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  • @MarcelL-DM
    @MarcelL-DM 7 лет назад +864

    I wonder why in the U.S. it's called football, even if the kicking part is minimal.

    • @jazzx251
      @jazzx251 7 лет назад +66

      I know why.
      In 1863 - the unified rules of association football were drawn up ... the schools wanted to play each other with the same rules.
      The game they developed (which I've played in front of 1000 people) ... was the beginnings of two different games.
      The game involved a heavy round ball - 4 possessions - the ability to scrummage for the ball - the ability to kick for goal out of your hands - the goal was just two massive long posts, no crossbar.
      You also had to tap/bounce the ball once every 10 yards.
      This is the version that got transported through the world in the early days - and, rightly, the locals decided to change some of the rules.
      So, the Americans liked the 4-possession rule - but they preferred a more carriable ball ... and to be able to throw it forwards (a no-no in Cambridge Rules 1863 football - or its schismatic brother, Rugby)
      The Australians couldn't give a XXXX about the 4-possession rule - but liked the tapping the ball every 10 yards thing. They added an extra two long goalposts so that near misses could score just one point.
      The Irish Gaelic Football is the closest to the original rules (round ball, that you can carry - but have to tap every few yards) ... but it later fused it with soccer. Crossbar on the goal, 3 points for a goal, 1 point for hoofing it over (but between the massive long goalposts).
      After that - the Football Association broke off from those that wanted to carry the ball around all the time, they kept the round ball and made it a strictly "foot" ball game. Being the Football AsSOCciation ... this version was called "soccer", even in England.
      Rugby broke away too, only to suffer its own schism between Rugby Union and Rugby League.
      All games named themselves "football".
      Even rugby.
      You'll hear commentators saying "St Helens is a great football team, they really are!" ... they're a superb Rugby League team!
      But Rugby teams are often called "Leicester RFC" (Rugby Football Club)
      In short - "football" is a term used to describe a wide variety of variations based on the 1863 Cambridge Rules.

    • @ridwanfarah7616
      @ridwanfarah7616 7 лет назад +30

      Nope the ball is just 1 foot long no joke

    • @OcctobersXO
      @OcctobersXO 7 лет назад +20

      It’s called handball but Americans would be in their feelings and would probably shoot up every school

    • @GulagExpress1
      @GulagExpress1 7 лет назад +7

      The entire playing part is minimal.

    • @GulagExpress1
      @GulagExpress1 7 лет назад +16

      Tropi Cano ~ Handball is a whole different sport.

  • @44SirLoopalot
    @44SirLoopalot 7 лет назад +1330

    Hand🖐Egg🏈
    Foot👟Ball⚽️

    • @MX.CENTRAL
      @MX.CENTRAL 6 лет назад +9

      Luke Del Toroski because it's an emotional sport and means a lot to the players and fans

    • @Justin-gb2qq
      @Justin-gb2qq 6 лет назад +22

      Luke Del Toroski if the ref sees that he dove than he actually gets yellow card and sometimes red card so yeh...kinda do that already

    • @Justin-gb2qq
      @Justin-gb2qq 6 лет назад +14

      Luke Del Toroski and golie being pulled is ridiculous idea because that means the players from opposing team can score from shooting all the way from the other pitch it wouldnt be fair. I won’t really blame u for it tho cause i know you dont know much about football(soccer)

    • @Justin-gb2qq
      @Justin-gb2qq 6 лет назад +13

      Luke Del Toroski pulling out a golie is really ridiculous idea the game would be really boring cause the other team would score goals for 10-30 minutes straight, it would be like fucking 30-0 so yeah. Not attacking you just calling the idea stupid

    • @Justin-gb2qq
      @Justin-gb2qq 6 лет назад +10

      Luke Del Toroski since u dont get it yet. Not. Gonna. Fucking. Happend

  • @cristiano_9654
    @cristiano_9654 7 лет назад +469

    3:28 if u love underdog stories, react to Leicester city winning the premier league

    • @LunaWolfMXS
      @LunaWolfMXS  7 лет назад +26

      Go Cry About it I'll put it on the list

    • @raphde297
      @raphde297 6 лет назад +22

      Or Greece won the Euro 2004

    • @Module79L
      @Module79L 6 лет назад +14

      Or Portugal winning the final of the Euro 2016 against the home team. ; )

    • @dieterdelvaux150
      @dieterdelvaux150 6 лет назад +1

      Don't react to that... Even tho they won it, it was just pure anti-football.

    • @dydy1228
      @dydy1228 6 лет назад +12

      salty french is still salty

  • @SmokeDimi
    @SmokeDimi 7 лет назад +260

    He should have mentioned Europa League also and the fact that Winner of Europa League and Champions League then play for European Supercup. But it's a good explanation without that too.

    • @newjustfun6143
      @newjustfun6143 6 лет назад +5

      SmokeDimi And the winner uf the league and the winner of the cup play for the supercup of the country.

    • @ramonreacts5978
      @ramonreacts5978 6 лет назад

      SmokeDimi He also forgot to say that League Champions and The Cup Winner also play each other for a price

    • @evohhd1063
      @evohhd1063 6 лет назад

      SmokeDimi he also forgot the fact that in the second division in England, the teams that finish 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th play in the playoffs for promotion

    • @MegaTamer111
      @MegaTamer111 6 лет назад +2

      he also forgot to say that the winner of the champions league plays against 5 other teams (best teams in each continent) for the FIFA Club world cup

    • @michaelwielingen7696
      @michaelwielingen7696 6 лет назад

      Yes their is so much when it comes to football👏🏾💪🏿

  • @elconocido1994
    @elconocido1994 2 года назад +1

    you can win an aditional trophy...when a team wins the UEFA Champions League then is something called "Intercontinental cup" in which the european winner of Champions league play against the winner of Copa Libertadores (the latin-american version of uefa champions league)

  • @ha22el5
    @ha22el5 6 лет назад +1

    In South America we have:
    Libertadores (Our continental championship just like Champios League)
    Each continent has its own championship and in the end of the year the winner of each one play one another to know who's the best football club in the world that year.

