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[@guymontgomery1414]

The amount of people playing soccer is huge in America but for most people it’s their second or third sport so they don’t focus development as much as the others. It also has a general connotation as being a child’s sport with most people having soccer be something they play in primary school and then switch to more physical sports.

[@kevinb314]

Yea no disrespect intended, but it’s more of a kids sport here

[@DaMathias]

Yea I only played it when I was in like 1st to 3rd grade

[@HistoryNerd808]

It's definitely more of a kid's sport as Kevin mentioned. The big 3 here are football, basketball, and baseball.

[@Strawberry-12.]

Michael Hill and 4th is hockey

[@fruitybaboon2526]

@@Strawberry-12. maybe up north but not down south lol

[@user-lf7nf3kl7t]

American at lunch, eating a banana here! *festival music plays*

[@jeffburdick869]

Btw, I lived in Honduras and went to the game of the two rival teams of the city I lived in. I stayed away from the sections of the die hard supporters though. The two sections of the rival supporters were separated by an entire empty section, and there were cops in full riot gear, shoulder to shoulder, and both sides of the empty section keeping the fans apart from each other.

[@huguitoGodoy2005]

Olimpia vs Motagua fue fijo

[@jesusbarajas8067]

This whole ordeal lead to alot of refuges going to Los Angeles and then led to the start of MS 13

[@majindomttv3903]

Wow I never knew that, and for anyone questioning it I looked it up. Cool info to know and see how something so far away from LA ended up in LA. Thanks for sharing that info.

[@jesusbarajas8067]

@@majindomttv3903 I grew up in LA in the middle of it all lol

[@majindomttv3903]

@@jesusbarajas8067 hopefully you and your family were able to avoid some of that violence.

[@weazel_withaz5707]

You have to react to the emu war from oversimplified it’s hilarious

[@SDSOne]

Football/soccer is massive in the US as a game played by kids all over in many or all the suburban areas. There's even the term "soccer moms" which refers to the parents of kids who play soccer as well as little league baseball etc... It's also absolutely massive in big cities within the Latin immigrant communities (along with volleyball). It's simply not one of the major pro sports and the best players in the world that play internationally play in the Euro leagues etc. I'm not at all a big soccer fan but I watch every world cup and have been to a soccer game for the first time and loved it. It's way better live. As a hockey fanatic i can say it's similar in that way. Anyone and everyone who doesn't know about hockey who attends an NHL game will think of the game differently and love it. The thing that is important is that soccer and basketball are low expense games. Pick up a ball and either shoot some hoops or set up a net and try to score some goals. Hockey and football require equipment and it's costly. When you're a kid and growing, having to constantly replace equipment with new equipment as a kid gets bigger can become far too expensive. However in Canada hockey is just like baseball in the US. It's just what kids play.

[@dominikmanthei4546]

Went to a hockey game for the first time last year and loved it. Tv vs live is like night and day

[@Thomas_Leo]

Soccer has always been popular here ever since i was a teen in the 90s, but only on a local level, such as in parks or schools. American Football, Baseball, and Basketball are the top 3 sports on a national level. From what i've seen, it's like how basketball is popular in the UK, or in other European countries. Soccer is finally making it on the national level though. I've been seeing the MLS on the national broadcast stations over the last few years.

[@dominikmanthei4546]

Yea ur right

[@Strawberry-12.]

Thomas Leo I don’t know people say it’s growing but the other sports are also growing too. Hockey is still way more popular

[@Xtra_Medium]

Historically women's Soccer has been more embraced in the States than men's, this is part of why the US women's soccer team is so much more competitive on the world's stage than the men's

[@SKRRebelRacing]

The problem with American Soccer is that the best athletes, which the country produces, tend to gravitate to other sports instead. It is slowly coming around and the National Team is making some strides but they still have quite a way to go before they can actually expect to compete on the "World Cup" level.

[@anthonyervin95]

Austin Texas, where I live, just got a professional soccer team. Got a whole stadium and everything.

[@danielmessi1092]

thats pretty call

[@JasonMahipat]

Love the oversimplified reactions, I appreciate you guys doing these longer vids, it’s nice to sit back and watch a more full vid. And the oversimplified topics are all very interesting. French Rev is a great one.

