Football, in my experience, has the most passion out of any sport EVER. It has certainly saved my life, gave me a reason to be, as the quote said in the beginning as well. Kobe, whom you immensely more than likely know(may he R.I.P.), absolutely loved football(your soccer). It is much more than just purely "sport"
This video hits so differently when you know each players and games history. I know every player and watched 90% of the games here that took place after I was born. To me its pure nostalgia, gives me so much joy and makes me tear up. Wish there was someone explaining you the stories behind the goals, so you could understand why everyone was freaking out even at less impressive goals. Also you pointed out a mayor issue in the world of football real quick. Everyone is focused on the attacking aspect of football, goals get valued much higher than extraordinary defensive work or goalkeeping. The last defender that got awarded the best player of the year was Fabio Canavaro in 2006.
Football (soccer) is more than just sports. It's the crowd, the chanting, the passion of the supporters, the Ultras, the choreos, the smoke, the bengalos
I fell in love with football after seeing Denis Bergkamp goal live on TV here in India and that was my first ever football match. I knew it was the quarter finals but I didnt know any of the players. The rules were pretty obvious and when I saw the Bergkamp goal, I could not believe anyone could do that. It was 1998 and I was 10 years. I was just mesmeserized by that goal and even now.
Sometimes 11 players carry the burdens of hope, passions and dreams of an entire nation and country. The collective euphoria of victory or agony of defeat is shared and felt by all. The scale of it all is truly amazing to witness. Despite its relative simplicity. Football or soccer is really hard to get good at. That's why moments of pure brilliance in football is so treasured. It's a magical experience that's hard to come by for both the competitor and spectator.
Just watching the football and enjoying it is enough. The same with rugby. Your a sports fan you don’t have to know the rules you can just see the beauty. I enjoy American football even though I am Scottish. So thanks for the video.
The thing with this video is that the plays have more to do with their context than with the actual play or the player ability. That's why maybe some of them looked to you like a "normal" play
This is why soccer (futbol) is called the most beautiful game. The passion. It’s a world wide sport. Reason why it hasn’t broken through (on the rise) in the United States is because there are too many sports. Baseball, football, basketball, hockey, etc. that’s taking most of the attention. If you go outside of the country, soccer is the main sport.
...and that's just covering Europe and the Americas. There are also similar emotional football/soccer stories in Africa and Asia. For example, Didier Drogba helped to end the Ivorian Civil War by qualifying for the 2006 World Cup. Or when Iraq won the 2007 Asian Cup amidst several terror attacks that occurred during the tournament. Often, the goals themselves are not particularly skillful, but the context and the story behind the goals are what makes them significant and emotionally charged. And that's what makes football/soccer such a beloved, cherished, and appreciated sport across the world. Keep up the great content sir.
I love your newfound love for European Football, just to clarify. You are also helping me to understand the game more. I went to a school that didn't have a soccer team, nor did any of the local schools. Backwoods Oklahoma...LOL. At 8 minutes and 45 seconds you say that you don't understand the weight of what you just watched. Diego Maradona was a hero to Lionel Messi. Messi completely recreated a goal that Maradona had made during his career. It was a nod to Maradona. Thank you again for what you are doing to help others see the beauty in the game of Football. (sorry guys, NOT the NFL)
Football has a tough time breaking into the US is because it doesn't have any opportunities to monetize the heck out of it. You'll have only one opportunity at the half time 15 minute break to show ads, that too 10 minutes is covered by the half time presenters, so it relies heavily on the hope that some TVs are switched on before and after the game to show ads. So any revenue that needs to be generated will have to be done while the game is on using digital bill boards during the match and most times those bill boards will be the sponsors of the home team, so it will be heavily Reliant on the number of viewers watching the match to generate revenue. The European leagues are 100-150 years old and already has a great fan following across the world through generation of watching and listening to their matches. Companies can't buy loyalty, but they still need to make money, hence they just renamed Rugby 🏉 to Football, made few changes to the rules to show some difference and hoped the rest of the world won't notice it..
One thing with all top-sports when getting to know them in a video is the fact that you often don`t understand how hard it is to do magic.. After all , the players are facing the best defenders of the world in this video.. and everyone is prepared for a difficult task/game.. And if you have ever tried to do the things these players can do with a football, you`ll see the greatness..Same as for any sport !! To win a big trophy, you will often have to beat at least 13 other great teams who also qualified for the tournament (5-6 teams in 1st groupstage + 3 teams in play-off group, then direct elimination matches (16-,8-, quarterfinal, semifinal + The Final ).. Add to this, all the history between clubs or nations and you always have something to talk about when a WorldCup or a ChampionsLeague play-off is starting.. :D ..Keep the Football reactions coming.. YNWA (search the Liverpool FC history for more info on these letters.. :D )
Yeah, not having the context really screws this up. His comment on Giggs goals was that he took his shirt off. Dude, I cannot describe to you how epic that goal was. . . and I'm a Spurs fan.
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what you see in this video are a few of the most important goals of the history. For me knowing the context of the moments still gives me goosebumps. If I can give you an advice to understand the reason of the beauty, start to watch and support a random team for an entire season. The best you’ll find in England, Italy, Spain and Germany. And at the best visit a game in an Eurpean city. I support AS Roma and to watch a live game in Rom is unforgettable.
It’s so much better if you know the context of some of these goals. I watched in awe when Bergkamp scored that goal against Newcastle. And as a Dutch guy I vividly remember Bergkamp’s goal against Argentina, with that commentary. And unfortunately, I also very much remember the World Cup final against Spain. One thing to understand is that football is pretty much ingrained in our DNA from when you’re young. My dad took me and my brother to games from a young age, and I played football myself from 6 till I was well into my 20s.
3:00 Zlatan Ibrahimovic. He's a Swedish player with Bosnian decent. He played for Los Angeles Galaxy a while ago and usually when a player leaves they make a thank you letter. Thanking the club and all of the other players. Zlatan only wrote "You're welcome."
This is really something. Him watching Pele speaking would be like someone having no idea who Michael Jordan or Michael Jackson is. Just shows how a person can live in a total bubble and be completely ignorant of anything outside of it. It's both funny and sad at the same time. I also live in US and have to simply shake my head in disbelief. It's like dude, try to see beyond the distance of your own nose.
Wow. You’re missing out on a fantastic journey. Since watching this (my first football video ever, I am playing the game 4 months later. Madly obsessed with the beautiful game. It’s literally changed my life. I was near death from diabetes, and now, because of football, I have my life and health back.) PS. Just because I didn’t read the descriptions out loud doesn’t mean I didn’t read the descriptions. Thanks for taking the time to comment on my video. Really helps me with the algorithm.
As an American whos played his whole life as well as american football and baseball. It is almost entirely because of sports media. Millions of people play and watch but they treat it like do tennis.. The rise of MLS has been fantastic for this country and it shows the number of fans and players around the country.. Just in the last 10 years did it start breaking through to networks because they hire people who don't know anything about it... A lot of them with preconceived notions of either what Americans want, or like... or what we WANT to see... that translates to what we actually see, which translates to what people perceive. I can promise you, there is a very very big market here in the US.. Check out Atlanta United's 71,000 at and MLS match video. It will shed some light.. and that is in the SOUTH. Mind you that not everyone is an MLS fan too.. a lot of people watch leagues outside of our market like the European leagues, Mexican leagues, etc.. or watch all of them like most big fans.. If you wanna see good defense watch Sergio Ramos.. and there are some good goalkeeping compilations out there too.
You will never understand football (soccer) untill you understand the rivalry and hatred between certain clubs and countries. It gets very heated both on and off the pitch. Sometimes it oversteps the mark, but nothing beats a game against your local, hated rivals.
He’s watching a video called the beauty of football and proceeds to call it soccer that just triggered me 😭😭 but I loved your reaction anyways I love watching people see what football is really about and that video you reacted to captures it perfectly :)
If you want to see good defense/goalkeepers, I'd recommend watching highlights for some of the best (modern) goalkeepers. People like Manuel Neuer (considered one of the best GKs to ever play and the best modern goalkeeper, he actually changed the position of goalkeeper to be more active) David De Gea Alisson Courtois Ederson Cech or some legends like Buffon :)
Kids nowadays very often confuse "playing football successfully" with circus tricks or "street football" nonsense - just like in Basketball. To understand why teams are better than others it's mostly not the single star striker, but creative midfielders that lead to greatness. Watch "Toni Kroos, 20 ridiculous things..." to see. ✌🏻 Müller or Özil are also up there - although never been called "the GOAT" or anything like that. But they won simply won everything in football.
