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Scotland invented the passing game, it was a Scot's man that brought the game to Brasil and the passing game, the first International game was held in Scotland between England & Scotland, so Scotland is the home of international football, the idea of a British national team will never happen, as Scotland will be leaving the UK within 18 months our place is out with the vile and corrupt UK
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You seemed surprised that the team that had won most had only won 5 times since 1930. As it's only every 4 years and we missed 2 due to the 2nd World War there have only been 21 tournaments. 5 is actually a big number.
Hi, Sarah, another interesting video. I will try to explain briefly the South Africa situation, South Africa consisted of British colonies and in 1910 the colonies were joined together to create the Union of South Africa which became a self governing dominion within the British Empire, they were responsible totally for internal policy but the UK controlled external policy. In 1926 dominions took over responsibility for external policies. After WW2 a new Goverment was elected which developed Apartheid which gave the small white population total control of the country largely at the expense of the majority black population. Most countries found that unacceptable and in 1961 South Africa left the Commonwealth and became a Republic. Their Apartheid policies led to them being ostracised by much of the world and they were virtually totally isolated from international sport from about 1970 to the fall,of Apartheid in the nineties. They have since rejoined the Commonwealth. This needs a more in depth study. I will see what I can find.
I think it's important to mention that many of the colonies that made up the dominion of South Africa were former Dutch colonies that had been conquered by Britain. The majority of whites in SA were former Dutch Boers. Culturally there were a lot more differences between SA and GB than with Canada and Australia. A particular point of contention was the treatment of black people. The British were interested in the most efficient was to exploit them, where's the Boers were more concerned about repressing them due to their creater numbers. When the British removed their controls, many of the local white populace saw it as an opportunity to crack down on the Blacks, and fear of their superior numbers was then exploited to install an authoritarian government.
It's way more complicated than that even. Only Cape Town was a Dutch colony, which was more or less given to the British Empire on the questionable authority of the prince of Orange in return for support against Napoleon. The other "Dutch colonies" were in fact independent republics founded by the Boer "Voortrekkers", the South African version of the frontier pioneers.
My favourite Football cinderella team was Denmark in the Euro 1992 championchips. Yugoslavia had been banned because of the war so Denmark was in on short notice. The tournament took place in Sweden and Denmark won.
Qualifying happens on the continent level, and each continent gets a certain number of places in the world cup tournament. It's up to the continental confederation to decide how to run their qualifying competition. All the qualifying countries then go to the main world cup tournament, where there is no segregation. The main tournament (called the world cup finals) consists of a group stage followed by a knockout stage.
The rule is everyone plays all the rounds, get through all the knock-offs and four countries, namely Brazil, Germany, France or Italy wins it, time and time again! Note: English media will always highlight the country as Impending World Champions, but England never ever wins! 🤣
Next week the F1 teams will start presenting their 2022 competitors (Aston Martin is first, 10th of february). Might be a good time to jump in, given this year we have completely new rules.
Nope, now it seems it's up to the race director to make up some new rules on the spot after changing their minds a few times about what to do, Just guaranteeing confusion and chaos in the teams strategies. Apparently in order to mix things up a bit, F1 has completed it's transition from a sport into a "entertainment show" 🤢👎
The format of the world cup is a long process to explain, and a video would probably be best, but I'll try to describe it here: The world is divided into 6 confederations, mostly based on which continent a country is in (although almost all confederations have exceptions, such as Israel play in the European confederation so they don't get killed when travelling to a game in Iran). Each confederation holds their own qualifying campaign to determine which teams of theirs qualify for the world cup. Each confederation is granted a different number of spots in the world cup based on the number of teams in the confederation and the general perceived strength of those nations; Europe has 13 spots, Africa has 5, South America and Asia have 4.5, North America has 3.5 and Oceania has 0.5 (I'll explain the 0.5 in a minute), plus one extra spot for the host team, who don't have to enter qualifying. Each qualifying format is different for each confederation. In South America, because they only have 10 countries, they play 1 large group, and every team plays the other teams twice, with the top 4 qualifying. However Europe has 55 countries, so getting each team to play all the others is logistically impossible, so Europe holds 10 qualifying groups, 5 with 5 teams and 5 with 6 teams. Each group is decided with a draw, with the top 10 countries in the fifa world rankings from Europe in pot 1, the next 10 in pot 2 etc, and then each group gets 1 team from each pot (except groups with 5 teams don't get a team from pot 6) (the process is slightly more complex to take into account other factors such as countries that fight a lot, so Russia and Ukraine can't be paired together, for example). Every country plays every other country in their group twice, and the team that finishes top in each group ultimately qualifies. The second place teams go into a playoff path (1 off knockout games) to decide the remaining 3 teams from Europe to qualify. Most confederations use a something similar (or a combination of the 2, such as Asia, who start with 8 groups to get through to the next round of qualifying and then play in 2 groups of 6 to get through to the world cup itself). Subject to approval, confederations can change the format of their qualification to deal with different factors; this is most notable for this world cup after the pandemic reduced the amount of time available to complete this qualification, so changes were necessary to reduce the number of games that needed to be played, especially in Oceania. The 0.5 places count as a playoff spot. North and South America, Asia and Oceania all have 1 playoff spot, and the teams that qualify to the playoffs will have 1 home and 1 away game against 1 other team in the playoffs, drawn at random. The 2 tie winners ultimately qualify to the world cup. This is a basic overview of qualifying. Now for the tournament itself. This is when all the qualified countries from the different confederations all get together and play each other for the first time. Teams are placed into pots. The host country and 7 best teams are in pot 1, the next 8 best teams are in pot 2 etc. Then teams are drawn into 8 groups of 4 teams containing 1 team from each pot. No country is allowed be drawn into the same pot as another country from the same confederation, with the exception of Europe, which has a limit of 2 countries in each group. Each country plays all the other countries in their group exactly once, and the 2 teams that finish top of each group go through to the round of 16. (As can be seen, the host being in pot 1 means they can't be in a group with the 7 best countries in the world, so have an easier time getting through.) From the round of 16 onwards, each country is paired against another country and plays a one off game, with the winner advancing to the next round, until we are left with an overall winner. Side note: Don't worry about how the fifa world rankings are calculated, just realise that it's a generic representation of how strong a country is. The formula was changed in 2018 because countries realised they could game the formula (as it was flawed) by not playing friendly matches in order to boost their ranking, so the 2018 world cup pots look a bit odd, since Poland, who were using this method, ended up in pot 1 but still managed to finish bottom of their group because they weren't as good as their ranking suggested (although Germany were rank number 1 and still finished bottom of their group, even though this ranking was justified after they won the previous World Cup. It's just an example of how things might look a bit off before 2018). The new ranking is a lot better so the up to date rankings are a lot more reliable to undestand general strength of countries, although I think people would agree the USA's current rank of 11th is slightly generous. This is mostly because they only get to play non North American teams competitively once every 4 years, and so their rate of winning is high. Team strength is generally a lot better for comparing to other teams in the same confederation as they play each other a lot more often. I think this will balance out over time, since we've only had 1 world cup since the rankings were introduced
You should have also mentioned Israel is an aparthied colonial state according to amnesty international, human rights watch and all other human rights organizations.
Isreal is an apartheid state that kills children and women on a daily basis they put the Palestinians into concentration camps they even snipe kids playing football and bomb football stadium so your statememt Isreal are in danger of being killed is completely wrong ans inhumane they are the killers and they should also be banned from football as well
What a great emotion to hear the national anthem at the beginning of the video🇺🇾❤😍. And what a disappointment that we haven't won another cup since 1950😭😭😭😭
You guys did so well to win one in the first place and it's impressive that you're still able to challenge much bigger, well funded countries. Be proud that it happened and fingers crossed it can happen again!
Nah, hermano, quiza solo 2, pero una de ellas es hasta la fecha el estigma y el trauma mas grande de Brasil, incluso superior al 7-1 de 2014. Orgullo hay en eso.
I mentioned on 1 of your other football video's about Argentina and its football origins. The industrial revolution in Britain brought the era of railways and during the middle part of the 19th century there was a huge railway mania building all over Britain. This made Britain the 'experts' on building railways and this was exported all over the globe with the railways of Argentina built by a British workforce(mainly)who took football with them. The first leagues in Argentina were setup by the British.