  • @DayaneFreire2016
    @DayaneFreire2016 7 лет назад +107

    I'm Brazilian and we have state championships (Carioca, Paulista and etc.), the cup (Copa do Brasil), the league (Brasileirão) where 4 teams are relegated, we have Championships like Copa Verde and Copa do Nordeste too. The Copa Libertadores is the Champions League and the Copa Sudamericana is the Europe League of South America. In the end of year the Champions of each confederation play the World Club Championship.

    • @gabrieltenera4292
      @gabrieltenera4292 7 лет назад +2

      D Freire yeah, but the Brazilian clubs are really shit

    • @eldiego68
      @eldiego68 6 лет назад +26

      gabriel tenera football noob spotted

    • @PVPTawa
      @PVPTawa 6 лет назад +7

      eldiego68 he isn't wrong, if the best south american clubs played in Europe they'd probably not even make it to Europe League, it's rare for south american clubs to beat European ones, south america does have good players, but European clubs have better conditions and money, they buy players from south america and develop them cheap to sell at higher price in Europe, with few exceptions.

    • @eldiego68
      @eldiego68 6 лет назад

      PVP Tawa that has nothing to do with what the guy said...

    • @germanmolina5798
      @germanmolina5798 6 лет назад +2

      gracias por explicarle que hay mas futbol que el europeo!

  • @MrJoromekiq1
    @MrJoromekiq1 2 года назад +1

    Actually, there's only 1 parade, even if you win all 3. Some teams are so used to winning, that they don't do parades at all

  • @Klemen-n2q
    @Klemen-n2q 6 лет назад +177

    European soccer? are you kidding me?

    • @pic4315
      @pic4315 6 лет назад +1

      77 k well, it’s about soccer in Europe

    • @petrhajek4869
      @petrhajek4869 6 лет назад +21

      @@pic4315 omg you ****. In Europe we call it football not some f***ing soccer

    • @pic4315
      @pic4315 6 лет назад +6

      Petr Hájek I’m Spanish a**hole. I said soccer because it’s an american video, in Spain we say Futbol (football) too, so shut up what are you talking about

    • @Destoroyah12
      @Destoroyah12 6 лет назад +13

      Americans call it soccer. The rest of the world football.. But americans think they are right.

    • @amjan
      @amjan 6 лет назад

      @@petrhajek4869 You idiot, we don't call it football in Poland (but piłka nożna), nor do they call it football in Germany (but Fußball), in Italy they call it calcio. This is an American video where they call it soccer. How difficult is it to get? Simply said - we DO NOT CALL IT FOOTBALL IN EUROPE. That's what it's called in the UK.

  • @rogerpenna
    @rogerpenna 6 лет назад +20

    A few points:
    1 - relegation doesn´t exist in the US because it's a franchise system. The league is a business with a owner. And rich people buy the rights to own a franchise, and the league even decides how many clubs can exist per city, etc. Nobody will buy a franchise if a bad season can put you in second division.
    2 - the system is quite different by country, but in many countries, including most of South America, clubs have no owners. They are social clubs dedicated to sport, meaning the fans own the club. You can get associated to your club, and vote for president, councilors, etc.
    3 - while the system is more stratified in Europe, in some countries, like Brazil, there were experimentation with different formats. Brazil only adopted the league system in its national competition in 2003. Before that there were play-offs too.
    4 - not sure, but I guess the point of the video is soccer in general, not ONLY in Europe. In Brazil, besides the usual national cup, national league and continental cup, there are also STATE leagues (with playoffs) which run in the first 2-3 months of the season/year (it's southern hemisphere, so season start in february and run until end of november)
    5 - video forgot to talk about the NATIONAL teams. Unlike american football, in soccer, national football is much more important and so that should also be mentioned.

    • @jayzerino
      @jayzerino 6 лет назад

      Ain't nobody got time to read this

    • @Leo-S-Ellen
      @Leo-S-Ellen 6 лет назад +1

      See I would love to say that what you said there was perfect. But you kept on calling it soccer when it's a ball that you nearly all the time kick with your foot (apart from headers and when someone is passing it to you kinda high then you let it bounce of York chest). Football m8 it's football

    • @xblazekingz7070
      @xblazekingz7070 6 лет назад +1

      In other words...its a shit system and Soccer is better in every way

    • @PrimarchRoboleonFrenchyman
      @PrimarchRoboleonFrenchyman 3 года назад

      Red Bull Leipzig and Salzburg: Are we a joke to you?

    • @rogeriopenna9014
      @rogeriopenna9014 3 года назад +1

      @@Leo-S-Ellen i used the word soccer twice.
      I wrote that to an US American. I also don't think you have a problem that Italians call it calccio.

  • @dannycheesums
    @dannycheesums 6 лет назад +11

    Winning the three trophies in one year is called the Treble and is rare, but Man Utd did it in 1999, plus Barcelona in 2015, and I think it’s only happened like 7 times or something

  • @ChristianSReitz
    @ChristianSReitz 6 лет назад +1

    it was a way to say things in a slang during the late 1800's/early 1900's to add "-er" at the end of words. Soccer is a nickname for asSOCiation football in old timey slang, basically. Idk if anybody commented that clearly enough yet but in case not, here you go lol

    • @sammygirl5835
      @sammygirl5835 6 лет назад +1

      The name of football (as I understand it) Football used to be a catch all name for any number of games played in the British Isles - but mostly in England - from at least medieval times. In the mid 19th century Cambridge University codified the rules, so that their undergraduates, who had mostly come from the big, famous, private schools, all of which played a different version of football, could play each other. These rules were adopted by the newly formed English Football Association and this new codified game was called Association Football. As stated, 'Soccer' is a corruption of the word 'association' and was commonly used in the UK for much of the 20th. As mentioned above, the big private boys schools all played their own version of football, this included Rugby School, and their game became what we call Rugby - which is really called Rugby Football but the word ‘football’ has been mostly dropped by both codes. However before that happened, it was taken to America where it morphed into what Americans call Football.

