You mentioned hypothetically Kansas City winning the Super Bowl and then being relegated a couple of years later, that literally happened in real life here. Leicester City won the Premier League in 2016 and were relegated last season. They’re doing well this season and looks like they might come back up again, though
Yeah, my club Aston Villa won what is now called The Champions League. Probably the biggest prize in world football, except the world cup. And got relegated 5 years later.
the same in South America. The best players come from South America, and they are not the best player for nothing, they were playing in the best football in the world. Last year Villareal toured south America, in 3 games received 12 goals, and converted none. They were supposed to be one of the best of Europe. I assurance that if Barcelona o Real Madrid tour South America, they will face big defeats.
@@palvealdVillareal is not even close to the best clubs in Europe. Just look at the world cup for club football, the uefa champions league winner almost always wins it. Don't get me wrong, i like watching south american football but don't use a club like villareal to compare 😂
You talked about teams fading into obscurity, and the narrator says that "nobody cares" about teams in the national league. Just to help you understand how important the game is, even at such a low level, teams in the national league (5th tier) can play in front of thousands of fans (average gate about 3,000, the top clubs average 6,000-8,000). Even in the 6th tier, there are quite a few teams that pull in over 2,000 fans per match on average, and can go up to about 3,000-4,000 for a big match such as a local derby or top of the table clash.
Exactly. In Sweden, Hammarby had 30k in attendance in the second tier of Swedish football (our top flight is ranked 24th in Europe lol). The idea that people don't care about anything but the elite level is so wrongheaded. Understandable that someone used to franchise sports and coming at it from the outside would think so though.
Alemannia Aachen in german forth League regularly has 20k fans at home games. My favourite Club (fourth division, fifth division next, played a cup game against a local rival with 7k fans in the stadium and 13k fans watching the clubs' livestreams on youtube. And a lot of us don't care about Bundesliga or Champions League and are only interested in these clubs which, for the uninformed spectator, have faded into obscurity.
You said Arsenal blocked content.. Do you know who owns Arsenal? An American Stan Kronke who is a big owner of LA Rams amongst many other U.S teams in various sports and is worth in excess of £7bn +.. everything arsenal do on or off the field has to be ratified by him
So in soccer, offside is similar to offside in ice hockey, but the blue line is not painted on the field because it is "moving" with whoever the last defender before the goal is. That's why the two side refs are usually always on the same level as the last defender.
this is correct, with one exception ( but i guess its fair that its not mentioned, because the offside rule is "complicated" enough as it is if you have no clue): there is indirect offside, where an attacking player is actually offside when a pass is played, but he does not actively engage the ball and does not disctract opponent players (thedefending goalkeeper is meant here with players, if you think deeply about it ^^). instead another player of the attacking team that was not offside can get the ball from the pass and then the offside position of the player that was actually in offside when the pass is played is removed and the game continues normally without a foul being called. i guess if you have no clue what im writing about, im sure there is a good yotube video that will explain what i mean (:
@@homerp.hendelbergenheinzel6649Actually, you guys are wrong on another point. The offside line is always where the second guy closest to the goal line is.
This is the best explaination I'v ever heard! I know the offside rule but have so much trouble explaining it for someonewho has no clue. Kudos! @@l.h.3586 I interpret "defender" as an illustrative term, not a formal thing
@@l.h.3586you're wrong too.... that only applies if there are 2 players in the opposite half. Even if you are the last player but you are in your half.... no offside. ^_^
Our Football clubs are the heartbeat of our cities, towns and communities. We are intrinsically linked to them. It's the world's no 1 game and a year round obsession 👌⚽🧡
Relegation/Jeopardy in the league makes it far more exciting. Like this season in the Premier League, it's looking like a 3 horse race to win the title between Liverpool, Man City & Arsenal & it will probably go down to the last game of the season to see who is crowned champions. But there's 5/6 teams at the bottom who will all be scraping it out not to be 1 of the 3 teams relegated on the last day of the season. Making it a nail biting last day of the season, with loads of different storylines all being played out.
The extra spice to these matches is teams trying to stay in the league will be playing teams trying to win the league. Hence highly fancied winners have to travel to away stadiums with passionate fans cheering on their strugglers to put one over on them. Fans of other teams that will be effected by the result will, if not publicly support the team that could provide the better outcome for their own. A fantastic mesh of interest & passions not even involving your own team !!