Unfortunately this year it's being held in Qatar, a country that has Zero interest in football. FIFA should hang their heads in shame. Yes the host country always automatically qualifies, so we will be seeing a host exiting in the group stage. The previous winner used to qualify too, I have no idea why they scraped that rule.
Qatar won the last AFC ( eq. to Euro)cup. It deserves its place in world cup. But I dont want it to host because of human rights abuses of migrant workers.
Honestly the World Cup is the toughest tournament to win in all of team sports. It's expansive, spans years, you need depth of talent and develop talent from domestic leagues, and that's just to get in. An unbelievable journey that is the best part of what makes sports amazing, and it truly is the world game.
The record International score was Australia 31 American Samoa 0. And there was some game in Madagascar when a team scored 149 own goals in protest against a refereeing decision. The winning side never touched the ball.
@@octavianpopescu4776 That may well have been the only time they did indeed touch it, plus whatever passes they managed to make before the other team dispossessed them to score their first own goal. All 149 goals were own goals. Having said that, if the winning side were the ones to kick off the second half, by then they would have realised what was going on, and may have just stood aside and let the other team take possession to score their next own goal. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AS_Adema_149%E2%80%930_SO_l%27Emyrne
South Africa until something 30 years ago was a racist state where the white minority (mainly Afrikaans speakers with a smaller number of English speakers) held total power over the majority black, mixed race and Indian population. Makes me feel like an old man, and I'm only 49, when Sarah mentioned that she needed to find out about its history.
The supreme irony was that by South Africa House in Central London when we were all protesting against Apartheid that 99% of THe Protestors over those years were White and the large London Black populace were conspicuous by their absence :)
The "big nation" argument is completely flawed imo especially when countries like China & Russia whose national sport is football are hardly big countries in footballing terms in their respective continents. It's only in South America mainly out of the 6 footballing continents were this is true although you do have smaller nations like Chile who consistently outperform larger nations like Bolivia etc. also. Australia to a slightly lesser degree in Asia/Oceania. Otherwise football in Europe , Africa and so on has never been dominated by the largest countries.
Oh I don't know. OK Russia is behind say Germany, but it's in the same ball park as Italy or England say, and ahead of Wales or Lithuania. Even Croatia say. And Germany's still a fairly big country and pulls ahead on other economic factors. I'll leave the Vatican out of this discussion of European national teams.
Russia and China goes to the Dictatorship argument. An better example would be India. Africa is pretty poor, so maybe the rich parameter makes more sense to them. You need to have a minimum of social conditions to develop a good quantity of world quality players and this continent have so many wars every time, Brazil for example isnt the richest country in the world but its not used to having that many wars. For Europe it does make sense, Its hard imagining a world where San Marino won a world cup while Italy isnt good at it.
Russia in the same ball park as England ,Italy ,Croatia ? In footballing terms ? Not really no or atleast they haven't been for decades. Russia only recently got outplayed by my home nation (island) of Malta (500k) citizens for ex. & Sure Germany is a "large" European country whom have had success footballing wise however my argument was mainly denouncing the fact that larger & richer footballing nations tend to dominate or in general prove to be more successful than the smaller footballing nations rather than it being "big footballing nations don't succeed" .They do as there's no reason they shouldnt however they don't on any regular, consistent enough basis to assume that hailing from a larger country or more prosperous economic climate directly affects the outcome. In fact Larger & richer nations as I previously stated seem to be the minority when contemplating success in the sport. Iceland having half the Population of Luxembourg yet reaching the European Quarter Finals in 2016 & remaining relatively competitive since than being the most blatant example. Russia havent progressed to a quarter final of any major footballing tournament in how many decades ? Football for the most part as I still believe tends to be dominated by in large, relatively smaller nations on a global scale barring the few examples I brought up in my original comment. *I also never brought up India as an example as their national sport is cricket ? (If I'm not mistaken) & not football so I assumed it wouldn't be fair a example to portray as the sport doesn't appeal to the majority of Indian citizens as it does in China or Russia for ex.
This year’s World Cup is being hosted in Qatar, the first time ever being held in the Middle East. Also don’t sleep on the US National Team either. They’ve got quite a nifty little team with some absolute class players at their disposal based in some very good European clubs. They’ll easily qualify for the tournament & will definitely cause major problems for the more established nations; should at least get to the second round with a favourable draw.
Football is simple take it like Gary Lineker he said: Football is a simple game; 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.
The video was very educational about the world cup tournament itself. Though before teams get to enter the world cup part they have to qualify in their region. So depending where a country is in the world they have to enter that tournament to eventually qualify. UEFA = Europe, CAF = Africa, AFC = Asia, CONMEBOL = South America, and CONCACAF = North and Central America and Caribbean. At the moment you'll be seeing USA qualifying through the CONCACAF region.
Football is considered a game for poor people as the entry hurdle is so low. You just need a ball. Once a ball is there you can "entertain" a whole neighbourhood for a day
Sometimes I forget that not everyone grew up with football. This was one one of the few times when youtube worked better than I expect (i.e. got to see the vid in the list)
8:24 He's talking about after South Africa's independence from the UK in 11 December 1931. They kept the UK Monarchy as head of State though until 1961.
To play football, all you need is a ball. No expensive equipment is needed, you don't even need grass. Growing up in the UK we used jumpers for goal posts. The next World Cup (2022) is being held in Qatar and the one after in 2026 will be held in USA, Canada & Mexico
USA are in a reasonably good position to qualify for the World Cup 2022, second in their group with 4 games to play ... their next game is Wednesday 2nd Feb, against Honduras, playing in Minnesota
@@lemonicoo Canada have been excellent in their group, pretty certain they will get through ... (they would really have to mess things up to not quality ! )
@@steved6092 i agree, considering many of their players aswell as US players play in Europe league and class such as davies, pulisic, mckennie, and many others. the US and Canada are strong this year.
Most of the top football players come from a poor background. Like half of the African and South American players played barefoot in their youth. Even most European players are from a lower class or lower middle class. You could make a rags to riches story of most international football talents
More enjoyable than I thought it would be. I won't talk football as others know more about it than I do. If you want to know a little more about South Africa and it's racial policies which lead to decades of isolation, you could watch the film Cry Freedom. Based on true events and a 5 * film Cinderella teams. I think over here we call them Giant Killers. When a minnow knocks out a big guy. Croquet. One of the few facts I know about this game is that Harpo Marx was mad keen on it. He used to play a wild version of it over unsuitable terrain, around trees, and other obstacles. Took it very seriously. I think football started as a poor man's game because at its simplest level all you need is a ball. Everything else can be improvised. No requirement for expensive kit.
Yes Denmark's 14-2 victory over Iceland was a HUGE score by any professional soccer standards. That was way back in 1967 in a friendly (i.e. non-competitive) game between the two countries. However that has been exceeded many times. In 2002 Australia faced American Samoa in a World Cup qualifier and ran out 31-0 winners, Australia didn't actually get their first goal until 10 minutes into the game, and all 31 goals were all scored within a period of 79 minutes. That's an average of a goal every 2.5 minutes !!
Denmark's biggest official win was actually 17-1 vs France in the Semi-Finals at the 1908 Summer Olympics. Denmark has btw never lost to Iceland the 24 times they have faced each other so far, though Iceland have managed to beat the likes of Italy (in 1 out of 2 attempts), England (1 out of 5 attempts), Croatia (1 out of 7 times), Spain (1 out of 9 times), Sweden (2 out of 17 times), The Netherlands (2 out of 14 times), Czech Republic (2 out of 6 times), Norway ( 7 out of 34 times) and Turkey (8 out of 13 times).
Cricket does NOT take all week to play. That's just one and less held format of cricket. The most common one last about 3 hours. He should have done his research more as a british.
Brazil flag: Ordem e NEYMAR lol (it's actually Ordem e Progresso... which I guess any indo European language speaker can guess it means ORDER AND PROGRESS) Btw, I am glad to inform that Neymar is not being missed so much anymore... Raphinha, Vinicius Jr, Anthony, Matheus Cunha, etc... they are playing very well.
