US soccer: Will Americans ever care about football? - BBC News

[@faridmusbah8631]

Will the rest of the world really care about American Football? No...

[@majkokatic9991]

Cause its irrelevant and football i mean reall football not eggball is worldwide, only you americans doesnt care and american football will never get any attention in the rest of the world. Worldwide football is growing everyday but in us is sadly thing.

[@DaddysFastestSwimmer]

@@majkokatic9991 Yep just the way we like it. Carry on.

[@jessmabe7376]

@@majkokatic9991 American Football doesn't need to be popular in other countries. The NFL is the highest revenue generator among all professional sports so it doesn't need to be a worldwide sport. It's an American sport so no one is expecting the world to start play it. Being mad at most Americans for not being football fans is like being mad at someone for liking vanilla and not liking chocolate. Personally, I like both sports, but American football fans aren't as...intense/crazy so I will going to a game, but I am not going to a football match a country of people who live for a sport.

[@majkokatic9991]

@@jessmabe7376 Thats an really good answer.

[@marcosmontenegro7320]

@@jessmabe7376 si el futbol es el deporte mas popular del mundo menos en estados unidos entonces es porque estados unidos tiene un problema. es logica comun.

[@AH-pq7yw]

Why americans call it "football" even though they play with hands 🤔

[@all2061]

Says the people who watch wimps flop around on the ground 🤨

[@all2061]

Might as well go to the movies if you want to watch actors so much.

[@christianzmor8427]

@Leafy what ever your country is, is gayer than America

[@christianzmor8427]

@Leafy oo gay person thats gay

[@ddeshawn7289]

In 🏈 theres alot of running you know with your feet

[@ngolakante5208]

The mls is a retirement home for the soccer legends

[@mrwetcloth4571]

This deserves a million likes

[@adelabihaydar9405]

Maybe China as well

[@fabianyeet2662]

Agreed

[@hippopa6889]

You could go on for years listing them ten off the top of my head are Pirlo Gerrard Lampard Ibrahimovic Schweinsteiger(sorry if I butchered his name idk how to spell it) David Villa Kaka Thierry Henry Drogba Beckham

[@robfagan6224]

1k subs With no vids *football

[@trawlrz37]

Americans: Turns rugby into *football* and football into *soccer* English/Europeans: *Look how they massacred my boy.*

[@workspaceofduc]

@OrthodoxChristianity обожение The world are giving up to use Soccer dude. And football is called football because it's play with the feet with a ball, pal

[@workspaceofduc]

@@derrickmeade4891 Dude. You don't know anything so shut the fuck up. Football came first, from ancient time. Years after football has association rules, some students in Oxford started calling it "soccer" which was derived from "Association". It might sound cool at the first glance. But not, because it sounds like "socker" or "sucker", and it's also not relevant to the sport played by foot to control, kick, run, tackle the ball. So it's defenitely football and should be called football. "Soccer" is just a slang term that quite a few people in the world are using it, except USA and Canada. Most people in the world will usually consider football to be the game using mostly foot (except the goalkeeper) to control, tackle, run, kick a ball rather than the game played mostly by hand to catch the "1 foot long ball"(although it's not even a foot long). In Australia and New Zealand, people are starting calling it football, maybe 50% of the population. Australian Soccer Federation was changed into Football Federation Australia in 2005. In Japan, people still call football futtoboru. I'm not from Europe but I still can get that. And I know some people in America also call it football. The real question is: Why are Americans so stupid? P/s: By the way most people in the world don't give a fuck about whether Americans care about football or not.

[@kevinsamara]

Not English/Europeans but WORLD

[@ambrosehenryk5497]

обожение

[@Chicago_773]

@@workspaceofduc dude just chill we got it you think soccer is godly and American football is the peasents but let us play are game and we let you play yours

[@JoePlatt1]

Obviously the budget was low when you had to buy a 2 for £5 Sondico ball from Sports Direct

[@hfb7]

Lol was just about to make that comment

[@Jordan-Ramses]

The question is: What will Europeans do when Sharia Law comes down and they can no longer play football?

[@bibtebo]

and go to dulwich hamlet

[@mats7492]

the question is: When will internet trolls like Scott Humphreys stop to waste everyones time on the internet?

[@allardfreichmann3733]

We started with newspapers and elastic bands, old socks and clothes. We played with our everyday shoes and everywhere we could. We had to deal with a lot of angry people, neighbours and family.

[@theawkwardcurrypot9556]

00:16 she said the *S* word

[@sezxov4641]

OrthodoxChristianity обожение and Britain was smart enough to change it to football while the US is still retarded

[@sporgiii]

@OrthodoxChristianity обожение just because the Brits created it doesn't mean its a correct term

[@rubenvidal7287]

GASP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@muptezelkomedyen4316]

@OrthodoxChristianity обожение Illogical like a flat wheel. More likely handegg

[@muptezelkomedyen4316]

@OrthodoxChristianity обожение Shut up slavic orthodog.It doesn't make any sense.

[@albanianphotography2397]

Soccer is still the most popular sport in the world We don’t need the U.S. 😂

[@epetrie9459]

We are the best country fax

[@creepygirlify]

@@epetrie9459 Best country of what? Having a lot of guns?

[@gregryans4649]

The US is the strongest nation in the world, like it or not all of Europe needs us. 😎🇺🇸

[@creepygirlify]

@@gregryans4649 Mmmmmkay

[@albanianphotography2397]

NetflixAdicta ikr

[@redi330]

Bruh when messi and ronaldo played in la liga it had more viewers than any american sport will ever have...

[@Tech-cy9yo]

Cool

[@philmccracken179]

350 million Americans are more relevant and important people than the other 6 billion🤷🏻‍♂️

[@chiendao1068]

@@philmccracken179 yeah good luck with your egocentric shit.

[@redi330]

@@philmccracken179 lmaoooooo

[@philmccracken179]

@Impersonal Immigrant people flee shitty countries and beg to live here and never wanna leave. But we are the joke?👌

[@MurderBotGaming]

Who cares if America will care about football ?

[@RHCole]

As an American, I respect this comment and commenter.

[@brain8484]

MrHankey1994 Gaming nobody they can amise themselves with thier church guns and fatty foods

[@kaiserrex9506]

MrHankey1994 Gaming People caring about soccer = People playing soccer = More people motivated to go pro = more pros in mls = evolution of better players and competition = development of national team = chance to compete with other countries in competitions such as the World Cup and Copa America.

[@augie6479]

Brother Ares that's not idiocy, that's just cultural rooting. Same as when other countries call soccer football.

[@goodgirlkay]

Brother Ares You wrote this comment on a site created by Americans, probably on a phone, tablet or computer designed by and sold by American company....LMBAO!

[@Diegoayala101]

Ten Biggest sports in the USA 1. American Football 2. American Football 3. American Football 4. American Football 5. American Football 6. American Football 7. American Football 8. American Football 9. American Football 10. Basketball

[@donhennessy5442]

baseball is bigger than basketball

[@bee3467]

Don Hennessy HAHAHAHA no its it not baseball is a dying sport, teams can't even fill their stadiums

[@dunnowy123]

Yes. Basketball, if anything, would claim the throne...not soccer.

