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  • American Reacts to Football Fans and Atmosphere USA vs Europe
    In this video I react to football fans and atmosphere differences at matches comparing the USA vs Europe.
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  • @jackhillman1955
    @jackhillman1955 2 года назад +1742

    In Europe we have people to calm the crowds down, In America you have people to get the crowd excited.

    • @jessicapayne8622
      @jessicapayne8622 2 года назад +68

      I’m shocked as the Americans are usually really loud and dramatic x

    • @paulmclaine6413
      @paulmclaine6413 2 года назад

      They use food to excite the crowd because Americans sports induce sleep.

    • @baumstamp5989
      @baumstamp5989 Год назад +229

      @@jessicapayne8622 yeah, on the parking lot of walmart 😂

    • @natasa04tsats15
      @natasa04tsats15 Год назад +2

      Facts

    • @leugjournaal7921
      @leugjournaal7921 Год назад +5

      @@jessicapayne8622 Yeah, the women

  • @FFM0594
    @FFM0594 2 года назад +871

    “Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.”
    ― Bill Shankly

    • @Alan_Clark
      @Alan_Clark Год назад +1

      Since Hillsborough nobody ever says that.

    • @FFM0594
      @FFM0594 Год назад +11

      @@Alan_Clark Well, I did and 96 people liked it.

    • @Alan_Clark
      @Alan_Clark Год назад

      @@FFM0594 96? Spooky!

    • @FFM0594
      @FFM0594 Год назад +3

      @@Alan_Clark Yup!

    • @aronsium4714
      @aronsium4714 Год назад

      @@FFM0594 Your Bill Shankly quote is great but 96 liked it? Yup? What the fook..

  • @ComicKodi
    @ComicKodi Год назад +22

    As an American living in Europe (Austria) and going to support my favorite team (Bayern München) the atmosphere in the stadium is unmatched. You breath together. You cheer together. You cuss the refs together. It’s literally a giant family for those 90+ minutes.

  • @JokerFromHell
    @JokerFromHell 2 года назад +172

    To explain it simple and short: American football fans accepted and adapted the commercial part of the sport as where in Europe it's a passion, dedication and honnor to be a football fan. We live for football, we die for football.

    • @VantommHD
      @VantommHD Год назад

      My Father took me with 3 Years, the first time in the Stadium, I had to wear headphones because i didn't like the noise.
      My Grandfather took my father to the same club when he was a child.
      and so on.
      its so much more than just playing football at this point.

    • @aronsium4714
      @aronsium4714 Год назад

      @@VantommHD I can relate to it. I was 15 the first time in a German football Stadium and almost shat my pants. Best feeling ever

    • @hipdozgabba3228
      @hipdozgabba3228 Год назад +1

      I’ve read somewhere: in the us you take your loved ones and go to the game, in europe you say goodbye to your loved ones and go to the game

  • @AndreasWeberling
    @AndreasWeberling Год назад +10

    In Hamburg there is a football club (St. Pauli) that has a Deathskull as Logo and when the players come in the Stadium plays Hells Bells from ACDC. Goosebumps everytime.

  • @britblue
    @britblue 2 года назад +226

    Im no structural engineer, but i'd hazard aguess that the "bouncy" stadium may have been designed to do that - to gradually absorb shock loadings of fans jumping up and down - given that it is a well known thing for footy fansto do . There again i may be completely wrong!!

    • @markwolstenholme3354
      @markwolstenholme3354 2 года назад +37

      Right, learned from past tragedies.

    • @House0fHoot
      @House0fHoot 2 года назад +30

      Yes, they’re designed to flex, thus safely distributing the force of the fans. Rigidity would snap.

    • @macwisch9936
      @macwisch9936 2 года назад +29

      The Clip he refered too was if im not wrong Nürnberg vs. Frankfurt in the German Bundesliga. The Stadium was literally designed to absorb the bumping so no worries. But i have to admit Frankfurt Fans are Top Notch in the Bundesliga

    • @gjaxx
      @gjaxx 2 года назад +4

      If you look where the crossbeam is supported, there's a clear and substantial gap allowing the structure to flex

    • @OriginalPuro
      @OriginalPuro 2 года назад +12

      We have German engineers, in Europe, so we're good.

  • @karendooks6244
    @karendooks6244 2 года назад +218

    I remember going to see the Dallas Cowboys v Chicago Bears in Wembley stadium, London. There were a lot of American military there to watch a little bit of home. The lone singer came out to sing the American anthem, then God Save the Queen started to be played. The whole stadium sang the British anthem, and I will never forget the looks on those Americans faces. Just awestruck that the whole stadium sang, and not just one lonely singer.

    • @ftroop2000
      @ftroop2000 2 года назад

      One of my favourite clips of England fans singing the National anthem.
      Before football in England became "trendy". ruclips.net/video/AMGj6nv22HE/видео.html

    • @skyshatter3633
      @skyshatter3633 2 года назад +7

      i have no idea but can you explain why 2 American teams played in London? i mean i`m not familiar much with US football so i`d guess it was like our version of Champions League final maybe?

