Football, in my experience, has the most passion out of any sport EVER. It has certainly saved my life, gave me a reason to be, as the quote said in the beginning as well. Kobe, whom you immensely more than likely know(may he R.I.P.), absolutely loved football(your soccer). It is much more than just purely "sport"
As Footbal fan, it’s sad you don’t recognize the significant of the goals you see. You can only appreciate how some of the goals you see in this video changed our lives and how we feel about this beautiful sport when you know the history.
@@jarmoliebrand2005 I don't think you grasp the importance of certain matches when you simply see "WC Final". You have to know the weight these matches have and what emotional stronghold they hold upon hundreds of millions of people to get that.
@@jarmoliebrand2005 Nah the text doesn't provide enough context for someone unfamiliar with the sport to understand what is going on. In terms of pure, cold facts you can look at see oh that was in the 2000 Euros... but so what? I watched that match live. I remember it. I know the context. He has none of that.
yeah, what was sad was this guy basically didnt seem to even flinch at the goals that were so significant or technically difficult…only the bicycle kicks. Haha, when it showed Lewandowski’s 5 goals in 9 mins, it was like it went in one ear and out the other…perhaps he was waiting for a bicycle kick 😂
@@siggychaloupka7330 Exactly, he had no clue what he was watching and it showed in the lack of reaction to anything, to be fair if I reacted to American sports it would probably look the same ha ha
Yeah, like that Beckham free kick against Greece. It isn’t about the free kick, it’s about the fact we were about to fail to qualify for the World Cup. The goal which came right at the end of the match meant we qualified, it’s hard to overestimate the importance of that goal at that moment.
@@JM-yf3ol that true, and he dosent even know the importance of seeing your contry nacional team play a world cup, that only happens 4 to 4 years, its just the most amazing sports tournament in the history of the world, even bigger than Olympics
FOOTBALL is the biggest popular sport practiced and loved in the WORLD The Yankee version of counterfeit rugby only exists and is consumed in the US, that cheap copy of rugby that never even made it out of the US is so SHIT, how sad and unfortunate
This video didn't focus much on defenses. If you want to see more defenses I recommend two videos: - The art of Defending: which shows the defenders stopping the attackers. - Impossible Saves: shows goalkeepers doing miracles.
This video hits so differently when you know each players and games history. I know every player and watched 90% of the games here that took place after I was born. To me its pure nostalgia, gives me so much joy and makes me tear up. Wish there was someone explaining you the stories behind the goals, so you could understand why everyone was freaking out even at less impressive goals. Also you pointed out a mayor issue in the world of football real quick. Everyone is focused on the attacking aspect of football, goals get valued much higher than extraordinary defensive work or goalkeeping. The last defender that got awarded the best player of the year was Fabio Canavaro in 2006.
The reason the announcers were so excited in those bits were you were like "I don't know why it was that impressive" were because they were very important goals in a championship game, it would be like a player getting an amazing final touch down in the last minutes of a match to win in a final of a tournament. Also they were just very skilled goals too.
The beauty of soccer is difficult to explain. As a fellow American, I can say that I absolutely fell in love with the sport in 1994 when I was twelve. The World Cup was on in the United States and I never knew boys could play the sport, let alone seeing the best players in the world as I was at the time. Watching the beauty of the sport was absolutely captivating. Some Americans made fun of the low-scoring affair, calling it boring. While I could empathize with their position, what I saw was something that was immensely difficult. To me, while I love basketball, it’s way more boring than soccer since they score most times going down the court. Top that with the fact that you can’t use your hands, so to have the grace, the skill, and the raw athleticism to be able to manipulate a ball using your feet. I don’t know, man, it’s just awe inspiring. Couple that with the fact that you can have immensely different styles of play, not necessarily unlike American football, basketball, or even baseball. You have teams that pass and pass and pass and find your weaknesses little by little until they find a seam, e.g. Spain with their Tiki-Taka. You have individual flair, e.g. Brazil. You have solid fundamentals and strict adherence to a system with precision, e.g. Germany. Then you have the raw guts of the Americans, Canadians, and Mexicans. It really is just a beautiful, beautiful game.
@@maxropercalvo6132 Dude STFU. It's called soccer in the US, that's what most of them know it as. Understand this instead of copying and pasting the same stupid ass comment under every post.
As a German, it was incredible, and we had to pinch ourselves.. sure, there are assholes, but it was more surreal than a celebration for me, no one could believe what happened, sure we were happy to get to the but with that sort of game?
It was a bizarre evening. As a German, the first goal was a relief, the second goal was a lot of peace of mind, the third goal was pure euphoria and starting with the fourth goal it was beginning to feel very surreal and almost uncomfortable, I felt horrible for Brazil and their fans.
Context is most of what makes many of these highlights incredible. That Agüero goal for Man City against QPR is one of the most special things in football history. Or the incredible comebacks Liverpool has made in the Champions League. Greece and Portugal winning the Euros 2004 and 2016 are also pretty special, despite neither team playing great football throughout the competitions they've won.
Hello Luke.Thanks for your reaction. I have just commenced my 7th decade attending London football matches. The point about those Argentinian goals by Messi and Maradona was that they were decades apart but almost identical. Greece won @150/1 The European Football Tournament for Countries but Leicester won The World's greatest League( The English Premier in 2015) after 38 games of odds of FIVE THOUSAND TO ONE..😀 "Ultras-Our Way Of Life-10,000 Subscribers" or The World or Europe's Greatest Chants" are well worth seeing to begin to capture the atmosphere,my friend..
I think to understand why the Messi-maradona goals were significant you have to understand that Messi is being touted, even at this young age, to be the next best player in the world, and especially to be ‘Maradona’s heir’ to the throne of the Argentinian NT, and scoring that goal shows that he’s capable of taking up that mantle in a rather poetic fashion
That 'little spin move' by Bergkamp is unmatched to this very day. It's not a standard move like in basketball but that difficult to exercise that only a few geniuses would even THINK about trying it, let alone succeeding. One of the all-time great goals
That Messi goal was so impressive because he manages to play through all those players without loosing possession earning it a spot as one of the best goals ever
To understand the impact of each goal in these compilations you have to get a little backstory behind each one of them. It's insane the scenario through which these goals came. Just rewatching these goals here gave me goosebumps, and these announcers (we call them commentators) they don't scream for no reason.
Dude! This video is full of incredible importan moments and players in football. For those who have been following this sport for years, we got the chills with this!
Every second of that video iconic, it's brings back the memories, drive, shock off the moment we all witness that,some stuff will became legendary after a while, I was just a kid and was asking my father how that bald dude outplaying entire Brazil team, he replied I don't know, never seen anything like that, in that moment it didn't felt huge but now it does.
I feel it is very fitting that the video starts with a quote from Bill Shankly. Liverpools history as a club is a great one. Legendary managers, players and supporters. YNWA
As a Liverpool fan myself, it's definitely one of the best. Another favourite of mine is - "Of all unimportant things, football is by far, the most important" - Pope John Paul II
Football (soccer) is more than just sports. It's the crowd, the chanting, the passion of the supporters, the Ultras, the choreos, the smoke, the bengalos
The man talking in the beginning is the best player in the history of the sport..also the youngest to ever win a world cup he was 16 and won Brazil they first cup..he changed the game..
The context of all these moments is what makes them legendary. For most of these moments it would require some time to explain the importance and what makes them extraordinary. Because some of those goals look great but it's the context. For example scoring a great goal is nice but it happens all the time by chance. However you recognize the immense talent of some of these players because they consistently produce these incredible gestures when the stakes are at their highest (derbies, cup games, world cups...) This video also makes me realize how much stuff I know about football (which is why many of these goals make me emotional: the history of the teams, of the players, of the completions, of the games...). This explains the passion in the commenters voices
As someone who’s only a casual Football fan, the insane thing to me is the cultural significance of the sport. I’m from Denmark, and in 1992, we won the European Cup despite not initially qualifying. Only getting in due to the unfortunate situation in Yugoslavia. This was before I was born, but it’s something that is still brought up pretty often here.
as a Liverpool fan watching that montage there of the 3-3 comeback in 2005 final was amazing and the 4-3 comeback in 2019 semi final. absolutely amazing
If you knew the background of the games you saw you would’ve been even more impressed, some clips are from world cups or champions league games with so much history and passion. It’s really difficult to describe such a big feeling.
i have to say, football is just something else. It was always a huge part of my life and i legit couldn't imagine my life without football. I sadly can't play anymore because of injuries, but it will always hold a special place in my heart.
