Understanding European Soccer For Americans - Reaction

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[@44SirLoopalot]

Hand🖐Egg🏈 Foot👟Ball⚽️

[@MX.CENTRAL]

Luke Del Toroski because it's an emotional sport and means a lot to the players and fans

[@Justin-gb2qq]

Luke Del Toroski if the ref sees that he dove than he actually gets yellow card and sometimes red card so yeh...kinda do that already

[@Justin-gb2qq]

Luke Del Toroski and golie being pulled is ridiculous idea because that means the players from opposing team can score from shooting all the way from the other pitch it wouldnt be fair. I won’t really blame u for it tho cause i know you dont know much about football(soccer)

[@Justin-gb2qq]

Luke Del Toroski pulling out a golie is really ridiculous idea the game would be really boring cause the other team would score goals for 10-30 minutes straight, it would be like fucking 30-0 so yeah. Not attacking you just calling the idea stupid

[@Justin-gb2qq]

Luke Del Toroski since u dont get it yet. Not. Gonna. Fucking. Happend

[@MarcelL-DM]

I wonder why in the U.S. it's called football, even if the kicking part is minimal.

[@jazzx251]

I know why. In 1863 - the unified rules of association football were drawn up ... the schools wanted to play each other with the same rules. The game they developed (which I've played in front of 1000 people) ... was the beginnings of two different games. The game involved a heavy round ball - 4 possessions - the ability to scrummage for the ball - the ability to kick for goal out of your hands - the goal was just two massive long posts, no crossbar. You also had to tap/bounce the ball once every 10 yards. This is the version that got transported through the world in the early days - and, rightly, the locals decided to change some of the rules. So, the Americans liked the 4-possession rule - but they preferred a more carriable ball ... and to be able to throw it forwards (a no-no in Cambridge Rules 1863 football - or its schismatic brother, Rugby) The Australians couldn't give a XXXX about the 4-possession rule - but liked the tapping the ball every 10 yards thing. They added an extra two long goalposts so that near misses could score just one point. The Irish Gaelic Football is the closest to the original rules (round ball, that you can carry - but have to tap every few yards) ... but it later fused it with soccer. Crossbar on the goal, 3 points for a goal, 1 point for hoofing it over (but between the massive long goalposts). After that - the Football Association broke off from those that wanted to carry the ball around all the time, they kept the round ball and made it a strictly "foot" ball game. Being the Football AsSOCciation ... this version was called "soccer", even in England. Rugby broke away too, only to suffer its own schism between Rugby Union and Rugby League. All games named themselves "football". Even rugby. You'll hear commentators saying "St Helens is a great football team, they really are!" ... they're a superb Rugby League team! But Rugby teams are often called "Leicester RFC" (Rugby Football Club) In short - "football" is a term used to describe a wide variety of variations based on the 1863 Cambridge Rules.

[@ridwanfarah7616]

Nope the ball is just 1 foot long no joke

[@OcctobersXO]

It’s called handball but Americans would be in their feelings and would probably shoot up every school

[@GulagExpress1]

The entire playing part is minimal.

[@GulagExpress1]

Tropi Cano ~ Handball is a whole different sport.

[@SmokeDimi]

He should have mentioned Europa League also and the fact that Winner of Europa League and Champions League then play for European Supercup. But it's a good explanation without that too.

[@newjustfun6143]

SmokeDimi And the winner uf the league and the winner of the cup play for the supercup of the country.

[@ramonreacts5978]

SmokeDimi He also forgot to say that League Champions and The Cup Winner also play each other for a price

[@evohhd1063]

SmokeDimi he also forgot the fact that in the second division in England, the teams that finish 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th play in the playoffs for promotion

[@MegaTamer111]

he also forgot to say that the winner of the champions league plays against 5 other teams (best teams in each continent) for the FIFA Club world cup

[@michaelwielingen7696]

Yes their is so much when it comes to football👏🏾💪🏿

[@cristiano_9654]

3:28 if u love underdog stories, react to Leicester city winning the premier league

[@LunaWolfMXS]

Go Cry About it I'll put it on the list

[@north20]

Or porto winning CL

[@raphde297]

Or Greece won the Euro 2004

[@Module79L]

Or Portugal winning the final of the Euro 2016 against the home team. ; )

[@dieterdelvaux150]

Don't react to that... Even tho they won it, it was just pure anti-football.

[@user-vk2ip3yv8c]

European soccer? are you kidding me?

[@pic4315]

77 k well, it’s about soccer in Europe

[@petrhajek4869]

@@pic4315 omg you ****. In Europe we call it football not some f***ing soccer

[@pic4315]

Petr Hájek I’m Spanish a**hole. I said soccer because it’s an american video, in Spain we say Futbol (football) too, so shut up what are you talking about

[@Destoroyah12]

Americans call it soccer. The rest of the world football.. But americans think they are right.