So to make the World Cup format easy to explain: ROUND ONE: QUALIFICATION • There are 6 regions - (1) Asia, (2) Africa, (3) North / Central / Caribbean America, (4) South America, (5) Oceania and (6) Europe • Each region gets allocated how many teams from their region goes to the World Cup • Each region decides how they are going to determine the those teams. For EXAMPLE, Africa has 5 spots. Africa right now has 10 teams remaining, they decide to do a 1v1 play-off in March 2022. The 5 play-off winners will get Africa's 5 spots for the World Cup. Each region has their own way of determining which teams qualifies. ROUND TWO: GROUP STAGE • 32 teams are in 8 groups of 4 teams each (8 x 4 = 32). • Your team HAS to play the other 3 teams in their group, so like a round-robin format. • Once all the teams in your group finished playing 3 games, the 2 teams with the best record in each group goes to knockout stage. ROUND THREE: KNOCKOUT STAGE • The 16 teams play a single knockout game until there is 1 team left, so like as you said, March Madness. The winner wins the World Cup!
The South African angle is pretty spurious, they had their first free elections in 1994 which ended apartheid. But looking back, in 1992 they ranked only 124th in the world, but then they managed to put together a decent team/coach and by 1996 they were ranked 16th in the world. Four years isn't really enough to overcome total isolation/lack of international playing time, so it's probably attributed to a lack of a decent team/coaching/management. Ever since then they've been plagues by corruption and a lack of leadership, new talent being fostered etc, so currently they're only about 68'th in the world.
South Africa was ostracised due to not letting black people play for their sport's teams. It all came to a head when they refused to let a black cricketer called BASIL D'OLIVERA to come to the country to play for England in 1968-69. They were then banned from all global sporting events till the release of Nelson Mandela, and his election in 1994.
SoGAL, great reaction. Y'know the one big HUGE difference between American and Other sport cultures is that of franchise teams in your leagues. in America you have a top flight where all the franchises continue to play each other year on year, despite results and performance. In the rest of the world teams are never guaranteed a spot in the top tier - they need to earn it in terms of results and performance In England we have a top tier with teams like Manchester United and Liverpool but any team, even from a small town or village has the opportunity to progress and play against them through a system of promotion and relegation between not only .tiers 1 and 2, but also all the way down to tier 10 There is a great video by an American youtuber that explains this. Really it happens, teams move up between the tiers andT HIS is the beauty of football. ruclips.net/video/zsEVI_ptqw4/видео.html
@@almostyummymummy I know another tier was added this year.. it goes down to level 20, but my point was those leagues that compete in the FA Vase and above. Would love SoGal to see this..
The "Cinderella" team in Brazil is called a Zebra. That expression have connection with a lotto game very common (and illegal) in our streets. It's Jogo do Bicho, a 24 number lottery with each number associated with an animal. Well... The zebra isn't one of them. That way, when a very unexpected team wins in soccer we say it was the Zebra because it's the result with zero odds in Jogo do bicho.
So basically you have the qualifiers from each continent where a certain number of teams are allowed through to the world cup The qualifying way is different for each continent so I won't go over that but what I can say is that Europe - 13 teams qualify Africa - 5 teams qualify South America - 4 teams qualify (then 1 more has to play a playoff to get into the tournament against a team from Oceania/Australasia) Asia - 4 teams qualify (1 more plays a different playoff against a team from North America) North America - 3 teams qualify (with 1 playing in the playoff against Asia) Oceania/Australasia - 1 team has to play a playoff against the team from South America So that's 29 qualifying automatically without a playoff Then 2 more from the playoffs and the final one is the host Then the actual world cup starts 32 teams There are 8 groups picked out with 4 teams in each initially For the 4 teams there are 4 pots with 8 teams in each with each in order of Fifa ranking of the qualifying teams except that the host goes into pot 1 automatically and straight into Group A/Group 1 No 2 teams can be in the same group from 1 continent unless they are from Europe either Once the 8 groups are picked out from the pot, the group stage plays Each team plays another team in the same group once then the top 2 from each group goes through Then into the round of 16 (16 teams) 1- Winner group A VS Runner-Up group B 2- Runner-up group C VS Winner group D 3 - Winner group E VS Runner-up group F 4 -Runner-up group G VS Winner group H 5- Runner-up Group A VS Winner group B 6 - Winner group C VS Runner-up group D 7 - Runner-up group E VS Winner group F 8 - Winner group G VS Runner-up group H Onto the quarter-finals 1 - Round of 16 Winner 1 VS Round of 16 Winner 2 2 - Round of 16 Winner 3 VS Round of 16 Winner 4 3 - Round of 16 Winner 5 VS Round of 16 Winner 6 4 - Round of 16 Winner 7 VS Round of 16 Winner 8 Onto the semi-finals 1 - Winner quarter-finals 1 VS Winner quarter-finals 2 2 - Winner quarter-finals 3 VS Winner quarter-finals 4 3rd place play-off Loser semi-final 1 VS Loser semi-final 2 Final Winner semi-final 1 vs Winner semi-final 2 Hopefully that's also helped anyone who's really stuck on how the world cup works
All spot-on except FIFA has a draw to decide teams from which continent play each other in the inter-continental play-offs. For the 2022 world cup, 5th in South America will play 5th in Asia (the winner of the playoff between the 3rd placed teams in the final Asian qualifying group stage) and 4th in CONCACAF (North America) will play a team from Oceania. As Oceania qualifying has been put back because of Covid, a tournament between the 8 remaning teams will take place on neutral ground in Qatar in March to decide who will go through to the inter-continental play-off.
The United States plays in the CONCACAF qualifying group. Three teams qualify automatically from the group with the fourth going into a play off. At the moment the US are second behind Canada. They recently lost 2 nil to Canada which made some Canadians very happy. They have four games to play, 2nd February they play Honduras at home then on 24th March Mexico away, then 27th March Panama at home and finally 30th March Costa Rica away.
England men's beat San Marino 10-0 recently (regarding population affecting teams). Although the women's England team beat Latvia 20-0 so not sure what that says about women's football in Latvia. Italy btw are doing much better. They won the Euros...by defeating us.
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Hiya Sarah, if you have a look at the world cup England won in 1966 its allot different than the one now, Jules Rimet devised the world cup and Jules SAID "whoever wins the world cup 3 times, gets to keep the world cup, that was Brazil in (1958,62 and 70) after that it changed to FIFA world cup, the world cup this year is in Qatar the final is going to be played on December 18th which is my birthday, when Canada, America and Mexico holds the world cup in 2026 there's going to be 42 countries to qualify and the final is being played in Giants Stadium, this is Choppy in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England
Dictatorships tend to be bad for football. Hmmm... Brazil 1970 and Argentina 1978? And the great 1982 Seleção was also while Brazil was still a dictatorship.
As February 6th has just passed, do you think you could learn about the Munich Air Disaster? Manchester United are the biggest club in England support-wise and February 6th 1958 will always be an important date in their hisrory. R.I.P. The Flowers of Manchester.
wow, wow, wow! "dicyatorships tend to be bad at football" - Portugal was under a fascist dictatorship (Salazar) and Benfica danced through the European Champions Cup and had Eusébio as the first portuguese best player award. ... ... ...
South Africa became an independent Republic in 1961 led by continuous rulers who were white despite being a minority. It eventually became a Dictatorship known as the Apartheid regime which resembled the Jim Crow law times in America, the black majority were discriminated against up until 1991. The only reason South Africa isn’t a Great Nuclear power today is because the Apartheid didn’t want the upcoming black rulers to have nukes so they dismantled their serious research project and stunted growth in the country. If you didn’t know, South Africa has A LOT of resources that can make thousands of tanks and nuclear warheads but was only stunted because of the old Dictatorship
The British left South Africa in mid 20th Century. But what followed was not much better at all. The Apartheid regime took over. White people were the rulers, and black people were segregated for the rest of the Century. Blacks were evicted from their homes and were resettled into reservations, not being allowed to move freely. And for the next 40 years, racist laws were meant to break the spirit of blacks. Blacks and whites were never to mix, no relationships of any kind. Certain amenities like public parks or shopping centers were off limits to blacks. Blacks could not open businesses or hold down regular jobs. Life, in every way, was regulated. Buildings, buses, shops, beaches were all marked "no blacks allowed". We could not even buy white bread. Broken laws was punishable by inhumane imprisonment, and "disappearance". Political activists were hunt down and assassinated one by one or imprisoned. It wasn't until the late 80s early 1990s, that international pressure arose, Nelson Mandela was released after 27 years in jail, to assume the presidency. We were finally free.
