Is The World Cup Final The Biggest Event In Sport?
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- France vs Argentina at the 2022 FIFA World Cup final in Qatar is only the 22nd FIFA World Cup final since the tournament was first held in Uruguay in 1930 - over 90 years ago, in what will be the most watched global event of 2022.
The scarcity of finals, and of World Cups, is partly what makes them so special, along with the World Cup beginning with 206 teams, and it being the pinnacle of the most popular sport in the world.
But is the FIFA World Cup final the biggest event in world sport? Well, in this video, that's what HITC Sevens attempts to find out, taking a look at the data, the competition, and whether you can ever determine such a thing. - Sport
The advantage the WC has is the fact it only comes around once every 4 years so it has that extra spice if it was a yearly tournament it may well lose its novelty factor even though the Champions league final has huge audiences it's not talked about in the same way as the World Cup final is in terms of hype and build up and the WC is more likely to have those who don't follow the game on any other occasion watching than the CL does
of course champions league is amazing , but what makes wc the best is that it is played every 4 years , all countries take part on it , if fifa consider it to be played every 2 years , it would be the biggest mistake ever made
You are delusional. Football is not seasonal. It's the beautiful game. The beautiful game which has universal following not like cricket or basketball. Make those other sports 4 years rotation, they will soon be extinct.
Less is more.
The UCL final is STILL the most watched sport event if there is no WC final. This makes your argument fall apart.
@@davidvalencia129 are you replying to me ?
100% the biggest sport and the final of the best tournament that comes around once every 4 years
Yes by far and Liverpool the greatest team.
@@ssjr3604 Real Madrid the greatest
Thank you for repeating the outcome of the video I forgot were all retarded
@@Akuma-ti7wi I commented this before I watched tough guy
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Unless your country doesn't have a team or your team was banned for starting a war, the World Cup is the only title that can be truly referred to as a World Title as it includes the whole world from the start of qualifying to the end with the Final.
Wonder why the US was never banned they started so mant ways over the 20 years lol speaking as an american we start wars like crazy but then again we eun the world and make the rules. No one can ban us we're gods!!!!
Not necessarily. The second definition of World is "a region or group of countries." Meaning any tournament champion can be labeled "World Champions."
You are absolutely right about that my friend
@@OfficialKotaco context though...
Just about all the competitions listed here (except for the Super Bowl) include the whole world from qualifying to the end with a final. However, much like other sports like cricket, there is really only a small handful of teams that have any mathematical chance of ever winning the final, so to that extent neither sport can truly be considered a world title on this particular metric.
As much as I wanted Morocco in the final. France vs Argentina is a great final, especially what both teams playing for, this ain't your usual WC win, this win will be historically important in the grand scheme of football history.
Nobody won in morocco to win nobody. I honestly wonder how much they paid Portugal to lose.
@@zorzizero tf are you even saying
@@zorzizero everyone was rooting for the underdogs morroco put ur bias aside wherever it comes from
@@zorzizero Dude, you dont actually think Marocco paid of Portugal, right?
Wdym ''usual WC win''? Every final is important in the grand scheme of football history. I'd argue the Finals of 1954, 1970, 1974, 1986, 1990, 1998, 2010 and 2014 had equally as much, if not more on the line than this upcoming final.
I'm not even Argentinian and I'm shitting it. Can't think of many if any sports that can replicate those emotions.
Count your blessings that you’re not Argentinian trust me
@@zorzizero Cant imagine it. I haven't slept for 48 hours and can't eat without literally shitting immediately.
welcome 2 the club
@@aryamanmani4025 you must be a lot healthier now then I hope😂
@@sirsurnamethefirstofhisnam7986 Football is something else.
football will remain the biggest sports because it is easily accessible to everyone, it is fairly easy to understand than any other sports. this what distinguishes it from other sports which made this sports loved by everyone.
Exactly
Cuz you need to wear military grade armor to play American Football.You need overpriced iron sticks to play golf. You need to have PhD from Harvard to understand Basketball and you only a ball and somewhat decent field to play football.
