American Reacts to How to Win the World Cup ⚽️🏆

[@SoGal_YT]

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[@SaorAlba1970]

Scotland invented the passing game, it was a Scot's man that brought the game to Brasil and the passing game, the first International game was held in Scotland between England & Scotland, so Scotland is the home of international football, the idea of a British national team will never happen, as Scotland will be leaving the UK within 18 months our place is out with the vile and corrupt UK

[@Isleofskye]

Trust Me SoGal, as a long term admirer of your capacity to learn and your eclectic tastes you NEED to see "ULTRAS GREATEST CHANTS VOLUME 1 ".......ENJOY :_)

[@mlittlemlittle2966]

The @sogal ! I'm glad to see you embracing learning!

[@mikelarsen5836]

Such an uneducated reactor! Not knowing what was going on in South Africa over apartheid! 👎👎👎👎👎

[@mikelarsen5836]

She wears a university sweatshirt. Either it is only fashion-wear. If she went to a university,it must have been an awful one!

[@markj66]

You seemed surprised that the team that had won most had only won 5 times since 1930. As it's only every 4 years and we missed 2 due to the 2nd World War there have only been 21 tournaments. 5 is actually a big number.

[@hyplix241]

Yes considering how many countries there are

[@steviebudden3397]

@@hyplix241 Bear in mind that the precise number of countries has changed from time to time as well.

[@hyplix241]

@@steviebudden3397 I know. But it has always been more than 4 countries involved so winning 1/4 of the tournaments is unprecedented

[@teotik8071]

Love when you're doing football reactions. Hope you do more during the World Cup.

[@AdurianJ]

My favourite Football cinderella team was Denmark in the Euro 1992 championchips. Yugoslavia had been banned because of the war so Denmark was in on short notice. The tournament took place in Sweden and Denmark won.

[@iainmalcolm9583]

You should continue with 'The Beautiful Game' series. As it is the history of football you would benefit greatly.

[@mxlexrd]

Qualifying happens on the continent level, and each continent gets a certain number of places in the world cup tournament. It's up to the continental confederation to decide how to run their qualifying competition. All the qualifying countries then go to the main world cup tournament, where there is no segregation. The main tournament (called the world cup finals) consists of a group stage followed by a knockout stage.

[@Orionte9]

Yes there is segregation except Europe(Because almost half of teams are Europeans) each group only have one team from each continent.

[@R4M_Tommy]

Next week the F1 teams will start presenting their 2022 competitors (Aston Martin is first, 10th of february). Might be a good time to jump in, given this year we have completely new rules.

[@Isleofskye]

Do they all still go round and round and the driver in front after 10 laps stays there all thru'? :)

[@Markus117d]

Nope, now it seems it's up to the race director to make up some new rules on the spot after changing their minds a few times about what to do, Just guaranteeing confusion and chaos in the teams strategies. Apparently in order to mix things up a bit, F1 has completed it's transition from a sport into a "entertainment show" 🤢👎

[@Isleofskye]

Thanks,My Friend. More like the transition from a Non - Entertainment Show to being an Entertainment Show.........without the "Entertainment"...:)

[@joshualiley]