In the group stage teams with a good ranking are paired with teams with a lower ranking. To avoid all the good teams eliminating each other and leaving only bad teams in the tournament. The south africa thing is due to Apartheid.
4:01 Colonisation of South America by Spain, Portugal, France and the UK made football more entrenched in countries that had colonial rulers, Also games travel borders much more easier than language. The most successful games on Earth are mainly UK invented games. As being a colonial ruler means you bring your games with you. Chess was brought to the world from the middle east as colonial rulers took local games and introduced them to their populations when they got home.
I don't think the population argument is sound.. The Netherlands are tiny.. they often had teams that could pass as a world selection. By contrast mexico has a huge population, and they all love football.. and they have teams of far lower quality than the Netherlands.. Same with Russia /CSSR, same with Japan. The lack of success in England is not to do with the players so much, but with awful coaches, a stagnant playing culture, extreme public pressure etc.
In the UK the richer people tend to play Rugby Union (not Rugby League), the poorer play Football, cricket is a mix. It is the same in most of Western Europe.
You don't even need a pitch or grass to play football. Played my whole childhood on the street. Choped a peace of my thumb a few times by kicking the asphalt ! Don't need a ball either, I've played with rocks, bottles, a cockonut ! Also, you don't need 22 people !
Which is how you can buy participation in the World Cup... like Qatar did for 2022.... No chance they would have ever qualified without the oil backed host situation
South Africa's apartheid was installed by the Afrikaner nationalist party. The Afrikaners are people who are ancestors of Dutch settlers (Boers) who settled in South Africa. Not to excuse the racism of the English settlers, but the Afrikaners were more racist.
Okk, look. The keys to win, lift the cup and be crowned the best in the world. Step one: Be better Step 2: Be stronger physically and mentally Step 3: Win or win nothing in between
Yeah there is a FIFA ranking how good a country is. This has an effect on how many Champions league spots you get. For example a lower nation just gets 1 or 2 while the best nations get like 3 spots. (Its an european tournament with only the best couple of teams of each country). In a world cup you have a group stage where each team plays each other and the ones with the most points advance to the knockout phase. And i believe the fifa ranking matters so there are just 1 or 2 of the super strong teams go to each group. This means that the best teams all have a chance to go to the knockout phase. Where as if you put Spain, Portugal, Argentina, England, Brazil and Germany in one group this would mean that only some of those make it to the playoffs. And this would be terrible because these teams usually also have the biggest fanbases. On the other hands if you had such a group and put in Iceland or Austria or some medium strong country these teams would have almost no chance of advancing. So this is in my eyes better for the big football nations as well as the underdogs. Beat one of the big guys once - sure, beat them multiple times - very unlikely. Sure these could be lucky with a group which consists of only underdogs but its only per chance. I think its good this way it is.
Think you need to watch somebody else because this guy didn't explain nothing about the world Cup mostly about South Africa its nothing todo with the world Cup 🙄
United was quick to condemn mason (not a big name) action which is good but when it comes to big name like ronaldo they dont care what ronaldo did years ago “sexual assault”.big name players abuse woman like object and pay them like it never happened. ronaldo fans are worse for defending him. Shameful fan base
Qualifiers are played to enter the tournament. The teams that qualify are grouped for the first stage. I can't recall if grouping is based on how a team performed in qualifying or is a random lottery but it isn't geographical. The top two teams from each group go into the knockout phase. The winner of one group will play the runner up of the next group and so on until only two teams remain to play the final.
The 32 teams are placed into 4 pots of 8 based on FIFA world ranking, apart from the host country which automatically goes into the top pot of seeds. The 8 groups are then made up of 1 team from each pot of seeds. Teams from the same confederation can’t be drawn in the same group. The exception being UEFA which have a maximum of 2 teams per group, with Europe having 13 teams qualify.
Please ignore all this population means expected average goals it's complete nonsense. Edit and income and FIFA ranking it's all bollocks tbh. Many smaller not so well off countries have really good national teams
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South Africa had a regime which at best could be described as racist, practicing a system called apartheid. This resulted in the country being excluded from worldwide sporting competition. This has changed but the country is now going racist in the other way.
I think one rule is missing: organisation. Countries where sports are well organised, with proper facilities, skilled trainers, cooperation, policies with a long term view, etc., will do better. This has not much to do with money or population size. It increases the effectiveness.
Not a great video to react to learn about the World Cup honestly, title should've been a giveaway. You don't need to understand how to win the World Cup but rather how the World Cup works.
The reason americans might view football as more posh or upper class than what it is a lower class sport is simple really, the us has a national sentiment or preconceived notions (due to colonial propaganda and indoctrination) that Britain is some sort of white elitist haven that subjugated the entire world especially non white peoples. Which is not true, because it was the royals (not of British blood) that chose to commit all those crimes against humanity not the British people. But back to the point, these preconceived notions a lot of Americans have in the modern world about Britain are the reason they would think that the sport of football is not a lower class sport. Basically it makes sense that they wouldn't assume football is a lower class sport due to the indoctrination that americans are subjected to on their bubble.
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Scotland invented the passing game, it was a Scot's man that brought the game to Brasil and the passing game, the first International game was held in Scotland between England & Scotland, so Scotland is the home of international football, the idea of a British national team will never happen, as Scotland will be leaving the UK within 18 months our place is out with the vile and corrupt UK
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Such an uneducated reactor! Not knowing what was going on in South Africa over apartheid! 👎👎👎👎👎
She wears a university sweatshirt. Either it is only fashion-wear. If she went to a university,it must have been an awful one!
You seemed surprised that the team that had won most had only won 5 times since 1930.
As it's only every 4 years and we missed 2 due to the 2nd World War there have only been 21 tournaments. 5 is actually a big number.
Yes considering how many countries there are
@@hyplix241 Bear in mind that the precise number of countries has changed from time to time as well.
@@steviebudden3397 I know. But it has always been more than 4 countries involved so winning 1/4 of the tournaments is unprecedented
You should continue with 'The Beautiful Game' series. As it is the history of football you would benefit greatly.
Hi, Sarah, another interesting video. I will try to explain briefly the South Africa situation, South Africa consisted of British colonies and in 1910 the colonies were joined together to create the Union of South Africa which became a self governing dominion within the British Empire, they were responsible totally for internal policy but the UK controlled external policy. In 1926 dominions took over responsibility for external policies. After WW2 a new Goverment was elected which developed Apartheid which gave the small white population total control of the country largely at the expense of the majority black population. Most countries found that unacceptable and in 1961 South Africa left the Commonwealth and became a Republic. Their Apartheid policies led to them being ostracised by much of the world and they were virtually totally isolated from international sport from about 1970 to the fall,of Apartheid in the nineties. They have since rejoined the Commonwealth. This needs a more in depth study. I will see what I can find.
Then they hosted the 2010 World Cup and went out in the group stage…
I think it's important to mention that many of the colonies that made up the dominion of South Africa were former Dutch colonies that had been conquered by Britain.
The majority of whites in SA were former Dutch Boers. Culturally there were a lot more differences between SA and GB than with Canada and Australia.
A particular point of contention was the treatment of black people. The British were interested in the most efficient was to exploit them, where's the Boers were more concerned about repressing them due to their creater numbers. When the British removed their controls, many of the local white populace saw it as an opportunity to crack down on the Blacks, and fear of their superior numbers was then exploited to install an authoritarian government.
Most Americans are basically ignorant when it comes to knowledge of the rest of the world.
It's way more complicated than that even. Only Cape Town was a Dutch colony, which was more or less given to the British Empire on the questionable authority of the prince of Orange in return for support against Napoleon. The other "Dutch colonies" were in fact independent republics founded by the Boer "Voortrekkers", the South African version of the frontier pioneers.