  • @n0body550
    @n0body550 6 лет назад +13

    They used the german league for relegation even though german relegation works different

  • @manafactariq3439
    @manafactariq3439 6 лет назад +11

    Hey in the US do they call football, football because the egg ball thing is a foot long ?

  • @BurnRoddy
    @BurnRoddy 6 лет назад +1

    Actually the sport is Egyptian and is from 2500 BC but the earliest name that we know of is Episkyros dating back to around the year 600 BC in Ancient Greece.

  • @thomasjensen9745
    @thomasjensen9745 6 лет назад +70

    soccer is a 'pet-name' for 'association foot ball' - You americans are not to blame for calling it soccer. That name came with british people to america

    • @Leo-S-Ellen
      @Leo-S-Ellen 6 лет назад +3

      We now call it football because you kick the ball with your foot, honestly are you guys just not in the times or what

    • @David-qy7sb
      @David-qy7sb 6 лет назад

      I give you sh*t, that doesn't mean you have to eat it.

    • @Leo-S-Ellen
      @Leo-S-Ellen 6 лет назад +1

      Da vid WTF are you saying Bruv?

    • @David-qy7sb
      @David-qy7sb 6 лет назад +1

      +Leo Ellen Omg... I mean the British invented the word "soccer", but that doesn't mean you Americans have to use it. Don't use that pathetic excuse to justify the way you call the sport.

    • @forkyicicle8904
      @forkyicicle8904 6 лет назад +1

      Leo Ellen Bit that's not what football means. It means it's a ball game you play on foot.

  • @ynvassknrdar1233
    @ynvassknrdar1233 6 лет назад +2

    English Football is a really old game. It originated during the Mid-Medieval Period and was, in its earliest form, a game without rules or regulations (it was also violent and injuries were fairly common . An entire village would play against another village and the game was won when the ball (either a pigs bladder or stone) was landed into the opponents village (similarly to Rugby), except the distance between the two villages could be 2-3 miles and each team could have up to 100 players. The game gradually evolved into two distinct games over the next few centuries, one was called Rugby and the other was Association Football. American Football is more closely related to Rugby (the two games are very similar in fact) but took the name as Football due to Rugby being referred to as a type of football (Rugby Football).

  • @afonsomendes1726
    @afonsomendes1726 6 лет назад +41

    Hi from Portugal! 🇵🇹

    • @LunaWolfMXS
      @LunaWolfMXS  6 лет назад +4

      Afonso Mendes hey!!!!

    • @appiahallan
      @appiahallan 5 лет назад +2

      Afonso Mendes 🇬🇭

    • @telmopena1366
      @telmopena1366 4 года назад +4

      Bro, nunca pensei encontrar um português aqui ahahahah

    • @afonsomendes1726
      @afonsomendes1726 4 года назад +3

      @@telmopena1366 os tugas estão em todo o lado 😅

    • @edwisongogo6326
      @edwisongogo6326 4 года назад

      this comment is Cringe AF.

  • @marcello000
    @marcello000 6 лет назад +1

    The winner of the champions league trophy also automatically qualifies for the FIFA Club World Cup. there the best club from europe will take on Champions from other continents such as the winner of the Asian champions league etc.

  • @drelo3000
    @drelo3000 6 лет назад

    In bundesliga the club that is 16th in the table is not automatically relegated. They go into a playoff with the 3rd best club from the 2nd division.

  • @elsacristina9
    @elsacristina9 6 лет назад

    he forgot the Europe cup league, meaning the team that stays in 3rd place in the group stage of CL, will go the Europe Cup League, where the teams that stayed from 3rd to 6th place in their country league will play, and it is the method than the CL.

  • @ben13135
    @ben13135 6 лет назад

    in germany the 3rd last place doesn't automatically go down. they have either a one leg or two leg tie against the team that came 3rd in the 2nd division

  • @tommiklos757
    @tommiklos757 6 лет назад

    In England, the worst 3 teams in the First Division (Premier League) are relegated. The top 2 teams in the Second Division (EFL Championship) are promoted at the end of the season. Then the teams that are placed 3-6 in the championship go into what they call the ‘Championship Playoffs’. 3rd v 6th playing Home and away. 4th v 5th playing Home and away. Then the winners of those 2 ties go to the national stadium and play 1 game and the winner of that goes into the First Division.

  • @MarkH87
    @MarkH87 6 лет назад +1

    ya know I was gonna do a reverse to this on my channel trying to understand American Football from a UK man so after watching this yeah deffo got me interested also good video man always good to see people trying to understand football

  • @NateNakao
    @NateNakao 6 лет назад +3

    The word "soccer" actually originated in England sometime in the 1870's. At the time the primary form of football (soccer) was played in the Football Association. Another form of football (rugby football) was gaining popularity in England, so to distinguish between the two, nicknames were given: "rugger" to rugby football, and "soccer" to association football.
    Association football became known by this English nickname in countries that were already pioneering their own game called football. Australia had what we know as "Aussie rules football." America adopted the nickname in the early part of the twentieth century to shorten their sports from American football and association football.
    England used the terms interchangeably (often with the hybrid "soccer football") until around the 1980's when the sport grew in popularity in America whilst being known as soccer. England rejected the colloquialism as being associated with Yankee culture.
    Apologies for the long comment, but I hope it's proven helpful.

    • @asmodon
      @asmodon 2 года назад

      Originally FOOTball wasn’t named for using feet, but differentiating it from rich people ball games like Polo that were played on horseback. It’s a ball game played „on foot“. That’s why people didn’t agree on using hands or not.