    • @karendooks6244
      @karendooks6244 2 года назад +24

      @@skyshatter3633 No it was a promotion match cos at the time there was a push to introduce American football to Great Britain

    • @baronmeduse
      @baronmeduse 2 года назад +4

      @@karendooks6244 So around 1984-1986?

    • @karendooks6244
      @karendooks6244 2 года назад +3

      @@baronmeduse No, 1988 or 89

  • @faithpearlgenied-a5517
    @faithpearlgenied-a5517 2 года назад +50

    The fight and win bloke was so pleased with himself, bless him.

    • @samuelpinder1215
      @samuelpinder1215 2 года назад +3

      I saw one american guy say "looks like he came from the country club which is never a good sign" now I just imagine a country club meeting where they all come up with it

  • @tmdosu
    @tmdosu 2 года назад +18

    AYYY, Romanian here! The last chant was a portion of the Romanian anthem, happy that it was in the video.

  • @johnnyrfc5555
    @johnnyrfc5555 2 года назад +183

    You mentioned something about passion. And you’re absolutely right, football is a religion for most people in Europe and we live and die by it. 🇵🇱🔥🇵🇱

    • @martinmacdonald9238
      @martinmacdonald9238 2 года назад

      WATP

    • @felipegouvea2013
      @felipegouvea2013 Год назад +7

      not just in Europe, in South America we live football as well

    • @yannicklucas1836
      @yannicklucas1836 Год назад +1

      Live for it, i can understand. Die for it, never.

    • @Someone-wh8hi
      @Someone-wh8hi Год назад

      To the demise of everyone else unfortunately. Just religion I guess.

    • @HugoLaStrange
      @HugoLaStrange Год назад +1

      @@felipegouvea2013 People are so used to comparing US and Europe that they forget how crazy football can get over there. :D

  • @Pappa_66
    @Pappa_66 2 года назад +98

    Yes! The good old Eintracht Frankfurt with the "bouncy" stadium! I saw them yesterday here in Helsinki Olympia stadium against Real Madrid in UEFA Super Cup Final. I used to watch their games in Frankfurt, Germany, where they had/have an old "forest stadium" / Waldstadion. The "official" capacity was about 50 000 people? but I remember been among about 70 000 fans on and "around" the stadium, cause it was like "in the middle" of the forest. Like a "natural" structure + the stadium (in the 90s). Great fans and great happening yesterday when we all "marched" to the stadium from the city. Quite "young" club, it was founded in 1899🍺🍺🍺😄🤩

    • @nolliee
      @nolliee 2 года назад +11

      Please ''use'' ''more'' quotation ''marks''

    • @sweeky1
      @sweeky1 Год назад +1

      @@nolliee "cry"

  • @SandraSine40
    @SandraSine40 2 года назад +31

    I live in a small European country, Croatia, and I can not describe the pure estate that went around on the night of 11.7.18. During the FIFA World Cup, when Croatia beat England, every single soul there felt nothing but pure joy, strangers were singing together, cars were honking and waving flags. It is definitely something you need to experience once in your lifetime. It feels like a day in heaven.

    • @Mrlemar1
      @Mrlemar1 Год назад +3

      I think you meant "pure ecstasy". But I wholehearteadly agree with you. I'm not even a big soccer fan. Just a fan of the huge crowd and the happiness that envelopes us all.

    • @conchayftw
      @conchayftw Год назад +2

      Was in denmark on holiday (norwegian) when Norway beat brazil in the 98 worlcup aswell. utter chaos everywhere.

    • @mbloody991
      @mbloody991 Год назад

      As a german i can relate to the awesome feeling of beating england... several times :D

    • @StefanC123
      @StefanC123 Год назад

      July 8th 2014, semi-final World Cup, Germany vs Brazil, the day I felt pity for the opponents and hoped for mercy of my own team after 30min into the game. I had the strangest feelings, crying of pure joy and sadness, I cannot describe it to this day, it was just crazy. And there was no mercy, it ended BRA7-1L.

  • @thelastoftheanglosaxons.3724
    @thelastoftheanglosaxons.3724 2 года назад +88

    Football chants are more sacred than religion in the UK. Just how it is.

    • @OriginalPuro
      @OriginalPuro 2 года назад +7

      Religion is for silly people.
      Football is where it's at.

    • @andreas2291
      @andreas2291 2 года назад +4

      UK fans are nowhere near the best in Europe though, and a lot of their chants are wierd and cringe

    • @thelastoftheanglosaxons.3724
      @thelastoftheanglosaxons.3724 2 года назад

      @@andreas2291 Like you'd know. Go back to bed...

    • @andreas2291
      @andreas2291 2 года назад

      @@thelastoftheanglosaxons.3724 How do you know if I'd know? My team's fans were louder than Dortmund at one point and we were away. Also our chants don't involve pop songs (liverpool), and we don't chant shit about our players (man u). We were also singing for 2 hours after a match against spurs once even though we lost

    • @thelastoftheanglosaxons.3724
      @thelastoftheanglosaxons.3724 2 года назад

      @@andreas2291 I don't care...

  • @TTDahl
    @TTDahl Год назад +16

    We think, We dream, We bleed, We sweat, We cry, We are football in Europe. It's not a passion. It's a lifestyle.