@@mfatihbilhaq4977 You need to have PhD from Harvard to understand Basketball
This is incredibly wrong. The strategy in basketball is very similar to soccer. You only need a ball and a hoop to play basketball
And you can be only 5 feet seven inches and 160 pounds and be the best player in the world. You don't need to be big or tall.
@@williamcross210 bruh it's freaking joke
You can't include the Superbowl, it's a domestic event! 🤣
when the first time i heard the name, i thought it was like a superbowl salad or smthg
@@R3in_Ch Me too. Everytime when I read or hear it, it takes 1 second to realize this is handegg and not some chef´s dish.
It happens once every 4 years. When it happens, it gets loads of attention. So yes.
try do it for superbowl... no one will remember you even exist.
So are the Olympics.
The world cup is bigger most people outside America don't care for the super bowl.
@@Nipiniponipi because the superbowl is for Americans they do not give a shit if anyone else watches
That's not it. As you stated, it is the only tournament that reunites the best soccer ahtletes from their respective countries from all around the World every four years. The cultural significance can only be comparable to the Olympics. In this last tournament alone, you got Arab People and qatari peopple rooting for Argentina, you got japanese people rooting for Brazil, you also got mexicans rooting for France and so on. Such odd fanatic behavior can only be seen in a tournament of such popularity and cultural influence, which has tons of lore and history, global history, and that's just one of many stories you will definitely encounter.
Also just to note, Qatar has little history with soccer, even so they worked hard to get to host this event cause they tough that was the best way to introduce Qatar to the world.
The World Cup Final is the world's biggest sporting event in terms of number of people excited about it. Nothing else really comes close.
One major reason for this is that it only takes place every four years. Another is that nearly every nation on earth enters a team to attempt to win the thing.
Only the Summer Olympics can come close to it where many nations compete in different sports every 4 years, but yeah, the World Cup final will always be the biggest event in the World.
@@aminr4281 Olympics is a bigger event
@@jp8146 Summer Olympics is not bigger the World Cup Final.
@@aminr4281 It is the olympics is way bigger than the world cup finals.
Thanks for another encyclopaedic take on football, as always. Being born and raised in Bangladesh, and a hardcore Argentina fan, it was wonderful to see Argentinians acknowledge its fandom here this time around.
Would love to hear your take on "The biggest single-nation fans of national football teams outside of their respective nations", however paraphrased your title may be.
Number of Argentina fans would be halved if India and Bangladesh national teams could qualify for the WC.
Rn there are more Argentine flags in Bangladesh than Bangladeshi flags
Argentina- Brazil rivelry is much more tense in Bangladesh than in South America atleast when it comes to football
@@liesideways Even if we did many would still hope Argentina win it. The connection we have with them starts with our elders and Maradona.
@@liesideways LMAO NO IT WONT
If Bangladesh and Argentina played a match in Dhaka all the fans would be wearing Blue and White those guys are literally crazy for a country that doesn’t even know Bangladesh exists.
As a Brentford fan, I would say that, after failing constantly in Championship playoff finals, and then finally winning one, the playoff final is the greatest game of all. No bias there.
Edit just to clarify this was a joke...
Of course...
As a Derby fan, no.
The stakes are INCREDIBLY high. You're basically ensuring your clubs financial security (if you play your cards right)
Yes 🙌
Yes but for example, barely any Americans are gonna be like “ooo I wonder who will win the Championship playoff”. Here the champions league is the most popular. In order to be the largest it has to be everywhere
But if we go off prize money, yeah you’re right
Most definitely yes, and it's not even close. Neither the superbowl nor the most important event in the Olympics (whatever that is) can compare to the World Cup final.
May not even be the biggest but I've seen people go to unimaginable depths to watch the final, depths not seen in other sports (tournaments). Hell, a town in my country successfully managed to delay a power outage to the following day all because the final fell within the outage period. Had the request been for any other reason, I'm pretty sure it'd have been refused outright. The fact the finals involve Messi and Mbappe, I imagine we're gonna see some wild stories come out of this day.
and it did
@@davidohaegbulam9988 Can you imagine if the delay was scheduled for after 120 minutes of the game start thinking that would be enough only for the whole town to miss the penalties definition?