  • @scemo39
    @scemo39 6 лет назад

    They forgot to mention how play offs work. They mentioned it but you know. In england.
    4 divisions (top to bottom)
    Premier league
    Championship
    League 1
    League 2
    Whoever wins premier league goes to champions league, keep in mind unless you get relegated in the prem, you stay. Winning means you play in both the prem and champions league
    Whoever loses each league goes down, whoever loses league 2 goes to semi professional
    Whoever wins each league below the premier league goes up to the above league. Basic
    Play offs in england work like this:
    The teams who come 3rd to 6th at the end of the season are in play off position. The team who came 3rd plays the 6th team and the 4th team plays the 5th. Whoever wins out of those games play at Wembley, the greatest stadium in the UK. Whoever wins overall gets promoted to the next league along with the other 2 who came 1st and 2nd

  • @PNE2611
    @PNE2611 7 лет назад +3

    Association football started a very long time ago in England Preston was actually one of the founding teams .A nickname for Association football became soccer.

  • @mikaku
    @mikaku 6 лет назад

    4:55 Well. not only 3 trophies. In total you can win 6 on the same season, as F.C.Barcelona did a few years ago. Apart from the league, the cup and the Champions League, there are 3 more trophies, at least in Spain, that you can win at the same time: The Supercup (played by the former league winner and the former cup winner), the European Super Cup (played by the former Champions League winner and a the former UEFA Cup winner) and the FIFA Club World cup (played by the forner Champions League winner and a team from another continent who won itself their own particular Champions League in that continent).

  • @linusnordahl9121
    @linusnordahl9121 6 лет назад

    In germany it’s actually only the bottom 2 teams that automatically gets relegated. The 3 to last team plays against the team that got third in the second divison to decide what team gets relegated

  • @kirilraychev732
    @kirilraychev732 7 лет назад +1

    One more thing he forgot to mention is that 3rd team in each group of Champions league playoffs play in not so popular competition called Europa League and the winner even if he is not in position in the league allowing him to qualify for the Champions league,he is quallifying thanks to winning the Europa league.And depending ot the position in the league a team can directly qualify for Champions league or Europa league or play playoffs for a spot in either compettion,and as you can guess involvement in one of the tournaments can give a club big income and more popularity.

  • @247roasted
    @247roasted 6 лет назад

    got to this video by just clicking around the youtubes...
    no idea who this dude is but im surprised as fuck that he actually listened to the stuff and didnt talk shit.
    props

  • @hurtigheinz3790
    @hurtigheinz3790 6 лет назад

    Point 5: The Europe League: The winner of all national cups in Europe and the runner ups in the national leagues (about place 3-6) play in the Europe League (former UEFA Cup). It's structured exactly like Champions League. The winner gets a trophy and can play in Champions League in the next year.

  • @tgns8977
    @tgns8977 6 лет назад

    The maximum amount of trophies you could win as a English team is 7. But that is the most extreme case where everything falls into place. Prem, FA cup, EFL Cup, Community shield, Champions League, Super cup, Club world cup.

  • @Codex7777
    @Codex7777 6 лет назад

    Most countries also have a second cup competition, in some form or another. There is also a second tier Europe wide competition, for teams ranked just below the top teams in their national leagues and for national cup winners.
    P.S. It's football because it's played with your feet... and a ball. ;)

  • @anthday9314
    @anthday9314 6 лет назад +1

    The word "soccer," which is believed to have originated in Britain some 200 years ago, comes from the official name of the sport, "association football." As other versions of the game evolved to include Rugby Football, it is believed the Brits adopted colloquialisms to distinguish each game.

  • @nieldooley2906
    @nieldooley2906 6 лет назад

    There used to be a programme on British commercial tv called Midweek Soccer, which showed a match played on that day. Therefore people my age would use the term soccer as much football. The term soccer was invented in 19th century England as a slang word for Association Football. As far as I know. the word was invented by English Victorian Schoolboys.
    People who play Rugby, from which American Fooball is derived, will also refer to their game as either rugby football or just football and "football" as soccer, to avoid confusion, if that makes sense.

  • @sisusilaste4635
    @sisusilaste4635 6 лет назад +15

    Its football

  • @necbot
    @necbot 6 лет назад +1

    N5: All champions from their respective continents (confederations) play for the FIFA Club World Cup.
    UEFA: Europe / CONCACAF: North&Central America / CONMEBOL: South America / CAF: Africa / OFC: Oceania / AFC: Asia
    The club that results to be the world champion gets to wear a golden emblem on their shirt as a reminder for other teams that they are the reingin champs. This is also true for World Cup (countries), Copa America (countries) and Euro Cup (countries) champions. You can see it in Germany, Chilean and Real Madrid shirts for example.

  • @leopartanen9431
    @leopartanen9431 6 лет назад +8

    In Finnish language we have sports called:
    "Jalkapallo" and "Pesäpallo" directly translated as "Football" and "Baseball", but either one doesn't means what americans call football and baseball :D
    In Finnish language your "Baseball" is "Baseball" and your "Football" is "Amerikkalainen jalkapallo" but it's too long word to say -.- so in slang it's "Jenkkifutis" meaning "Yankee football"

  • @connorhowitt9164
    @connorhowitt9164 7 лет назад +150

    a lot of irish people call football soccer too because they have their own version of 'football' called gaelic football, just like americans have their own football, 'american football'.

    • @messilionel-lf9hf
      @messilionel-lf9hf 7 лет назад +15

      Connor Howitt haha great joke

    • @messilionel-lf9hf
      @messilionel-lf9hf 7 лет назад +41

      Connor Howitt i have a friend from ireland and he is a celtic fan
      I didn't hear him say soccer just 1 time

    • @stevelawson7595
      @stevelawson7595 7 лет назад +43

      Connor Howitt irish people do not call it soccer! That's rubbish!

