Your new addiction: European soccer explained

There is a LOT of European soccer. But we can explain everything you need to know in two minutes.
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[@kylecortes]

Well, lets start with it being called football

[@matthewreise120]

I used to say the same thing, however the truth is a little more nuanced than that: www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/06/the-origin-of-the-word-soccer/

[@3dsaulgoodman43]

@@matthewreise120 Respect bro.

[@Hazztech]

You can call it football when you start being relevant

[@999samus7]

I don't know if one day I will become a real football fan and will stop cringing when hear or read European soccer.

[@datorangutan2696]

why do europeans care so much about the name

[@lycaniii1856]

41 yr American and just coming onboard. Love what I’m seeing now 🙏🏾 and sad about all the great football I missed 😢 Though researching past players, teams and events have been fun!

[@TagusMan]

Welcome aboard. Once I found football, all other sports fell away. There is only one true religion ⚽.

[@jmlepunk]

Welcome my friend, we're all here. Even me, originally a ice hockey fan from France who ended up on the Football bandwagon after all

[@mun357]

42 yo American myself. I've been a soccer fan for the last three years. Took the plunge fully within the past six months or so and I don't even watch any of the four major American sports now. I love football/soccer more than anything else basically.

[@nathantran750]

What about Dortmund? Man Bayern isn't the only good team in the bundesliga. Dortmund has a lot of talent

[@xxxColtKilller45xxx]

we toppin the table currently tho yeet -10/6/2018

[@Kanjilearner]

This video doesn't show it, but the U.K. has different leagues for its four Home Countries, with the Premier League being primarily English, although a few Welsh teams do play in the English system.

[@elijahmclaughlin-prosser9002]

Swansea Cardiff Newport(where I'm from) and Wrexam the only one to play semi pro

[@archielouiser.blanca560]

im not really a soccer fan but i just turned in last month im proud of my new addiction

[@josephmascolino2419]

I finally understand

[@messilionel-lf9hf]

congratulation 😑😑😑😑😑😑😑😑😑😕😕😕😕

[@connormccallen6583]

@@messilionel-lf9hf now do you understand the nfl??

[@brayleemcmahan8859]

The welcome to wrexham doc is getting me into soccer/football

[@alexanacona9623]

This is genuinely a great video

[@johnslyfield5096]

Only 32 teams for champions league? It's much more than that. There are 22 teams who qualify directly to the round of 32 while five teams who finished in the final qualifying place from the top fifteen associations qualify as well as five champions of leagues rated so low they don't qualify automatically. So there's about 50 or so teams that have a shot at European glory while only 32 start in the group stage!!! Similar concept of Europa league except there's 48 teams at the group stage. Also at various points in the champions league teams can crash down to the Europa league instead of getting the boot completely. Complicated? Yes very.

[@liftedpinz-pgp5347]

John Slyfield that made my day 😁

[@unnerum]

PL is the best league? Ever had a look on the UEFA coefficient lately? La Liga is dominating for years already. Just take last year's European Cup finals. 3 out of 4 teams came from Spain.

[@unnerum]

Typical PL apologist response. Go and watch German or Spanish football every once in a while you will realise how false that statement is.

[@jazzx251]

+Jordan Geary If it's just excitement you want, then you can do a lot worse than the MLS! That league is becoming crazy, with great goals and so-called "legends" who've forgotten how to defend properly. You simply can't predict with any degree of certainty who will win a game ... It's great fun!

[@jambakalsente2295]

Well jordan is right. It's about the leauge not the teams. La liga is boring, people only watch games for or against the top 2 teams. And there are lots of plastic fans which makes it even annoying. PL is simply without a doubt the best league there is atm

[@calimero7538]

Just 2 teams ? Athletico ? Valencia ? Bilbao ? Seville ?