The format of the world cup is a long process to explain, and a video would probably be best, but I'll try to describe it here: The world is divided into 6 confederations, mostly based on which continent a country is in (although almost all confederations have exceptions, such as Israel play in the European confederation so they don't get killed when travelling to a game in Iran). Each confederation holds their own qualifying campaign to determine which teams of theirs qualify for the world cup. Each confederation is granted a different number of spots in the world cup based on the number of teams in the confederation and the general perceived strength of those nations; Europe has 13 spots, Africa has 5, South America and Asia have 4.5, North America has 3.5 and Oceania has 0.5 (I'll explain the 0.5 in a minute), plus one extra spot for the host team, who don't have to enter qualifying. Each qualifying format is different for each confederation. In South America, because they only have 10 countries, they play 1 large group, and every team plays the other teams twice, with the top 4 qualifying. However Europe has 55 countries, so getting each team to play all the others is logistically impossible, so Europe holds 10 qualifying groups, 5 with 5 teams and 5 with 6 teams. Each group is decided with a draw, with the top 10 countries in the fifa world rankings from Europe in pot 1, the next 10 in pot 2 etc, and then each group gets 1 team from each pot (except groups with 5 teams don't get a team from pot 6) (the process is slightly more complex to take into account other factors such as countries that fight a lot, so Russia and Ukraine can't be paired together, for example). Every country plays every other country in their group twice, and the team that finishes top in each group ultimately qualifies. The second place teams go into a playoff path (1 off knockout games) to decide the remaining 3 teams from Europe to qualify. Most confederations use a something similar (or a combination of the 2, such as Asia, who start with 8 groups to get through to the next round of qualifying and then play in 2 groups of 6 to get through to the world cup itself). Subject to approval, confederations can change the format of their qualification to deal with different factors; this is most notable for this world cup after the pandemic reduced the amount of time available to complete this qualification, so changes were necessary to reduce the number of games that needed to be played, especially in Oceania. The 0.5 places count as a playoff spot. North and South America, Asia and Oceania all have 1 playoff spot, and the teams that qualify to the playoffs will have 1 home and 1 away game against 1 other team in the playoffs, drawn at random. The 2 tie winners ultimately qualify to the world cup. This is a basic overview of qualifying. Now for the tournament itself. This is when all the qualified countries from the different confederations all get together and play each other for the first time. Teams are placed into pots. The host country and 7 best teams are in pot 1, the next 8 best teams are in pot 2 etc. Then teams are drawn into 8 groups of 4 teams containing 1 team from each pot. No country is allowed be drawn into the same pot as another country from the same confederation, with the exception of Europe, which has a limit of 2 countries in each group. Each country plays all the other countries in their group exactly once, and the 2 teams that finish top of each group go through to the round of 16. (As can be seen, the host being in pot 1 means they can't be in a group with the 7 best countries in the world, so have an easier time getting through.) From the round of 16 onwards, each country is paired against another country and plays a one off game, with the winner advancing to the next round, until we are left with an overall winner. Side note: Don't worry about how the fifa world rankings are calculated, just realise that it's a generic representation of how strong a country is. The formula was changed in 2018 because countries realised they could game the formula (as it was flawed) by not playing friendly matches in order to boost their ranking, so the 2018 world cup pots look a bit odd, since Poland, who were using this method, ended up in pot 1 but still managed to finish bottom of their group because they weren't as good as their ranking suggested (although Germany were rank number 1 and still finished bottom of their group, even though this ranking was justified after they won the previous World Cup. It's just an example of how things might look a bit off before 2018). The new ranking is a lot better so the up to date rankings are a lot more reliable to undestand general strength of countries, although I think people would agree the USA's current rank of 11th is slightly generous. This is mostly because they only get to play non North American teams competitively once every 4 years, and so their rate of winning is high. Team strength is generally a lot better for comparing to other teams in the same confederation as they play each other a lot more often. I think this will balance out over time, since we've only had 1 world cup since the rankings were introduced

[@aldenpadilla1773]

You should have also mentioned Israel is an aparthied colonial state according to amnesty international, human rights watch and all other human rights organizations.

[@Abdirahman_Mohamed]

@@aldenpadilla1773 based Alden

[@amenboughanmi5819]

Isreal is an apartheid state that kills children and women on a daily basis they put the Palestinians into concentration camps they even snipe kids playing football and bomb football stadium so your statememt Isreal are in danger of being killed is completely wrong ans inhumane they are the killers and they should also be banned from football as well

[@DaSpartanProductinos]

Honestly the World Cup is the toughest tournament to win in all of team sports. It's expansive, spans years, you need depth of talent and develop talent from domestic leagues, and that's just to get in. An unbelievable journey that is the best part of what makes sports amazing, and it truly is the world game.

[@neilgriffiths6427]

daily routine: In from, work computer on, - ah, SoGal's posted - nice start to the evening with a cuppa...

[@markwalker2627]

I mentioned on 1 of your other football video's about Argentina and its football origins. The industrial revolution in Britain brought the era of railways and during the middle part of the 19th century there was a huge railway mania building all over Britain. This made Britain the 'experts' on building railways and this was exported all over the globe with the railways of Argentina built by a British workforce(mainly)who took football with them. The first leagues in Argentina were setup by the British.

[@danigar]

This explains why so many club teams in Argentina have English names

[@atorthefightingeagle9813]

The record International score was Australia 31 American Samoa 0. And there was some game in Madagascar when a team scored 149 own goals in protest against a refereeing decision. The winning side never touched the ball.

[@octavianpopescu4776]

They must have touched it at least when it was their turn to kick off the half.

[@neilonaniet]

​@@octavianpopescu4776 That may well have been the only time they did indeed touch it, plus whatever passes they managed to make before the other team dispossessed them to score their first own goal. All 149 goals were own goals. Having said that, if the winning side were the ones to kick off the second half, by then they would have realised what was going on, and may have just stood aside and let the other team take possession to score their next own goal. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AS_Adema_149%E2%80%930_SO_l%27Emyrne

[@PeDr0.UY131]

What a great emotion to hear the national anthem at the beginning of the video🇺🇾❤😍. And what a disappointment that we haven't won another cup since 1950😭😭😭😭

[@danielcarr1297]

You guys did so well to win one in the first place and it's impressive that you're still able to challenge much bigger, well funded countries. Be proud that it happened and fingers crossed it can happen again!

[@franciscobarriossaenzdetej3170]

Nah, hermano, quiza solo 2, pero una de ellas es hasta la fecha el estigma y el trauma mas grande de Brasil, incluso superior al 7-1 de 2014. Orgullo hay en eso.

[@rodrigocortez4092]

You'll win another sometime, just, not in Maracanã again.

