NFL Fan REACTS to Understanding European Football in 4 Easy Steps!
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- čas přidán 24. 05. 2024
- In this video, I check out an educational video on European soccer leagues.
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Dude you have no idea. It's not just in Europe that this format exists, in South America it's also like that, well, at least in my country it is, I'm Brazilian. Often the fight at the bottom of the table is more exciting than the fight at the top, teams literally give their lives to stay in the top division. This year, my country's second division is a lot of fun to watch, this Sunday will be the last round of the championship, and coincidentally, the two teams that are vying for the last spot to move up to the first division will face each other, I won't lose this game for nothing! And I'm not a fan of either of these two teams 😂
man, this year the brazilian teams were really hot in the Copa Libertadores
That Ituano guy who made a penalty and got red carded at 5 minutes of the match must have been paid by Vasco's new owners...
It’s like this everywhere.
Bro this system is worldwide except the MLS I believe...
@@SportGamingComputing yeah, but the Argentinian League have a different system of relegation as far as I know. And here in Brazil, instead of 3 relegated teams, we relegate 4.
Relegation is common sense in all the world. Thats why the matches are so interesting
In the US it's not, sport isn't really performance base.
It Money based.
@@olivierdk2 US is so used to participation awards that the worst teams in all 4 major leagues get rewarded with high picks instead of getting relegated lol
at least it gives weak teams the opportunity to rebuild around an upcoming star. unlike euro football, weak teams stay weak forever.
Imagine going to yale or harvard because you had awful grades your entire life
That's how much sense it makes...
@@jczura5602 In Europe we support our local team regardless the division, it would make no sense for us to support a franchise, it's more a question of pride than winning. My team (Torino, Italy) doesn't win the league since 1976 but I would never support any other team and I kept supporting it when it was relegated
Also another important thing to say: Transfers. They are the equivalent of trades. There are 2 windows to make transfers: a summer window and a window mid-season (all the month of january) and only during these window transfers can happen. Also, transfers can get wild. All the clubs from the entire world can make business, and thanks to that you can see Japanese playing in Italy
This^
Big difference is that in europe the player holds all the leverage. The clubs can’t just send them to a random team
And loans.
Also don't forget there is also Transfer fees for these "trades"
It should be said that there is no "Draft". Players are contracted by clubs freely. Players are not really traded, or bought, their contracts are. If a player wishes to leave, say because he isn't getting enough game-time, he can make a transfer request and the club pretty much has to list his contract for sale. Keeping your back-up players happy is a very great challenge for all clubs.
Football is brutal in regards to the relagation and you have to understand it goes on all the way down the divisions all the way from pros, semi pros to amateurs.. it's one of the things that make footbal great.. i mean you can play like shit in your NFL,NBA aso aso and NOT be punished, some even do it on purpose to get an advantage during the drafts.. which is btw something we don't have aswell in Football if you suck, you pay the price
Good point Henrick. Tanking!! Oops did I just say that out loud? I love the NFL but please stop calling the Super Bowl winners "World Champions" No one else is aloud into their 32 team Cabal.
It's like that in other sports as well.
Look at Scunthorpe United. They were in the Championship (English Second Tier) in the 2010-11 season. It is now 12 season later and they are in the relegation zone of the National League (English Fifth Tier).
Quite the drop
@@muff.t2780 Well, technically nobody else is playing the handegg sport on the pro level.
@@Matthew-bu7fg better still Chester city was in the league now play in the national league North, also Wrexham and 11 other ex league teams in the national league.
relegation and european qualification adds so much because it means practically every team is fighting for something, throughout the whole season. every game is truly important
relegation battles often more exciting that the league winners.
yea i remember goal! movie. they fight to the death for not to get relegation. thats how important that is
In america, for example in the nba, they just give up because the next season they can draft a good player… thats shit to me
The world cup is/has always been played in the summer, between seasons, but this year it is being held in Quatar, which sucks, and is a corrupt decision. You can research it on your own. In Quatar it is too hot to hold the tournament in the summer, thats why it has to be in the fall/winther, and why all clubs have to take a break, which is very disruptive in terms of the fixture list. Also, players get injured in the world cup, which is bad for the club the player belongs to. Certain teams also have many more players competing in the world cup, which means that the fatigue will be a big problem for certain clubs (but at the same time, those clubs are richer, and have a deeper squad to compensate.
Between seasons is only partly true. There's literally no month at all when you could hold the World Cup without it interrupting the season somewhere. And not no-hopers either, the Campeonato Serie A in Brazil typically runs April to November/December.
@@timnewman7591 difference is most of the competitive national teams are made up by players that play for European clubs. So even if a South American or Asian league is still going on in the summer months, the chances are that country's national team will be made up of players at European clubs where the season has already finished. That's why international tournaments are usually held in the summer.