[@quqbalam5089]

Cali Méro Yeah, it is true that, once broken down, the myth of an egalitarian EPL vs unequal La Liga starts becoming false. I mean, there aren't all that many teams at the top in the EPL. It's always MC, MU, Chelsea, Liverpool, Tottenham and Arsenal and virtually no one else. Against Real, Barca, Atletico, Seville, Valencia, and we can also add Bilbao and Espanyol, it's not all that different. I still prefer the EPL though. For some reason it just feels more alive than La Liga which I feel has stunted. I'm also tired of seeing Real and Barca win all the time.

[@Jivvi]

It's premier league, not premiere league.

[@outplayer1]

THE FRANCO'S REGIME AND THE CATALONIAN INDEPENDENCE HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

[@Blue_Cinema]

you could've wxplained the cups or whatevs

[@horizonset]

Okay okay okay, I saw some comments asking why we get annoyed at it being referred to as soccer, so I'll say why. One: football, or "soccer" came first and therefore really has the right to be called football since they called it that first, Two: in "soccer" we actually use our foot. The foot is the main part of the game, you're literally kicking it around, in American Football they maybe kick it like once and then play like rugby, so we tend to get annoyed at the fact Americans call their sport football and ours soccer despite the fact "soccer" is more logically football. And yes, I already see it coming, yes we did make the word soccer, but the term soccer is used to refer to association football, in other words it's just a term to refer to a type of football, not the entire sport, and it was made literally as a shorter term of association football, so it's still called football. Anyway, I'm not bothered if you want to call it football or soccer, but that's why many will get annoyed

[@asapra7elite591]

It’s called soccer!

[@upgradedtitancameraman669]

​@@asapra7elite591 nope

[@Ones_Complement]

Waah so rayciss.

[@TeddyHeartSweet]

Who's here after world cup LMFAO

[@Simon-tc1mc]

Wait, teams play regular season games and champions league games at the same time?

[@aldo1871]

yes

[@arroe8386]

Champions League is during the week and League games are usually at the weekend. Only the final of the Champions League is at the weekend. But beside that, there is also a cup in every nation. In England and France there is also a League cup. It's complicated to explain, but there are videos about it.

[@mahseee3512]

Football*

[@97ddv]

Only PSG in france what about OM?!

[@juujika9720]

Monaco? Lyon?

[@dalailumefan5296]

Diego Calderon lol

[@jakesundae7264]

What about Paris FC?

[@iancoit509]

La liga has the most talent, EPL has the most money/broadcasting rights

[@iancoit509]

Doesnt mean EPL doesnt have talent, go Reds

[@silloweet]

@@iancoit509 La Liga have 2 teams

[@aldo1871]

idk about that there's more English teams in the cpl this year

[@ludimaic7474]

People comment about Premier League behind La Liga. If you are real football lover, you watch the game, not the f**** * stat. PL is the most beatifull league, sometething like Seria A in the 90's, but it had its peak during 2000's Football game is getting boring, similar like NBA, but all people would look are the stats, but real romantic would now what I am talking about Sry for gramar, I' from the Balkan's and I dont care, ZDS

[@damianv6979]

Soccer? FOOTBALL!

[@3dsaulgoodman43]

Watch Ninh Ly's video on what is football. Seriously. Anything can be football.

[@pallesudate4677]

"Premier League is the best league" DISLIKE

[@pallesudate4677]

@TTCompanion 17 no he's not

[@pallesudate4677]

@TTCompanion 17 there's not one

[@pallesudate4677]

@TTCompanion 17 that's the thrut man every league has its own thing

[@pallesudate4677]

@TTCompanion 17 no, but premier league is not the best league for sure, and look I'm not saying it's a bad league, just not the best

[@aldo1871]

@@pallesudate4677 what’s the best league then ?

[@marcopolo2418]

Not more insane than anything in American sports.

[@aldo1871]

Soccer is better than any American sport

[@rhys2091]

So much better than American sports

[@albinjohnsson2511]

It’s much more popular; people all over the world care; they care much deeper; fans are wilder; the clubs are older; there is much more history, culture, and politics involved; many more teams; a lot more prestige; scoring is actually exciting. Maybe there’s a reason no one outside the US cares about your sports whereas people all over the world love football?