I really like the fact that you appreciate football(or soccer as you guys might call it). You have no idea how big this sport is outside of the states. The entire world watches it, except the us.
aw man you are so lucky to react to all of this for the first time, as someone who’s played fantasy american football for around 7 years now so I know a thing or two about what american football means to us americans and then also what football (soccer) means to the rest of the world, i love both sports but football truly remains the sport in my heart, the ups and downs i’ve been as a supporter is truly incredible what football will have your heart rate at. let me know if you have any questions man from one american to another
I can give you an approximate answer; In order for one to like football, one must love football more than anything in the world, one is not a simple spectator in a sports show, he is a soldier in a war that has been going on for decades. You have sporting events, we have battles that take place out on a court
There are two videos I recommend for you to watch, you should give a go to “understanding European soccer in four simple steps” and afterwards definitely watch “(European) soccer explained for Americans” to get a more in-depth understanding of the concepts you learn in the first one. This second video I feel is very helpful and I don’t really see content creators new to the sport watch it that often. From what I remember neither of both gives you a full explanation of the rules though.
I would say that soccer has become very popular in the US, with many, many people - compared to even 20 years ago. Literally everywhere I go, there are many people playing it, and following it, and watching it. And almost every other state has a big team, with a big fan base - see Georgia, Texas etc. - ie states you would not think of. I think that the more you will learn about football, the more you will discover how many people like and follow it in the US. And btw, there are quite a few good videos on YT explaining the rules of soccer.
Came here from your latest vid. I just binged your football jurney and it's so wholesome I am so glad that I could experience getting to know this sport for the first time (again) through your vid. Much love from Hungary! Keep it up!
Football is "life". All the world plays the game, from England, to Angola, to Spain, to New Zealand, to India, to Russia, to Israel, Iran to Italy etc. Its the biggest sport in the world. And me being an avid football fan I thought I would explain the set up of our league and competitions. Unlike America we dont just have our national league, we can play other teams around the world. Literally every country has a league. The Biggest tho are England, Spain, Italy and Germany, but you get massive clubs in Brazil and Argentina. In England the league consists of 4 Divisions. Been around for 160 years and the FA Cup (explain later) is the oldest domestic sporting event in the world. As I said we have 4 divisions (we call them leagues now, but up till the 90s and the influx of major TV rights, this was changed to Leagues). You have the Premier League (formerly Division one), which has 20 teams, each playing a home and away game. The winners after 38 matches are English Champions. The top 4 teams qualify for the European Champions League, and 5th place (maybe 6th or 7th depends on who wins the League Cup or FA cup) go into the Europa League. The bottom 3 get relegated to the Championship (2nd Tier of English Football and Formerly Division 2) The Championship have more teams 24 Teams and the Top 2 get promoted to the Premier League and 3rd to 6th play a knock out, and the winner the final gets promoted also to the Premiership. This is called the Play Offs and the Championship Playoff is the biggest monetary prize in sport for the winning team. This is due to revenue (as the game is played at the National stadium Wembley), TV rights, Sponsorship rights and also prize money itself. The bottom 3 get relegated to League one Then you have League one (formerly Division 3) and League two (formerly Division 4). This is same set up as the Championship, the top 2 get promoted, i.e League 1 top 2 go into the Championship and League 2 top two go into League 1. Same play offs to get into the above league and same relegation, but less prize money obviously. As League 2 is the lowest of professional Leagues, bottom 2 go into the Conference which is not sponsored by the League itself, and 2 from the Conference get promoted. Which for you Americans is Wrexham this year who is owned by Ryan Reynolds. There a numerous leagues that are not professional that interlink for promotion and relegation. During the season you also have 2 Domestic cups. The league cup which is a knockout competition for only the teams in the top 4 leagues (Premier league to League 2), and then the FA cup which literally every football team can participate. From Sunday leagues up wards. Usually have over 700 teams competing in KO rules. Obviously all non Leagues start off and this get dwindles down till they play teams in the league that are not in the Premier League (Championship to League two) which when they enter becomes the 1st round of the FA cup. Then in the 3rd round the Premiership teams enter the draw for the round. Some teams you never hear off as play amateur football have the chance of playing the big teams like Man U, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, Man City, if they are lucky and this has happened numerous times in the past. Obviously the big teams win but the TV rights and revenue are massive for these small clubs. And the whole country roots (unless you support them) for the lower teams to do a shock. Which has also happened. The cups are only English Teams allowed bar a few Welsh teams. No Scottish or Irish or any other country allowed, so the 700 odd teams that compete are just teams in England (and Wales). Scotland have their own league and cup competitions. i..e the Scottish FA Cup and Leagues for Scottish Teams. (same set up but less clubs, and have relegation, promotion) The winners of the 2 cups go into the Europa League. If the winners get into the Champions League or Europa League due to finishing in the Top 5 of the Premiership, teams finishing 6th or 7th get into Europa. Also while the season is on certain clubs play European cups (as mentioned above). The Champions League is the biggest, all The big clubs who won their countries league or finished between top 2 and top 4 (Each country have different amount of teams allowed due to League positions. The top country leagues get 4, where as the smaller countries may get 1 or 2). Basically they are structured like the World Cup. Groups of 4 teams play home and away and the top 2 go into a KO (home and away). The Europa League is the same structure, but some teams finishing 3rd in their group in the Champions League will go into a play off with those finishing in 2nd in the Europa Groups, to play in the Europa League Knock out. The winner of the Champions League become champions of Europe, the winners of the Europa League just win that but its the 2nd Biggest European trophy, but do get automatically entered into the Champions League regardless of where they finished in their own countries league for the nest season. For some teams they can play 3 times in 6 days throughout the season. The season starts August and is played till May. We even play over Christmas with boxing day (a ban holiday in the UK for the 26th December) being the biggest day of Football as its a bank holiday and pubs and grounds are filled up to watch games. Plus its the biggest day for TV rights as due to christmas literally the whole world tunes into games shown for the Premier League, especially in countries that do not follow Christmas, like China, Middle East etc. The English Premier League is the most watched Football league in the world, possibly only Spanish La Liga coming anywhere near its popularity. The following season the winners of the Champions league will play the winners of certain continents that have a similar set up So they will play the winners of Oceanic (Australia, New Zealand etc), South America (Brazil, Argentina etc) and the winners of the African trophy (teams from Nigeria etc playing each other). Thats called the Club World cup. Its not really that popular as only usually 4 teams play and its a KO. Then you have the National Team. Players can play in any country, but will still (if good enough) represent their national team. Like Ronaldo played in England and Spain but plays for his country Portugal. The National team have 2 trophies. The big one is the World cup. This starts with the qualifiers, these consists of all countries in their continents playing each other in group stages and the winners and 2nd placed go into the World cup itself. And I assume you understand the world cup structure. Then you have your Continent trophy. In Europe its called the European Cup. Africa it called the African Cup of Nations etc. The qualifiers of both are played throughout a league season, but the top leagues suspend games on the weekends for those weeks. So you may have 4-5 weeks in a season disrupted for the qualifiers. Hope you followed that. I am an Arsenal fan, we've been around since 1888. The 3rd most successful team in England, FA Cup 14 times (record for most FA cup wins), League cup twice and 2 European trophies that were merged into the Europa League set up. (I would be here all day explaining the previous European Cups set up). Its a London team and the player in the clip Bergkamp who you saw flicking the ball and twisting round the player is hi playing for us, and the left foot to right foot lobbing the defender to score, was him playing for his country Holland. He also did exact same goal for us that season. He is probably the 2nd or 1st greatest player we had at Arsenal. Thierry Henry (who you may know as he retired to play in the US) is probably our greatest ever player. But this season we have a few young kids that are ripping up the league, in SAKA, young Black English kid who missed a penalty for England in the European Final and git racial abuse, idiots, but he captured the nation still who rallied to defend him and kick out the racists on line. And our Captain Odegaard, Danish player but amazing.