    • @cardellkenith
      @cardellkenith 7 лет назад +4

      messi lionel
      my cousins and their friends do, and I've got over 20 cousins.
      don't use yourself as the pool, other places and people will be different, but Ireland calling football, soccer is not uncommon

    • @newt2253
      @newt2253 7 лет назад +6

      ken Hudson Irish people do, I’m Irish we sometimes call it soccer

  • @thesoundoffear
    @thesoundoffear 6 лет назад

    "Soccer" is a slang for football that originated in England itself in the late 19th century. Before the 1860s football and rugby didn't have much different rules and were under the same association. Then, 2 different lobbies decided to carve out two distinctly different games. One was "Rug"by football or "Rugger" in slang terms, regulated by the Rugby Union. And the other was As"soc"iation Football, or "Soccer" as a slang term, controlled by the Football Association. So that's where the term came from.

  • @tomlynch8114
    @tomlynch8114 6 лет назад

    Football/Soccer: Football has been played in England since Roman times in various guises, mainly with no, or very loose rules.
    In the 18th and 19th Century, the elite private schools developed their own rules. However, they ran into problems when the scholars went on to university whereby they wanted to continue playing football but encountered people from different schools playing different rules. A standard set of rules was needed and led to the founding of the Football Association (FA for short) in 1862. However, some members left when the rules were decided and the majority opted for a predominantly kicking game that ruled out handling and carrying the ball. Those who were pro handling were inspired by the Rugby School rules. In their own circles both codes were known as Football, but differentiate - Association Football and Rugby Football.
    In upper class/private school slang they were referred to as ‘Soccer’ (from Association) and ‘Rugger’.
    As the two codes spread, it was Association Football that appealed more to the working classes, but also to more educated groups like lawyers and teachers. It became the ‘working class game’ with the mass appeal - and therefore in general terms, Football became to refer to Association Football. Rugby generally was the sport of the upper classes - with some anomalies, such as the mining towns of South Wales and the mill towns of Yorkshire and Lancashire (the latter would cause a split in Rugby which led to the present separate versions of Rugby - Union and League).
    The American Football code derived from Rugby and became the most common code in the US, which is why it’s known as Football - the dominant code in that particular area/country uses the general term Football. (What’s interesting is that Association Football was initially more popular than Rugby amongst most of the Ivy League instutions - Particularly Rutgers and Princeton. Harvard played their own handling game and in search of opponents, turned to Rugby playing McGill University in Canada. Harvard found a taste for Rugby and began lobbying the rest of the Ivy League into adopting Rugby, and then gradually they modified the rules, which morphed in to the American code.
    Most other countries call Association Football ‘Football’ or a similar name adapted into the local language, because Britain was the major industrial power in the 19th and early 20th century, building railways, factories, mines, electrical networks etc across the world. As the ‘working man’s game,’ British workers, engineers and sailors, as well as professionals such as lawyers and teachers, took Association Football with them, and the locals liked what they saw.

  • @TheRausing1
    @TheRausing1 6 лет назад

    3 trophies! Exactly! It’s called a triple and it’s the pinnacle of club football! Good observation.

  • @kevinclaros8847
    @kevinclaros8847 7 лет назад

    it was actually soccer world wide but was then changed to futball but the USA never changed the naming

  • @mats34
    @mats34 7 лет назад

    Couple of things I want to add: not every european league plays from august to may. You also have the europa league, which is basically the champions league for the 2nd best teams in europe who didn't qualify for champions league.

  • @dieterdelvaux150
    @dieterdelvaux150 6 лет назад

    The league in each country can have a total different format as well... (In belgium there is a play off system after regular competition with the top 6 teams. For some strange reason... they half each team's points to create more tension & those 6 teams play eachother twice again and the team with the most points in the end becomes champion. This system is ridiculous, especially the points that get divided in half, but it's basically done to get more TV money, since there aren't many leagues anymore that can compete vs the bigger leagues, just cause of the ridiculous amount of money that goes around in football.)
    Next to the champions league, you also have the Europa League (less bigger teams that eventually get combined with the 3rd out of the group stages from the champions league).
    In several countries there are also more than 1 cup in a season (premier league as example)

  • @notstazzy
    @notstazzy 6 лет назад +1

    I’m glad to see this guy has an open mind about football unlike other Americans that won’t stop calling it gay

    • @StephenS4408
      @StephenS4408 6 лет назад +1

      Betoya Bundu ehh that's actually just people in the southern us who call it gay. Us in the north are cool with it

    • @notstazzy
      @notstazzy 6 лет назад

      Stephen Starasta nah I live in Boston and these people are annoying af calling it gay

  • @KAMIKAZEKITTIES
    @KAMIKAZEKITTIES 6 лет назад

    Interesting fact: If a team wins the League , The League Cup, AND the UCL in the same season its reffered to as winning the "Treble".

  • @adamwillis679
    @adamwillis679 6 лет назад

    I’m from Canada and tbh we use the word “football” interchangeably between gridiron football and association football. If we are talking about the association football games we will say football or the same with the NFL or CFL

  • @jakegold9036
    @jakegold9036 6 лет назад

    Point number 5 should be on the world cup, the greatest sporting event of all time.

  • @andrewfurey2999
    @andrewfurey2999 7 лет назад +11

    Australians also call it soccer because they have aussie rules football and some countries have 2 cup competitions and the league example England has the FA cup ( in which any team from amateurs to professionals play in) the league cup ( in which only professional teams play) and the league

    • @thomasoftorquemadamcdxx171
      @thomasoftorquemadamcdxx171 7 лет назад

      *World Football*

    • @fortuna1232
      @fortuna1232 6 лет назад +2

      Also Rugby League in Oz is called Footy mostly

    • @anthonyf3680
      @anthonyf3680 6 лет назад +1

      In Australia football fans call it football and non football fans call it soccer

    • @David-qy7sb
      @David-qy7sb 6 лет назад +1

      Watch the official interviews/press conference of the Australian national team, the coach and players call the sport football instead of soccer.

