagues are very different!

[@ha22el5]

@@smedia2991 I don't know how it is where you live, but in South America it is the same structure. Each country has its own league, a cup, relegation, and they compete to qualify to a continental tournament: Libertadores. To the extent of knowledge, Africa and Asia work the same way too. Of the might be exceptions within countries like The USA am India, but overall it's the same.

[@smedia2991]

@@ha22el5 Let me correct myself; I agree that it's not completely different. But in some ways, it's different. But season timelines are different, transfer windows are different. Copa Libertadores qualification is different. Copa Libertadores itself is different. Number of teams are different. Maybe I see the difference because I only watch football; for a fan of other sport, it may look the same. European football is centred around 4 seasons which is not the case in tropical regions. Lots of leagues have playoffs. In some countries, cups are more important than the leagues, so and so.

[@bjoerkbjoerk4688]

700 teams are the ones who apply and enter the FA Cup. There are 40,000 football clubs in England. More than 5000 of those are actually in the same competition, the league pyramid. In Europe there are probably a couple of hundreds of thousands of clubs that are involved in the league systems and ultimately compete (theoretically!) for the champions league title.

[@SNP-1999]

To answer your question - all players, including the goalkeeper, can go anywhere they like on the pitch (i.e. the field), but if the defenders - and especially the keeper - did that, then their goal would be crazily open to attack by the other team. So, the defenders usually stay back, but the two on the outside, the left and right full backs, can go forward to attack as well. England showed how this is done last night against Italy, when both full backs went up, one flanking the ball over to the other in Italy's penalty area, who then scored for England. That doesn't often happen, and was brilliantly played.

[@jobfranschman8436]

Almost every city, town, village has a football club in Europe. Most are really small of course but still.

[@DaxRaider]

thats wrong,. most cities have 5+ xD and i know alot of villages with 2-3 clubs xD

[@paulwalsh598]

@@DaxRaider I would venture to say that most cities have a couple of hundred clubs, but up 5 professional the rest amatuer or even a few part time pro.

[@benj1955]

It's really brilliant that you'll be watching England vs Scotland on Friday. I hope you enjoy it...like the rest of us here will. Watching a game live is a great way for you to learn the rules and to see how a game works. Because of covid they are allowing teams up to 5 subsitutes each in a game rather than the usual 3. Regarding 'the clock' you'll see the clock running in the corner of the screen while you watch the match, the 1st half counting from 0 mins to 45 mins until half time and 45 mins up to 90 mins for the 2nd half.

[@TizianuMenzukialu]

+SoGal In soccer you have 3 substitution in total per game, after covid and the lack of athletic preparation for the season, to avoid injuries, federations raised substitution to five for the past season.

[@BobHerzog1962]

They raised the amounts of subs a bit but yes it used to be 3 subs for the whole match. And that could include overtime in tournament conditions. Nowadays you get an additional sub spot in case of overtime. But you may not have enough subs for all positions anyways since in tournaments like the European Championship each team is limited to 26 total. So you can't have several backups for all positions. Players can go anywhere. What he means that from their tactical role midfielders tend to switch between defence and offence. There are also tactical outlines and players that will use a midfielder position more defensive or offensive but that is to detailed for the basics. If you are interested look how many teams don't use classic strikers anymore. Champions League is actually teams of the different European leagues playing something similar to a playoff tournament. Only teams that did well in their league get a spot. There is also a lesser tournament for teams a little lower in the league table (Europa League) but only followers of teams playing there really pay much attention here. The FA cub is open to any team. So its not just the professionals that compete. In fact the FA cub started in a time where the (English) Football Association made a very big deal about only amateur teams being allowed (as in no player gets payed more than some compensations for stuff like travel). Same is true for the leagues. From a certain point downwards the teams will be less and less professional until you reach the real regional level where you find only after work village/city district teams. As he said in theory those teams play in the same superstructure of connected leagues but in reality there is a divide between the professionals and the amateurs. The 10 year olds are not traded like regular players. He is talking about talent youth programs/academies each major team has. Those encourage talented players to move there by offering various incentives. But the child (via their parents) usually signs a contract that will mean the talent program will at least get something out of it should the player later sign a professional sports contact. Think of a replacement for college talent scouts and the incentives colleges give prospective players.