May not be the biggest event? Are you ignorant? Seriously watch what you say before saying it. Of course the World Cup is the biggest event in any sport ever and by light years! How dare you even question that?
Is this even a question, when I lived in Jamaica, even non footballers watched the world cup
I think the fact that the players put such importance on the tournament despite not getting as much pay makes it bigger.
it is not about money , american football can win 1000000 millions but they will not be more famous than real footballers
For the players, World Cup is not about money, but prestige. They are already paid millions by their clubs, so they don’t have to worry about their salary. This tournament is about the pride of representing your country in front of the entire world. The goal is not to get paid, but to be the World Champions of the most popular sport on Earth.
@@davidmorales886 which I think definitely makes it the bigger game.
The super bowl here in America is watched by around 120 million in america and about 150 million people around the world on TV - a little over 1/3 of the country (but virtually everyone has super bowl parties and gatherings even if they arent just watching. but the world cup is watched by literally over a billion people. the super bowl just makes more because we have way more commercial breaks in our football
Also on edit - Alfie, you really should check out how awful the American coverage of the world cup has been. yesterday the studio hosts dressed up as qataris and ran propaganda pieces with qatar sponsored influencers. we have been bombarded with pro qatar tourist ads for 4 weeks. its very different than the BBC lol
Also nfl stadiums tend to be bigger than all but the biggest soccer stadiums. The nfls minimum capacity for stadiums is 60,000 for example, but even the World Cup sets it at 40,000.
The Champions League final is watched by 600 million annually so even that is way bigger than the Super Bowl
@@barry4649 the champions league is a much better comp to the super bowl. the best comp for the world cup is something like the olympics. but i dont think the champions league is much bigger than the super bowl
I hate how people tend to use money as a measure of how important something is.
As a supporter of an outside the top 5 league team, i much prefer my team to win titles to being in the top 20 most valuable teams. Of course money is important but just because a team (and for example an event) is more financially successfull doesnt meant they are the most important.
And btw my team has won the ucl and the europa league so they arent exactly some minnows.
Your handball has nothing on the World Cup bro. Don’t even compare that shit ass game football is to put be played with the ball in the foot American handball or touch ass has nothing on football. That’s why it hasn’t caught on anywhere else in the world just fuck in America.
Olympics is the only thing that comes close , biggest by a country mile
Another indication is the amount of mind space the football World Cup occupies and how it captures the imagination of the people. All of the events mentioned other than the football World Cup is easy to miss.....an average person in my country could live a lifetime and still not know of the existence of the super bowl, tour de France, or the champions qualifiers let alone who participate or won these. But everyone has some idea about the progress of the football World Cup and is likely to atleast know who is playing the finals.
Exactly. I mean every single person from my tiny village from rural Romania, knows and watches the world cup (despite not qualifying ourselves since 98) and maybe 1 or 2 has heard of the super bowl, and that is from movies or tv shows.
Why india didnt ever qualify? It has 18% of the world population plus 500 plus million immigrants spread around the world? It's not as poor as South America and has *DEMOCRACY* ? Even Iran without the democracy and without the huge population plusit's in crisis, qualified...why ? Now dont deflect the topic by mentioning other sports or some CEO(since Indians always deflect the topic by mentioning this , when everyone know no Indian CEO plays for FIFA) shit. Countries with *RICH CEOs* like Germany, France, USA, KSA qualified too...anyway.
ok Apu, tank u come again.
The viewing figures of World Cup finals vs Champions League finals say yes it is. Over two billion people will be watching today.
The fact that an entire country becoming officially the best in the world being a much bigger deal than a club being the best is another reason. World Cup only comes round every four years, Champions League finals are played every single season.
5 billion was the figure...