Love when you're doing football reactions. Hope you do more during the World Cup.
My favourite Football cinderella team was Denmark in the Euro 1992 championchips.
Yugoslavia had been banned because of the war so Denmark was in on short notice.
The tournament took place in Sweden and Denmark won.
Qualifying happens on the continent level, and each continent gets a certain number of places in the world cup tournament. It's up to the continental confederation to decide how to run their qualifying competition. All the qualifying countries then go to the main world cup tournament, where there is no segregation. The main tournament (called the world cup finals) consists of a group stage followed by a knockout stage.
Yes there is segregation except Europe(Because almost half of teams are Europeans) each group only have one team from each continent.
As a South African, I feel attacked.
His attacking the white supremacist who implemented apartheid
The rule is everyone plays all the rounds, get through all the knock-offs and four countries, namely Brazil, Germany, France or Italy wins it, time and time again!
Note: English media will always highlight the country as Impending World Champions, but England never ever wins! 🤣
excellent summary
Don't all countries tout their teams as the next great champions?
Next week the F1 teams will start presenting their 2022 competitors (Aston Martin is first, 10th of february). Might be a good time to jump in, given this year we have completely new rules.
Do they all still go round and round and the driver in front after 10 laps stays there all thru'? :)
Nope, now it seems it's up to the race director to make up some new rules on the spot after changing their minds a few times about what to do, Just guaranteeing confusion and chaos in the teams strategies. Apparently in order to mix things up a bit, F1 has completed it's transition from a sport into a "entertainment show" 🤢👎
Thanks,My Friend.
More like the transition from a Non - Entertainment Show to being an Entertainment Show.........without the "Entertainment"...:)
The format of the world cup is a long process to explain, and a video would probably be best, but I'll try to describe it here:
The world is divided into 6 confederations, mostly based on which continent a country is in (although almost all confederations have exceptions, such as Israel play in the European confederation so they don't get killed when travelling to a game in Iran).
Each confederation holds their own qualifying campaign to determine which teams of theirs qualify for the world cup. Each confederation is granted a different number of spots in the world cup based on the number of teams in the confederation and the general perceived strength of those nations; Europe has 13 spots, Africa has 5, South America and Asia have 4.5, North America has 3.5 and Oceania has 0.5 (I'll explain the 0.5 in a minute), plus one extra spot for the host team, who don't have to enter qualifying. Each qualifying format is different for each confederation. In South America, because they only have 10 countries, they play 1 large group, and every team plays the other teams twice, with the top 4 qualifying. However Europe has 55 countries, so getting each team to play all the others is logistically impossible, so Europe holds 10 qualifying groups, 5 with 5 teams and 5 with 6 teams. Each group is decided with a draw, with the top 10 countries in the fifa world rankings from Europe in pot 1, the next 10 in pot 2 etc, and then each group gets 1 team from each pot (except groups with 5 teams don't get a team from pot 6) (the process is slightly more complex to take into account other factors such as countries that fight a lot, so Russia and Ukraine can't be paired together, for example). Every country plays every other country in their group twice, and the team that finishes top in each group ultimately qualifies. The second place teams go into a playoff path (1 off knockout games) to decide the remaining 3 teams from Europe to qualify. Most confederations use a something similar (or a combination of the 2, such as Asia, who start with 8 groups to get through to the next round of qualifying and then play in 2 groups of 6 to get through to the world cup itself). Subject to approval, confederations can change the format of their qualification to deal with different factors; this is most notable for this world cup after the pandemic reduced the amount of time available to complete this qualification, so changes were necessary to reduce the number of games that needed to be played, especially in Oceania.
The 0.5 places count as a playoff spot. North and South America, Asia and Oceania all have 1 playoff spot, and the teams that qualify to the playoffs will have 1 home and 1 away game against 1 other team in the playoffs, drawn at random. The 2 tie winners ultimately qualify to the world cup.
This is a basic overview of qualifying. Now for the tournament itself. This is when all the qualified countries from the different confederations all get together and play each other for the first time.
Teams are placed into pots. The host country and 7 best teams are in pot 1, the next 8 best teams are in pot 2 etc. Then teams are drawn into 8 groups of 4 teams containing 1 team from each pot. No country is allowed be drawn into the same pot as another country from the same confederation, with the exception of Europe, which has a limit of 2 countries in each group. Each country plays all the other countries in their group exactly once, and the 2 teams that finish top of each group go through to the round of 16.
(As can be seen, the host being in pot 1 means they can't be in a group with the 7 best countries in the world, so have an easier time getting through.)
From the round of 16 onwards, each country is paired against another country and plays a one off game, with the winner advancing to the next round, until we are left with an overall winner.
Side note: Don't worry about how the fifa world rankings are calculated, just realise that it's a generic representation of how strong a country is. The formula was changed in 2018 because countries realised they could game the formula (as it was flawed) by not playing friendly matches in order to boost their ranking, so the 2018 world cup pots look a bit odd, since Poland, who were using this method, ended up in pot 1 but still managed to finish bottom of their group because they weren't as good as their ranking suggested (although Germany were rank number 1 and still finished bottom of their group, even though this ranking was justified after they won the previous World Cup. It's just an example of how things might look a bit off before 2018). The new ranking is a lot better so the up to date rankings are a lot more reliable to undestand general strength of countries, although I think people would agree the USA's current rank of 11th is slightly generous. This is mostly because they only get to play non North American teams competitively once every 4 years, and so their rate of winning is high. Team strength is generally a lot better for comparing to other teams in the same confederation as they play each other a lot more often. I think this will balance out over time, since we've only had 1 world cup since the rankings were introduced
You should have also mentioned Israel is an aparthied colonial state according to amnesty international, human rights watch and all other human rights organizations.
@@aldenpadilla1773 based Alden
Isreal is an apartheid state that kills children and women on a daily basis they put the Palestinians into concentration camps they even snipe kids playing football and bomb football stadium so your statememt Isreal are in danger of being killed is completely wrong ans inhumane they are the killers and they should also be banned from football as well
What a great emotion to hear the national anthem at the beginning of the video🇺🇾❤😍. And what a disappointment that we haven't won another cup since 1950😭😭😭😭
You guys did so well to win one in the first place and it's impressive that you're still able to challenge much bigger, well funded countries. Be proud that it happened and fingers crossed it can happen again!
Nah, hermano, quiza solo 2, pero una de ellas es hasta la fecha el estigma y el trauma mas grande de Brasil, incluso superior al 7-1 de 2014. Orgullo hay en eso.
You'll win another sometime, just, not in Maracanã again.
I mentioned on 1 of your other football video's about Argentina and its football origins. The industrial revolution in Britain brought the era of railways and during the middle part of the 19th century there was a huge railway mania building all over Britain. This made Britain the 'experts' on building railways and this was exported all over the globe with the railways of Argentina built by a British workforce(mainly)who took football with them. The first leagues in Argentina were setup by the British.
This explains why so many club teams in Argentina have English names
Unfortunately this year it's being held in Qatar, a country that has Zero interest in football. FIFA should hang their heads in shame. Yes the host country always automatically qualifies, so we will be seeing a host exiting in the group stage. The previous winner used to qualify too, I have no idea why they scraped that rule.
Yeah, that last comment is ridiculous (as is the first, of course). To potentially not have the holder defend their title, is absolute BS.
Qatar won the last AFC ( eq. to Euro)cup. It deserves its place in world cup. But I dont want it to host because of human rights abuses of migrant workers.
the world cup is in qatar this year, and it's a very controversial choice because of human rights abuse, maybe react to that.
Honestly the World Cup is the toughest tournament to win in all of team sports. It's expansive, spans years, you need depth of talent and develop talent from domestic leagues, and that's just to get in. An unbelievable journey that is the best part of what makes sports amazing, and it truly is the world game.
The record International score was Australia 31 American Samoa 0. And there was some game in Madagascar when a team scored 149 own goals in protest against a refereeing decision. The winning side never touched the ball.
They must have touched it at least when it was their turn to kick off the half.