@colinpearce5856 No doubt. Gonna be a lot of heartbreak & a lot of joy. The championship is the same with 3 teams battling for the 2 automatic promotion places
Just look at Everton and their desperate race against FA. This already more thrilling than most of American sports. Can they score enough points? Will FA add some more penalties for them? I found myself cheking this situation almost every weekend, and I'm not even Everton fan (just a little rooting for my boy Miko). Name me something in any american sports that can be so entertaining?
Football is a game of anticipation. Nobody expects more than 4 goals in a match, the average is 2 goals, 0-0, 1-0, 1-1, 2-0. The excitement is the possibility of your team scoring when they go forward and the possibility of the opponents scoring against your team. That's the very base level of football. After a while you'll understand the Ins and Outs of the game
Also because it is a lower scoring game than American sports, it means the goals mean more which makes it more exciting (or in a lot of cases more like sense of relief) when your team does score. I mean I don't know why anyone would get excited over a score in basketball, they score 2-3 times in a minute.
Even amazing passes get you excited or skills/dribbles...last minute tackles....amazing gk saves. Football just has amazing moments that have you at the edge of your seat
That happens a lot on the first matches at the World cup and European cup and it's annoying. That's why I loved Croatia so much. Pressureplay from the the first second.
@@Josh00T Exactly, but my point was directed at Americans and anyone else that doesn't understand it. The base level is pick a team in any match and you'll feel the anticipation. They won't understand formations and what's a good/bad tackle/save etc at the beginning
Ye, I never understood the "low scoring" complaint. Personally nothing gets me fired up more then a central midfielder turning and dictating tempo after receiving from the defense, or maybe a pass combination in tight spaces that eventually shifts the point of attack, or even a really dominant defensive performance where a defender keep winning duel after duel. Theese are the things that makes me want to watch the sport, of course nothing beats your team scoring in terms of emotions, but that's mostly a competitive thing, not the reason why I grew to like It.
The idea that it's the same teams in the NFL year after year and that if you suck you get rewarded is not only boring as hell but bizarre, and that you have no comps where everybody and anybody can play is also boring, these differences are some of the reasons normal club games have way way more viewers than the superbowl final.
@@markaitcheson3212 I dont think thats why so many Americans watch the superbowl, but it is because college football started before the NFL and so players who are done in college need somewhere to go. And by giving them to the worst team allows that to have a chance to win it all. Which is more exciting that watching out same few teams win every year.
18:17 the top 4 leagues in England are all fully professional. I support a team in League One (3rd tier), Oxford United, who are a professional club. The third tier isn’t complete ‘obscurity’, there’s still thousands of fans that go to each of the games in these leagues. We managed to get to the top league in the 1980’s, and won the League Cup in 1986.
I've been a Fulham fan since the old days when there was no Championship and it was Division 1-3 after the Premier, seen my team in all of the key leagues and to a European final.
I remember you winning the League Cup. Pretty sure Ray Houghton scored for you in that game. I remember being excited when we signed him for Liverpool. He was a class act.
I absolutely love the beauty of our football pyramid but one thing I don't like is the 4th league being 'League 2' and the 3rd league being 'League 1'...It should be Premier League, League 2, League 3, and League 4 imo because it might be confusing for newbies getting into it. Like why is the 2nd tier called the Championship??...cos it sounds better for TV maybe? My team Queens Park Rangers are in the Championship by a thread 😂
I’ve been supporting Exeter city for years. Seen a few promotions and relegations. Will never be more than a League 1 side but can always dream. Saw them get a 0-0 at old Trafford many years ago.
I utterly disagree with the (idiotic, to say the least) statement that 'only their Mum's care about the league at this point.' Considering there are 20 tiers in England alone.
What the video failed to mention is that in England, the top 2 teams gets promoted straight to the premier league, while third to sixth are sent to a knockout-style mini tournament playoff with home and away legs, with the winner getting the third promotion spot. Also championship playoffs are usually the hypest set of matches of the year due to how much is at stake.
He intentionally simplified it because the rules regarding promotion and relegation vary from country to country I think he just wanted to present a baseline understanding that would fit most countries' systems. He only used the English league as an example.
Football ( soccer to moron USA American ) is a TACTICAL game, tactics require intelligence something USA American games all lack. Foot ball players are fast, they are are also averagely heavy, you try running at speed and being fouled and not getting hurt. The attack is looking for an opening, a chance to score, one cannot score if they are not in charge of the ball.