[@stephenparker6362]

Hi, Sarah, another interesting video. I will try to explain briefly the South Africa situation, South Africa consisted of British colonies and in 1910 the colonies were joined together to create the Union of South Africa which became a self governing dominion within the British Empire, they were responsible totally for internal policy but the UK controlled external policy. In 1926 dominions took over responsibility for external policies. After WW2 a new Goverment was elected which developed Apartheid which gave the small white population total control of the country largely at the expense of the majority black population. Most countries found that unacceptable and in 1961 South Africa left the Commonwealth and became a Republic. Their Apartheid policies led to them being ostracised by much of the world and they were virtually totally isolated from international sport from about 1970 to the fall,of Apartheid in the nineties. They have since rejoined the Commonwealth. This needs a more in depth study. I will see what I can find.

[@qk5474]

Then they hosted the 2010 World Cup and went out in the group stage…

[@duckwhistle]

I think it's important to mention that many of the colonies that made up the dominion of South Africa were former Dutch colonies that had been conquered by Britain. The majority of whites in SA were former Dutch Boers. Culturally there were a lot more differences between SA and GB than with Canada and Australia. A particular point of contention was the treatment of black people. The British were interested in the most efficient was to exploit them, where's the Boers were more concerned about repressing them due to their creater numbers. When the British removed their controls, many of the local white populace saw it as an opportunity to crack down on the Blacks, and fear of their superior numbers was then exploited to install an authoritarian government.

[@mikelarsen5836]

Most Americans are basically ignorant when it comes to knowledge of the rest of the world.

[@wasneeplus]

It's way more complicated than that even. Only Cape Town was a Dutch colony, which was more or less given to the British Empire on the questionable authority of the prince of Orange in return for support against Napoleon. The other "Dutch colonies" were in fact independent republics founded by the Boer "Voortrekkers", the South African version of the frontier pioneers.

[@Diamond-vy1lx]

Sometimes I forget that not everyone grew up with football. This was one one of the few times when youtube worked better than I expect (i.e. got to see the vid in the list)

[@SWARM_777]

As a South African, I feel attacked.

[@snowforest6487]

His attacking the white supremacist who implemented apartheid

[@K_B11ss]

Thanks for showing love from 🇿🇦 Looking forward to seeing you learn more about us. Won't knock anything said in this video because there were some harsh facts.

[@simonround2439]

To be fair to Brazil there have only been 21 World Cups played so winning five of them is a pretty good effort!

[@generaldreedle2801]

From an English point of view a dodgy Russian linesman is an absolute must.

[@Boroman9]

This year’s World Cup is being hosted in Qatar, the first time ever being held in the Middle East. Also don’t sleep on the US National Team either. They’ve got quite a nifty little team with some absolute class players at their disposal based in some very good European clubs. They’ll easily qualify for the tournament & will definitely cause major problems for the more established nations; should at least get to the second round with a favourable draw.

[@darrellpowell6042]

8:24 He's talking about after South Africa's independence from the UK in 11 December 1931. They kept the UK Monarchy as head of State though until 1961.

[@oliversherman2414]

I'm not even a football fan but, being British, I can't help but admire the game for it's history and ability to bring people together

[@michaelcartwright1260]

Qualifiers are played to enter the tournament. The teams that qualify are grouped for the first stage. I can't recall if grouping is based on how a team performed in qualifying or is a random lottery but it isn't geographical. The top two teams from each group go into the knockout phase. The winner of one group will play the runner up of the next group and so on until only two teams remain to play the final.

[@marblwrexbro458]

The 32 teams are placed into 4 pots of 8 based on FIFA world ranking, apart from the host country which automatically goes into the top pot of seeds. The 8 groups are then made up of 1 team from each pot of seeds. Teams from the same confederation can’t be drawn in the same group. The exception being UEFA which have a maximum of 2 teams per group, with Europe having 13 teams qualify.

[@stephenparker6362]

The United States plays in the CONCACAF qualifying group. Three teams qualify automatically from the group with the fourth going into a play off. At the moment the US are second behind Canada. They recently lost 2 nil to Canada which made some Canadians very happy. They have four games to play, 2nd February they play Honduras at home then on 24th March Mexico away, then 27th March Panama at home and finally 30th March Costa Rica away.

[@keithfrost1190]

Did you know that Wimbledon is actually called "the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club".

[@anthonyvilloldo9348]

4:00 you're right.. here in Uruguay, Peñarol once was called C.U.R.C.C or Central Uruguay railway cricket club. English name for a british workers mayority team.

[@thingybob4375]

Yes Denmark's 14-2 victory over Iceland was a HUGE score by any professional soccer standards. That was way back in 1967 in a friendly (i.e. non-competitive) game between the two countries. However that has been exceeded many times. In 2002 Australia faced American Samoa in a World Cup qualifier and ran out 31-0 winners, Australia didn't actually get their first goal until 10 minutes into the game, and all 31 goals were all scored within a period of 79 minutes. That's an average of a goal every 2.5 minutes !!