  • @drigerdranzer7514
    @drigerdranzer7514 2 года назад +19

    8:00
    It sounds like the whole stadium is singing.
    Of course. It's the French national team playing in Marseille singing La Marseille, their national anthem.

  • @YekouriGaming
    @YekouriGaming 2 года назад +407

    "It sounds like the entire stadium is singing" Well it is the singing of the national anthem during a French international game on their home stadium, so about 90% of the stadium is screaming the French national anthem from the top of their lungs. It is the most sing along times of any on a stadium and it is why Football players get chills when playing for their national team. Even the families on stadium will sing the national anthem, with kids singing it loudly as well.

    • @magdalenabozyk1798
      @magdalenabozyk1798 2 года назад +21

      I'm fairly sure that the Romanian one at the end of the video is the same thing (national Anthem)- the entire stadium is singing.

    • @YekouriGaming
      @YekouriGaming 2 года назад +5

      @@magdalenabozyk1798 yes

    • @Goady1000
      @Goady1000 Год назад

      Not England fans lol

    • @yannicklucas1836
      @yannicklucas1836 Год назад +5

      @@magdalenabozyk1798 Romania at the end of the video, France at Stade Velodrome (Marseille) around 8:00

    • @kasperwittrup1288
      @kasperwittrup1288 Год назад

      Yeah.. a bit of American ignorance showed through there... :-p ;)

  • @christinepreston8642
    @christinepreston8642 2 года назад +36

    Never has 'I believe that we can win' sounded so unconvincing!! 😂

  • @dand7763
    @dand7763 Год назад +15

    11:51 this was in Bucharest, 2013, the match Romania - Netherlands
    i was there , right up where was many flags , i remember that i cannot seen the pitch because those flags in front of me (all rival fans from the romanian first league gathered there in that sector of the stadium (area with many flags) united for the national team , all rivalries stopped right there for this match)
    p.s unfortunately for us , we lost the game 1-4 :D

  • @Blackbeard007
    @Blackbeard007 2 года назад +191

    it also is heavily linked to tribalism. Like walking into battle with the drums and the chants. Europe has a long history with many rivalries related to historical battles and wars.

    • @jessicapayne8622
      @jessicapayne8622 2 года назад +3

      Like England v Germany/France/Italy?? X

    • @willrichardson1809
      @willrichardson1809 2 года назад +10

      it stems from the club growing as a local club, tribalism is a good discription.

    • @matisse9814
      @matisse9814 2 года назад +1

      Bro nein 🤣

    • @mats7492
      @mats7492 Год назад +2

      True.. some of these rivalries go back centuries

    • @matisse9814
      @matisse9814 Год назад

      @@mats7492 No they do Not. These Rivalries are bound to geographical closines to Esch Other and that poth Clubs with tradition. But they do Not Date centeries back. Most Clubs were formed in the 20th Centery like Borussia Dortmund 1909, Borussia Mönchengladbach 1900, 1 FC Köln 1948, Alemannia Aachen 1900, Schalke 04 1904, the List goes on. The Clubs Played against each other many times and so the rivalry begun and are Not related to wars or history which goes centeries back. I didnt Heat any battle were Dortmund fought against Gelsenkirchen.

  • @carlh429
    @carlh429 2 года назад +23

    You’ll really get to see the contrast when the USA plays against England and Wales at the World Cup Finals.

    • @MrSinclairn
      @MrSinclairn 2 года назад +1

      Yes,great minds think alike!✌

    • @samuelpinder1215
      @samuelpinder1215 2 года назад +5

      And iran they are very passionate as well

    • @MrSinclairn
      @MrSinclairn 2 года назад +6

      @@samuelpinder1215 Yep,I remember Iran v USA at France 1998 when Iran won 2-1!; best match,I have ever watched at the FIFA World Cup[which I have been doing,on and off,since 1982!] and only because the football played that night,took a backseat to the 'overall political needle'! 🤣

    • @carlh429
      @carlh429 Год назад

      @@samuelpinder1215 that’s going to be a bit of a feisty encounter me thinks!

  • @weirds0up
    @weirds0up 2 года назад +18

    It just seems that the American fans have seen UK/European football chants on RUclips and are copying what they've seen without any real understanding of what they're doing

    • @TheEclecticBeard
      @TheEclecticBeard  2 года назад +5

      The only thing, passion wise that comes close in the US is the fandoms for college football. Bama games you'll have over half the stadium roaring Roll Tide Roll or singing Rammer Jammer but they still don't get as crazy or unified for spontaneous stuff with clever chants nor is there that type of passion for the pro sports that you see in the college athletics. When college basketball season starts watch a UNC game, or a Duke game or during college football season watch a Bama game, or Texas A&M or Ohio State game. That's the closest we come over here to exhibiting the type of passion that's had for football over there.

  • @tomski120
    @tomski120 2 года назад +5

    Note for your diary 25th November it isn't just black Friday but the England v USA World cup game to.
    Will be interesting to hear both sets of fans lol

  • @Juddymaker
    @Juddymaker Год назад +3

    Standing inside of a block with the "hardcore or ultra groups" the club has in europe and singing and chanting along is one of the best feelings ever.