    • @forkyicicle8904
      @forkyicicle8904 6 лет назад

      Da vid Of course they would. But normal people don't necessarily.

  • @michaelfallon3101
    @michaelfallon3101 6 лет назад +13

    why is it called european soccer its played throughout the entire world

    • @LunaWolfMXS
      @LunaWolfMXS  6 лет назад +3

      michael fallon I named it that personally to annoy you

    • @LunaWolfMXS
      @LunaWolfMXS  6 лет назад +1

      michael fallon just you though

    • @MartinBeitz
      @MartinBeitz 6 лет назад

      Michael: Maybe the video is called "European soccer" because the video explains the rules of a typical european league...

    • @michaelfallon3101
      @michaelfallon3101 6 лет назад +1

      well no its called football for a start and it is played the same anywhere you go not one set of rules for europe and one set of rules for the rest of the world.

    • @MartinBeitz
      @MartinBeitz 6 лет назад

      Well it looks like you don't get it, so think what you want.

  • @scxped2642
    @scxped2642 6 лет назад

    it’s because they used to give sports nick names by adding -er to the end. rugby football used to be called rugged and association football (football) was soccer

  • @plutopingvin454
    @plutopingvin454 7 лет назад +50

    European Soccer? You know that Football (Soccer) is played world wide and not only in Europe?

    • @derrickkowalczuk
      @derrickkowalczuk 6 лет назад +6

      IIVGameForceIIV The video explained football in europe not the rest of the world

    • @plutopingvin454
      @plutopingvin454 6 лет назад +1

      Derrick Kowalczuk He used European leagues yes, but this is how all the leagues in the world works.

    • @ramimwamba9937
      @ramimwamba9937 6 лет назад +1

      Only European soccer has the Champions League buddy

    • @kokemon84
      @kokemon84 6 лет назад

      IIVGameForceIIV not all some leagues have regular season then playoffs like American sports

    • @Youtube..Enjoyer
      @Youtube..Enjoyer 6 лет назад

      Rami Mwamba wrong Africa also has champions league and other continents probably too

  • @PVPTawa
    @PVPTawa 6 лет назад

    Each country usually has more than 1 cup, there are 2 big European competitions, Champions League and Europe League, the 1st in country league is invited to Champions League group phase, 2nd in country league enters the Champions League playoffs and if they win they also join the group phase. The 3rd-4rd in country league join Europe League group phase, the 3rd in each group of the Champions League drop down to Europe League elimination tournament.
    At the start of the next season, the winner of the last Europe League faces the winner of the last Champions League in a supercup.
    At the end of the league starts the club world cup with the best of Africa, America, Asia and Europe, usually Europe or America wins, mostly Europe.
    The american finalist is mostly if not always from South America.
    The south american leagues have less resting time, they have twice the ammount of league games per year, and 2 seasons while Europe has 1.
    Nationally south america and Europe have the best national teams, If I'm not mistaken Europe has only 1or 2 more world cups, but in terms of clubs Europe has the best leagues, the best south american players play in Europe as well.

  • @jacksims93
    @jacksims93 6 лет назад

    Kinda got the German league relegation thing a bit wrong. The team that finishes 18th in the bundesliga face a relegation play off against the team that finishes 3rd in the 2nd bundesliga

  • @chrisnsf4626
    @chrisnsf4626 6 лет назад

    The interesting thing is most of the MLS team are FC.
    Seattle Sounders FC.
    Los Angeles Football Club.
    FC Dallas.
    Toronto FC.
    Atlanta United FC
    New York City Football Club and so on...

  • @ReneeOtti
    @ReneeOtti 6 лет назад

    They missed the fact that they play 2 legs in the champions league knockout stages.

  • @yosepmarius
    @yosepmarius 4 года назад

    Soccer comes from the word Football Association back in the 1800s. You guys made it up and turned Association into soccer

  • @aimworkin
    @aimworkin 6 лет назад +1

    Can you please tell me (i legit don't know) what's the difference btw American Football and Rugby? (Beside the armour)

    • @LunaWolfMXS
      @LunaWolfMXS  6 лет назад

      They are basically the same. Our football was very similar to rugby in the early days

    • @StylistecS
      @StylistecS 6 лет назад

      LunaWolfMXS they tackle, have goal posts, carry and throw and oblong ball. That’s about it. In reality, the two sports are very different.

  • @daniperez2335
    @daniperez2335 6 лет назад

    Soccer, abbreviation for Association Football. It was used to differenciate from other forms of football such as Rugby Football. The term was originated in Britain.

  • @DanRyzESPUK
    @DanRyzESPUK 6 лет назад

    Each team in Europe aspire to up to three titles:
    National League
    National Cup
    One European title (only the best few)
    The best of each nation (and not all of them) go to participate to either Europa League or Champions League.
    Champions League is the most prestigious by far
    European system is not based on Franchises, but actual companies. You can set up your own club anywhere, with your stadium, and if you do well enough you go qualfying up the leagues until you get to your top league and then Europe.

  • @zireapz5756
    @zireapz5756 6 лет назад

    I like your attitude to this topic. You are a great person.

  • @carlosgonzalez9363
    @carlosgonzalez9363 6 лет назад

    Complete name for football is “Association Football” . Association was shortened to Assoc, then to Soccer along the years.

  • @direnova6284
    @direnova6284 6 лет назад

    In England we have called football soccer, it's far, far less common but I remember kids football magazines that used the word soccer. So early on, the US must have seen the choice and chose the name they didn't already use.

  • @robin888official
    @robin888official 6 лет назад +16

    Why does American Football call itself Football anyway? The foot plays barely a role in that game. Yeah, yeah, kicks and punts, but seriously.
    *Football* is a game about playing the *ball* (only) with the *foot*.
    Handball is about playing it with your hands.
    Basketball ist about putting a ball in a basket.
    Ice hockey is hockey on ice.
    Even the bases in Baseball have a more integral part then feet have in American Football!