[@amjan]

@@petrhajek4869 You idiot, we don't call it football in Poland (but piłka nożna), nor do they call it football in Germany (but Fußball), in Italy they call it calcio. This is an American video where they call it soccer. How difficult is it to get? Simply said - we DO NOT CALL IT FOOTBALL IN EUROPE. That's what it's called in the UK.

[@DayaneFreire2016]

I'm Brazilian and we have state championships (Carioca, Paulista and etc.), the cup (Copa do Brasil), the league (Brasileirão) where 4 teams are relegated, we have Championships like Copa Verde and Copa do Nordeste too. The Copa Libertadores is the Champions League and the Copa Sudamericana is the Europe League of South America. In the end of year the Champions of each confederation play the World Club Championship.

[@gabrieltenera4292]

D Freire yeah, but the Brazilian clubs are really shit

[@eldiego68]

gabriel tenera football noob spotted

[@PVPTawa]

eldiego68 he isn't wrong, if the best south american clubs played in Europe they'd probably not even make it to Europe League, it's rare for south american clubs to beat European ones, south america does have good players, but European clubs have better conditions and money, they buy players from south america and develop them cheap to sell at higher price in Europe, with few exceptions.

[@eldiego68]

PVP Tawa that has nothing to do with what the guy said...

[@germanmolina5798]

gracias por explicarle que hay mas futbol que el europeo!

[@n0body550]

They used the german league for relegation even though german relegation works different

[@dannycheesums]

Winning the three trophies in one year is called the Treble and is rare, but Man Utd did it in 1999, plus Barcelona in 2015, and I think it’s only happened like 7 times or something

[@speedpassat4075]

Danny Cheesums Bayern to I think in 2014

[@jonasamler2300]

@@speedpassat4075 2013

[@higher-alpha8848]

PSV Twice

[@savoxsvx7451]

Inter Milan in 2010

[@ivanpetrov5185]

Man City in 2023

[@rogerpenna]

A few points: 1 - relegation doesn´t exist in the US because it's a franchise system. The league is a business with a owner. And rich people buy the rights to own a franchise, and the league even decides how many clubs can exist per city, etc. Nobody will buy a franchise if a bad season can put you in second division. 2 - the system is quite different by country, but in many countries, including most of South America, clubs have no owners. They are social clubs dedicated to sport, meaning the fans own the club. You can get associated to your club, and vote for president, councilors, etc. 3 - while the system is more stratified in Europe, in some countries, like Brazil, there were experimentation with different formats. Brazil only adopted the league system in its national competition in 2003. Before that there were play-offs too. 4 - not sure, but I guess the point of the video is soccer in general, not ONLY in Europe. In Brazil, besides the usual national cup, national league and continental cup, there are also STATE leagues (with playoffs) which run in the first 2-3 months of the season/year (it's southern hemisphere, so season start in february and run until end of november) 5 - video forgot to talk about the NATIONAL teams. Unlike american football, in soccer, national football is much more important and so that should also be mentioned.

[@jayzerino]

Ain't nobody got time to read this

[@Leo-S-Ellen]

See I would love to say that what you said there was perfect. But you kept on calling it soccer when it's a ball that you nearly all the time kick with your foot (apart from headers and when someone is passing it to you kinda high then you let it bounce of York chest). Football m8 it's football

[@xblazekingz7070]

In other words...its a shit system and Soccer is better in every way

[@Wellshem]

Red Bull Leipzig and Salzburg: Are we a joke to you?

[@rogeriopenna9014]

@@Leo-S-Ellen i used the word soccer twice. I wrote that to an US American. I also don't think you have a problem that Italians call it calccio.

[@elconocido1994]

you can win an aditional trophy...when a team wins the UEFA Champions League then is something called "Intercontinental cup" in which the european winner of Champions league play against the winner of Copa Libertadores (the latin-american version of uefa champions league)

[@NateNakao]

The word "soccer" actually originated in England sometime in the 1870's. At the time the primary form of football (soccer) was played in the Football Association. Another form of football (rugby football) was gaining popularity in England, so to distinguish between the two, nicknames were given: "rugger" to rugby football, and "soccer" to association football. Association football became known by this English nickname in countries that were already pioneering their own game called football. Australia had what we know as "Aussie rules football." America adopted the nickname in the early part of the twentieth century to shorten their sports from American football and association football. England used the terms interchangeably (often with the hybrid "soccer football") until around the 1980's when the sport grew in popularity in America whilst being known as soccer. England rejected the colloquialism as being associated with Yankee culture. Apologies for the long comment, but I hope it's proven helpful.

[@asmodon]

Originally FOOTball wasn’t named for using feet, but differentiating it from rich people ball games like Polo that were played on horseback. It’s a ball game played „on foot“. That’s why people didn’t agree on using hands or not.