[@kilomanjaro4972]

Don Hennessy check the ratings

[@kilomanjaro4972]

SAM TV fuck that dying sport only white people and Dominicans care about it

[@thomasturbato726]

America can't even use the metrical system how can he play properly football

[@andrewphil2366]

Um okay?😂🤦‍♂️

[@walterhicks5520]

LMAO,...dipshit, can't and don't are not the same things, but understanding that clearly requires more IQ than you can muster.

[@0005-u9k]

There are two types countries in the world ones who use the metric system, and the ones who have been to the moon.

[@4nem198]

“metrical”

[@wm7019]

We do play football, ever herd of the NFL

[@forsaken1589]

I love football ENGLISH football and I’m American

[@mahmoudbaajour4437]

PL 💙

[@gamingforaday5446]

Don't acting like you're American!!😂🙄

[@gamingforaday5446]

@Unforsaken Lion You just lying people, you say that you're American even you're not American, you did that because you really hate America

[@gabrielwilliams9093]

@@gamingforaday5446 just bc you like soccer doesnt mean you arent an american

[@skyj2172]

@@gamingforaday5446 Or, maybe, he just likes football.

[@lucianmatei6934]

Instead of American football let's call it American rugby ay

[@Sleepyless]

American Rugby Football ay?

[@veganfoodie2366]

why don’t u just create a new world jeez guys, have some creativity, or are you limited to only putting two already existing words together.. life is not like a lego

[@lucianmatei6934]

Vegan Foodie I said It's better not the best.

[@damiansconberg4715]

Jesus Christ instead of telling us what words to use, you can just fuck off

[@TheDevilHydraProdsXXII]

Rodri Labarre it is not white and has round oval edges

[@PanjiArasma]

american football, 99% use hand. 1% use foot.

[@dejohn8529]

"American" Football´s name comes from the ball being foot-long, not because you kick it... Stop acting dumb and do research before commenting some stupid comment.

[@PanjiArasma]

american foot long ball. nice name

[@Fame_Rate]

its like subway..lets throw some subs

[@canan7008]

So when the US properly adapts to the metric system like most of the world, perhaps football (soccer) will grow there aswell? :D (hinting towards the feet measuring naming of the sport).

[@danielcifuentes2603]

Still using their feet tho

[@ashwin6536]

Who cares american football except americans.... none😂😂

[@tems5280]

Italy,Germany,Poland,Austria and more Europe Countries,Dickhead

[@RazerGonth]

@Person Person sure thats why more countries care about it

[@RazerGonth]

@Person Personmy friend I'm tlaking about American football

[@originalcole2989]

Ashwin no one is asking for you to care but some b-tier reporter that needs something to do

[@scotthogan1374]

America is the 🌎.

[@abhikdixit2066]

As an Indian I felt that cricket was the strangest sport as it is popular in 10-15 nations only. But American football is here to give my sport some sympathy.

[@Guizambaldi]

Cricket seems very well know in Asia and Oceania. It's big enough. Here in South America if you show images of the game people will assume it's baseball.

[@abhikdixit2066]

@@Guizambaldi Yup,but south africa has definitely produced some legends in cricket.(Acknowledging the fact that they started playing from 1992)

[@Pichakkaran]

I am also an indian. But i like to watch soccer rather than cricket. Cricket is like our national game, while soccer is most thrilling game. I do watch only important t20 matches in cricket, while i watch almost all soccer matches especially epl, champions league and laliga.

[@theyoungone5034]

@@abhikdixit2066 cricket is international, america, england asia and the caribbean all play cricket

[@DudleyBlue]

Cricket is prevalent in all ex British Empire Lands….

[@FRISHR]

Football and Handegg

[@williampratama1670]

FRISHR *eggball

[@nailahsaquee6719]

FRISHR Actually, the American FOOTBALL isn't an egg. It's a prolate spheroid.

[@nailahsaquee6719]

Arsenal Fan It's not an egg, it's a prolate spheroid.

[@williampratama1670]

Nailah Saquee is that other name for egg too?

[@dominicallin834]

FRISHR when u just take the piss out of the name, just shows how ignorant u are there are a lot more jokes u can make about Football

[@9yearoldepicgamersoldier129]

How is American football called football when you use your hands more than your feet

[@RacingVagabond]

When it first became a sport the kicking aspect was a much bigger part of the game. Over time it's been reduced to the current style but the name has stayed the same.

[@toddhowardsnoseismystand1965]

In American football, the football is around a foot long. Gotta love our creative names

[@ticluna5295]

Christine L. So thanks a lot imperial system

[@law6115]

@@toddhowardsnoseismystand1965 shite way to put it.lmao americans mess everything up

[@davivieira9014]

@@law6115 I’m sure you wouldn’t say that when you realize almost all the technology in your home was invented by Americans

[@joeykarate3148]

You know Americans got the word Soccer from the English. By the way come to Portland Oregon, folks are completely mad about the sport and their team the Timbers.

[@joeykarate3148]

tomuscranius no they didn't. Lots of German is in the US language. Also American Football comes from Rugby Football Union.

[@oliverlinehan8701]

+Joey Karate Portland is cool and I'm an American but WTF is the US language? There is just as much German in American English as in British English.

[@joeykarate3148]

Oliver Linehan soccer is a word we got from the English dumbass

[@germanlondono8700]

They're also mad bout Portland Thorns, the Women's team.

[@FormulaMeme]

Joey Karate portland is special because they dont have an American football team.

[@veliciawidjaja3366]

This is real ⚽football⚽

[@itsjordanf4320]

Bruh you can’t even tough someone else. It’s barely a sport

[@aryanraina5727]

@@itsjordanf4320 yes please stick to the nba and nfl. Don't ruin our beloved sport❤️

[@itsjordanf4320]

@@aryanraina5727 no I’m good

[@itsjordanf4320]

@@aryanraina5727 nice job liking your own comment 👍

[@imbored1712]

Both of u shut up admit ur an American, ur country only cares about their selves and think all there stuff is world famous, when it's not

[@IBradFrazer]

Didn't America goes crazy for the world cup a few years back? America did very well and all of a sudden the fans woke up and started going mental for British Football, but when they got knocked out, the fans mysteriously disappeared lol.

[@hmmm1635]

Meh american football is easy

[@Fyrwulf]

It has nothing to do with soccer as a sport, it has to do with supporting the national team.

[@gt5228z]

The USA never went crazy..... Seriously most ppl here never even knew that we got close to winning anything. Maybe the british media painted the picture like that but unfortunately most Americans wouldn't care even if we won. Maybe more Americans than usual attended games but there are also 300,000,000 Americans. Maybe 1% are interested in soccer and 3/4 are most likely forign expats.

[@hmmm1635]

@@gt5228z Who said you would ever win in a football world cup?

[@gt5228z]

@@hmmm1635 probably wouldn't, our athletes never usually consider soccer. In fact, most soccer leagues in the USA are for women and kids. Every kid plays little league soccer, but seldom do they pursue more soccer after 8yo.

[@alexalmandoz]

Football (Soccer) is passion

[@mikeocksmall8952]

Alex Almandoz so is American Football.. your point is?

[@itzmasonreushd7519]

I'm just a sexy Kurt I see no emotion in American football anyways

[@gladiatortoast4599]

itzMason ReusHD what does that even mean. The passion is in the person not the sport they play.