The Super Bowl is watched by 150 million people worldwide annually. The Champions League final is watched by 600 million, don’t even compare that to the World Cup final 😂
Gaelic football is better than NFL in my books
@@robierahg17 that last line tells me you’re under the age of 10, and the actual figures are 380 million for the UCL final, and 208 million for the Super Bowl, you must’ve only checked viewership in America or something 😂
@@robierahg17 and the World Cup is watched by over a billion people.
@@robierahg17 dear , last champions league finals(2018,2019...) are viewed by 600 millions people , ou can search it
@@robierahg17 Lol. You just check only the American data.
I think Messi will score from a free kick second half
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A Pakistan vs India cricket world cup match is the only thing close in viewership but the FIFA World Cup Final is still bigger.
Cricket is so dead though
@@James-vy5jg you are not familiar with the game
Bit dead but I admit it also
@@bipraprakash1683 I'm Australian, I'm familiar.
@@James-vy5jg Australians maybe are most successful but they are more familiar with their Australian football then cricket
@@bipraprakash1683 in Victoria yeah, I'm in new south Wales. We don't care about Australian football here
no video is needed, there is no argument, football is life and the most popular and exciting sport on the planet full of history, joys, sadness, tragedies, celebrations everything is football
There's no doubt that the World Cup is the biggest sport event, although I do appreciate a lot of what the Olympics brings to the table. I'd rather have countries that don't necessarily play football first and foremost keep their own path, and have a stage where they can show off other sports where they can show their stripes. But I'll chose not to pick and chose, and enjoy both
Football is the most watched sport in the world so you could just imagine how huge football world cup final is.
Short answer: Yes
Long answer: Yes
Fact 1: Football is the biggest sport there is and ever will be ,
Fact2: world cup is the biggest tournament no doubt
Fact 3: fact 1 and fact 2 are 100% accurate
just love that you have our Solomon Islands national team shown in your very informative video,good job.
There is absolutely no way the audience for the 2011 Cricket World Cup Final was as low as 135 million people. India alone probably had double that amount of concurrent viewers, and global viewership probably wasn't too far off what was quoted - maybe 350 to 400 million viewers, considering that there's significant Indian population worldwide. Maybe the figure should be dropped slightly due to multiple people watching one TV screen, but the amount of people who watched the event live is probably close to what was quoted.
Why india didnt ever qualify? It has 18% of the world population plus 500 plus million immigrants spread around the world? It's not as poor as South America and has *DEMOCRACY* ? Even Iran without the democracy and without the huge population plus it's in crisis 24/7, qualified...why ? Now don't deflect the topic by mentioning other sports or some CEO(since Indians always deflect the topic by mentioning this , when everyone knows no Indian CEO plays for FIFA) shit. Countries with *RICH CEOs* like Germany, France, USA, KSA qualified too...anyway.
ok Apu, tank u come again.
@@syas13 it is poorer than south america. Look at the per capita income not the GDP.
Even anecdotally, the fact that my family WhatsApp group was about as busy as it's ever been during the World Cup final, tells me the appeal of the tournament. 50% of the group don't even care about football, but the interest amongst almost everyone was intense. Pretty much everyone watching the game across several different timezones - none of whom are Argentine nor French. Just 77 people glued to the drama unfolding.
An India vs Pakistan Cricket World Cup final would have to be hypothetical, as India have become specialists at bottling knockout games
Why india didnt ever qualify? It has 18% of the world population plus 500 plus million immigrants spread around the world? It's not as poor as South America and has *DEMOCRACY* ? Even Iran without the democracy and without the huge population plus it's in crisis 24/7, qualified...why ? Now don't deflect the topic by mentioning other sports or some CEO(since Indians always deflect the topic by mentioning this , when everyone knows no Indian CEO plays for FIFA) shit. Countries with *RICH CEOs* like Germany, France, USA, KSA qualified too...anyway.
ok Apu, tank u come again.
@@syas13 population size doesn't correlate with sporting success. If that was the case, China would win everything.