There are a lot of incredible goals in the video. For me as Spansh Iniesta's is the most epic goal ever, but as pure Beauty (There is a snap in the video) Zidane's goal in the UCL against Bayern Leverkusen is my favorite.
apparently soccer is one of the sports kids are made to do by parents on a rotational basis (seasonal). a lot of them then grow up not really interested in the sport or put off it having been forced to play it. and it still doesnt have the sheer presence on tv because advert breaks in a game dont really work like the (made for tv advertising) NFL.
My best tip to you is to get a pair of boots and get on a pitch. Once you realize how hard it is to pass, receive, and keep possession of the ball you’ll understand why the world loves this game. I would also suggest the reason soccer is so big is because of the international competitions. Unlike other sports, soccer has international competitions at club and national team level. Imagine if you could see the Patriots or Steelers go to war with the best football teams of all the other nations in the world… but that’s the issue with American Football, it dies once you leave the confines of the US leagues
i disagree. its not when you realize how hard it is, but when you do it, and realize how FUN it is to play. and how quickly it is to set it up as well.
You couldn't have picked a more perfect comment if you tried "I don't understand the weight of what I have just watched it looked awesome" What you just watched was Diego Maradona scoring what is classed as the greatest goal ever it was the 2nd goal he scored for Argentina against England in the 1986 world Cup (don't even ask about his 1st goal its as famous as the 2nd for the wrong reasons!!). Maradona is regularly classed as the or 1 of the greatest footballers of all time. The Argentinian commentry alongside that goal is just as famous. Sadly he died almost a couple of yrs ago. But he is a footballing legend. Educate yourself more on him hence why you'll have heard his name. If you think of stupidly famous people in other ways ie they have practical god status he's 1 of them! The almost identical goal which is why they were played side by side isn't just significant due to the goal being identical, Lionel Messi is like Maradona, Argentinian, he's pretty much classed as Maradona's successor also wears the no10 shirt. Messi is this generations greatest Footballer though depending who you talk to some say he's better than Maradona though the major debate is Messi is yet to win the world Cup for Argentina, Maradona won it with Argentina in 1986. Messi's main rival is Ronaldo. Pele who is 1 of them you saw in the black and white footage and who was talking at the beginning the debate is normally between him and Maradona as to who's the greatest. 1 way people look at it is when Maradona and Pele played it was a different game to what it has been for Messi and Ronaldo to play it. Definitely educate yourself on these players I've mentioned and many more you have seen in that video. 1 person they didn't show in that video was Roberto Baggio who is classed as 1 of Italys best! Enjoy!
You should (read) check out the Dutch left wing attacker, Johan Cruiff. As a player he was phenomenal. Pele (the guy who opened this clip sitting there talking), Maradonna, and Cruiff are usually considered the 3 best players in the history of soccer. In today's day and age, they most likely wouldn't stand out as much as it game has gotten much faster and changed a lot as these guys mentioned played 50 - 30 years ago. But as a Dutchie I am a big fan of Cruiff and the beautiful soccer we see today we owe for a big part to him. Back in 1974 The Netherlands became 2nd in the World Cup (again in 1978 and in 2010 - we sadly never won it....) by simply overrunning their opponents. Nobody understood what the Dutch were doing and had even less of a clue on how to stop them - until the finals and Germany just simply cheated (that's a whole video on its own...). This achievement was made possible by the combined minds of our coach at the time, Rinus Michels, and his left winger, Johan Cruiff. Up until then soccer was pretty stagnant. A defender defends thus stays in the back, an attacked attacks thus stays in the front, a midfielder stays in between. Cruiff and Michels created what we call 'totaal voetbal' in Dutch and translates roughly to 'total soccer' or better 'complete soccer'. In this form of soccer everyone has their main roles but also helped the other positions by eg when a defender rushed up to the front with the ball at his feet the midfielder would fall back to defence, taking over the defender's spot, and the attacked back to the midfielder's spot allowing for the defender to get involved in the attack. This way it basically became so the entire team attacked together and the entire team defended together, where before these strict lines and roles prevented that. Later on, Cruiff became a player and then the coach (in the early 90's) of Barcelona (if you go to Barcelona stadium today there is still a BIG presence of Cruiff, his influence and the love they have for what this man brought him - even though he sadly passed away like a decade ago). He continued on with the new way of playing soccer as a coach and improved it, perfected it, and brought Barcelona mighty triumphs and their first international, European, successes and cups. Years later, at the beginning of this century, another coach took the reins and improved Cruiff's playstyle even more, integrated his own ideas into it, turning Barcelona in one of the most successful, loved (it still has the largest fanbase today), and absolutely unbeatable team for a good decade. For that decade they won literally everything at least twice and were simply unstoppable. This coach is achieving great successes with Mancester City today and sadly Barcelona has crumbled due to financial mismanagement. Either way - the Ronaldo's, Messi's, Ibrahimoviche's, and so on we have today, their successes, the room for them to play at their absolute max and having the room to shine, we all owe to this one pimpled face boy who back in 1974 reinvented soccer - The Great, Late, Johan Cruiff.... (can you imagine there are clips of him, old interviews both as player and as coach, where is standing there smoking tobacco? :-D ). Anyways - nice clips you have and I hope you will take a look at Mr. Cruiff
@@wernervon5508 can I blame it on me forgetting to put on my glasses.... tbh I was so conflicted about how to write his name - I should've googled it - but yah, Im man, I steak, I whiskey, I lazy.... Thx for the correction though.
The format of playing uninterrupted for 45 minutes does not fit in with the requirements for TV advertising in the USA. They like American eggball which breaks every 30 seconds.
And that's why from around 10 years ago taking your shirt off inside the field is a direct Yellow card. Some great players have ruined their team chances by doing so after scoring a goal to then leave their team with 10 players because they already had another Yellow and got ejected 😂
It’s crazy how Salah won the Puskas for scoring the type of goal Robben would score at every game😂 and on top of that Salah’s goal didn’t even win goal of the week
I appreciate that you gave it a try! Football or soccer is lot of times more heart than sport. I don't know if you saw Real Madrid road to 14th, but that is an awesome and almost impossible journey to the trophy. You should react to it if you didnt. Ill continue watching your YES reactions❤
the reason football is the king of sports its because we play it with our feet not our hands and it is realy hard REALY HARD the players train realy hard to be able to play for 90 minutes or more every game .one exeption for me is baseball i remember when i went to usa to study and work i did not like baseball but one of my friends took me to a game and after i saw how hard this game is that was it for me i am a fan since 1987 and i love baseball love from greece
You don't know the context of these moments. Most of them are Last minute winners at World/European cup or Champions league. Season winners in last game in the added time - Sergio Aguero for man city for example. Not just goals!
The iconic aguerrro…man city wone the league after 50 years in the 94 th minute of the last Game of the season…thats why nothing can compare to football
The reason it didn't take off in the US is that Americans found it boring and don't understand that even a 0-0 game can be a classic. You guys are used to sports with high scores.
I think that fooball is not famous in the US becouse of it lack of similarity with famous US sports, in football you dont hava always a multiple points game, or points all the time, its a patience and tatical sport, at the same time its a really fast sport! Thats my opnion. Sorry for the bad english not my ML
Bro you have no idea what Football is. It is an emotion and full of passion. Let me give you an example, Argentina won the 2022 world cup and interestingly in Bangladesh it has more than 70 millions supporters. If you look online Bangladeshi crazy football fans you will find many. That crazy incident forced Argentina Govt. to reopen their embassy in Bangladesh after 35 years later!!! yea that what football can do and no other sports can never do.
*Had no idea* Welcome to my channel. After this video, I went on a 5 month spiral of absolutely falling in love with the beautiful game. It has changed my life. It has changed my health. I now play the sport 3 times a week.
This video didn't focus much on defenses. If you want to see more defenses I recommend two videos: - The art of Defending: which shows the defenders stopping the attackers. - Impossible Saves: shows goalkeepers doing miracles.
As Footbal fan, it’s sad you don’t recognize the significant of the goals you see. You can only appreciate how some of the goals you see in this video changed our lives and how we feel about this beautiful sport when you know the history.
@@jarmoliebrand2005 I don't think you grasp the importance of certain matches when you simply see "WC Final". You have to know the weight these matches have and what emotional stronghold they hold upon hundreds of millions of people to get that.
