American reacts to Soccer / Football for the First Time!

[@benjaminbronnimann3966]

18:36 to clarify that part since he only brushed over it, instead of a draft system every football team in europe (even amateur clubs) have their own youth academy where they train players from as young as 5 years old and develop them in the hopes that these academy players will make it to the 1st team one day. So if you take Liverpool as an example, the club Liverpool is divided into age categories, they have the 1st team, a reserve team, a under 23 team (U23), under 21 team (U21) , under 19 team (U19), under 18 team (U18) etc. all the way down to the under 7 (U7) team and all those youth teams compete in youth leagues year round. How do they "sign" the kids ? Well in smaller clubs basically all the kids will be kids who live in the same town as the club or close to it so the players just sign up for the youth academy of their local club. Youth teams of bigger clubs like Liverpool will still consist partly of local talents but they also have scouts that look for talents to sign to the youth academy all over the world, if they find talented kids in other countries or in a far away part of the club's country they sign them and either organize housing for their family so they can move with the kid or the kid can live in their academy dorms depending on the circumstances. Unlike the draft-system here these kids are not obligated to sign for any club if they don't want to, in football players *always* have the right to decline a trade if they don't want to move to that club or aren't satisfied with the offered contract. This is mainly because in contrast to US sports, clubs are *not* owned by the league im football, meaning the player contracts are owned by the clubs instead of the league. So in the US players sign a contract with the league (not the framchise) and when they get traded to a different franchise they are still under the same contract, therefore they can't refuse trades because their contracts are owned by the league, in football however the contracts are owned by the club so if you want to join a different club you'll have to sign a new contract with them and the rest of your contract with your current team will get cancelled so there's no club overarching contract that can force you to go to a different club. To get back to the previous topic, some clubs have great youth academies where many of their own youth players make it to the first team, this brings many advantages, if you want to buy good players from other clubs you'll have to spend millions in transfer fees, but if you can fill your team with your own academy players you won't have to spend any money to buy them and if they're good you can sell some of them for millions later on and make a profit. Another advantage is that since many academy players join your club at a young age you can develop and mold them to be exactly the type of players you need for the first team, many clubs make sure that all their teams in every age category play with the same tactics and philosophy, so by the time these players make it to the 1st team they are already familiar with the tactics and everything. If you have a team full of players from your own academy that also means many of them have played together for 5-10 years or more as juniors before they even got promoted to the 1st team and therefore already have great chemistry together from the start. Academy players are also often fan favorites because thanks to the academy system football teams (especially "smaller" ones) are often mostly made up of mostly local players that actually grew up in the area of the club, who have been with the club since childhood and are therefore more loyal than a 19 year old guy from Texas who got drafted by the Toronto raptors. For example if the US had a system like this, half of the Minnesota Timberwolves team would actually be players from Minnesota or the area who have been playing for Minnesota's youth academy since before middle-school in some cases, this way the fans can identify with their local team much more. Not all clubs really make use of the academy system though or at least not to it's potential, there are also clubs who would rather spend their money to sign players from other clubs who are in their prime atm than give a spot to a youth player that still needs to develop, these clubs who invest in transfers instead of the academy won't have good youth academies as a result which makes it even harder for the young players to reach the 1st team. If you have enough money or invest wisely this strategy can work though, there are clubs who are successful without having a good youth academy. I hope this helps you understand the academy system a bit, it's very different from the draft system.

[@REZZIKFC]

That is crazy to me. I don't know why but just seems weird but cool at the same time lol It would be cool as a kid to be on one of those teams

[@Giradev-rl6pl]

@@REZZIKFC Messi had played for barca since his youth days since he was 12....he stayed for 21 years

[@Dreyno]

This is why the U.S. struggled for so long. They were using the same college->professional setup their other sports did. By the time you’re finished college, no European team wants you. They want you when you’re in high school.