[@afonsomendes1726]

Hi from Portugal! 🇵🇹

[@LunaWolfMXS]

Afonso Mendes hey!!!!

[@appiahallan]

Afonso Mendes 🇬🇭

[@telmopena1366]

Bro, nunca pensei encontrar um português aqui ahahahah

[@afonsomendes1726]

@@telmopena1366 os tugas estão em todo o lado 😅

[@edwisongogo6326]

this comment is Cringe AF.

[@BurnRoddy]

Actually the sport is Egyptian and is from 2500 BC but the earliest name that we know of is Episkyros dating back to around the year 600 BC in Ancient Greece.

[@ynvassknrdar1233]

English Football is a really old game. It originated during the Mid-Medieval Period and was, in its earliest form, a game without rules or regulations (it was also violent and injuries were fairly common . An entire village would play against another village and the game was won when the ball (either a pigs bladder or stone) was landed into the opponents village (similarly to Rugby), except the distance between the two villages could be 2-3 miles and each team could have up to 100 players. The game gradually evolved into two distinct games over the next few centuries, one was called Rugby and the other was Association Football. American Football is more closely related to Rugby (the two games are very similar in fact) but took the name as Football due to Rugby being referred to as a type of football (Rugby Football).

[@dxb8086]

Yerah, it's called "European soccer" only in murica. For the whole rest of the world it's "football".

[@ha22el5]

In South America we have: Libertadores (Our continental championship just like Champios League) Each continent has its own championship and in the end of the year the winner of each one play one another to know who's the best football club in the world that year.

[@leopartanen9431]

In Finnish language we have sports called: "Jalkapallo" and "Pesäpallo" directly translated as "Football" and "Baseball", but either one doesn't means what americans call football and baseball :D In Finnish language your "Baseball" is "Baseball" and your "Football" is "Amerikkalainen jalkapallo" but it's too long word to say -.- so in slang it's "Jenkkifutis" meaning "Yankee football"

[@allanbaal2743]

Leo Partanen Love it xD

[@Emptynessishere]

I don't really get all the outrage with people saying that Americans are ignorant to all other sports apart from their own. As an Englishman I don't fully understand how the draft picks work, or differentiate between different American football positions. I'm just not bothered about the sport, and that's fine. Some people over here follow American sports and some Americans follow football, but if you don't and it's just not something you're interested in, then who cares? 😂

[@dermeisterdieserzeittnnati497]

The point is that it's America vs the world and not England vs America.

[@scemo39]

They forgot to mention how play offs work. They mentioned it but you know. In england. 4 divisions (top to bottom) Premier league Championship League 1 League 2 Whoever wins premier league goes to champions league, keep in mind unless you get relegated in the prem, you stay. Winning means you play in both the prem and champions league Whoever loses each league goes down, whoever loses league 2 goes to semi professional Whoever wins each league below the premier league goes up to the above league. Basic Play offs in england work like this: The teams who come 3rd to 6th at the end of the season are in play off position. The team who came 3rd plays the 6th team and the 4th team plays the 5th. Whoever wins out of those games play at Wembley, the greatest stadium in the UK. Whoever wins overall gets promoted to the next league along with the other 2 who came 1st and 2nd

[@thomasjensen9745]

soccer is a 'pet-name' for 'association foot ball' - You americans are not to blame for calling it soccer. That name came with british people to america

[@Leo-S-Ellen]

We now call it football because you kick the ball with your foot, honestly are you guys just not in the times or what

[@David-qy7sb]

I give you sh*t, that doesn't mean you have to eat it.

[@Leo-S-Ellen]

Da vid WTF are you saying Bruv?

[@David-qy7sb]

+Leo Ellen Omg... I mean the British invented the word "soccer", but that doesn't mean you Americans have to use it. Don't use that pathetic excuse to justify the way you call the sport.

[@forkyicicle8904]

Leo Ellen Bit that's not what football means. It means it's a ball game you play on foot.

[@marcello000]

The winner of the champions league trophy also automatically qualifies for the FIFA Club World Cup. there the best club from europe will take on Champions from other continents such as the winner of the Asian champions league etc.

[@PNE2611]

Association football started a very long time ago in England Preston was actually one of the founding teams .A nickname for Association football became soccer.

[@manafactariq3439]

Hey in the US do they call football, football because the egg ball thing is a foot long ?

[@MrJoromekiq1]

Actually, there's only 1 parade, even if you win all 3. Some teams are so used to winning, that they don't do parades at all

[@hurtigheinz3790]

Point 5: The Europe League: The winner of all national cups in Europe and the runner ups in the national leagues (about place 3-6) play in the Europe League (former UEFA Cup). It's structured exactly like Champions League. The winner gets a trophy and can play in Champions League in the next year.

