This is mostly about the top leagues, but the depth of leagues is almost infinite. Almost anyone can get involved in a pub team or a Sunday league team. That’s what makes football so great, it’s open to all, you just have to have a passion for the game.
A good allegory for Americans is the NBA which has basketball teams representing different US cities competing against teams from other US cities, but then there's also the USA mens national team which selects the best players from the NBA to represent the USA against other nations basketball teams in competitions such as the Olympics.
The English FA cup is amazing, 2 years ago my local team Chorley FC were in the 6th division, the 2nd 3rd and 4th round they got drawn to play a championship team (2nd division) who were huge favourites but every time they lost to our little town. In the 5th round they got drawn against Wolverhampton Wanderers a premier League team and only lost 1-0 it was an epic run for such a tiny team
Wrexham AFC this season was ace. I went to their 2nd round game and had a great time. In 2004, my hometown team Scarborough FC (in the National League / 5th tier) faced Premier League Chelsea at home and only just lost. and the mid 2010s game when Bradford beat Chelsea in the cup.
The world cup is totally different. It's literally countries from all around the world not just Europe creating their best team from that country and the best wins.
@@MaikonGarcia - what I meant was that although Soccer is quite small in the USA and probably most Americans have no exposure to it, they do field a World Cup team and they often qualify and do quite well.
@@brian9731 Well it's because at Concacaf there is no competition... They have 3.5 places for classification, the only good team in the confederation is Mexico, there's no way the country with the biggest economy in the world can't at least qualify...
Not flaming here, but as an Italian it's very interesting to see how normal and obvious all the things explained in the video sound to us europeans, it's insane how we take it for granted, yet u guys can't quite understand how it all works. Also untill a while back i tought that literally everyone knew at least a bit about footbal, guess i was wrong XD. Nice video btw!!
There was a recent attempt to have a similar to the US league in Europe called the Superleague where you essentially were always in the league regardless. That ship sank quickly. Very quickly.
Man Utd fan of 30 years here. I have not watched Utd since that whole shitshow and I have vowed that I never will until the Glazers are out. My second team, Colchester United, are now my club.
This year, a team from English football's 8th tier managed to reach the third round of the FA cup and played against Tottenham Hotspur, one of the top teams in Europe. Their players are semi-professional (which means they have day jobs, like schoolteachers and bin men) and their car park wasn't even big enough for the Spurs team bus. But for that one night, they played against international superstars!
Its Hilarious, any video ive ever seen from them, he waffles over the video then is asking silly questions he would have the answer to if he just listened to instead of talking over the video, while she just listens and soaks everything in and generally pauses if she wants to talk. The wife generally has a more logical and lateral thinking brain too. Its interesting how opposite they are.
@@beaverboi_ it's not really going in, it's just an observation really. He will always speak 1st then think, she will always think 1st then speak, we all know people in our own lives that are the same, heck I know people who speak but never think, I just find it interesting how they are so opposite but yet attract and work so well together .
What about Wigan Athletic winning it beating Manchester City in the final and getting relegated in the same season, then essentially playing in the Europa League out of the Championship 😂😂😂
The matches don't just end when the referee feels like it. The match is in two halves. The refs keep a careful note of any stoppages, injury time, time wasting, pitch invasions by fans etc during the game. This is then added onto the game at the end of each half. The time added for each item IS at the ref's discretion, but they don't just stick on the odd 20 minutes when they feel like it. This can make games very tense at the end when you end up in this injury time period, especially during crucial matches involving team relegation or promotion.
@@cypressdogsy425 he has a point, the ref decides the extra time on his own, there are games with nearly to no injuries and then he says +6 and calls if of after 8 ... and others where the played time all game and he says +2 and calls it of after 1:55 ... as a football fan my life long ... yes the ref calls if of whenever he feels xD at least thats what it feels and thats what fans complaining about xD
@@CoL_Drake It isn't just injuries that add to extra time - it's also all the substitutions, VAR and if the ref thinks the other team is time wasting when taking goal kicks, free kicks etc, he will also add on a little bit. It's not an exact-down-to-the-second science, but there is definitely thought and logic behind how much extra time is calculated and played. And even if there are 6 minutes shown on the board after the 90 minutes is up, extra time can be added during extra time for the same reasons above.
@@CoL_Drake any actions that stop the match from happening is factored in. The reason why you could add 3 minutes and after 4 is that the referee will typically allow an attack to finish. So let's say we just climbed over the 3 minute of added time but a team is approaching a goal. The referee will allow it to continue until the defenders basically kick the ball away.
I'm so old that I remember the days when goalies where allowed to pick up (deliberate) passes from team mates with their hands. Taking away that opportunity to delay the game was a great decision.
If I remember correctly a big influence on that decision was the World Cup final of 1990. When Germany scored with minutes to go they got under intense pressure from Argentina. In those last 5 Minutes the German goalkeeper had the most possession of all players.
Before the change, when you had a throw in close to your own goal the opponent didn't even bother to press because you could just throw directly to your goalkeeper. It's very curious to see it in an old taping since we're used to throw ins close to the corner being a good chance for a goal, no matter what team has the actual possession.
When you sign a child you're signing up young people and offering to train them for the next 5-10 years with the best in the business for free. They don't "work", they still have normal stuff like schoolwork to do, but the goal is that when they're old enough they'll sign a contract and they either play for the team, or can be sold at a profit.
I’ve met so many young men who’ve been chewed up and spat out by this system, I’m not saying it doesn’t create some real stars but there’s so many other young people who are completely broken by the experience. I really think there needs to be more support provided from the clubs to support those who’ve been through the program from a young age but don’t make it pro. As an experience it can be incredibly physically and emotionally intense.
@@DanHornerPlumber just like any other career path in life. When you dont make it you dont make it, theres no one else responsible to wipe your ass after it, you just got to take care of yourself after that.
In Germany, we have about 25,000 soccer clubs alone! In my youth (which was some time ago...), almost everyone in my school class (the boys - back then...) was in a soccer club. And some hoped at an early age that they would be discovered by a scout for a bigger club. Because that would have been their chance to play in big games.
@@Gyantonio Well, I know at least from a classmate that he played for 1. FC Köln back then (i.e. after he finished school). But he probably never made it big, so he probably wasn't good enough.
@@Koen030NL In some ways the Euros are a better watch, the overall standard of play is higher in the Euros lets face it the only quality teams missing from the Euros are Brazil and Argentina.
@@24magiccarrot Argentia and Brazil you could compare with spain and france. But i guess countries like Uruguay, Costa Rica, Colombia all have decent teams that can compete with countries like the Netherland, Italy or Portugal.
@@Koen030NL Fair enough those teams are decent, but my point is the majority of the extra teams in the world cup compared to the Euros aren't adding anything to the tournament in terms of quality. The worse European team that qualified for the Euros would easily be one of the top teams in Africa or Asia if they were somehow allowed to switch confederations.
Bloody loved this! I was shouting out loud a couple of times but loving the enthusiasm. By the way, the goalkeeper can only use their hands in their own 18 yard box 😂
The world cup is international football, not club football, its all the countries in the world (that qualified) that play with their national team. The Euros are currently being played which is the same but with just European countries
Interesting watching this explanation and their confusion. Born in Italy I learnt all of this my first year of life. Just start supporting a team, it will be easier
Yeah, that's actually fair. That way you can follow the team as the season progresses and know the players for that team. I would start recommending teams, but it's not really up to me who you support.
The "Kicking it back and forward to each other" is done for quite a few reasons, 1, as the video mentions, you keep possession, the other team can't score if they don't have the ball 2, you hopefully frustrate your opponent and draw them out of their positions, imagine two centre backs kicking the ball between each other, eventually the opposition strikers and centre forward will try to press them, this leaves a hole in their position, so one of your team mates goes into that space and receives the ball, now one of the opposition wingers is going to have to press them, leaving a space on the flanks... before you know it the other team aren't in any of their positions as they're having to cover other spaces left behind by their team mates causing disorganisation. 3 it can simply be to run the clock down if you're already winning, 4 it can be used to give your team a breather and a chance to reorganise themselves after being under some heavy pressure. Football is a very cerebral as well as physical game, its like a physical chess match constantly hanging on a knifes edge
If you use it constantly to move the ball from left to right, it also maintains the opposite team running left to right constantly, which in turn produces bigger fatigue that can be taken advantage of towards the end of each half.
In regards to signing kids it works kinda like this, in the UK (and most of the footballing world) , individual teams having scouting teams that scan practically everywhere with a lot of these being childrens leagues practically (U9s through to U18s) and approach them into joining the clubs academy. Where they'll train football practically daily, as well as have their schooling - it's here where obviously some go onto to eventually reach the first team, others get loaned out to other clubs and some unfortunately fail to make the cut. So for us our schools and University teams are there like you're school/college system, but it's a positive side effect that scouts can attend these matches looking out for talent. But generally most players who enter the footballing pyramid are spotted from amateur/non-league football the world over. Some huge players in the premier league now were originally scouting like on the streets of Brazil and Africa playing barefoot when they were offered the chance to move country and try to make a career out of it. Equally in some of these lower league clubs (say a League one or two club), if a promising player comes through their academy and a Top team comes in to buy them, a sell-on fee can be useful as say the top team buy a promising player for £5mil with a 20% sell on clause. Say that player turns out to be amazing and is sold in the future for say like £80 million, 20% of that £80mil will go to that original lower league club. Which can absolutely change the fortunes for that club, the sums I listed are a bit extreme but you get the point.