I agree the WC being held in Qatar sucks, it was corrupt and problematic but on the plus side it's gonna be played in the middle of the season for the first time, which means the players are not going to be tired from a long season or injured which hopefully results on better quality games.
@@timnewman7591 Yes football is a winter game because the players used to play cricket in the summer, but if you go into the southern hemisphere winter falls in different months.
@@danigar have you been watching the games all the injuries that are happening and fatigue and lets not talk about when they come back its going to be worst
I like how open-mindedly you're coming at this. I didn't hear you rip the sport once, and I'll hang out and sub for at least the rest of this series simply because of that.
After 2010 World Cup we would drink/smoke play pick up games after dark like 7v7 and be tired as fuck then be instant barbarian when a freestyle dribble would beat a man and result in a goal. Absolutely peak fun I wish I’d have played earlier.
exactly, most americans don't have that open disposition to learn about it, they just prejudicially decide it sucks and don't wanna hear anything else
I think if US kids played football, they would eventually become a top side. Imagine what people like Von Miller with his speed and size could do if he had technique and understanding of football. The physical and financial elements exist in America, it’s just the interest isn’t there.
@@halox1 I wouldn't worry, if Americans really get a taste for football, success will become inevitable. On your first point, that type of nepotism/corruption is present in the UK and I expect also the rest of the world too. Give it time and I expect to see some success come out of the US
And the second point, football in Europe is already very corrupt at the top. If the fans can get past it and just enjoy it, it shouldn't hinder success too much
@@user-hd8ej8yx9pLmao! You guys talk as if the MLS doesn't exist. Soccer/ football isn't foreign to North America
The champions league matches are going on right now i mean right now if you wanna see Messi in action maybe tune into the Juventus vs PSG game on tv in about an hour's time
And Messi was awful in this match lol
At least he've seen how good mbappe is
@LEOMESHI Well it wasn’t a great game by Messi to be fair, but it’s not like he doesn’t walk a lot usually. Messi is the kind of player to walk around but pay attention and analyse the situation. At least he got an assist last game
@LEOMESHI Tifo IRL did a video on Messi just yesterday and they explained Messis new role better than i ever could. Definitely recommend watching it.
@@victordurand3000 messi was 2 times the player mbappe was when he was mbappes age and he was playing in a tougher league
@@victordurand3000 man ain’t tryina get injured for the world cup
One quick correction : 6:05 they don't usually take a break from the normal leagues for the world cup. Usually the world cup takes place between June and July when most, if not all of the league's are already on a break. This year is an exception because FIFA decided to let Qatar host (that's a whole different conversation) where it was decided conditions would be too hot for players to play through during the usual June and July months so it was moved to November/December where it would be cooler for players. As far as I'm aware this is the first this has happened. But yeah to sum up normally we don't break for the world cup, it usually happens during the summer break.
Yes but there are international breaks anyways for other continental competitions, usually its just players going on leave tho
About relegations, in Spain we have a club, Deportivo La Coruña, that in 2004 was playing the Semi Finals of UEFA Champions league, so top 4 of clubs in all Europe and now they are playing in 3ºDivision that its consider a semi-profesional division. So relegations can be brutal indeed.
In south america lots of continental champions/contenders were relegated and some haven't returned yet
I used to love SuperDepor 😞 great team to watch and good that the big 2 in Spain were challenged
I remember when they beat Milan 4 0, good times. Deco was there if I recall correctly
@@bluebaby30 That Deportivo team was very strong. Deco played in Barca and Chelsea. perhaps Valeron, the former Spanish international, is the player you recalled.
We had Leicester win premier league at odds of 5000/1
Playing the FIFA video game quickly schools you on this sport, especially for understanding how rosters and signing players works. I was never into football until a couple of years ago and now I follow regularly.
We don't ever really say "roster" though.
@@catrionacolville2192 yeah we say squad but you dont have to gatekeep the words people use
@@nadir4774 Gatekeep is one of the most overused and stupid words of today. In football, it's a squad, not a roster. That's a fact. It's about respecting the language and culture involved. Americans get their bastardised version of English into everything, but not here. Football is not soccer and squads are not rosters. No gatekeeping.
@@catrionacolville2192 we'll keep calling it a roster, no one will xo anything about it.
@@catrionacolville2192 You better get used to it lol
Relegation is one the features that makes it exciting. In Europe (and I guess in the rest of the world except North-America) this exists in all sports: basketball, volleyball, handball, you name it. If it were only about the first place for the championship, then soon ever more teams will have nothing to play for if the championship becomes out of reach. With the European cups (Beside the Champions League there are also the lower tiers Europa League and Conference League), there are 5 to 7 places in the top of the ranking that gives access to one of the leagues next season. Usually there are 10, 12 teams competing till the last match day for one of these - very much desired - spots. And at the bottom, there are usually 5 or 6 teams fighting to avoid relegation.