@@octavianpopescu4776 That may well have been the only time they did indeed touch it, plus whatever passes they managed to make before the other team dispossessed them to score their first own goal. All 149 goals were own goals. Having said that, if the winning side were the ones to kick off the second half, by then they would have realised what was going on, and may have just stood aside and let the other team take possession to score their next own goal.
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From an English point of view a dodgy Russian linesman is an absolute must.
To be fair to Brazil there have only been 21 World Cups played so winning five of them is a pretty good effort!
South Africa until something 30 years ago was a racist state where the white minority (mainly Afrikaans speakers with a smaller number of English speakers) held total power over the majority black, mixed race and Indian population.
Makes me feel like an old man, and I'm only 49, when Sarah mentioned that she needed to find out about its history.
The supreme irony was that by South Africa House in Central London when we were all protesting against Apartheid that 99% of THe Protestors over those years were White and the large London Black populace were conspicuous by their absence :)
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"What happened to Austria?"
A lot
World War I.
The "big nation" argument is completely flawed imo especially when countries like China & Russia whose national sport is football are hardly big countries in footballing terms in their respective continents. It's only in South America mainly out of the 6 footballing continents were this is true although you do have smaller nations like Chile who consistently outperform larger nations like Bolivia etc. also. Australia to a slightly lesser degree in Asia/Oceania. Otherwise football in Europe , Africa and so on has never been dominated by the largest countries.
Oh I don't know. OK Russia is behind say Germany, but it's in the same ball park as Italy or England say, and ahead of Wales or Lithuania. Even Croatia say. And Germany's still a fairly big country and pulls ahead on other economic factors.
I'll leave the Vatican out of this discussion of European national teams.
Russia and China goes to the Dictatorship argument. An better example would be India.
Africa is pretty poor, so maybe the rich parameter makes more sense to them. You need to have a minimum of social conditions to develop a good quantity of world quality players and this continent have so many wars every time, Brazil for example isnt the richest country in the world but its not used to having that many wars.
For Europe it does make sense, Its hard imagining a world where San Marino won a world cup while Italy isnt good at it.
Russia in the same ball park as England ,Italy ,Croatia ? In footballing terms ? Not really no or atleast they haven't been for decades. Russia only recently got outplayed by my home nation (island) of Malta (500k) citizens for ex. & Sure Germany is a "large" European country whom have had success footballing wise however my argument was mainly denouncing the fact that larger & richer footballing nations tend to dominate or in general prove to be more successful than the smaller footballing nations rather than it being "big footballing nations don't succeed" .They do as there's no reason they shouldnt however they don't on any regular, consistent enough basis to assume that hailing from a larger country or more prosperous economic climate directly affects the outcome. In fact Larger & richer nations as I previously stated seem to be the minority when contemplating success in the sport.
Iceland having half the Population of Luxembourg yet reaching the European Quarter Finals in 2016 & remaining relatively competitive since than being the most blatant example. Russia havent progressed to a quarter final of any major footballing tournament in how many decades ?
Football for the most part as I still believe tends to be dominated by in large, relatively smaller nations on a global scale barring the few examples I brought up in my original comment.
*I also never brought up India as an example as their national sport is cricket ? (If I'm not mistaken) & not football so I assumed it wouldn't be fair a example to portray as the sport doesn't appeal to the majority of Indian citizens as it does in China or Russia for ex.
This year’s World Cup is being hosted in Qatar, the first time ever being held in the Middle East.
Also don’t sleep on the US National Team either. They’ve got quite a nifty little team with some absolute class players at their disposal based in some very good European clubs. They’ll easily qualify for the tournament & will definitely cause major problems for the more established nations; should at least get to the second round with a favourable draw.
Sarah, the World Cup this year is a disgrace and FIFA is to blame. All countries should boycot FIFA after they awarded the 2022 World Cup to Qatar.
What was going on in South Africa!? APARTHEID!!!
You should be the 2009 movie "INVICTUS" which is about sports and apartheid.
Football is simple take it like Gary Lineker he said: Football is a simple game; 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.
How did they do in the last major competition then? ;)
Who actually listens to the jug eared d**k.
That hasn't been true for the last ten years.
@@silviorodriguez2639 10 years ago Germany won the Worldcup agains Messi in Brasil
The video was very educational about the world cup tournament itself. Though before teams get to enter the world cup part they have to qualify in their region. So depending where a country is in the world they have to enter that tournament to eventually qualify. UEFA = Europe, CAF = Africa, AFC = Asia, CONMEBOL = South America, and CONCACAF = North and Central America and Caribbean. At the moment you'll be seeing USA qualifying through the CONCACAF region.
Football is considered a game for poor people as the entry hurdle is so low. You just need a ball. Once a ball is there you can "entertain" a whole neighbourhood for a day
Sometimes I forget that not everyone grew up with football.
This was one one of the few times when youtube worked better than I expect (i.e. got to see the vid in the list)
…Honestly forgot people out there haven’t ever heard of Apartheid
Did you know that Wimbledon is actually called "the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club".
8:24 He's talking about after South Africa's independence from the UK in 11 December 1931. They kept the UK Monarchy as head of State though until 1961.
You should watch some kind of recap of last world cup to get some sense of powerful teams and who to watch.
I think the highest score and margin of victory was a Scottish match Arbroath 36-0 Bon Accord in 1885.
To play football, all you need is a ball. No expensive equipment is needed, you don't even need grass. Growing up in the UK we used jumpers for goal posts. The next World Cup (2022) is being held in Qatar and the one after in 2026 will be held in USA, Canada & Mexico
USA are in a reasonably good position to qualify for the World Cup 2022, second in their group with 4 games to play ... their next game is Wednesday 2nd Feb, against Honduras, playing in Minnesota
canada is doing so well too, top of their group and also with most goals
@@lemonicoo Canada have been excellent in their group, pretty certain they will get through ... (they would really have to mess things up to not quality ! )
@@steved6092 i agree, considering many of their players aswell as US players play in Europe league and class such as davies, pulisic, mckennie, and many others. the US and Canada are strong this year.
@@lemonicoo keep cheering Canada on ... be good to see how far they progress ... England v Canada final !! ... how good would that be !
Most of the top football players come from a poor background. Like half of the African and South American players played barefoot in their youth. Even most European players are from a lower class or lower middle class.
You could make a rags to riches story of most international football talents
More enjoyable than I thought it would be. I won't talk football as others know more about it than I do.
If you want to know a little more about South Africa and it's racial policies which lead to decades of isolation, you could watch the film Cry Freedom. Based on true events and a 5 * film
Cinderella teams. I think over here we call them Giant Killers. When a minnow knocks out a big guy.
Croquet. One of the few facts I know about this game is that Harpo Marx was mad keen on it. He used to play a wild version of it over unsuitable terrain, around trees, and other obstacles. Took it very seriously.
I think football started as a poor man's game because at its simplest level all you need is a ball. Everything else can be improvised. No requirement for expensive kit.
Yes Denmark's 14-2 victory over Iceland was a HUGE score by any professional soccer standards. That was way back in 1967 in a friendly (i.e. non-competitive) game between the two countries. However that has been exceeded many times. In 2002 Australia faced American Samoa in a World Cup qualifier and ran out 31-0 winners, Australia didn't actually get their first goal until 10 minutes into the game, and all 31 goals were all scored within a period of 79 minutes. That's an average of a goal every 2.5 minutes !!
Denmark's biggest official win was actually 17-1 vs France in the Semi-Finals at the 1908 Summer Olympics. Denmark has btw never lost to Iceland the 24 times they have faced each other so far, though Iceland have managed to beat the likes of Italy (in 1 out of 2 attempts), England (1 out of 5 attempts), Croatia (1 out of 7 times), Spain (1 out of 9 times), Sweden (2 out of 17 times), The Netherlands (2 out of 14 times), Czech Republic (2 out of 6 times), Norway ( 7 out of 34 times) and Turkey (8 out of 13 times).
Cricket does NOT take all week to play. That's just one and less held format of cricket. The most common one last about 3 hours. He should have done his research more as a british.
But it is by far the best & purest format.
@@martinwebb4897 and he may have been a little facetious with that comment.