[@Skerdy]

Actually "soccer" is an English (as in England in the UK) term: when they were defining the rules that basically split football (soccer) from rugby the organisation that did it was Football Association and from that "association" you have soccer... why Americans use this obsolete term... well, you still use miles and gallons, so...

[@alexs7028]

Skerdy that’s very true, but what’s infuriating is that you call American rugby ‘football’ and some Americans refuse to call ‘soccer’ football

[@asmodon]

@@alexs7028 it shouldn’t be infuriating. American football started before The Football Association and the Rugby Football Union were created (Ruhby dropped the „football“ much later. At the time using hands in football was completely normal. Football wasn’t even named after kicking the ball with your feet. It’s was named that because it was played „on foot“ as opposed to royal ball games like Polo that were played on horseback. Even the English used the term soccer well into the 1960s. Just because they don’t like it anymore doesn’t give them the right to dictate what to call something on the other side of the world.

[@anthday9314]

The word "soccer," which is believed to have originated in Britain some 200 years ago, comes from the official name of the sport, "association football." As other versions of the game evolved to include Rugby Football, it is believed the Brits adopted colloquialisms to distinguish each game.

[@drelo3000]

In bundesliga the club that is 16th in the table is not automatically relegated. They go into a playoff with the 3rd best club from the 2nd division.

[@tgns8977]

The maximum amount of trophies you could win as a English team is 7. But that is the most extreme case where everything falls into place. Prem, FA cup, EFL Cup, Community shield, Champions League, Super cup, Club world cup.

[@andrewfurey2999]

Australians also call it soccer because they have aussie rules football and some countries have 2 cup competitions and the league example England has the FA cup ( in which any team from amateurs to professionals play in) the league cup ( in which only professional teams play) and the league

[@thomasoftorquemadamcdxx171]

*World Football*

[@fortuna1232]

Also Rugby League in Oz is called Footy mostly

[@anthonyf3680]

In Australia football fans call it football and non football fans call it soccer

[@David-qy7sb]

Watch the official interviews/press conference of the Australian national team, the coach and players call the sport football instead of soccer.

[@forkyicicle8904]

Da vid Of course they would. But normal people don't necessarily.

[@betoyabundu7414]

I’m glad to see this guy has an open mind about football unlike other Americans that won’t stop calling it gay

[@stephenstarasta4408]

Betoya Bundu ehh that's actually just people in the southern us who call it gay. Us in the north are cool with it

[@betoyabundu7414]

Stephen Starasta nah I live in Boston and these people are annoying af calling it gay

[@tomlynch8114]

Football/Soccer: Football has been played in England since Roman times in various guises, mainly with no, or very loose rules. In the 18th and 19th Century, the elite private schools developed their own rules. However, they ran into problems when the scholars went on to university whereby they wanted to continue playing football but encountered people from different schools playing different rules. A standard set of rules was needed and led to the founding of the Football Association (FA for short) in 1862. However, some members left when the rules were decided and the majority opted for a predominantly kicking game that ruled out handling and carrying the ball. Those who were pro handling were inspired by the Rugby School rules. In their own circles both codes were known as Football, but differentiate - Association Football and Rugby Football. In upper class/private school slang they were referred to as ‘Soccer’ (from Association) and ‘Rugger’. As the two codes spread, it was Association Football that appealed more to the working classes, but also to more educated groups like lawyers and teachers. It became the ‘working class game’ with the mass appeal - and therefore in general terms, Football became to refer to Association Football. Rugby generally was the sport of the upper classes - with some anomalies, such as the mining towns of South Wales and the mill towns of Yorkshire and Lancashire (the latter would cause a split in Rugby which led to the present separate versions of Rugby - Union and League). The American Football code derived from Rugby and became the most common code in the US, which is why it’s known as Football - the dominant code in that particular area/country uses the general term Football. (What’s interesting is that Association Football was initially more popular than Rugby amongst most of the Ivy League instutions - Particularly Rutgers and Princeton. Harvard played their own handling game and in search of opponents, turned to Rugby playing McGill University in Canada. Harvard found a taste for Rugby and began lobbying the rest of the Ivy League into adopting Rugby, and then gradually they modified the rules, which morphed in to the American code. Most other countries call Association Football ‘Football’ or a similar name adapted into the local language, because Britain was the major industrial power in the 19th and early 20th century, building railways, factories, mines, electrical networks etc across the world. As the ‘working man’s game,’ British workers, engineers and sailors, as well as professionals such as lawyers and teachers, took Association Football with them, and the locals liked what they saw.

