NFL Fans React To "(European) Soccer Explained For Americans"

[@simonwilkins2082]

You said Arsenal blocked content.. Do you know who owns Arsenal? An American Stan Kronke who is a big owner of LA Rams amongst many other U.S teams in various sports and is worth in excess of £7bn +.. everything arsenal do on or off the field has to be ratified by him

[@ianp1986]

You mentioned hypothetically Kansas City winning the Super Bowl and then being relegated a couple of years later, that literally happened in real life here. Leicester City won the Premier League in 2016 and were relegated last season. They’re doing well this season and looks like they might come back up again, though

[@philhebden374]

they're cheats

[@miladeskandari7]

They know

[@VillaFanDan92]

Yeah, my club Aston Villa won what is now called The Champions League. Probably the biggest prize in world football, except the world cup. And got relegated 5 years later.

[@jamesd2251]

​@@VillaFanDan92 Deadly Dougs doing Villa getting relegated in '87

[@theonetheonlyjoey]

I hope Leicester and Ipswich go up automatically, although it would be pretty mad if Southampton made a late charge and went up

[@johnnyf6617]

You talked about teams fading into obscurity, and the narrator says that "nobody cares" about teams in the national league. Just to help you understand how important the game is, even at such a low level, teams in the national league (5th tier) can play in front of thousands of fans (average gate about 3,000, the top clubs average 6,000-8,000). Even in the 6th tier, there are quite a few teams that pull in over 2,000 fans per match on average, and can go up to about 3,000-4,000 for a big match such as a local derby or top of the table clash.

[@oufc90]

Absolutely 👍 my club took 33,500 supporters to Wembley for the National League Play-Off Final in 2010

[@horumgrombo6519]

The Wrexham documentary alone proves that people do care.

[@albinjohnsson2511]

Exactly. In Sweden, Hammarby had 30k in attendance in the second tier of Swedish football (our top flight is ranked 24th in Europe lol). The idea that people don't care about anything but the elite level is so wrongheaded. Understandable that someone used to franchise sports and coming at it from the outside would think so though.

[@JuLiane]

Alemannia Aachen in german forth League regularly has 20k fans at home games. My favourite Club (fourth division, fifth division next, played a cup game against a local rival with 7k fans in the stadium and 13k fans watching the clubs' livestreams on youtube. And a lot of us don't care about Bundesliga or Champions League and are only interested in these clubs which, for the uninformed spectator, have faded into obscurity.

[@DerkHat]

This must have been produced before Maidstone's FA Cup run this season. Because a *lot* of people cared about that.

[@limitedmark]

Football is an institution in Europe, you can hear a conversation about a team in every bar across Europe, everyday, every hour, every minute. 😎✌

[@00binator]

When you meet new people, talking about football is like an easy go-to topic to break the ice 80% of the time, doesn't matter where :D

[@Fusso]

And Latin America, and Africa, and in the middle east... Honestly, very few places don't have football as the main sport.

[@palveald]

the same in South America. The best players come from South America, and they are not the best player for nothing, they were playing in the best football in the world. Last year Villareal toured south America, in 3 games received 12 goals, and converted none. They were supposed to be one of the best of Europe. I assurance that if Barcelona o Real Madrid tour South America, they will face big defeats.

[@robin97rv]

​@@palvealdVillareal is not even close to the best clubs in Europe. Just look at the world cup for club football, the uefa champions league winner almost always wins it. Don't get me wrong, i like watching south american football but don't use a club like villareal to compare 😂

[@BirneAsche]

​@@palveald Villareal ain't a real opponent and definitely not even close to the best Clubs in europe

[@MetalMonkey]

Football is a game of anticipation. Nobody expects more than 4 goals in a match, the average is 2 goals, 0-0, 1-0, 1-1, 2-0. The excitement is the possibility of your team scoring when they go forward and the possibility of the opponents scoring against your team. That's the very base level of football. After a while you'll understand the Ins and Outs of the game

[@24magiccarrot]

Also because it is a lower scoring game than American sports, it means the goals mean more which makes it more exciting (or in a lot of cases more like sense of relief) when your team does score. I mean I don't know why anyone would get excited over a score in basketball, they score 2-3 times in a minute.

[@Josh00T]

Even amazing passes get you excited or skills/dribbles...last minute tackles....amazing gk saves. Football just has amazing moments that have you at the edge of your seat

[@Lara_Irina-hk2uy7cd3m]

That happens a lot on the first matches at the World cup and European cup and it's annoying. That's why I loved Croatia so much. Pressureplay from the the first second.

[@MetalMonkey]

@@Josh00T Exactly, but my point was directed at Americans and anyone else that doesn't understand it. The base level is pick a team in any match and you'll feel the anticipation. They won't understand formations and what's a good/bad tackle/save etc at the beginning

[@daderr99]

Ye, I never understood the "low scoring" complaint. Personally nothing gets me fired up more then a central midfielder turning and dictating tempo after receiving from the defense, or maybe a pass combination in tight spaces that eventually shifts the point of attack, or even a really dominant defensive performance where a defender keep winning duel after duel. Theese are the things that makes me want to watch the sport, of course nothing beats your team scoring in terms of emotions, but that's mostly a competitive thing, not the reason why I grew to like It.

[@tinudur2284]

So in soccer, offside is similar to offside in ice hockey, but the blue line is not painted on the field because it is "moving" with whoever the last defender before the goal is. That's why the two side refs are usually always on the same level as the last defender.

[@homerp.hendelbergenheinzel6649]

this is correct, with one exception ( but i guess its fair that its not mentioned, because the offside rule is "complicated" enough as it is if you have no clue): there is indirect offside, where an attacking player is actually offside when a pass is played, but he does not actively engage the ball and does not disctract opponent players (thedefending goalkeeper is meant here with players, if you think deeply about it ^^). instead another player of the attacking team that was not offside can get the ball from the pass and then the offside position of the player that was actually in offside when the pass is played is removed and the game continues normally without a foul being called. i guess if you have no clue what im writing about, im sure there is a good yotube video that will explain what i mean (:

[@l.h.3586]

​@@homerp.hendelbergenheinzel6649Actually, you guys are wrong on another point. The offside line is always where the second guy closest to the goal line is.

[@snetmotnosrorb3946]

This is the best explaination I'v ever heard! I know the offside rule but have so much trouble explaining it for someonewho has no clue. Kudos! @@l.h.3586 I interpret "defender" as an illustrative term, not a formal thing

[@TheBloodypimp]

​@@l.h.3586you're wrong too.... that only applies if there are 2 players in the opposite half. Even if you are the last player but you are in your half.... no offside. ^_^

[@l.h.3586]

@@TheBloodypimp Hehe! You're right!

[@RudyCantGame]

Arsenal (my club) even told their fan channel, Arsenal Fan TV, and made them take out the Arsenal part.

[@oufc90]

18:17 the top 4 leagues in England are all fully professional. I support a team in League One (3rd tier), Oxford United, who are a professional club. The third tier isn’t complete ‘obscurity’, there’s still thousands of fans that go to each of the games in these leagues. We managed to get to the top league in the 1980’s, and won the League Cup in 1986.

[@rogu3rooster]

I've been a Fulham fan since the old days when there was no Championship and it was Division 1-3 after the Premier, seen my team in all of the key leagues and to a European final.