[@agffans5725]

Denmark's biggest official win was actually 17-1 vs France in the Semi-Finals at the 1908 Summer Olympics. Denmark has btw never lost to Iceland the 24 times they have faced each other so far, though Iceland have managed to beat the likes of Italy (in 1 out of 2 attempts), England (1 out of 5 attempts), Croatia (1 out of 7 times), Spain (1 out of 9 times), Sweden (2 out of 17 times), The Netherlands (2 out of 14 times), Czech Republic (2 out of 6 times), Norway ( 7 out of 34 times) and Turkey (8 out of 13 times).

[@clayhead12000]

That was a fun video. The World Cup isn't the only major sporting tournament happening this year, the winter Olympics begin this Friday, perhaps you could do a video on the winter Olympics.

[@Bowdon]

The video was very educational about the world cup tournament itself. Though before teams get to enter the world cup part they have to qualify in their region. So depending where a country is in the world they have to enter that tournament to eventually qualify. UEFA = Europe, CAF = Africa, AFC = Asia, CONMEBOL = South America, and CONCACAF = North and Central America and Caribbean. At the moment you'll be seeing USA qualifying through the CONCACAF region.

[@Scenario8]

Yahooo, cheers from Budapest. It was good to see the Mighty Magyars on this video :-) we have past but shame, we dont have present in our football... :(

[@GenialHarryGrout]

To play football, all you need is a ball. No expensive equipment is needed, you don't even need grass. Growing up in the UK we used jumpers for goal posts. The next World Cup (2022) is being held in Qatar and the one after in 2026 will be held in USA, Canada & Mexico

[@steved6092]

USA are in a reasonably good position to qualify for the World Cup 2022, second in their group with 4 games to play ... their next game is Wednesday 2nd Feb, against Honduras, playing in Minnesota

[@lemonicoo]

canada is doing so well too, top of their group and also with most goals

[@steved6092]

@@lemonicoo Canada have been excellent in their group, pretty certain they will get through ... (they would really have to mess things up to not quality ! )

[@lemonicoo]

@@steved6092 i agree, considering many of their players aswell as US players play in Europe league and class such as davies, pulisic, mckennie, and many others. the US and Canada are strong this year.

[@steved6092]

@@lemonicoo keep cheering Canada on ... be good to see how far they progress ... England v Canada final !! ... how good would that be !

[@zggnom]

You should watch some kind of recap of last world cup to get some sense of powerful teams and who to watch.

[@Luredreier]

Looking forward to you reacting to the history of South Africa at some point. =)

[@Adi031978]

Football is considered a game for poor people as the entry hurdle is so low. You just need a ball. Once a ball is there you can "entertain" a whole neighbourhood for a day

[@Ciaccolato]

"What happened to Austria?" A lot

[@kurtisokc]

World War I.

[@jimcook1161]

I think the highest score and margin of victory was a Scottish match Arbroath 36-0 Bon Accord in 1885.

[@christophersagastegui3091]

You should be the 2009 movie "INVICTUS" which is about sports and apartheid.

[@nottmjas]

South Africa until something 30 years ago was a racist state where the white minority (mainly Afrikaans speakers with a smaller number of English speakers) held total power over the majority black, mixed race and Indian population. Makes me feel like an old man, and I'm only 49, when Sarah mentioned that she needed to find out about its history.

[@Isleofskye]

The supreme irony was that by South Africa House in Central London when we were all protesting against Apartheid that 99% of THe Protestors over those years were White and the large London Black populace were conspicuous by their absence :)

[@BlameThande]

Did you spot that the map at 6:40 is a reference to the Dad's Army intro? You'll often see it referenced as a joke in media made by people from the British Isles (it also appears in one version of the Have I Got News For You intro, for instance).

[@manlikemark9641]

This is well timed as next month is the European playoffs for the teams that came 2nd in their respective qualification groups, their are 3 sets of playoffs, in one of the sets, yet again are Italy who have to beat North Macedonia and then the winners of Portugal and Turkey. That means one of the last two euros winners will fail to qualify. In one of the other playoff sets there could very well be a Scotland vs Wales winner takes all match. As an aside The teams that won their groups (such as England) have already reached the world cup group stage.

[@MYTHLAND1]