@@jarmoliebrand2005 Nah the text doesn't provide enough context for someone unfamiliar with the sport to understand what is going on. In terms of pure, cold facts you can look at see oh that was in the 2000 Euros... but so what? I watched that match live. I remember it. I know the context. He has none of that.
yeah, what was sad was this guy basically didnt seem to even flinch at the goals that were so significant or technically difficult…only the bicycle kicks. Haha, when it showed Lewandowski’s 5 goals in 9 mins, it was like it went in one ear and out the other…perhaps he was waiting for a bicycle kick 😂
@@siggychaloupka7330 Exactly, he had no clue what he was watching and it showed in the lack of reaction to anything, to be fair if I reacted to American sports it would probably look the same ha ha
Yeah, like that Beckham free kick against Greece. It isn’t about the free kick, it’s about the fact we were about to fail to qualify for the World Cup. The goal which came right at the end of the match meant we qualified, it’s hard to overestimate the importance of that goal at that moment.
@@JM-yf3ol that true, and he dosent even know the importance of seeing your contry nacional team play a world cup, that only happens 4 to 4 years, its just the most amazing sports tournament in the history of the world, even bigger than Olympics
FOOTBALL is the biggest popular sport practiced and loved in the WORLD The Yankee version of counterfeit rugby only exists and is consumed in the US, that cheap copy of rugby that never even made it out of the US is so SHIT, how sad and unfortunate
Context is most of what makes many of these highlights incredible. That Agüero goal for Man City against QPR is one of the most special things in football history. Or the incredible comebacks Liverpool has made in the Champions League. Greece and Portugal winning the Euros 2004 and 2016 are also pretty special, despite neither team playing great football throughout the competitions they've won.
The beauty of soccer is difficult to explain. As a fellow American, I can say that I absolutely fell in love with the sport in 1994 when I was twelve. The World Cup was on in the United States and I never knew boys could play the sport, let alone seeing the best players in the world as I was at the time. Watching the beauty of the sport was absolutely captivating. Some Americans made fun of the low-scoring affair, calling it boring. While I could empathize with their position, what I saw was something that was immensely difficult. To me, while I love basketball, it’s way more boring than soccer since they score most times going down the court. Top that with the fact that you can’t use your hands, so to have the grace, the skill, and the raw athleticism to be able to manipulate a ball using your feet. I don’t know, man, it’s just awe inspiring. Couple that with the fact that you can have immensely different styles of play, not necessarily unlike American football, basketball, or even baseball. You have teams that pass and pass and pass and find your weaknesses little by little until they find a seam, e.g. Spain with their Tiki-Taka. You have individual flair, e.g. Brazil. You have solid fundamentals and strict adherence to a system with precision, e.g. Germany. Then you have the raw guts of the Americans, Canadians, and Mexicans. It really is just a beautiful, beautiful game.
@@maxropercalvo6132 Dude STFU. It's called soccer in the US, that's what most of them know it as. Understand this instead of copying and pasting the same stupid ass comment under every post.
Hello Luke.Thanks for your reaction. I have just commenced my 7th decade attending London football matches. The point about those Argentinian goals by Messi and Maradona was that they were decades apart but almost identical. Greece won @150/1 The European Football Tournament for Countries but Leicester won The World's greatest League( The English Premier in 2015) after 38 games of odds of FIVE THOUSAND TO ONE..😀 "Ultras-Our Way Of Life-10,000 Subscribers" or The World or Europe's Greatest Chants" are well worth seeing to begin to capture the atmosphere,my friend..
I think to understand why the Messi-maradona goals were significant you have to understand that Messi is being touted, even at this young age, to be the next best player in the world, and especially to be ‘Maradona’s heir’ to the throne of the Argentinian NT, and scoring that goal shows that he’s capable of taking up that mantle in a rather poetic fashion
As a German, it was incredible, and we had to pinch ourselves.. sure, there are assholes, but it was more surreal than a celebration for me, no one could believe what happened, sure we were happy to get to the but with that sort of game?
It was a bizarre evening. As a German, the first goal was a relief, the second goal was a lot of peace of mind, the third goal was pure euphoria and starting with the fourth goal it was beginning to feel very surreal and almost uncomfortable, I felt horrible for Brazil and their fans.
The reason the announcers were so excited in those bits were you were like "I don't know why it was that impressive" were because they were very important goals in a championship game, it would be like a player getting an amazing final touch down in the last minutes of a match to win in a final of a tournament. Also they were just very skilled goals too.
To understand the impact of each goal in these compilations you have to get a little backstory behind each one of them. It's insane the scenario through which these goals came. Just rewatching these goals here gave me goosebumps, and these announcers (we call them commentators) they don't scream for no reason.
I feel it is very fitting that the video starts with a quote from Bill Shankly. Liverpools history as a club is a great one. Legendary managers, players and supporters. YNWA
As a Liverpool fan myself, it's definitely one of the best. Another favourite of mine is - "Of all unimportant things, football is by far, the most important" - Pope John Paul II
Dude! This video is full of incredible importan moments and players in football. For those who have been following this sport for years, we got the chills with this!
Every second of that video iconic, it's brings back the memories, drive, shock off the moment we all witness that,some stuff will became legendary after a while, I was just a kid and was asking my father how that bald dude outplaying entire Brazil team, he replied I don't know, never seen anything like that, in that moment it didn't felt huge but now it does.
That 'little spin move' by Bergkamp is unmatched to this very day. It's not a standard move like in basketball but that difficult to exercise that only a few geniuses would even THINK about trying it, let alone succeeding. One of the all-time great goals
That Messi goal was so impressive because he manages to play through all those players without loosing possession earning it a spot as one of the best goals ever
The man talking in the beginning is the best player in the history of the sport..also the youngest to ever win a world cup he was 16 and won Brazil they first cup..he changed the game..
If you knew the background of the games you saw you would’ve been even more impressed, some clips are from world cups or champions league games with so much history and passion. It’s really difficult to describe such a big feeling.
Baseball. Basketball. American football. Hockey. Your big four. Far too much money involved in those for football to make any real headway. Amongst other reasons, but that initial statement doesn't help.