[@carkawalakhatulistiwa]

​@@REZZIKFCis call free market

[@joshualiley]

About the release clauses: • In most countries, they are not mandatory to have in a player's contract. Often, clubs will push to not have them in the contract, and players may push to have them, and so the player may only agree to not have a sell on clause if the rest of the their contract (eg. their wage) is suitable to their requirements. • Even if they do have release clauses, the club can also set the value of that release clause. For example, in Spain, where release clauses are mandatory, release clauses are often set to €1 billion. This is simply because they believe that there isn't a single club well enough off financially to be able to afford it, and so it essentially means it isn't there. If someone is able to meet the release clause requirement, the value is usually enough to compensate for that player and sign a replacement, so it doesn't usually screw over the original club. The only time it sometimes doesn't pay out is if a release clause is set for a player who is quite young, who then becomes a global superstar, and now their release clause looks inadequate because their market value has increased so much compared to when they first signed the contract. • A player is not obligated to accept a deal being offered to them by a club agreeing to pay their release clause. The club they're currently contracted to may use that to their advantage by offering a pay rise if a club does ever meet the release clause, at which point a new release clause may be inserted instead. A player may also refuse to transfer if they believe they will not get much playing time at their new club, which would prevent 1 rich team from buying every player in the league even if they could afford it. Loyalty is often a lot stronger in Europe as well. Players will almost never transfer directly to their rivals, and so the big transfers usually happen from 1 country to another, or from weak teams in the country to strong teams where players can progress their careers and smaller teams can boost their tight finances, rather than rich teams stealing players directly from their rivals in the same league.

[@AndrewBroadhead-kb7oc]

Agreed. And if a player did try to trigger a release from his current club because he wanted to earn more elsewhere, by refusing to play for his current club, this wouldn't go un-noticed by any other club who might potentially be in the market to buy him. If he treats his current club like this when he wants to move, what's to stop him doing it again? So this could well put a lot of clubs off buying him even if the current club did put him up for sale.

[@lagge1535]

16:50 - on the contrary. A contracts worth is usually something like 1x, but a buyout clause is something like 12x. So if you buy my best player, I can find 12 talents that will perform even better in 2 years time. And that's how most teams get around. Remember: you got unlimited players all around the globe. It isn't limited to highschool markets where you live

[@inquisitive6786]

So for europe: Each country (every single one) has its own league divisions, cup tournaments AND some of the clubs compete in the pan-european tournaments. All these run at the same time during a season.

[@chrisbamber2762]

A few little extra details there are now 3 European wide tournaments every year, there are now up to 5 substitute a game (was increased after matches returned after COVID to reduce the pressure on players having to play a lot of games in a short amount of time). Your local team Minnesota it's are a newer team in the MLS (the most uses a franchise system similar to other us sports every few seasons they will open up space for new teams and city's bid to join the league) joining in 2017 they are currently in the playoffs and won the opening game in a best of 3 in the 1st round

[@lagge1535]

Sell-on Clause. I am a big team in a small league and I can decide to sell a player for 7x to a low team in a big league, or for 5x to a mid team in a mid league. But in the 2nd case I add a sell-on clause. It is either A or B. A: I get x% from what you sell the player for, B: I get x% of the benefit/winnings you get by selling the player

[@lagge1535]

14:50 - Machester City and Manchester United are from the same city. Both got loads of history, but none of it matters today. See it as Rangers and Islanders!

[@AndrewBroadhead-kb7oc]

Yes, Manchester is one city with two professional teams both playing in the Premier League. But this is not restricted to just Manchester. Many cities in the UK have multiple professional teams - Liverpool, Birmingham, Bristol, Sheffield, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Nottingham all have two or more. There are 17 teams in London who all play in one of the top four leagues in England, 7 of them in the Premier League (Arsenal, Brentford, Chelsea, Crystal Palace, Fulham, Spurs and West Ham).

[@Dreyno]

Yes. Except one of them has a history of mediocrity (at best) and the other is European football royalty. (Not a Man U supporter but c’mon!).

[@lagge1535]

@@Dreyno I am a Man U supporter - so I get what you mean. But that was more than a decade ago! Still doing free-fall

[@Dreyno]

@@lagge1535 A friend of mine supports Utd. Must be 7 years ago he was ranting about how it’s not good enough and Man Utd. should always be at the top of league and European football with their resources etc. I just pointed out that the 70s and 80s happened and very few teams (Real, Juventus, Bayern) are almost permanently in and around the top. And I pointed out that if you told a Liverpool fan in 1990 that they wouldn’t win another league title for 30 years, they would’ve laughed at you. It’s all cyclical.

[@bladablitz]

A city can have a huge amount of teams. I live in Vienna (Austria) and we have 276 Teams in the city (2 mill. citizens). Ok, just two are playing in Austria´s Top Tier, but every Team is playing in Austria´s organized Football Association.