[@jonisilk]

I remember you winning the League Cup. Pretty sure Ray Houghton scored for you in that game. I remember being excited when we signed him for Liverpool. He was a class act.

[@Bennyboy138]

I absolutely love the beauty of our football pyramid but one thing I don't like is the 4th league being 'League 2' and the 3rd league being 'League 1'...It should be Premier League, League 2, League 3, and League 4 imo because it might be confusing for newbies getting into it. Like why is the 2nd tier called the Championship??...cos it sounds better for TV maybe? My team Queens Park Rangers are in the Championship by a thread 😂

[@rogu3rooster]

@@Bennyboy138 it used to be Premiership-Division 1- Division 2- Division 3.

[@Jeffcoolio]

I’ve been supporting Exeter city for years. Seen a few promotions and relegations. Will never be more than a League 1 side but can always dream. Saw them get a 0-0 at old Trafford many years ago.

[@zinnia2980]

Our Football clubs are the heartbeat of our cities, towns and communities. We are intrinsically linked to them. It's the world's no 1 game and a year round obsession 👌⚽🧡

[@philhebden374]

your city is your team

[@koba2140]

​@@philhebden374Depends on the city. My team is FC St. Pauli, and we say Hamburg is brown-white! HSV supporters claim something else.

[@Footy13s]

@@philhebden374 I wish thats the way it was, too many w*nk big 6 supporters with no connection at all

[@matthewjamison]

Relegation/Jeopardy in the league makes it far more exciting. Like this season in the Premier League, it's looking like a 3 horse race to win the title between Liverpool, Man City & Arsenal & it will probably go down to the last game of the season to see who is crowned champions. But there's 5/6 teams at the bottom who will all be scraping it out not to be 1 of the 3 teams relegated on the last day of the season. Making it a nail biting last day of the season, with loads of different storylines all being played out.

[@colinpearce5856]

The extra spice to these matches is teams trying to stay in the league will be playing teams trying to win the league. Hence highly fancied winners have to travel to away stadiums with passionate fans cheering on their strugglers to put one over on them. Fans of other teams that will be effected by the result will, if not publicly support the team that could provide the better outcome for their own. A fantastic mesh of interest & passions not even involving your own team !!

[@necessaryevil3428]

Will still never beat Man Utd thinking they'd won it...... Agueroooooooo !!! 😂

[@matthewjamison]

@colinpearce5856 No doubt. Gonna be a lot of heartbreak & a lot of joy. The championship is the same with 3 teams battling for the 2 automatic promotion places

[@АлександрАнтипин-к6д]

Just look at Everton and their desperate race against FA. This already more thrilling than most of American sports. Can they score enough points? Will FA add some more penalties for them? I found myself cheking this situation almost every weekend, and I'm not even Everton fan (just a little rooting for my boy Miko). Name me something in any american sports that can be so entertaining?

[@matthewjamison]

@@АлександрАнтипин-к6д 🤣🤣🤣

[@volkerp.2262]

Germany with world largest soccer association and club structure have a 13 level deep system of leagues. There are over 2000 different leagues in this system with over 30.000 teams compete in it.

[@Willaonyt]

I've never known that😂

[@liambriggs1302]

13 leagues of semi professional or amateur? England amateur leagues go to around level 21/22 and I believe it’s league 11 that is the lowest semi pro level.

[@volkerp.2262]

@@liambriggs1302 take it with a grain of salt but IMO 1st, 2nd Bundesliga and 3. Liga are professional football. The Regionalliga (5 in total) and the Oberliga (13 in total) should be semi-professional but with a mix of amateurs and maybe some professional in some cases. But the most part should be semi professional. In level 6 and below there are amateur teams but you can still climb up the ladder if you are successful enough. But each league and level brings also additional requirements for the license to play there,that stress your financial situation.

[@Milak96]

German Regional League is more profesional league then semi-pro. Most teams who play are second teams from Bundesliga teams(Freiburg II), teams with big fan base(Kickers Offenbach) and maybe 3 amateur team what came from Oberliga. I mean thats my opinion...

[@volkerp.2262]

@@Milak96 IMO it depends on the contracts of the players. A full-time payed player is way more professional then a half-time player. And I'm not sure how financially potential the lower level teams are. A second or third division of a big club could be financially better then smaller clubs.

[@FilterHQ]

Offside rule: When the attacking team with the ball passes the ball forward...the player recieving the ball MUST be behind or in line with the last defender (not including the defending goalkeeper) ie as soon as the ball is kicked (touched) by the player passing to him..he cannot be ahead of the last defender..or it will be ruled offside. There is slightly more to this with various circumstances, but thats the basic jist of it. This is when you see replays of the attacking move freeze framed on screen with 2 lines accross the pitch..showing where the last defender and the attacking player who is being passed to as the ball is kicked. It can literally come down to a half inch difference sometimes. The attacking player must time his run perfectly to beat the offside trap set by the defending team.

[@akosbogar1885]

The second to last defender counts. If the goalkeeper is second to last and there is a defender behind him, he is still offside in soccer. Being a goalkeeper doesn't matter.

[@josteingravvik2381]

Or even more accuratelly, the attacking player must be behind 2 defenders (where the goalie is counted as 1 defender). So, if the the goalie, for some reason, is out of position, there has to be 2 defenders between the attacking player and the goal when the pass is made.

[@muhammadryanelyeddari8631]

On the release clause thing, when you pay a player's release clause they don't actually get released. It's basically a transfer fee that the club has to agree to. For example if a player's release clause is $50,000,000 and a team bids $35,000,000 for him the club would be able to choose whether or not that release clause is good enough but if a team bids $50,000,000 then the club is required to accept the offer and then they can negotiate with the player. If the player refuses to join the team that bid $50,000,000 for him he'd just stay at his old team. He can't choose to move to a team that didn't pay his release clause if they didn't accept. Also if more than one club activates the release clause it's up to the player to choose what club he wants to go to or if he wants to stay at his original club. Most players don't have release clauses since Spain is the only big league to require them but Spanish player's release clauses are usually massive because they'd prefer to go through standard negotiations so that they can reject offers from rival clubs or if the player becomes better than how good he was when the contract was first signed the release clause would still be too high for any club to realistically pay no matter how good the player becomes are. There are plenty of players in LaLiga with release clauses of $1,000,000,000. This is because of a transfer that happened in 2017. A player called Neymar - you may have heard of him, he was touted to be as good of a player as Messi and Ronaldo however his career came a little short, he was still an amazing player but not on the same level - had his release clause in his contract with a club called Barcelona of $235,000,000. He was Barcelona's star boy along side Messi and Barcelona thought that no club would spend $235,000,000 for a player but one extremely rich club did. Paris Saint-Germain or PSG for short activated the release clause and signed him. This left Barcelona with a lot of money to spend on replacements however the replacements were not the best. They bought two players, both for $145,000,000. The first was Coutinho from Liverpool and the second was Dembele from Dortmund. Coutinho would end up leaving the club for $20,000,000 in 2022 and Dembele (Who was injured for a long time and didn't really do well until 2022 and 2023 when he started playing amazingly for Barcelona) ended up leaving for $50,000,000 with a release clause that only activated 5 years after his original signing. However the contract also stated that Dembele would get 50% of the transfer fee from the release clause so Barcelona only made $25,000,000 on him. Because of that happening with Barcelona selling a player for $235,000,000 then buying two replacements for $290,000,000 but then ending up making only $45,000,000 back from those sales only 5 years later (So they basically lost $10,000,000 and their second best player in Neymar leaving, one of their best players in 2022 and 2023 in Dembele leaving, and a player who did really poorly for them in Coutinho also leaving.) Most big teams in LaLiga - especially Barcelona - give all best players $1,000,000,000 release clauses so that no team can buy them out so that the same thing won't happen again.