This means, that up untill the very last match day most teams have something to play for. In a league of 18 teams, there are usually just 1 or 2 teams that are done early: they can't reach an European league spot nor can they relegate.
You should react to A clueless American’s guide to Premier league/Champions league. They are an easy way to learn some of the basics and give you a good insight into some different teams
Yes please
I love BMonus!
That's true I also watched a clueless European guide to the NFL
Relegation is such an important factor and honestly it wouldn’t be the same without it. In 2015 my city’s team Atalanta was one spot away from being relegated, and now it is getting consistently top 10 every year. Just imagine if it got relegated and got stuck for a while in 2nd division
I don't need to imagine, my team dropped from Premier League, down through the Championship to League One.
They were points and games clear this year and looked a certainty for promotion only to stumble down to fourth and into the promotion playoffs. They then promptly lost the first leg of their playoff semi 4-0......plot twist.....they won the second leg 5-1 make it to the promotion playoff win that 1-0 in the last minute of the match and have been promoted......what a ride!
I am from monza, to all that don’t know, in 6 years AC Monza climbed from Serie D (league 2) to Serie A, now it’s 11th, we ALMOST got in the conference league
Relegation fight is awesome. Towards the end of the season, it's often more difficult to play vs a relegation fighting team than a champions league spot contender... they are so focused and determined and stadiums are one fire...
Relegation system is necessary in football due to the insane amount of professional teams in each country. It also gives a lot of variety to the system. Each year different teams. different stadiums and fan bases get to the division above.
Football history is full of top teams that lost the title race because they dropped points against relegation fighters towards the end of the season. Sometimes fear of going down is a bigger motivation than becoming champion.
As some other comments probably already mentioned, World Cups were ALWAYS played in the summer, during that May to August break. This year in Qatar is the exception because they're basically in the desert, air is dry and temperatures go as high as 45°C (113°F for you lot), so they had to move WC to winter to make conditions playable, which completely messes up the schedule of local leagues, meaning they'll now have to be forced to go on a one month break.
the 1930, 1950,1962, 1978 and 2010 World Cups were played in the southern hemisphere winter, but yes always during the middle of the calendar
To understand what is great about the promotion and relegation format, watch the Leicester city story! They (my team) were almost relegated 1 season, then went on to win the premier league title the next season. Incredible story.
Love your openess! Trust me, it is not that hard to follow. In the past three years, I have learned, Cricket, Darts, Chess, Rugby ( Afl, Nrl, Union ), Formula 1 and Horse-Racing... All of them, I had never had clue about. Now I am not just watching, but can also play most of them! Keep up the good work!
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@@diarmuidbuckley6638 Awesome!
I love that format, that puts more pressure on the teams
I commend your openess and enthusiasm for learning this new sport beloved all around the world!
I am from Argentina and play 5v5 indoor football every tuesday. But I lived a couple of years in the States. When we were living together, my brother and I would watch the 49ers every week.
First time I've seen you, I love seeing someone discover and try to learn about football. Subscribed from England. 😊
Great video.
As an Englishman who grew up with football of course (Tottenham fan for over 30 years now) but also watching NFL and probably prefer watching NFL now (Dolphins fan for about as long), I do like the concept of the wage cap in the NFL. Often the most successful teams in Europe these days are the richest who spend more money on players, wages and so on. Wage caps and draft picks help balance things out a little and I like that a lot.
As an Arsenal fan, I agree with you on the wage cap, and would love a transfer cap as well. However its probably way too late for either of these to be implemented. Should have been done about 20 years but now both transfers and wages have got so out of this world...
Agree. Barca fan here, to be sad watching what happened to them, but this is because literally biggest clubs in Europe had limitless budgets outbuying all players even thou they couldn't afford them. Exception being off course Man City and PSG who are owned by Sheiks.
@@benhicks9481 that isnt the issue. The issue is overspending. City buying haaland and selling zinchenko, jesus, and so on made that back giving 4 million profit. The issue is when clubs spend 100m on the transfer window and sell players for 10m. Its a bad business model and why a lot of teams cant afford to compete at a high level. Leeds was one, portsmouth another, blackburn in 95 and 96 spend all that money, make nothing back and are doomed from there on out. Spending cap is a ridiculous notion, but a percentage of clubs revenue and sells should dictate the amount they can spend
@@nieczerwony
As long as I hate Man City and PSG, it makes me laugh to see Barcelona complain about it. Looks like a rich complaining because a new rich guy is entering the room. Barcelona has only right to shut up, you loot poorer clubs for decades and now cry because new clubs are playing at your own game?