In Australia, stadiums were almost full at 6AM in the morning (Yes, 6AM) to watch a football match (not the final) on TV screens! I have never seen scenes like that for any sport in Australia or around the World. Thousands more were in city centres watching World Cup games on TV screens at silly hours.
Australia scare the s*hit out of argentina at last minute, is was not fun, see you next world cup.
That doesn't give the correct impression however. Football is a minority sport in Australia, notwithstanding what you say. Yes, there were thousands gathered together to watch the Australian team at 6am in the morning, and even 1.7m watching on tv, but that still means that 95% of the country weren't watching. The TV audience for the final was 1m, about 4% of the population.
@@daleviker5884 oh why do you bother? It’s the ONLY sport to bring out the fans in huge numbers with the passion it deserves. I bet no other sport can achieve close to these audience figures at 2AM when the final was aired. Let alone have tens of thousands attend live sites at 6AM in the morning! It’s a lot more popular that you think.
@@josephj6521 Football is no more or less popular in Australia than what I indicated. You won't see AFL or NRL fans gathering to watch their sport at 2am in the morning because the games are played locally in the day or evening. Duh. Fans of mainstream sports in Australia always wish the Socceroos well, and a small segment of the population will watch the World Cup, but now that it's over, the sport goes back to being a minority interest that only makes the news when there's a riot.
@@daleviker5884 have you ever seen tens of thousands watch the Rugby or Rugby League “world cups” live from the UK at 4am? No. Of course not. They’re not as popular as the media make them out to be.
An incrdible video! well done.
I would like to see the relation between Ayrton Senna's tragic death on May 1st, 1994, and the impact on Brazil's football team that won the World Cup later that Summer.
It’s interesting since you mentioned F1. As a fan or at least these days a fairly jaded one the Champions League analogy rings true where more and more events are being added in order to maximise revenue and dilute the sport is very much true in F1 too. Also the chasing of Billionaire Despots in F1 would make even FIFA blush (well possibly not..)
I loved the way you presented facts and logic for determining how Fifa WC final is the biggest sporting event in the world.
@@syas13 what are you on about?
The world cup final coming around once every 4 years makes it legendary
Think a major factor in the world cup never being called the 'football world cup' is FIFA insisting it's referred to as the "FIFA world cup" by the media and their increasingly prominent branding (e.g. FIFA being in a larger font than 'world cup' on official signs). A contributor to the situation is perhaps the role that the FIFA football series has had increasing awareness of the FIFA brand since its inception. I'd be interested to see a comparison with how things were in the 80s and earlier in terms of marketing and branding of the world cup.
Well most people generally drop the FIFA aspect and just state it as the world cup. I rarely see anyone outside of TV announcers call it a "FIFA" world cup, and even then they just state it as world cup, or copa mundial in Hispanic countries.
@@blackearl7891 Fair point but I'd say that's potentially not always true in countries where there's a world cup in another sport (e.g. cricket, rugby, ice hockey) that rivals the football one in popularity
FIFA is the international governing body of association football, so of course they're gonna add their name to the biggest event they held. It's no different than UEFA Champions League or NBA Finals.
Simple argument - it is so easy (from an African perspective).
Number 1: You can be piss poor and still play. You don't even need a proper football, in South Africa we took several plastic bags, bundled them together and wrapped them in an orange bag - that's how you make a football.
Number 2: Still piss poor. put 2 bricks and that is how you create a goal
Number 3: You can be from 5 foot 2 to all the way to 6 foot 8, nobody cares as long as you put in effort.
Number 4: You only need boots (in Africa you can play bare footed even) and shin pads (here you can use cardboard for shin pads)
Number 5: You don't need grass, you can play on concrete, sand, a desert and even on a beach.
Those are some but there are more. Sad to see FIFA and UEFA make our sport more money driven (it sucks).
you are so right , but i dont think that the 1 reason is the most important , because there are a lot of sport that can be played if you are poor , but yes football can be played wit rocks , bags... as you said people from all type can play it , messi is the best and cristiano, haaland is 1.95 messi 1.70, but people confuses this with not having to be fit to play football
I think the ratings for the World Cup this time around is going to be *GIGANTIC* . With good reason: the final showcased Lionel Messi, a legendary player approaching the sunset of a long, historic career and Kylian Mbappé, the next rising international superstar of the sport. And the final was actually an exciting game showcasing both players, something that was almost never seen at the final level.