[@Protoman85]

When he said "if you're a freedom loving patriot: soccer" he was being sarcastic towards america. Oh and that game you were talking about with Green, that was 2010 and it ended 1-1. You could say they won 1-1... because they really weren't supposed to have a chance. But England played so boringly in that tournament, lucky for you the trend's been going up since 2012

[@saxylady313]

One of the reasons that football/soccer doesn’t appear as big in the United States is because the big networks have a hard time airing the games. The constant nature of soccer means that there aren’t any breaks for commercials. In most other sports there are lots of breaks. This makes it very expensive to air matches uninterrupted. Historically this has resulted in professional matches being ignored by major networks in prime time.

[@brianthompson9136]

It’s true. Many US NFL, MLB, and NBA fans play indoor soccer at night every week in leagues

[@aidenroqz]

As a Salvadorian, this was somewhat truthful, the US provided arms to both sides and used both countries as guinea pigs for military weapons, while they sat back and watched. This was told to me by my grandmother who was in the war.

[@romemedina4712]

"You've got two seconds" Pause

[@Global-South24]

React to the banana republics by Sam o'nella

[@noahmaas1670]

Curiously, more people in the US play soccer recreationally than any other sport (both in schools and as adults). As you mentioned, it's just not pushed commercially at the professional level as much as other sports like the NFL, NBA, or even MLB. Couple this with a lack of professional development like European clubs have from youth level and you can start to see why there is such a gap despite the resources being available.

[@dorothygaby7015]

@12:40 : that Rob Green goal was beautiful. It was a dead shot from Demspey I think and he fumbled it. It was amazing.

[@martinpalleiro8135]

Being an argentinean fan of this channel, I’d love if you guys reacted tl the Faulkland War Oversimplified and watch your take on it

[@officeblokedaz]

Coming soon mate 👍🏻

[@bigdogstatus4528]

Office Bloke Daz thought this was a joke account till i saw the vid

[@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek]

🇫🇰 🇬🇧

[@ajw5138]

CONCACAF World Cup qualifying is a site to behold. Central American countries care a lot and it always gets interesting when you have to play there. Playing Mexico in Azteca is no joke either...

[@MIZZY5174]

Oversimplified might be Canadian

[@Posirep]

This is what I think as well.

[@stuffieb]

Irish but resident of America

[@danielnorth1406]

American Family Insurance is the sponsor of Atlanta United FC. Never heard of them, have the Jersey.

[@StfuFFS]

I think this war/ situation is where the term Banana Republic comes from, ya?

[@twostepsforwardonestepback]

Daz... you’re my English homeboy lol.

[@infamous_richard8732]

You guys should watch Oversimplified The American Civil War

[@chriscepec1655]

They already did

[@infamous_richard8732]

@@chriscepec1655 no they didn’t

[@HilshireTenou]

React to Binkov's Battlegrounds video on how Germany lost the radar race to England aka the wizard's war.

[@gregcourtney7717]

We make fun of Football vs soccer here in America. I think he was just having some light fun at the difference and his own country.

[@cameronb8503]

"If we had a land border there would probably be problems" Idk if you guys have ever heard of Ireland, but maybe look into the conflict you definitely lived through

[@Jackk.A]

Please react to the new kickback battle seeding rounds. Dlow and Zekkas rounds are especially good

[@gregesbenshade4152]

Hey office blokes!!! What’s up from Florida!!! Love you guys my brother showed me y’all a little while back. Keep killing it ! But my suggestion in relation to this is watch and react to the movie Green Street Hooligans it’s one of my favorites. I’ve always been great at futbol (soccer lol) played high school ball. Also respect the love for futbol and fan ship so this movie shows the fight club of west ham United. So cool please at least check it out even if you don’t make a video reviewing it you won’t regret it! Much love keep rockin Dave, Mike and Daz!!!!

[@officeblokedaz]

Cheers Greg, I’m old enough to have seen the GSH in action. Every club had its “firm”. At Man City we had a few like the Guvnors (watch our podcast with The Govnor - Mickey Francis on our podcast channel), Maine line, young Guvnors etc. big rabbit hole to go down mate if you like that kind of thing. 👍🏻👊🏻

[@thehowlinggamer5784]

Here in the states, it's... 1. Football (NFL, not soccer) 2. Baseball 3. Hockey 4. Golf or soccer.