@@24magiccarrot exactly. in germany, for example, 2 teams are directly relegated ( last & 2nd to last go down and best and 2nd best go up). the 3rd best team from the lower and the 3rd to last team from the upper division play a 2 game match to see who gets the spot in the upper league. funnily enough, these two games are related to as "relegationsspiele" which means relegation games in germany. for the teams that go directly down we have a totally different term ( "abstieg"/"absteiger") which would be best translated with decline or decliners ^^
Release clause is kind of "if someone offers this money we have to accept it", so it takes the owning club out of the equation. And then the team that offered that money can negotiate with the player directly on their personal contract. The player doesn't have to accept the move if they don't want to. Anyone else who wants to buy the player would have to offer the same money as the clause to negotiate with the player direct. So it doesn't make the player a free agent. In England, we don't really have many release clauses. I'm not sure I've heard of too many players moving in England because another team decided to play the release clause. Although I think in Spain release clauses are compulsory in every contract. That's one of the reasons Paris SG bought Neymar back in 2017. FC Barcelona set his release clause at 222m Euros, thinking they were safe, as only the previous year Manchester United set a new world record fee when they bought Paul Pogba for 89m Euros. But the Qatari owners of PSG were happy to more than double the world record fee to buy Neymar out of his contract, and Neymar himself wanted to go there and there was nothing Barcelona could do about it.
And right now, due to Barcelona doing things like setting an astronomically high Release Clause and pretty much over paying everybody. They are in a deep financial hole, and still refuse to sell players.
To add to this existing thread, in Lionel Messi's final contract with Barcelona, his release clause was reportedly set at €700 million (around $750 million). Nobody was willing (or able) to pay that, so he didn't move during that final contract. If someone had offered say $600 million, Barcelona may have accepted it, but even that is crazy money as the world record transfer for a player is around $250 million. So his contract expired, he became a free agent and joined Paris St-Germain. After a couple of seasons there, he became a free agent again and moved to Miami.
Banging video :) The European Championships is coming up this Summer, I highly recommend trying to watch a few games. Or at least watching the daily recaps each day for the month it's on, might be useful to get a grasp of the top players in the modern game, etc ...
Waste of time. There were a few "watch along" world cup videos posted by Americas, and they're simple not interested in the game. Americas has the attention span of goldfish, that's why their sports stop every 10 seconds 😂
I’ve never understood the idea that football is slow or boring compared to US sports. My wife watches baseball and they celebrate if someone hits the ball. Once. It changes personnel quickly I guess, but nothing happens for most of the time.
yeah same with the NFL, i actually can enjoy it but most of it is the coach coming up with tactics and players trying to remember those tactics and standing around. The 'plays' are mostly bursts of couple of seconds. And matches take 3 hours.
The richest single game in sport is actually the championship league play off final which is played at Wembly .The winner takes the third place promotion to the Premiership which is worth several hundred million pounds .
Offside rule: When the attacking team with the ball passes the ball forward...the player recieving the ball MUST be behind or in line with the last defender (not including the defending goalkeeper) ie as soon as the ball is kicked (touched) by the player passing to him..he cannot be ahead of the last defender..or it will be ruled offside. There is slightly more to this with various circumstances, but thats the basic jist of it. This is when you see replays of the attacking move freeze framed on screen with 2 lines accross the pitch..showing where the last defender and the attacking player who is being passed to as the ball is kicked. It can literally come down to a half inch difference sometimes. The attacking player must time his run perfectly to beat the offside trap set by the defending team.
The second to last defender counts. If the goalkeeper is second to last and there is a defender behind him, he is still offside in soccer. Being a goalkeeper doesn't matter.
Or even more accuratelly, the attacking player must be behind 2 defenders (where the goalie is counted as 1 defender). So, if the the goalie, for some reason, is out of position, there has to be 2 defenders between the attacking player and the goal when the pass is made.