[@josteingravvik2381]

Wouldn't "Minimum Release Clause Sum" be a more accurate name for this?

[@markaitcheson3212]

The idea that it's the same teams in the NFL year after year and that if you suck you get rewarded is not only boring as hell but bizarre, and that you have no comps where everybody and anybody can play is also boring, these differences are some of the reasons normal club games have way way more viewers than the superbowl final.

[@coletripp4814]

or they play twice to three times as many matches as an NFL team a season

[@markaitcheson3212]

@@coletripp4814 Not really sure of your point?

[@Corrupt_Player]

@@markaitcheson3212 I dont think thats why so many Americans watch the superbowl, but it is because college football started before the NFL and so players who are done in college need somewhere to go. And by giving them to the worst team allows that to have a chance to win it all. Which is more exciting that watching out same few teams win every year.

[@shapeshifter8778]

Midfielders are considered the generalist, all round players. They are usually the brain of the team. Many great football coaches and managers used to be midfielders in their playing days.

[@rjb29uk]

Release clause is kind of "if someone offers this money we have to accept it", so it takes the owning club out of the equation. And then the team that offered that money can negotiate with the player directly on their personal contract. The player doesn't have to accept the move if they don't want to. Anyone else who wants to buy the player would have to offer the same money as the clause to negotiate with the player direct. So it doesn't make the player a free agent. In England, we don't really have many release clauses. I'm not sure I've heard of too many players moving in England because another team decided to play the release clause. Although I think in Spain release clauses are compulsory in every contract. That's one of the reasons Paris SG bought Neymar back in 2017. FC Barcelona set his release clause at 222m Euros, thinking they were safe, as only the previous year Manchester United set a new world record fee when they bought Paul Pogba for 89m Euros. But the Qatari owners of PSG were happy to more than double the world record fee to buy Neymar out of his contract, and Neymar himself wanted to go there and there was nothing Barcelona could do about it.

[@georgeloyal2051]

I think many contacts have release clauses but many are never triggered

[@mathres17]

@@georgeloyal2051 yes, specially for young, seemingly promising players that flop.

[@georgeloyal2051]

@@mathres17 even those who don't flop but turn out decent might have like a 40 mil release close that might not ever be triggered

[@supersasukemaniac]

And right now, due to Barcelona doing things like setting an astronomically high Release Clause and pretty much over paying everybody. They are in a deep financial hole, and still refuse to sell players.

[@AlienDenzil85]

To add to this existing thread, in Lionel Messi's final contract with Barcelona, his release clause was reportedly set at €700 million (around $750 million). Nobody was willing (or able) to pay that, so he didn't move during that final contract. If someone had offered say $600 million, Barcelona may have accepted it, but even that is crazy money as the world record transfer for a player is around $250 million. So his contract expired, he became a free agent and joined Paris St-Germain. After a couple of seasons there, he became a free agent again and moved to Miami.

[@davidmontgomery9846]

The richest single game in sport is actually the championship league play off final which is played at Wembly .The winner takes the third place promotion to the Premiership which is worth several hundred million pounds .

[@dargoid]

What the video failed to mention is that in England, the top 2 teams gets promoted straight to the premier league, while third to sixth are sent to a knockout-style mini tournament playoff with home and away legs, with the winner getting the third promotion spot. Also championship playoffs are usually the hypest set of matches of the year due to how much is at stake.

[@24magiccarrot]

He intentionally simplified it because the rules regarding promotion and relegation vary from country to country I think he just wanted to present a baseline understanding that would fit most countries' systems. He only used the English league as an example.

[@derekardito2032]

Football ( soccer to moron USA American ) is a TACTICAL game, tactics require intelligence something USA American games all lack. Foot ball players are fast, they are are also averagely heavy, you try running at speed and being fouled and not getting hurt. The attack is looking for an opening, a chance to score, one cannot score if they are not in charge of the ball.

[@homerp.hendelbergenheinzel6649]

@@24magiccarrot exactly. in germany, for example, 2 teams are directly relegated ( last & 2nd to last go down and best and 2nd best go up). the 3rd best team from the lower and the 3rd to last team from the upper division play a 2 game match to see who gets the spot in the upper league. funnily enough, these two games are related to as "relegationsspiele" which means relegation games in germany. for the teams that go directly down we have a totally different term ( "abstieg"/"absteiger") which would be best translated with decline or decliners ^^

[@markwyatt8991]

Banging video :) The European Championships is coming up this Summer, I highly recommend trying to watch a few games. Or at least watching the daily recaps each day for the month it's on, might be useful to get a grasp of the top players in the modern game, etc ...

[@101steel4]

Waste of time. There were a few "watch along" world cup videos posted by Americas, and they're simple not interested in the game. Americas has the attention span of goldfish, that's why their sports stop every 10 seconds 😂

[@josebucio3105]

3:50 nba basketball court fits inside one of the 18 yard boxes where the keepers hang out

[@almostyummymummy]

I utterly disagree with the (idiotic, to say the least) statement that 'only their Mum's care about the league at this point.' Considering there are 20 tiers in England alone.

[@merlinbotha363]

cry more , no one cares if it ain't Prem

[@monkeyatanofficedesk9253]

Considering National league clubs can tkae 10s of thousands of fans to wembley, yes they do​@merlinbotha363

[@Romanovic-c5d]

@@merlinbotha363 la Liga, série a

[@merlinbotha363]

@Romanovic-c5d yeah, who cares about Seria B , Serie C, etc , or La Liga B?

[@Romanovic-c5d]

@@merlinbotha363 a lot of people, like the Italian et Spanish.

[@eznorelol1174]

Ok, this is the first football video I've watched ever since today, so I'm gonna rant here. It's been 2 years in a row of Arsenal absolulutely bottling the Premier Lague title. Our biggest title race competitor, Liverpool, just fumbled away crucial points against a midtable team, and we just lost against a midtable team as well. Now our second competitor, Manchester City, that were given for dead, are 2 points ahead of us in first place and both Liverpool and us have already played our 2 matches against them. Now we relly on the midtable teams that Manchester City has to play against in his last games to tie or win against them, which is nearly impossible. We are doomed.

[@richardedgar9670]

I’ve never understood the idea that football is slow or boring compared to US sports. My wife watches baseball and they celebrate if someone hits the ball. Once. It changes personnel quickly I guess, but nothing happens for most of the time.

[@101steel4]

Exactly. American sports are slow and boring. Football is the complete opposite. It's not the game it's Americans attention span that's the problem.

[@Chrizzmeistah]

yeah same with the NFL, i actually can enjoy it but most of it is the coach coming up with tactics and players trying to remember those tactics and standing around. The 'plays' are mostly bursts of couple of seconds. And matches take 3 hours.