[@mikefleischauer498]

When the US plays CONCACAF qualifiers in Mexico or Costa Rica, the fans always serenade the hotel loudly... all night long. At Azteca Stadium in Mexico City, the fans have been known to throw batteries at the US players.

[@dominikmanthei4546]

Batteriee lol. Thats random

[@chrisjackson3665]

Soccer is like the 5th biggest sport in America. So pretty well followed but there is a huge gap between 5th and 1st

[@andrewmckenzie292]

Imagine if France/UK had actual land borders...roughly the same population etc.

[@derekleach6815]

US Women's Soccer is world class haha

[@anotherjosh839]

You guy should watch the evolution of the nfl rules

[@anotherjosh839]

Would be a great vid

[@bradenguidolin4590]

You should react to Dustin Byfuglien hits

[@acwengankewana3975]

Please react to provinces of south Africa explained (geography now)

[@Posirep]

I actually think Oversimplified is Canadian. Maybe first generation Canadian. He's made little jokes at Canada AND the US that seem very on brand Canadian. Plus the obvious British overtones.

[@playboy_x]

Yeah he is Canadian. I could tell by his accent and how he pronounces some words that may be pronounced differently here in the US. Like schedule for example.

[@okienative4785]

He's Irish and American. Dual citizenship.

[@stuffieb]

He is Irish Nationality-resident of The US

[@mariosportsmaster7662]

That's why America and Canada need more immigrants because purebred (purebred meaning being in the country for at least 5-6 generations) natives of that country are apathetic to soccer and if you see most soccer leagues in those countries you'll find American and Canadian kids for sure put those kids are mostly from first- or second- generation immigrant families (the communities who have a real passion for the sport).

[@jeffburdick869]

It was the first game of the group stage of the 2010 World Cup. US beat England 1-0. Also, the growth of soccer in the US over the last 10-15 years has been extraordinary. Soccer is more popular than baseball with Americans 55 and under. NBC signed a massive deal with EPL worth hundreds of millions of dollars and the ratings are making it well worth it. Pubs are packed on Saturday and Sunday mornings watching the Premier League and other European leagues.

[@dominikmanthei4546]

More should probably start watching their own league then

[@jeffburdick869]

@@dominikmanthei4546 They do. MLS has also had incredible growth over that time.

[@TheSgtflo811]

Football(soccer) in the US isn't as commercialized because of how the game is played. Advertising companies make little money in comparison to an American Football game that is 4 hours long or longer with half that time being slotted for the advertisers.

[@bremexperience]

Actually, nobody ever expects anything from Iceland to be honest.

[@willsofer3679]

Trust me, many Americans realize the faults of both ourselves, and the absurdity of some things our fellow countrymen say and do. And take the piss; we make fun of it. There's also a pretty strong Anglophile pro-British streak in American society, even if it's among a minority. That the Oversimplified guy says these things is pretty normal. Most of us aren't blind nationalists or nativists, nor do we think everything here is star-spangled awesome.

[@seanwilson5516]

I saw this Oversimplified and thought it was a joke, so i never watched it.

[@theselfishangryguy1946]

Watch Sam O'Nellas Banana Republics!

[@RubenKMusic]

Please react to Bonecarver - Evil (Uncensored Version)!

[@gathawn193]

Do the american civil war if you haven't watched that

[@Baughlin]

If Americans cared as much about soccer as much as the other big 4 sports I think Americans would be a handful

[@dylanhenriquez6162]

Hey guys, love your videos, I'm from El Salvador and yeah that's mot the best story unfortunately but nowadays we see each other like family.

[@cckmanofsteel2393]

wait the USA said that war was a bad thing? Over bananas not oil? damn

[@bigounce9206]

React to AL BUNDY best insults!

[@PHXNKVHXLIC]

Soccer has always been thought as “soft” here in America

[@Madison.Cruz.ShooterTwo]

Going to be the U.S. in 6 months to a year.

[@puljudefender]

work related?

[@Madison.Cruz.ShooterTwo]

@@puljudefender ?

[@puljudefender]

@@Madison.Cruz.ShooterTwo you said you were going to be in the US for 6 months to a year, And I asked if it was work related

[@rlbrooksssg]

@@puljudefender I think she meant something about this video was going to be the US in six months to a year. No clue what part of it she thinks could possibly apply, though.

[@frankisfunny2007]

Please react to OverSimplified's "Russian Revolution" videos

[@Kevc00]

On the subject of a land border with the UK ye do have a border with us on Ireland

[@cornelius8617]

The name is "football" folks.