[@REZZIKFC]

holy crap that seems like a lot lol

[@KingDavid-yt1gs]

​​​​@@REZZIKFC and fyi, every single one of them teams got fans. Football is a culture, community and politically based sport that's passed on from generation to generation since 100 or more years ago

[@maireweber]

@@REZZIKFC Europeans play the sport they love as amateurs all their lives, not just in high school or professionally. We don't have that stark separation. Our hierarchy of clubs and leagues goes all the way down to every single small town, every city neighborhood. Volleyball, hockey, bowling, whatever your sport is, it is something you DO, not just watch on TV. Kids, adults, seniors find a local team that fits them and practice together once, maybe twice a week. The facilities are run by the local non-profit amateur sports club and you pay a small fee. If you play at a higher level than your small town team, you either have to commute a little longer to practice or find people to form a second team at your local club. There are many factors causing that: - We don't have for-profit college sports or huge college tuition. European uni students don't "finance" their studies by playing for the school. We have uni teams, but those are strictly for fun and recreation. - We don't have school teams. Our schools are mostly for academics, we just have PE. That's why our schools don't have many school sports facilities, we have one big multi-purpose indoor gym without audience stands. Often the PE class walks to the nearest private sports club to use their soccer pitch with running tracks around, sand for jumping etc. Swimming PE is usually at the city/community pool. - Average middle class Europeans by law get much more free time, especially on weekends. We don't live to work, we work to live. Every Joe Shmoe has a few spare hours after work once a week to practice regularly in a consistent team, games are on weekends.

[@Nast33]

How contracts and transfers work: Big teams can pay the release clause for star players, but they're limited by how much revenue they generate and the best players are crazy expensive - so without getting into details on allowed spending according to revenue for the last few years - they can buy someone for 100M, but that would put a huge dent into the rest of their transfer budget. Even the biggest clubs can't go on wild spending sprees every year, so it's kinda sorta balanced. If a club has a very promising youth prospect they sell for 3-4M at 17 years old, the sell-on clause (if they negotiate one) is not complicated - if their next club sells him for 20M at 21 years old, the original club can get for example 25% of that, so another 5M in the coffers. The transfer windows - ~2.5 months in summer, 1 month in winter during mid-season. Every club sells players that don't quite work at their team and buys new ones. The best players from mid-table or lower placed clubs are always targets, but if they got for example 4 years to run on their contract, their club can refuse a sale since they hold all the cards - unless someone pays the release clause which is often higher than the expected reasonable fee for them. Like a mid-table club has a player other clubs are willing to spend 40M on, but their clause is 75M, so it doesn't work out unless some big club is really desperate and views them as the missing piece in their winning scheme. If a player's contract is running down and they got 1.5-2 years to go, the current club is much more flexible and can easily agree to sell for that reasonable fee and not the inflated release clause, else the player can wait out their contract and leave on a free transfer, which is a disaster if the player isn't old and close to retirement. Just as top teams buy from lower-placed ones, the lower-placed ones buy from the league below them, etc. And some lower placed teams rely on academy kids to fill in so they don't spend much on new arrivals.

[@REZZIKFC]

Holy crap 3 to 4 mil. at 17?? how much does the individual get of that?? That is a lot of info to take in lol. My mind is kinda overloading right now haha

[@justrandom24_7]

@@REZZIKFC yeah, there’s a 17 old in my team which another team wanted to buy for 200m when he was 16.

[@benjaminbronnimann3966]

​@@REZZIKFC none of those 3-4 million would go to the 17 year old player, that's the transfer fee the other club had to pay to the players current club to acquire him, the players contract/salary is settled separately between the player and his new club and has nothing to do with that 3-4 million transfer fee

[@chaoznofx]

In BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA (Capital City of the Country) there are like 20 pro football stadiums.. in the city, and several top league clubs as other divisions too.. Theres footbal all over the country, but its historicly very capital centered. Also in Rosario there are at least 3 important clubs, as many other smaller.. Cordoba has a lot of football around the province.. and there are some from the rest of the country.