Some of the goalkeeper you see here are legends and the very best - but it’s football sometimes the goal is so beautiful and stunning they just have to stand there frozen and watch, take it in.
The goal where the person was flying in the air and did a header past iker casillas ( top 3 goalkeeper of all time ) was beautiful- some things you cannot stop except watch in awe. It may look and feel humiliating but it’s really not , that’s what so beautiful about the game.
@@eros7953 Yeap, that was Van Persie, of Netherlands and that game was played against Spain, in the 2014 World Cup.(Idk if you do happen to know who scored that, but felt to just share it)
This is my second video ive seen by you and i can tell you genuinely want to try and grasp the understanding of the sport and the meaning behind much of the scenes you are seeing. I appreciate that, so if it is possible, i would love to see a reaction to this when you have some more context re the moments shared. I know it will cause a much deeper and emotional reaction as well appreciation for the game we love. All the best on your channel.
I fell in love with football after seeing Denis Bergkamp goal live on TV here in India and that was my first ever football match. I knew it was the quarter finals but I didnt know any of the players. The rules were pretty obvious and when I saw the Bergkamp goal, I could not believe anyone could do that. It was 1998 and I was 10 years. I was just mesmeserized by that goal and even now.
i feel like you brought up a very important point - about why football didn't really sink in as an exciting sport in the US. It's just a theory, but the reason may be a lack of exposure to the sport since young. Not that I'd know since i dont live there, but I currently live in Asia, and a good half of us boys have at least played football with our friends during school breaks or whenever, and much less Europe where the football fanbase is the largest. Because of the exposure, we can understand and appreciate the sheer skill, practice, sweat and quite literal blood and tears the professionals put into the sport and these may cause the jarring treatment football is given in between US and the World (Europe in particular). I suppose NBA in the US is the nearest thing football is to Europe
Nah, most American children play Soccer from a very young age, it's just that the expectation for most kids is that they grow out of it and begin to focus on other sports like Football, Baseball, Basketball, Hockey, Wrestling, etc. once they turn 7 or 8 years old. We play it at gym class or on the school grounds during recess, so it just seems like a really simple game. There's also the perception that the men that play Soccer are soft because they are always falling down at the slightest touch, so no boy wants to be labeled as weak. I'm not saying that Soccer players actually are weak, it's just the perception. The expectation is that you should try to fight through the tackle and retain the ball not just go down and win a free kick. Also, another important factor is the type of people who play Soccer. In the rest of the world Soccer is a "working class" sport. That's largely not the case in the United States. If you want the sports played by and supported by the working class, that's Football and Basketball.
I see much more flopping in NBA games than in any football (real football, not hand-egg) match. Flopping in NBA is even considered a skill, with players such as James Harden making a career out of it.
Gotta react to more to understand the game and understand how insane some of these clips are . Obviously with the occasions of some of these games and the history behind them helps to appreciate the clips more . You should watch vids on the rules about the games and you can watch actual games too to understand
Football is not just a sport, it's about the art, Neymar's skills, Messi's dribbling, Ronaldo's finishing, van Dijk's Defending, Neuer's goalkeeping, Modrić's vision, Kroos' passing. We here in Europe cannot go a few days without watching or playing football. It is everything for us, each player is an idol.
I'm English, and I watch both our football and American football. But I will forever prefer association football. The bicycle kick, an absolute art. When Ronaldo is in the blue, his bicycle kick vs Juventus, look how high he jumped. The Champions League is the 2nd biggest trophy in football. And that Tottenham comeback we saw with Lucas Moura, and that Liverpool one where you mentioned the crowds, we're in the same week. To reach the Champions League final. The biggest club competition in the game.
Nice, love the desire to understand and appreciate football. You might want to check out the basics first - how football is played in Europe, as it kinda differs from the way it is done in the US. There is on old vid called - 'understanding European soccer in 4 simple steps' it is gonna lay the foundation. Plus, I am sure people will add important things in the comments. Cheers!
This is a compilation of iconic moments, beautiful goals and dribbles. There's World Cup finals, the first time some teams won a particularly difficult trophy to win, e.g European Champions League. Then there's football legends like Mardona, Pele. Its painful to watch this video bcoz you just can't relate if you don't understand the occasion.
This video really isnt for any first timers to watch basically its a video where all football fans understand and remember the nostalgia and deep meanings of each reel in the video. I put myself in your position and i was like there is no way i would understand anything from.whats going on. I think you should watch videos of football basics or the football championship modes made in each continent to better be familiar with the tournaments, teams, players, formations, to better understand the weight of everything. Also to start off with the familiar players like ronaldo and messi you could watch their videos too to understand how their rivalry and brilliance in football started to this day and why it is a rivalry.
Football is the most watched, the biggest, and most passionate fans who actually come to see their club or team win, it's not an event like NFL or Other American Sports, it's not a place you to have a great time and get drunk with your friends or to eat hotdogs, etc. It's America who hasn't managed to breakthrough in Football, tbt.
Baseball. Basketball. American football. Hockey. Your big four. Far too much money involved in those for football to make any real headway. Amongst other reasons, but that initial statement doesn't help.
This video is amazing in the same way that an inside joke can be amazing if you're on the inside. If you don't have the context for these moments, the emotion and passion doesn't get conveyed appropriately. To put it another way, imagine seeing The Catch but not understanding that it was a very late game winner in the NFC Championship game in a pivotal moment that signified the changing from one dynasty to the next. You'd be like "Oh, yeah that was cool. He jumped kinda high there."
I am Brazilian (the big humiliations are the greatest glories) and our lives are written with them, perhaps we will be buried with the flag of our team. watching our players win, sharing that passion with the people we love, sadness and fear
I wish these people doing soccer reaction videos knew the significance of the goals they see. Most of them just see the spectacular goals but don't realize a lot of them were at really important moments in football.
One of the problems in US of A at least was that there is no league structure the same way there is in other countries. A club that performed badly could stay at the same level indefinitely above "sunday football". Whilst it creates a type of following, it doesn't tend to increase it after a while.
Sometimes 11 players carry the burdens of hope, passions and dreams of an entire nation and country. The collective euphoria of victory or agony of defeat is shared and felt by all. The scale of it all is truly amazing to witness. Despite its relative simplicity. Football or soccer is really hard to get good at. That's why moments of pure brilliance in football is so treasured. It's a magical experience that's hard to come by for both the competitor and spectator.
This video is MUCH more impactful, meaningful, and appreciation when you KNOW the goals they scored at the time of the game, importance of the match and the time of their career or the type of matches those goals happened in. Watching great goals is one thing, like Bale's overhead kick goal, but knowing he did it in a European Final is quite another. Or Beckham's Freekick against Greece in the last minute of injury time. Or the Spurs come back goals against Ajax in the CL Semi final, all done in the last few minutes.
The thing with this video is that the plays have more to do with their context than with the actual play or the player ability. That's why maybe some of them looked to you like a "normal" play
Football, depending on you who you support is 10 months of joy, despair, hope, anger, frustration and virtually every emotion in between. In the 2 month 'off season' every fan just yearns to feel all those emotions again. Whatever the new season holds in store for his team.
Soccer is more than a game in many countries. Is about identity with your neighborhood, your city your state or your country. The love for a team goes from generation to generation. My grandpa took me to Aztec stadium to watch Cruz Azul and the love for that team brings me back to my childhood. And is the same love that I’m passing to my kids. It’s more like College football in the US. It doesn’t matter how good or bad you team is you will never change to another team. That’s the feel for a soccer team. If you’re a Razorback alumnee I ven after you graduate you’ll always be a razorback…
I'm 50yrs old, as a football fan growing up, names like Maradona, Pele, Cyruff, Zidane, Ronaldinho were legends. I feel that in US, football is generally associated with girls & thus commonly regarded as a 'girls' game. But if u go anywhere else in the world, every boy wants to be a pro football player.