[@sirsancti5504]

I tried to watch an NFL game once. I've seen more ads than grass of the field.

[@DanceySteveYNWA]

I used to watch baseball when channel 5 used to have it on from midnight to 4 in the morning. It's great for putting you to sleep 💤

[@footballforlife2643]

*YALL need to watch this video By Zealand " WHY THE USA SUCKS AT FOOTBALL ⚽" He explains the history of the sport in the US*

[@richardmatthews7275]

Centre backs who stay in defence. John stones: "Am I a joke to you" 😂😂

[@Čangrizavi_Cinik]

Joško Gvardiol, CB in MCity. He loved to score all of his life.

[@belegur8108]

Franz Beckenbauer, one of the most offensive center backs of all time... but back then the game was so slow, he was able to make it back to position when a ball was lost in offense...

[@johnp8131]

A few teams in England have gone from the top flight to the fifth tier (Still mainly full profesionals). Notable teams are Oldham Athletic and Luton Town, although Luton have recently won promotion back to the Premiere league after nine consecutive seasons, which is pretty good going considering the little they've spent compared to most?

[@rjb29uk]

I don't still understand the e on the end of Premier (or the pronunciation). Is it that US English never calls anything premier, they only know the French word premiére and say it "preem-yeah" same? It's ok, we've anglicised it already, it's "prem-yuh".

[@generichuman2044]

Football is full of different playstyles. A lot of the top teams are possession sides but you have counter attacking teams, very defensive teams, teams who play a fast passing style. That's what keeps the game insteresting

[@nocturne7371]

I never immersed myself with fotball as a kid or even as an adult. But living in Europe and it being all around me all the time I picked up on most of this. Even the offside rule that so many people struggle with felt really logical to me. I must be weird.

[@lloydwaycott8178]

A player is offside if any part of his body that can legally score a goal (that's every part except the arms) is further upfield than the last opposing defender when the ball leaves the foot of the player passing to him. It was brought in to stop teams just leaving one of their players standing by the goal all match.

[@Tomurow]

This is a good explainer video at laying out some of the key appeal that may get lost if you don’t know what you’re watching. For me it’s always been a couple of things: both teams are 20/30secs away from scoring…. and the free-flowing nature of the game. This creates a gnawing see-saw of tension that isn’t so present in sports where there are short bursts of coordinated action. With soccer, there’s an unpredictable quality that can be utterly anxiety inducing when you’re invested. Because of the ‘low-scoring’ deadlock nature of it, one tiny mistake and the punishment can be brutal. There’s more to it, of course but this idea is good to have in mind when getting into it…👍⚽️

[@meinm3575]

09:45 - That's why, when they call for a sub you really listen to what name or shirt number. It can change the whole game set up depending on which position they are subbing.

[@jacksonconstantine5740]

27:47 when players are signing kids, they’ll be scouted whilst at school, usually when they’re playing exceptionally for county or district clubs. They’ll then join the club’s school system (which most big clubs have) or move in with a foster family close to the club they’ve joined and go a normal school there. At either a football academy school or local school they learn and get their qualifications whilst also training and developing as a player. Eventually when they enter their late teens, they’ll either get promoted to their club’s first team if they’re exceptionally good, get released and have to get a job of join a lesser club, or get sold/loaned (temporary transfer-usually for one season) to a rival who thinks they have space for that player in their team.

[@mancuniangamecat8288]

I tried to tell an an American movie reactor to try the running around a field experiment after he said footballers go down too easily, he really didn't understand.

[@pbl0_o]

25:18 The release clause it's meant to be activated by the player that wants out of a contract, it will most likely be paid by another club but only if the player agrees.

[@MO-io1qy]

19:50 2 weeks ago in the German "DFB Pokal" (the same tournament like the FA Cup in England) a 2. division team (Kaiserslautern) has beaten a 3. division team (Saarbrücken) to advance to the german cup final. Saarbrücken has beaten top tier teams like Mönchengladbach. They also have beaten the record bundesliga champion Bayern munich. Bayern (929 Million €) has the largest Team salary in Germany by a mile (saarbrückens Team salary to compare: about 5 million €). It doesn't happen to much but you see, it is possible. If Kaiserslautern will beat Leverkusen in the final they will get a spot in the Euro League as a 2.division team. That would gave them a massive TV contract. That's the beauty of this Sport.

[@JonathanReynolds1]

We don’t have vuvuzelas in Britain 🇬🇧 - that’s just a South African 🇿🇦 thing!

[@cathyb46]

Every European fan hated them for the racket they made. 😂

[@raistormrs]

It's not as impossible to climb the ranks as he made it sound, I just say Luton town... Also, the American obsession with trophies and titles is not as central in Europe, there are much more important things going on, example, Barca could win all the possible titles in a season but if they loose both classicos the same season... Then it was not that great a season after all... Priorities. There is nothing more important to a Barca fan then beating Real, nothing except maybe Catalonian independence I guess. 😅

[@firstnamelastname-bu1xm]

25:20 It might have been said already, but the release clause basically is something a player adds to his contract when he joins a club these days (almost all the time).. It is to ensure a player is not treated as a slave at a club... i'll explain that bit next paragraph. if a club comes along that the player wants to join, he can- leave the club, regardless of whether the club he is at wants to keep him or not. Once a club offers the release clause fee, it is down to the player whether they want to sign for this other club or not, the club is obliged to accept the offer (and its usually very high) .a few decades ago, a player called jean marc bosman wanted to leave his club at the end of his contract & A club in france I believe wanted to sign him, but his club didn't accept the offer. They then reduced his wages during the next season and stopped playing him... he took the club to court and won on the grounds of" freedom of movement". He successfully won his case . This created what became known as "the bosman ruling". This ruling meant that players could leave at the end of their contract and join any team that wanted them. After this ruling, the "release clause fee" was soon introduced, to allow players who where unhappy- or could be unhappy or maybe wanted to move to a bigger club in future, the opportunity to leave their club immediately in a transfer window- but the club that wants the player must pay the full fee. It allowed the clubs to get something back for the player and for the player to go a club that clearly desired him. ALTERNATIVELY, the player could wait out his contract, and join another team at the end of his contract on a "bosman"

[@philipmcniel4908]

Sounds a little like waivers in the Major League Baseball players' collective bargaining agreement, where if a major-league baseball team wants to demote a player to their minor-league farm team (basically the equivalent of a reserve squad), they have to first give him a window where other clubs are allowed to take him, on the condition that they actually put him in their major-league squad. It's a little like if an EPL team couldn't demote a player to their reserve team, at any time of the year, without first giving other EPL teams a chance to pick him up if they're willing to make him part of their first team and not their reserve squad. So players can't be forced to play on a minor league (equivalent to reserve league) team if there's a major-league team anywhere in the league that's willing to let them play major-league ball.

[@firstnamelastname-bu1xm]

@@philipmcniel4908 interesting!

[@thomasbach8723]

Watch our beloved Bundesliga in Germany and there watch my Hometown Team Borussia Dortmund.