[@williamwhitty7243]

1st lesson its called football

[@Zitolos]

Soccer is a British word

[@Daniel-ih6go]

​@@Zitolosdoesn't matter the sport is called football👍

[@kentgrady9226]

17:06 No, you're not wrong - not entirely, anyway. Football is definitely a rich-get-richer endeavor. If a second tier club suddenly produces a few exceptional players, it won't be long before clubs with deep pockets come calling with unrefuseable offers. But the club that owns the player's contract holds the right to set the price. An offer to buy doesn't imply an obligation to sell. Some lower tier clubs actually adopt the sale of players as a business model. If they can spend €1 million to develop or acquire a player, then sell his contract rights to a big club for €10 million, they will laugh all the way to the bank. Ideally, they would take part of those earnings, buy the rights to two €3 million players, spend €2 million on facilities or player/manager bonuses, and bank the other €2 million for the future. In reality, ownership groups tend to pocket the cash. When you select a club to support, there are a number of things to consider. One of the most important is club culture. Every club has a history. Sometimes, it's simple geography. If you're born in Leeds, you support Leeds, full stop (for example). Other clubs have traditional association with a particular trade or industry. These are working class clubs, originally founded as clubs for trade unions like steel workers, railroad employees, or miners. People with family histories in such trades might support the relevant club, regardless of geography. Finally, some clubs are openly political in philosophy and support, or are associated with a particular ethnic group. My club, Celtic FC, is Scottish and draws its support primarily from the Irish immigrant community in Glasgow. Sankt Pauli FC in Germany is an ANTIFA club with aggressively progressive politics. Consider the things that are important or interesting to you. Do some research, and choose a club to support based on that connection. Your journey as a fan will be more meaningful, and existing fans will respect your thoughtfulness. Nothing is worse than a new fan jumping on the Manchester City bandwagon just because they win a lot. Being labeled a "plastic fan" is a grave insult.

[@Dreyno]

The teams actually started as clubs with members like a golf club or tennis club. They are not franchises. They rarely move even out of the part of the city they’re situated in.

[@sangsanga5491]

Soccer ❌ Football ✔️ It's not Soccer it's Football

[@totalEPICness88]

Also, you can’t legally transfer a player below the age of 16. Though some leagues allow pro teams to play with players as young as 15.

[@gtjohns220]

1 tiny city can have 3 or 4 teams in different leagues

[@Londronable]

As we're talking release clauses. Here is another situation for them that I run across a lot in football manager. I play as the best club in a lesser league (think Belgium, Netherlands, Austria, etc.) and I buy a young talent. This talent will not want to be held hostage by me basically and might ask "release clause for foreign clubs" for a reasonable price. Basically, I come play for you if you let me go to a bigger club afterwards.

[@darkmatter6714]

“They can steal your players”. It’s called capitalism. The best talents attract the biggest contracts. If the team losing the start player to a richer club can set the price they want, then they can buy two or three other players with that money.

[@cecilialeitet2794]

When it comes to youth players and player developments, it is also important to mention that college sport is not a thing outside of the US. That is usually the way a good player develops and gets discovered in the US. In Europe (and the rest of the world as far as I konw) this is done through the youth academies of the clubs themselves instead of through college sports. That is why youth development is a big part of any top professional football team, and why very young kids gets signed into academies.

[@jacksmith4460]

Release clauses are not in most contracts, and when they are they are cray high. In Spain they are mandatory but tend to be set at 2 or 3 times a players market value. In the UK the are not mandatory but when they are added it will be because a player has chosen it and it will be very high but maybe at or just above their peak projected value. When done in this way it means its a win win for big and small clubs and the players. If you have a valuable player going for 3 times market value you can sell that player and by 3 or 4 players who are good enough to strengthen your first team overall, which then free's up the players they replace to sell to make more money back in transfers and either club investment or more players for depth etc (see Liverpool selling Coutinho, who was their best player at the time and buying the best Keeper and Defender in the world and winning everything after) However there are certainly flaws in the model Man City are currently under investigation in England for corruption charges (over 100 charges) and this centre's around their budget being almost infinite (Middle east oil state finance backing) and them side stepping rules to mitigate such situations. Whilst Man City have for roughly 10 years basically had a 22man squad all with high level /star market values, essentially creating super team and they have dominated english football in that time. Same has happened in France with PSG , although no charges, and with Bayen in Germany and Barcelona and Real Madrid in Spain There certainly are huge issues with money in football all over europe at the moment

[@CarlosTeixeiraCosta]

Note: one city have many teams like lisbon in Portugal have Benfica and Sporting play in the main league in the countty and lisbon have many samall team but every samall team onde day can play in main lague olny have to be good 😊

[@aziizali4014]

It’s true big teams can steal good players. But there are limits on your spending. It’s called financial fair play rules.