The video you watched is slightly incorrect at some points for example relagation: 2 teams get kicked out of the league and replaced by the top two teams in league below. However the third worse team plays the third best team from the league below to determine who is going to play in the bigger league. That is the relegation, not the two sure losers but the ones that have to fight over it. IMPORTANT: Don't tackle the goali. And the goali can leave the restricted/penalty zone but only within it he is allowed to use his hands, outside he is a normal player.
As per the rules, goalies need to distinguish themselves from the rest of their teammates, that's why they always have something different on. They're the only one that can use their hands, so they need to be easily identifiable.
I think she just generally have more experience with sport in general so she can get it a bit quicker. I think the guy mentioned he hasn't really ever watched much sport at all.
21:40 Nonono... A cup is a tournament where teams get eliminated one by one until there are only two left and there's a final. If you win you get to stay, if you loose you are out of the tournament. A league is a set of pre-scheduled games where every team plays every other team (twice) and you get points (two for a win, one for a draw, zero for a loss) points are counted at the end of the season, and determines who wins the league. No-one is eliminated in league play, every team plays the entire season, but the three bottom teams gets dropped down to a lower league, and the three best teams of the lower league will take their place next season. The [world cup] is a tournament, where every country (that qualifies) gets to put together a national team. The players have to be citizens of the country they represent. It's like in the olympics. (Wich do not have a pro (mens-) football tournament, as that would steal the light from all other sports. The world cup is held every 4 years. [UEFA champion's league] is a league in wich the 20 best teams out of the european leagues compete against each other. Champion's league plays every year in paralell with each country's own leagues. In theory, champion's league could be made up entirely of Spanish teams. (If they were good enough) The european teams are international in the sence that they consist of players from many different countries. The teams can recruit players from any country, and any league within those countries. In the leagues, a player only represent the team (club) that has signed them. The clubs or teams all have a home city.
24:37 he said "to youth academies", most professional teams have their own academies that they develop young players in (they are mostly local kids, very rarely you see a foreign kid there) and when they get older they may join your main team. The club has several youth teams and most often a reserve team for players old enough to be pros, but not good enough to be in the first team. You are full on pro from the age of 16 most of the times, there is no school/college system like in the US. .
Thank you for reacting for my video recommendation. The video was only talking about club football, not the world cup. How you guys can wait the final for the Euro 2020, which is this Sunday and Copa America final, which is this Saturday between Brazil and Argentina. There is Euro match today the semifinals, between England and Denmark at 2 pm, but im not sure if you guys can be able to live stream that one, in such a short time. Hope to see you live stream the Eruo and Copa America finals this weekend. Keep up the great work and much love from Jamaica 🇯🇲.
I hope they watch the two finals. So much is at stake, specially for Messi and Argentina, and not to discount Italy and hopefully England. It'll be a good showcase of footballing talent and the passions involved with "the beautiful game".
@@sachithraindrajithsiriward9366 it would also be very cool to see Denmark win, with the way the started the tournament. It is also a very good underdog story which is always fun
@@LadyQAB It's sad that the deciding factor was cheap penalty. I am an England supporter but I do wish it was a more clear goal. And I do agree that Denmark's performance, specially with what they had to go through has been exceptional.
@@sachithraindrajithsiriward9366 Yeah that penalty was a bit harsh and it then there was the incredibly safe from the keeper they deserved better (but I do think England is the better team just not in this match)
American soccer players Landon Donovan, Tim Howard, Brad Friedel, Kasey Keller, Christian Pulisic and Clint Dempsey have all played in the English Premier League
yeah think so if memory serves correctly would have been in the time they had the thai owners 2003/04 time. He was some player loved him when he played for Rangers.
Me irritou no vídeo do cara explicando que ele só fala da Europa e América do Norte, sendo que tem o América do Sul, África e Ásia, continentes com futebol fortíssimo.
@@BrazilianImperialist Mas não é o único. Argentina acabou de ganhar uma copa e o Brasil é o único penta. Deixou de ser só sobre a Europa desde muito tempo.
@@joaoaugustolandim Futebol de clube está sendo cada vez mais só europa desde muito tempo...futebol de clube que inclusive foi o tema mais falado do vídeo
While most cities, towns and even larger villages in the UK tend to have football teams, generally it is just the city based teams that have the resources to get into the more competitive leagues. In theory they could all compete, in reality smaller teams just couldn't afford to pay professional players. Also as long as you can get a working visa you could join a team as a professional player (assuming you have the talent and opportunity). The Premier league is the top UK based championship that happens every year while the World Cup only happens every 4 years. Also the World cup is an international championship which is separate from all the other championships that consists only of national teams like England, Germany, Italy, etc. I would suggest watching the England matches if you do decide to go through this years world cup as you will be most likely to get commentary in English as well as having a few less confusing names being mentioned.
World Cup is for INTERNATIONAL COUNTRIES all over the World like The USA/England/ Brazil. The other massive INTERNATIONAL Tournament is on RIGHT NOW and on Sunday it is THE FINAL. These are The Euros and just for European Countries. The FIMAL is in England between England and Italy. The atmosphere will be electric and songs/chants will ALL be by the fans NOT controlled in any way by the Stadium. The difference each year between the Top 2 English Divisions (the best in the world ) is $240,000,000 and there are 92 MAIN teams in the FOUR top English Divisions. In the English F A Cup once in a while, a team OUTSIDE the Top 92 League Clubs WILL knock out a major team.
I believe there are currently about 42,000 teams in England. About 2000 of these are professional or semi-professional. There are 11 tiers to the National League System, with the top 5 tiers being professional. There are 20 teams in the Premier League (tier 1), 72 clubs in the English Football League (divided into 24 clubs in the Championship aka tier 2, 24 clubs in League 1 aka tier 3, and 24 clubs in League 2 aka tier 4), 68 clubs in the National League (divided into 23 clubs in tier 5, 22 in tier 6, and 22 in tier 7), 228 clubs in Southern League/Northern Premier League/Isthmian League (tiers 7-8), 680 clubs in tiers 9 and 10 (that contain 17 different leagues and 34 divisions), and tier 11 has about 900 clubs and 60 leagues. And this is just for England (apart from 5 welsh clubs lol) so put simply, there are a lot.
About the fact that every year you can see new teams and that every team has a chance; a few years ago an amateur team ( I think it was Quevilly) trained and performed so well they managed to enter the national championship and give a strugle to many pro teams (amateur team meaning that they had day jobs and basic remuneration if not at all); it has been a great moment in french football, I'm not even a sports fan and I remember it
10:40 what she said is actually accurate. Best football games always between great defensive team against great offensive team which keep tension at the highest level for long time. Waiting one or the other cracking up makes it more exciting. Most boring ones are between two defensive team that have no goals to chase. They are middle pack team and they both happy about it. It's nearly end of the season so even players don't care that much and ball always stays in the middle of the pitch. It's a nightmare for people who watching it.
World Cup is a special country vs country tournament every 4 years that is totally separate from everything explained in this video. It’s kinda like when NBA players go the Olympics, everyone plays for the country they are born in, but just one sport. All these championships are club level where they playout their normal career, Like the NY Knicks or LA Lakers.
Everything in this video was talking about club football, meaning teams associated with towns and cities. The World Cup, and the European Championship (e.g. Euro 2020, what's happening now) are between national teams.
The team I support did a big climb when I was a kid. Division 2, upto Division 1, and now floats around mid to bottom of the Premier league, sometimes dropping back down to Division 1 etc. Teams are owned by a board of directors and during transfer periods can purchase players from other teams
Fifa World Cup and the just ended UEFA EURO are basically international competitions where countries compete with each other. The format there is a group stage with 4 teams in a group in the same format that was explained in the video (3 points for a win, 1 for a draw) with each team playing the other teams once. Then you get the playoffs where it's a knockout. The FIFA WC and EURO each happen every 4 years with a 2 year offset. So you get the World Cup, then 2 years and you get a EURO then once again 2 years a World Cup. In the meantime The UEFA champions league and each league is going every year where it's the clubs. Quick answer for the goalie and the shirts. The goalie has to wear an outfit of a different colour than anyone else on the field. So let's say your team is white, the enemy team is red and the referee is yellow, your shirt cannot be of any of those colours. As for the rules. The goalie can indeed use his hands to pickup the ball, however this can be done only within the goalkeeper area (the big box in front of the goal), outside of that large box he must play as any other player. There are also small rules about picking up the ball but too complex for now. The goalie cannot be tackled in the goalie area. Any such action or action that intentionally puts the goalie in danger is typically met with a red card. Basically, the player gets sent off and his team has to play a 10 vs 11
The goalkeepers do wear a different strip to the rest of the team. They can go anywhere on the pitch but can only touch the ball with their hands/arms within the penalty box - that's the big rectangle in front of the goal. They wear a different colour so it's easy to spot them and know if the person touching the ball is allowed to.