"In America we don't follow soccer" first of all lots of people all over north and south America follow soccer. Second, in the USA lots of people do follow soccer. You might not but lots do
The context of all these moments is what makes them legendary. For most of these moments it would require some time to explain the importance and what makes them extraordinary. Because some of those goals look great but it's the context. For example scoring a great goal is nice but it happens all the time by chance. However you recognize the immense talent of some of these players because they consistently produce these incredible gestures when the stakes are at their highest (derbies, cup games, world cups...) This video also makes me realize how much stuff I know about football (which is why many of these goals make me emotional: the history of the teams, of the players, of the completions, of the games...). This explains the passion in the commenters voices
Football is "life". All the world plays the game, from England, to Angola, to Spain, to New Zealand, to India, to Russia, to Israel, Iran to Italy etc. Its the biggest sport in the world. And me being an avid football fan I thought I would explain the set up of our league and competitions. Unlike America we dont just have our national league, we can play other teams around the world. Literally every country has a league. The Biggest tho are England, Spain, Italy and Germany, but you get massive clubs in Brazil and Argentina. In England the league consists of 4 Divisions. Been around for 160 years and the FA Cup (explain later) is the oldest domestic sporting event in the world. As I said we have 4 divisions (we call them leagues now, but up till the 90s and the influx of major TV rights, this was changed to Leagues). You have the Premier League (formerly Division one), which has 20 teams, each playing a home and away game. The winners after 38 matches are English Champions. The top 4 teams qualify for the European Champions League, and 5th place (maybe 6th or 7th depends on who wins the League Cup or FA cup) go into the Europa League. The bottom 3 get relegated to the Championship (2nd Tier of English Football and Formerly Division 2) The Championship have more teams 24 Teams and the Top 2 get promoted to the Premier League and 3rd to 6th play a knock out, and the winner the final gets promoted also to the Premiership. This is called the Play Offs and the Championship Playoff is the biggest monetary prize in sport for the winning team. This is due to revenue (as the game is played at the National stadium Wembley), TV rights, Sponsorship rights and also prize money itself. The bottom 3 get relegated to League one Then you have League one (formerly Division 3) and League two (formerly Division 4). This is same set up as the Championship, the top 2 get promoted, i.e League 1 top 2 go into the Championship and League 2 top two go into League 1. Same play offs to get into the above league and same relegation, but less prize money obviously. As League 2 is the lowest of professional Leagues, bottom 2 go into the Conference which is not sponsored by the League itself, and 2 from the Conference get promoted. Which for you Americans is Wrexham this year who is owned by Ryan Reynolds. There a numerous leagues that are not professional that interlink for promotion and relegation. During the season you also have 2 Domestic cups. The league cup which is a knockout competition for only the teams in the top 4 leagues (Premier league to League 2), and then the FA cup which literally every football team can participate. From Sunday leagues up wards. Usually have over 700 teams competing in KO rules. Obviously all non Leagues start off and this get dwindles down till they play teams in the league that are not in the Premier League (Championship to League two) which when they enter becomes the 1st round of the FA cup. Then in the 3rd round the Premiership teams enter the draw for the round. Some teams you never hear off as play amateur football have the chance of playing the big teams like Man U, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, Man City, if they are lucky and this has happened numerous times in the past. Obviously the big teams win but the TV rights and revenue are massive for these small clubs. And the whole country roots (unless you support them) for the lower teams to do a shock. Which has also happened. The cups are only English Teams allowed bar a few Welsh teams. No Scottish or Irish or any other country allowed, so the 700 odd teams that compete are just teams in England (and Wales). Scotland have their own league and cup competitions. i..e the Scottish FA Cup and Leagues for Scottish Teams. (same set up but less clubs, and have relegation, promotion) The winners of the 2 cups go into the Europa League. If the winners get into the Champions League or Europa League due to finishing in the Top 5 of the Premiership, teams finishing 6th or 7th get into Europa. Also while the season is on certain clubs play European cups (as mentioned above). The Champions League is the biggest, all The big clubs who won their countries league or finished between top 2 and top 4 (Each country have different amount of teams allowed due to League positions. The top country leagues get 4, where as the smaller countries may get 1 or 2). Basically they are structured like the World Cup. Groups of 4 teams play home and away and the top 2 go into a KO (home and away). The Europa League is the same structure, but some teams finishing 3rd in their group in the Champions League will go into a play off with those finishing in 2nd in the Europa Groups, to play in the Europa League Knock out. The winner of the Champions League become champions of Europe, the winners of the Europa League just win that but its the 2nd Biggest European trophy, but do get automatically entered into the Champions League regardless of where they finished in their own countries league for the nest season. For some teams they can play 3 times in 6 days throughout the season. The season starts August and is played till May. We even play over Christmas with boxing day (a ban holiday in the UK for the 26th December) being the biggest day of Football as its a bank holiday and pubs and grounds are filled up to watch games. Plus its the biggest day for TV rights as due to christmas literally the whole world tunes into games shown for the Premier League, especially in countries that do not follow Christmas, like China, Middle East etc. The English Premier League is the most watched Football league in the world, possibly only Spanish La Liga coming anywhere near its popularity. The following season the winners of the Champions league will play the winners of certain continents that have a similar set up So they will play the winners of Oceanic (Australia, New Zealand etc), South America (Brazil, Argentina etc) and the winners of the African trophy (teams from Nigeria etc playing each other). Thats called the Club World cup. Its not really that popular as only usually 4 teams play and its a KO. Then you have the National Team. Players can play in any country, but will still (if good enough) represent their national team. Like Ronaldo played in England and Spain but plays for his country Portugal. The National team have 2 trophies. The big one is the World cup. This starts with the qualifiers, these consists of all countries in their continents playing each other in group stages and the winners and 2nd placed go into the World cup itself. And I assume you understand the world cup structure. Then you have your Continent trophy. In Europe its called the European Cup. Africa it called the African Cup of Nations etc. The qualifiers of both are played throughout a league season, but the top leagues suspend games on the weekends for those weeks. So you may have 4-5 weeks in a season disrupted for the qualifiers. Hope you followed that. I am an Arsenal fan, we've been around since 1888. The 3rd most successful team in England, FA Cup 14 times (record for most FA cup wins), League cup twice and 2 European trophies that were merged into the Europa League set up. (I would be here all day explaining the previous European Cups set up). Its a London team and the player in the clip Bergkamp who you saw flicking the ball and twisting round the player is hi playing for us, and the left foot to right foot lobbing the defender to score, was him playing for his country Holland. He also did exact same goal for us that season. He is probably the 2nd or 1st greatest player we had at Arsenal. Thierry Henry (who you may know as he retired to play in the US) is probably our greatest ever player. But this season we have a few young kids that are ripping up the league, in SAKA, young Black English kid who missed a penalty for England in the European Final and git racial abuse, idiots, but he captured the nation still who rallied to defend him and kick out the racists on line. And our Captain Odegaard, Danish player but amazing.
There are two videos I recommend for you to watch, you should give a go to “understanding European soccer in four simple steps” and afterwards definitely watch “(European) soccer explained for Americans” to get a more in-depth understanding of the concepts you learn in the first one. This second video I feel is very helpful and I don’t really see content creators new to the sport watch it that often. From what I remember neither of both gives you a full explanation of the rules though.
This video really isnt for any first timers to watch basically its a video where all football fans understand and remember the nostalgia and deep meanings of each reel in the video. I put myself in your position and i was like there is no way i would understand anything from.whats going on. I think you should watch videos of football basics or the football championship modes made in each continent to better be familiar with the tournaments, teams, players, formations, to better understand the weight of everything. Also to start off with the familiar players like ronaldo and messi you could watch their videos too to understand how their rivalry and brilliance in football started to this day and why it is a rivalry.
Football, in my experience, has the most passion out of any sport EVER. It has certainly saved my life, gave me a reason to be, as the quote said in the beginning as well. Kobe, whom you immensely more than likely know(may he R.I.P.), absolutely loved football(your soccer). It is much more than just purely "sport"
Fax bro
Well, Kobe grew up in Italy as a kid, so ofc he'd love football. And Italy loved him. May he rest in peace
Football is like gladiator but more thrilling for me
football is life
Its not a sport...is Religion. Respect please.
This video hits so differently when you know each players and games history. I know every player and watched 90% of the games here that took place after I was born. To me its pure nostalgia, gives me so much joy and makes me tear up. Wish there was someone explaining you the stories behind the goals, so you could understand why everyone was freaking out even at less impressive goals.
Also you pointed out a mayor issue in the world of football real quick. Everyone is focused on the attacking aspect of football, goals get valued much higher than extraordinary defensive work or goalkeeping. The last defender that got awarded the best player of the year was Fabio Canavaro in 2006.
Last and only defender and I think it's a shame
It really makes the video a tough watch. I think the video title mislead him.
@@bensylar1910beckenbaur if that counts
Football (soccer) is more than just sports. It's the crowd, the chanting, the passion of the supporters, the Ultras, the choreos, the smoke, the bengalos
MLS is growing FAST it’s definitely on its way especially with Millennials and everyone younger. 2010 World Cup in Africa made me a fan for life.
I fell in love with football after seeing Denis Bergkamp goal live on TV here in India and that was my first ever football match. I knew it was the quarter finals but I didnt know any of the players. The rules were pretty obvious and when I saw the Bergkamp goal, I could not believe anyone could do that. It was 1998 and I was 10 years. I was just mesmeserized by that goal and even now.
Sometimes 11 players carry the burdens of hope, passions and dreams of an entire nation and country. The collective euphoria of victory or agony of defeat is shared and felt by all. The scale of it all is truly amazing to witness. Despite its relative simplicity. Football or soccer is really hard to get good at. That's why moments of pure brilliance in football is so treasured. It's a magical experience that's hard to come by for both the competitor and spectator.
Just watching the football and enjoying it is enough. The same with rugby. Your a sports fan you don’t have to know the rules you can just see the beauty. I enjoy American football even though I am Scottish. So thanks for the video.
The thing with this video is that the plays have more to do with their context than with the actual play or the player ability. That's why maybe some of them looked to you like a "normal" play
This is why soccer (futbol) is called the most beautiful game. The passion. It’s a world wide sport. Reason why it hasn’t broken through (on the rise) in the United States is because there are too many sports. Baseball, football, basketball, hockey, etc. that’s taking most of the attention. If you go outside of the country, soccer is the main sport.
...and that's just covering Europe and the Americas. There are also similar emotional football/soccer stories in Africa and Asia.
For example, Didier Drogba helped to end the Ivorian Civil War by qualifying for the 2006 World Cup.