[@domiiinik4320]

2 things are extremely wrong about this video : - referee doesn't end the match when he feels like it, the match has to be played in 2 halfs, each one has 45 minutes and referee can add from 1 to even 15 minutes (sometimes even more) of extra time if there is a need, because clock doesn't stop during the game and sometimes things happen (like some serious injuries or a fan having a heart attack etc.) - people do care about teams that are in lower leagues, especially in countries like England or Germany, there are tens of thousands fans of even those smaller clubs that play in 3rd league for 50th year in a row

[@rafalovitch]

Great reaction - very good starting point! React to a messi video - look for “Messi vs physics” or any other one… Messi is the GOAT!

[@REZZIKFC]

Ok for sure. Thank you for the suggestion. I will check that out

[@MrMooemoney]

i think only spain has the R K as mandatory....

[@chaoznofx]

there can be like very powerful clubs with a lot of money and power.. and they buy the best players.. and that gives them more chances to win a championship.. but, you still have to play it.. and, because football is like it is.. it could be that the most powerful team cant win the league to other less powerful clubs, that can have a very good season.. and win at last.

[@christianemeka8526]

A little info, the best team in the world Real Madrid have players with a billion dollar release clause which is outrageous but that's the point. You'd be insane to want to pay a billion dollars for a single player so release clauses actually prevent your players from getting stolen.

[@Dreyno]

Because out of contract players no longer bring a transfer fee, it’s just a way to hang onto good players you won’t get any reward for when they do go.

[@CarlosTeixeiraCosta]

Note if 2 team have the same amount of points in the end the winer the league is the team o socore more goals like real madri and barcelona have for exemple 88 points but real madri score in all league 100 but barcelos olny 91 the winers is real madri 😊

[@pablo_discobar8846]

Dude they are not picking up those 'kids' you're talking about from the playground😂 Release clauses are generally for teen players who are rising talents and want to move to bigger, better club. Also you have to remember just because another club paid the release clause, the player still has to decide to go

[@REZZIKFC]

oh ok the player has a say.

[@CoL_Drake]

Ofc looks small but there are a ton of small island nations. Once not long ago Australia was also part of ofc, but in world cup qualifiers they did send their third or fourth best lineup to games, so like nob player that plays in Europe so no one needs to travel to far, and they still won games 32-0 ... So they moved to Asia because it was getting ridiculous xD

[@oscarbokoblin2917]

OMG

[@stiglarsson8405]

Football in Europe is organised different then USA. At first, in Europe we have clubs, and moste clubs are local and have paying members.. its ther fanclub mostly. The bigger clubs in bigger european soccer countrys have owners.. in some clubs (Barcelona?) the memers have 51% of the votes. USA "teams" are franchaising companys.. in the entertainment industry. In my country all players are registrated on there club.. in small local clubs the youth acadamy is mostly run by parents.. with suport of the club. So if there parents move to another city there kids can change club.. its not allowed to pay money for transer befor they get 15, after they finished elementary school. Another differens is that in USA there is that "pay to play".. in my country its allmoste free of charge, exept member fees.. parents supose to pay member fee altso? At local clubs its the comunity that own the arena and pay for staff to upkeep it.. and pay the club for there youth activity! Local bussines supose support the local club financely.. and if they pay up bigger one, they get there company name on the jersey! For minor sums one get the company name on a sign on the arena!

[@jonaskazlauskas4119]

Football .

[@andredl2991]

American football is to me rugby with armor . No tension, only comercial breaks . And the whole world knows what football is. Only the americans don’t 😅 btw. He goes to fast through all of it. He missed so much to explain. You also have to look for the culture of the fans. It‘s complete different from US sport fans

[@inquisitive6786]

Basketball works the same way by the way.

[@panagislefkokilos3082]

FOOTBALL IS THE KING OF SPORTS . the reason is that we play it with our feet not with hands .it is very hard to play footbal and these players train every day sometimes 2 times they run 90 minutes in the field. you need allot of talent and dedication to become a professional player

[@chaoznofx]

In BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA (Capital City of the Country) there are like 20 pro football stadiums.. in the city, and several top league clubs as other divisions too.. Theres footbal all over the country, but its historicly very capital centered. Also in Rosario there are at least 3 important clubs, as many other smaller.. Cordoba has a lot of football around the province.. and there are some from the rest of the country.