  • @monkeytrumpet11
    @monkeytrumpet11 2 года назад +270

    This is the most beautiful demonstration of tribalism you could ever witness. Can you imagine how life in the middle ages must have felt when this kind of passion and competition was played out on a battlefield? How terrifying would it have been hearing a crowd that big, chanting in unison, marching towards your town. This kind of mentality shaped Europe. We are now and have always been a warrior class.

    • @valentijnrozeveld3773
      @valentijnrozeveld3773 2 года назад +1

      shut up dude 😂

    • @tofuteh2348
      @tofuteh2348 2 года назад +14

      Calm down no need to compare it to a historical battle. People back then were too busy trying not to die and had no time for silly chanting during battle.
      The beautiful game is the best sport in the world but you dont have to LARP as a warrior to feel manly about it.

    • @monkeytrumpet11
      @monkeytrumpet11 2 года назад +35

      @@tofuteh2348 there are multiple sources throughout history that state music and chanting was used all over the world while going into battle. This was used as a means of keeping up morale as well as a form of intimidation. Also I assure you, I'm already calm. I can cite sources if you'd like or do you think everyone just makes assumptions about life in the past and that your own personal view trumps mountains of historical evidence?

    • @tofuteh2348
      @tofuteh2348 2 года назад +4

      @@monkeytrumpet11 majority of that was BEFORE the fighting, and most sounds DURING the actual battle was from instruments for utility such as organizing units and giving commands, not chanting. I don't need sources for basic historical facts that have nothing to do with football
      If you MUST compare a football crowd to anything ancient, at least use gladiator fights or chariot races in the circus maximus as examples because those had actual supporters with chants, team colors, rivalries and mobs that would riot.
      Comparing supporting a football club to ancient battles is just silly and has nothing to do with you thinking you have 'warrior genes' just sounds like something a 12 year old would say. No, you go to a match, you watch a game and then you go home and scratch your balls.

    • @monkeytrumpet11
      @monkeytrumpet11 2 года назад +19

      @@tofuteh2348 OK, so war chants and battle cries didn't exist. Despite all the first hand historical accounts that claim different. As for comparing it to "anything ancient", have you heard of hyperbolic rhetoric. Why are you so irked at a RUclips comment that does, in fact have some historical merit? Were you there? Are you claiming written, historical texts are wrong and you're right because reasons. Ironically it was you that told me to calm down. What's wrong pumpkin? It's everything alright at home?

  • @Jonas_Z
    @Jonas_Z Год назад +9

    In the early 2000s we had exchange students from our partner school in Modesto with us. We took a few of them to the Westfalenstadion for a "Revierderby" BVB against Schalke on the "Südtribüne". They couldn't believe it. None of them had ever experienced such an atmosphere. Since then I still get messages every now and then when Dortmund is playing. Experienced once, shaped forever.

  • @tntfreddan3138
    @tntfreddan3138 Год назад +9

    5:34 1: it's designed to sway, cuz a rigid structure is more fragile.
    2: As a Swede, I can approve of the melody of the chant ;)

  • @williebauld1007
    @williebauld1007 2 года назад +33

    That Fight and Win guy/chant is famous for being epically CRINGE 😬

    • @jlabas5137
      @jlabas5137 2 года назад

      Agreed . A boot in the bollocks would do him no harm 🤣🤣

    • @tonycrayford3893
      @tonycrayford3893 2 года назад +1

      If bet that guy was an employee or the team.

  • @Darnzaman
    @Darnzaman 2 года назад +82

    The proximity of football teams/stadiums in the UK ignites the passion for the game. Knowing that your rivals are only 10 miles down the road as opposed to 1000 miles in the states.

    • @willrichardson1809
      @willrichardson1809 2 года назад +11

      the key is the football club grew out of the community, the opposite of American sports clubs.

    • @samuelpinder1215
      @samuelpinder1215 2 года назад +9

      @@willrichardson1809 that's why older stadiums are usually in the middle of residential areas as they were designed so it was accessible for most people as only the rich had cars back then

    • @Bornevalesh
      @Bornevalesh 2 года назад +8

      only in the lower leagues. EPL is only plastic and shitty atmosphere - too few real supporters in the stadium (tickets are way too expensive)

    • @Harry_scazza09
      @Harry_scazza09 Год назад +1

      @@Bornevalesh not always

    • @jacksons8446
      @jacksons8446 Год назад +1

      what is miles?

  • @CaptainBaptainMusic
    @CaptainBaptainMusic 2 года назад +42

    I think the difference is football is so ingrained in our culture, and we tend to only follow 1 team, and for most of us we only watch football.
    I know in the US a lot of people follow quite a few team right across a full spectrum of sports. Harder to get as invested that way perhaps?

    • @thelastoftheanglosaxons.3724
      @thelastoftheanglosaxons.3724 2 года назад +5

      As a nipper I would have died for my club! It's wired in from birth from so many people in the UK that it's hard not to get verbal 🤓

    • @YekouriGaming
      @YekouriGaming 2 года назад

      Outside of the UK and the Balkans people tend to follow many more sports if they are interested in Football in the first place, and people tend to follow multiple teams but only 1 per league. Like a German would probably also watch Handball, F1 and follow Barcelona/Real Madrid/English top 4 as much as their German team.
      Similarly Handball is almost as big as Football in France, and also cycling and F1 is huge.