Brazil flag: Ordem e NEYMAR lol
(it's actually Ordem e Progresso... which I guess any indo European language speaker can guess it means ORDER AND PROGRESS)
Btw, I am glad to inform that Neymar is not being missed so much anymore... Raphinha, Vinicius Jr, Anthony, Matheus Cunha, etc... they are playing very well.
So to make the World Cup format easy to explain:
ROUND ONE: QUALIFICATION
• There are 6 regions - (1) Asia, (2) Africa, (3) North / Central / Caribbean America, (4) South America, (5) Oceania and (6) Europe
• Each region gets allocated how many teams from their region goes to the World Cup
• Each region decides how they are going to determine the those teams. For EXAMPLE, Africa has 5 spots. Africa right now has 10 teams remaining, they decide to do a 1v1 play-off in March 2022. The 5 play-off winners will get Africa's 5 spots for the World Cup. Each region has their own way of determining which teams qualifies.
ROUND TWO: GROUP STAGE
• 32 teams are in 8 groups of 4 teams each (8 x 4 = 32).
• Your team HAS to play the other 3 teams in their group, so like a round-robin format.
• Once all the teams in your group finished playing 3 games, the 2 teams with the best record in each group goes to knockout stage.
ROUND THREE: KNOCKOUT STAGE
• The 16 teams play a single knockout game until there is 1 team left, so like as you said, March Madness. The winner wins the World Cup!
The South African angle is pretty spurious, they had their first free elections in 1994 which ended apartheid. But looking back, in 1992 they ranked only 124th in the world, but then they managed to put together a decent team/coach and by 1996 they were ranked 16th in the world. Four years isn't really enough to overcome total isolation/lack of international playing time, so it's probably attributed to a lack of a decent team/coaching/management. Ever since then they've been plagues by corruption and a lack of leadership, new talent being fostered etc, so currently they're only about 68'th in the world.
South Africa was ostracised due to not letting black people play for their sport's teams. It all came to a head when they refused to let a black cricketer called BASIL D'OLIVERA to come to the country to play for England in 1968-69. They were then banned from all global sporting events till the release of Nelson Mandela, and his election in 1994.
SoGAL, great reaction. Y'know the one big HUGE difference between American and Other sport cultures is that of franchise teams in your leagues.
in America you have a top flight where all the franchises continue to play each other year on year, despite results and performance. In the rest of the world teams are never guaranteed a spot in the top tier - they need to earn it in terms of results and performance
In England we have a top tier with teams like Manchester United and Liverpool but any team, even from a small town or village has the opportunity to progress and play against them through a system of promotion and relegation between not only .tiers 1 and 2, but also all the way down to tier 10
There is a great video by an American youtuber that explains this. Really it happens, teams move up between the tiers andT HIS is the beauty of football. ruclips.net/video/zsEVI_ptqw4/видео.html
Thought there was 12 tiers?
@@almostyummymummy I know another tier was added this year.. it goes down to level 20, but my point was those leagues that compete in the FA Vase and above. Would love SoGal to see this..
@@thingybob4375 20!? I knew there was a lot, but damn.
The "Cinderella" team in Brazil is called a Zebra. That expression have connection with a lotto game very common (and illegal) in our streets. It's Jogo do Bicho, a 24 number lottery with each number associated with an animal. Well... The zebra isn't one of them. That way, when a very unexpected team wins in soccer we say it was the Zebra because it's the result with zero odds in Jogo do bicho.
So basically you have the qualifiers from each continent where a certain number of teams are allowed through to the world cup
The qualifying way is different for each continent so I won't go over that but what I can say is that
Europe - 13 teams qualify
Africa - 5 teams qualify
South America - 4 teams qualify (then 1 more has to play a playoff to get into the tournament against a team from Oceania/Australasia)
Asia - 4 teams qualify (1 more plays a different playoff against a team from North America)
North America - 3 teams qualify (with 1 playing in the playoff against Asia)
Oceania/Australasia - 1 team has to play a playoff against the team from South America
So that's 29 qualifying automatically without a playoff
Then 2 more from the playoffs and the final one is the host
Then the actual world cup starts
32 teams
There are 8 groups picked out with 4 teams in each initially
For the 4 teams there are 4 pots with 8 teams in each with each in order of Fifa ranking of the qualifying teams except that the host goes into pot 1 automatically and straight into Group A/Group 1
No 2 teams can be in the same group from 1 continent unless they are from Europe either
Once the 8 groups are picked out from the pot, the group stage plays
Each team plays another team in the same group once then the top 2 from each group goes through
Then into the round of 16 (16 teams)
1- Winner group A VS Runner-Up group B
2- Runner-up group C VS Winner group D
3 - Winner group E VS Runner-up group F
4 -Runner-up group G VS Winner group H
5- Runner-up Group A VS Winner group B
6 - Winner group C VS Runner-up group D
7 - Runner-up group E VS Winner group F
8 - Winner group G VS Runner-up group H
Onto the quarter-finals
1 - Round of 16 Winner 1 VS Round of 16 Winner 2
2 - Round of 16 Winner 3 VS Round of 16 Winner 4
3 - Round of 16 Winner 5 VS Round of 16 Winner 6
4 - Round of 16 Winner 7 VS Round of 16 Winner 8
Onto the semi-finals
1 - Winner quarter-finals 1 VS Winner quarter-finals 2
2 - Winner quarter-finals 3 VS Winner quarter-finals 4
3rd place play-off
Loser semi-final 1 VS Loser semi-final 2
Final
Winner semi-final 1 vs Winner semi-final 2
Hopefully that's also helped anyone who's really stuck on how the world cup works
All spot-on except FIFA has a draw to decide teams from which continent play each other in the inter-continental play-offs. For the 2022 world cup, 5th in South America will play 5th in Asia (the winner of the playoff between the 3rd placed teams in the final Asian qualifying group stage) and 4th in CONCACAF (North America) will play a team from Oceania. As Oceania qualifying has been put back because of Covid, a tournament between the 8 remaning teams will take place on neutral ground in Qatar in March to decide who will go through to the inter-continental play-off.
@@marblwrexbro458 Thank you, I never was entirely sure how the play-off system worked
Nice effort but this is not all appropriate for someone who's a complete beginner to the sport. This is way too unnecessarily overwhelming.
@@matthewchampion8214 I'm not a brilliant structurer of comments sooo
6:40 Dad's Army reference.
I Appreciate the Uruguay national Anthem being played as the background music , its a shitty version but , the intention is what it counts.
The United States plays in the CONCACAF qualifying group. Three teams qualify automatically from the group with the fourth going into a play off. At the moment the US are second behind Canada. They recently lost 2 nil to Canada which made some Canadians very happy. They have four games to play, 2nd February they play Honduras at home then on 24th March Mexico away, then 27th March Panama at home and finally 30th March Costa Rica away.
England men's beat San Marino 10-0 recently (regarding population affecting teams). Although the women's England team beat Latvia 20-0 so not sure what that says about women's football in Latvia. Italy btw are doing much better. They won the Euros...by defeating us.
He says a large population helps to be successful. China ? India? Don't think so.
Geography Now did a video on the world cup in 2018. It's called The WORLD CUP explained (by an american).Maybe you can react to that?
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Looking forward to seeing you learn more about us. Won't knock anything said in this video because there were some harsh facts.
Hiya Sarah, if you have a look at the world cup England won in 1966 its allot different than the one now, Jules Rimet devised the world cup and Jules SAID "whoever wins the world cup 3 times, gets to keep the world cup, that was Brazil in (1958,62 and 70) after that it changed to FIFA world cup, the world cup this year is in Qatar the final is going to be played on December 18th which is my birthday, when Canada, America and Mexico holds the world cup in 2026 there's going to be 42 countries to qualify and the final is being played in Giants Stadium, this is Choppy in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England
Dictatorships tend to be bad for football.
Hmmm... Brazil 1970 and Argentina 1978?
And the great 1982 Seleção was also while Brazil was still a dictatorship.
South Africa is own country republican not 1994
England own 19??-1994 South africa
This years WORLD CUP will be played in QATAR ( because it has a lot of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$).