[@afox1689]

​@@albinjohnsson2511 Everything you said is only due to the fact that soccer was invented centuries ago, and is actually an international sport. American football as we know it has only been around since the 1920s. It's fine to have a preference, but to say that another sport is "better" than another just because it's more popular...? The NFL is strict about keeping the sport in the US There is a reason the outside world doesn't care about American football because it's... only a thing in one country. Even with all things considered, 3 international games still happen each year and the seats get packed. About a month ago there was a game in Munich, toward the end the German fans started singing Country Roads in perfect English. Was quite a beautiful site, actually

[@DamienWebber]

slick

[@AE-vu3nt]

the premier league is not the best.

[@ga8627]

No existe ningún deporte llamado "soccer" el deporte más grande practicado y popular del mundo se llama FOOTBALL y es el único verdadero original y real FOOTBALL que existe no existe otro

[@joshhart8978]

Gabriel Achón ignorate idiota

[@ga8627]

Wrestling Fanatic el imbécil e ignorante sos vos idiota

[@ga8627]

Wrestling Fanatic BURRO

[@joshhart8978]

Cállese imbecil

[@joshhart8978]

Vete a matar toros

[@albinjohnsson2511]

Every American ever: pre-MEER league ✨

[@almosTalented]

EPL is not the best league. maybe the most competetive, the richest and probably the most watched league. but not the best in terms of the football played.

[@Delboy0]

Yes, Real Madrid is the most successful team in Europe, but claiming they with Barcelona are the biggest is false. They are rich because they take 50% of the TV revenue which ends next year so are falsely wealthy and have massive debts. Man Utd and Liverpool are the biggest teams because they have the biggest fan bases globally. They Spanish giants only attract 50 million global viewers per game, the English teams get around 300 million so that shows the difference. Real and Barcelona promote themselves as biggest teams in the world by overspending to get many of the best and popular players to sell the myth they are bigger than everyone. So if you are new to the game or play FIFA who they pay to make them the best teams, you will think they are far bigger than any other teams. The truth is outside of the Latin world they are not as big as the English teams and actually earn less money than the English teams but because they take 50% of all the money in Spain that bankrupts other teams means Real and Barcelona are falsely rich.

[@joshr920]

Nearly everything you said was wrong.

[@elijahmclaughlin-prosser9002]

Damn right dunno what the other dummb fuck was thinkimg

[@MrFreeZeProductionZ]

I, as a Canadian, where most people call it soccer... am still very annoyed that we don't call it Football. I mean.. it's just logical. Also, American (and Canadian) football barely use their foot a few times during the game. Would be better if American/Canadian football was called tackle ball or something along these lines, as there is far more tackling then kicking in the sport.

[@afox1689]

it's just a name. It's not as if anybody is actually confused as to what you're referring to. It's not that important

[@FireAttack0811]

“Umm actually it should be called this caus- 🤓

[@TwoFistsOneHalleluja]

I stopped the video at "Premier league is the best league". I mean, wtf?? Never heard of La liga?

[@Hernandez101010]

+TwoFistsOneHalleluja not to mention only one english team currently in the champions league (Manchester City) vs 3 Spanish clubs (Real Madrid, Barcelona, At. Madrid) Also in Europa League 3 spanish clubs (Bilbao, Villareal, Sevilla) vs 1 English (Liverpool)

[@natridley896]

Premier is league is by far the better league, la liga is so dull and apart from the main teams the quality is poor. Their is no competitiveness either barca or real win everytime

[@Blue_Cinema]

Nat Ridley I liked the way you put it. ps Atletico compete too, they won la liga 13/14

[@ZhangK71]

Nat Ridley I'm snickering at how y'all talk about competitiveness when even the "competitive" Premier League is a giant oligopoly compared to American football's N.F.L. or even the N.B.A.

[@Yashasish]

TwoFistsOneHalleluja la liga is one sided or two sided I donno

[@fijiflash2419]

First