    • @willrichardson1809
      @willrichardson1809 2 года назад +4

      the difference is community, the club is part of the community.

    • @samuelpinder1215
      @samuelpinder1215 2 года назад +1

      @@YekouriGaming uk people follow rugby f1 and cricket as well

    • @Hrochnick
      @Hrochnick Год назад

      @@samuelpinder1215 Not really. In my experience, football people aren't heavily into rugby and vice versa. They may occasionally watch the other, if it's the national team. But at club level, the passion is reserved for one team in one sport. And F1 is just a interesting distraction for most people....

  • @die_unfaehige3374
    @die_unfaehige3374 Год назад +8

    I'm not a football fan myself but I really gotta be proud of my countrys football fans, germany really was singing with their whole soul, just happy their're so enthusiastic

    • @Rainb0y2k
      @Rainb0y2k Год назад +2

      fühl ich, find diese atmosphere mega nice, bin halt einfach kein fußball fan...gäbe es so richtige ultras für volleyball wäre ich sofort dabei xD

  • @Rainb0y2k
    @Rainb0y2k Год назад +4

    fun fact: one of the most important steps in designing a football stadium nowadays is the structural integrity when many people jump in sync and do that crazy stuff

  • @MrRalphellison
    @MrRalphellison 2 года назад +7

    Probably part of the reason there is more passionate fans in Europe is because teams don't get sold and have to move to a different place, like the Brooklyn Dodgers becoming the LA Dodgers , meaning that fandom for a team goes back many generations of families and that fans know that the team will likely be around for some time in the city they come from.

    • @martinford4553
      @martinford4553 2 года назад

      It definitely has happened here but I can only think of Wimbledon and even then a new club replaced it. So you got two clubs that claim Wimbledons heritage, MK Dons and AFC Wimbledon.

  • @martinsear5470
    @martinsear5470 2 года назад +9

    Yup the French love to belt out that Anthem of theirs, heard it soooo many times as an English rugby fan. It's the sound of approaching doom mate it really is.

    • @svessien
      @svessien Год назад

      Nothing more beautiful than when English fans belted out the Marseillese on Wembley after Bataclan. THAT was true fan greatness.

  • @songsmith31a
    @songsmith31a 2 года назад +15

    The historical background of European factionalism across geographically closely connected nations is
    very relevant. Picture those old medieval prints of varied warring conflicting forces with all their banners
    flaunted in the faces of their enemies - and transfer it to their sporting opponents in a football stadium today.
    Football has been slow to travel from Europe via South America to North America, but the advent of global
    media plus the promotion of the fast very skilled game that is played at the highest level will see its arrival
    in the USA surely grow in popularity there.

  • @drigerdranzer7514
    @drigerdranzer7514 2 года назад +6

    5:40
    That stadium is made to bounce to not break.

  • @nevillelongbottom7687
    @nevillelongbottom7687 2 года назад +3

    ca 8:10 it is the french national anthem. It's befor the actual game, quite the same when the US has it's anthem played before a game^^ Only difference is that outside the US the athems are only played before international matches^^

  • @Mooorino
    @Mooorino 2 года назад +9

    Been a Dortmund fan for over 12 years. The parade at 3:25 gave me goosebumps! Just been outside the Signal Iduna Park once, never inside! One day, i'll be standing in the yellow wall😍! For now, i will keep cheering from Sweden!

    • @aal7345
      @aal7345 Год назад

      „dortmund fan“ lol

    • @sandervanbouwelen1187
      @sandervanbouwelen1187 Год назад

      That parade wasn’t in Dortmund. Yes it were Dortmund fans but they were marching to the stadium of Bruges if I’m not mistaken. I think it was an away game for champions league or eufa league. I’m no fan of either of those clubs but I’m Belgian and that is for sure a Belgian police car . 😊

  • @atomant451
    @atomant451 2 года назад +5

    I think the biggest difference is, in the US you have one off Fans who are watching a live game for the first time and aren't really involved.
    In the UK, they have Fans that attend every match their team is playing in and will go out of their way to attend a match and they get to know each other.
    I know the US has fervid Fans but their numbers pale in comparison.
    In the US because of it's size you have to travel a massive distance to watch your team play, not so in the UK.

  • @RossoBianco1895
    @RossoBianco1895 2 года назад +10

    I think it really depends on club and region. Some clubs in Europe have really fanatic supporters, some not so much. I've been to a Partizan vs Red Star derby in Belgrade once, and I don't think it gets any wilder than that.
    But I also saw a Sounders vs Timbers game a few years back while on a visit to the US and I was surprised how far football has come in the US. It was quite a good atmosphere and it even had away fans, which is unusual in the US due to the distances, as I understand it.

    • @mats7492
      @mats7492 Год назад +1

      Portland Timbers has an actual european style attitude with their fans

  • @lextex3280
    @lextex3280 2 года назад +8

    Football is ingrained into most of us here in the UK 🇬🇧. I personally don't watch it anymore. But I remember the atmosphere at games and the passion people have for their team. Plus we love a good chant. 😁.