Or when Iraq won the 2007 Asian Cup amidst several terror attacks that occurred during the tournament.
Often, the goals themselves are not particularly skillful, but the context and the story behind the goals are what makes them significant and emotionally charged.
And that's what makes football/soccer such a beloved, cherished, and appreciated sport across the world.
Keep up the great content sir.
I love your newfound love for European Football, just to clarify. You are also helping me to understand the game more. I went to a school that didn't have a soccer team, nor did any of the local schools. Backwoods Oklahoma...LOL. At 8 minutes and 45 seconds you say that you don't understand the weight of what you just watched. Diego Maradona was a hero to Lionel Messi. Messi completely recreated a goal that Maradona had made during his career. It was a nod to Maradona. Thank you again for what you are doing to help others see the beauty in the game of Football. (sorry guys, NOT the NFL)
Football has a tough time breaking into the US is because it doesn't have any opportunities to monetize the heck out of it. You'll have only one opportunity at the half time 15 minute break to show ads, that too 10 minutes is covered by the half time presenters, so it relies heavily on the hope that some TVs are switched on before and after the game to show ads. So any revenue that needs to be generated will have to be done while the game is on using digital bill boards during the match and most times those bill boards will be the sponsors of the home team, so it will be heavily Reliant on the number of viewers watching the match to generate revenue. The European leagues are 100-150 years old and already has a great fan following across the world through generation of watching and listening to their matches. Companies can't buy loyalty, but they still need to make money, hence they just renamed Rugby 🏉 to Football, made few changes to the rules to show some difference and hoped the rest of the world won't notice it..
I have tears in my eyes every time I watch this video
One thing with all top-sports when getting to know them in a video is the fact that you often don`t understand how hard it is to do magic.. After all , the players are facing the best defenders of the world in this video.. and everyone is prepared for a difficult task/game.. And if you have ever tried to do the things these players can do with a football, you`ll see the greatness..Same as for any sport !! To win a big trophy, you will often have to beat at least 13 other great teams who also qualified for the tournament (5-6 teams in 1st groupstage + 3 teams in play-off group, then direct elimination matches (16-,8-, quarterfinal, semifinal + The Final ).. Add to this, all the history between clubs or nations and you always have something to talk about when a WorldCup or a ChampionsLeague play-off is starting.. :D ..Keep the Football reactions coming.. YNWA (search the Liverpool FC history for more info on these letters.. :D )
Football was my first sport. I tried basketball, tennis, volleyball and badminton but in the end my heart really choose football
Mario Götze wasn't actually the first German to get the nick name Super Mario. The "original" one was Mario Gomez
You gotta play it real life to know how incredible some of those guys are...
Yeah, not having the context really screws this up. His comment on Giggs goals was that he took his shirt off. Dude, I cannot describe to you how epic that goal was. . . and I'm a Spurs fan.
Football/soccer is played in over 200 countries
'I don't know anything about the sport' - You said it!
Check out my latest video 😊 You might be surprised. I’m madly obsessed with the beautiful game, playing the beautiful game, and head over heels for the greatest sport in the world. Please check out my other videos, I went on an absolute journey
what you see in this video are a few of the most important goals of the history. For me knowing the context of the moments still gives me goosebumps. If I can give you an advice to understand the reason of the beauty, start to watch and support a random team for an entire season. The best you’ll find in England, Italy, Spain and Germany. And at the best visit a game in an Eurpean city. I support AS Roma and to watch a live game in Rom is unforgettable.
American people do not realize.
Football,in all humanity,is the best sport in the world forever !
Once in a while i find the reaction to the video in here and I watch it just to cry again
It’s so much better if you know the context of some of these goals. I watched in awe when Bergkamp scored that goal against Newcastle. And as a Dutch guy I vividly remember Bergkamp’s goal against Argentina, with that commentary. And unfortunately, I also very much remember the World Cup final against Spain.
One thing to understand is that football is pretty much ingrained in our DNA from when you’re young. My dad took me and my brother to games from a young age, and I played football myself from 6 till I was well into my 20s.
I enjoy soccer / football.
I support Aberdeen FC in Scotland.
Football is easy to understand., in my view.
Scottish football is intense.
3:00 Zlatan Ibrahimovic. He's a Swedish player with Bosnian decent. He played for Los Angeles Galaxy a while ago and usually when a player leaves they make a thank you letter. Thanking the club and all of the other players. Zlatan only wrote "You're welcome."
This is really something. Him watching Pele speaking would be like someone having no idea who Michael Jordan or Michael Jackson is. Just shows how a person can live in a total bubble and be completely ignorant of anything outside of it. It's both funny and sad at the same time. I also live in US and have to simply shake my head in disbelief. It's like dude, try to see beyond the distance of your own nose.
I couldn’t finish watching this vid after seeing this guy wasn’t reading the description that depicts the magnitude of these goals
Wow. You’re missing out on a fantastic journey. Since watching this (my first football video ever, I am playing the game 4 months later. Madly obsessed with the beautiful game. It’s literally changed my life. I was near death from diabetes, and now, because of football, I have my life and health back.)
PS. Just because I didn’t read the descriptions out loud doesn’t mean I didn’t read the descriptions.
Thanks for taking the time to comment on my video. Really helps me with the algorithm.
As an American whos played his whole life as well as american football and baseball. It is almost entirely because of sports media. Millions of people play and watch but they treat it like do tennis.. The rise of MLS has been fantastic for this country and it shows the number of fans and players around the country.. Just in the last 10 years did it start breaking through to networks because they hire people who don't know anything about it... A lot of them with preconceived notions of either what Americans want, or like... or what we WANT to see... that translates to what we actually see, which translates to what people perceive. I can promise you, there is a very very big market here in the US.. Check out Atlanta United's 71,000 at and MLS match video. It will shed some light.. and that is in the SOUTH. Mind you that not everyone is an MLS fan too.. a lot of people watch leagues outside of our market like the European leagues, Mexican leagues, etc.. or watch all of them like most big fans..
If you wanna see good defense watch Sergio Ramos.. and there are some good goalkeeping compilations out there too.
8:18 In that clip they show Maradona and Messi, due to the similarity of the goal. una locura!
11:00
That still hurts to this day.
I think you’d be quite interested in Ajax 2018/19. It’s quite the underdog story.
the most beautiful game ever
You will never understand football (soccer) untill you understand the rivalry and hatred between certain clubs and countries. It gets very heated both on and off the pitch. Sometimes it oversteps the mark, but nothing beats a game against your local, hated rivals.
Football doesn't lend itself to commercial breaks, unlike US sports which have a lot of natural breaks in play.
He’s watching a video called the beauty of football and proceeds to call it soccer that just triggered me 😭😭 but I loved your reaction anyways I love watching people see what football is really about and that video you reacted to captures it perfectly :)
The nations involved in soccer are the whole world.
If you want to see good defense/goalkeepers, I'd recommend watching highlights for some of the best (modern) goalkeepers.
People like
Manuel Neuer (considered one of the best GKs to ever play and the best modern goalkeeper, he actually changed the position of goalkeeper to be more active)
David De Gea
Alisson
Courtois
Ederson
Cech
or some legends like Buffon :)
Kids nowadays very often confuse "playing football successfully" with circus tricks or "street football" nonsense - just like in Basketball. To understand why teams are better than others it's mostly not the single star striker, but creative midfielders that lead to greatness. Watch "Toni Kroos, 20 ridiculous things..." to see. ✌🏻 Müller or Özil are also up there - although never been called "the GOAT" or anything like that. But they won simply won everything in football.
There are a lot of incredible goals in the video. For me as Spansh Iniesta's is the most epic goal ever, but as pure Beauty (There is a snap in the video) Zidane's goal in the UCL against Bayern Leverkusen is my favorite.
apparently soccer is one of the sports kids are made to do by parents on a rotational basis (seasonal). a lot of them then grow up not really interested in the sport or put off it having been forced to play it. and it still doesnt have the sheer presence on tv because advert breaks in a game dont really work like the (made for tv advertising) NFL.
You have to look Ultras our way of life. You will understand our passion for this sport in europe
Love how the Sky Blues made it into this compilation #PUSB
Thats real football
Great reaction
My best tip to you is to get a pair of boots and get on a pitch. Once you realize how hard it is to pass, receive, and keep possession of the ball you’ll understand why the world loves this game. I would also suggest the reason soccer is so big is because of the international competitions. Unlike other sports, soccer has international competitions at club and national team level. Imagine if you could see the Patriots or Steelers go to war with the best football teams of all the other nations in the world… but that’s the issue with American Football, it dies once you leave the confines of the US leagues
i disagree. its not when you realize how hard it is, but when you do it, and realize how FUN it is to play. and how quickly it is to set it up as well.