So basically you have the qualifiers from each continent where a certain number of teams are allowed through to the world cup The qualifying way is different for each continent so I won't go over that but what I can say is that Europe - 13 teams qualify Africa - 5 teams qualify South America - 4 teams qualify (then 1 more has to play a playoff to get into the tournament against a team from Oceania/Australasia) Asia - 4 teams qualify (1 more plays a different playoff against a team from North America) North America - 3 teams qualify (with 1 playing in the playoff against Asia) Oceania/Australasia - 1 team has to play a playoff against the team from South America So that's 29 qualifying automatically without a playoff Then 2 more from the playoffs and the final one is the host Then the actual world cup starts 32 teams There are 8 groups picked out with 4 teams in each initially For the 4 teams there are 4 pots with 8 teams in each with each in order of Fifa ranking of the qualifying teams except that the host goes into pot 1 automatically and straight into Group A/Group 1 No 2 teams can be in the same group from 1 continent unless they are from Europe either Once the 8 groups are picked out from the pot, the group stage plays Each team plays another team in the same group once then the top 2 from each group goes through Then into the round of 16 (16 teams) 1- Winner group A VS Runner-Up group B 2- Runner-up group C VS Winner group D 3 - Winner group E VS Runner-up group F 4 -Runner-up group G VS Winner group H 5- Runner-up Group A VS Winner group B 6 - Winner group C VS Runner-up group D 7 - Runner-up group E VS Winner group F 8 - Winner group G VS Runner-up group H Onto the quarter-finals 1 - Round of 16 Winner 1 VS Round of 16 Winner 2 2 - Round of 16 Winner 3 VS Round of 16 Winner 4 3 - Round of 16 Winner 5 VS Round of 16 Winner 6 4 - Round of 16 Winner 7 VS Round of 16 Winner 8 Onto the semi-finals 1 - Winner quarter-finals 1 VS Winner quarter-finals 2 2 - Winner quarter-finals 3 VS Winner quarter-finals 4 3rd place play-off Loser semi-final 1 VS Loser semi-final 2 Final Winner semi-final 1 vs Winner semi-final 2 Hopefully that's also helped anyone who's really stuck on how the world cup works

[@marblwrexbro458]

All spot-on except FIFA has a draw to decide teams from which continent play each other in the inter-continental play-offs. For the 2022 world cup, 5th in South America will play 5th in Asia (the winner of the playoff between the 3rd placed teams in the final Asian qualifying group stage) and 4th in CONCACAF (North America) will play a team from Oceania. As Oceania qualifying has been put back because of Covid, a tournament between the 8 remaning teams will take place on neutral ground in Qatar in March to decide who will go through to the inter-continental play-off.

[@MYTHLAND1]

@@marblwrexbro458 Thank you, I never was entirely sure how the play-off system worked

[@matthewchampion8214]

Nice effort but this is not all appropriate for someone who's a complete beginner to the sport. This is way too unnecessarily overwhelming.

[@MYTHLAND1]

@@matthewchampion8214 I'm not a brilliant structurer of comments sooo

[@grahamdannatt2322]

As for the host country qualifying automatically the World Cup winners would also qualify automatically to the next tournament. So England hosted the World Cup in 1966 giving them automatic qualification. Won the tournament which enabled them to qualify for the 1970 tournament

[@audreyp5962]

Great reactions! Love it!

[@YuriBassichettoTambucci]

The "Cinderella" team in Brazil is called a Zebra. That expression have connection with a lotto game very common (and illegal) in our streets. It's Jogo do Bicho, a 24 number lottery with each number associated with an animal. Well... The zebra isn't one of them. That way, when a very unexpected team wins in soccer we say it was the Zebra because it's the result with zero odds in Jogo do bicho.

[@alansmithee8831]

Hello SoGal and Roger. This was more for someone who had seen how it worked and knew a bit of history, but you did well to keep up. The world cup finals used to have two rounds of group games, but in Spain the England team got eliminated without losing. They found it was more exciting with more knockout games when it changed. South Africa had racial segregation and was boycotted by sports teams as a result for many years. I will not go into details as you will find plenty of videos, though I suggest you start with the Boer Wars.

[@tendeitem]

So to make the World Cup format easy to explain: ROUND ONE: QUALIFICATION • There are 6 regions - (1) Asia, (2) Africa, (3) North / Central / Caribbean America, (4) South America, (5) Oceania and (6) Europe • Each region gets allocated how many teams from their region goes to the World Cup • Each region decides how they are going to determine the those teams. For EXAMPLE, Africa has 5 spots. Africa right now has 10 teams remaining, they decide to do a 1v1 play-off in March 2022. The 5 play-off winners will get Africa's 5 spots for the World Cup. Each region has their own way of determining which teams qualifies. ROUND TWO: GROUP STAGE • 32 teams are in 8 groups of 4 teams each (8 x 4 = 32). • Your team HAS to play the other 3 teams in their group, so like a round-robin format. • Once all the teams in your group finished playing 3 games, the 2 teams with the best record in each group goes to knockout stage. ROUND THREE: KNOCKOUT STAGE • The 16 teams play a single knockout game until there is 1 team left, so like as you said, March Madness. The winner wins the World Cup!

[@bukitkatilmp]

The rule is everyone plays all the rounds, get through all the knock-offs and four countries, namely Brazil, Germany, France or Italy wins it, time and time again! Note: English media will always highlight the country as Impending World Champions, but England never ever wins! 🤣

[@IshavedChewbacca]

excellent summary

[@steviebudden3397]

Don't all countries tout their teams as the next great champions?