[@necbot]

N5: All champions from their respective continents (confederations) play for the FIFA Club World Cup. UEFA: Europe / CONCACAF: North&Central America / CONMEBOL: South America / CAF: Africa / OFC: Oceania / AFC: Asia The club that results to be the world champion gets to wear a golden emblem on their shirt as a reminder for other teams that they are the reingin champs. This is also true for World Cup (countries), Copa America (countries) and Euro Cup (countries) champions. You can see it in Germany, Chilean and Real Madrid shirts for example.

[@michaelflorea3218]

I’m American and I get bashed for not knowing about European football and for calling it “soccer”, and when ever I chime into a conversation, they use that stereotype against me. I just want to everyone to know that a lot more Americans know about football than you think, including me.

[@nieldooley2906]

There used to be a programme on British commercial tv called Midweek Soccer, which showed a match played on that day. Therefore people my age would use the term soccer as much football. The term soccer was invented in 19th century England as a slang word for Association Football. As far as I know. the word was invented by English Victorian Schoolboys. People who play Rugby, from which American Fooball is derived, will also refer to their game as either rugby football or just football and "football" as soccer, to avoid confusion, if that makes sense.

[@thesoundoffear]

"Soccer" is a slang for football that originated in England itself in the late 19th century. Before the 1860s football and rugby didn't have much different rules and were under the same association. Then, 2 different lobbies decided to carve out two distinctly different games. One was "Rug"by football or "Rugger" in slang terms, regulated by the Rugby Union. And the other was As"soc"iation Football, or "Soccer" as a slang term, controlled by the Football Association. So that's where the term came from.

[@ben13135]

in germany the 3rd last place doesn't automatically go down. they have either a one leg or two leg tie against the team that came 3rd in the 2nd division

[@kirilraychev732]

One more thing he forgot to mention is that 3rd team in each group of Champions league playoffs play in not so popular competition called Europa League and the winner even if he is not in position in the league allowing him to qualify for the Champions league,he is quallifying thanks to winning the Europa league.And depending ot the position in the league a team can directly qualify for Champions league or Europa league or play playoffs for a spot in either compettion,and as you can guess involvement in one of the tournaments can give a club big income and more popularity.

[@michaelfallon3101]

why is it called european soccer its played throughout the entire world

[@LunaWolfMXS]

michael fallon I named it that personally to annoy you

[@LunaWolfMXS]

michael fallon just you though

[@MartinBeitz]

Michael: Maybe the video is called "European soccer" because the video explains the rules of a typical european league...

[@michaelfallon3101]

well no its called football for a start and it is played the same anywhere you go not one set of rules for europe and one set of rules for the rest of the world.

[@MartinBeitz]

Well it looks like you don't get it, so think what you want.

[@dariusbakker]

I don't see why American Football isn't just called: ''American Rugby'' since it has most of the features which rugby has as well. For instance, the Australian version of rugby is called Australian Rugby for the reason I just mentioned, and not Australian Football.

[@ChristianSReitz]

it was a way to say things in a slang during the late 1800's/early 1900's to add "-er" at the end of words. Soccer is a nickname for asSOCiation football in old timey slang, basically. Idk if anybody commented that clearly enough yet but in case not, here you go lol

[@sammygirl5835]

The name of football (as I understand it) Football used to be a catch all name for any number of games played in the British Isles - but mostly in England - from at least medieval times. In the mid 19th century Cambridge University codified the rules, so that their undergraduates, who had mostly come from the big, famous, private schools, all of which played a different version of football, could play each other. These rules were adopted by the newly formed English Football Association and this new codified game was called Association Football. As stated, 'Soccer' is a corruption of the word 'association' and was commonly used in the UK for much of the 20th. As mentioned above, the big private boys schools all played their own version of football, this included Rugby School, and their game became what we call Rugby - which is really called Rugby Football but the word ‘football’ has been mostly dropped by both codes. However before that happened, it was taken to America where it morphed into what Americans call Football.

[@yosepmarius]

Soccer comes from the word Football Association back in the 1800s. You guys made it up and turned Association into soccer

[@linusnordahl9121]

In germany it’s actually only the bottom 2 teams that automatically gets relegated. The 3 to last team plays against the team that got third in the second divison to decide what team gets relegated

[@aidan3718]

The english actually came up with the word soccer because the soc of soccer is sort for association because the english used to like to shorten things down

[@MarkH87]

ya know I was gonna do a reverse to this on my channel trying to understand American Football from a UK man so after watching this yeah deffo got me interested also good video man always good to see people trying to understand football

[@benedgie]

Americans call it soccer because in the mid 19th century the official name of football was “association football” and it was shortened to “assoc”and then “soccer”, when the British took the sport to America, the Americans kept the name and English changed to “football”

[@247roasted]

got to this video by just clicking around the youtubes... no idea who this dude is but im surprised as fuck that he actually listened to the stuff and didnt talk shit. props

[@chrisnsf4626]

The interesting thing is most of the MLS team are FC. Seattle Sounders FC. Los Angeles Football Club. FC Dallas. Toronto FC. Atlanta United FC New York City Football Club and so on...