    • @taylorpower3862
      @taylorpower3862 Год назад

      Yeah I’m the same I don’t go out my way to watch it but if I’m offered tickets to a game or asked to go I’ll go because it’s always an amazing atmosphere getting absolutely bladder shouting out chants

  • @scottw.3258
    @scottw.3258 2 года назад +8

    In Europe, and UK in particular, football is part of our culture, and heritage. Clubs have a history, some going back to the 1860's, or 1870's. In many cases, the team you support is passed down through the family generations. It's part of who you are. As an example, my Dad is a Rangers fan, his Dad was a Rangers fan, and his Dad was a Rangers fan. My Sister is a Rangers fan, and my Nephew is a Rangers fan. I support Aberdeen, my Mum supported Aberdeen, her Dad, supported Aberdeen. As a result that means that at least one member of my family has supported Rangers since their founding in 1872, and the same goes for Aberdeen since 1903.
    The US isn't a footballing culture, and so they haven't had those generations sculpting the image of their clubs, they don't have the history, or the passion. I've seen a number of these comparison videos, and the US fans have no identity, they borrow from South America, Europe, UK, but it just comes across as fake. That Seattle 'chant' "Fight...and win"... Seriously, what's that?? You get the impression they're trying to recreate the image of the 'firms' around the UK, or Europe in the 80's and 90's. As though they've watched videos, and thought 'this is how fans act'. There's some teams in the US were only formed last year, they talk about an 'old' club, and it was formed in 2010.

    • @andreas2291
      @andreas2291 2 года назад

      The UK in particular? English fans aren't nearly as good as they think. Your chants are all shit and cringe

    • @derspielographdsg7435
      @derspielographdsg7435 Год назад

      The German Football Culture is way bigger.

    • @scottw.3258
      @scottw.3258 Год назад +1

      @@derspielographdsg7435 No it's not. Don't be silly.

  • @enlightendbel
    @enlightendbel 2 года назад +2

    That Stadium (and some other newer ones) are designed to plex like that. They built shock absorption into the structure because it allows for far better long term integrity by siphoning that energy to easily maintainable parts than to build the stadium to just take the shocks and get fatigued all over over time..

  • @miztazed
    @miztazed 2 года назад +1

    5:33 If it woun't shake it will break. German construction workers class grade 1. The concrete is designed to do that for safety reasons.

  • @mattjames5800
    @mattjames5800 2 года назад +2

    I think the difference is that for the most part in the US sports are mainly considered a form of entertainment whereas football over in places like Europe and South America is a way of life. Almost like a religion.

  • @kevinbruntje5866
    @kevinbruntje5866 Год назад +1

    Search for the „yellow wall“ from Borussia Dortmund. Over 20.000 die hard bvb fans chanting, it’s crazy. and that’s just one Grandstand of the 82.000 people stadium

  • @martinf.2879
    @martinf.2879 Год назад +1

    I'm glad you like it, look at the choreography of some of the clubs. some give you goosebumps.
    Greetings from Austria/Vienna

  • @Kahsimiah
    @Kahsimiah Год назад +1

    5,42 don't worry about structural integrity, most of our big stadiums are built to bounce with the crowd.
    The architects even let specialists analyse the most common frequencies to adjust the structure and the concrete accordingly.
    And no, I'm not kidding. :-)

  • @arsletirott
    @arsletirott Год назад +1

    Frankfurt fans singing Pippi long stockings anthem. That's both confusing, fantastic and hilarious at the same time

  • @timmystwin
    @timmystwin 2 года назад +3

    A big thing is you guys have to drive everywhere.
    We go to the pub first, get pissed with other fans, and there's the atmosphere created already.

  • @raistormrs
    @raistormrs 2 года назад +6

    you should react to some of the national anthems in football stadiums like when the scots sing their "Flower Of Scotland" cause even when they are just a guest corner, they deliver...

    • @taylorpower3862
      @taylorpower3862 Год назад

      My favourite out of all the European national anthems has to be the welsh tbh and I’m English so there’s not much bias there

  • @tntfreddan3138
    @tntfreddan3138 Год назад +3

    10:20 Malmö, the only team where you don't even need to know what they're chanting but just listen to the dialect and you'll know instantly where they're from XD

  • @anafreitas1646
    @anafreitas1646 2 года назад +3

    When its country National Anthem all from that country sing, most beautiful thing to watch.
    Also many Europeans know other countries National Anthems as well as their own & football surely helped with that, lol.

  • @hazai2586
    @hazai2586 Год назад +2

    I remember many years followning one of our games on national level in the evening from home,
    Every time our German national team got a goal you heard people cheering from all over outside and in fact even won,
    I remember people rushing down the streets with cars blasting their horns not even one minute after,
    Thinking back i am quite impressed considering i was just living at the outkirts of a small seized city

  • @wildheart1973
    @wildheart1973 2 года назад +2

    Every weekend in Europe you'll find this during football season. It's what we do ⚽

  • @andreschank6310
    @andreschank6310 2 года назад +2

    If you think that was impressive, you might want to search for "eintracht frankfurt choreo" and check a few of those and regarding the jumping in the stadium. Yeah, that something we Frankfurt fans tend to do a lot. Check out "Eintracht Frankfurt Pippi Langstrumpf Hey Eintracht Frankfurt", it's a 55sec video from like 15 years ago. We got the whole stadium to jump with us!