Rigged fifa games lol
Fifa is corrupt though its amazing people are blind and still watch the games knowing damn well the corruption is still very high even after they jaile dlots of fifa board members.
Thats why i cant even watch it. Just so corrupt
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Excellent video Alfie
Can't wait for the video about the new Club World Cup format.
The fact that World Cup final only happens once every 4 years adds to the importance and exclusivity of it.
Another very interesting video all around.
Yes it’s held once every 4 years. It’s the biggest stage in the world.
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1:22 omg you got me good with that one 😂
2:35 DUDE YOU’RE GONNA KILL ME! 😂
Americans will tell you the Super Bowl is the biggest sporting event on earth yet this year's Super Bowl had a lower attendance than the 2019 Checkatrade Trophy final between 2 League 1 clubs.
Mbappe with a hat trick in the WC final. Living legend 🐐
Mbappe is good but MESSI is the goat. Not only he won everything you can win as a football player but at age 35, he played every minute of every game, including 2 extensions!
@@pm1660 Goated completed .
@@riyadhahammed9737 Indeed
I really enjoyed the f1 chat, hitc f1 maybe?
The China vs Brazil in 2002 group stages was probably the biggest viewed world cup group stage match ever
Wow lol... I had NO IDEA the Championship play-off final was that lucrative!! 😮😮😳😳
it‘s not about price money per se, but about getting into the prem, which is just flooded with absurd amounts of means and money, so that even small teams, who don‘t have any prospect of doing well during the season, get a huge chunk.
That‘s how Forrest can spend so much without fearing financial ruin despite just having achieved promotion. Even if they go down again the revenue they are able to generate while in the prem will be easily sufficient to compensate the spending.
Best game I've seen since the '96 Newcastle/Liverpool match!
After watching the 2022 World Cup, I doubt any other sporting event currently surpasses it.
5 billion viewers for The Final:)
Personally in terms of calibre, only the Olympics and the WC are worthy of topping the list. Olympics cause there's more investment from every country participating and historically nearly every culture has a contest of sports domestically but WC can take it cause its the most popular sport in most countries
Absolutely, the World Cup is the only sporting event watched all over the world, football truly is the world game 👏👏👏⚽️🌎
It's not about the Money, it's about the prestige of it.
A worthy finale to a strange championship. Good review.
"The biggest"
I define biggest by amount of people involved in it. The viewers are always the largest group involved in sporting events so they define the size of it.
World Cup is the biggest even and it will never change.
It is by such a distance, its not even worth debating lol
Cricket World Cup has over a billion people
@@SportsReplays if you watched the video, you’d know that’s simply not true
@@SportsReplays cricket is viewed by billion people? i have not ever heard about it , i know about basket , tennis f1 but not cricket
@@carloshoces7602 Popular in India. Don't they teach you in school.
Easily yes. More people watch this match than any other sporting event.
Super Bowl might have more money but less people watch it globally.
1. World Cup Final
2. Euro Final
3. Champions League Final
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Need a vid on what's going on in the A-League ASAP
I am thankful that you included the season Chelsea won the champions league. We are in the gutters now but its was great.
We will rise again 😭💙
@@sanketgedam5603 Quite soon, in fact.
Idk if I’d say in the gutters more were rebuilding
@@sanketgedam5603 Why india didnt ever qualify? It has 18% of the world population plus 500 plus million immigrants spread around the world? It's not as poor as South America and has *DEMOCRACY* ? Even Iran without the democracy and without the huge population plus it's in crisis 24/7, qualified...why ? Now don't deflect the topic by mentioning other sports or some CEO(since Indians always deflect the topic by mentioning this , when everyone knows no Indian CEO plays for FIFA) shit. Countries with *RICH CEOs* like Germany, France, USA, KSA qualified too...anyway.
ok Apu, tank u come again.