[@tomeboaventura9054]

Klopp doens't play possesion football, he uses pressing and counter attack just like mourinho. And counter attacking is not negative ffs

[@niall5701]

Spot on there. Counter attacking football knows as gegenpressing

[@tomeboaventura9054]

@@niall5701 counter attacking football is as old as the game. gegenpress is something new, because the players press very very high on the opposition half. you can play counter attack without pressing high and just sitting back.

[@niall5701]

Yeah I understand that, I was simply saying Klopps brand of counter attacking football is called gegenpress

[@fran-yv1xc]

Thats the difference, finished Mou always stays back while Klopp uses high pressing, that's why Klopp >>>> finished Mourinho

[@peterkelly1515]

Jose teams are about sitting back and going for counter attack. Klopps teams are about pressing high and trying to win the ball high up the pitch to counter. Their tactics vary quite a bit

[@eddhardy1054]

Sogal 700 teams entered the FA Cup but there are far more teams than that. Most cities, towns, villages and hamlets have at least one football club. 😊

[@AIIXIII0]

Some position are restricted unless instructed. They occupy different spaces on the field and can only move within that spaces in rigid systems.

[@rainbowappleslice]

The youth programs are basically just saying ‘your really good so we’re gonna put you in our junior teams until your old enough to play for out professional teams.’

[@paulusarnhelm704]

You mention that American football games can last up to four hours but did you know that international test cricket can go on for five days?

[@supernovaleftover1812]

5 days and often ends in a draw, which blows some American's minds.

[@fluffibuni8663]

Don't forget classic bike races like the Tour de France, which is raced over 23 days (21 race days and 2 rest days).

[@mtk3755]

@@fluffibuni8663 ya it was happening just a month back, though I missed it and regret not watching, when does it happen again do you know?

[@fluffibuni8663]

@@mtk3755 Sounds like you're referring to the Giro d'Italia that was on about a month ago .... the Grand Tour race based in Italy. This year's Tour de France begins next Saturday, June 26th :-)

[@pebbleyt1357]

If jokes were like cricket it would be like: “Knock knock” “Whos there?” “Come back in a few days to find out”

[@michael_177]

SoGal i beg you to Look at European soccer in 4 simple steps, even if you don't react to it, it will help you understand the system so much more. This video didn't do a very good job at explaining stuff but i can't blame you for not screening a video beforehand, or else its not a geniune reaction lol. A lot of people not familiar with the sport tend to get most confused about the difference between club football and football between nations. The Euros is on right now, which is Euro COUNTRY vs COUNTRY, whereas the champions league for example, is football clubs vs football clubs. The national team of each country is usually made up of the best footballers of that nationality. However when it comes to football CLUBS, you can pretty much come from anywhere and play for that team

[@SoGal_YT]

I’ll look at that one, thanks. This one was also recommended to me, but I kind of agree it wasn’t the best.

[@KizaruBorsalino]

What he meant by midfielders can go both ways is that they are involved both in attack and defense. Striker and wingers are usually purely offensive players, they can dribble, pass and shoot but don't have much defensive skills because they don't need to since they're almost always in attacking positions. Similarly, center backs and the goalie are purely defensive players, their skills are mostly defensive skills and they also have basic all around skills like passing and basic dribbling but when it comes to finishing and more advanced offensive skills they are the ones you search for. But midfielders are different because they attack as much as they defend. So they have to be good around players with both offensive and defensive skills. They also often have the best stamina of all the players on the field since they have to do back and forth when the team from attacking to defending and vice versa. Which is the main reason why most of the greatest players in the world are midfielders or forwards who like to get involved in the midfield.

[@Saz-wy5bg]

Btw it is rare teams use both a ST and CF usually its CF and CAMS this is due to the centre forward droping back to act as a CAM or false 9 and allowd wingers to become inverted and attack the box. This allows space creation outside of the area as both the CAM and CF will act together to supply the inverted wingers. Inverted wingers are just your right and left wing players who attack the box directly rather than creating chances down their allicocated areas.