There is not just one mayor league per country. Here in Germany, we have multiple leagues with different levels where teams can go up and down (that's then relegation). Every season 2 teams at the top and bottom will switch leagues. It stays interesting
1 major league per country *unless you're looking at the northwest peninsula where theres a Welsh league and all the best Welsh teams play in the English league, one English team plays in Scotland, and one Northern Irish team plays in the Republics league
"Can an American football player play in Europe?" This year Chelsea won the Champions League (Europe's biggest football competition). One of their star players is Christian Pulisic, an American. He earns £3.2m per year. The World Cup happens every 4 years. This is for national teams (like England, Scotland, USA etc), not Club teams (eg Chelsea, Man Utd etc). Goalies are the only players who are allowed to handle the ball in their own goal areas - hence they wear different coloured shirts to their team mates so the referee can quickly identify them. Refs will award the other team a penalty if anyone other than the goalie handles the ball.
"Every town can have a football team" lol XD Actually can have much more than just one, for example in the Premier League out of the 20 clubs, 7 come from London XD Thats also another huge thing in football here, the rivalry between the clubs in 1 city, like liverpool vs everton, real vs atletico, city vs united and so on
When he was talking about signing kids and then selling them later, he's talking about academies, over here we don't have secondary school or university football in the way you guys do for your sports, or atleast they aren't as professional or important as yours. Instead we have academies, which is where professional and semi professional teams will not only have their senior teams but also youth teams for each age group, usually from about under 9s to under 23s (which is usually just a reserve team). These academies find the best young players they can and train them until they're either old enough and good enough for the first team, or not good enough and too old to ever be good enough, if they're good enough they'll either be started or loaned out or sometimes poached by bigger clubs, if they aren't good enough, they might be released for free or sold to a smaller club. This system means that young talents get the professional coaching they need and provides a source of income for smaller clubs, take carlisle united for example, they allowed Manchester United to take their 14 year old youth keeper dean henderson for free on the condition that he have many bonuses in his contract. Now he's a good goalkeeper for man united and carlisle united get paid every time he plays for man united, and if man united ever sell him carlisle will be paid 20% of what they sell him for. And this isn't even carlisle's only example of this either, there's also players such as jarrad branthwaite, who was sold to Everton on a relatively low fee, but has similair clauses in his contract.
14:01 - That's what I find so special with football leagues as a Canadian watcher that started back in January ish. There are stories of small teams making it to the top flight (the highest league - for England, it's the Premier League) and small teams beating large teams. 15:47 about that, I think it's like a in between. There are definitely much more opportunities in leagues overseas if you're from America, but teams in the MLS are trying to get more home grown talent.
To answer your question about can an American can join a European team, yes they can and many have over the years and as a Fulham (small borough in London, in the shadow of Chelsea) fan we still regard Clint Dempsey as a hero. COYW!
The US has some amazing players rn. Christian Pulisic Giovanni Reyna Weston McKennie Sergino Dest The most prominent example from North America at least is Alphonso Davies 🇨🇦
Claudio Reyna, Demarcus Beasley and Maurice Edu all played for Glasgow Rangers at different points in the last 20 years. Reyna's son currently plays in Germany. Pulisic plays for Chelsea and is a decent player.
@@ollysimmons3761 Well guess what Olly... It's a team sport. You have to have a solid team. You can't just have a sparkling diamond in a pile of crap. Lewandowski and Ronaldo are great players, but it takes more than 1 great player in a team of 11
@@michael_177 yea that’s what I’m saying. It doesn’t make them not the best players in The world just because their team didn’t reach the final. Phillips and pickford are in the final but they are no where near the best in Europe
World Cup is the whole world. Where countries play against countries. So example England will take the best English players then play for league club as one country and player America
One thing that wasnt mentioned which is a huge part of our love of the game is the atmosphere. You can feel it in the stadium but on really good games you can feel it on tv. Watch rangers v braga highlights. You can feel it.
21:36 No, the World Cup happens every 4 years with teams composed by players of the same nationality, and no, it's not just Europe, actually the Country with the most World Cups is Brazil, and the next World Cup is in Qatar, that is in the the Middle East
Sorry - I forgot it! 2 weeks ago we ["Borussia Dortmund"] lost the so called "Champion's League" Final against a well known Club from Spain call "Real Madrid" ... it was sad for us! But!!: "we" agreed that they were better at all. It's only Sport! Stefan, Dortmund
Pretty much every town has a football club. My town does. But my town isn’t very good. The town I was born in, Harrogate, has a football club called Harrogate Town AFC, they are now in League 2. However I support Leeds United and they are in the Premier league Which is the best in England. They were promoted from the Championship.
think of it like this you play the ball around between your teammates trying to pull the defending team out of position to create openings to attack into
@@Prayingmantis78 I personally love football but it's a dishonest sport, and rugby is becoming more enjoyable now. I'm also gonna start rugby soon. For me they're both cool sports but if I'm not watching southend England or Liverpool I'd probably rather watch rugby
It's not "european" football , It's WORLD WIDE football. The only place on earth where football is something played with hands and looks like a UFC grupal fight is in the USA...
An American joined a Dutch football team (Feyenoord) this season. Football teams have connections everywhere, when you're good enough there is a good chance another team wants you. A lot of players after playing a few years in the Netherlands go to England, Germany, Italy, France or Spain - for even better salaries and chances.
Our Town alone has up to 20 teams. And it is a small town of 30 000 people. You can actually create your own team, and play against the big teams. All you have to do is register your team, and try your best. Your team can end up being in the National Tournaments or some thing. There is actually a tournament dedicated to small and new teams to try their luck in joining the bigger leagues.
To illustrate a couple of your questions; my team finished top of the English Championship, and as a result we're playing in the Premier this year. Unfortunately we are likely to finish in the bottom three this year, so will be relegated back to the championship next year. And we have just signed a Yank, who we signed from a team in Germany.
I love how they just completely miss understood the jose tactic. It doesnt mean they just line up in the goal. It means they spend a lot of the game defending and dont attack often.
About the kids: basically, if a team buys a good kid really young, they can train them to be the best player they could possibly be. Football will be the most important thing in their life, everything else comes second. Of course the team needs to get permission from the kid's parents and the kid themself. In fact, it's often the parents that try to get their kids signed to professional clubs at a young age in the first place, because they'll probably become rich and famous. It's every little boy's dream to one day play professionally, so almost all of them gladly accept, even if it means moving halfway across the world to do so. There are of course strict regulations in place to keep everything as safe and humane as possible, including a maximum number of training hours per week and a mandatory level of performance at school. That being said, the kids that get scouted are often very, very young (Robin van Persie was only 5 years old when he joined his first professional club), so one could ask if it's ethical to completely control the lives of kids that are that young, similar to the discussion about child Disney stars.
@@oldschoolgamer-w4u No it didn't, but still nice to see England reach the finals. Always going be tough when you are playing one of the toughest teams. They just need to learn from it and improve.
The World Cup is its own tournament that happens every four years with national teams playing each other (e.g. England vs USA) and that tournament happens during the "off-season" once the club leagues have all ended. The Premier League is the top league in England for English club teams (e.g. Liverpool vs Manchester City). The Champions' League is a tournament for the best club teams from the different leagues in Europe to play against each other (e.g. Liverpool vs Real Madrid).
The Official Premier League Handbook Season 2020/21 uses the term 'game' 212 times. For example, "Kick off times for evening games - 19:45 unless stated otherwise." So...
@@dobythedog Lol... "They" is THE EPL, chief. What they say is, by default, right when it comes to them. What anything is to you is no more important than what anything else is to anybody else. And I'm 100% certain I can go back 100 years in English media to find the term 'game' applied to football matches. You shouldn't worry so much about defining who you are by playing with words. I can assure you that only you care.
- World Cup is every 4 years and is about qualified national teams (countries) competing for the trophy. - UEFA Champions league is European tournament involving the qualified clubs (cities/towns) of Europe, every major football continent has its own version. - National major leagues (also called ''championship'') involve the 18-20 best clubs (cities/towns) of a given country. Then you have minor leagues (also called ''2nd/3rd/4th divisions'') also using the promotion/relegation system. - The Cup involves every clubs from every division of the given country, some low division clubs managed to win the trophy. American players can play in any European clubs (or elsewhere) if a club is willing to hire them and fill the proper paperworks in time, just like any regular worker hired by a foreign company. A very young player can be hired on the expectation that his talent will grow enough for him to be a top player but he will mostly play for the amateur/youngster team of the club, usually 16yo is the minimum age i saw a player in a major league.