@@syas13 its simple brother, lack of grass root development, corruption inside aiff and lack of govt support for football in india with lack of exposure for indian players in outside leagues like j leagues etc which are much more competitive than isl or i league.
I don't do sports, don't watch any sports except some football matches in the pasts, and some highlights now and then. Even in this world cup I only watches highlights. But I still wanted to know latest update. It felts like missing something without knowing speculations, result, and commentaries for this event.
-Is the World Cup final the biggest sport event?
-Yes
All these other sports are too EXPENSIVE for MOST OF THE WORLD. 😢 Football ⚽️ will FOREVER be the best Sports on earth with the most eyeballs on it.
All you need is a ball (bottle, crumpled paper, anything that can roll and a goal post (sticks or anything that can mark a spot) and that’s that.
Football also has the Most participants there are more footballers on earth than basketball era, cricketers, formula one drivers etc
There are more participating nations in football ⚽️ than any other sport. For the 2022 World Cup every single country participated in the qualifiers including NORTH KOREA, ISRAEL, CHINA, RUSSIA, ZIMBABWE, SOMALIA, IRAQ and many more
It is for this reason the next fifa worldcup will be Expanded to accommodate more nations.
lol at these Americans who believe the Super Bowl is bigger. Wake up. USA is the only country that loves it.
Messi's finally done it
He's won it all.
Why india didnt ever qualify? It has 18% of the world population plus 500 plus million immigrants spread around the world? It's not as poor as South America and has *DEMOCRACY* ? Even Iran without the democracy and without the huge population plus it's in crisis 24/7, qualified...why ? Now don't deflect the topic by mentioning other sports or some CEO(since Indians always deflect the topic by mentioning this , when everyone knows no Indian CEO plays for FIFA) shit. Countries with *RICH CEOs* like Germany, France, USA, KSA qualified too...anyway.
ok Apu, tank u come again.
The Super Bowl will never hold a candle to the World Cup Final.
You can have Super Bowl and the World Cup Final at the same time, and the World Cup will win the viewership and social media battle.
The Super Bowl could feature ‘Brady vs Rodgers’, and World Cup Final ‘Messi vs Ronaldo’. Guess what. The Super Bowl can easily become irrelevant.
Football has more followers because it was a European sport and when Europe colonized the world it spread football with it. Europe colonized Africa, Asia and South America, so the fact that football is popular in much of the world just reflects world history. It's the same reason that cricket is popular in India and Pakistan. America hasn't colonized other continents, so you wouldn't expect American football to have spread around the world.
Good vid
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World Cup because it is global...😊😊
I’d include the Rugby World Cup and Champions league as some of the biggest events.
19:24 I remember that in the States I said that I’d like to go to the World Cup and the response was “World Cup of what”
NOTHING BIGGER !!!!! NOTHING BETTER !!!!! NOTHING TO COMPARE WITH !!!!! EVER !!!! FOREVER AND EVER ....."THE World Cup OF """"FOOTBALL""""
Got to say the Olympics has lost its luster. Barely anyone gave a rats' backside about Rio 2016 or Tokyo 2020. I suppose the men's 100m final is the showpiece event, but except Usain Bolt, most medal winners get forgotten in about 15 minutes' time. It's more of a collection of world championship play-offs and finals for a medley of sports that don't get regular mainstream coverage (swimming, athletics, field hockey)
Who won the last men’s 100m final
@@marculinrise9914 Jacob Lamont Mitchell (half-Italian, half-black American), but the Olympics has lost its prestige. Anyway that's probably the only time he'll win gold, but next Usain Bolt will probably become a household name
I'll save you 21 minutes of life: Yes.
In terms of the Commonwealth countries which love cricket, Canada has very little interest in that sport, but watching the Super Bowl is very popular. Canada also has an American football league called the Canadian Football League. But interest in soccer does seem to be growing in that country!