No commercial breaks, no relegation in US leagues, that's why really.
Watch that Liverpool - Milan Champions League if you wanna see some good goalkeeping and an insane game ;)
You couldn't have picked a more perfect comment if you tried "I don't understand the weight of what I have just watched it looked awesome"
What you just watched was Diego Maradona scoring what is classed as the greatest goal ever it was the 2nd goal he scored for Argentina against England in the 1986 world Cup (don't even ask about his 1st goal its as famous as the 2nd for the wrong reasons!!). Maradona is regularly classed as the or 1 of the greatest footballers of all time. The Argentinian commentry alongside that goal is just as famous. Sadly he died almost a couple of yrs ago. But he is a footballing legend. Educate yourself more on him hence why you'll have heard his name. If you think of stupidly famous people in other ways ie they have practical god status he's 1 of them!
The almost identical goal which is why they were played side by side isn't just significant due to the goal being identical, Lionel Messi is like Maradona, Argentinian, he's pretty much classed as Maradona's successor also wears the no10 shirt. Messi is this generations greatest Footballer though depending who you talk to some say he's better than Maradona though the major debate is Messi is yet to win the world Cup for Argentina, Maradona won it with Argentina in 1986. Messi's main rival is Ronaldo. Pele who is 1 of them you saw in the black and white footage and who was talking at the beginning the debate is normally between him and Maradona as to who's the greatest. 1 way people look at it is when Maradona and Pele played it was a different game to what it has been for Messi and Ronaldo to play it. Definitely educate yourself on these players I've mentioned and many more you have seen in that video. 1 person they didn't show in that video was Roberto Baggio who is classed as 1 of Italys best! Enjoy!
You should (read) check out the Dutch left wing attacker, Johan Cruiff. As a player he was phenomenal. Pele (the guy who opened this clip sitting there talking), Maradonna, and Cruiff are usually considered the 3 best players in the history of soccer. In today's day and age, they most likely wouldn't stand out as much as it game has gotten much faster and changed a lot as these guys mentioned played 50 - 30 years ago. But as a Dutchie I am a big fan of Cruiff and the beautiful soccer we see today we owe for a big part to him. Back in 1974 The Netherlands became 2nd in the World Cup (again in 1978 and in 2010 - we sadly never won it....) by simply overrunning their opponents. Nobody understood what the Dutch were doing and had even less of a clue on how to stop them - until the finals and Germany just simply cheated (that's a whole video on its own...). This achievement was made possible by the combined minds of our coach at the time, Rinus Michels, and his left winger, Johan Cruiff. Up until then soccer was pretty stagnant. A defender defends thus stays in the back, an attacked attacks thus stays in the front, a midfielder stays in between. Cruiff and Michels created what we call 'totaal voetbal' in Dutch and translates roughly to 'total soccer' or better 'complete soccer'. In this form of soccer everyone has their main roles but also helped the other positions by eg when a defender rushed up to the front with the ball at his feet the midfielder would fall back to defence, taking over the defender's spot, and the attacked back to the midfielder's spot allowing for the defender to get involved in the attack. This way it basically became so the entire team attacked together and the entire team defended together, where before these strict lines and roles prevented that. Later on, Cruiff became a player and then the coach (in the early 90's) of Barcelona (if you go to Barcelona stadium today there is still a BIG presence of Cruiff, his influence and the love they have for what this man brought him - even though he sadly passed away like a decade ago). He continued on with the new way of playing soccer as a coach and improved it, perfected it, and brought Barcelona mighty triumphs and their first international, European, successes and cups. Years later, at the beginning of this century, another coach took the reins and improved Cruiff's playstyle even more, integrated his own ideas into it, turning Barcelona in one of the most successful, loved (it still has the largest fanbase today), and absolutely unbeatable team for a good decade. For that decade they won literally everything at least twice and were simply unstoppable. This coach is achieving great successes with Mancester City today and sadly Barcelona has crumbled due to financial mismanagement. Either way - the Ronaldo's, Messi's, Ibrahimoviche's, and so on we have today, their successes, the room for them to play at their absolute max and having the room to shine, we all owe to this one pimpled face boy who back in 1974 reinvented soccer - The Great, Late, Johan Cruiff.... (can you imagine there are clips of him, old interviews both as player and as coach, where is standing there smoking tobacco? :-D ). Anyways - nice clips you have and I hope you will take a look at Mr. Cruiff
You are absolutely right but, for the love of God, it's CRUIJFF
@@wernervon5508 can I blame it on me forgetting to put on my glasses.... tbh I was so conflicted about how to write his name - I should've googled it - but yah, Im man, I steak, I whiskey, I lazy.... Thx for the correction though.
The format of playing uninterrupted for 45 minutes does not fit in with the requirements for TV advertising in the USA. They like American eggball which breaks every 30 seconds.
And that's why from around 10 years ago taking your shirt off inside the field is a direct Yellow card.
Some great players have ruined their team chances by doing so after scoring a goal to then leave their team with 10 players because they already had another Yellow and got ejected 😂
Messi the man who dethroned Pele as the GOAT
It’s crazy how Salah won the Puskas for scoring the type of goal Robben would score at every game😂 and on top of that Salah’s goal didn’t even win goal of the week
You need to go to a game with a crowd from Europe , or better an English premier league derby match. The atmosphere ...........
Title should say: "American Football coach DOESNT reacts to "the beauty of football"... "
Truth! You should see my newer videos though. Football is my obsession now!
@@lukessportsacademy omg, im going to watch it to believe it🤩
I appreciate that you gave it a try! Football or soccer is lot of times more heart than sport. I don't know if you saw Real Madrid road to 14th, but that is an awesome and almost impossible journey to the trophy. You should react to it if you didnt. Ill continue watching your YES reactions❤
The king of sports….
the reason football is the king of sports its because we play it with our feet not our hands and it is realy hard REALY HARD the players train realy hard to be able to play for 90 minutes or more every game .one exeption for me is baseball i remember when i went to usa to study and work i did not like baseball but one of my friends took me to a game and after i saw how hard this game is that was it for me i am a fan since 1987 and i love baseball love from greece
You don't know the context of these moments. Most of them are Last minute winners at World/European cup or Champions league. Season winners in last game in the added time - Sergio Aguero for man city for example. Not just goals!
The iconic aguerrro…man city wone the league after 50 years in the 94 th minute of the last Game of the season…thats why nothing can compare to football
If you want good goalkeeping, check out Chilavert's save against Maradona's free kick.
Bro this video without context💀
The reason it didn't take off in the US is that Americans found it boring and don't understand that even a 0-0 game can be a classic.
You guys are used to sports with high scores.
That video leaves a lot of context out of some of these goals and wins and how significant they are
Become an Arsenal fan (my team) or Newcastle. I think check out the style of play from both. City play well too, but they are like the money club.
Soccer fans ate very passionate but the players dont have heart anymore, American football is more fun to watch imho
If you want to check out some goalkeeping, look up Peter Schmeichel
I think that fooball is not famous in the US becouse of it lack of similarity with famous US sports, in football you dont hava always a multiple points game, or points all the time, its a patience and tatical sport, at the same time its a really fast sport! Thats my opnion. Sorry for the bad english not my ML
You should watch Keylor Navas saves
Best goalkeeper in the last decade
Bro you have no idea what Football is. It is an emotion and full of passion. Let me give you an example, Argentina won the 2022 world cup and interestingly in Bangladesh it has more than 70 millions supporters. If you look online Bangladeshi crazy football fans you will find many. That crazy incident forced Argentina Govt. to reopen their embassy in Bangladesh after 35 years later!!! yea that what football can do and no other sports can never do.
*Had no idea*
Welcome to my channel. After this video, I went on a 5 month spiral of absolutely falling in love with the beautiful game. It has changed my life. It has changed my health. I now play the sport 3 times a week.
This video didn't focus much on defenses. If you want to see more defenses I recommend two videos:
- The art of Defending: which shows the defenders stopping the attackers.
- Impossible Saves: shows goalkeepers doing miracles.