  • @mikaelkayser1502
    @mikaelkayser1502 Год назад +1

    Like others have written, stadiums are designed to wobble (just like a house during an earthquake).
    I know of teams in Europe that, after they build a new stand, they invited the fans of the club, for a jumping test of the new building..

  • @markhutton6824
    @markhutton6824 2 года назад

    The Viking Clap from the Iceland fans is amazing - Ho ... then speeds up

  • @Sherberythrill
    @Sherberythrill 2 года назад +4

    A fantastic one to watch where the entire crowd sings is any Celtic v Liverpool match. Both clubs' anthem is "You'll Never Walk Alone". I don't really follow football at all, but it even gives me chills listening to it.

    • @Isleofskye
      @Isleofskye 2 года назад +2

      Or the Chant Off when the other side who sing it : Borussia Dortmund played Liverpool in Europe.
      It went on for 7 minutes:)

    • @Sherberythrill
      @Sherberythrill 2 года назад

      @@Isleofskye Ah, that's the other one. I knew there was one other team, but as I say, don't follow football so wasn't sure. XD

    • @lordflashget8780
      @lordflashget8780 2 года назад

      @@Sherberythrill ac milan sing it too.

  • @Ronsta229
    @Ronsta229 2 года назад

    The Sounders weren't the first football team in Seattle, it was FC Seattle Storm. My home team played them in a friendly in 1988. You might want to check out some of the Ultras videos too, both football and basketball. Some of the American basketball players that came over to Europe to play were shocked at the level of support for their teams. You'll enjoy them.

  • @monkey_8227
    @monkey_8227 Год назад +1

    In Bremen, before every match we sing the championship song of the 2003/4 season and sounds so wholesome when 40k people start to sing.

  • @albertomagnani3984
    @albertomagnani3984 Год назад

    Thank you for your words brother. Respect from 🇪🇺

  • @weepingwillow_
    @weepingwillow_ Год назад +1

    i remember in religion class how football in europe can actually be seen as a religion. the connections one can make by just loving the sport is insane, it can often get to a cultural level between life and death (for those who take it that seriously)

  • @phaexus
    @phaexus Год назад

    [ 10:04 ] - It is a blast, especially when your team scores. Then it's people jumping, screaming, hugging and beer raining down on you from people throwing their cups in the air. It's a lot of fun.

  • @euanfraser2166
    @euanfraser2166 Год назад +1

    8.03 minutes is the french national anthem and they go all in when singing it

  • @tigeriussvarne177
    @tigeriussvarne177 2 года назад +5

    5:40 Don't worry, it's German engineering. ;D

  • @akyhne
    @akyhne 2 года назад +2

    To be fair, some of the European cheers were the national hymn being sang, before a national match.
    In that case, almost all spectators will be on one team's side.

  • @vomgrady
    @vomgrady 2 года назад +3

    I find it really difficult to concentrate on the game when I go to a football match in England. I'm too fascinated and confused by the atmosphere. It's great.

  • @RR-ut3xl
    @RR-ut3xl 2 года назад

    europe and uk football fans chanting warms my soul, we live and breathe our clubs! (lokup Cardiff City singing Men Of Harlech in our Old Stadium Ninnian Park, nasty little ground for clubs to come to and our fans were nuts haha)

  • @dbasher9974
    @dbasher9974 Год назад

    The one you were talking about at 8:42 was a set of Greek away fans in Manchester, England (?)

  • @hjvdd
    @hjvdd 2 года назад +1

    the stadiums are build for the jumping, for fire and everything a european football match is trowing at it

  • @eldoofthe3rd
    @eldoofthe3rd 2 года назад +6

    Yeah you can leave your sweet Caroline at home.... I'll rather have the 3 lions or a bit of vindaloo

    • @TheEclecticBeard
      @TheEclecticBeard  2 года назад +1

      I hate that song Sweet Caroline. Shit is like Caucasian crack. It gets played within the vicinity of 10 white people, 9 of of them idiots here are singing it.

    • @SpeccyHorace
      @SpeccyHorace 2 года назад +1

      @@TheEclecticBeard haha that is so true.

  • @hemansx
    @hemansx 2 года назад

    guys, why do i get so much enjoyment from watching this middle aged american man enjoy stuff

  • @andreasthoben4645
    @andreasthoben4645 Год назад

    Fun fact. Soccer stadiums in europe are mostly prepared for huge crowds jumping'n'down. At least new ones.
    Those are really a Challenge to engineers

  • @brianrees3697
    @brianrees3697 2 года назад +1

    You must listen to the Liverpool supporters sing the icon song You will never walk alone which has a meaning so listen carefully to the words The passion we show is not just tribul it is to spur your team along they say a noisy crowd chanting for their team is like having a twelfth man on the pitch

    • @gunnerman2452
      @gunnerman2452 2 года назад +1

      LIverpool and Celtic together singing You'll Never Walk Alone !!!

  • @MKitchen75
    @MKitchen75 2 года назад +1

    Go Liverpool and sing you’ll never walk alone with fans , that gives me tears all the time..

  • @grem12311
    @grem12311 Год назад

    6:03 thats what the stadium was designed to do. It springs and doesnt crack.