The demolition of Brazil is something that seems to have left deep scars and trauma in the Brazilians. What is even more crazy is that Germany was ahead 0-5 before 30 minutes had passed, and the German coach told his team to slow down and stop scoring so much. Otherwise it might have ended 1-15. And what made it more painful was that it was a world cup in Brazil, it was on home soil.
It´s not like having goosebumbs watching this video... I cried 15 minuts straight. This are like the most iconic moments in my life. This Sport didn´t change my life but it has been my life since I was born. I could spend 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year and every year in my lifetime playing football with my closest friends, watching our beautiful sport in TV and going to the stadium to support my favourite club SC Freiburg ❤🤍 ❤
To really appreciate this video you'd have to know the significance of some of these goals - not only are some great goals by themselves, but what they meant in the context of the matches they were played in made them epic. People around the world in every country explode with joy when these things happen, even when its not for their team.
There is nothing that can make me feel the passion and emotion that I do for my club and my country during a 90 minute game. It’s life and death it’s love and hate it’s joy and despair. The only way too describe it is, it’s the beautiful game.
There are generally three ways to look at football in my opinion. 1, is to solely watch, which allows you to see the passion of the game, whether it be players or fans. 2, is to play recreationally which gives the basics and a sense of self achievement, you could also try at recreating some infamous moves/shots/plays with little risk 3, is to play in a match against people far far better than yourself, you will push yourself beyond all limitations just to try and stand a chance of achieving. This is the method to really appreciating just how difficult the game can be, and how rewarding it can be. As a kid (5 years old) I played my first season as goalkeeper and got my ass handed to me, I then became an attacking midfielder for 4 seasons and won player of the season twice, and the golden boot on all 4 seasons. It was at 10 years old when I became a keeper again, I trained every single day, and now I look back 25 years later, with 2 golden gloves and 1 Player of the season as a keeper. Football becomes life
I think the beauty of Football (soccer) comes down to the pure simplicity of the game - 11 versus 11 players trying to but a spherical ball in the back of a net without using your hands - and then seeing the amount of complexity that arises. The expression of skill for an individual is immense, because you can't use your hands and therefore must use your entire body. But also the expression of teamwork and coordinated plays are what really makes the game beautiful.
Watching these best moments, I remember them and cried during all the video. It's insane how it's emotional. Your videos shows in my recommendations and I understand you'll watch the world Cup in Qatar. I advise you to watch the football matches with the British commentators or any other European commentators as their passion is coming through you. It's a great moment to share anyway 😭❤️😉
2:56 That goal was so good, the English were not even mad about losing the match. Both the English commentator and the Swedish ones, and pretty much everyone watching the match went crazy. Zlatan is hands down the best footballer Sweden has ever had. Before him, the teams had some very good players, very good team work. But Zlatan is a freak from another dimension. At the time he was criticised in Swedish sports media for playing way better with the clubs than with the national team. So he just went a scored that beauty and served a nice STFU to everybody. He really shines at pulling off really "out of the box" goals. Good player and a very good entertainer. He has many "karate goals". No fluke there.
Hmmm, I am also new to football, and I think the best way to understand the beauty behind it is to learn the context, which is a huge combination of factors that make the sport like no other. I am more of a fan of basquetball and twe kwon do at face value, as sports, but football is more than a sport, and that is something that took a lot of time for me to understand.
Best way for me to explain to a gridiron fan, football (soccer) feels like watching very old gridiron football games with, like, 10-7 or 7-3 average score and players playing both offense and defense with no subs. A score is fucking heaven because they're rare as hell and you've been running your ass off non stop for 50 minutes and doing it even once gives you a huge advantage. Very different from modern American football where it feels like every offense needs to put up at least 3 or 4 TDs per game.
Football is based around the game which anybody can play without any equipment but some kind of ball. American sports are based on statistics, specialized equipment and opportunities for eating. That's the difference.
the thing about football and why it never was pushed in the US is because there is only just 1 halftime break during the 90 minutes gameplay. In all American Sports TV stations can fill in uncountable commercial breaks in order to make money where you have commercial breaks every 5 minutes or less during broadcasting American sport games..and that is simply not possible during a football match/game.. By the way a "Hattrick" is 3 goals shot by one and the same player in just one halftime...
Great reaction! The World Cup 2022 is comming soon from November 20, so it's the great opportunity to get involved much more into this whole football stuff. USA team would be there as well.
That goal from Charisteas sent the country to heaven and back. And not just Greece, but many other underdog countries were rooting for the Greeks to win the whole thing! 🥳
football is a sea of emotions .. loyalty and betrayal .. love and hate .. obliteration, revenge and revolution .. the narrative .. the history .. mate football is truly everything .. hope one day you appreciate what you just saw ....
This is why soccer (futbol) is called the most beautiful game. The passion. It’s a world wide sport. Reason why it hasn’t broken through (on the rise) in the United States is because there are too many sports. Baseball, football, basketball, hockey, etc. that’s taking most of the attention. If you go outside of the country, soccer is the main sport.
To give a lil exemple to measure the hype, in 2018 when we (French) won the World Cup, it was much like a Country victory more than a Football victory, fans from every sports, Rugby, Athle, Tennis... were just enjoying, drinking, and partying in the streets all across the country, I'm talking about millions of people, even for a rugby player like me that don't like football at all. USA people can't understand that but it's just football and it's the same for every other country in the world about this this sport.
Football, in my experience, has the most passion out of any sport EVER. It has certainly saved my life, gave me a reason to be, as the quote said in the beginning as well. Kobe, whom you immensely more than likely know(may he R.I.P.), absolutely loved football(your soccer). It is much more than just purely "sport"
Fax bro
Well, Kobe grew up in Italy as a kid, so ofc he'd love football. And Italy loved him. May he rest in peace
Football is like gladiator but more thrilling for me
football is life
Its not a sport...is Religion. Respect please.
As Footbal fan, it’s sad you don’t recognize the significant of the goals you see. You can only appreciate how some of the goals you see in this video changed our lives and how we feel about this beautiful sport when you know the history.
For quite a few goals, there’s a description beneath which highlights the goal’s importance. It’s a shame he didn’t seem to really look at that.
@@jarmoliebrand2005 I don't think you grasp the importance of certain matches when you simply see "WC Final". You have to know the weight these matches have and what emotional stronghold they hold upon hundreds of millions of people to get that.
@@jarmoliebrand2005 Nah the text doesn't provide enough context for someone unfamiliar with the sport to understand what is going on. In terms of pure, cold facts you can look at see oh that was in the 2000 Euros... but so what? I watched that match live. I remember it. I know the context. He has none of that.
yeah, what was sad was this guy basically didnt seem to even flinch at the goals that were so significant or technically difficult…only the bicycle kicks.
Haha, when it showed Lewandowski’s 5 goals in 9 mins, it was like it went in one ear and out the other…perhaps he was waiting for a bicycle kick 😂
@@siggychaloupka7330 Exactly, he had no clue what he was watching and it showed in the lack of reaction to anything, to be fair if I reacted to American sports it would probably look the same ha ha
I think it's really important to understand the context of these goals. What's at stake, the level of skill, etc
Yeah without context it's just a guy kicking a ball
Yeah you cannot feel the tension and intensity all along the game
Yeah, like that Beckham free kick against Greece. It isn’t about the free kick, it’s about the fact we were about to fail to qualify for the World Cup. The goal which came right at the end of the match meant we qualified, it’s hard to overestimate the importance of that goal at that moment.
@@JM-yf3ol that true, and he dosent even know the importance of seeing your contry nacional team play a world cup, that only happens 4 to 4 years, its just the most amazing sports tournament in the history of the world, even bigger than Olympics
FOOTBALL is the biggest popular sport practiced and loved in the WORLD The Yankee version of counterfeit rugby only exists and is consumed in the US, that cheap copy of rugby that never even made it out of the US is so SHIT, how sad and unfortunate
This video didn't focus much on defenses. If you want to see more defenses I recommend two videos:
- The art of Defending: which shows the defenders stopping the attackers.
- Impossible Saves: shows goalkeepers doing miracles.