Usually they don't take a break for the World Cup in europe because the World Cup is in June/July, which is after the end of the season.
This year they had to take a break because someone (probably after getting a fat check under the table) thought it was a good idea to have the world cup in the middle of the desert, which would be terrible during the summer, so they moved the World Cup to November/December, basically in the middle of the european season
We do have playoffs in the English Football League. In the Championship, the top two teams go up to the Premier League automatically and teams 3, 4, 5 and 6 play each other for the 3rd promotion spot. Similar rules apply to all the lower divisions but with more automatic promotion spots.
I live in Europe and love watching football. I'm also trying to get more into American Football as despite not knowing much about it, from what I have learned and seen it seems like a sport I would certainly enjoy. I gotta say I enjoy these videos and your reactions as well as your respect for the sport.
the interesting part of the relegation system is not that you club can go down, it's that you can make a club with your friends, play on the lowest league and ascend divisions until becoming a top-tier club just with your performance
Nice to watch this video. Welcome to the soccer/football world my friend. I think every sport can be beautiful and special if you are open-minded and get to see the best games (at the beginning, at least). They are all a kind of art to be admired 😁
Please post your reaction on "Best Goalkeeper Saves in Football"
and I love how you equally respect sports other than the one you are most passionate about.
(European) soccer explained for americans by TheOnDeckCircle is your video my friend. For learning the Rules.
When I spent time in the US back in the day, the closest thing to European football was oddly Baseball. By this I mean the local nature of the teams, the fan base, the frequency of games and the way the league works, reminded me of the Football League back home.
Wtf are you talking about? The MLS exists ffs
Also another thing to explain is transfers.
Transfers are available in two windows: the summer window (June to August) and the winter window (January). Teams pay a fee to the team that currently has the player they want, and then they get to register the player.
For example, Liverpool paid a fee of about £60 million to Portuguese club Benfica if I remember correctly for Darwin Núñez, which meant Benfica could release him from his contract and he could sign for them.
Players can transfer for free if their contract has expired, and sometimes a player will go to another team for a year or two and come back later, which is called a loan move.
To clarify there isn't normally a break in the league for a world cup, the world cup is usually held in the summer so the leagues dont have to stop.
This year is an outlier as a result of it being held in Qatar
6:30 Yeah, but it's not usually like that, usually World Cup is played in August but because this years World Cup is played in Qatar and it's too hot to play in August it's moved to November, so this season started earlier then usual and will have this unusual November break.
Another thing to note is that each country has it's own scheduel and it can be very different mainly due to weather conditions, so many countries don't play in January because it's too cold or some northern countries start their season in the spring and instead of that big summer pause they have that pause durring winter because summers aren't as hot but winters are very cold.
It's normally June-July.
So the people used to the cold cant play in cold. Fans can jump around and use pyros to warm up. No problem
today is the last day of champions league group stage starting in like 1 hours....and messi is playing ...you can tune in if you want
I'm a Sunderland fan (7th most successful English league team ever, although not for a very long time....). We were up there in the top league with Manchester United, Liverpool, etc. We got relegated. Then the season after that, in the 2nd division, we got relegated AGAIN. 5 years of being in the THIRD division, we finally got promoted back to the second division. Fun!
Love the video! Interesting to see an outside perspective to what us Europeans find very normal. This season is weird though, with the world cup in november. That has never happened. Its usually in july.
Step 5
If you wanna qualify to the champions league you have to finish top 4 in your league if its in the top 5 league
(Top 5 leagues is the english league , german , french , italian , spain league )
But other league if they finish 1st they either get a spot in it or have to go vs other teams that finished 1st in there league
It might be hard to learn this but if you do your good
Only top 4 of top 4 leagues, 5th league is top 2 and 3rd gets third round ticket
basicly the richer the country the more teams in and they can charge the advertiser's more during the game
like it is not like countries like Uzbeckistan can buy good stuff so only get 1 team in
I really like how you are approaching to this awesome sport!!! I’m sure a lot of people have already suggested you matches, but you need to know the best 5 leagues in the world which are premier league, la liga, bundesliga, serie a and league 1 which are english, spanish german italian and french leagues.
Also i’d love to see you learn a lot about the past of the sport, for example serie a is one of the weakest leagues between those 5 leagues but once was the league where every best player wanted to play. Nowadays the best leagues is surely the english one and it’s really easy and beautiful to react to some of those matches but even in other leagues there are some of the most iconic teams ever such as ac milan who are coming back into form after some years of delusional performances but still cannot reach the level of the top teams in europe ( ac milan is the 2nd most winning team in the champions league and has had a whole lot of legends like gullit or kaka just to name some of the most famous one)
The cool thing on cup games - as an amateur player it could happen that you are playing aginst your heros in a real competition! And it happend every year, that a team of teachers, workers and bankers can kick out a pro team out of the cup...