[@cam42704]

Alex Almandoz so is football please tell why american football isn't actual reasons, football and school is my life. Talk about passion

[@cam42704]

itzMason ReusHD probably because you don't watch it

[@NorthernThaiGardenGuy]

The only way the US is ever going to create quality players is to change its model. There is no Premier league in the US (where if a team is crap, they get relegated, like they do in Europe). It's nothing but closed leagues, and quality will not come from the likes of that model. Unbelievable but true - which is why a Country as tiny as Iceland is headed for Russian this summer while our men's national team is no where to be found.

[@Arryank1]

Northern Thai Garden Guy they already have a quality player in pulisic

[@InfinityR319]

There’s also need to be a better scouting system to discover local talents and funnel them into feeder teams to prepare them for MLS or European leagues. Also the “pay to play” system needs to be eliminated.

[@bel3807]

Northern Thai Garden Guy a

[@dacypher22]

Northern Thai Garden Guy The relegation/promotion tiered system is completely foreign to the US as we have no sports that work that way. The countries that really embrace association football usually have at least one if not more. They have grown up with a system like this. Here in the US, try to get a city to pay the millions of dollars to open a franchise knowing that in a few years there is a real risk of it suddenly becoming a minor league team. It won't happen. But I don't think that is what generates quality players. Or at least not the main reason. Soccer's low popularity here and competing sports is one of the main problems. Creating phenoms is a numbers and culture game. We have the numbers, but the genetic freaks get wrapped up in American football instead of soccer. If not for that, we would probably already be producing top-flight players, but that requires a cultural shift.

[@CornPopWazABadDude]

Uhhh, Iceland doesn't even have a professional league so wtf does that have to do with relegation making them better???

[@derpurcheprian7027]

There is just nothing better than playing in a summer evening football ⚽ with your friends at the next park or even on the street

[@tems5280]

Julian .H And crying 😢 because someone touched your foot

[@dark_forest8271]

@@tems5280 no way the only reason they cry is because it is very painfull when u get kicked in the leg very hard.

[@tems5280]

@@dark_forest8271 I tried soccer and football 🏈 is more painful

[@dark_forest8271]

@@tems5280 nah football is more painful than 🏈

[@tems5280]

@@dark_forest8271 You made my day🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂

[@giuSE2004]

Soccer is love, especially in Europe Plus mls is growing a lot with fans in america

[@Jordan-Ramses]

Its easy to grow when you're nowhere.

[@soundofprice]

what is soccer??

[@giuSE2004]

soundofprice if your not joking right now then I have no words

[@veganfoodie2366]

what is soccer

[@MrTruth-ib5ce]

Raging Gamer Here it is llife and death

[@namankumar383]

Cr7 is the most followed person on earth. Now name a *Football* player near it

[@shanestevens5352]

Who?

[@NazriB]

Lies again? Mature Captain USA Football

[@patrickstump6809]

I'm an American and would like to say that you shouldn't get your hopes up. Don't get me wrong, soccer is growing in the US, but her reason isn't why. We now get a lot of EPL games in the US, and that is growing it (I even occasionally watch it). What is not growing it is youth soccer. Soccer has always been a big youth sport in the US because of the nature of our 2 national sports are either too complicated (baseball) or too dangerous (football) for children to play when they are very young. I also would like to point out to the people making fun of the US for calling it soccer that the British came up with the name and brought it over here. By the time the UK settled on Football for the name of their sport, our football had already gained the number 3 spot in the US so we never changed it. Your indecisiveness led to the linguistic confusion. It ain't our fault.

[@bensmith-vb4yu]

Patrick Stump shouldn't American football be called hand ball because the ball is normally in the hands of the players

[@danielcifuentes2603]

ben smith google why we call it football

[@LordZontar]

The UK settled upon the name Association Football as the name of their game by 1857. The linguistic confusion over Rugby/Football has entirely been an American, not British, problem.

[@dyltack5349]

@@LordZontar You guys brought both sports here and introduced them as Rugby Football and Association Football, Rugby exploded in popularity here and dropped the Rugby from the title after the games evolution into the modern American Sport.

[@ijp789]

Me: what is american football? American: 3:00 Me: Ah ok so porn with helmets?

[@epetrie9459]

I’ve never watched women’s football

[@gamingforaday5446]

It's not a porn, and you just said that because you really hate America

[@IC-yu7yd]

@@gamingforaday5446 r/wooooooooosh!

[@johnin5935]

Bro they just mad cuz all the do in soccer is flop unlike in football they take real hits

[@quanbrooklynkid7776]

@@johnin5935 W

[@deans-rewind2882]

Actually the majority of America couldn't give two shits about the Queen of England

[@clayj2724]

Barbara Debel Shut up mexican.

[@GigaChad666]

CJop27 Actually mexicans are more smarter.

[@clevelandsteamer4430]

Stalin Not when they are illegal ;)

[@GigaChad666]

Cleveland Steamer Americans should be illegal too ;)

[@GigaChad666]

Cleveland Steamer I was joking. Mexicans are people too. And mexicans work, not like immigrants which are coming in europe.

[@antoyal]

Soccer has an uphill battle in the USA because it has to compete with several national sports that were already extremely popular and mature before soccer started to grow here. It continues to be seen here as a sport that kids play to learn sportsmanship and get some exercise, but then they grow out of it right around the time they hit high school and choose a "real" sport to play. By the way, it's wrong to assume that Americans largely reject soccer because they don't understand it, as if they would give up loving baseball, basketball, American football, and hockey if only they knew more about soccer. Maybe, just maybe Americans do understand soccer and yet still see it as a second-tier sport. Crazy, I know!

[@walterhicks5520]

Like golf, we Americans find Soccer BORING. Period.

[@nitro1823]

@@walterhicks5520 but how? It's fun to watch and play

[@polishfenian]

Nitro what’s fun to watch about it?

[@nitro1823]

@@polishfenian its intense

[@0005-u9k]

@@nitro1823 not as much as hockey or any other contact sport.

[@andybenji6651]

Simple answer is because they aren't the best at it, America usually dominate the Olympic medals table but when you think of the best footballing nation they're nowhere near the conversation. The best players in the world don't go to play in the MLS, they're going to go to La Liga, Serie A, the Bundesliga or the Premier League because Europe has way more of a footballing culture.

[@aaronbest4260]

Andy Benji we're not the best cause our best athletes don't give a shit about it, if they practiced it since birth like other countries athletes do we would be.

[@hoiiiii1000]

Lmao, you guy's are really stuck up your own ass. Have you thought about the other side of the medal? 90% or more of the people in Europe play soccer, at a high or low level. All the left over athletes go to the other sports. If the participation was more spread, US wouldn't even dominate their own sports. You can take a look at big global team sports, like cricket, rugby, soccer, handbal, volleybal, field hockey etc. The US isn't a factor there, because there is to much competition.

[@lucasmarinho3491]

Andy Benji

[@richie_23]

they went to MLS when they were about to retire... its just too much competition in Europe

[@augie6479]

Andy Benji The best players anywhere in any sport play where the sport is the biggest. If you have a great American soccer player, he's most likely going to play in Europe, just like any great European hockey player is going to play in Canada or the US. The sport they play is always going to be weaker back home, for that reason, which is why soccer can't take off in the US.