Great comments by you! And - please believe me! - I'm not here to correct it in any kinds! I'm 53 from Dortmund, Germany. It is [Dortmund] round about 600,000 inhabitants [formerly quite well known for steel and breweries - right now for technical inventions and universities] ... Right now there is the European Nations Cup in Germany 'cause we host it. Also in Dortmund - we got a very fine Stadium for it, that's true: I enjoyed a LOT as foreign nations played against each other ... it happened yesterday as Italy won against another nation called "Albania" [Sorry ... we got a lot of different nations inside Europe, which you probably cannot understand at first] ... traffic jam, yelling people in a very good and polite way. I appreciate this! Please take a view on a regular match inside of the major leagues - like in England, Italy, Spain ... and Germany for sure. Sometimes there is some trouble, but we are able to handle it ... Best wishes from Stefan [Dortmund, Germany]
The game do not end when ever the ref fells like it, he time the down time, the time he have stopped the game, and ad it, but only he know for sure, apart from every one else with a stopwatch/timer, with in a few sec. So the match is 2x45 min. Plus down time.
The only way to join from the US is being scouted and bought, you can`t just join any club. So you just start playing at any local club (from the whatevs league/series D and below, only mums care about, as he put it in the video 16:20), scouts get around all over the world, they will find you if you are good, they some times get 10-15% of 100 mill $ deals.
The Euro and the world cup are only for national teams, the other once are for clubs, they can be from mixed nationality to some extend. Like tonight the Danish national team play the English national team, but a lot of the Danish players are also playing for English clubs, and are part of champions league for English clubs. This also means team mates on national teams, tend to all be opponents in club football.
13:20 I think you forgot a zero in that number. Just checked for the Netherlands (where I live) and we have around 3000 clubs in the country most aren't profesional but every club could in theory get their first team in the "eredivisie" or top league of the country.
Possession football is good at wearing out your opponent, chasing the ball takes more energy than keeping it. That's why you'll see defenders just passing it between each other, the opposing attacking players will be pressing to get it back, kinda like forechecking in hockey, if the defence play right the attackers wont have the energy to do anything with it when they do get it, while they are doing that they are also looking to exploit the space left by the midfielders who may have also moved out of position to pressure the ball carrier. For the team trying to get the ball back, pressure is essential! You cannot allow the team in possession too much time to think, that constant pressure will eventually cause them to make a mistake... there is soooooo much strategy involved in footy, it really is a thinking person's game.
Here is some breakdown for the Champions League: 1) Qualifying for Champions League : Champions to Top 4. (Slots allocation depends on club's nation coefficient ranking. Higher coefficient point = Top 4, Lower coefficient point = Champion only) 2) Coefficient is based on countries ranking on Continental football organization. 3) A 3rd tier European Club competition was introduced, called UEFA Europa Conference League. Directly focus to lower ranking domestic clubs. The qualifying criteria is similarly to Champions League but the opposite in terms of qualifying spots.
World Cup is a tournament every 4 year’s consisting of country’s like USA Brazil or England. The premier league and champions league ect consisted of clubs like Barcelona or Manchester City
You may notice there are two rectangles in front of the goal. If you just touch the opposing goalkeeper while they are in the smaller rectangle, that can be considered a foul. The bigger rectangle is where the goalkeeper is allowed to touch the ball with their hands. If they go outside those rectangles, they become just another player and have to follow the same rules. Also, if the defending team fouls the attacking team inside the bigger rectangle, the attacking team gets a penalty kick 11 meters from the goal with nobody but the goalkeeper allowed to defend.
About "selling player" - the process is as follows - player has an contract with the current club but wants to change club and there is a new club that would be interested in him. The new club negotiates with the old club a price for agreeing to terminate the contract with the player. Next the player agrees the terms of the new contract with the new club. All this can not happen without the consent of the player.
The passing back and forth and sideways is to lure the other team forward in their pressure to be able to surprise them with a fast deep pass forward or a quick rush with the ball by one player or a drible with the ball past some opponents - or even a very long pass towards their goal area to create a scoring chance against the now (locally) depleted opponent team.
The part about young players is more of a training programme agreement rather than an actual contract, since contracts imply labor and child-labor is forbidden. A friend of mine from grade-school had a similar thing where he got scouted playing in the little leagues and got promissed a spot in the training programme for PSV, one of the bigger clubs in The Netherlands. It basically meant that he would follow a training and diet programme set out by them to train him as a football player and he would follow schooling with an associated high-school/college programma that allowed him to follow a more strict training regime by setting out seperate homework tasks that give him some breathing room in that respect. After the programme he got loaned out for 3 years, since that was part of a later contract from when he turned 18, to another club in the same division. After those 3 years he was transfer free and moved to play in the States after two more years of local football. He played in Orange County FC and now plays for Cheonan City FC. So the youth-player thing is just a seperate educational programme that allows young players more time to train for the sport alongside their regular educational programme.
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"Every town or village can have a football team" No, every town and village can have multiple football teams!
In Dundee we've got two professional teams on the same street.
This is mostly about the top leagues, but the depth of leagues is almost infinite. Almost anyone can get involved in a pub team or a Sunday league team. That’s what makes football so great, it’s open to all, you just have to have a passion for the game.
Just watch London
@@krashd there's a hill where you can see both stadiums on I remember
And they will hate eachother like no other team in the league!
„I thought Premier League was the World Cup“
Ok I think we need to start at a whole different level.
when you thinkthey are getting it, they drop this bomb
@@joeuser9690 😂
It all goes downhill after that
We need to start at the American Level. ;-)
😂😂😂
The leagues are club football.
The world championships and european championships are national teams.
A good allegory for Americans is the NBA which has basketball teams representing different US cities competing against teams from other US cities, but then there's also the USA mens national team which selects the best players from the NBA to represent the USA against other nations basketball teams in competitions such as the Olympics.
@Igor Samojednik I was just mentioning world and european championships because those are usually the ones that get confused with league football.
what about the UEFA nations LEAGUE?
He said that leagues are club football... I pointed out one that isn't.
@Igor Samojednik Follow the thread.
The English FA cup is amazing, 2 years ago my local team Chorley FC were in the 6th division, the 2nd 3rd and 4th round they got drawn to play a championship team (2nd division) who were huge favourites but every time they lost to our little town. In the 5th round they got drawn against Wolverhampton Wanderers a premier League team and only lost 1-0 it was an epic run for such a tiny team
Wrexham AFC this season was ace. I went to their 2nd round game and had a great time.
In 2004, my hometown team Scarborough FC (in the National League / 5th tier) faced Premier League Chelsea at home and only just lost.
and the mid 2010s game when Bradford beat Chelsea in the cup.
The world cup is totally different. It's literally countries from all around the world not just Europe creating their best team from that country and the best wins.
... often including a team from the USA.
@@brian9731 often including several countries, but always including Brazil, the only country to participate in every World Cup tournament
@@MaikonGarcia - what I meant was that although Soccer is quite small in the USA and probably most Americans have no exposure to it, they do field a World Cup team and they often qualify and do quite well.
@@brian9731 Well it's because at Concacaf there is no competition... They have 3.5 places for classification, the only good team in the confederation is Mexico, there's no way the country with the biggest economy in the world can't at least qualify...
World Cup is like the Olympic Games of Soccer.
Not flaming here, but as an Italian it's very interesting to see how normal and obvious all the things explained in the video sound to us europeans, it's insane how we take it for granted, yet u guys can't quite understand how it all works.
Also untill a while back i tought that literally everyone knew at least a bit about footbal, guess i was wrong XD.
Nice video btw!!
There was a recent attempt to have a similar to the US league in Europe called the Superleague where you essentially were always in the league regardless. That ship sank quickly. Very quickly.
Man Utd fan of 30 years here.
I have not watched Utd since that whole shitshow and I have vowed that I never will until the Glazers are out. My second team, Colchester United, are now my club.
@@chrislyne377 never agreed with á Manc before
@@chrislyne377 I’m from Colchester and I’ll always back them, UP THE U’s 😂
@@joegratton8559 Come on Col U!
And it was boycotted right away bcz we don’t want that commercial bullshit
The narrator actually pronounced "Ajax" correctly.. I am Dutch, I can confirm that
You pronounce it the american way😉
yes that a-jax thing irritates me
They're Americans… ;-)
We call it " Ayax Amsterdam"
J is a Y for most of the world. Except americans.
Ajax in the US is a brand of cleaning products
This year, a team from English football's 8th tier managed to reach the third round of the FA cup and played against Tottenham Hotspur, one of the top teams in Europe. Their players are semi-professional (which means they have day jobs, like schoolteachers and bin men) and their car park wasn't even big enough for the Spurs team bus. But for that one night, they played against international superstars!
Yeah and that player who usually never plays for Spurs(I forgot his name) scored a hat trick and did the Mbappe celebration. That was so funny.
For Americans, "bin men" are people who ride on the trucks that collect trash.
@@MarceldeJong thank you bro, lol
Spurs aren't a top team in Europe
They were literally in the Champions League final two years ago.