[@CummyPancakes]

So at 25:25 you are talking about release clauses. Generally you do not pay a release clause until you've already negotiated a contract with a player and agent. So it all comes in at the same time. You don't pay a release fee and that player then goes to a wild west style auction. But the club interested in the player with deal with the players Agent and player themselves, get a contract written up and waiting. It will be then presented to the players current parent club and the signature for the contract will be signed within 24 hours after that.

[@JonathanReynolds1]

We have a few football teams here in the UK that we call “Boomerang Clubs” as they often get promoted to a higher league one year only to get relegated back down again the next year. Peterborough United is a big example of a Boomerang Club.

[@stuartmcivor2276]

Rotherham United even more so. 6 years in a row between the Championship and League 1, last season they stayed up - this year back to League 1!

[@neilforbes819]

We call them yo-yo clubs in Scotland - Hearts & Dundee Utd being notable examples ;)

[@supersasukemaniac]

I've heard the term "yo-yo club" not Boomerang Club.

[@samsby14]

Yeah prety sure theyre called yoyo clubs

[@belegur8108]

my team is the 1.FCN here in Germany and it is THE "Fahrstuhlmannschaft" - "Elevator Team" of the Bundesliga, relegated 9x down to Liga 2 and 8 time up to Bundesliga. It still holds second most national titles in Germany with 9, but mostly they won in the 1920s... the good old times... nowadays we are far too long in Liga 2, but at least this saison we do not have to worry about relegating into Liga 3 🤪

[@HastDuWasSuchen]

24:50 Yes and no. The new club can simply pay the amount of money needed to fulfill the release clause and the old club gets the money but the player gets around 10% of the sum (depending on how their contracts are, this can vary a little bit).

[@___day]

the offside rule is basically a rule against 'cherry picking'. an attacking player cannot be involved in a play when they are ahead of the last defender. so basically they have to be either behind or inline with the defence when the play involves them like receiving a pass

[@BastidasEledicion]

*They 🇺🇸 were always terrible at playing F⚽⚽TBALL and because of that frustration...Now I understand WHY THEY 🇺🇸 CHANGED the name to the REAL F⚽⚽TBALL and call that kind of "Helmet Rugby" "football"* 🏈 *They 🇺🇸 prefer to be good at Baseball, American Football, and they are actually very good* *..It would be embarrassing 😅 if they were not good at sports that they 🇺🇸 themselves invented* ⚾😪💤🏈

[@x0kosmus0x]

25:09 It's a complete deal. You only pay the release clause if the player signs a contract with you. Usually you start negotiations with a player or his personal agent, and after you have an agreement you pay the other club

[@internalpolitics461]

For my time Birmingham in the championship we have been in relegation battles for the past 10 years and its entertaining as it is stressful. 😂

[@TerenceDixon-l6b]

One of my local teams was relegated down to league 2 (the 4th level) but this year they are now back up into the Premiership. There are instances of lower league team, below league 2 haveing been promoted to league Football. The football player gets a percentage of the transrer fee when they move clubs.

[@stuartbrierley103]

In england you could set your own team up and if things went incredibly well you coukd eventually find yourself in the premier league. Its highly unlikely but the "pyramid " structure gives fans of all clubs that essential thing they need.....hope.

[@arwelp]

And the current classic example is Dorking Wanderers - founded in 1999, they started playing at level 17 of the football pyramid. As of last season they’ve been promoted 12 times in 24 years and are currently playing in the National League (level 5).

[@albinjohnsson2511]

Happens often in smaller leagues. In Sweden, we have plenty of smaller clubs, often formed by immigrant communities or a friendship group in specific parts of a town relatively recently, that have managed to reach the highest or second highest tier of the pyramid. As of now, you'll find FC Stockholm Internazionale (founded 2010), Nordic United (founded in 2004 by Assyrians), Ariana FC (founded in 2015 by Malmö Afghans) and FC Rosengård (famous for their social outreach) in Division 1 (the third tier, semi-professional). In the fourth tier you can find Dalkurd (Kurds from Dalarna, have played in the top flight), FBK Balkan (Yugoslav immigrants in Malmö, Zlatan's first club), several Syriac clubs, etc.

[@alpine_newt]

@@arwelp They featured in an episode of Welcome to Wrexham. That owner/manager is quite the character, the Del Boy of football.

[@arwelp]

@@alpine_newt Yes, they’ve got a KZbin channel, @BunchOfAmateurs . Unfortunately it looks like they’re going to be relegated this season.

[@dasy2k1]

The other big name is FC United who started with a group of fans of Manchester United who didn't like what the cubs new owners were doing (hardly surprising) so they set up their own team which is interesting in that it dosn't have an owner instead being owned by its fans. It's currently in the 7th tier

[@greypilgrim228]

6:30 I never thought about it like that. I'll certainly look at it differently now whenever a footballer is hamming it up over an injury. Ye go for it, you deserve it, have a rest lol.

[@CaptainFirefred]

Offside is, when the forward pass was played, when the attacking team has the closest player to the enemy goal, involved in the attack play.

[@prouvencau6343]

Definitively a great video from this guy, and great thoughts from you too 👍🏻

[@Speedy2619]

What i really love some of these leagues have a special turnament where every team has a chance to qualify. In germany its the "DFB Pokal" where some interesting upsets can happen. All the 1league teams are playing and it can happen in the later rounds that the total misfits of 4league play against Bayern München and win.

[@kay9din]

5:18 Last Sunday, I was watching a Portuguese league game (FC Porto vs Sporting CP) with 2/3 minutes left to finish, Porto was winning 2-0, I went to the kitchen to prepare a coffee, When I returned to the living room it was already 2-2, Sporting in a minute scored 2 goals...

[@ogden4]

Loving your attitude to taking on all aspects of football, lads. If you want I'd be happy to take you through finer point, or just be on hand to answer any questions. It's an area of YT I'm considering entering for benefit of uninitiated or new fans

[@juandiego83]

The release clause is basically the money the player pays to the team to finish the contract before the contract expires. For obvious reasons the money gets out the pocket of another team that previously have a verbal agreement with the player, however the money is paid by the player.

[@Geoff-j4b]

Passing backwards is just like a strategic withdrawal & than attacking its strategic. Keeping the other side off balance. It's smart.

[@ElDiegoMCO]

Relegation makes you watch both the good and bad teams. It makes the games for the teams fighting to stay in the top division as important as the teams fighting for the championship.

[@Veri183]

Football is such an important part of European culture that almost every kid plays it (either just for fun like during recess or after school, or at a club). In Germany, where I live, the kids who play at clubs also have A ,B and C teams (by age group) and take part in regional tournaments. There is a programm (by DFB, German Football Association) in which the best kids from the small local clubs are scouted and invited to join for special training, addtional tournaments and further sounting by the professional clubs. That's why many top players can trace their way back to a small town club with a muddy pitch and having to carry home all players' club jerseys to wash them when it was their turn.

[@jamescrawford1534]

3rd round day, the second Saturday in January is when the premier leauge joins the rest of the teams in the FA cup, it's colloquialy known as 'Giant Killer Day' this is because there will always be some conference/3rd leauge team that beats a priemership team and knocks them out of the FA cup. It's an amazing day to see a playing field being levelled and top flight teams being decimated.