[@oldrock80]

On this planet , Football was, is and will remain the greatest game forever. ⚽🎊🎉🍻

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[@donovandempsey-jones1702]

Yeah! I love soccer! It doesn't matter what it's called, we all love the game equally! :D

[@LoftusBlake]

@@donovandempsey-jones1702 we definitely don't love it equally,all true football fans find the name soccer really stupid and don't give but the English invented the word because I supposed they invented English aswell

[@jayanths1221]

Americans will never care about football as they are not obligated to care about football just because a majority of countries care so much about football. It's not just Americans, Canadians don't care about football either. They prefer hockey. Just like Indians prefer cricket, Australians and New Zealanders prefer rugby. So stop with the whole "Dumb Americans call football as soccer" and "Will Americans ever care about football?" thing and let people enjoy whichever sport they like!

[@nosaints88]

That’s way too rational of an idea for people on the internet to go along with.

[@exo-l6702]

That's why they had the worsts teams

[@damiansconberg4715]

Dexter Morgan NO, YOU WILL PLAY THE REAL FOOTBALL AND YOU WILL LOVE IT!

[@MrWackypackages]

THANK YOU. People are so petty. They fail to realize there are a lot of cultures and sports in this world and that people can choose what sports to enjoy.

[@spriceav]

EXACTLY What I'm saying. Everyone always seems to expect Americans to do everything like "everyone else" and I'm sick of it. They don't realize people have different cultures. Literally plenty of other countries call it soccer and care more about a different sport, yet it's only AMERICANS who get flamed for it.

[@levarmitchell3962]

Why are we obligated to care about it? I'm sure soccer in Europe, Asia, South America is very profitable without us. We don't particularly care for soccer...so what? Let us like what we like. Our country doesn't have to follow everyone else's preferences.

[@ghost-og6mv]

The real question is will the world ever give a damn about rugby Edit: I meant American football

[@tems5280]

Not bout rugby

[@cklee22]

all mighty Babatunde U do realize that theres a difference between rugby and gridiron football right?

[@KBShow-bw4lj]

@@cklee22 you realize he is tellin you we don't give a damn lee?

[@abdelabdel2366]

Rugby is better than American football. Sorry every sport is better than American football.

[@LordZontar]

I used to be a big gridiron football fan. But I've watched Tri-Nations and Super League, and I once got to view a live exhibition match between USA Rugby All-Stars and London Wasps, and except for the forward pass the American game doesn't really have enough to make it even equal to Rugby. The latter flows, the former has constant stoppages, and Big Hits AREN'T action. I watch a Rugby match and I'm fully engaged in the contest whereas I've often found my attention wandering through an NFL game that now drags on for nearly four hours. And lately I've gotten disenchanted

[@khabbad]

Soccer in the states is something you do as a small child because it’s easy to play when you’re younger, as Americans get older they have more choices in other popular sports like: football, baseball, hockey basketball. In the States soccer is seen more as a “kids game”

[@swiftplus7398]

3:00 My new favourite sport right there...

[@ricardohoang8452]

I see what you did there

[@paulinotou]

That sport has to be the most American thing I ever seen.

[@swiftplus7398]

timmy D ahahah

[@andersonred6539]

no.20

[@jakegoodman2392]

I mean most Americans don’t even know that it exists...

[@matthewswiss6883]

Im from the country that knocked the us out

[@Yzzo1]

Lol

[@molla-host]

hehe

[@TheDevilHydraProdsXXII]

Matthew Swiss you want a medal?

[@cam42704]

Matthew Swiss trash talking the united states you get a worthless medal here ya go. But we got the greatest country in the world medal.

[@matthewswiss6883]

The Combine i rather be retarded than have trump running my country

[@mehanikal5639]

CL finals > Superbawl

[@ticluna5295]

Account Oh, and not to mention EURO, Copa America, World Cup finals

[@polishfenian]

Terb best joke I’ve heard. You literally kick around a ball for 90 minutes while in football, it’s way more complex and interesting.

[@ticluna5295]

dickcheese mongolia You rush into each others like a bunch of bufalo. How is that complex ?

[@siddhantkhanwalkar3534]

hairbuster ribert what about rugby u stupid shit

[@gadhhfhf9412]

Chilling Spree shut up with your messed up teeth.

[@jmangaming8612]

Tons of people care about soccer, it’s just we have shitty academies/programs to develop players

[@michaelmartin1644]

JmanGaming why have Shiite academies when you make it 100x harder for a player to make it in the big time,you should look to promote the game for America by Americans with American talent,academies and trials made for Fitch white kids are the reason why soccer is taking in the u.s

[@Franciscosveral]

its called football not soccer

[@jmangaming8612]

Francisco Soveral Sorry to offend you mate 😌

[@StylistecS]

Francisco Soveral get over it.

[@karimbenzema4188]

JmanGaming We don’t have shitty academy’s its just that most academy’s only want money, they don’t care about the good players thats why US soccer players suck

[@JuanMartinez-hz4jj]

Short answer:No

[@kevinn1692]

Juan Martinez Yes

[@oliverlinehan8701]

We already do. It's just that USSF discriminates against those of us who do. US Soccer's entire goal is to keep us mediocre to protect NFL (which basically owns US Soccer). We have several million kids playing pickup soccer in SoCal who don't get scouted, because US Soccer only scouts rich white kids playing "elite" club soccer or college soccer which is really just an extremely physical soccer-like competition.

[@Jordan-Ramses]

Americans love the Queen? I'm going to have to call shananigans on that. We had a war about that. Two of them.

[@giuSE2004]

Juan Martinez short answer:fuck off

[@benangelo8444]

Short answer. You're wrong.

[@geoneo7238]

“It’s a goal-den opportunity” That ruined the whole video!

[@yusrifourtwenty4944]

Nope it's not...i love when she said that

[@sana3843]

There are so many gifted, hardworking athletes in the US, they would have done great if they dedicated themselves to the world football. But they already have their own sports they enjoy. It’s not a problem.

[@AliAhmed-ve5xl]

America runs the Olympics and does well in Ice Hockey too.

[@AlexRN]

The moment the next Tom Brady chooses soccer instead of American football the US will begin to be a powerhouse.

[@purpleirklegrovestreet]

@@AlexRN crazy u say that, as tom bradys son Jack says he loves soccer and wants to be either a pro soccer player or swimmer

[@genghiskhansbabymomma5649]

Short people can play soccer so there's that. Messi: 5"7 Maradona: 5"5 Pelé: 5"5

[@VanceAnthem]

More Americans bought tickets to the 2018 World Cup than any nation other than Russia, and that's without the U.S. even qualifying for this World Cup

[@NJWGAMES]

Vance Lawrence bs

[@marcosmontenegro7320]

FAKEEEEEEEE

[@epic9256]

Actually you were 5th behind Germany but still ahead of England who just sucks at Football keep watching other countries because damn you suck at Football at least the US have the Women’s team who dominate in the WC Germany & Belgium will always be better than England

[@sagarkoch4029]

British play: Football and cricket Americans: Fuck their sport, we will invent our new, Baseball and American football.

[@vlz.matthew]

so wat is ur point

[@RYx222]

Baseball wsa invented in England

[@EliteXtasy]

NFL is trying to push American Football onto the UK,. While Wembley Stadium's a sellout and the games get the primetime slot, it's not at all succeeding. Schoolchildren don't play it, the average Brit don't watch it, it's not promoted outside central London, and the spectators include American expats, the niche European fanbases, and people who just want an novelty experience. That's not a lot of people considering that there's only a few games a year in all of Europe. Out of all the team sports popular in USA, basketball has the most potential in the UK. The games focus mostly on the sport and played by by both sexes, so it's more interesting, and as it's an indoor sport, it's different to what there is in the UK.