He can see the highlights of Brugge x Porto
@@NibanoTransmontano Porto-Brugge was better
and "Manuel Neuer vs. Algeria"
Not many skills either, which are a very artistic part of footie
@@tobyk.4911 Tim Howard vs Belgium, that man was a brick wall for the US
As Footbal fan, it’s sad you don’t recognize the significant of the goals you see. You can only appreciate how some of the goals you see in this video changed our lives and how we feel about this beautiful sport when you know the history.
For quite a few goals, there’s a description beneath which highlights the goal’s importance. It’s a shame he didn’t seem to really look at that.
@@jarmoliebrand2005 I don't think you grasp the importance of certain matches when you simply see "WC Final". You have to know the weight these matches have and what emotional stronghold they hold upon hundreds of millions of people to get that.
@@jarmoliebrand2005 Nah the text doesn't provide enough context for someone unfamiliar with the sport to understand what is going on. In terms of pure, cold facts you can look at see oh that was in the 2000 Euros... but so what? I watched that match live. I remember it. I know the context. He has none of that.
yeah, what was sad was this guy basically didnt seem to even flinch at the goals that were so significant or technically difficult…only the bicycle kicks.
Haha, when it showed Lewandowski’s 5 goals in 9 mins, it was like it went in one ear and out the other…perhaps he was waiting for a bicycle kick 😂
@@siggychaloupka7330 Exactly, he had no clue what he was watching and it showed in the lack of reaction to anything, to be fair if I reacted to American sports it would probably look the same ha ha
I think it's really important to understand the context of these goals. What's at stake, the level of skill, etc
Yeah without context it's just a guy kicking a ball
Yeah you cannot feel the tension and intensity all along the game
Yeah, like that Beckham free kick against Greece. It isn’t about the free kick, it’s about the fact we were about to fail to qualify for the World Cup. The goal which came right at the end of the match meant we qualified, it’s hard to overestimate the importance of that goal at that moment.
@@JM-yf3ol that true, and he dosent even know the importance of seeing your contry nacional team play a world cup, that only happens 4 to 4 years, its just the most amazing sports tournament in the history of the world, even bigger than Olympics
FOOTBALL is the biggest popular sport practiced and loved in the WORLD The Yankee version of counterfeit rugby only exists and is consumed in the US, that cheap copy of rugby that never even made it out of the US is so SHIT, how sad and unfortunate
Football is not just a game. It’s a passion. It’s an emotion🥺
Fax
its a Religion
Think it was Bill Shankley who said this, people say that football is a matter of life and death, they're wrong, it's much more
@Trump lost, move on dude, relax, it's a quote from one of the most famous managers, you "nut job"
Its my life, i would not know what would keep my life interesting without football
1:20 Pelé's talking
This guy : who's this talking ?
Me watching : 💀
😂
🤦♂my reaction literally 😂
💀 is the perfect reaction to that one
American Football Coach REACTS to “The Beauty of Football” for the FIRST TIME
+1 😂😂😂
@@h0pesfall Bro, anyone knows Pelé. Seriously. It's the only thing people know.
Context is most of what makes many of these highlights incredible. That Agüero goal for Man City against QPR is one of the most special things in football history. Or the incredible comebacks Liverpool has made in the Champions League. Greece and Portugal winning the Euros 2004 and 2016 are also pretty special, despite neither team playing great football throughout the competitions they've won.
The beauty of soccer is difficult to explain. As a fellow American, I can say that I absolutely fell in love with the sport in 1994 when I was twelve. The World Cup was on in the United States and I never knew boys could play the sport, let alone seeing the best players in the world as I was at the time. Watching the beauty of the sport was absolutely captivating. Some Americans made fun of the low-scoring affair, calling it boring. While I could empathize with their position, what I saw was something that was immensely difficult. To me, while I love basketball, it’s way more boring than soccer since they score most times going down the court. Top that with the fact that you can’t use your hands, so to have the grace, the skill, and the raw athleticism to be able to manipulate a ball using your feet. I don’t know, man, it’s just awe inspiring. Couple that with the fact that you can have immensely different styles of play, not necessarily unlike American football, basketball, or even baseball. You have teams that pass and pass and pass and find your weaknesses little by little until they find a seam, e.g. Spain with their Tiki-Taka. You have individual flair, e.g. Brazil. You have solid fundamentals and strict adherence to a system with precision, e.g. Germany. Then you have the raw guts of the Americans, Canadians, and Mexicans.
It really is just a beautiful, beautiful game.
nice and complete comment man. Glad to see americans are starting to appreciate the actual football :)
There is NO sport in the WORLD or in any LANGUAGE of the WORLD called "soccer"
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@@maxropercalvo6132 Dude STFU. It's called soccer in the US, that's what most of them know it as. Understand this instead of copying and pasting the same stupid ass comment under every post.
@Trump lost, move on
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There are monster goalkeepers 😂😂😂 sometimes playing against them is the most annoying thing in the world.
Factsssss
Like Peter Schmeichel. The blueprint for the modern goalie!
Hello Luke.Thanks for your reaction. I have just commenced my 7th decade attending London football matches.
The point about those Argentinian goals by Messi and Maradona was that they were decades apart but almost identical. Greece won @150/1 The European Football Tournament for Countries but Leicester won The World's greatest League( The English Premier in 2015) after 38 games of odds of FIVE THOUSAND TO ONE..😀
"Ultras-Our Way Of Life-10,000 Subscribers" or The World or Europe's Greatest Chants" are well worth seeing to begin to capture the atmosphere,my friend..
I think to understand why the Messi-maradona goals were significant you have to understand that Messi is being touted, even at this young age, to be the next best player in the world, and especially to be ‘Maradona’s heir’ to the throne of the Argentinian NT, and scoring that goal shows that he’s capable of taking up that mantle in a rather poetic fashion
7-1 was a holy shit. I'm brazilian and when our team lose that kind of way... it was a disaster in our history. we will never, ever forget.
You can never forget the victories and world cup titles either . It was only one game Brazil will forever be respected 💪
As a German, it was incredible, and we had to pinch ourselves.. sure, there are assholes, but it was more surreal than a celebration for me, no one could believe what happened, sure we were happy to get to the but with that sort of game?
😄Oh yes, that was a very nice evening. 🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍸
It was a bizarre evening. As a German, the first goal was a relief, the second goal was a lot of peace of mind, the third goal was pure euphoria and starting with the fourth goal it was beginning to feel very surreal and almost uncomfortable, I felt horrible for Brazil and their fans.
I almost passed out when I seen the score
The reason the announcers were so excited in those bits were you were like "I don't know why it was that impressive" were because they were very important goals in a championship game, it would be like a player getting an amazing final touch down in the last minutes of a match to win in a final of a tournament. Also they were just very skilled goals too.
Would love to see you react to football fans from europe and south america! The passion in this sport unmatched!
To understand the impact of each goal in these compilations you have to get a little backstory behind each one of them. It's insane the scenario through which these goals came. Just rewatching these goals here gave me goosebumps, and these announcers (we call them commentators) they don't scream for no reason.
I feel it is very fitting that the video starts with a quote from Bill Shankly. Liverpools history as a club is a great one. Legendary managers, players and supporters. YNWA
As a Liverpool fan myself, it's definitely one of the best.
Another favourite of mine is -
"Of all unimportant things, football is by far, the most important" - Pope John Paul II
Absolutely correct. Side note, how great to see that goal from Gini.
Me: watching Lewandowski score 5 goals in five minutes.
Him: not giving a piece of s**t
Dude! This video is full of incredible importan moments and players in football. For those who have been following this sport for years, we got the chills with this!
Every second of that video iconic, it's brings back the memories, drive, shock off the moment we all witness that,some stuff will became legendary after a while, I was just a kid and was asking my father how that bald dude outplaying entire Brazil team, he replied I don't know, never seen anything like that, in that moment it didn't felt huge but now it does.
That 'little spin move' by Bergkamp is unmatched to this very day. It's not a standard move like in basketball but that difficult to exercise that only a few geniuses would even THINK about trying it, let alone succeeding. One of the all-time great goals
Lol. He says he didn't really think about doing it, it just happened in the heat of the moment. Lol.
You need read action subtitle for understand the beauty of this game
That Messi goal was so impressive because he manages to play through all those players without loosing possession earning it a spot as one of the best goals ever
The man talking in the beginning is the best player in the history of the sport..also the youngest to ever win a world cup he was 16 and won Brazil they first cup..he changed the game..
PELE... The best of them all.