He can see the highlights of Brugge x Porto
@@NibanoTugano Porto-Brugge was better
and "Manuel Neuer vs. Algeria"
Not many skills either, which are a very artistic part of footie
@@tobyk.4911 Tim Howard vs Belgium, that man was a brick wall for the US
1:20 Pelé's talking
This guy : who's this talking ?
Me watching : 💀
😂
🤦♂my reaction literally 😂
💀 is the perfect reaction to that one
American Football Coach REACTS to “The Beauty of Football” for the FIRST TIME
+1 😂😂😂
@@h0pesfall Bro, anyone knows Pelé. Seriously. It's the only thing people know.
Football is not just a game. It’s a passion. It’s an emotion🥺
Fax
its a Religion
Think it was Bill Shankley who said this, people say that football is a matter of life and death, they're wrong, it's much more
@Trump lost, move on dude, relax, it's a quote from one of the most famous managers, you "nut job"
Its my life, i would not know what would keep my life interesting without football
This video hits so differently when you know each players and games history. I know every player and watched 90% of the games here that took place after I was born. To me its pure nostalgia, gives me so much joy and makes me tear up. Wish there was someone explaining you the stories behind the goals, so you could understand why everyone was freaking out even at less impressive goals.
Also you pointed out a mayor issue in the world of football real quick. Everyone is focused on the attacking aspect of football, goals get valued much higher than extraordinary defensive work or goalkeeping. The last defender that got awarded the best player of the year was Fabio Canavaro in 2006.
Last and only defender and I think it's a shame
It really makes the video a tough watch. I think the video title mislead him.
The reason the announcers were so excited in those bits were you were like "I don't know why it was that impressive" were because they were very important goals in a championship game, it would be like a player getting an amazing final touch down in the last minutes of a match to win in a final of a tournament. Also they were just very skilled goals too.
The beauty of soccer is difficult to explain. As a fellow American, I can say that I absolutely fell in love with the sport in 1994 when I was twelve. The World Cup was on in the United States and I never knew boys could play the sport, let alone seeing the best players in the world as I was at the time. Watching the beauty of the sport was absolutely captivating. Some Americans made fun of the low-scoring affair, calling it boring. While I could empathize with their position, what I saw was something that was immensely difficult. To me, while I love basketball, it’s way more boring than soccer since they score most times going down the court. Top that with the fact that you can’t use your hands, so to have the grace, the skill, and the raw athleticism to be able to manipulate a ball using your feet. I don’t know, man, it’s just awe inspiring. Couple that with the fact that you can have immensely different styles of play, not necessarily unlike American football, basketball, or even baseball. You have teams that pass and pass and pass and find your weaknesses little by little until they find a seam, e.g. Spain with their Tiki-Taka. You have individual flair, e.g. Brazil. You have solid fundamentals and strict adherence to a system with precision, e.g. Germany. Then you have the raw guts of the Americans, Canadians, and Mexicans.
It really is just a beautiful, beautiful game.
nice and complete comment man. Glad to see americans are starting to appreciate the actual football :)
There is NO sport in the WORLD or in any LANGUAGE of the WORLD called "soccer"
@Trump lost, move on Football *
@@maxropercalvo6132 Dude STFU. It's called soccer in the US, that's what most of them know it as. Understand this instead of copying and pasting the same stupid ass comment under every post.
@Trump lost, move on
⚽FOOTBALL⚽
7-1 was a holy shit. I'm brazilian and when our team lose that kind of way... it was a disaster in our history. we will never, ever forget.
You can never forget the victories and world cup titles either . It was only one game Brazil will forever be respected 💪
As a German, it was incredible, and we had to pinch ourselves.. sure, there are assholes, but it was more surreal than a celebration for me, no one could believe what happened, sure we were happy to get to the but with that sort of game?
😄Oh yes, that was a very nice evening. 🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍸
It was a bizarre evening. As a German, the first goal was a relief, the second goal was a lot of peace of mind, the third goal was pure euphoria and starting with the fourth goal it was beginning to feel very surreal and almost uncomfortable, I felt horrible for Brazil and their fans.
I almost passed out when I seen the score
Context is most of what makes many of these highlights incredible. That Agüero goal for Man City against QPR is one of the most special things in football history. Or the incredible comebacks Liverpool has made in the Champions League. Greece and Portugal winning the Euros 2004 and 2016 are also pretty special, despite neither team playing great football throughout the competitions they've won.
There are monster goalkeepers 😂😂😂 sometimes playing against them is the most annoying thing in the world.
Factsssss
Like Peter Schmeichel. The blueprint for the modern goalie!
I'm french and I can say i got chills seeing this video
Hello Luke.Thanks for your reaction. I have just commenced my 7th decade attending London football matches.
The point about those Argentinian goals by Messi and Maradona was that they were decades apart but almost identical. Greece won @150/1 The European Football Tournament for Countries but Leicester won The World's greatest League( The English Premier in 2015) after 38 games of odds of FIVE THOUSAND TO ONE..😀
"Ultras-Our Way Of Life-10,000 Subscribers" or The World or Europe's Greatest Chants" are well worth seeing to begin to capture the atmosphere,my friend..
I think to understand why the Messi-maradona goals were significant you have to understand that Messi is being touted, even at this young age, to be the next best player in the world, and especially to be ‘Maradona’s heir’ to the throne of the Argentinian NT, and scoring that goal shows that he’s capable of taking up that mantle in a rather poetic fashion
That 'little spin move' by Bergkamp is unmatched to this very day. It's not a standard move like in basketball but that difficult to exercise that only a few geniuses would even THINK about trying it, let alone succeeding. One of the all-time great goals
Lol. He says he didn't really think about doing it, it just happened in the heat of the moment. Lol.
That Messi goal was so impressive because he manages to play through all those players without loosing possession earning it a spot as one of the best goals ever
Dude is watching this, unfazed, not knowing how hard some of these highlights are to do on a football pitch.
To understand the impact of each goal in these compilations you have to get a little backstory behind each one of them. It's insane the scenario through which these goals came. Just rewatching these goals here gave me goosebumps, and these announcers (we call them commentators) they don't scream for no reason.
Dude! This video is full of incredible importan moments and players in football. For those who have been following this sport for years, we got the chills with this!
Every second of that video iconic, it's brings back the memories, drive, shock off the moment we all witness that,some stuff will became legendary after a while, I was just a kid and was asking my father how that bald dude outplaying entire Brazil team, he replied I don't know, never seen anything like that, in that moment it didn't felt huge but now it does.
Would love to see you react to football fans from europe and south america! The passion in this sport unmatched!
I feel it is very fitting that the video starts with a quote from Bill Shankly. Liverpools history as a club is a great one. Legendary managers, players and supporters. YNWA
As a Liverpool fan myself, it's definitely one of the best.
Another favourite of mine is -
"Of all unimportant things, football is by far, the most important" - Pope John Paul II
Absolutely correct. Side note, how great to see that goal from Gini.
Football (soccer) is more than just sports. It's the crowd, the chanting, the passion of the supporters, the Ultras, the choreos, the smoke, the bengalos
The man talking in the beginning is the best player in the history of the sport..also the youngest to ever win a world cup he was 16 and won Brazil they first cup..he changed the game..
PELE... The best of them all.
The context of all these moments is what makes them legendary.
For most of these moments it would require some time to explain the importance and what makes them extraordinary.
Because some of those goals look great but it's the context. For example scoring a great goal is nice but it happens all the time by chance. However you recognize the immense talent of some of these players because they consistently produce these incredible gestures when the stakes are at their highest (derbies, cup games, world cups...)
This video also makes me realize how much stuff I know about football (which is why many of these goals make me emotional: the history of the teams, of the players, of the completions, of the games...).
This explains the passion in the commenters voices
As someone who’s only a casual Football fan, the insane thing to me is the cultural significance of the sport.
I’m from Denmark, and in 1992, we won the European Cup despite not initially qualifying. Only getting in due to the unfortunate situation in Yugoslavia.
This was before I was born, but it’s something that is still brought up pretty often here.