    • @Zentron
      @Zentron 6 лет назад

      Robin Koch It's an abbreviation of American Style Rugby Skill Football.

    • @forkyicicle8904
      @forkyicicle8904 6 лет назад +1

      Robin Koch Football, as in "ball game you play on feet". That's why mediaeval village football had practically no kicking. That's also why most footballs have handling, because kicking wasn't an integral part of the game. Association Football is a bit of a rarity as the public schools that formulated the rules had no fields to play on so they dribbled more with their feet. But everywhere else handling was the norm.

    • @tristanboudreau5966
      @tristanboudreau5966 6 лет назад

      Robin Koch we just grew up calling it that and that’s what sticks in our heads

    • @StylistecS
      @StylistecS 6 лет назад

      Because it’s based off Rugby Football. That’s why.

  • @nickmahr3354
    @nickmahr3354 6 лет назад

    Soccer is an English term. The full name was association football which they shortened to either football or soccer

  • @OldSkoolWax
    @OldSkoolWax 6 лет назад

    The word 'soccer' was used regularly in England during 50 and 60s. It's a derivative of Association Football.

  • @dxb8086
    @dxb8086 6 лет назад +1

    Yerah, it's called "European soccer" only in murica. For the whole rest of the world it's "football".

  • @cxrn8549
    @cxrn8549 6 лет назад +1

    There are playoffs in lower leagues if they don’t have enough points for automatic promotion it is like a mini competition to get promoted

  • @simonblanchard4668
    @simonblanchard4668 6 лет назад

    Hello from England glad to say you have an.open mind about sports and also English football and American football I am a fan of both and when September comes all football is back!

  • @UnknownSpectre5
    @UnknownSpectre5 6 лет назад

    If you win your league (German Bundesliga, Premier League, French Ligue 1, La Liga Santander), your national cup, and intercontinental cup (UEFA Champions League), its known as a treble. Bascially, its a cup sweep.

  • @Skerdy
    @Skerdy 7 лет назад +12

    Actually "soccer" is an English (as in England in the UK) term: when they were defining the rules that basically split football (soccer) from rugby the organisation that did it was Football Association and from that "association" you have soccer... why Americans use this obsolete term... well, you still use miles and gallons, so...

    • @alexs7028
      @alexs7028 6 лет назад +2

      Skerdy that’s very true, but what’s infuriating is that you call American rugby ‘football’ and some Americans refuse to call ‘soccer’ football

    • @asmodon
      @asmodon 2 года назад

      @@alexs7028 it shouldn’t be infuriating. American football started before The Football Association and the Rugby Football Union were created (Ruhby dropped the „football“ much later. At the time using hands in football was completely normal.
      Football wasn’t even named after kicking the ball with your feet. It’s was named that because it was played „on foot“ as opposed to royal ball games like Polo that were played on horseback. Even the English used the term soccer well into the 1960s. Just because they don’t like it anymore doesn’t give them the right to dictate what to call something on the other side of the world.

  • @EurovisionESC
    @EurovisionESC 6 лет назад +21

    Football is football.
    American football ( as you call it ) = RUGBY

    • @JL-so2eu
      @JL-so2eu 6 лет назад +8

      NFL= National Fake rugby League

    • @mariohds86
      @mariohds86 6 лет назад +3

      watered down gay Rugby

    • @Leo-S-Ellen
      @Leo-S-Ellen 6 лет назад +2

      American football came from rugby. Again also from the english

    • @jeffdredd1172
      @jeffdredd1172 6 лет назад

      @@mariohds86 You can't call it a bad game because you don't understand the rules, it's just as ignorant as the yanks who say the same about football.

    • @mariohds86
      @mariohds86 6 лет назад

      Jeff Dredd That's where you're wrong, I grew up in the US and I have relatives that like the sport, I grew up around it and have watched entire games many times.

  • @timothycarlisle2874
    @timothycarlisle2874 3 года назад

    Soccer is actually a term used by rugby fans as an abbreviation of association as in Football Association.It originated in England

  • @rorysowersby6947
    @rorysowersby6947 6 лет назад

    It's called soccer in america because when football first started out it split into two different sports Rugby football (Rugby) and Assosciation Football (Soccer for short). When the Game came to america they had already adapted Rugby football as football (Later evolved into American Football) so they kept Soccer! Hope this was helpful

  • @rogerphillipson5204
    @rogerphillipson5204 6 лет назад

    It is known as soccer in the US as it is an abbreviation of “Association Football” which are the rules which govern the game. It was also popularly called soccer in Britain early on in it’s conception but has reverted back to being called football.

  • @work-that-benji959
    @work-that-benji959 6 лет назад

    Pretty much how it is over here in Europe, however the relegation/promotion process is slightly more complex

  • @theguywitdamohawk
    @theguywitdamohawk 6 лет назад

    the best thing is if you win 3 times its called the treble and you are looked at like the best club team in the world

  • @smoshbooz
    @smoshbooz 6 лет назад

    Some leagues do have play-offs, some don't. Every league has its own rules. In Belgium we have play-offs with special rules, and it makes it more exciting

  • @michaelkeating5301
    @michaelkeating5301 6 лет назад

    Soccer comes from Association Football and was actually coined by the English to accommodate Gridiron/American Football

  • @africkingpineapple2320
    @africkingpineapple2320 6 лет назад

    Soccer(football how the most people sais) exists even before 1900 , its one of the oldest sports today , and its the most watched sport in the world!Hi from portugal!

  • @arwelp
    @arwelp 6 лет назад

    “Football” is called “football” because it’s a sport involving a ball which is played on foot (not necessarily involving kicking it), compared to, for example, ball games played using a horse, like polo. The most popular sport in a country which is played in this way usually gets called “football” - in most of the world it’s “association football” sometimes abbreviated to “soccer”, in the US it’s “American football”, in Ireland it’s “Gaelic football”, in South Africa it’s “rugby union”, in different Australian states it’s either “rugby league” or “Australian Rules football”.