When India and china in the game numbers just go crazy
Why india didnt ever qualify? It has 18% of the world population plus 500 plus million immigrants spread around the world? It's not as poor as South America and has *DEMOCRACY* ? Even Iran without the democracy and without the huge population plus it's in crisis 24/7, qualified...why ? Now don't deflect the topic by mentioning other sports or some CEO(since Indians always deflect the topic by mentioning this , when everyone knows no Indian CEO plays for FIFA) shit. Countries with *RICH CEOs* like Germany, France, USA, KSA qualified too...anyway.
ok Apu, tank u come again.
Yeah by far the world cup final is the worlds most important sporting event.
I’m not sure if this counts or not but actually the most viewed sporting event in America every year isn’t actually the Super Bowl it’s actually wrestlemania and has been for a very long time just not sure if that counts
Wrestling is a scripted sport
So are Half the world cups ever held
Well wrestling is not really a sport, so I'd say no, it doesn't count.
Yeah, but that's Sports-Entertainment. It's the biggest staged production in the world for sure, but it's closer to TV shows than sports.
@@yudhabagaskara98 doesn’t matter
To me if I was a player I’d want to win every trophy I physically could but the World Cup is the pinnacle. It’s the spectacle that I, a Rugby fan, always get pulled back to.
Are there any international teams better than the best club teams??
Hell yeah, it’s every 4 years. And the whole world watches and celebrates
Make a video on where luka modric ranks among all time great midfielders
Very simple. Number two behind Zidane, the goat.
@@waitbalthy6342 whoaa, slow down bud.. Modric's great, but I don't think that he's better than Xavi, Iniesta, Ronaldinho, Gerrard, Lampard, Scholes, Pirlo, and Vieira just to name a few.
@@idosabamemanuel5163 at that level it’s really hard too set them apart. I’m glad we can at least agree that Zizou is on top 😁
@@waitbalthy6342 I'm tempted to say Maradona's the best, but he occasionally played as second striker too.
The only reasons I have ever seen some formula one or tour de france is because it was what was on at a laundromat and I was not able to change the channel
Well do you take into consideration all the qualifying games played around the world prior to actully play the World cup games?
Leo Pepsi... bigger then all NFL and US
Ill save you 21 minutes… yes
YES!!!!! don’t even need to watch the video to know this. I will watch it after the WC FINAL
I would like to know the importance of Brazil's audience in the World Cup.
We are the most populous of football-loving countries, and national team games are de facto holidays here.
I consider the 100 m. dash at the Olympics to be the best (if not biggest) event in sport, because it is the most competetive sport in the world. After all, almost everyone has had a chance to run a dash, but only one person can be crowned as the fastest human being.
Yeah but it's over in 10 seconds... not that filling.
Genetics and doping play a role in who wins
One more thing: has anyone looked up the viewing figures for the UEFA European Championship final and knockout stages? I know it's only UEFA Nations (plus Turkey and Central Asian countries) permitted to compete, but it is surely a close 2nd in terms of prestige to the FIFA World Cup? Love to see you do a video on this Alfie if you're struggling for video ideas in the next 18 months 👍
The only time bars open at 8am are during the World Cup. That right there makes it number one for me lol
I know exactly the circumstances where I have been during every WC final since 1990. Can't say that for anything else in sports. Except specific cl finals or the Messi vs arsenal 4-0...
I dont know if this comment will get noticed.. but i really wish HITC would cover the story of the most heated football rivalry in South East Asia.. Malaysia vs Indonesia
Hope Alfie can see this comment
the thing makes it heated is becuz indonesia. the country that has many uneducated people. look at the country's history as many people killed by football club rivalries.
Love both football and cricket! It’s great to have two world cups in the same year! Both bringing in billions of viewership!
No compare to FIFA world cup .
i respect people from india the people like sport . but brother cricket its very popular in india without india no body who is cricket ...
You were brilliant
Did you really have to make a 21-minute-long video about this? I turned off at around 2:30 point when you started talking about the Tour de France.
Yes, the World Cup is the biggest tournament in the world. No debate. Nothing comes close.