[@Vyperus69]

the offside rule is very simple, if you are ahead of the play/ball whilst being between the defender closest to the oppositions goal line (where the touchdown zone would be in NFL) and his goalkeeper, whilst in the opposition half when your team passes the ball forward or shoots and it touches you, you are offside. If you are behind the player with the ball and between the the defence and goalkeeper and the ball is passed to you you are on side. You also can't be offside if your behind the opposition defence in your own half of the pitch (the side your defending)

[@rockerfarm6445]

24:00 well not every player has a release clause except for in spain where its mandatory (that doesn't mean they are reasonable, some ar borderline insane to protect the squad getting torn apart) many clubs try to avoid trsansfer fee clauses, led to many contract negotiations that failed

[@sirsancti5504]

About the release clause: that happened last season to Benfica (Portugal) and a player (Enzo).. Benfica bought the player mid-season (can't remember how much, but I'll point to no more than 20M).. He played VERY well, Chelsea noticed, payed the release clause (120M+), the player wanted to go to England, Benfica didn't wanted the player to leave, but the clause was payed. Benfica's president words: "We made 100M profit in less than 6 months, but we didn't want to. The only thing good from this is we have one less salary to pay to someone that doesn't want to be in our team".

[@lorenzobordignon6997]

I don't know where you guys specifically live, but you could go watch a game of the Maryland Bobcats, only pro team in the state that plays in 3rd division in Boyds, MD. If you want to see 1st division game there are both the Philadelphia Union and the DC United, and even Loudoun United a 2nd division club from Leesburg, Virginia, just west of DC

[@PeoplecallmeLucifer]

25:10 Release clause is payed after the negotiation between the player and the buying club are concluded

[@PeoplecallmeLucifer]

13:25 VAR is just the video surveillance Offside is simple: If you are past the second last opponents player your teammates can't pass the ball to you. (second last is usually the defender nearest to the goalkeeper but it's worded that because in some cases the goalie ends up in front of other players although that's exceedingly rare) and some people think it's a dumb rule, but without it teams would have a big incentive to just leave half of their team behind to prevent those kind of passes. it'd KILL the game in the midfield and that's where you can see a lot of tactics at their best

[@ThomasDonnelly1888]

A typical timeline of a football fan will start in July: with the preseason friendly games, kind of like US exhibition games, this normally means big teams playing in the States or more medium sized teams playing against random opponents they have arranged to play. August: Not long after Champions League and Europa League qualification begins, half of the teams in these competitions have already qualified based on their result the previous season that ended in May, but the final spots are made up of teams that will play each other for the last spots, this is normally a 128ish team knockout, with teams from places like Iceland and Luxembourg in the early rounds with clubs from bigger nations joining in the last few rounds. Brackets don't really exist as its common in football for draws to happen, not draws as in 0-0 2-2, but where names are pulled out of a ball like the lottery to decide the fixtures. After the Qualification begins the leagues often start, not all leagues start at the same time but its normally at some point in August. These will normally be played on weekend, occasionally Mondays/Fridays, and the odd midweek game on Wednesday. Some countries play a super cup to start the season, Superpokal in Germany, Supercopa del Rey in Spain, this is where the League winner plays the Cup winner, this game you'd think from an American perspective would be the biggest game, but most people don't value it highly. A few weeks into the season Cup games which often happen midweek start, these are separate from the league tables and will see teams play teams from other divisions, these are domestic, ie you only play teams from your own country. Cup competitions often predate the league since back in the day leagues where harder to arrange as they required season long commitment from teams rather than playing a few games at a time like a cup. Cup games often lack momentum as they are played weeks apart but they are an important traditional part of football. The league is only valued more as it is the fairest competition, it doesn't have upsets, truly the best team wins, but the cup allows for more underdog stories. September: Champions League/Europa League group stage begins, this will be 6 games, where you play each team twice, similar to how the Bears have to play the Packers, Lions and Vikings twice a season, the groups are random though as different teams, from different countries enter each year. this last from September to about December. October to New Years: The season runs as normal, some countries like England and Scotland have two Cups, one called the Leagues cup, normally its ____ Cup after a sponsor, like Carling Cup, Carabao Cup, Viaplay Cup and the more traditional Cup ie the FA Cup or the Scottish Cup. The traditional one features every team in the country where as the league Cup is only the ''league'' teams, which is a term that describes the top 4 leagues in the country ie the leagues that are fully pro and not semi pro/amateur. This is minor but its important to know. Most places dont do this. January: at this point the season is underway, the Champions League and Europa league group stage will be done and top two teams from the groups of 4 will progress to the knockouts and the 3rd place team in the case of the CL will play an extra round against the 2nd placed EL teams, both tournaments then having 16 teams that will drop to two for the final. at certain weeks during the last 5 months there will have been breaks for national teams to play in friendly matches or against each other to qualify for the World Cup or the Euros(the Euros is the WC but just for European teams, each continent has one). We might also be down to the last 16 or 8 teams in the Cup. The league will be halfway done, we often look at the team who is top of the league at Christmas as the team who will win the league, or if they fall off and choke we say, 'how could you do that you were top at Christmas'. May: Most seasons often end about May, just like how the leagues start at different times they will often end at different times, if the top teams is so dominant that they have more points than the second place teams and the second place cant mathematically catch up they are crowned champion before the League ends. The Cup finals in most countries happen after the last matches of the league have been played, and that ends the domestic seasons in most countries. Teams that finished in the top 4 places in England, Spain, Germany and Italy are now in the Champions league for the next season. Other countries get less spots which is unfair and maybe the only big downside to Football in Europe. The Champions League final will now be played in late May early June. This is at a neutral venue that will be selected ahead of time, like the Superbowl, except tickets aren't a rip off so that only the elites can go. There are no halftime shows and only people who like Football will watch it, you won't have watch parties where people make stupid bets and only watch for the singer, not acceptable behavior. in Europe. After the Champions League the season is over and the preseason games begin a month later. Other things: Transfer of players can only happen during transfer windows, if a player has a contract at a team for say three years and he has only been there a year then he can only move to another team for a fee during the window, these windows normally start at the end of the season and will close a few weeks into the new season, and there is a second window at Christmas to late January. You can sign players outside these time periods but they can only play once the next window starts. These rules are consistent because European football has an Organisation that maintains every thing called UEFA, often labelled UEFA MAFIA by many ultras. They control the Champions League, they are very corrupt but are necessary evil to maintain order. 2 years ago twelve teams from England Spain and Italy tried to break away from UEFA and found their own league and this failed hard because the fans saw that this was only for greed and they protested, and they had to step away from their multi billion dollar plans. Last thing is that every two years Either the Euros happen, or the World Cup happens, this is the biggest and most important event in the whole sport, so pretty much 2/4 years there is no off season, meanwhile the off season of college football lasts 8 months, sheesh. South American seasons start in January due to their seasons being inverted because they are in the Southern Hemisphere, some countries like Japan and the US also do this for their leagues. In Brazil in particular the season starts with state leagues since Brazil is so big it has individual states that are comparable to countries so they play a league competition which last 3 months before the real league starts in about March. Non Brazilian Leagues in the Americas in places like Argentina and Mexico often split the league into two halves with a champion awarded in the middle and at the end so there are two national champions a year plus the cup, I have no clue why this is and this will be foreign to even die hard European football fans but considering Argentina's influence on the world stage with Messi, Maradona, teams Boca Jrs and River Plate and their World Cups I'd thought I'd mention it. I don't know if anyone read this but thanks if you did.