Mate your wife is extremely intelligent please listen to her she understands so much 👍🏿
Exactly, how dumb does this guy have to be to think that opposing teams are passing balls to each other 😂
Its Hilarious, any video ive ever seen from them, he waffles over the video then is asking silly questions he would have the answer to if he just listened to instead of talking over the video, while she just listens and soaks everything in and generally pauses if she wants to talk. The wife generally has a more logical and lateral thinking brain too. Its interesting how opposite they are.
You went in
@@beaverboi_ it's not really going in, it's just an observation really. He will always speak 1st then think, she will always think 1st then speak, we all know people in our own lives that are the same, heck I know people who speak but never think, I just find it interesting how they are so opposite but yet attract and work so well together .
@@AlanKSimulations I guess one provides momentum and the other direction, on average
You can sign anywhere, for example Christian Pulisic is American and plays for Chelsea.
Yes. Quite a few US players have had successful careers in Europe and are well respected.
yeah
@@leohickey4953 Pulisic, Howard, Dempsey, Donovan .. yeah!
Great players, good memories 👍
@@thomashan4963 unfortunately rest of us male team is ass
@@callamtheowl5955 Tbh .. yeah!
I can name more Senegal players than US.
In 1973, Sunderland won the FA Cup while being in the English second division. It's legendary.
I still remember their Manager, Bob Stokoe, running on to the pitch at the end in his hat and mac.
It's still an epic game to watch^^
What about Wigan Athletic winning it beating Manchester City in the final and getting relegated in the same season, then essentially playing in the Europa League out of the Championship 😂😂😂
@@caseymclane1972 Looking like world-beaters one day, then absolutely screwing the pooch. I believe that's the Roberto Martinez special.
The Jim Montgomery double save is the best save ever given the circumstances and the save
The matches don't just end when the referee feels like it. The match is in two halves. The refs keep a careful note of any stoppages, injury time, time wasting, pitch invasions by fans etc during the game. This is then added onto the game at the end of each half. The time added for each item IS at the ref's discretion, but they don't just stick on the odd 20 minutes when they feel like it. This can make games very tense at the end when you end up in this injury time period, especially during crucial matches involving team relegation or promotion.
i hate that these "football videos" always say that the ref ends the game whenever he feels like it ffs
@@cypressdogsy425 he has a point, the ref decides the extra time on his own, there are games with nearly to no injuries and then he says +6 and calls if of after 8 ...
and others where the played time all game and he says +2 and calls it of after 1:55 ... as a football fan my life long ... yes the ref calls if of whenever he feels xD at least thats what it feels and thats what fans complaining about xD
@@CoL_Drake it's 90 minutes + added time there's no "ending the game because he feels like it" there are rules to calculate additional time,
@@CoL_Drake It isn't just injuries that add to extra time - it's also all the substitutions, VAR and if the ref thinks the other team is time wasting when taking goal kicks, free kicks etc, he will also add on a little bit. It's not an exact-down-to-the-second science, but there is definitely thought and logic behind how much extra time is calculated and played. And even if there are 6 minutes shown on the board after the 90 minutes is up, extra time can be added during extra time for the same reasons above.
@@CoL_Drake any actions that stop the match from happening is factored in. The reason why you could add 3 minutes and after 4 is that the referee will typically allow an attack to finish. So let's say we just climbed over the 3 minute of added time but a team is approaching a goal. The referee will allow it to continue until the defenders basically kick the ball away.
I'm so old that I remember the days when goalies where allowed to pick up (deliberate) passes from team mates with their hands. Taking away that opportunity to delay the game was a great decision.
Was only the 90s mate you’re not that old
If I remember correctly a big influence on that decision was the World Cup final of 1990. When Germany scored with minutes to go they got under intense pressure from Argentina. In those last 5 Minutes the German goalkeeper had the most possession of all players.
Very often and in between, FIFA might make some goodish decision.
@@asmodon nop it was mostly due to higuita aka the scorpion
Before the change, when you had a throw in close to your own goal the opponent didn't even bother to press because you could just throw directly to your goalkeeper. It's very curious to see it in an old taping since we're used to throw ins close to the corner being a good chance for a goal, no matter what team has the actual possession.
When you sign a child you're signing up young people and offering to train them for the next 5-10 years with the best in the business for free. They don't "work", they still have normal stuff like schoolwork to do, but the goal is that when they're old enough they'll sign a contract and they either play for the team, or can be sold at a profit.
it's an apprenticeship
i.e look up the career of Trent Alexander
There are even training organizations that include their own elementary/middle/highschool.
I’ve met so many young men who’ve been chewed up and spat out by this system, I’m not saying it doesn’t create some real stars but there’s so many other young people who are completely broken by the experience. I really think there needs to be more support provided from the clubs to support those who’ve been through the program from a young age but don’t make it pro. As an experience it can be incredibly physically and emotionally intense.
@@DanHornerPlumber just like any other career path in life.
When you dont make it you dont make it, theres no one else responsible to wipe your ass after it, you just got to take care of yourself after that.
In Germany, we have about 25,000 soccer clubs alone!
In my youth (which was some time ago...), almost everyone in my school class (the boys - back then...) was in a soccer club. And some hoped at an early age that they would be discovered by a scout for a bigger club. Because that would have been their chance to play in big games.
Did they make it big?
@@Gyantonio Well, I know at least from a classmate that he played for 1. FC Köln back then (i.e. after he finished school). But he probably never made it big, so he probably wasn't good enough.
Worldcup is something else. It's happening every 4 years. All the other leagues happen annually
European cup is also every 4 years, also good to watch.
@@Koen030NL In some ways the Euros are a better watch, the overall standard of play is higher in the Euros lets face it the only quality teams missing from the Euros are Brazil and Argentina.
@@24magiccarrot Argentia and Brazil you could compare with spain and france. But i guess countries like Uruguay, Costa Rica, Colombia all have decent teams that can compete with countries like the Netherland, Italy or Portugal.
@@Koen030NL Fair enough those teams are decent, but my point is the majority of the extra teams in the world cup compared to the Euros aren't adding anything to the tournament in terms of quality. The worse European team that qualified for the Euros would easily be one of the top teams in Africa or Asia if they were somehow allowed to switch confederations.
@@24magiccarrot Nothing beats the atmosphere of the world cup
Bloody loved this! I was shouting out loud a couple of times but loving the enthusiasm. By the way, the goalkeeper can only use their hands in their own 18 yard box 😂
The world cup is international football, not club football, its all the countries in the world (that qualified) that play with their national team. The Euros are currently being played which is the same but with just European countries
england are gonna beat denmark tonight
@@sonnythankey You were right! 👍😁🏴🇬🇧
As is Copa America.
Italy won 3-2 vs England for the Euros
Argentina won 1-0 vs Brazil for the Copa America
Interesting watching this explanation and their confusion. Born in Italy I learnt all of this my first year of life. Just start supporting a team, it will be easier
Yeah, that's actually fair. That way you can follow the team as the season progresses and know the players for that team. I would start recommending teams, but it's not really up to me who you support.
And team loyalty is paramount. Have to stick with them through thick and thin.
The "Kicking it back and forward to each other" is done for quite a few reasons, 1, as the video mentions, you keep possession, the other team can't score if they don't have the ball 2, you hopefully frustrate your opponent and draw them out of their positions, imagine two centre backs kicking the ball between each other, eventually the opposition strikers and centre forward will try to press them, this leaves a hole in their position, so one of your team mates goes into that space and receives the ball, now one of the opposition wingers is going to have to press them, leaving a space on the flanks... before you know it the other team aren't in any of their positions as they're having to cover other spaces left behind by their team mates causing disorganisation. 3 it can simply be to run the clock down if you're already winning, 4 it can be used to give your team a breather and a chance to reorganise themselves after being under some heavy pressure. Football is a very cerebral as well as physical game, its like a physical chess match constantly hanging on a knifes edge
If you use it constantly to move the ball from left to right, it also maintains the opposite team running left to right constantly, which in turn produces bigger fatigue that can be taken advantage of towards the end of each half.
The “kicking back and forth” is usually to draw the other team towards pressing the ball to make space further down the pitch.
In regards to signing kids it works kinda like this, in the UK (and most of the footballing world) , individual teams having scouting teams that scan practically everywhere with a lot of these being childrens leagues practically (U9s through to U18s) and approach them into joining the clubs academy. Where they'll train football practically daily, as well as have their schooling - it's here where obviously some go onto to eventually reach the first team, others get loaned out to other clubs and some unfortunately fail to make the cut.
So for us our schools and University teams are there like you're school/college system, but it's a positive side effect that scouts can attend these matches looking out for talent. But generally most players who enter the footballing pyramid are spotted from amateur/non-league football the world over. Some huge players in the premier league now were originally scouting like on the streets of Brazil and Africa playing barefoot when they were offered the chance to move country and try to make a career out of it.