Relegation being so important to football ethos is the reason why major european clubs were shamed to the ground when they wanted to create they’re own nfl playoff style « champions league » with the supercup
you should react to Robert Carlos too, he was a left wing defender, who was known for his fast hart hitting shots and different skills (which made him one of the early attacking defenders ever); his kicks were so powerful because of his knees/legs full of muscle (he was kinda small with 5`6/5`7 )
and he should watch something about Sergio Ramos - the art of defense
'Which made him one of the early attacking defenders ever'
So false it's laughable. He is not even close to that. There are even Brazilian full backs who did it first and better. And more around the world.
@@derEnzon Ramos is shite.
My mother is Danish so I grew up with soccer as my main sport. American sports are all weird to me. I love watching Americans learn about soccer because it blows my mind how much people don't actually know. I've subscribed. I want to see what you learn as you learn it.
Yeah, I think that most Americans are used to the "American system" just like Europeans are used to the European system. If any Europeans here want to make sense of the American system, I'd say it generally consists of:
1) A main national league--what Europeans would call a "top-flight" league--that operates on the franchise model (meaning that relegation would probably be illegal since team owners pay the league for the right to be in it and use its branding, in the same way the owner of a local McDonald's restaurant pays for the right to use McD's branding and such)
2) A large geographic area that strongly encourages leagues to create an unbalanced schedule (meaning that teams on, say, the west coast will play more games against each other and fewer games against teams on the east coast), meaning that the only way to find out the "real" champion is for a cup-style knockout tournament to be contested among the top few teams from each region
3) Sports that tend to put more emphasis on strength, skill, and quick decision-making instead of endurance, meaning that players tend to peak at a somewhat older age (and thus aren't missing out on their best years if they pursue a higher education before becoming a full-time professional player).* This, coupled with the historically-common American belief that athletes should get a higher education before going pro, means that college sports teams--not minor league teams--are the main "farm teams" that the top-flight clubs use as a source of new players. Since so many people have an alma mater or local university whose teams they can follow loyally, college sports are very popular in the US, and can draw huge crowds. The best teams' level of play isn't too far below that of the NFL or NBA, because the best NCAA (college) players are all hoping to get picked up by a professional club after they get their college degree.
*This may also explain why the US has a longer history of producing good goalkeepers than good field players, since all of these characteristics do tend to apply to that position in particular.
Also, props to the creator of the original video for going to the trouble of filling in the sample league table - ACCURATELY.
Also a number of leagues in Europe where summer leagues are played to avoid the harsh winters, many of those run from February to October.
If you want to look at some videos related to the fight to avoid relegation, try using the term “football great escape”. Its the british term for teams that have been in the relegation zone until very late in the season, and seemingly against the odds with great performances, escape relegation. Notable great escapes include West Brom in 2005, West Ham in 2007, Fulham in 2008 and probably most heroic is Leicester in 2015 (but i cant say why for spoilers for what happened next 😉).
Go on the Fulham 👍
It's English term because it's epl
I'm from Denver (living in Seattle, I get hell for being a die hard Bronco) but I've picked up Arsenal (English Premier League, usually considered the best league in the world) about 10 years ago and love them just as much. I'll never switch from either team. I'll sub to watch your journey my guy! (Also, Arsenal are incredibly sitting top of the table right now! Broncos... not so much)
It's very common to support two clubs. Your local club and a bigger foreign club so the two rarely if ever meet.
@@Trendkilla no it's one club only. Your fathers and grandfathers team passed through generations
You can change your wife, your religion or your political party, but NEVER your football club, however badly they might be doing. West Brom till I die!
@@samuelpinder1215 "Your fathers and grandfathers team passed through generations" that's your local team. In a lot of countries with smaller leagues and/or if your team plays in lower league it is still very common to support a team from a bigger league in another country wherever you agree with it or not.
@@Trendkilla my teams in the championship but it's my one and only team. Loyal and dedicated and no other team
Love seeing you learn about the sport!
like your style of reactions, keep up the great work!!
check out liverpool fc
Not in every country the season starts in August and ends in May. There is League's like A Lyga(Lithuania) Optibet Virslīga(Latvia) and Meistraliiga(Estonia) and Other country's the Season starts in February and ends in November or December.