Or the 2004 Greek team and even now we still don't believe we won the whole thing especially how bad we have been the past 8 years.
as a Liverpool fan watching that montage there of the 3-3 comeback in 2005 final was amazing and the 4-3 comeback in 2019 semi final. absolutely amazing
Bro doesn't know how emotional these goals are, I do as a Belgium who plays football
MLS is growing FAST it’s definitely on its way especially with Millennials and everyone younger. 2010 World Cup in Africa made me a fan for life.
If you knew the background of the games you saw you would’ve been even more impressed, some clips are from world cups or champions league games with so much history and passion. It’s really difficult to describe such a big feeling.
for us, who followed the game our entire life, this brings a lot of memories good or bad
Me: watching Lewandowski score 5 goals in five minutes.
Him: not giving a piece of s**t
You need read action subtitle for understand the beauty of this game
As a Liverpool fan I can confirm that Liverpool comeback had me in tears, brilliant stuff
i have to say, football is just something else. It was always a huge part of my life and i legit couldn't imagine my life without football. I sadly can't play anymore because of injuries, but it will always hold a special place in my heart.
"who is that talking?" 😂
You've come so far Luke, keep going in your journey
I really like the fact that you appreciate football(or soccer as you guys might call it). You have no idea how big this sport is outside of the states. The entire world watches it, except the us.
There is NO sport in the WORLD or in any LANGUAGE of the WORLD called "soccer"
@@maxropercalvo6132 Well there isn't a single sport whose official name is called Football either.
Some clips made me cry AGAIN
Me too man, me too
aw man you are so lucky to react to all of this for the first time, as someone who’s played fantasy american football for around 7 years now so I know a thing or two about what american football means to us americans and then also what football (soccer) means to the rest of the world, i love both sports but football truly remains the sport in my heart, the ups and downs i’ve been as a supporter is truly incredible what football will have your heart rate at. let me know if you have any questions man from one american to another
I can give you an approximate answer; In order for one to like football, one must love football more than anything in the world, one is not a simple spectator in a sports show, he is a soldier in a war that has been going on for decades. You have sporting events, we have battles that take place out on a court
There are two videos I recommend for you to watch, you should give a go to “understanding European soccer in four simple steps” and afterwards definitely watch “(European) soccer explained for Americans” to get a more in-depth understanding of the concepts you learn in the first one. This second video I feel is very helpful and I don’t really see content creators new to the sport watch it that often. From what I remember neither of both gives you a full explanation of the rules though.
I would say that soccer has become very popular in the US, with many, many people - compared to even 20 years ago. Literally everywhere I go, there are many people playing it, and following it, and watching it. And almost every other state has a big team, with a big fan base - see Georgia, Texas etc. - ie states you would not think of. I think that the more you will learn about football, the more you will discover how many people like and follow it in the US.
And btw, there are quite a few good videos on YT explaining the rules of soccer.
Came here from your latest vid. I just binged your football jurney and it's so wholesome I am so glad that I could experience getting to know this sport for the first time (again) through your vid. Much love from Hungary! Keep it up!
Football is "life". All the world plays the game, from England, to Angola, to Spain, to New Zealand, to India, to Russia, to Israel, Iran to Italy etc. Its the biggest sport in the world.
And me being an avid football fan I thought I would explain the set up of our league and competitions. Unlike America we dont just have our national league, we can play other teams around the world.
Literally every country has a league. The Biggest tho are England, Spain, Italy and Germany, but you get massive clubs in Brazil and Argentina.
In England the league consists of 4 Divisions. Been around for 160 years and the FA Cup (explain later) is the oldest domestic sporting event in the world.
As I said we have 4 divisions (we call them leagues now, but up till the 90s and the influx of major TV rights, this was changed to Leagues).
You have the Premier League (formerly Division one), which has 20 teams, each playing a home and away game. The winners after 38 matches are English Champions. The top 4 teams qualify for the European Champions League, and 5th place (maybe 6th or 7th depends on who wins the League Cup or FA cup) go into the Europa League.
The bottom 3 get relegated to the Championship (2nd Tier of English Football and Formerly Division 2)
The Championship have more teams 24 Teams and the Top 2 get promoted to the Premier League and 3rd to 6th play a knock out, and the winner the final gets promoted also to the Premiership. This is called the Play Offs and the Championship Playoff is the biggest monetary prize in sport for the winning team. This is due to revenue (as the game is played at the National stadium Wembley), TV rights, Sponsorship rights and also prize money itself. The bottom 3 get relegated to League one
Then you have League one (formerly Division 3) and League two (formerly Division 4). This is same set up as the Championship, the top 2 get promoted, i.e League 1 top 2 go into the Championship and League 2 top two go into League 1. Same play offs to get into the above league and same relegation, but less prize money obviously.
As League 2 is the lowest of professional Leagues, bottom 2 go into the Conference which is not sponsored by the League itself, and 2 from the Conference get promoted. Which for you Americans is Wrexham this year who is owned by Ryan Reynolds.
There a numerous leagues that are not professional that interlink for promotion and relegation.
During the season you also have 2 Domestic cups.
The league cup which is a knockout competition for only the teams in the top 4 leagues (Premier league to League 2), and then the FA cup which literally every football team can participate. From Sunday leagues up wards. Usually have over 700 teams competing in KO rules. Obviously all non Leagues start off and this get dwindles down till they play teams in the league that are not in the Premier League (Championship to League two) which when they enter becomes the 1st round of the FA cup. Then in the 3rd round the Premiership teams enter the draw for the round.
Some teams you never hear off as play amateur football have the chance of playing the big teams like Man U, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, Man City, if they are lucky and this has happened numerous times in the past. Obviously the big teams win but the TV rights and revenue are massive for these small clubs. And the whole country roots (unless you support them) for the lower teams to do a shock. Which has also happened.
The cups are only English Teams allowed bar a few Welsh teams. No Scottish or Irish or any other country allowed, so the 700 odd teams that compete are just teams in England (and Wales). Scotland have their own league and cup competitions. i..e the Scottish FA Cup and Leagues for Scottish Teams. (same set up but less clubs, and have relegation, promotion)
The winners of the 2 cups go into the Europa League. If the winners get into the Champions League or Europa League due to finishing in the Top 5 of the Premiership, teams finishing 6th or 7th get into Europa.
Also while the season is on certain clubs play European cups (as mentioned above). The Champions League is the biggest, all The big clubs who won their countries league or finished between top 2 and top 4 (Each country have different amount of teams allowed due to League positions. The top country leagues get 4, where as the smaller countries may get 1 or 2).
Basically they are structured like the World Cup. Groups of 4 teams play home and away and the top 2 go into a KO (home and away). The Europa League is the same structure, but some teams finishing 3rd in their group in the Champions League will go into a play off with those finishing in 2nd in the Europa Groups, to play in the Europa League Knock out.
The winner of the Champions League become champions of Europe, the winners of the Europa League just win that but its the 2nd Biggest European trophy, but do get automatically entered into the Champions League regardless of where they finished in their own countries league for the nest season.
For some teams they can play 3 times in 6 days throughout the season. The season starts August and is played till May. We even play over Christmas with boxing day (a ban holiday in the UK for the 26th December) being the biggest day of Football as its a bank holiday and pubs and grounds are filled up to watch games. Plus its the biggest day for TV rights as due to christmas literally the whole world tunes into games shown for the Premier League, especially in countries that do not follow Christmas, like China, Middle East etc. The English Premier League is the most watched Football league in the world, possibly only Spanish La Liga coming anywhere near its popularity.
The following season the winners of the Champions league will play the winners of certain continents that have a similar set up So they will play the winners of Oceanic (Australia, New Zealand etc), South America (Brazil, Argentina etc) and the winners of the African trophy (teams from Nigeria etc playing each other). Thats called the Club World cup. Its not really that popular as only usually 4 teams play and its a KO.
Then you have the National Team. Players can play in any country, but will still (if good enough) represent their national team.
Like Ronaldo played in England and Spain but plays for his country Portugal.
The National team have 2 trophies.
The big one is the World cup. This starts with the qualifiers, these consists of all countries in their continents playing each other in group stages and the winners and 2nd placed go into the World cup itself. And I assume you understand the world cup structure.