[@JoseFerreira-vj3lq]

This JOSÉ "J" you read like the J of "Japan", because he is Portuguese.

[@arthurnunesc]

actually there isn't any sound like the portuguese J in English, but I guess that is closer than "H"osé.

[@hexoslaya3696]

But I say Hapan

[@We1mann]

18:09 In my home town in Sweden, with about 57000 inhabitants, there are 5 active football clubs. In the larger area, there are fourteen. All in all, there are about 3000 football clubs in Sweden. So yeah, there are teams. :)

[@maximilianmaier3950]

I grew up in a German city with 45K residents and we had about 12 soccer clubs in the city alone at the time. Even most small towns and villages have their own club, so there are thousands of soccer clubs here in Germany. Of course most of them play in Amateur leagues, but unlike in America where professional leagues are completely seperated from other leagues, all Amateur leagues and professional leagues are connected through the relegation system. Most clubs basically just exist for people to play as a hobby for recreational purposes, but theoretically they could go on a run and work their way up to a professional league and in fact, some teams like the TSG Hoffenheim have done that with the help of an investment by SAP co-founder Dietmar Hopp. And there are other clubs that used to be in the Bundesliga but have been relegated many times, like the Stuttgarter Kickers who are currently only in the 5th league. If I compare it to hockey (which unfortunately is the only sport where I know anything beyond the top professional league) in America i would do it like this: The Bundesliga in Germany is like the NHL, the best league in the country. The 2. Bundesliga and the 3. Liga are comparable to the AHL and ECHL still very professional, but not quite on the top. Regionalliga and Oberliga/Bayernliga are like college hockey. Still pretty good, with a lot of young ambitious players who want to get recognized by a professional team. And below that you gradually go from some regional hockey leagues i never heard about, but which still have some ok players more and more down to just beer league level. And the further down you go the more seperate leagues there are on each levels. In Germany for example the top 3 leagues are nationwide, but the 4th league (Regionalliga) is already split up into 5 seperate leagues (North, NorthEast, Bavaria, West and South-West) and if you play in one of the lowest leagues, you won't have to travel a lot for games, because the entire league is just in and around one city.

[@justoalvarez3940]

I almost cried when she said only 3 subs per match was insane xD

[@fizbanw.9157]

26:27 eight year olds cant sign any contracts, the parents are doing that. and at least in germany there are many limitations when and where someone is allowed to play, regarding their age.

[@davidrobertson2056]

Love your dedication

[@lucasmartinez2466]

I was born in South America, I have soccer in my blood so that they understand me, I learned what an offside is before entering primary school, I don't know how I got to this video, but for those who are interested in learning a little more about the most popular sport in the world, I will tell you The basics: Every country in the world has a soccer league. The US league is one of the best on the continent. The truth is, I don't usually watch matches in any league because they usually bore me. The people who watch those matches are fans of the cities in which they play. clubs what really causes emotion in soccer is the theme of national teams every 4 years the World Cup is played, which I imagine you already know what it is but continental tournaments are also played such as the European Championship, the America's Cup, the Asian Cup, the Cup from africa you play the concacaf cup where countries from north america, central america and the caribbean play which unfortunately is the most boring and the lowest level in the world the only serious rival they have is mexico for me That is the problem why you do not like soccer so much because they do not have much competition except every 4 years at the club level, continental cups are also played, the European Cup also called the Champions League or the South American Cup called the Libertadores Cup, which are the most important and those with the greatest tradition where the best teams of the continents play, it is said that their league could play the Libertadores, with which they would play against the best of Brazil, Argentina, etc. Well, the club tournaments are played every year and those of selections every four years the leagues are really boring they are only for people from that country or people who are very fanatical about soccer if they want to watch soccer watch the champions league, the euro or the cup america and of course the world cup that will be played this year now they have the best generation in its history although they surely do not know it in fact they are in 14th place in the world ranking if they propose it and practice this sport more I am sure that in in a short time they will dominate football