Yeah I would add to that that in sweden they also play spring-autumn instead of the autum-spring format. I assume it has to do with geography and climate and in the northern part of Europe the winters are brutal and summers mild and it’s better to play football then unlike in England or more south in Europe where the summers are very hot but winters more mild
Similarly to southern hemisphere, but there is to avoid summer. Brazil is April to November.
some european leagues have a break on january because of the winter, specially the eastern europeans and the scandinavians.
The World Cup this year is being hosted in November & December because of the location. It's always in the summer, when it's normally held.
Great to see you’re open to other sports. 👍 I enjoy a NFL game if it’s on TV although I don’t know all the rules (I’m from Australia). We love our football (soccer) here and enjoy the World Cup where I put ALL other programs on pause only to watch it for a month. 😉⚽️
The promotion/relegation factor is why soccer (and all other sports with this) are so much fun! With it, you can literally create a team of your own with some buddies of yours and sign on for the system and in a potential future climb all the way up to top league.
Never, EVER use the "S" word when talking about FOOTBALL. NEVER! That word is an INSULT originally derived from the suggestion that as football is a working people's game as opposed to cricket or rugby which were traditionally played by the upper classes, and therefore footballers were too poor to afford shoes or boots and played in their socks. So yeah, that is your football lesson number one and please please learn it, because if you use that word to a true football fan you will then learn lesson number two, FOOTBALL VIOLENCE!
@@paulsmith2516 stop the cap. Soccer is an abbreviation of Association Football, or as old players called it "Assoc" and was actually coined by us Brits anyway.
@@lewischristie2285 A British word yes, however your explanation is a common incorrect assumption, an urban myth. The term is an insult.
@@lewischristie2285 rugby is also "association rugby" but noboby calls it "soc"-whatsoever.
@@josephsade3423 it comes from Eton slang of putting "er" on an abbreviated word, so rugby became rugger and assoc. football became soccer.
You seem to be a really nice guy mate,god bless ya man
Promotion and relegation is one of the best things about football. Bournemouth, for example, were in the fourth tier a few years ago but now they’re in the premier league!
And Wolves, Brentford and Brighton
And let's not forget Oldham, premier league founding club now in the 5th division
And also Notts County. Founder member of the League in the mid 1800s now in div 5
I became a Manchester United fan over 20 years ago because I heard about them winning the Champions League in a dramatic way (check it out, Manchester United vs Bayern Munich final). It's been a rollercoaster to watch and support such a storied team, and I'll be their fan through the highs and lows. It's a great pick for a club to follow IMO.
The world cup is usually played in July and August after the end of the season, this world cup is an exception because it is played in Qatar, and another detail that is not mentioned in the video is that during the season they are also usually held the "national team stoppages" which is 1 or 2 weeks in which the leagues stop and the qualifying matches for the World Cup are played. PS: for those who want to watch amateur soccer at the moment, the "stream world cup" is also being played, which is a world cup between streamers, and the positive thing about amateur soccer is that many more goals are usually scored than in professional soccer
Keep it up, great intro to the beautiful game
all the games are planned out well so that these pauses of league matches in each countries are normal when another competition is starting, where you have to be somewhere else for example
The big leagues in Europe usually don't go on pause for the two big international competitions (World Cup and European Championship) since usually those fall right into the break period in the northern summer.
World Cup has been moved to winter this year due to a slight problem with temperatures in the country it is being held in.
There are play offs in divisions below the Premier League where usually the 3rd-6th place team play each other and the winner of 3rd v 6th and 4th v 5th over home and away play each other in a one off match and the winner gets promoted and also a trophy
So a team finishing second gets promoted and no trophy but the league champion and play off winner do
The final matches that decide the relegation places and promotion places in each of the lower divisions are often among the most exciting of the season in each country, because there is so much at stake financially and honourwise ( for instance being promoted to a higher division than the team in your neighbour city or town 😉 - or finally returning to the higher division after a relegation followed by several bad seasons ), so the players will fight like mad for every ball and often play above their normal capacities.
In some tournaments - for instance in England - the teams ending up 3rd to 6th in a lower division will play each others for the third promotion place in two playoff matches / games - in others the 3rd place team in the lower division will battle the 3rd last team in the upper division for the last promotion place
/ avoiding the last relegation place ( a final chance for this team for survival in the higher division ).
Fun fact. Teams used to get two points for a win and would share the points in the event of a draw and get 1 each, literally getting an even split.
However teams in drawing situations wouldn't want to risk losing their point, just to gain another point, so games often ended up being quite defensive trying to protect what a team already had.
To combat this leagues introduced a bonus point for a win. So if a team won the game, they would get 3 points rather than 2. That way there was a much greater incentive to really play for the win.
You note that they don't get anything extra based on the scorelines and there had been plans to introduce a similar rule to grant a 1/4 of a point for each goal over a certain amount and things like this, but these proposals never got any traction.