[@scxped2642]

it’s because they used to give sports nick names by adding -er to the end. rugby football used to be called rugged and association football (football) was soccer

[@elsacristina9]

he forgot the Europe cup league, meaning the team that stays in 3rd place in the group stage of CL, will go the Europe Cup League, where the teams that stayed from 3rd to 6th place in their country league will play, and it is the method than the CL.

[@KAMIKAZEKITTIES]

Interesting fact: If a team wins the League , The League Cup, AND the UCL in the same season its reffered to as winning the "Treble".

[@plutopingvin454]

European Soccer? You know that Football (Soccer) is played world wide and not only in Europe?

[@derrickkowalczuk]

IIVGameForceIIV The video explained football in europe not the rest of the world

[@plutopingvin454]

Derrick Kowalczuk He used European leagues yes, but this is how all the leagues in the world works.

[@ramimwamba9937]

Only European soccer has the Champions League buddy

[@koki84ji7]

IIVGameForceIIV not all some leagues have regular season then playoffs like American sports

[@Youtube..Enjoyer]

Rami Mwamba wrong Africa also has champions league and other continents probably too

[@michaelkeating5301]

Soccer comes from Association Football and was actually coined by the English to accommodate Gridiron/American Football

[@nickmahr3354]

Soccer is an English term. The full name was association football which they shortened to either football or soccer

[@Codex7777]

Most countries also have a second cup competition, in some form or another. There is also a second tier Europe wide competition, for teams ranked just below the top teams in their national leagues and for national cup winners. P.S. It's football because it's played with your feet... and a ball. ;)

[@tommiklos757]

In England, the worst 3 teams in the First Division (Premier League) are relegated. The top 2 teams in the Second Division (EFL Championship) are promoted at the end of the season. Then the teams that are placed 3-6 in the championship go into what they call the ‘Championship Playoffs’. 3rd v 6th playing Home and away. 4th v 5th playing Home and away. Then the winners of those 2 ties go to the national stadium and play 1 game and the winner of that goes into the First Division.

[@davypeters6355]

It's football! Americans call it ****** because they got their own "Football"

[@UnknownSpectre5]

If you win your league (German Bundesliga, Premier League, French Ligue 1, La Liga Santander), your national cup, and intercontinental cup (UEFA Champions League), its known as a treble. Bascially, its a cup sweep.

[@nicholas045]

This is late but depending on which country you are looking at a club has a chance to win up to five or even six trophies every year. Also “soccer” is an English word adopted by Americans.

[@DanRyzESPUK]

Each team in Europe aspire to up to three titles: National League National Cup One European title (only the best few) The best of each nation (and not all of them) go to participate to either Europa League or Champions League. Champions League is the most prestigious by far European system is not based on Franchises, but actual companies. You can set up your own club anywhere, with your stadium, and if you do well enough you go qualfying up the leagues until you get to your top league and then Europe.

[@arwelp]

“Football” is called “football” because it’s a sport involving a ball which is played on foot (not necessarily involving kicking it), compared to, for example, ball games played using a horse, like polo. The most popular sport in a country which is played in this way usually gets called “football” - in most of the world it’s “association football” sometimes abbreviated to “soccer”, in the US it’s “American football”, in Ireland it’s “Gaelic football”, in South Africa it’s “rugby union”, in different Australian states it’s either “rugby league” or “Australian Rules football”.

[@adamwillis679]

I’m from Canada and tbh we use the word “football” interchangeably between gridiron football and association football. If we are talking about the association football games we will say football or the same with the NFL or CFL

[@carlosgonzalez9363]

Complete name for football is “Association Football” . Association was shortened to Assoc, then to Soccer along the years.

[@TheRausing1]

3 trophies! Exactly! It’s called a triple and it’s the pinnacle of club football! Good observation.

[@arwelp]

In the English league pyramid, promotion/relegation is not a straight swap between the bottom three teams in the higher division and the top three in the next division. The bottom three teams in the Premier League get relegated to the Championship, but only the top two Championship teams get promoted to the PL automatically; the teams that finish 3rd to 6th then play-off for the last promotion spot - the last game of the play-offs is often referred to as “the hundred million pound game” as this is at least how much the annual turnover of the promoted team will increase - it’s by far the most valuable individual game in world football, even the difference in prize money between winning and losing the Champions League Final is only a few million. It was recently revealed that 10 of the 20 PL teams would have made a profit last year even if no spectators ever watched their games, simply from the TV rights. Teams that are relegated from the PL get transition payments from the PL for two years to help cushion the shock - the difference in quality between the two divisions often means that they can often quickly get promoted back (on the other hand, Wigan Athletic won the FA Cup in 2013 and were relegated from the Premier League three days later; they were the relegated from the Championship in 2015, were promoted back into it in 2016, and were relegated back to League One (the third level) in 2017, and then they were promoted back to the Championship in 2018; life’s been a bit of a yo-yo for them!).