[@ivanjacobs8648]

I've been running through all your football content for the last 3 days, practically watched all of it even though this isn't usually the type of content I come on KZbin for(mostly freestyle raps). I've been enjoying it very much.. I just wanna know if you've done any South African documentaries as you mentioned you going to do in this video? I'm South African and I like the way you break things down

[@Beggar42]

In the FIFA ranking, competative games against high ranking teams get you the most points. Winning a world cup game against Belgium gets you loads of points. Friendlies also give you points, but much less so. So, winning 25 friendlies against Brunei and the Cook Islands will only get you a few points.

[@whybother987]

At 18:23 on the right is one of the most undeservedly forgotten managers of all time - Valeriy Lobanovsky. I'd recommend checking out "The men who made the game. Episode one: Valeriy Lobanovsky" on KZbin. Quite an interesting story

[@amekgomo5250]

Looking forward to the South Africa reaction video.

[@Baptist7203]

A Argentine team call Boca Juniors got their team colours from a Irish missionary who had used a kit from his Hurling team from back home.

[@TrashskillsRS]

The FIFA World Cup 2022 is hosted in Qatar, and therefore it is postponed until November/December. USA is not qualified yet, there are still some matches in march

[@hyplix241]

Rn countries qualify to get into the WC. When the cup starts it starts off in group stages and then it's knockout games all the way to the final

[@tnightwolf]

3:36 Yes, because at some point, practical trade becomes like a "second-skin" and people trade concepts and ideas, that in some cases hold as much, or in some specific areas, more value than regular product trading...

[@TrashskillsRS]

The host of the World Cup is automatically qualified as it helps with audience attendence as well. It seems weird to host the tournament without participation, stadium be 5 hours away from nearest neighbor country

[@moldveien1515]

Its so sad we lost this creator so young, he made such great content, may you forever rest in peace Brain4breakfast

[@pokelol97]

oke here goes. SO the world cup is held every 4 years and is the biggest tournament on earth. before the WC starts every continent holds qualifiers to know which teams will go to the WC. once the group draw starts ull have 8 groups of 4 teams (with the rule that no continent can have 2 teams in the same group) every team plays 3 games. so 1 game against each team in their group. after that the top 2 teams from every group go to the KO stage where 16 teams go head to head in a bracket. hope this helped

[@mattsmith5421]

I'm pretty sure there will be a documentary on the apartide and south Africa hosting the ruby world cup in 1998 pretty soon after it was abolished

[@axelplate9080]

the WC in 2022 is in Qatar ( yes, you read that right!) . Normally it is held when it is summer in the northern hemisphere. Since it would be way to hot to hold it then, ( in qatar), the tournament got moved to winter 2022. ( in the northern hemisphere). First match is on 21th November.

[@Rocket1377]

6:40 Dad's Army reference.

[@rogeriopenna9014]

Brazil flag: Ordem e NEYMAR lol (it's actually Ordem e Progresso... which I guess any indo European language speaker can guess it means ORDER AND PROGRESS) Btw, I am glad to inform that Neymar is not being missed so much anymore... Raphinha, Vinicius Jr, Anthony, Matheus Cunha, etc... they are playing very well.

[@johnbircham4984]

Unfortunately this year it's being held in Qatar, a country that has Zero interest in football. FIFA should hang their heads in shame. Yes the host country always automatically qualifies, so we will be seeing a host exiting in the group stage. The previous winner used to qualify too, I have no idea why they scraped that rule.

[@bucklberryreturns]

Yeah, that last comment is ridiculous (as is the first, of course). To potentially not have the holder defend their title, is absolute BS.

[@saikatdas2518]

Qatar won the last AFC ( eq. to Euro)cup. It deserves its place in world cup. But I dont want it to host because of human rights abuses of migrant workers.

[@teresaguerriero]

Hi soGal, no súbitas nada con respecto al mundial 2022 !! Sigo todos tus comentarios y me agradan Saludos

[@koba2140]

Heard of the Ice Storm you've had there in Memphis, hope your power is back on. Back to the topic: Please consider reacting to the video "The World Cup explained" by Geography Now! It's a good overview.

[@darrellpowell6042]

4:01 Colonisation of South America by Spain, Portugal, France and the UK made football more entrenched in countries that had colonial rulers, Also games travel borders much more easier than language. The most successful games on Earth are mainly UK invented games. As being a colonial ruler means you bring your games with you. Chess was brought to the world from the middle east as colonial rulers took local games and introduced them to their populations when they got home.

[@nancyrafnson4780]

Hey SoGal, so our CONCACAF (western hemisphere’s group) consists of: Canada, U.S.A, Mexico, Jamaica, Costa Rico, El Salvador, Honduras and Panama. Top 3 teams go to the FIFA tournament. As of today (Feb. 2) Canada 🇨🇦 is in first place. Yeah!!! 🇨🇦🇨🇦. We haven’t made it for years(and only 1 time I think). So I am hoping and praying. Tonight we play El Salvador, US plays Honduras, Mexico plays Panama. After that I think we each have 3 games left to decide the top 3. .