On the release clause thing, when you pay a player's release clause they don't actually get released. It's basically a transfer fee that the club has to agree to. For example if a player's release clause is $50,000,000 and a team bids $35,000,000 for him the club would be able to choose whether or not that release clause is good enough but if a team bids $50,000,000 then the club is required to accept the offer and then they can negotiate with the player. If the player refuses to join the team that bid $50,000,000 for him he'd just stay at his old team. He can't choose to move to a team that didn't pay his release clause if they didn't accept. Also if more than one club activates the release clause it's up to the player to choose what club he wants to go to or if he wants to stay at his original club. Most players don't have release clauses since Spain is the only big league to require them but Spanish player's release clauses are usually massive because they'd prefer to go through standard negotiations so that they can reject offers from rival clubs or if the player becomes better than how good he was when the contract was first signed the release clause would still be too high for any club to realistically pay no matter how good the player becomes are. There are plenty of players in LaLiga with release clauses of $1,000,000,000. This is because of a transfer that happened in 2017. A player called Neymar - you may have heard of him, he was touted to be as good of a player as Messi and Ronaldo however his career came a little short, he was still an amazing player but not on the same level - had his release clause in his contract with a club called Barcelona of $235,000,000. He was Barcelona's star boy along side Messi and Barcelona thought that no club would spend $235,000,000 for a player but one extremely rich club did. Paris Saint-Germain or PSG for short activated the release clause and signed him. This left Barcelona with a lot of money to spend on replacements however the replacements were not the best. They bought two players, both for $145,000,000. The first was Coutinho from Liverpool and the second was Dembele from Dortmund. Coutinho would end up leaving the club for $20,000,000 in 2022 and Dembele (Who was injured for a long time and didn't really do well until 2022 and 2023 when he started playing amazingly for Barcelona) ended up leaving for $50,000,000 with a release clause that only activated 5 years after his original signing. However the contract also stated that Dembele would get 50% of the transfer fee from the release clause so Barcelona only made $25,000,000 on him. Because of that happening with Barcelona selling a player for $235,000,000 then buying two replacements for $290,000,000 but then ending up making only $45,000,000 back from those sales only 5 years later (So they basically lost $10,000,000 and their second best player in Neymar leaving, one of their best players in 2022 and 2023 in Dembele leaving, and a player who did really poorly for them in Coutinho also leaving.) Most big teams in LaLiga - especially Barcelona - give all best players $1,000,000,000 release clauses so that no team can buy them out so that the same thing won't happen again.
Germany with world largest soccer association and club structure have a 13 level deep system of leagues. There are over 2000 different leagues in this system with over 30.000 teams compete in it.
13 leagues of semi professional or amateur? England amateur leagues go to around level 21/22 and I believe it’s league 11 that is the lowest semi pro level.
@@liambriggs1302 take it with a grain of salt but IMO 1st, 2nd Bundesliga and 3. Liga are professional football. The Regionalliga (5 in total) and the Oberliga (13 in total) should be semi-professional but with a mix of amateurs and maybe some professional in some cases. But the most part should be semi professional. In level 6 and below there are amateur teams but you can still climb up the ladder if you are successful enough. But each league and level brings also additional requirements for the license to play there,that stress your financial situation.
German Regional League is more profesional league then semi-pro. Most teams who play are second teams from Bundesliga teams(Freiburg II), teams with big fan base(Kickers Offenbach) and maybe 3 amateur team what came from Oberliga. I mean thats my opinion...
@@Milak96 IMO it depends on the contracts of the players. A full-time payed player is way more professional then a half-time player. And I'm not sure how financially potential the lower level teams are. A second or third division of a big club could be financially better then smaller clubs.
Franz Beckenbauer, one of the most offensive center backs of all time... but back then the game was so slow, he was able to make it back to position when a ball was lost in offense...
Midfielders are considered the generalist, all round players. They are usually the brain of the team. Many great football coaches and managers used to be midfielders in their playing days.
A few teams in England have gone from the top flight to the fifth tier (Still mainly full profesionals). Notable teams are Oldham Athletic and Luton Town, although Luton have recently won promotion back to the Premiere league after nine consecutive seasons, which is pretty good going considering the little they've spent compared to most?
I don't still understand the e on the end of Premier (or the pronunciation). Is it that US English never calls anything premier, they only know the French word premiére and say it "preem-yeah" same? It's ok, we've anglicised it already, it's "prem-yuh".
Ok, this is the first football video I've watched ever since today, so I'm gonna rant here. It's been 2 years in a row of Arsenal absolulutely bottling the Premier Lague title. Our biggest title race competitor, Liverpool, just fumbled away crucial points against a midtable team, and we just lost against a midtable team as well. Now our second competitor, Manchester City, that were given for dead, are 2 points ahead of us in first place and both Liverpool and us have already played our 2 matches against them. Now we relly on the midtable teams that Manchester City has to play against in his last games to tie or win against them, which is nearly impossible. We are doomed.
I tried to tell an an American movie reactor to try the running around a field experiment after he said footballers go down too easily, he really didn't understand.