Equally in some of these lower league clubs (say a League one or two club), if a promising player comes through their academy and a Top team comes in to buy them, a sell-on fee can be useful as say the top team buy a promising player for £5mil with a 20% sell on clause. Say that player turns out to be amazing and is sold in the future for say like £80 million, 20% of that £80mil will go to that original lower league club. Which can absolutely change the fortunes for that club, the sums I listed are a bit extreme but you get the point.
The video you watched is slightly incorrect at some points for example relagation:
2 teams get kicked out of the league and replaced by the top two teams in league below.
However the third worse team plays the third best team from the league below to determine who is going to play in the bigger league. That is the relegation, not the two sure losers but the ones that have to fight over it.
IMPORTANT:
Don't tackle the goali. And the goali can leave the restricted/penalty zone but only within it he is allowed to use his hands, outside he is a normal player.
As per the rules, goalies need to distinguish themselves from the rest of their teammates, that's why they always have something different on. They're the only one that can use their hands, so they need to be easily identifiable.
Use their hands INSIDE the goal area only.
Outside the goal area they are bound to the same rules as every other player.
"I didn't know Russia had hockey"
Canada, Sweden and Russia are always top 3 in the world...:D
I like the addition of "WIFE" to these vids, she comes across as having a cheeky streak!
She seems to get it more easily than her partner. And she seems really fun too
@@tanah6962 I liked her comment about the growing brain. She just failed to mention "but not as fast as mine".
I think she just generally have more experience with sport in general so she can get it a bit quicker. I think the guy mentioned he hasn't really ever watched much sport at all.
21:40
Nonono...
A cup is a tournament where teams get eliminated one by one until there are only two left and there's a final.
If you win you get to stay, if you loose you are out of the tournament.
A league is a set of pre-scheduled games where every team plays every other team (twice) and you get points (two for a win, one for a draw, zero for a loss) points are counted at the end of the season, and determines who wins the league.
No-one is eliminated in league play, every team plays the entire season, but the three bottom teams gets dropped down to a lower league, and the three best teams of the lower league will take their place next season.
The [world cup] is a tournament, where every country (that qualifies) gets to put together a national team. The players have to be citizens of the country they represent. It's like in the olympics. (Wich do not have a pro (mens-) football tournament, as that would steal the light from all other sports. The world cup is held every 4 years.
[UEFA champion's league] is a league in wich the 20 best teams out of the european leagues compete against each other. Champion's league plays every year in paralell with each country's own leagues.
In theory, champion's league could be made up entirely of Spanish teams. (If they were good enough)
The european teams are international in the sence that they consist of players from many different countries. The teams can recruit players from any country, and any league within those countries.
In the leagues, a player only represent the team (club) that has signed them. The clubs or teams all have a home city.
24:37 he said "to youth academies", most professional teams have their own academies that they develop young players in (they are mostly local kids, very rarely you see a foreign kid there) and when they get older they may join your main team. The club has several youth teams and most often a reserve team for players old enough to be pros, but not good enough to be in the first team. You are full on pro from the age of 16 most of the times, there is no school/college system like in the US. .
The boxing reference for the defensive tactics used by jose was quality, I can rate tht
Thank you for reacting for my video recommendation. The video was only talking about club football, not the world cup. How you guys can wait the final for the Euro 2020, which is this Sunday and Copa America final, which is this Saturday between Brazil and Argentina. There is Euro match today the semifinals, between England and Denmark at 2 pm, but im not sure if you guys can be able to live stream that one, in such a short time. Hope to see you live stream the Eruo and Copa America finals this weekend. Keep up the great work and much love from Jamaica 🇯🇲.
I hope they watch the two finals. So much is at stake, specially for Messi and Argentina, and not to discount Italy and hopefully England. It'll be a good showcase of footballing talent and the passions involved with "the beautiful game".
@@sachithraindrajithsiriward9366 it would also be very cool to see Denmark win, with the way the started the tournament. It is also a very good underdog story which is always fun
@@LadyQAB It's sad that the deciding factor was cheap penalty. I am an England supporter but I do wish it was a more clear goal.
And I do agree that Denmark's performance, specially with what they had to go through has been exceptional.
@@sachithraindrajithsiriward9366 Yeah that penalty was a bit harsh and it then there was the incredibly safe from the keeper they deserved better (but I do think England is the better team just not in this match)
I love your genuine curiosity!
Find a team to support, it's the best way to get into Association Football ⚽️
American soccer players Landon Donovan, Tim Howard, Brad Friedel, Kasey Keller, Christian Pulisic and Clint Dempsey have all played in the English Premier League
John Harkes too, back in the early days. And Brad Guzan.
claudia reyna also
@@colincharliesdroneadventur9102 reyna play with man city ?
yeah think so if memory serves correctly would have been in the time they had the thai owners 2003/04 time. He was some player loved him when he played for Rangers.
@@colincharliesdroneadventur9102 i remeber he because i play PES 2006. Good team,samaras,lrleand and richards and more young payers
Que loucura! É incrível ver pessoas que sabem tão pouco sobre o esporte mais popular do planeta.
americanos né, bicho
Me irritou no vídeo do cara explicando que ele só fala da Europa e América do Norte, sendo que tem o América do Sul, África e Ásia, continentes com futebol fortíssimo.
@@joaoaugustolandim porque o futebol europeu é o mais importante
@@BrazilianImperialist Mas não é o único. Argentina acabou de ganhar uma copa e o Brasil é o único penta. Deixou de ser só sobre a Europa desde muito tempo.
@@joaoaugustolandim Futebol de clube está sendo cada vez mais só europa desde muito tempo...futebol de clube que inclusive foi o tema mais falado do vídeo
While most cities, towns and even larger villages in the UK tend to have football teams, generally it is just the city based teams that have the resources to get into the more competitive leagues. In theory they could all compete, in reality smaller teams just couldn't afford to pay professional players. Also as long as you can get a working visa you could join a team as a professional player (assuming you have the talent and opportunity).
The Premier league is the top UK based championship that happens every year while the World Cup only happens every 4 years. Also the World cup is an international championship which is separate from all the other championships that consists only of national teams like England, Germany, Italy, etc. I would suggest watching the England matches if you do decide to go through this years world cup as you will be most likely to get commentary in English as well as having a few less confusing names being mentioned.
World Cup is for INTERNATIONAL COUNTRIES all over the World like The USA/England/ Brazil. The other massive INTERNATIONAL Tournament is on RIGHT NOW and on Sunday it is THE FINAL. These are The Euros and just for European Countries. The FIMAL is in England between England and Italy. The atmosphere will be electric and songs/chants will ALL be by the fans NOT controlled in any way by the Stadium. The difference each year between the Top 2 English Divisions (the best in the world ) is $240,000,000 and there are 92 MAIN teams in the FOUR top English Divisions. In the English F A Cup once in a while, a team OUTSIDE the Top 92 League Clubs WILL knock out a major team.
I believe there are currently about 42,000 teams in England. About 2000 of these are professional or semi-professional. There are 11 tiers to the National League System, with the top 5 tiers being professional.
There are 20 teams in the Premier League (tier 1),
72 clubs in the English Football League (divided into 24 clubs in the Championship aka tier 2, 24 clubs in League 1 aka tier 3, and 24 clubs in League 2 aka tier 4),
68 clubs in the National League (divided into 23 clubs in tier 5, 22 in tier 6, and 22 in tier 7),
228 clubs in Southern League/Northern Premier League/Isthmian League (tiers 7-8),
680 clubs in tiers 9 and 10 (that contain 17 different leagues and 34 divisions),
and tier 11 has about 900 clubs and 60 leagues.
And this is just for England (apart from 5 welsh clubs lol)
so put simply, there are a lot.
About the fact that every year you can see new teams and that every team has a chance; a few years ago an amateur team ( I think it was Quevilly) trained and performed so well they managed to enter the national championship and give a strugle to many pro teams (amateur team meaning that they had day jobs and basic remuneration if not at all); it has been a great moment in french football, I'm not even a sports fan and I remember it
Great to see InnocentAmerican bringing on your best player - Striker Wife : )
Are you trying to spell the word streaker!
10:40 what she said is actually accurate. Best football games always between great defensive team against great offensive team which keep tension at the highest level for long time. Waiting one or the other cracking up makes it more exciting. Most boring ones are between two defensive team that have no goals to chase. They are middle pack team and they both happy about it. It's nearly end of the season so even players don't care that much and ball always stays in the middle of the pitch. It's a nightmare for people who watching it.
Goalies can do anything. They have been known to score goals (as well as own-goals).
World Cup is a special country vs country tournament every 4 years that is totally separate from everything explained in this video. It’s kinda like when NBA players go the Olympics, everyone plays for the country they are born in, but just one sport.
All these championships are club level where they playout their normal career, Like the NY Knicks or LA Lakers.
Everything in this video was talking about club football, meaning teams associated with towns and cities. The World Cup, and the European Championship (e.g. Euro 2020, what's happening now) are between national teams.