As February 6th has just passed, do you think you could learn about the Munich Air Disaster? Manchester United are the biggest club in England support-wise and February 6th 1958 will always be an important date in their hisrory. R.I.P. The Flowers of Manchester.
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wow, wow, wow! "dicyatorships tend to be bad at football" - Portugal was under a fascist dictatorship (Salazar) and Benfica danced through the European Champions Cup and had Eusébio as the first portuguese best player award. ... ... ...
South Africa became an independent Republic in 1961 led by continuous rulers who were white despite being a minority. It eventually became a Dictatorship known as the Apartheid regime which resembled the Jim Crow law times in America, the black majority were discriminated against up until 1991. The only reason South Africa isn’t a Great Nuclear power today is because the Apartheid didn’t want the upcoming black rulers to have nukes so they dismantled their serious research project and stunted growth in the country. If you didn’t know, South Africa has A LOT of resources that can make thousands of tanks and nuclear warheads but was only stunted because of the old Dictatorship
The British left South Africa in mid 20th Century.
But what followed was not much better at all. The Apartheid regime took over. White people were the rulers, and black people were segregated for the rest of the Century.
Blacks were evicted from their homes and were resettled into reservations, not being allowed to move freely. And for the next 40 years, racist laws were meant to break the spirit of blacks.
Blacks and whites were never to mix, no relationships of any kind. Certain amenities like public parks or shopping centers were off limits to blacks. Blacks could not open businesses or hold down regular jobs. Life, in every way, was regulated. Buildings, buses, shops, beaches were all marked "no blacks allowed". We could not even buy white bread. Broken laws was punishable by inhumane imprisonment, and "disappearance". Political activists were hunt down and assassinated one by one or imprisoned.
It wasn't until the late 80s early 1990s, that international pressure arose, Nelson Mandela was released after 27 years in jail, to assume the presidency.
We were finally free.
In the group stage teams with a good ranking are paired with teams with a lower ranking. To avoid all the good teams eliminating each other and leaving only bad teams in the tournament. The south africa thing is due to Apartheid.
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I mean it would suck to host the world cup and NOT be in it. Who would want to do that?
4:01 Colonisation of South America by Spain, Portugal, France and the UK made football more entrenched in countries that had colonial rulers, Also games travel borders much more easier than language. The most successful games on Earth are mainly UK invented games. As being a colonial ruler means you bring your games with you. Chess was brought to the world from the middle east as colonial rulers took local games and introduced them to their populations when they got home.
I don't think the population argument is sound.. The Netherlands are tiny.. they often had teams that could pass as a world selection. By contrast mexico has a huge population, and they all love football.. and they have teams of far lower quality than the Netherlands.. Same with Russia /CSSR, same with Japan. The lack of success in England is not to do with the players so much, but with awful coaches, a stagnant playing culture, extreme public pressure etc.
In the UK the richer people tend to play Rugby Union (not Rugby League), the poorer play Football, cricket is a mix. It is the same in most of Western Europe.
You don't even need a pitch or grass to play football. Played my whole childhood on the street. Choped a peace of my thumb a few times by kicking the asphalt ! Don't need a ball either, I've played with rocks, bottles, a cockonut ! Also, you don't need 22 people !
Which is how you can buy participation in the World Cup... like Qatar did for 2022.... No chance they would have ever qualified without the oil backed host situation
South Africa's apartheid was installed by the Afrikaner nationalist party. The Afrikaners are people who are ancestors of Dutch settlers (Boers) who settled in South Africa. Not to excuse the racism of the English settlers, but the Afrikaners were more racist.
Okk, look. The keys to win, lift the cup and be crowned the best in the world.
Step one: Be better
Step 2: Be stronger physically and mentally
Step 3: Win or win nothing in between
Yeah there is a FIFA ranking how good a country is. This has an effect on how many Champions league spots you get. For example a lower nation just gets 1 or 2 while the best nations get like 3 spots. (Its an european tournament with only the best couple of teams of each country). In a world cup you have a group stage where each team plays each other and the ones with the most points advance to the knockout phase. And i believe the fifa ranking matters so there are just 1 or 2 of the super strong teams go to each group. This means that the best teams all have a chance to go to the knockout phase. Where as if you put Spain, Portugal, Argentina, England, Brazil and Germany in one group this would mean that only some of those make it to the playoffs. And this would be terrible because these teams usually also have the biggest fanbases. On the other hands if you had such a group and put in Iceland or Austria or some medium strong country these teams would have almost no chance of advancing. So this is in my eyes better for the big football nations as well as the underdogs. Beat one of the big guys once - sure, beat them multiple times - very unlikely. Sure these could be lucky with a group which consists of only underdogs but its only per chance. I think its good this way it is.
'South Africa: What the heck is going on down there?'. Credit to the University of Memphis. What the heck is going on there?
Think you need to watch somebody else because this guy didn't explain nothing about the world Cup mostly about South Africa its nothing todo with the world Cup 🙄
With Nelson Mandela, South Africa emerged from apartheid. He was later elected President. In that sense, South Africa is a free country of its own.
United was quick to condemn mason (not a big name) action which is good but when it comes to big name like ronaldo they dont care what ronaldo did years ago “sexual assault”.big name players abuse woman like object and pay them like it never happened. ronaldo fans are worse for defending him. Shameful fan base
Qualifiers are played to enter the tournament. The teams that qualify are grouped for the first stage. I can't recall if grouping is based on how a team performed in qualifying or is a random lottery but it isn't geographical.
The top two teams from each group go into the knockout phase. The winner of one group will play the runner up of the next group and so on until only two teams remain to play the final.
The 32 teams are placed into 4 pots of 8 based on FIFA world ranking, apart from the host country which automatically goes into the top pot of seeds. The 8 groups are then made up of 1 team from each pot of seeds. Teams from the same confederation can’t be drawn in the same group. The exception being UEFA which have a maximum of 2 teams per group, with Europe having 13 teams qualify.
Please ignore all this population means expected average goals it's complete nonsense. Edit and income and FIFA ranking it's all bollocks tbh. Many smaller not so well off countries have really good national teams
The 2022 FIFA World Cup will be held in Qatar in December.
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South Africa had a regime which at best could be described as racist, practicing a system called apartheid. This resulted in the country being excluded from worldwide sporting competition. This has changed but the country is now going racist in the other way.
I think one rule is missing: organisation. Countries where sports are well organised, with proper facilities, skilled trainers, cooperation, policies with a long term view, etc., will do better. This has not much to do with money or population size. It increases the effectiveness.
A Argentine team call Boca Juniors got their team colours from a Irish missionary who had used a kit from his Hurling team from back home.
It’s really easy. Only footballers find this complex. In order to win the World Cup you need to beat your opponents.
Not a great video to react to learn about the World Cup honestly, title should've been a giveaway. You don't need to understand how to win the World Cup but rather how the World Cup works.
what shes talking about? uefa ranking is world "soccer" ranking with points mainly more you wins machtes more you get points something like that
Rule 3: be big
Uruguay: No
(Uruguay has only 3 million people)
The reason americans might view football as more posh or upper class than what it is a lower class sport is simple really, the us has a national sentiment or preconceived notions (due to colonial propaganda and indoctrination) that Britain is some sort of white elitist haven that subjugated the entire world especially non white peoples. Which is not true, because it was the royals (not of British blood) that chose to commit all those crimes against humanity not the British people. But back to the point, these preconceived notions a lot of Americans have in the modern world about Britain are the reason they would think that the sport of football is not a lower class sport. Basically it makes sense that they wouldn't assume football is a lower class sport due to the indoctrination that americans are subjected to on their bubble.
I'm not even a football fan but, being British, I can't help but admire the game for it's history and ability to bring people together
Sorry, but i’m afraid that an englishman has no title to explain how to win a world cup....
Why is this guy hating on South Africa? Sounds like a personal vendetta.
Its so sad we lost this creator so young, he made such great content, may you forever rest in peace Brain4breakfast
4:00 You are ancestor of those (Western) Europeans who were spreading soccer to colonies like America and Africa.
Actually many famous brazilians football players were poor, because football is a sport very accessible
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Did you see the people reaction to the last world cup qualification games?