[@rorysowersby6947]

It's called soccer in america because when football first started out it split into two different sports Rugby football (Rugby) and Assosciation Football (Soccer for short). When the Game came to america they had already adapted Rugby football as football (Later evolved into American Football) so they kept Soccer! Hope this was helpful

[@timothycarlisle2874]

Soccer is actually a term used by rugby fans as an abbreviation of association as in Football Association.It originated in England

[@jrp182]

The brits used to call it soccer back in the day. The word stuck over here. Though now we are good to go. Football or Soccer is still the beautiful game.

[@direnova6284]

In England we have called football soccer, it's far, far less common but I remember kids football magazines that used the word soccer. So early on, the US must have seen the choice and chose the name they didn't already use.

[@africkingpineapple2320]

Soccer(football how the most people sais) exists even before 1900 , its one of the oldest sports today , and its the most watched sport in the world!Hi from portugal!

[@daniperez2335]

Soccer, abbreviation for Association Football. It was used to differenciate from other forms of football such as Rugby Football. The term was originated in Britain.

[@LeylandWarrior7]

Bad example using the German League for Relegation... in Germany the bottom 2 go down and the 3rd bottom goes into a playoff match against 3rd top in the 2nd division. Winner stays/goes into the top division

[@PVPTawa]

Each country usually has more than 1 cup, there are 2 big European competitions, Champions League and Europe League, the 1st in country league is invited to Champions League group phase, 2nd in country league enters the Champions League playoffs and if they win they also join the group phase. The 3rd-4rd in country league join Europe League group phase, the 3rd in each group of the Champions League drop down to Europe League elimination tournament. At the start of the next season, the winner of the last Europe League faces the winner of the last Champions League in a supercup. At the end of the league starts the club world cup with the best of Africa, America, Asia and Europe, usually Europe or America wins, mostly Europe. The american finalist is mostly if not always from South America. The south american leagues have less resting time, they have twice the ammount of league games per year, and 2 seasons while Europe has 1. Nationally south america and Europe have the best national teams, If I'm not mistaken Europe has only 1or 2 more world cups, but in terms of clubs Europe has the best leagues, the best south american players play in Europe as well.

[@franohmsford7548]

This has probably already been said but "Soccer" is a shortening of "Association Football" and was actually commonly used in England too before the 90s. There are multiple games called Football... Rugby Football is divided between two codes - Rugby League {a 13 man game} and Rugby Union {a 15 man game}, there's now also Rugby Sevens which I believe is adapted from Rugby Union. Rugby Union {1823} predates Association Football by 40 years! Rugby League split off from Union in 1895. American Football was invented in the 1880s and is actually an offshoot of Rugby! Australian Rules Football {1859 so also predates Soccer} and Gaelic Football {1885} have also been around since the late 1800s! Soccer is actually the odd one out as all the others are based off of Rugby Football!

[@kevinclaros8847]

it was actually soccer world wide but was then changed to futball but the USA never changed the naming

[@jg2c810]

Dear american friends it's not soccer but football, you are the only ones to call it soccer!

[@stephenstarasta4408]

JG2C actually it's called that in Australia and Ireland too

[@markfrost1359]

Football has been around in England for hundreds of years but wasn't organised and codified until the mid Victotian period. At that time a variant of football was also being developed called Rugby Football. The old form of football was organised and codified by the Football Association so it was known as Association Football to distinguish it from Rugby Football. The English fans shortened "Association" to 'soca' which morphed to 'soccer'. So it has been informally called soccer in England for about 140 years. The Americans adopted the name soccer so as not to confuse with its own sport called football - ironic seeing as 'soccer' is merely slang for the English Football Association

[@fluffibuni8663]

Don't listen to the small-minded people who tell you Soccer is a US word or the wrong name ... it was created by the English to differentiate Football (officially titled Association Football), from Rugby Football ... so Americans calling it soccer is totally appropriate and replicating the reason the word was created by the English in the first place.

[@ironiccookies2320]

soccer came from england in the late 1800s short for association football. association football was coined by england to distinguish from rugby football.

[@connorhowitt9164]

a lot of irish people call football soccer too because they have their own version of 'football' called gaelic football, just like americans have their own football, 'american football'.

[@messilionel-lf9hf]

Connor Howitt haha great joke

[@messilionel-lf9hf]

Connor Howitt i have a friend from ireland and he is a celtic fan I didn't hear him say soccer just 1 time

[@stevelawson7595]

Connor Howitt irish people do not call it soccer! That's rubbish!