Then you have your Continent trophy. In Europe its called the European Cup. Africa it called the African Cup of Nations etc.
The qualifiers of both are played throughout a league season, but the top leagues suspend games on the weekends for those weeks. So you may have 4-5 weeks in a season disrupted for the qualifiers.
Hope you followed that. I am an Arsenal fan, we've been around since 1888. The 3rd most successful team in England, FA Cup 14 times (record for most FA cup wins), League cup twice and 2 European trophies that were merged into the Europa League set up. (I would be here all day explaining the previous European Cups set up). Its a London team and the player in the clip Bergkamp who you saw flicking the ball and twisting round the player is hi playing for us, and the left foot to right foot lobbing the defender to score, was him playing for his country Holland. He also did exact same goal for us that season. He is probably the 2nd or 1st greatest player we had at Arsenal. Thierry Henry (who you may know as he retired to play in the US) is probably our greatest ever player. But this season we have a few young kids that are ripping up the league, in SAKA, young Black English kid who missed a penalty for England in the European Final and git racial abuse, idiots, but he captured the nation still who rallied to defend him and kick out the racists on line. And our Captain Odegaard, Danish player but amazing.
Some of the goalkeeper you see here are legends and the very best - but it’s football sometimes the goal is so beautiful and stunning they just have to stand there frozen and watch, take it in.
The goal where the person was flying in the air and did a header past iker casillas ( top 3 goalkeeper of all time ) was beautiful- some things you cannot stop except watch in awe. It may look and feel humiliating but it’s really not , that’s what so beautiful about the game.
@@eros7953 Yeap, that was Van Persie, of Netherlands and that game was played against Spain, in the 2014 World Cup.(Idk if you do happen to know who scored that, but felt to just share it)
@@psh10gamer6 yes I did know but I put flying person cause I doubt he would know van persie-
This is my second video ive seen by you and i can tell you genuinely want to try and grasp the understanding of the sport and the meaning behind much of the scenes you are seeing. I appreciate that, so if it is possible, i would love to see a reaction to this when you have some more context re the moments shared. I know it will cause a much deeper and emotional reaction as well appreciation for the game we love. All the best on your channel.
This was my thought too. A little introduction to the game, teams and context would have made a great difference.
I fell in love with football after seeing Denis Bergkamp goal live on TV here in India and that was my first ever football match. I knew it was the quarter finals but I didnt know any of the players. The rules were pretty obvious and when I saw the Bergkamp goal, I could not believe anyone could do that. It was 1998 and I was 10 years. I was just mesmeserized by that goal and even now.
Had to come back to this one, loved seeing you grow these past 9 months
Luke has grown leaps and bounds, with a change to his outlook, his health, and a new appreciation of the wider world. This was the start of a journey.
i feel like you brought up a very important point - about why football didn't really sink in as an exciting sport in the US. It's just a theory, but the reason may be a lack of exposure to the sport since young. Not that I'd know since i dont live there, but I currently live in Asia, and a good half of us boys have at least played football with our friends during school breaks or whenever, and much less Europe where the football fanbase is the largest.
Because of the exposure, we can understand and appreciate the sheer skill, practice, sweat and quite literal blood and tears the professionals put into the sport and these may cause the jarring treatment football is given in between US and the World (Europe in particular). I suppose NBA in the US is the nearest thing football is to Europe
Nah, most American children play Soccer from a very young age, it's just that the expectation for most kids is that they grow out of it and begin to focus on other sports like Football, Baseball, Basketball, Hockey, Wrestling, etc. once they turn 7 or 8 years old. We play it at gym class or on the school grounds during recess, so it just seems like a really simple game. There's also the perception that the men that play Soccer are soft because they are always falling down at the slightest touch, so no boy wants to be labeled as weak. I'm not saying that Soccer players actually are weak, it's just the perception. The expectation is that you should try to fight through the tackle and retain the ball not just go down and win a free kick.
Also, another important factor is the type of people who play Soccer. In the rest of the world Soccer is a "working class" sport. That's largely not the case in the United States. If you want the sports played by and supported by the working class, that's Football and Basketball.
I see much more flopping in NBA games than in any football (real football, not hand-egg) match. Flopping in NBA is even considered a skill, with players such as James Harden making a career out of it.
Gotta react to more to understand the game and understand how insane some of these clips are . Obviously with the occasions of some of these games and the history behind them helps to appreciate the clips more . You should watch vids on the rules about the games and you can watch actual games too to understand
Loved the reaction and love when people are down to learn new things
Football is not just a sport, it's about the art, Neymar's skills, Messi's dribbling, Ronaldo's finishing, van Dijk's Defending, Neuer's goalkeeping, Modrić's vision, Kroos' passing.
We here in Europe cannot go a few days without watching or playing football. It is everything for us, each player is an idol.
I'm English, and I watch both our football and American football. But I will forever prefer association football. The bicycle kick, an absolute art. When Ronaldo is in the blue, his bicycle kick vs Juventus, look how high he jumped. The Champions League is the 2nd biggest trophy in football. And that Tottenham comeback we saw with Lucas Moura, and that Liverpool one where you mentioned the crowds, we're in the same week. To reach the Champions League final. The biggest club competition in the game.
Nice, love the desire to understand and appreciate football. You might want to check out the basics first - how football is played in Europe, as it kinda differs from the way it is done in the US.
There is on old vid called - 'understanding European soccer in 4 simple steps' it is gonna lay the foundation. Plus, I am sure people will add important things in the comments.
Cheers!
Search for "a clueless guide for Americans to football"
This is a compilation of iconic moments, beautiful goals and dribbles. There's World Cup finals, the first time some teams won a particularly difficult trophy to win, e.g European Champions League. Then there's football legends like Mardona, Pele.
Its painful to watch this video bcoz you just can't relate if you don't understand the occasion.
Alot of these clips could use alot of context to understand just how great these moments are
React to Lionel Messi the world's greatest 3rd edition please 🙌🏻❤
This video really isnt for any first timers to watch basically its a video where all football fans understand and remember the nostalgia and deep meanings of each reel in the video. I put myself in your position and i was like there is no way i would understand anything from.whats going on. I think you should watch videos of football basics or the football championship modes made in each continent to better be familiar with the tournaments, teams, players, formations, to better understand the weight of everything. Also to start off with the familiar players like ronaldo and messi you could watch their videos too to understand how their rivalry and brilliance in football started to this day and why it is a rivalry.
Football is the most watched, the biggest, and most passionate fans who actually come to see their club or team win, it's not an event like NFL or Other American Sports, it's not a place you to have a great time and get drunk with your friends or to eat hotdogs, etc. It's America who hasn't managed to breakthrough in Football, tbt.
this video hits so much different when you understand the context and significance of the goals/matches.
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Baseball. Basketball. American football. Hockey.
Your big four. Far too much money involved in those for football to make any real headway. Amongst other reasons, but that initial statement doesn't help.
You have to Watch Messi the goat
Football just hits different. It’s an amazing sport
I instantly subbed because as a football fan it's always interesting to see people getting to watch it for the first time and watch their reactions
This video is amazing in the same way that an inside joke can be amazing if you're on the inside. If you don't have the context for these moments, the emotion and passion doesn't get conveyed appropriately.
To put it another way, imagine seeing The Catch but not understanding that it was a very late game winner in the NFC Championship game in a pivotal moment that signified the changing from one dynasty to the next. You'd be like "Oh, yeah that was cool. He jumped kinda high there."
I am Brazilian (the big humiliations are the greatest glories) and our lives are written with them, perhaps we will be buried with the flag of our team.
watching our players win, sharing that passion with the people we love, sadness and fear
I wish these people doing soccer reaction videos knew the significance of the goals they see. Most of them just see the spectacular goals but don't realize a lot of them were at really important moments in football.
These are iconic moments, you have to know the background to appreciate it.
He just pointed out the biggest problem in football.
Appreciation for defenders.
I appreciated the fact that you wanted to see defensive plays. Most people just want to see goal soring.