  • @diehandgottes6721
    @diehandgottes6721 7 дней назад

    Don't worry, the stations are built in such a way that they can withstand the fact that the carrier gives way, which is why nothing breaks.

  • @alexjahblunt3569
    @alexjahblunt3569 2 года назад +1

    the Difference is Sports in America is a business its just part of the American corporation sport where as in Europe and elsewhere football is life you are born into it and you die with it

    • @lordflashget8780
      @lordflashget8780 2 года назад

      and they bleed you dry on the way. to say sport in europe is not business driven is ridiculous, the whole industry is built on the abuse of the human instinct of tribalism, which is rooted in fear, and therefore exploitable by the unscrupulous. yes we hold our noses to support the team of our birth even when we know ? the nice? corporations of europe are completely despicable. wake up la.

  • @christinemurray9407
    @christinemurray9407 2 года назад +1

    See BEST YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE EVER!!!

  • @kurtz3404
    @kurtz3404 Год назад

    I think the stadium in Frankfurt at 5:32 is built in a way that allows to absorb the weight of the jumping crowd

  • @OrganMusicYT
    @OrganMusicYT 2 года назад

    Watching the place bounce like that... I would be freaking out. Look up the Ibrox Cameraman... I don't know how he could sit there, crazy!

  • @chillbargress4690
    @chillbargress4690 2 года назад

    The keypart is to show up every week. It's for your club! Then you learn the songs easily.

  • @Theo-vi8gs
    @Theo-vi8gs Год назад

    Ran a stand on 9:40 and the main problem was keeping the 180c degree oils in their fryers as the ground was like waving the whole cart was bouncing

  • @clxudzYT
    @clxudzYT Год назад +2

    You *need* to witness one of our (European) football games live! The atmosphere is always soooo insane!!:)

  • @pedrosantos6291
    @pedrosantos6291 2 года назад

    The part that was moving wen they all jump , it's not nothing bad ... it's that it was made like this so it can be flexible , no security probs . Great reaction 👍

  • @mats7492
    @mats7492 Год назад +1

    The „fight and win „ guy has become a meme in European fan culture..
    He’s just too hilarious

  • @emanuelgaluk7844
    @emanuelgaluk7844 Год назад

    when a engeneer projects the structures of the sections in the stadium, they actually predicts this vibration, because when 40-70 thousand people start chanting and jumping in a match, it's kind of inevitable, so there's no problem in that, it's designed to vibrate without collapsing

  • @jojosilva4696
    @jojosilva4696 2 года назад +1

    It's prepared to move up and down, the stadium

  • @g_e_o_x_
    @g_e_o_x_ Год назад

    the part with the roof that's moving at 6:00 it sounds like they are singing the theme song in pippi långstrump (a swedish childrens movie) XD

  • @Doom1981
    @Doom1981 Год назад

    You should check out when Eintracht played in Barcelona or Milan, when tens of thousands of their supporters took over the inner city of major European cities

  • @lorenzopalozza6279
    @lorenzopalozza6279 Год назад

    wow so passioned !!
    **stab stab**
    such enthusiasm!!!!
    **shank shank**
    so much heart!!!!!!
    **set ablaze, destroy, riot**

  • @Ian_Ward_Army
    @Ian_Ward_Army Год назад +2

    the chants in uk are spontaneous started by one person if its good everyone joins in we don't practice before hand we just get stuck in!!!!!

  • @itz_schlappen3592
    @itz_schlappen3592 Год назад

    at 5:47 the stadium boucing was built to do exactly that

  • @klauskellerman7572
    @klauskellerman7572 Год назад

    the wobbling tribune in one of the clips was actually designed to be wobbly, the knew how the fans wanted to behave, so they build accordingly. just fyi

  • @stefanengel4714
    @stefanengel4714 Год назад

    There is a chance that in the US in a couple of years the structure will shake as much as the Frankfurt stadium does in the video. I mean if you watch football games from the 50s and 60s the crowd was also way quieter than it is nowadays.

  • @creativevideo1064
    @creativevideo1064 8 месяцев назад

    we in Europe are looking at Sports differently and it feels good to be a part of something

  • @sophiadolores6474
    @sophiadolores6474 Год назад +1

    Don't worry, the stadion won't collapse. They are built to withstand thousands of jumping fans....

  • @buki_zvani_pera
    @buki_zvani_pera Год назад

    Some of those clips are playing national anthems, but mostly crowds in Europe do tend to chant regular club songs as loud as possible

  • @lordwalker71
    @lordwalker71 Год назад

    My parents are originally from Scotland and all of my relatives live there, the last time I went for a visit my uncle and one of his sons took me to a football game(soccer) . When we were entering I was stopped by a security guard for a second because apparently my jacket had colours from the visiting team and my uncle had to say it's ok he's visiting from Canada and then when we sat down I noticed that there were police officers lining every set of stairs from top to bottom and my uncle told me it was to keep the other teams fans and the home team fans separated so no fights break out, I had never seen anything like that and spent the game worrying a riot would break out.

  • @user-ie6jr4bg1w
    @user-ie6jr4bg1w Год назад

    9:25 i was there just right of the guy on the pole, this was far before the match even started.