Usually the World Cup is in the Summer where the leagues pause anyway. Because this year it is in winter, the leagues have to do a large break when the league is just halfway thru.
There is actually something we call the playoffs but they work differently from country to country to decide the final team to go up (or sometimes keep their place in their current league)
Cups are also so exiting in the UK we have the FA cup where almost all teams can play. On Saturday my local team how are in the 6th tier beat a team in the 3 tier. If they win there next game then they have a chance of playing all the biggest teams in england.
The lower divisions DO have a playoff to decide who gets promoted. I think some countries the first place team goes through auto but the next places might have a playoff like 2nd versus 3rd to decide who gets to go up.
There is also Europa League (former UEFA Cup). Teams who were not good enough to qualify to UEFA Champions League (i.e. CL) are being placed there. Then also after CL group phase some teams are going to UEFA league.
It's a separate tournament with lower status but also very good to watch. Winners of both cups then play a game and winner gets UEFA super cup.
MLS also has a cup tournament called the Lamar Hunt US open cup. Lamar hunt was also a founding father of the NFL.
Today Ipswich (2nd tier team) were defeated by Maidstone (6th tier team) at Ipswich’s home ground. Because of the cup system they get half the ticket revenue from the game as a boost to their club and get to play again against bigger teams. The cups each country host are magic as they allow these games that would never normally happen and create great stories
The World Cup is country based rather than individual club football. So you get France versus Spain rather than Paris St Germain versus Barcelona.
Personally I prefer club football and once you have a team to follow in UK it's great seeing how they do each week and watching them go up or down the league table. Many kids just follow the team their parents followed and you get generations of supporters all going to the match together. Most towns have a team and the club just uses the name of the town as its title, eg Liverpool, Ipswich, Cardiff etc. London is pretty big so has quite a lot of teams, Arsenal, Chelsea, West Ham, Crystal Palace etc. The Premier League has 20 teams so they play 38 matches over the season home and away and all the points are added up each week and at the end of the season the Premier champions are presented with a trophy.
Currently Manchester City are the team to beat, but Manchester United had several years when they were the champions.
I'm sure there are some good videos around giving the basic rules of the game, but basically it is a game played with feet and any touch with a hand or arm is penalised. It's ok to head the ball though. The goal keeper wears a different coloured strip to the rest of the team so that the referee can more easily check who is handling the ball as the goalie is allowed to catch or punch it.
Hope you get to like the game more as you get familiar with it.
You should go live on twitch or tiktok during a World Cup game. Now that the knockout stage is here it is going to be more intense. You can also ask questions and get them answered live.
this is a great step to understanding soccer, now you should watch highlights of actual games like barcelona vs madrid or manchester united vs liverpool
Usually World Cups and other international tournaments are held after the season is over, but this time they rescheduled it to November because summers in Qatar are too hot for playing football.
Excellent I’m gonna enjoy your journey!
I would recommend watching a highlight video on all World Cup finals, it’s not that many matches since the World Cup is only every 4 years
I know your channel is focussed on american football but love to see you in football realted topics. Keep doing it!
The goal difference (made vs conceded) is the tie breaker in the event two teams have the same amount of points
One relevant point is that usually World Cup doesnt stop leagues or national competitions because is hold in summer time (between seasons). However this year because of Qatar weather was consider too risky to play during summer time in Qatar due to high temperatures.
The great thing about the relegation/promotion battle is that often the relegation battle at the bottom of a league is a better story and better to follow than the title race! It’s like when NBA teams are fighting to get into the playoffs knowing those who finish below he playoff spots get nothing, and it goes right to the wire. The promotion playoffs is also a thing in some league and that is just the same as NBA/NFL, but honestly so often it’s the relegation battle that’s more entertaining.
Fair play to this dude, he's making an effort to learn.
Goal difference only come into play ( take goals against away from goals scored) in the event of a points tie. So if 2 teams have the same points but 1 team has a +2 GD and the other has a +1 GD the +2 goes above them
Happy to see an American reaching out and learning about football leagues.
It really is far more intense because there is so much more on the line.
Respect all around 🤝 I’m trying to understand your football as well
Not sure about other leagues but in the UK, the 3 teams that go from the 2nd division (championship) up to the top (premier league) consist of 1st and 2nd in the league as well as the winner of the championship playoffs.
This is simple, at the end of the season 3rd play 6th twice and 4th play 5th twice (home & away), the winners of those 2 match ups play in a single game final where the winner is the third team that is promoted
And it also has the biggest money reward for any one game
World cup is almost always during the summer. So usually it takes place during the off season in terms of all the other competitions.