[@agffans5725]

SoGal > "what happened to Austria ?< Well, I believe their demise came after a dispute when a hungry archduke shot an ostrich that obviously was from Austria, then leading directly to WW1

[@kevinshort3943]

Zulu - "Don't you throw, those bloody spears, at me" - Michael Caine

[@Frank-mm2yp]

"ZULUS, Sir----Thousands of them"...... Q. Why does it have to be us? (to fight the Zulus). A. "Because we're here"...

[@kevinshort3943]

@@Frank-mm2yp "You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!"

[@Frank-mm2yp]

@@kevinshort3943 "Button that tunic-Where do you think you are? "

[@efrainlagunas]

Haven't heard of a Cinderella team. A Black Sheep, yes. Those are typically teams that are not the favorites but are generally agreed to be good enough to take on the favorites and cause an upset.

[@johnbircham4984]

In England we call them dark horses not black sheep. Although we're probably not allowed to use either these days.

[@Nanonic001]

Oh man, learning about apartheid is DARK (no pun intended). We had to do a whole year on it in school back in the day. It was a core subject of 'humanities' back in the 90s

[@albertlay8927]

I think one rule is missing: organisation. Countries where sports are well organised, with proper facilities, skilled trainers, cooperation, policies with a long term view, etc., will do better. This has not much to do with money or population size. It increases the effectiveness.

[@FionaMu]

England men's beat San Marino 10-0 recently (regarding population affecting teams). Although the women's England team beat Latvia 20-0 so not sure what that says about women's football in Latvia. Italy btw are doing much better. They won the Euros...by defeating us.

[@TimeyWimeyLimey]

The World Cup starts in November in Qatar, the one in 2026 will be hosted by Canada, USA and Mexico. Qualifying groups and playoffs are finishing off ahead of the World Cup Finals draw in April. Fifa rankings determine seedings for the Group Stage of the Finals. The 32 qualifying countries are drawn into 8 groups of 4, one from each pot; generally 'Pot 1' the best 8 ranked teams, 'Pot 2' the next best 8, Pot 3 the next best 8, Pot 4 the lowest ranked qualifiers. The 4 teams in each group play each other once (3pts for a win, 1pt for a draw) with the group winners and runners-up proceeding to the last 16 and knock out rounds all the way to the final.

[@martinwebb4897]

There is also a confederation split so in the Group phase a maximum of 1 team from each confederation (except UEFA which max is 2) is drawn together.

[@animal9633]

The South African angle is pretty spurious, they had their first free elections in 1994 which ended apartheid. But looking back, in 1992 they ranked only 124th in the world, but then they managed to put together a decent team/coach and by 1996 they were ranked 16th in the world. Four years isn't really enough to overcome total isolation/lack of international playing time, so it's probably attributed to a lack of a decent team/coaching/management. Ever since then they've been plagues by corruption and a lack of leadership, new talent being fostered etc, so currently they're only about 68'th in the world.

[@victorkahn7864]

Geography Now did a video on the world cup in 2018. It's called The WORLD CUP explained (by an american).Maybe you can react to that?

[@paulguise698]

Hiya Sarah, if you have a look at the world cup England won in 1966 its allot different than the one now, Jules Rimet devised the world cup and Jules SAID "whoever wins the world cup 3 times, gets to keep the world cup, that was Brazil in (1958,62 and 70) after that it changed to FIFA world cup, the world cup this year is in Qatar the final is going to be played on December 18th which is my birthday, when Canada, America and Mexico holds the world cup in 2026 there's going to be 42 countries to qualify and the final is being played in Giants Stadium, this is Choppy in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England

[@tioetiopepepe1899]

Okk, look. The keys to win, lift the cup and be crowned the best in the world. Step one: Be better Step 2: Be stronger physically and mentally Step 3: Win or win nothing in between

[@jamplays9596]

The World Cup qualifying is split up in to 6 confederations I only know the qualifying for the Europe nationals 1st in the group go to the World Cup 2nd go in to play off 8 nationals 4 other nationals who did the best in the UEFA Nations League a different competition that didn’t get 1st or 2nd in the World Cup qualify group go to the play off and 3 of the 12 will go to the World Cup after the play off to. The World Cup group stage is what happens during at the World Cup of 31 nationals who qualify and the host nation then the knockout stages where 1st and 2nd in all groups go to the knockout stage

[@mucxlx]

Yeah there is a FIFA ranking how good a country is. This has an effect on how many Champions league spots you get. For example a lower nation just gets 1 or 2 while the best nations get like 3 spots. (Its an european tournament with only the best couple of teams of each country). In a world cup you have a group stage where each team plays each other and the ones with the most points advance to the knockout phase. And i believe the fifa ranking matters so there are just 1 or 2 of the super strong teams go to each group. This means that the best teams all have a chance to go to the knockout phase. Where as if you put Spain, Portugal, Argentina, England, Brazil and Germany in one group this would mean that only some of those make it to the playoffs. And this would be terrible because these teams usually also have the biggest fanbases. On the other hands if you had such a group and put in Iceland or Austria or some medium strong country these teams would have almost no chance of advancing. So this is in my eyes better for the big football nations as well as the underdogs. Beat one of the big guys once - sure, beat them multiple times - very unlikely. Sure these could be lucky with a group which consists of only underdogs but its only per chance. I think its good this way it is.