I'm french and I can say i got chills seeing this video
If you knew the background of the games you saw you would’ve been even more impressed, some clips are from world cups or champions league games with so much history and passion. It’s really difficult to describe such a big feeling.
Baseball. Basketball. American football. Hockey.
Your big four. Far too much money involved in those for football to make any real headway. Amongst other reasons, but that initial statement doesn't help.
"In America we don't follow soccer" first of all lots of people all over north and south America follow soccer. Second, in the USA lots of people do follow soccer. You might not but lots do
React to Lionel Messi the world's greatest 3rd edition please 🙌🏻❤
Dude is watching this, unfazed, not knowing how hard some of these highlights are to do on a football pitch.
The context of all these moments is what makes them legendary.
For most of these moments it would require some time to explain the importance and what makes them extraordinary.
Because some of those goals look great but it's the context. For example scoring a great goal is nice but it happens all the time by chance. However you recognize the immense talent of some of these players because they consistently produce these incredible gestures when the stakes are at their highest (derbies, cup games, world cups...)
This video also makes me realize how much stuff I know about football (which is why many of these goals make me emotional: the history of the teams, of the players, of the completions, of the games...).
This explains the passion in the commenters voices
Football is "life". All the world plays the game, from England, to Angola, to Spain, to New Zealand, to India, to Russia, to Israel, Iran to Italy etc. Its the biggest sport in the world.
And me being an avid football fan I thought I would explain the set up of our league and competitions. Unlike America we dont just have our national league, we can play other teams around the world.
Literally every country has a league. The Biggest tho are England, Spain, Italy and Germany, but you get massive clubs in Brazil and Argentina.
In England the league consists of 4 Divisions. Been around for 160 years and the FA Cup (explain later) is the oldest domestic sporting event in the world.
As I said we have 4 divisions (we call them leagues now, but up till the 90s and the influx of major TV rights, this was changed to Leagues).
You have the Premier League (formerly Division one), which has 20 teams, each playing a home and away game. The winners after 38 matches are English Champions. The top 4 teams qualify for the European Champions League, and 5th place (maybe 6th or 7th depends on who wins the League Cup or FA cup) go into the Europa League.
The bottom 3 get relegated to the Championship (2nd Tier of English Football and Formerly Division 2)
The Championship have more teams 24 Teams and the Top 2 get promoted to the Premier League and 3rd to 6th play a knock out, and the winner the final gets promoted also to the Premiership. This is called the Play Offs and the Championship Playoff is the biggest monetary prize in sport for the winning team. This is due to revenue (as the game is played at the National stadium Wembley), TV rights, Sponsorship rights and also prize money itself. The bottom 3 get relegated to League one
Then you have League one (formerly Division 3) and League two (formerly Division 4). This is same set up as the Championship, the top 2 get promoted, i.e League 1 top 2 go into the Championship and League 2 top two go into League 1. Same play offs to get into the above league and same relegation, but less prize money obviously.
As League 2 is the lowest of professional Leagues, bottom 2 go into the Conference which is not sponsored by the League itself, and 2 from the Conference get promoted. Which for you Americans is Wrexham this year who is owned by Ryan Reynolds.
There a numerous leagues that are not professional that interlink for promotion and relegation.
During the season you also have 2 Domestic cups.
The league cup which is a knockout competition for only the teams in the top 4 leagues (Premier league to League 2), and then the FA cup which literally every football team can participate. From Sunday leagues up wards. Usually have over 700 teams competing in KO rules. Obviously all non Leagues start off and this get dwindles down till they play teams in the league that are not in the Premier League (Championship to League two) which when they enter becomes the 1st round of the FA cup. Then in the 3rd round the Premiership teams enter the draw for the round.
Some teams you never hear off as play amateur football have the chance of playing the big teams like Man U, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, Man City, if they are lucky and this has happened numerous times in the past. Obviously the big teams win but the TV rights and revenue are massive for these small clubs. And the whole country roots (unless you support them) for the lower teams to do a shock. Which has also happened.
The cups are only English Teams allowed bar a few Welsh teams. No Scottish or Irish or any other country allowed, so the 700 odd teams that compete are just teams in England (and Wales). Scotland have their own league and cup competitions. i..e the Scottish FA Cup and Leagues for Scottish Teams. (same set up but less clubs, and have relegation, promotion)
The winners of the 2 cups go into the Europa League. If the winners get into the Champions League or Europa League due to finishing in the Top 5 of the Premiership, teams finishing 6th or 7th get into Europa.
Also while the season is on certain clubs play European cups (as mentioned above). The Champions League is the biggest, all The big clubs who won their countries league or finished between top 2 and top 4 (Each country have different amount of teams allowed due to League positions. The top country leagues get 4, where as the smaller countries may get 1 or 2).
Basically they are structured like the World Cup. Groups of 4 teams play home and away and the top 2 go into a KO (home and away). The Europa League is the same structure, but some teams finishing 3rd in their group in the Champions League will go into a play off with those finishing in 2nd in the Europa Groups, to play in the Europa League Knock out.
The winner of the Champions League become champions of Europe, the winners of the Europa League just win that but its the 2nd Biggest European trophy, but do get automatically entered into the Champions League regardless of where they finished in their own countries league for the nest season.
For some teams they can play 3 times in 6 days throughout the season. The season starts August and is played till May. We even play over Christmas with boxing day (a ban holiday in the UK for the 26th December) being the biggest day of Football as its a bank holiday and pubs and grounds are filled up to watch games. Plus its the biggest day for TV rights as due to christmas literally the whole world tunes into games shown for the Premier League, especially in countries that do not follow Christmas, like China, Middle East etc. The English Premier League is the most watched Football league in the world, possibly only Spanish La Liga coming anywhere near its popularity.
The following season the winners of the Champions league will play the winners of certain continents that have a similar set up So they will play the winners of Oceanic (Australia, New Zealand etc), South America (Brazil, Argentina etc) and the winners of the African trophy (teams from Nigeria etc playing each other). Thats called the Club World cup. Its not really that popular as only usually 4 teams play and its a KO.
Then you have the National Team. Players can play in any country, but will still (if good enough) represent their national team.
Like Ronaldo played in England and Spain but plays for his country Portugal.
The National team have 2 trophies.
The big one is the World cup. This starts with the qualifiers, these consists of all countries in their continents playing each other in group stages and the winners and 2nd placed go into the World cup itself. And I assume you understand the world cup structure.
Then you have your Continent trophy. In Europe its called the European Cup. Africa it called the African Cup of Nations etc.
The qualifiers of both are played throughout a league season, but the top leagues suspend games on the weekends for those weeks. So you may have 4-5 weeks in a season disrupted for the qualifiers.
Hope you followed that. I am an Arsenal fan, we've been around since 1888. The 3rd most successful team in England, FA Cup 14 times (record for most FA cup wins), League cup twice and 2 European trophies that were merged into the Europa League set up. (I would be here all day explaining the previous European Cups set up). Its a London team and the player in the clip Bergkamp who you saw flicking the ball and twisting round the player is hi playing for us, and the left foot to right foot lobbing the defender to score, was him playing for his country Holland. He also did exact same goal for us that season. He is probably the 2nd or 1st greatest player we had at Arsenal. Thierry Henry (who you may know as he retired to play in the US) is probably our greatest ever player. But this season we have a few young kids that are ripping up the league, in SAKA, young Black English kid who missed a penalty for England in the European Final and git racial abuse, idiots, but he captured the nation still who rallied to defend him and kick out the racists on line. And our Captain Odegaard, Danish player but amazing.
Not a great video to show the greatest moments, this is more of a goal montage. the greatest moments can only be captured in their own videos.
There are two videos I recommend for you to watch, you should give a go to “understanding European soccer in four simple steps” and afterwards definitely watch “(European) soccer explained for Americans” to get a more in-depth understanding of the concepts you learn in the first one. This second video I feel is very helpful and I don’t really see content creators new to the sport watch it that often. From what I remember neither of both gives you a full explanation of the rules though.
This video really isnt for any first timers to watch basically its a video where all football fans understand and remember the nostalgia and deep meanings of each reel in the video. I put myself in your position and i was like there is no way i would understand anything from.whats going on. I think you should watch videos of football basics or the football championship modes made in each continent to better be familiar with the tournaments, teams, players, formations, to better understand the weight of everything. Also to start off with the familiar players like ronaldo and messi you could watch their videos too to understand how their rivalry and brilliance in football started to this day and why it is a rivalry.