You HAVE to react to Ultras, our way of life to actually deep the love and pride we feel.Would be an amazing upload
The big 5 leagues in Europe England Spain Germany France and Italy these maybe the leagues you keep up with
You french?
Great vid! As a UK fan of the NFL (Go Jets) its fascinating to see the reverse here. United used to be great, but are less so now.
The champions league can be won by any team competing (in theory), historically its been won by teams from Portugal, The Netherlands, Romania but the most successful teams come from the big leagues of England, Spain, Italy, Germany and France. All have legendary teams with often over a century of success and glory.
What he forgot to mention, the team players can be on their national teams as well and have additional games against other national teams to qualify for the World Cup or continental cup. Therefore it could that player a plays with player b on Saturday as teammates of Bayern Munich against Dortmund and on the Wednesday they play against each other as members of their national teams
Including the facts that there's usually a preseason trophy to be won and the Europa League to play in for the teams who finished just below Champions League qualification in position, every team from every country has about 3-4 titles to play for in a year.
Good Vid , you will enjoy the world cup its usually at the end of the season this year is different due to location, a good one to watch is welcome to Wrexham, its the documentary about Ryan Renolds and Rob McElhenney buying a struggling Welsh football team.
The season doesn't usually get paused for the world cup, its meant to be held in the "off season" (only this year has it been held mid season)
World Cup is usually during close season in the summer but fifa taking a pay off from Qatar means we have to stop after this weekend until the 23rd of December when the English league cup games are played then the league resumes on Boxing Day
You should react to The Art Of defending thats gonna be a great video to watch👍
Besides the title race that's between 2-3 teams and the relegation fight there's also the fight for the ticket to next year's continental competitions (Champions League, Europa League and Conference League in Europe plus the equivalent of these in the other continents) so depending on the Uefa rankings ( based on the accumulative performance of teams from each league in these tournaments of the last 5 years) of each League they receive a number of access spots in these tournaments, so top 4 leagues ( England, Spain, Italy and Germany by Uefa Rankings) they 4 secured( no qualification rounds needed)UCL spots, then Leagues lower than them get less spots like for example France or Portugal ( they usually fight for 5th place along with the Netherlands) get 2+1(the +1 means they have to go through qualifiers) and as you down they are reduced like Belgium, Switzerland or any other top 15 league( which as i said before can change drastically from year to year depending on how good or bad the teams representing their country were, so one country that's maybe 10th like Turkey last year they were 20th or like Ukraine that was before the war 9th or something they are know outside the top 15) gets 1+1 UCL spots and the total of European spots (UCL, UEL and Conference) goes from 7 for the top4 to 6, to 5 for leagues in the top 15, to 4 for leagues from place 16 or lower like Israel, Romania etc ( none of them secured so for them is 0+1 for Champions League) and the weakest 3-4 get only 3( leagues like the San Marino which is by far the worst league and national team in Europe) and there's the exemption of Liechtenstein that only 1 spot in the qualifiers for conference because they don't have a league but only a cup because by uefa law you need to have a league of at least 8 teams competing and they only have 7. So then you don't only fight for the title or avoiding relegation( which is not the last 3 in all leagues, some relegate 2 or 1 depending on how many teams they have in each league, for example Spain has 20 teams and relegates 3 but Greece that has 14 teams relegates 2 or Croatia that has 10 teams and relegates 1) but also for European access so it matters if you are 4th or 5th for example. Sorry for being a little too long.
The 3 points system for win and 1 point for draw are absolutely amazing and make sense. At first in history it was 2 points for win and 1 point for draw. This way the value of win and draw are very close. With 3 points system, when both team draw the still got point but there are 1 point unrealized by both club therefor it is give more meaning for the winning side.
MLS at the past use some unique method in case for draw where there are penalty session (without extra time) the players dribble from the middle of the pitch and go 1v1 with goalkeeper. The winner from this penalty will get 2 points and the loser still get 1 point. idk they still use this method or not
usually the world cup is held in the summer as this is the footballers summer break period before starting to go to work in September. This world cup is unique because well you know somebody has a lot of money and it is held in Qatar in November which puts a lot of performance pressure on the club matches as most of them have to play without their top stars.
It's possible to join your local sunday-league team which plays at the sports field down the road and be promoted year on year, ending up being a professional footballer. It's not likely, but it's possible. All the leagues are joined up like that. You can also play in the FA Cup. My Dad played in the FA Cup. I might have played an FA Cup game at one point when I played Sunday League. Long time ago now so I can't remember.
So in the English Leagues there are 2 cups. The FA Cup and the League Cup. The FA Cup is basically open to all teams in the country. The league cup is only for teams in the Premier League, Championship, L1 & L2. The FA Cup is the oldest football competition in existence.