[@belegur8108]

great summary 👍

[@ThomasDonnelly1888]

@@belegur8108 cheers

[@mateusv]

4:55 there's a slight inaccuracy here. It might change a bit depending on what league you're playing, but usually a coach is allowed to make 5 subs BUT there's a catch, you can only stop the game to make a subs (stoppage) 3 times.

[@jaysnipz5524]

To answer your release clause question, if team A committed to paying the release clause, it won’t be fulfilled until the player has agreed to his contract with the club so his wages, contract length, any bonuses etc. so it wouldn’t be opened to other clubs but often if one club is happy to pay the release other clubs will be so the player can choose where he goes. Release clauses aren’t activated often as it’s normally the two clubs will negotiate what they feel is fair for both sides.

[@maiki22]

Big diferene is there is not college or high school... only clubs... the bigger the citty the bigger is th club.. that give you more long term plannig... but less individual choice...

[@spamfilter32]

The release clause is only paid if the player and the new team come to an agreement on a contract. The Release clause just means that the current team can't turn down the transfer fee. If there is no Release Clause, then the new team has to negotiate a transfer fee with the original club before they can negotiate a contract with the player. If the player turns down the contract offer, than no fee is paid to the original team. The transfer fees are only paid if a player agrees to a new contract with the new team.

[@richt71]

Signing very young players is getting stricter in the PL. As these 8,9 and 10 year olds can't be bought but are free to move on a youth contract the biggest clubs would poach the best kids by offering well paid jobs to the parents and maybe a brand new home to move in with their talented son. They decided this was exploration and strictly speaking the under 14's can only be picked to train with a club within a certain radius. 14-17 year olds that can't sign a professional contract until an adult and 18 can sign a contract elsewhere but the club losing the player can demand a 'training' fee which could be as much as £2m based on achievements. A tribunal will decide the fee if the clubs can't agree. After 18 it's a matter of making an acceptable offer to the players club to buy the player or paying the release clause. To answer your question, no a player never has to accept a transfer out of a club. There's been stories of managers putting players on planes to fly to sign for another club and the player not arriving. There was also the famous story of Bogarde at Chelsea. Signed by one manager who left after a few weeks of signing him. The next managers didn't want Bogarde and tried numerous times to sell him. He refused so they kept making him play for the u21 and then the u18's. He played 11 times for Chelsea during his 4 year stint. Collecting a reported £160k a month during this time!! Of course the flip side is players or their agents try to engineer a move out of a club. That happens a lot.

[@philipmcniel4908]

That first bit you typed was something that really caused some serious problems for Ben Lederman:/

[@perpetualidiocy6622]

regarding release clauses.. by no means does every player have a release clause. whilst it's common, it's not across the board. each player will negotiate his / her own contract via their agent. which may or may not include whichever clauses are agreed between club and player.

[@rafalovitch]

Offside - you are not allowed to pass the ball to a teammate that is behind the last defender (at the moment of the pass…) VAR - it’s a technology advancement to the game that lets the referee check important game changing decisions via smart cameras and monitors. Technically there are referees that monitor the VAR system back stage and whenever the referee asks them to check something they do that.

[@cecilialeitet2794]

Keep in mind though that it will NOT be offside if the player you pass to is in his teams own defending half, if he recieves the ball from a throw-in anywhere on the pitch, or if the player recieving the pass is behind the player making the pass (automatically meaning that you can not be offside during a corner kick.).

[@Lara_Irina-hk2uy7cd3m]

You were the King of the draws Daniel! It was really fun to watch it while you were outside at night. What about the European Cup? You have to watch that as well. Writing all the predictions on a paper. Sorry we threw you out of the World Cup. We still don't have a great team. We have no real strikers yet.

[@tiagomacedo8025]

Fun fact: Technologies are fixing that can't grab a drink on stadio on my club we have a club app on phone that is associetaed to your fan card, that give you all latest news and thinks about your club, let you buy tickets for away games, and there is a option on the app for home games that you can order food from the nearst bar of your sit on the stadium, they bring you the food and drink's to your sit mid game you can't use it on half time when they are busy

[@arnepietruszewski9255]

Usually those players have managers, if the player feels unappreciated he tellls his manager go find me another club and then the manager gets to work. So usually the player is good with his new club before the new club talks to the old. The teams set the money for the buy out very high for the best talents sometimes up to 1 billion euros.

[@kylebeggs3845]

So for the release clause is only for that club, but the player doesn’t even have to consider their offer. The transfer of a player only happens when a player agrees terms with the other team. So the release clause could be offered or another fee agreed but if the player ends up not wanting to move… the transfer doesn’t happen. Additionally, a player may pay their own release clause to become a free agent essentially.

[@simontuffen8243]

Correction about the positions "centre forward" and "striker" mentioned at around 9.15. A "centre forward" is a type of striker, and is the most advanced out-and-out striker. He wouldn't be playing slightly behind the "striker" as shown in the graphic. If there is another striker, apart from the centre forward, he would typically play slightly behind the centre forward.

[@leohickey4953]

I've watched this video in several review channels on YT, and I think it's a good intro to the sport and how things work in Europe. One important point I'd add for an American audience, though, is that we have *no annual draft* for player recruitment, in fact there's no connection between professional sports and our universities at all. Players are introduced to the professional clubs at primary school age through their youth networks, which means that after school and at weekends kids attend simple coaching events, and the talented ones are eventually given pro contracts. Any that slip through the net have a second chance by playing amateur football for "Sunday league" teams, in front of small crowds, one or two of whom might be scouts for the pro clubs, who will approach them after the game. In the UK (and in most European countries), sports at university are purely for health/recreation/social purposes and nobody supports their local college team, or even their alma mater team, apart from a few occasions when Oxford play Cambridge at rugby, cricket, or rowing. The annual rowing race between those universities is the only regularly televised student event we have. Most universities that offer their students organised sport don't even include spectator facilities because there would be no demand. No scholarships to attend university to play sport either.

[@belegur8108]

actually there are sport scholarships in Germany, but those almost exclusivly are given to young athletes, that are members of various of our national teams. Since most of university is free in Germany anyways, those scholarships include covering for training camps, travel expenses to international events, etc.

[@leohickey4953]

@@belegur8108 Thanks for the clarification, Belegur, I only know the British setup well.