The team I support did a big climb when I was a kid. Division 2, upto Division 1, and now floats around mid to bottom of the Premier league, sometimes dropping back down to Division 1 etc.
Teams are owned by a board of directors and during transfer periods can purchase players from other teams
React to Messi. He is the ultimate GOAT like the video says. When you watch both of them you'll see the difference.
Fifa World Cup and the just ended UEFA EURO are basically international competitions where countries compete with each other. The format there is a group stage with 4 teams in a group in the same format that was explained in the video (3 points for a win, 1 for a draw) with each team playing the other teams once. Then you get the playoffs where it's a knockout. The FIFA WC and EURO each happen every 4 years with a 2 year offset. So you get the World Cup, then 2 years and you get a EURO then once again 2 years a World Cup.
In the meantime The UEFA champions league and each league is going every year where it's the clubs.
Quick answer for the goalie and the shirts. The goalie has to wear an outfit of a different colour than anyone else on the field. So let's say your team is white, the enemy team is red and the referee is yellow, your shirt cannot be of any of those colours.
As for the rules. The goalie can indeed use his hands to pickup the ball, however this can be done only within the goalkeeper area (the big box in front of the goal), outside of that large box he must play as any other player. There are also small rules about picking up the ball but too complex for now.
The goalie cannot be tackled in the goalie area. Any such action or action that intentionally puts the goalie in danger is typically met with a red card. Basically, the player gets sent off and his team has to play a 10 vs 11
The goalkeepers do wear a different strip to the rest of the team. They can go anywhere on the pitch but can only touch the ball with their hands/arms within the penalty box - that's the big rectangle in front of the goal. They wear a different colour so it's easy to spot them and know if the person touching the ball is allowed to.
There are American players in top leagues. Just a few, but well known. Pulisic won the champions league recently
You should really try to watch a Premier League game
Or "Pwemeeeeer", as the narrator of the video would have it.
I'm bowing to you, wifey, for explaining the strategy to hubby that well. :)
There is not just one mayor league per country. Here in Germany, we have multiple leagues with different levels where teams can go up and down (that's then relegation). Every season 2 teams at the top and bottom will switch leagues. It stays interesting
1 major league per country
*unless you're looking at the northwest peninsula where theres a Welsh league and all the best Welsh teams play in the English league, one English team plays in Scotland, and one Northern Irish team plays in the Republics league
Ajax was pronounced correctly in the video btw (I know Ajax is also a cleaning product so you were probably joking lol)
"Can an American football player play in Europe?" This year Chelsea won the Champions League (Europe's biggest football competition). One of their star players is Christian Pulisic, an American. He earns £3.2m per year. The World Cup happens every 4 years. This is for national teams (like England, Scotland, USA etc), not Club teams (eg Chelsea, Man Utd etc). Goalies are the only players who are allowed to handle the ball in their own goal areas - hence they wear different coloured shirts to their team mates so the referee can quickly identify them. Refs will award the other team a penalty if anyone other than the goalie handles the ball.
Lynden Gooch is from California and has been at my local club Sunderland since he was a teenager.
Saying that Christian Pulisic is a star player is kinda sad and just plain wrong ngl
There are some players like Sergino Dest Christian Pulisic or Gio Reyna who are Americans but playing at the top level of European football
Could you pls react in the future to more european videos like that?
Would be great 🤩
eg "Understanding European Soccer in 4 Simple Steps - A guide for Americans" by Pen and Paper.
@@alancook Yeah that‘s great
Watching your channel for the first time. This made me really happy that you made the conscious decision to learn the sport. Well done you guys 👍🏻
"Every town can have a football team" lol XD
Actually can have much more than just one, for example in the Premier League out of the 20 clubs, 7 come from London XD
Thats also another huge thing in football here, the rivalry between the clubs in 1 city, like liverpool vs everton, real vs atletico, city vs united and so on
When he was talking about signing kids and then selling them later, he's talking about academies, over here we don't have secondary school or university football in the way you guys do for your sports, or atleast they aren't as professional or important as yours. Instead we have academies, which is where professional and semi professional teams will not only have their senior teams but also youth teams for each age group, usually from about under 9s to under 23s (which is usually just a reserve team).
These academies find the best young players they can and train them until they're either old enough and good enough for the first team, or not good enough and too old to ever be good enough, if they're good enough they'll either be started or loaned out or sometimes poached by bigger clubs, if they aren't good enough, they might be released for free or sold to a smaller club.
This system means that young talents get the professional coaching they need and provides a source of income for smaller clubs, take carlisle united for example, they allowed Manchester United to take their 14 year old youth keeper dean henderson for free on the condition that he have many bonuses in his contract. Now he's a good goalkeeper for man united and carlisle united get paid every time he plays for man united, and if man united ever sell him carlisle will be paid 20% of what they sell him for. And this isn't even carlisle's only example of this either, there's also players such as jarrad branthwaite, who was sold to Everton on a relatively low fee, but has similair clauses in his contract.
You should react to Best of Ronaldo highlights to appreciate the "beautiful art" at its best.
14:01 - That's what I find so special with football leagues as a Canadian watcher that started back in January ish. There are stories of small teams making it to the top flight (the highest league - for England, it's the Premier League) and small teams beating large teams.
15:47 about that, I think it's like a in between. There are definitely much more opportunities in leagues overseas if you're from America, but teams in the MLS are trying to get more home grown talent.
To answer your question about can an American can join a European team, yes they can and many have over the years and as a Fulham (small borough in London, in the shadow of Chelsea) fan we still regard Clint Dempsey as a hero.
COYW!
The US has some amazing players rn.
Christian Pulisic
Giovanni Reyna
Weston McKennie
Sergino Dest
The most prominent example from North America at least is Alphonso Davies 🇨🇦
Claudio Reyna, Demarcus Beasley and Maurice Edu all played for Glasgow Rangers at different points in the last 20 years. Reyna's son currently plays in Germany. Pulisic plays for Chelsea and is a decent player.
The European Football Cup's Final is Coming up Next Week, so i'd reccomend that to see the BEST of the BEST in europe play.
Not really the best of the best considering like 90% of the best players aren't in It
@@ollysimmons3761 Yet they couldn't manage to reach the final 🤔
Stay salty
its coming home
@@michael_177 what about lewandowski or ronaldo. They’re better than any players in the final but their teams weren’t good enough
@@ollysimmons3761 Well guess what Olly... It's a team sport. You have to have a solid team. You can't just have a sparkling diamond in a pile of crap. Lewandowski and Ronaldo are great players, but it takes more than 1 great player in a team of 11
@@michael_177 yea that’s what I’m saying. It doesn’t make them not the best players in The world just because their team didn’t reach the final. Phillips and pickford are in the final but they are no where near the best in Europe
World Cup is the whole world. Where countries play against countries. So example England will take the best English players then play for league club as one country and player America
One thing that wasnt mentioned which is a huge part of our love of the game is the atmosphere. You can feel it in the stadium but on really good games you can feel it on tv.
Watch rangers v braga highlights.
You can feel it.
The best Americans do get recruited into the European leagues.
21:36 No, the World Cup happens every 4 years with teams composed by players of the same nationality, and no, it's not just Europe, actually the Country with the most World Cups is Brazil, and the next World Cup is in Qatar, that is in the the Middle East
Sorry - I forgot it!
2 weeks ago we ["Borussia Dortmund"] lost the so called "Champion's League" Final against a well known Club from Spain call "Real Madrid" ... it was sad for us!
But!!: "we" agreed that they were better at all.
It's only Sport!
Stefan, Dortmund
Habéis hecho una Champions perfecta y jugasteis genial en la final, buena suerte el año que viene. Saludos desde Madrid.
Pretty much every town has a football club. My town does. But my town isn’t very good. The town I was born in, Harrogate, has a football club called Harrogate Town AFC, they are now in League 2. However I support Leeds United and they are in the Premier league Which is the best in England. They were promoted from the Championship.
think of it like this you play the ball around between your teammates trying to pull the defending team out of position to create openings to attack into
you guys should react to the rugby ref nigel owens and rugby in general :)
Rugby>Football
The greatest rugby union ref has now retired
@@nichemphill8321 o7
@@Prayingmantis78 I personally love football but it's a dishonest sport, and rugby is becoming more enjoyable now. I'm also gonna start rugby soon. For me they're both cool sports but if I'm not watching southend England or Liverpool I'd probably rather watch rugby
Rugby is for men who are insecure about their masculinity. It's all they can talk about xD, 🤔 compensating? repressing?
It's not "european" football , It's WORLD WIDE football. The only place on earth where football is something played with hands and looks like a UFC grupal fight is in the USA...
so innocent 😂😍
An American joined a Dutch football team (Feyenoord) this season. Football teams have connections everywhere, when you're good enough there is a good chance another team wants you. A lot of players after playing a few years in the Netherlands go to England, Germany, Italy, France or Spain - for even better salaries and chances.
I loved this. Never seen such cluelessness, it's actually cute
every town, city and most villages have football teams
Watch the euro 2021 final it's Italy vs England 👍🏿
Our Town alone has up to 20 teams. And it is a small town of 30 000 people.