[@te1327]

Basketball is a fun sport, and is already pretty big in the uk, we can all agree all of our high school sports halls have a basketball net

[@tucaferreti8848]

Soccer in U.S is not going to grow until they actually have good leagues and a good national team

[@tucaferreti8848]

Learn from mexico

[@emmanuelake421]

Cállese cagajo

[@shrek19yearsago78]

@@tucaferreti8848 even tho mexico is a fan of futbol/soccer it is still very corrupt and poor people dont have the opportunity to play or go pro

[@mikuhatsune8121]

stop crying kid

[@gabrielnd6792]

I am a brazillian, love the sport and was happy with you guys trying to spread the word BUUUT not cool quote the study about the brain injury without context, the brains that were studied wasn't from a random group, they were already brains that they thought had injuries, shame

[@tripsaplenty1227]

Gabriel ND I love football, go Ravens, but the game is horrible for the human brain. It is what it is. Football people need to figure out equipment and rule changes to make the game safer or American football won't last another generation. I'm not going to let my kids play and I played.

[@tripsaplenty1227]

William Levy My earliest ancestor to what would become the United States immigrated to Maryland in 1650. Attacking the game is not attacking our identity it is caring for our fellow citizens at this point. Why are you so sensitive about the subject? You aren't even one of us.

[@unicockboy1666]

Gabriel ND Yeah, obviously you don't get diseases which come from getting kicked in the head too much from getting kicked in the head...idiot

[@Max-kq2jp]

I feel bad for Americans Imagine growing up watching American football . Depressing

[@doggomode6712]

I’m not a sports guy. I like to play soccer(football). I don’t like football(soccer)

[@metrofilmer8894]

Honestly, American football is a pretty cool sport once you learn the rules and in many parts of the US, football is a religion

[@Max-kq2jp]

@@metrofilmer8894 no passion whatsoever

[@nope6908]

@@Max-kq2jp all sports have passion lol just look at the cults and riots

[@Max-kq2jp]

@@nope6908 wtf is that

[@THTSound]

Everytime i here that word i feel pain in my heart

[@nikki_urtrashkid219]

Be strong

[@Ghost_riley958]

Ok then Soccer, Soccer,soccer,soccer,soccer, soccer

[@nikki_urtrashkid219]

@@Ghost_riley958 I’m now dead are you Happy now

[@danielg1680]

@@TheLeader-jl5iz like American

[@mizzysavage1329]

@@danielg1680 what’s your problem?

[@rachelmcadamslover]

The reason why it doesn't succeed yet is because the best youth soccer players are usually rich kids. Maybe in the West Coast is easy to find soccer fields, but a lot harder in the East Coast.

[@jacobs8825]

rachelmcadamslover yeah the youth system is set up for wealthy kids

[@kubapolaczek4976]

well that' d be really weird, since football is a poor mans game, all you need is a ball basically, and so many great players come from poor backgrounds (like brasilian ghettos)

[@anty099]

Exactly the best rich kids get on the best teams. Some kids get scouted but not everyone can get that opportunity. Football is a poor mans sport all over the word but in America their football is a poor mans sport.

[@jacobs8825]

I mean the youth system in the US

[@cam42704]

Kuba Polaczek poor mans sport your a dumbass gear cost more than your gay ass socks

[@jahedgulbanful]

I love football as an American, but it is hard to find football pitches and other friends who love the beautiful game

[@knives4lives589]

Same I'm super in to football it was the first sport ball I ever played with and I cherised the sport I just can't find people who feel the same and it's sad

[@chilidavis9894]

*soccer, fields

[@Anonymous-yy2dm]

@@chilidavis9894 *football

[@alfredosauce3727]

@@knives4lives589 You dont suck up to them either. Read my above comment. Calling it soccer is completely fine.

[@thepizzaelf]

@@alfredosauce3727 soccer is a disgusting name for football, Americans should call their hand egg sport American football if they like the term so much

[@PIANOPHUNGUY]

Team Handball as in the Olympics has a 100% growth rate. They went from 100 players to 200 players. Phenomenal! America's fastest growing sport!

[@NazriB]

Lies again? MLS NFL

[@BeeBee-pl9ly]

Americans have their own version of handball not the European one your thinking of

[@dsawhney11]

England:scout Mexico:scout France:scout America: and that will be $1000 dollars please

[@facetimepodcast3942]

What?

[@kaustubhdatta8162]

She's amazing with her presentation

[@tumbox9204]

Beta

[@vaibhavshukla9288]

Packet what do you mean

[@Mo-ms7tx]

hes saying tech support

[@vaibhavshukla9288]

daddy but there are more call centre workers in phillipines and usa

[@vashanthk2507]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/foPRZ6Brmculg8U. it is important..

[@wilburgraal5417]

Says the one who calls their sport Football and play it with their hands. Lmfao

[@KBShow-bw4lj]

@@Kayodoms nope it is 11 inch , a foot is 12 inch so yeah this makes no sense

[@LordZontar]

Um, the name of the American game has absolutely NOTHING to do with the length of the ball.

[@Anonymous-yy2dm]

@@aldindorafiarnan119 No idiot. You dont make sense. It is called basketball as the ball is put into a 'basket'.

[@davivieira9014]

@@KBShow-bw4lj It used to be taller European

[@PLEASANTGIFFT]

On the positive note stadiums in the USA are not filled with racist fascist making racist chants at players of colour like they do in Europe

[@ghafir3]

PLEASANTGIFFT mate that literally never happens

[@matthewchitcarof5692]

Are you reading Buzzfeed LoL SJW

[@based7900]

I imagine you cried shouting that trump will destroy the world in ww3, cringey sjw

[@BlindingGlow]

We also don't have fans come on the field to punch the players. You know what that says? Nobody is afraid of SOCCER players. LMAO imagine someone trying to punch JJ Watt.

[@saucey1840]

George floyd disagrees with you.

[@lunacavemoth]

I was born in America but have never cared for American football. That's not football to me. Football is the glorious beautiful game that is called footy . My teams are Liverpool and Cardiff . Did you know that the total game of NFL only lasts about 5-10 minutes worth of play without the stupid ads? It's not worth watching. Now 90+ minutes of running and passing and a goal here and there....yes! Give me that.

[@derrickmeade4891]

You know nothing of football lmao

[@philmccracken179]

Lol soccer is 100% ads. Do you not notice the electronic flashing billboards flickering around the field the whole game?

[@mizzysavage1329]

10 minutes of football? Ur an idiot

[@spriceav]

So it's ok to shit on american football but not regular football??

[@VV_PaVria]

I hope that the BBC doesn't think that any country whose most popular sport _isn't_ soccer is "missing out", because it's the case not only in the United States. Japan and Taiwan are head over heels in baseball, Canada has ice hockey, South Asia has cricket, Oceania has rugby, etc. Please, BBC, SOCCER =/= MASTER SPORT.