[@cardellkenith]

messi lionel my cousins and their friends do, and I've got over 20 cousins. don't use yourself as the pool, other places and people will be different, but Ireland calling football, soccer is not uncommon

[@newt2253]

ken Hudson Irish people do, I’m Irish we sometimes call it soccer

[@mikaku]

4:55 Well. not only 3 trophies. In total you can win 6 on the same season, as F.C.Barcelona did a few years ago. Apart from the league, the cup and the Champions League, there are 3 more trophies, at least in Spain, that you can win at the same time: The Supercup (played by the former league winner and the former cup winner), the European Super Cup (played by the former Champions League winner and a the former UEFA Cup winner) and the FIFA Club World cup (played by the forner Champions League winner and a team from another continent who won itself their own particular Champions League in that continent).

[@thelemonadeboy]

There is also a World Cup for clubs, aftet each continents cup winner is confirmed, they play against each other to be crowned the World Champion

[@rorysmith2415]

The Old Firm, Glasgow Celtic v Glasgow Rangers is the most intense soccer game. I support Aberdeen FC in Scotland. Thanks. Diolch.

[@theguywitdamohawk]

the best thing is if you win 3 times its called the treble and you are looked at like the best club team in the world

[@abelovedsonofGodinwhomHeis35-6]

Americans say soccer because they called protected Rugby American football. They also called Rounders Baseball, and Netball Basketball, then took Hockey and went typically American and put it on ice, but with plenty of protection.

[@sisusilaste4635]

Its football

[@cxrn8549]

There are playoffs in lower leagues if they don’t have enough points for automatic promotion it is like a mini competition to get promoted

[@gersonascencio8237]

Both sports are called football. The official name for soccer is “Association football” and the official name for American football is “American football”

[@zacharyburnard747]

Leicester city winning the English premier league.....the ultimate underdogs

[@ReneeOtti]

They missed the fact that they play 2 legs in the champions league knockout stages.

[@work-that-benji959]

Pretty much how it is over here in Europe, however the relegation/promotion process is slightly more complex

[@jakegold9036]

Point number 5 should be on the world cup, the greatest sporting event of all time.

[@andreborges73]

vox did a video on US scoccer story, it might be a good way for you to understand why americans call it soccer. Short story, it's because of americans like to make their own rules (they really do, basketball is a good example). So they had one devision (Associacion) who played with different rules of the casual european football. And another where they played casual football. WW2 came, and froze up, when it got back again they had to built from scracth, so soccer only got a fair chance at the beging. We also have to remember, people over the other side of the world, have to wake up every early or don't sleep at all. It's the same thing for us if we want to see UFC or other American sports.

[@MichaelLinkeMarketing]

Soccer actually is derived from "as*soc*iation football". "Soc Football" just became "Soccer" at some point. So that's the irony. It's actually "football" in the US but people only know the abbreviation.

[@maxmax5103]

I AM ITALIAN AND I LIKE THE WORD "SOCCER", I THINK IS A GOOD WORD WITH A GOOD SOUND IN AMERICAN STYLE, AN AMERICAN WAY TO GIVE A NAME , AND I LIKE IT, I USE SOMETIME THIS WORD, BEACAUSE THE NAME OF THE SOCCER IN ITALIAN IS "KICK" (TRANSLATION IN ENGLISH, "I PLAY "KICK"), SO IN ITALY WE DON T USE THE WORD "FOOTBALL", WE REFER "FOOTBALL" TO "AMERICAN FOOTBALL", AND OFTEN I USE THE WORD "SOCCER".

[@tomjarvis9368]

Some of the oldest football (soccer) clubs in the world were founded and active in the mid-1800’s. So it’s been around for a long time

[@MattZaycYT]

I love America and I love football and eggball (NFL)! The reason why Americans call soccer is because it used to be called Soccer Football back in the days, and in America the name "soccer" catched and in England the name "football" catched. This is why! Simple! Come on America! Enter the world of football and show the world you are the best! You will love it after you beat all your historical rivals in the field. You can beat China, Russia, Mexico, Germany, Japan, Vietnam, Iraq and you don't have to kill or throw bombs.

[@SPKR_ov]

England teams can win 5 trophies, The community shield The FA cup The Champions league or Europa league ( a b-spec champions league,which is the same principal) Your domestic league ( premier league, championship , league one and league two) And the Domestic cup (the Carabao cup) The most of these won in one season was three ,set by Manchester United

[@smoshbooz]

Some leagues do have play-offs, some don't. Every league has its own rules. In Belgium we have play-offs with special rules, and it makes it more exciting

[@suffern63]

In This Sporting Life,1960s kitchen sink drama starring Richard Harris,football is called soccer,from Association football.It was typicial for rugby players,league and union to call their sports football.Australia rules is commonly called footy,I think.