[@belegur8108]

@@leohickey4953 no worries, i enjoyed your comment non the less 🙃

[@KingKing-cz6xh]

The release clause is there in case the current club don’t want to sell their player then you pay the release clause and go directly into negotiations with the player and you don’t have to deal with his current club at all. However keep in mind release clauses are usually a lot higher then the players actual value if they’re good, so it has to be someone you realllyyyyy want for your team to spend release clause money. And the players doesn’t have to go to that team if he doesn’t like the contract offer he can say no and remain at the club he’s in the release money only goes thru if the transfer is made if the player says no the team that paid the clause gets their money back

[@AufaaKotaro]

25:03 To make it simple, you need to negotiated with the player first for how much the new club willing to pay him and how long the contract would be, if the player accept it, then The new club must pay all of the player's salary under the player's remaining contract on his current team. Let's say the player's salary is $5 million, and he has 2 years remaining on his contract, so the new team must pay the team up to $10 million. Of course, the new club can negotiate the price to be cheaper or more expensive so that the team is more willing to sell their players. If the current club accept it, the player will be transferred at the end of the season (That's right, the player doesn't immediately move because the player still has the remainder of his unfinished contract). BUT if the player doesn't have any remaining contract and he didn't want to extend his contract at the current club, then the new club just only need to negotiate with the player, if the player accept it, at the end of the season he will be your player for free (without release clause) honorable mention that the new club can also just borrow the player for a short time of contract, if the contract ends the player will back to his old club, it called "loaning a player" and the system nearly the same, you contact the player, if the player accept, you contact the team, if the team accept, you can loan the player for a short time (in general only for 1 or 1/2 of the season)

[@hqueso]

I complained about the amount of time spent sitting around passing in soccer until I had a friend complain about the time between plays in American football. I explained that if you know what is going on in NFL pre-snap strategy and positioning, it's pretty interesting from a tactical perspective. Then it hit me- the same probably held true for the "boring" passing in soccer. I looked into some rules and strategy and watched some matches, and sure enough, it's really cool to watch them set up the plays now.

[@georgesamuels3402]

JJ Watts said something super interesting in a UK interview. He said, America aims for all teams to be kinda central and in the middle of the the league.

[@Nitr8Dj]

most teams dont have a release clause for its contracted player i mean u get it sometimes at some european clubs but mostly the buying team will be told by the club who own the wanted player how much they want for him then they end up haggling until either they agree a price or dont

[@avmavm777]

The pace of the game varies across countries. England and Scotland tend to have fast paced games with a lot of running. Italian games tend to be slow for long periods, followed by frantic end to end running and bursts of high speed. Some of this is down to climate, but it’s also the culture of the game in different countries. Different tactics and strategies also play a part.

[@gaynorhead2325]

I can highly recommend the series Welcome to Wrexham. It’s on Disney I think. Wrexham is a team in Wales that were in the 5th tier of football in England. They were bought by Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney a few years ago! You should see where they are now…. No spoilers! Such an interesting show.

[@blechtic]

The offside rule is a simple concept but a little unwieldy to explain. Basically, you're offside if you're on your opponents' half of the pitch behind the second to last opponent. (The last opponent is usually their goalie.) If you're offside when a non-backward pass leaves, you're not allowed to touch the ball. VAR is a way of checking it afterwards on video. I think they try to check whether any body parts you're allowed to play the ball with were offside. I think that's the basic gist of it. Feel free to correct me.

[@matthewdearsley123]

Look up Suarez Liverpool Arsenal. They met release clause by one pound. As the player decided he wished to stay Liverpool just refused to sell. So they are not binding unless the player wishes to move (at least in that case)

[@ohauss]

The key issue with relegation is that there's really a massive difference between leagues in terms of revenue from TV rights, advertisements etc. So being relegated means a club will take a major hit financially. They will often have to sell some of their higher-salary players (who will often be happy to leave if they can take another slot in the higher league), which will in turn limit their capabilitites. Being relegated can break the back of a club and some end up dropping down yet another league as a consequence - and some just cease to exist after a few years. Especially clubs which have been in the top league often have a stadium to maintain that was built or upgraded with top-league revenue in mind. If that money isn't coming in any more, but the bills are, plus you also have to pay the players, that can be a serious problem and at a minimum, the consequences can tie a club down in the lower league for an extended period.

[@t.a.k.palfrey3882]

Some teams which were in the equivalent of today's Premier League when I attended junior school in England (then called First Division), have indeed faded into near obscurity, except among their loyal fans. Everton is the only team never to have been relegated from the top league in England. Of the 22 teams in the First Division in the 1960/61 season, Sheffield Wednesday, which ended second, now play in the Championship (2nd level league), as do four other teams. Blackpool and Bolton have both sunk to the 3rd level.

[@DavidSmith-cx8dg]

A pretty good explanation for beginners , he didn't mention we do have play- offs though . In the lower leagues the top two sides win promotion automatically and the third to sixth teams play each other with the final being at Wembley for the third promotion slot . It keeps the season alive up to the very last day .

[@S2Mac1980]

The release clause is for the specific team that pays the release clause but multiple clubs can pay that release cluase then the clubs have to then offer that player a contract then the player makes the decision

[@klio9611]

25:06 No player has to talk to a club willing to pay the release fee. The club tries to get a commitment with the player. When they agree on a contact, the player's old club gets the release fee and the new contract is valid. By the way: not every player has a release clause. In some countries as Spain every player has to have one but there is no limit (e.g. Messi in Barcelona 1 billion). In other countries it is left to the player and the club whether a release clause is included in the contract. And the release fee does not always reflect the abilities of a player. Often the height of the release clause was negotiated years ago. If a young player develops extremely well the release clause may be rudiculously low.

[@avmavm777]

With the positions and strategy there are different schools of thought. Some football managers believe in disciplined teams staying in positions and doing their allocated jobs. Others go for a more fluid approach. Holland used to be known for “total football”, which meant every player (except for the goalie) should be prepared to play in every position

[@ryanfebrianto8973]

Release clause or transfer fee is basically a price tag the club management put on the players. So whoever (the clubs) interested to that player had to make a deal with the current club where the player play. So to simplify, first the buyer club should made a deal with the seller club and after the deal is done the buyer club made the contract deal for the salary of the bought player

[@PLF...]

Very few players have release clauses, although it's more common with clauses like "if the team is relegated the player is released" or something like that. But release clauses are usually only for big stars. It's to deter other clubs coming to poach their best players, so they set a release clause usually waay higher than their actual market value. Often based on what they think they might be worth after e.g. a year if they are confident that he's going to do well. Either way, release clauses are not that common. And no, they are not released "outright" like an American UFA, everything is done in one swoop, the team will obviously not pay to release someone if they can't sign him.

[@mannym7849]

Hi Spencer and Daniel, another great reaction guys! Now before the 2026 World Cup in USA 🇺🇸 Mexico 🇲🇽 and Canada 🇨🇦, we have the men’s Euro 2024 tournament in Germany 🇩🇪 starting from 14th June and the Final will be exactly a month later on 14th July. It’ll have 24 countries in it and hopefully you’ll get to see most of the games. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again American 🇺🇸 sports would benefit from relegation and promotion in its setup. You guys are fantastic! Keep doing great videos and reactions.

[@manurr5287]

usually players use diving after faults to gain some rest and slow down the pace of the game

[@j_vasey]

A release clause isn’t always there. It’s kinda insurance put in place at a price that a club cannot refuse to allow a buying club enter negotiations with that player mid contract. However post contract if a player runs down the contract they negotiate a fee with a perspective club. “You aren’t paying a fee for me, therefore instead of the x million u r saving. I want some of that.

[@jonbroxton7346]

Speaking about dropping through the system: as recently as 2011 Scunthorpe United were playing in the Championship. This year they are playing in a "whatevs" league. This is a team which was, until very recently, a fully professional team with a 120+ year history. Same with Yeovil Town - they were in the Championship in 2014, this year 'whatevs'. So it absolutely does happen.