Why USA SUCKS at Soccer | REACTION

[@jbo4547]

"Pay to play" is the worst thing

[@kimbirch1202]

Even pubs in Britain have their own football teams, plus most villages.

[@VillaFanDan92]

Brad Freidel has one of the highest number of appearances in Premier League history, he played a lot of his career at Tottenham too. Other Americans that had good Premier League careers that I can think of off the top of my head are Tim Howard, Kasey Keller, Brian McBride and Clint Dempsey.

[@scottwallace5239]

The 'soccer takes no talent' is especially funny, seeing as its one of the most talent based sports in the world

[@mortimersmithsr2522]

Zealand grew his channel a lot because of the very popular Football Manager, before he eventually began to mix in these sorts of videos in between. It would be so epic to watch you try it, especially with your background as a coach! Your reactions is awesome tho. And try to ignore the bullies who tries to get you to dislike the sports you grew up with, they are as ignorant as Dana White is to Soccer. The bigger your channel gets, the more hate and envy it will get. Love from Norway

[@wt5657]

Dana dosent know what his talking about ..his never played any sport in his life and never had a single fight in his career ..hi wish his ufc was as big as football (soccer) ..most of his mma fighters now are begging to fight youtubers cause ufc payday is so pathetic dude ..its just pure jealousy

[@VillaFanDan92]

Also, I love Zealand, but his comparison of the viewing figures for the women's teams was pure numbers of viewers and not adjusted for population. So yeah only 17 million people watched England women win the European Championship, but that's out of a population of 55 mill in England.

[@vaudevillian7]

The other cultural difference if that adults play sports way more recreationally in Europe than they do in the US, once Americans leave college they seem to stop playing organised sports apart from a few beer leagues or office softball tournaments; whereas in the UK at least many people will continue to play football, rugby etc for many years. It all ties into the community origins of teams too I think

[@otlpharo8646]

As someone who played Soccer as a main sport in the US , I also played Football ,Basketball, and baseball . The way the community would look at soccer was as a boring kick about sport and not a sport that took skill, grit, dedication, it made me hate all other sports , I was good in all sports I played and Soccer was always more fun , competitive and just Enjoyable

[@isaiahpavia-cruz678]

Damn, not a mention of Landon Donovan. Usually he’s top of the list among recognizable US names, particularly for his antics against Mexico. Secret Base has a good video on that.

[@lcfcrenno]

His English accent at the start was outstanding

[@KevinHwoarang]

Dana: "Soccer is the least talented sport".

[@Sebas07756]

You gotta react to Maqwell on the USA’s failure of the 2018 World Cup qualifiers. This is something Zealand haven’t covered, and this video really shows how quick USMNT recovered.

[@Franco_76]

You're a cowboys fan and a Spurs fan. no one can accuse you off being a glory hunter.

[@soccerpunch1851]

Most people couldn’t run the 7 miles that the men average in 90 minute match. And eye hand coordination is one thing. But,eye-foot Is another! in my opinion, if you can play soccer well, you’d be good at any other sport you tried!

[@jahmairtrott4635]

The main issue that many people outside of america have with the pay to play system is that not only are you cutting off a large amount of talented players whose families can't afford to pay for them to play football but it's also the fact that people are paying top dollar for mediocre coaching/training when in comparison to the rest of the world. Paying hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars PER MONTH just for your child to play football in america to be taught the game by coaches often times nowhere near as qualified as the youth coaches in Europe is insane. Youth programs in america are more concerned about making a profit off of the families as appose to the actual development of the players and ensuring that they have the tools required to make it at the next level. Most academies/youth programs in europe are a lot more affordable to the average family. Football is often looked at as the world's game where anyone from any walk of life can play it. The pay to play system makes that impossible and turns the sport into those who can afford to pay can play.

[@celsus7979]

Women's football is the opposite of men's football all over the world, not just in the US.

[@hartshaped]

It’s funny you should say that in the U.S it’s often a case that the kids that couldn’t make it in other sports or were too weak ended up playing football (soccer) here in the U.K. it’s sort of the opposite most stories you hear are kids wanting to join their school football team but not being good enough, fast enough or technical enough so they drop into Rugby

[@FearHype]

You didn't deter me with your rambling, lol. In fact, you gained a new subscriber lol.

[@CascadeCFC]

what position did you play in football?