Watching this video, I couldn't help but tear up watching all these incredible moments of the sport I have watched and played for all my life.
Some of these goals changed peoples lives the emotion behind these moments it’s raw
These things are a mix, a mix of very important moments or plays that are very rare
One of the problems in US of A at least was that there is no league structure the same way there is in other countries. A club that performed badly could stay at the same level indefinitely above "sunday football". Whilst it creates a type of following, it doesn't tend to increase it after a while.
Sometimes 11 players carry the burdens of hope, passions and dreams of an entire nation and country. The collective euphoria of victory or agony of defeat is shared and felt by all. The scale of it all is truly amazing to witness. Despite its relative simplicity. Football or soccer is really hard to get good at. That's why moments of pure brilliance in football is so treasured. It's a magical experience that's hard to come by for both the competitor and spectator.
This video is MUCH more impactful, meaningful, and appreciation when you KNOW the goals they scored at the time of the game, importance of the match and the time of their career or the type of matches those goals happened in. Watching great goals is one thing, like Bale's overhead kick goal, but knowing he did it in a European Final is quite another. Or Beckham's Freekick against Greece in the last minute of injury time. Or the Spurs come back goals against Ajax in the CL Semi final, all done in the last few minutes.
The thing with this video is that the plays have more to do with their context than with the actual play or the player ability. That's why maybe some of them looked to you like a "normal" play
Football, depending on you who you support is 10 months of joy, despair, hope, anger, frustration and virtually every emotion in between. In the 2 month 'off season' every fan just yearns to feel all those emotions again. Whatever the new season holds in store for his team.
Soccer is more than a game in many countries.
Is about identity with your neighborhood, your city your state or your country.
The love for a team goes from generation to generation.
My grandpa took me to Aztec stadium to watch Cruz Azul and the love for that team brings me back to my childhood.
And is the same love that I’m passing to my kids.
It’s more like College football in the US.
It doesn’t matter how good or bad you team is you will never change to another team.
That’s the feel for a soccer team.
If you’re a Razorback alumnee I ven after you graduate you’ll always be a razorback…
I'm 50yrs old, as a football fan growing up, names like Maradona, Pele, Cyruff, Zidane, Ronaldinho were legends. I feel that in US, football is generally associated with girls & thus commonly regarded as a 'girls' game. But if u go anywhere else in the world, every boy wants to be a pro football player.
The demolition of Brazil is something that seems to have left deep scars and trauma in the Brazilians. What is even more crazy is that Germany was ahead 0-5 before 30 minutes had passed, and the German coach told his team to slow down and stop scoring so much. Otherwise it might have ended 1-15. And what made it more painful was that it was a world cup in Brazil, it was on home soil.
It´s not like having goosebumbs watching this video... I cried 15 minuts straight. This are like the most iconic moments in my life.
This Sport didn´t change my life but it has been my life since I was born. I could spend 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year and every year in my lifetime playing football with my closest friends, watching our beautiful sport in TV and going to the stadium to support my favourite club SC Freiburg ❤🤍 ❤
To really appreciate this video you'd have to know the significance of some of these goals - not only are some great goals by themselves, but what they meant in the context of the matches they were played in made them epic. People around the world in every country explode with joy when these things happen, even when its not for their team.
if you have no connection to a team it means nothing. The moment you have a team... you are hooked.
There is nothing that can make me feel the passion and emotion that I do for my club and my country during a 90 minute game. It’s life and death it’s love and hate it’s joy and despair. The only way too describe it is, it’s the beautiful game.
There are generally three ways to look at football in my opinion.
1, is to solely watch, which allows you to see the passion of the game, whether it be players or fans.
2, is to play recreationally which gives the basics and a sense of self achievement, you could also try at recreating some infamous moves/shots/plays with little risk
3, is to play in a match against people far far better than yourself, you will push yourself beyond all limitations just to try and stand a chance of achieving. This is the method to really appreciating just how difficult the game can be, and how rewarding it can be.
As a kid (5 years old) I played my first season as goalkeeper and got my ass handed to me, I then became an attacking midfielder for 4 seasons and won player of the season twice, and the golden boot on all 4 seasons. It was at 10 years old when I became a keeper again, I trained every single day, and now I look back 25 years later, with 2 golden gloves and 1 Player of the season as a keeper.
Football becomes life
I think the beauty of Football (soccer) comes down to the pure simplicity of the game - 11 versus 11 players trying to but a spherical ball in the back of a net without using your hands - and then seeing the amount of complexity that arises.
The expression of skill for an individual is immense, because you can't use your hands and therefore must use your entire body. But also the expression of teamwork and coordinated plays are what really makes the game beautiful.
Watching these best moments, I remember them and cried during all the video. It's insane how it's emotional.
Your videos shows in my recommendations and I understand you'll watch the world Cup in Qatar. I advise you to watch the football matches with the British commentators or any other European commentators as their passion is coming through you. It's a great moment to share anyway 😭❤️😉
2:56 That goal was so good, the English were not even mad about losing the match. Both the English commentator and the Swedish ones, and pretty much everyone watching the match went crazy. Zlatan is hands down the best footballer Sweden has ever had. Before him, the teams had some very good players, very good team work. But Zlatan is a freak from another dimension.
At the time he was criticised in Swedish sports media for playing way better with the clubs than with the national team. So he just went a scored that beauty and served a nice STFU to everybody. He really shines at pulling off really "out of the box" goals. Good player and a very good entertainer. He has many "karate goals". No fluke there.
Football commentary > any other sport. The commentators are so full of passion an enthusiasm and they are not afraid to express it. Beautiful!
Mario Götze wasn't actually the first German to get the nick name Super Mario. The "original" one was Mario Gomez
Hmmm, I am also new to football, and I think the best way to understand the beauty behind it is to learn the context, which is a huge combination of factors that make the sport like no other. I am more of a fan of basquetball and twe kwon do at face value, as sports, but football is more than a sport, and that is something that took a lot of time for me to understand.
Best way for me to explain to a gridiron fan, football (soccer) feels like watching very old gridiron football games with, like, 10-7 or 7-3 average score and players playing both offense and defense with no subs. A score is fucking heaven because they're rare as hell and you've been running your ass off non stop for 50 minutes and doing it even once gives you a huge advantage. Very different from modern American football where it feels like every offense needs to put up at least 3 or 4 TDs per game.
Football is based around the game which anybody can play without any equipment but some kind of ball. American sports are based on statistics, specialized equipment and opportunities for eating. That's the difference.
the thing about football and why it never was pushed in the US is because there is only just 1 halftime break during the 90 minutes gameplay. In all American Sports TV stations can fill in uncountable commercial breaks in order to make money where you have commercial breaks every 5 minutes or less during broadcasting American sport games..and that is simply not possible during a football match/game..
By the way a "Hattrick" is 3 goals shot by one and the same player in just one halftime...
To be fair, without context for most of these clips you really can't begin to appreciate the moments for what they are. Truly poetry in motion.
Great reaction! The World Cup 2022 is comming soon from November 20, so it's the great opportunity to get involved much more into this whole football stuff. USA team would be there as well.
That goal from Charisteas sent the country to heaven and back. And not just Greece, but many other underdog countries were rooting for the Greeks to win the whole thing! 🥳
And in my country it sent us to hell…
football is a sea of emotions ..
loyalty and betrayal ..
love and hate ..
obliteration, revenge and revolution ..
the narrative ..
the history ..
mate football is truly everything ..
hope one day you appreciate what you just saw ....
This is why soccer (futbol) is called the most beautiful game. The passion. It’s a world wide sport. Reason why it hasn’t broken through (on the rise) in the United States is because there are too many sports. Baseball, football, basketball, hockey, etc. that’s taking most of the attention. If you go outside of the country, soccer is the main sport.
To give a lil exemple to measure the hype, in 2018 when we (French) won the World Cup, it was much like a Country victory more than a Football victory, fans from every sports, Rugby, Athle, Tennis... were just enjoying, drinking, and partying in the streets all across the country, I'm talking about millions of people, even for a rugby player like me that don't like football at all. USA people can't understand that but it's just football and it's the same for every other country in the world about this this sport.