[@TrashskillsRS]

South Africa became an independent country after WW2 and many of the boers (some lived in modern day Namibia after the boer wars moved back to South Africa and took over. Which meant that 2% of the population had full rule over the country and there was increasing tension after the reforms in the US being broadcast. So it basically became a repressive dictatorship in the 1950's

[@Brakdayton]

What was going on in South Africa!? APARTHEID!!!

[@Lizzie-ob6nx]

for more high scores in the recent womens World Cup qualifying England got two 10-0 wins and a 20-0 the men also got some quit high scores aswell in there qualifying

[@mariojakel5544]

Football is simple take it like Gary Lineker he said: Football is a simple game; 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.

[@matthill3293]

How did they do in the last major competition then? ;)

[@ianfinney7820]

Who actually listens to the jug eared d**k.

[@silviorodriguez2639]

That hasn't been true for the last ten years.

[@mariojakel5544]

@@silviorodriguez2639 10 years ago Germany won the Worldcup agains Messi in Brasil

[@stephenparker6362]

The World Cup takes place in Qatar from 21st November to 18th December this year.

[@1954real]

Hopefully one day you'll review The Leicester Dream....the greatest football story of all time.

[@EdyMar77]

I Appreciate the Uruguay national Anthem being played as the background music , its a shitty version but , the intention is what it counts.

[@thingybob4375]

SoGAL, great reaction. Y'know the one big HUGE difference between American and Other sport cultures is that of franchise teams in your leagues. in America you have a top flight where all the franchises continue to play each other year on year, despite results and performance. In the rest of the world teams are never guaranteed a spot in the top tier - they need to earn it in terms of results and performance In England we have a top tier with teams like Manchester United and Liverpool but any team, even from a small town or village has the opportunity to progress and play against them through a system of promotion and relegation between not only .tiers 1 and 2, but also all the way down to tier 10 There is a great video by an American youtuber that explains this. Really it happens, teams move up between the tiers andT HIS is the beauty of football. kzbin.info/www/bejne/sKSoh3yVpdmkrZY

[@almostyummymummy]

Thought there was 12 tiers?

[@thingybob4375]

@@almostyummymummy I know another tier was added this year.. it goes down to level 20, but my point was those leagues that compete in the FA Vase and above. Would love SoGal to see this..

[@almostyummymummy]

@@thingybob4375 20!? I knew there was a lot, but damn.

[@FallenLight0]

Actually many famous brazilians football players were poor, because football is a sport very accessible

[@fraso7331]

Simplified: South Africa once was a colony and then a dominion, which slid ingo independence like Canada or Australia. South Africa decided to practise apartheid for a long time. This changed in the years from 1990 to 1994.

[@Kari_B61ex]

Disclaimer - I know very little about Football and don't 'follow it' until National Pride takes over during major tournaments. I'm English and obviously support England. Another not known publicly and strange fact, considering that I admit to knowing nothing about football, is that I dated a professional footballer back in the early 80's who went on to be a member of the England B squad in the early 90's.

[@matthiaspoos328]

Listen to Peter Gabriel's song "Biko", and Simple Mind's "Mandela Day".

[@WYKlaure]

In the group stage teams with a good ranking are paired with teams with a lower ranking. To avoid all the good teams eliminating each other and leaving only bad teams in the tournament. The south africa thing is due to Apartheid.

[@ThomasKelly669]

1 ConcacFA confederations of North Central America and Caribbean association football has 41 members. 3 automatic qualifying one play off (best runner up) 2 AFC Asian association 47 members, 4 qualified 1 play off. 3 South America association 10 members. 4 quality one play off, 4. Oceania Association 13 members winners of qualification group Have a play off CAF Africa 4 qualify 5 UEFA Union European Football 55 members 13 qualify for world Cup final, Each association play Qualification league Top teams play in tournament

[@jonnyso1]

You don't even need a pitch or grass to play football. Played my whole childhood on the street. Choped a peace of my thumb a few times by kicking the asphalt ! Don't need a ball either, I've played with rocks, bottles, a cockonut ! Also, you don't need 22 people !

[@hasibalfuad9652]

Cricket does NOT take all week to play. That's just one and less held format of cricket. The most common one last about 3 hours. He should have done his research more as a british.

[@martinwebb4897]

But it is by far the best & purest format.

[@steviebudden3397]

@@martinwebb4897 and he may have been a little facetious with that comment.

[@rashidnuri288]

Did you see the people reaction to the last world cup qualification games?

[@Stefan23E]

Rule #6 Try to win your group to play against "easier" opponents in the next round.

[@agffans5725]

The Vikings naming "no grass" Greenland, is partly due to their sense of humor, but also in an attempt of "selling" the idea of moving there to other Vikings, who did not know what they were signing up for... I mean, what part of Green-land do you not understand ?, they would probably ask.