[@StfuFFS]

Simple Daz, Broke Mike and Overlysimple Dave. Lol

[@controlZchannel]

Don't ask an American if we've ever won a World Cup, we don't know.

[@gregcourtney7717]

Didnt we win the women's world cup in the late 1990s, 1996? There's that famous picture of the female soccer player ripping her shirt off in victory.

[@littleabigail4328]

@@gregcourtney7717 The US has won four out of eight women’s world cups, come in second once, and third three times. By far the best women’s team in the world.

[@gregcourtney7717]

@@littleabigail4328 I was aware that our women's team is one of the best in the world. I just wasnt sure about the actual details. Thanks for sharing them.

[@karehaqt]

Pausechamp is back again, should have a counter for how many times he stops the video.

[@christopher1474]

Im from Honduras 🇭🇳! Good job getting it on the map. My friends would never get it. Biggest highlight in the World Cup *we tied with Spain in the World Cup in 82'

[@Chactemal]

Just to be clear, in english it's called football war due to european journalists with no context calling it so.

[@KevinKillaKam]

Bit rich for a Manchester united fan saying they shouldn't use dirty tactics 😄

[@bean_755]

You guys should react to oversimplifies Cold War vids

[@jartstopsign]

I'll admit it, I thought it was Belize at first when the map was shown. Need to brush up on my Central American geography and props to the bloke for nailing Honduras

[@imme6954]

"Utoocudlukazculazus"

[@kadennelms8419]

React to The Game the NFL wants you to forget

[@Andy-qn5xi]

They already did.

[@puljudefender]

can we get some military fails?

[@angiepen]

On the "If you're a freedom-loving patriot you call it soccer" thing, I think he's an American being sarcastic. He comes across as liberal or left-wing or whatever you want to call it, and in the US, the right/conservatives/Republicans have pretty much co-opted the term "patriot" and its derivatives to describe themselves, making more liberal people (in the minds of the conservatives) unpatriotic. It's BS, of course, but it's a thing they do. And of course, from the conservative/Republican POV (not everyone, but the loudest people on that side over the last generation or two) all foreigners are lesser because they're not Americans. So it sounds to me like this is just someone more on the leftward end of the American political spectrum doing an eyeroll at the conservatives. Re: football/soccer, just as a data point, soccer started to become more popular in this country when I was in 6th grade or so, when I was 11. I'm 57 now. Most of the kids at my school were kind of insane about soccer. At older ages, though, it fades behind baseball/football/basketball. Ice hockey has become more popular in the last 25 years or so, but not *quite* up to the big three. Soccer is more popular than it was in the past, but not by a whole lot. I don't know that it'll ever catch up, at least not within the next generation or two, unless something happens with American soccer that catches and holds the attention of a few million more people. If that happens, then sure, Americans *could* become a powerhouse in soccer, if we started devoting time and money and resources, and pushing kids as hard from a young age in soccer as we do now in b/f/b, and devote enough resources to professional soccer to attract the best athletes. I don't see that happening in the foreseeable future, though.

[@Szolrykor]

You missed some bits on the left-wing/liberal side of things, particularly the ones that just outright condemned patriotism and characterized it as ignorant jingoism and baseless pride in a nation built on slavery and hate and oppression and stolen land, etc. etc. Hardly a case of conservatives simply "co-opting" the term. I think the Oversimplified guy probably is American but the quips seem a lot more like ones a foreigner would make about Americans as a whole. Safe to assume that's what they're supposed to be, given the context. Especially the fat thing, it doesn't really strike me as something an American liberal would go for.

[@jaydisqus3353]

Could you imagine dying for this nonsense? Also, most of our athletic people play other sports, no offense.

[@charlottedrolet9000]

Dole wins again.

[@friedrice69]

Freebird by Lynyrd Skynyrd. LIVE

[@Starman_Deluxe]

I don't think he's from the US. His accent and terminology is like nothing I've heard

[@miarosa8043]

Please react to Justin Bieber- life is worth living purpose tour montage

[@floridaman924]

🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇵🇦

[@seanbrummfield448]

3:26 American liberals do that a lot to the Super powers of the world.

[@taratrainer6861]

First les go

[@riccorich]

Soccer is not American that's why it isnt as popar8