You can actually create your own team, and play against the big teams. All you have to do is register your team, and try your best. Your team can end up being in the National Tournaments or some thing.
There is actually a tournament dedicated to small and new teams to try their luck in joining the bigger leagues.
i cant wait for england vs denmark later today
To illustrate a couple of your questions; my team finished top of the English Championship, and as a result we're playing in the Premier this year. Unfortunately we are likely to finish in the bottom three this year, so will be relegated back to the championship next year. And we have just signed a Yank, who we signed from a team in Germany.
13:30 every avwrage city has AT LEAST ONE team
I love how they just completely miss understood the jose tactic. It doesnt mean they just line up in the goal. It means they spend a lot of the game defending and dont attack often.
brits hate commercials,ethan always have.
About the kids: basically, if a team buys a good kid really young, they can train them to be the best player they could possibly be. Football will be the most important thing in their life, everything else comes second.
Of course the team needs to get permission from the kid's parents and the kid themself. In fact, it's often the parents that try to get their kids signed to professional clubs at a young age in the first place, because they'll probably become rich and famous. It's every little boy's dream to one day play professionally, so almost all of them gladly accept, even if it means moving halfway across the world to do so.
There are of course strict regulations in place to keep everything as safe and humane as possible, including a maximum number of training hours per week and a mandatory level of performance at school.
That being said, the kids that get scouted are often very, very young (Robin van Persie was only 5 years old when he joined his first professional club), so one could ask if it's ethical to completely control the lives of kids that are that young, similar to the discussion about child Disney stars.
Watching this after England just got In the EURO final - FUCK YES!!!
After a very questionable penalty rule. I wouldn't be surprised if the ref will be reffing in the small leagues from now on.
And the laser thing..
@@oldschoolgamer-w4u No it didn't, but still nice to see England reach the finals. Always going be tough when you are playing one of the toughest teams. They just need to learn from it and improve.
The World Cup is its own tournament that happens every four years with national teams playing each other (e.g. England vs USA) and that tournament happens during the "off-season" once the club leagues have all ended.
The Premier League is the top league in England for English club teams (e.g. Liverpool vs Manchester City).
The Champions' League is a tournament for the best club teams from the different leagues in Europe to play against each other (e.g. Liverpool vs Real Madrid).
THANK YOU. I HATE it when people here in the UK call it "The game" It's the MATCH. It's a football MATCH.
The Official Premier League Handbook Season 2020/21 uses the term 'game' 212 times. For example, "Kick off times for evening games - 19:45 unless stated otherwise." So...
@@alexwinterborn36 I know. They are using Americanisms as well. Doesn't make it right! It will always be a "football match" for me.
@@dobythedog Lol... "They" is THE EPL, chief. What they say is, by default, right when it comes to them. What anything is to you is no more important than what anything else is to anybody else. And I'm 100% certain I can go back 100 years in English media to find the term 'game' applied to football matches. You shouldn't worry so much about defining who you are by playing with words. I can assure you that only you care.
- World Cup is every 4 years and is about qualified national teams (countries) competing for the trophy.
- UEFA Champions league is European tournament involving the qualified clubs (cities/towns) of Europe, every major football continent has its own version.
- National major leagues (also called ''championship'') involve the 18-20 best clubs (cities/towns) of a given country. Then you have minor leagues (also called ''2nd/3rd/4th divisions'') also using the promotion/relegation system.
- The Cup involves every clubs from every division of the given country, some low division clubs managed to win the trophy.
American players can play in any European clubs (or elsewhere) if a club is willing to hire them and fill the proper paperworks in time, just like any regular worker hired by a foreign company.
A very young player can be hired on the expectation that his talent will grow enough for him to be a top player but he will mostly play for the amateur/youngster team of the club, usually 16yo is the minimum age i saw a player in a major league.
Two people talking, and the one with the ovaries definitely has wayyyyy more sporting savvy :)
Great comments by you!
And - please believe me! - I'm not here to correct it in any kinds!
I'm 53 from Dortmund, Germany. It is [Dortmund] round about 600,000 inhabitants [formerly quite well known for steel and breweries - right now for technical inventions and universities] ...
Right now there is the European Nations Cup in Germany 'cause we host it. Also in Dortmund - we got a very fine Stadium for it, that's true: I enjoyed a LOT as foreign nations played against each other ... it happened yesterday as Italy won against another nation called "Albania" [Sorry ... we got a lot of different nations inside Europe, which you probably cannot understand at first] ... traffic jam, yelling people in a very good and polite way. I appreciate this!
Please take a view on a regular match inside of the major leagues - like in England, Italy, Spain ... and Germany for sure. Sometimes there is some trouble, but we are able to handle it ...
Best wishes from
Stefan [Dortmund, Germany]
The game do not end when ever the ref fells like it, he time the down time, the time he have stopped the game, and ad it, but only he know for sure, apart from every one else with a stopwatch/timer, with in a few sec. So the match is 2x45 min. Plus down time.
The only way to join from the US is being scouted and bought, you can`t just join any club. So you just start playing at any local club (from the whatevs league/series D and below, only mums care about, as he put it in the video 16:20), scouts get around all over the world, they will find you if you are good, they some times get 10-15% of 100 mill $ deals.
The Euro and the world cup are only for national teams, the other once are for clubs, they can be from mixed nationality to some extend.
Like tonight the Danish national team play the English national team, but a lot of the Danish players are also playing for English clubs, and are part of champions league for English clubs.
This also means team mates on national teams, tend to all be opponents in club football.
I didn’t like that comment either. It’s not just whenever he likes; there are rules as to when!
13:20 I think you forgot a zero in that number. Just checked for the Netherlands (where I live) and we have around 3000 clubs in the country most aren't profesional but every club could in theory get their first team in the "eredivisie" or top league of the country.
Possession football is good at wearing out your opponent, chasing the ball takes more energy than keeping it. That's why you'll see defenders just passing it between each other, the opposing attacking players will be pressing to get it back, kinda like forechecking in hockey, if the defence play right the attackers wont have the energy to do anything with it when they do get it, while they are doing that they are also looking to exploit the space left by the midfielders who may have also moved out of position to pressure the ball carrier. For the team trying to get the ball back, pressure is essential! You cannot allow the team in possession too much time to think, that constant pressure will eventually cause them to make a mistake... there is soooooo much strategy involved in footy, it really is a thinking person's game.
Here is some breakdown for the Champions League:
1) Qualifying for Champions League : Champions to Top 4. (Slots allocation depends on club's nation coefficient ranking. Higher coefficient point = Top 4, Lower coefficient point = Champion only)
2) Coefficient is based on countries ranking on Continental football organization.
3) A 3rd tier European Club competition was introduced, called UEFA Europa Conference League. Directly focus to lower ranking domestic clubs. The qualifying criteria is similarly to Champions League but the opposite in terms of qualifying spots.
In germany France or Italy every town, doesn’t matter how big they are, has a football team there are thousands of clubs just in Germany
World Cup is a tournament every 4 year’s consisting of country’s like USA Brazil or England. The premier league and champions league ect consisted of clubs like Barcelona or Manchester City
You may notice there are two rectangles in front of the goal.
If you just touch the opposing goalkeeper while they are in the smaller rectangle, that can be considered a foul.
The bigger rectangle is where the goalkeeper is allowed to touch the ball with their hands. If they go outside those rectangles, they become just another player and have to follow the same rules.
Also, if the defending team fouls the attacking team inside the bigger rectangle, the attacking team gets a penalty kick 11 meters from the goal with nobody but the goalkeeper allowed to defend.
About "selling player" - the process is as follows - player has an contract with the current club but wants to change club and there is a new club that would be interested in him. The new club negotiates with the old club a price for agreeing to terminate the contract with the player. Next the player agrees the terms of the new contract with the new club. All this can not happen without the consent of the player.
The passing back and forth and sideways is to lure the other team forward in their pressure to be able to surprise them with a fast deep pass forward or a quick rush with the ball by one player or a drible with the ball past some opponents - or even a very long pass towards their goal area to create a scoring chance against the now (locally) depleted opponent team.
The part about young players is more of a training programme agreement rather than an actual contract, since contracts imply labor and child-labor is forbidden.
A friend of mine from grade-school had a similar thing where he got scouted playing in the little leagues and got promissed a spot in the training programme for PSV, one of the bigger clubs in The Netherlands. It basically meant that he would follow a training and diet programme set out by them to train him as a football player and he would follow schooling with an associated high-school/college programma that allowed him to follow a more strict training regime by setting out seperate homework tasks that give him some breathing room in that respect.
After the programme he got loaned out for 3 years, since that was part of a later contract from when he turned 18, to another club in the same division. After those 3 years he was transfer free and moved to play in the States after two more years of local football. He played in Orange County FC and now plays for Cheonan City FC.
So the youth-player thing is just a seperate educational programme that allows young players more time to train for the sport alongside their regular educational programme.