  • @andreborges73
    @andreborges73 6 лет назад

    vox did a video on US scoccer story, it might be a good way for you to understand why americans call it soccer. Short story, it's because of americans like to make their own rules (they really do, basketball is a good example). So they had one devision (Associacion) who played with different rules of the casual european football. And another where they played casual football. WW2 came, and froze up, when it got back again they had to built from scracth, so soccer only got a fair chance at the beging. We also have to remember, people over the other side of the world, have to wake up every early or don't sleep at all. It's the same thing for us if we want to see UFC or other American sports.

  • @tomjarvis9368
    @tomjarvis9368 6 лет назад

    Some of the oldest football (soccer) clubs in the world were founded and active in the mid-1800’s. So it’s been around for a long time

  • @andreborges73
    @andreborges73 6 лет назад

    that fourth devision teams playing in national cup, doesn't happen in every country, some countries have more than one cup competion, like france, portugal and englad, where professional and amateur a have the same chances of winning the cup (theoracly)

  • @discreetvortex8237
    @discreetvortex8237 4 года назад +1

    no you can win up to 6 or 7 trophes depending on the league

    • @discreetvortex8237
      @discreetvortex8237 4 года назад

      the league
      the cup
      the champions league
      the super cup
      the national cup winners cup/ community shield
      the club world cup
      The league cup/ caribou cup (only for English football)

  • @andrewfurey2999
    @andrewfurey2999 7 лет назад +136

    It's called soccer because in England It is called association football and was at first shortened to soccer instead football due to rugby also being called rugby football which got shortened to rugby. Then America played rugby which evolved in to gridiron football you shortened that to football and kept soccer as the name for association football and rest of the world switched the name soccer to football. Thats the short answer to why Americans call it soccer.

    • @edithhernandez7403
      @edithhernandez7403 7 лет назад +6

      Andrew Furey wrong

    • @andrewfurey2999
      @andrewfurey2999 7 лет назад +15

      Edith Hernández back yourself with some facts or shut up

    • @adambuthead
      @adambuthead 7 лет назад +15

      That is true as long as you completely ignore the several hundred years before it was association football and was infact just called Football.
      Its original name is Football.

    • @andrewfurey2999
      @andrewfurey2999 7 лет назад +6

      Adam Butters i did say it is the short answer to the question

    • @juliusuflacker4339
      @juliusuflacker4339 6 лет назад +2

      That`s true Except Rugby was shortend to Rugger not Rugby

  • @stevemcqueen1136
    @stevemcqueen1136 7 лет назад

    Football (or as you call it, soccer) is not just a sport, people are really passionate about it, that's why the high numbers of comments.
    Plus any football related video can increase a channel viewers tenfold, you are the perfect example.

    • @StephenS4408
      @StephenS4408 6 лет назад

      Steve Mcqueen you should you should see how passionate college American football fans are too.I was once at a game in literally the decibel level reached 120

  • @benedgie
    @benedgie 6 лет назад +1

    Americans call it soccer because in the mid 19th century the official name of football was “association football” and it was shortened to “assoc”and then “soccer”, when the British took the sport to America, the Americans kept the name and English changed to “football”

  • @jrp182
    @jrp182 6 лет назад

    The brits used to call it soccer back in the day. The word stuck over here. Though now we are good to go. Football or Soccer is still the beautiful game.

  • @thelemonadeboy
    @thelemonadeboy 4 года назад

    There is also a World Cup for clubs, aftet each continents cup winner is confirmed, they play against each other to be crowned the World Champion

  • @HoltAircraft
    @HoltAircraft 6 лет назад

    American call it soccer because you use the Oxford method of naming more stringently... it is short form for Association football... so take the middle bit of the first word... as-sociation-er (the er is the verb adfix) then it gets shortened again to Socer (that deosn't make sense so) as an extra c = soccer... America uses the Oxford method of naming more than we do in England... in England we have a version of American football called rugby but we call it Rugby Football league

  • @iSparkx
    @iSparkx 6 лет назад

    Bad example using the German League for Relegation... in Germany the bottom 2 go down and the 3rd bottom goes into a playoff match against 3rd top in the 2nd division. Winner stays/goes into the top division

  • @suffern63
    @suffern63 6 лет назад

    In This Sporting Life,1960s kitchen sink drama starring Richard Harris,football is called soccer,from Association football.It was typicial for rugby players,league and union to call their sports football.Australia rules is commonly called footy,I think.

  • @catthomas3097
    @catthomas3097 6 лет назад

    Hey you may find this interesting, but Football (soccer) has been around at least since the 1500s maybe even before that. I'm not sure if there is an older sport.

  • @aidan3718
    @aidan3718 7 лет назад +2

    The english actually came up with the word soccer because the soc of soccer is sort for association because the english used to like to shorten things down

  • @boyanpenev9822
    @boyanpenev9822 6 лет назад

    There is actually another international cup, called the UEFA Europe cup. Remember that national cup? The winners of the national cups play in a different tournament, joined by some of the third teams from the groups in the champions' league. It's not seen as being just as prestigious, but winning the Europe cup is still big for most teams.

  • @thabisomtsweni3453
    @thabisomtsweni3453 6 лет назад

    Damn i love this channel already

  • @jacksonwright6029
    @jacksonwright6029 6 лет назад

    We get the name "Soccer" from an abbreviated version of the words Association Football and also the Japanese call the sport soccer as well. The sport we call football comes from how long the football is, which is exactly a foot long. American football is very popular here in the states and soccer is starting to gain popularity but we couldnt call soccer the way Europeans because it would interfere with one our most popular sports so we shortened the words "Association Football" which is what it's called but they say football for short.