[@mjatonyperry8508]

But football is still very popular in Japan , Canada, and South Asia. By the way, Taiwan is not even a country

[@dyltack5349]

@@mjatonyperry8508 Canada and the USA both call it Soccer and it's on the same level in both places. Some names and teams are somewhat relevant cultural but it's seen as a children's game to develop into playing "real sports"

[@Himmyjewett]

​@@mjatonyperry8508 Taiwan is literally a country but ok

[@robertotampioc7318]

Philippines are basketball country… only south east Asia country doesn’t like football

[@MalMal-qn6fe]

The only way to make them care about football “soccer” is if they win the world cup or something, but that will never happen. Edit: I mean the men team

[@ticluna5295]

Mal Mal or if they have a player that is globally famous. The most famous one now is Pulisic, but I haven’t seen him for a while

[@gamingforaday5446]

Sorry sir but it's Called *World Cup*

[@workspaceofduc]

@@ticluna5295 Clint Dempsey also

[@ticluna5295]

@@workspaceofduc Tim Howard, Landon Donovan

[@thomasbray751]

Well the US could win the World Cup EVERY TIME IT HAPPENS, it still wouldn't make it close to replacing American Football in the US. Most Americans could care less about it at all, probably don't even realize when it's happening.

[@avinashajay6242]

dont really care for rugby, dont call it soccer its a crime tbh, football is the real name

[@nope6908]

Soccer ⚽

[@arturobustinza6265]

@@nope6908 para 300 millones de estados unidos y canadienses tal vez, el resto del mundo sabe cuál es tu verdadero nombre

[@r.o.b8728]

Soccer

[@nope6908]

@@arturobustinza6265 still soccer lmao

[@mikecamacho1934]

listen... Nothing will ever take American footballs place in America. America doesn't care much about soccer and the world doesn't care about American Football and that's perfectly fine. Stop being offended that we're not interested in Soccer. You don't hear American's B!!! about why people around the world don't like Football. It's our thing, and we love it. To each his own!

[@lobosolitario2876]

The amazing thing is that Soccer is played in every corner of the WORLD, other sports are just local and even thou, they play SOCCER TOO. You know what is weird, why they call it football, i it is played with the hands?????????

[@DarthSchwartz]

you shouldn't include Canada on that red map. we preferred rugby football too. The first written rules for hockey were adapted from rugby football rules too.

[@ohlookmarki]

DarthSchwartz Canada has CFL. I'm in California, but my classmates and I also recently started taking interest in it (also recently started NFL to be fair). I streamed the Tiger-Cats v Stampeders. Great stuff.

[@lukestrachan3677]

Maybe in Toronto soccer is dominant, but Canada does still prefer gridiron. In the prairies the CFL is maybe as popular as ever. Canadians watch/follow NFL too, maybe even more so than CFL. The Portugal/France Euro final averaged 2.4 million viewers in Canada. Grey Cup 2017 averaged 3.9 million, and the Super Bowl usually gets double that. Also TFC plays twice as many home games as CFL teams, so total attendance isnt really an apples to apples comparison. TFC's average attendance this season was 27 647. The Saskatchewan Roughriders, who were terrible the first half of the season, averaged 32 762.

[@Jordan-Ramses]

These soccer communists just make up fake statistics. They don't care about the truth.

[@ER1CwC]

@@lukestrachan3677I wouldn’t say that soccer is dominant in Toronto. It might be more popular than elsewhere, but that’s mainly because there are so many immigrants in Toronto. Soccer is not popular at all among Torontonians who are born in Canada, including among the children of immigrants.

[@grieverff8ff9]

The way we view soccer is the problem. When i was around eleven i played soccer for a while and i remember my dad telling me after practice one day "isn't it about time you started playing a real sport?" when i was growing up at least it was perceived as a sport for women so if you where a man playing soccer you got made fun of. i really hope that perception changes. it would be nice to compete internationally with a male and female soccer team, but i don't think it's gonna happen anytime soon there is just not enough interest.

[@mistacole1335]

If has someone has the determination skills that it takes to be a professional athlete and make a national team, I really doubt their dad saying that is going to stop them.

[@grieverff8ff9]

@vaggelis marinakis I don't know about that. i can only really give anecdotal. But as far as i can see, it's UFC, NHL, NFL. American's like contact sports or sports that give them a shot of Adrenalin like Bull Riding.

[@me-hk4ro]

Popular Sports In America: American Football Baseball Basketball

[@miguelorozco5964]

What is she talking about? The Us made it in Group L along with Chile, Italy, and the Netherlands

[@irthamepali]

Miguel Orozco drugs ?

[@irthamepali]

Oh yeah sorry my bad

[@JonnyTainment]

L for Left Out?

[@dariancrenshaw7576]

JonnyTainment yeah 😂

[@te1327]

Hard group

[@lukedetering4490]

It's a suprisingly simple answer, we are just not as interested in soccer as other sports. It's just a culture thing at the end of the day. Nothing wrong with that.

[@dppd3721]

In Usa if football football was famous instead american football of it would be bigger than any european league

[@lukedetering4490]

@@dppd3721 Maybe true. But our culture is just different and has no interest in being the best at soccer unless it's the Olympics or someone gets far in the world cup. Other than that, not too many people love Soccer/football here. American Football,Basketball, and Baseball are very ingrained in our culture. Hockey is very popular in the midwest too. Soccer leagues need to work on their marketing.

[@CarlosMartinez-qc6ly]

Ahora (2024), ha crecido el fútbol ⚽ en USA? Viene el mundial 2026, hay entusiasmo?

[@user-ei7ed6zy9k]

I live in the UK, go watch my Tottenham every week. But American football is such a good sport. People are just ignorant to it

[@aldrichhf35]

Americans are the types of people who thinks they are always right meanwhile the rest of the world would be like "u good?"

[@vlz.matthew]

Anime profile pic, opinion invalid

[@GM-tw4el]

The beauty of football is that if you happen to be big or small you can still be world class whereas in basketball American football you can have all the talent in the world but if you’re not 6”3+ or built like a brick shithouse then your chance of playing top level are almost impossible. You could be the most talented player in your school system but then be overlooked purely because your teammates outgrow you.

[@paulflickinger1869]

I'm American, played soccer growing up, and yes I want soccer to gain as much popularity as possible in the US. That being said, American football will always be my favorite sport to watch, and soccer will always be my favorite sport to play. It's more fun to try and guess the strategies that go into American football, and there is a lot more scoring to get excited about with less games ending in a tie. The plays also have more flair (on average), and the opportunity for comebacks is more fun to watch. It's not that I don't enjoy watching soccer (because I watch Bayern whenever possible), I just enjoy American football more. It's just a personal preference, but I feel like this is how some other Americans see it too.

[@Pichakkaran]

Brother as i am a huge soccer fan, I don't know any single player from NFL. I heard lebron james and micheal jordan in the news, but i think both are from NBA right? Could you please tell me how to learn nfl and nba games?. I would like to watch nfl and nba games in the future.

[@badgerfishinski6857]

I cant comprehend why more scoring is better?? Alot of my American friends say the same thing. I believe less scoring is better because it makes a goal more meaningful.

[@itsbeyondme5560]

@@badgerfishinski6857 Like what? This isn't chess

[@purpleirklegrovestreet]

@@badgerfishinski6857 we have fantasy sport apps. More scoring is more profitable. I gaurantee u if more goals were scored in soccer, it would be bigger in the US. Another problem is the flopping. Football is a sport where players are literally encouraged to play through injuries and “be a man.” Dudes play through torn rotators cuffs to finish games, its just a tough brutal gladiator sport and thats what the average american wants to see. Not saying soccer players dont play through injuries too, its just, the general takeaway from the flopping is that soccer is a soft sport. Americans like hardcore hard hitting big play gladiator sports to get hyped up on sunday after a long week at work

[@dyltack5349]

@@badgerfishinski6857 dead time. I'll speak for myself but a common opinion among Americans is that nobody wants to see a draw or a game end in a tie. Increased scoring is just more appealing to many of us

[@ruston3464]

Well you get to host the world cup so this is gonna be tragic...

[@theobuniel9643]

.....Alongside Canada, and more importantly Mexico, who is an (association) football nation.

[@skeletoncrew6500]

@@theobuniel9643 what does that mean most importantly

[@KittySofttpaws]

The USA held the world Cup on its own in 1994. Mexico held it alone in 1986 I believe. I don't see why USA, Canada and Mexico need to hold it at the same time via sharing the event.

[@keirlamont2806]

69 Savage it’s partially down to the logistics of how a World Cup is run these days. The 2026 World Cup is the planned World Cup for the introduction of 48 teams, it’s pretty much setting a precedent for future World Cups to have joint bids, 2030 already has a bid from Uruguay, Paraguay and Argentina

[@KittySofttpaws]

@@keirlamont2806 Yeah and Euro 2020 is being hosted by at least 7 or 8 countries. I don't know what sort of circus International football is becoming especially with the ridiculous 2022 world Cup in Qatar 😡😠🤮

[@Diddy1970AD]

As a football (soccer) loving Brit, I've never really understood how Americans have not fallen in love with soccer but despite some recent setbacks in the men's national team fortunes I believe that soccer's popularity in the States will continue it's steady rise and that by 2050 or so the USA will be a major player in both club and international soccer.

[@mizzysavage1329]

It’s because we have other sports we love like football and basketball

[@Totalitarianistfr]

@@mizzysavage1329 and cause there trash at it

[@shanestevens5352]

As an American, we view it as soft. My only experience with watching a full game was in perhaps 2014. I remember being bored by the fact that no one managed to score, being confused by what “offside” was (still have zero clue what it is), and near the end of the game being extremely upset at watching someone flop and wail like a baby after getting tapped on the shoulder. I am well aware that from those outside of the world these complaints are unreasonable, or ignorant but these are things a lot of us find fault with regardless. Our sports are most exciting when there’s high scoring, most of us know the rules of our sports while not really understanding rules for others (especially because the term offsides means something else in American football), and when we see someone wailing for a penalty we view them as sissies. We’ve seen our own players take MAJOR hits and still get up and have to walk it off. Sure flopping may happen in our sports but when it does we get upset at the player even if our team has nothing to do with it. For me that’s the biggest thing that I’ll never be able to get past

[@johnnyjackson4159]

Baseball is better. Hockey is better. UFC is better. Why watch soccer?

[@aranyaism]

@@johnnyjackson4159 nobody cares about any of those sports outside the US. Football is better than every other sport.

[@JiTiAr35]

Why do you keep saying soccer? This is BBC.

[@augie6479]

JiTiAr35 because she's not from your country...Americans - don't - call - it - football...simple fact.

[@xXLightningFan9864Xx]

In the US the following sports are ahead of soccer in popularity: Football, Baseball, Basketball, and ice hockey. It would take a lot for soccer to pass those four sports. College Football is also ahead of soccer as well, and is wildly popular.

[@Totalitarianistfr]

what is soccer

[@Murph_gaming]

Watch hockey and then you'll understand why Americans don't like soccer. Hockey has finesse like soccer but also the physicality of our football.

[@sandroguzman8062]

I have played both sports, I respect both sports. But lets be honest, those who say that football (soccer) is easy are likely Americans or have never played in Europe or South America (the fouls are often).

[@FlameAndSlime]

"Football" in America. BARELY uses the foot. Not even a ball. Should be called "Handegg".

[@patrickhiggins5970]

It's used a fair amount and it doesn't resemble a egg. A egg has a round bottom and a pointier tip but still round while this has 2 points and laces unlike a egg but the football is also dark brown eggs aren't dark brown they are white to dark brown and we kick the ball a fair amount maybe 30 times a game and there are only 150 plays so a fifth of the time and we use our arms when we run with the football not our hands

[@alemonge19]

@@patrickhiggins5970 Facts.

[@emiliosgregoriou8943]

Way to go Europe. Now they think we're all entitled, stuck-up pricks who take every oppurtunity to hate on the USA. I don't get the arguments with some of you. So what if the US isn't in the world cup? China, India, Italy, the Netherlands? They're not there either, even though two of them have more than a billion people, and the other two are amazing footballing nations. And the MLS isn't shit. You know what a shit league is? 3 division Russian football is shit. The English league 2 is shit. New Zealand football is shit. Just because it's not in the top 4 best leagues in the world (I would say top 5 but people love to hate on the French Ligue 1 a lot for some reason) it doesn't make it a shit league. It's a decent league on the rise. If they introduce relegation/promotion then quality and competitiveness will skyrocket because teams will have something to fight for. Don't listen to us, America. You do you, and let your game evolve. P.S. Soccer is a perfectly fine term to use. It's a shortening of the name "Association football", because whether people like it or not, there's multiple "footballs" in the world.

[@daddynanners3944]

Thanks my friend. Yeah most of us Americans know this and are fine with that hate. Fuck what the rest of the world thinks cause I don't care about their opinions. I don't spend my days worrying about other countries so it's kind of amusing and sad that people from different nations get so bend out of shape over the fact that my country calls football "soccer" even though the English called it soccer first. And they get mad that we don't care about it as much. My question to them would be "why the fuck does it matter to you & how does us not caring about it effect you?". Besides the 2026 World Cup is going to be held by the US, canada & Mexico. Soccer is getting more popular here, but the thing many of these idiots don't understand is we also have American football, basketball, baseball & hockey as major sports. Hell I'll even throw in golf and tennis. I will say I have no interest in MLS at all. The world cup however, that's a different story. I want to see the best players in the world play & I can't wait to go to a few World Cup games 8 years from now.

[@MrMM1007]

Good comments. It sucks that so many people use sports as a weapon in their political fights. I noticed that 14 of the 32 teams this year in the World Cup are European. There are only four teams from all of Asia. That is almost half of the teams from less than 10% of the worlds population. It isn't like Assoc. Football is as worldly as some would admit.

[@poggywoggyvodarchive708]

English tier 2 is better than mls

[@profoot6917]

MrMM1007 First, before make that statement you should research how the World Cup qualifications works.

[@shamarajodha4131]

"Football is boring" mean while it's the most watched sport annually

[@yousef.al-assaf]

Who said that?

[@bvalgru1802]

2 billion people

[@demiancollazo3619]

The real Football is the one you play using your feet and a ball.

[@keaneli7121]

Demian Collazo soccer for some people

[@S1LVAW0LF]

5 years from this video and strides have been made for sure. 2026 around the corner, and it’s gonna be epic. Soccer already 3rd in fans and participation in the USA. it’s more popular than hockey and baseball on the ground now.

[@justreallybored6014]

MLS is actually doing very financially well in the US and is growing yearly.

[@PissedUAWElectrician]

It is. The sport will do well here. Here in Detroit, we're trying to get an MLS team, but the committee dropped the ball by not trying to build a stadium for the team and instead wanted to use Ford Field, and MLS said no. Detroit has such ethnic diversity, I think a soccer club would do very well here. Especially if we can get a team and they win since we don't have an NFL team worth a crap. I'm not a soccer fan, but if MLS eventually awards us a club, I'd definitely attend games and get behind them.

[@nolansthompson8984]

@@PissedUAWElectrician I live in Detroit too and I think MLS would struggle here. The lions and tigers are just too popular.

[@PissedUAWElectrician]

@@nolansthompson8984 not totally true. An MLS team here in Detroit, I think would do well. You have a massive Arab population here that would most likely love it. A solid Latino population as well. Countless pockets of Eastern Europeans, and plenty of American fans. Think about this for a second. Our generation has never seen a new professional sports franchise in a major sports league, and no matter how you slice it, MLS is the 5th major sports league here. Honestly, it's a damn shame the Lions have any type of popularity. A garbage franchise from top to bottom and yet, people still help them sell out games. Even the God damn Arizona Cardinals and New York Jets have been to a Super Bowl. Meanwhile, we can't even win a division title. Also, with an MLS team, you aren't going to need some 40,000 to 70,000 seat venue. I'm willing to bet if we ever get a franchise, it'll do just fine.

[@TitaniumSlayerNinjaCopper]

@@nolansthompson8984 Lions are probably the worst franchise in all of American sports. If a winning MLS team was in Detroit they would definitely get attention because no offense Detroit is a horrible sports city. Just look at Atlanta and how many fans they generated after Atlanta United won the MLS cup.

[@MrRoztoc]

There are a few really football (/soccer) cities in the US: Portland, Seattle, the Kansas Cities, Atlanta, Minneapolis and Philadelphia. And Cincinnati. And it's growing.

[@alexzuniga7677]

LA an much of California it’s self

[@philmccracken179]

All Democrat places with a bunch of illegals

[@danielhogan9167]

The entire rest of the world don't care what America thinks about it.

[@liarmask1759]

For me soccer is boring af, it's basically passing a ball for 90 minutes...... literally 99% of the game is just passing the damn ball

[@concacaf3898]

And shooting the ball. And shaking other players. And Dribbling the ball. I can go on and on.

[@SSSS-wq4vn]

Sadly American football is going down. I live in Atlanta and Soccer is taking over. Fast. We now have a soccer team. I even see people sporting the soccer Jerseys more than our American football team increasingly.

[@technolanfeloman9689]

Bnisha 04 MLS SUCKS

[@SSSS-wq4vn]

technolan feloman who is MLS

[@nickscope27]

I don't think thats the case, as long as the falcons and Georgia are good football will always reign supreme there

[@theoyancey]

please, go to a college football game

[@Fame_Rate]

well, maybe finally the rest of the world can take something from the americans.

[@nailahsaquee6719]

Honestly I don't get it. Europeans are always complaining about us not playing soccer more than American Football, but then they are quick to say that the MLS sucks whenever they DO meet an American soccer fan. Smh

[@Fame_Rate]

yeah thats stupid, but...there are enough americans doing the same thing the other way

[@tsvetelin6556]

I would not say that.

[@noonecares379]

Honestly I didn't knew for many years that USA even had a football team for FIFA world cup.

[@Aherz-yd4gs]

I've played the three: football, rugby and hand-egg. Of the three, football requieres much more brain for playing...

[@cadencenation4600]

Alejandro American football requires way more strategy and prep and split second decision making get your hand out of your ass

[@jamespark6416]

Try being a quarterback, they literally have to memorize an entire playbook, and watch video tapings and be able to improvise.

[@filippobisio556]

Just chase a ball... Years of development of a sport where you just have to chase a ball...Americans please never stop, you guys are too funny.

[@snetmotnosrorb3946]

I love that "hand-egg" is actually getting traction. They do have proper unique name to it: gridiron. They should use that.

[@tfindierock]

American Rugby it's boring!

[@warh1story563]

Id like rugby, cuz I don’t want my head to break Or my cheek to have a nasty bruise When you play football(soccer) you feel like you’re gonna play better for your team Rugby feels like I’m getting bullied by people in SWAT gear

[@Mwestside010]

Yeah

[@tems5280]

It ain t rugby dickhead,u a dickhead that’s why u get bullied

[@theneosuperzero]

@@tems5280 it's Rugby.

[@tems5280]

@@theneosuperzero Your iq must be lower then 40 then

[@theneosuperzero]

@@tems5280 still a Rugby.

[@jackrussell4040]

Will the world ever care if they care about it.

[@gavinsmith5248]

In American football we don't have fake injurys unlike British football

[@axd9603]

Yeah u got real head injuries that makes u unable to think straight lol.

[@manchesterunited35-2]

“British Football” yet its played in over 211 countries and territories

[@TheCalifornioCA]

No American would never care about soccer. It just comes to culture. Does that mean is a bad thing? No it just mean different cultures that’s all

[@josebertel7000]

football is the best sport in the world because there is talent,magic and you can also create your tricks with the ball

[@siddhantkhanwalkar3534]

Screw u

[@siddhantkhanwalkar3534]

And ur tricks

[@rockysullivan9818]

That is not a very solid argument at all, every ball sport has talent, luck (magic), and tricks you can create with the ball.

[@johnscottstassi200]

Sid Khanwalkar lmao fax

[@matejkostovski4918]

Srsly you clicked on a video about FOOTBALl and say it sucks!? That shows how much you ignore facts

[@joseflores9540]

I'm a Hispanic american and I enjoy both sports a lot I just favor american football more

[@Atlas-hi7qi]

Simple answer, no, football (soccer) will no surpass American football. In my opinion there sre obvious reasons why. 1) Parents to not care. Even though it is up to the youth on what they play, the parents will influence they're options in a way. By this I mean if your parents never played or watched soccer growing up they probably won't watch it now. So when they have kids they, the kids, won't be exposed to it and will choose to play other sports like football, basketball, hockey, or baseball. 2) Soccer is to expensive in the U.S. Soccer youth clubs that have the best talent or generally filled with upper level income families. It is the most expensive youth sport in America to play. Sports like football, basketball, and baseball have more leagues and cost a lot less to play. This gives you more talent to choose from, especially at lower incomes. 3) It, such as baseball, is boring in the eyes of the American youth. Before you go off on me about baseball it actually is true. Baseball has the oldest tv viewership age in the U.S., and largest percentage of 55+ viewers at over 50%. Soccer on the other hand just doesn't have enough "action" for most young Americans. I personally enjoy soccer, but I also appreciate it more than most do here. Which even though there is a lot to enjoy about soccer while watching; the amount of "action" compared to how much people care in the U.S. just doesn't work. Americans don't have enough interest to watch it. And before you yell at me for not being American or being "Euro Trash." I'm from America, Texas to be exact. I love American football and basketball, but I also greatly enjoy, appreciate, and understand soccer. I played football and basketball all though my childhood and high school. Only played 1 year of soccer as a kid, but I really enjoy it now that I'm older. I started to watch it in high school and now that I'm in college I pay more attention now than ever.

[@theanhnguyen2733]

I don't seem to get your second point. Football (soccer) is one of the least if not the least expensive sport to play. That's also an important reason why football is so popular. All you need is just a ball and you good to go. Whereas sports like baseball and American football, you need all sorts of gears.

[@chheinrich8486]

I DONT CARE WHAT 300 MILLION PEOPLE SAY, compared to the billion of football lovers world wide

[@MrAdrenaline1982]

In America, soccer is usually thought of as a "safe" sport to keep kids active.

[@tems5280]

TRUE