This is a good explainer video at laying out some of the key appeal that may get lost if you don’t know what you’re watching. For me it’s always been a couple of things: both teams are 20/30secs away from scoring…. and the free-flowing nature of the game. This creates a gnawing see-saw of tension that isn’t so present in sports where there are short bursts of coordinated action. With soccer, there’s an unpredictable quality that can be utterly anxiety inducing when you’re invested. Because of the ‘low-scoring’ deadlock nature of it, one tiny mistake and the punishment can be brutal. There’s more to it, of course but this idea is good to have in mind when getting into it…👍⚽️
Not every player has a release clause . In Spain it's a rule that every player has a release clause but most of the good players have ridiculous ones that no one would ever pay. If your a minor team with not much money you might have a young kid come through the youth team and you know you won't be able to keep him so a release clause would be a good idea. If another team bids the amount set in the release clause that player has to atleast enter negotiations but is not under obligation to leave but usually the bidding team is better so he leaves.
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Signing very young players is getting stricter in the PL. As these 8,9 and 10 year olds can't be bought but are free to move on a youth contract the biggest clubs would poach the best kids by offering well paid jobs to the parents and maybe a brand new home to move in with their talented son. They decided this was exploration and strictly speaking the under 14's can only be picked to train with a club within a certain radius. 14-17 year olds that can't sign a professional contract until an adult and 18 can sign a contract elsewhere but the club losing the player can demand a 'training' fee which could be as much as £2m based on achievements. A tribunal will decide the fee if the clubs can't agree. After 18 it's a matter of making an acceptable offer to the players club to buy the player or paying the release clause. To answer your question, no a player never has to accept a transfer out of a club. There's been stories of managers putting players on planes to fly to sign for another club and the player not arriving. There was also the famous story of Bogarde at Chelsea. Signed by one manager who left after a few weeks of signing him. The next managers didn't want Bogarde and tried numerous times to sell him. He refused so they kept making him play for the u21 and then the u18's. He played 11 times for Chelsea during his 4 year stint. Collecting a reported £160k a month during this time!! Of course the flip side is players or their agents try to engineer a move out of a club. That happens a lot.
In england you could set your own team up and if things went incredibly well you coukd eventually find yourself in the premier league. Its highly unlikely but the "pyramid " structure gives fans of all clubs that essential thing they need.....hope.
And the current classic example is Dorking Wanderers - founded in 1999, they started playing at level 17 of the football pyramid. As of last season they’ve been promoted 12 times in 24 years and are currently playing in the National League (level 5).
Happens often in smaller leagues. In Sweden, we have plenty of smaller clubs, often formed by immigrant communities or a friendship group in specific parts of a town relatively recently, that have managed to reach the highest or second highest tier of the pyramid. As of now, you'll find FC Stockholm Internazionale (founded 2010), Nordic United (founded in 2004 by Assyrians), Ariana FC (founded in 2015 by Malmö Afghans) and FC Rosengård (famous for their social outreach) in Division 1 (the third tier, semi-professional). In the fourth tier you can find Dalkurd (Kurds from Dalarna, have played in the top flight), FBK Balkan (Yugoslav immigrants in Malmö, Zlatan's first club), several Syriac clubs, etc.
The other big name is FC United who started with a group of fans of Manchester United who didn't like what the cubs new owners were doing (hardly surprising) so they set up their own team which is interesting in that it dosn't have an owner instead being owned by its fans. It's currently in the 7th tier
Russian Teams tend not to do well in European Competition. He missed out Benfica, Sporting Lisbon and FC Porto from Portugal who are almost guaranteed to be in European Competition every season. Ukraine's Shakhtar Donetsk and Dynamo Kiev are regulars. Olympiakos of Greece are almost always there, AEK Athens and Panathinaikos are regulars too. Switzerland has FC Basle who were regulars until recently. Austria has Red Bull Salzburg who pretty much dominate the Austrian League. Denmark has FC Copenhagen. Scotland of course has Rangers and Celtic. Serbian side Red Star Belgrade have WON the European Cup, over 30 years ago now but it happened. Romania's Steaua Bucharest won it in the 80s too but they've fallen apart and I'm not sure which of the two current clubs is the REAL Steaua today. Turkey's Galatasaray are common entrants whilst Fenerbahce and Besiktas are not uncommon entrants. - If I wanted to create A Pan-European League these are all teams I'd invite along with the likes of Arsenal, Chelsea, Bayer Leverkusen, RB Leipzig, Athletic Bilbao, Sevilla, Lyon, , PSV Eindhoven, Feyenoord, Sparta Prague, Slavia Prague, Anderlecht, Standard Liege and Club Brugge.
I miss the days when it was simply Division 1, 2, 3, and 4. The Championship sounds too good for Division 2, and League 2 sounds too good for Division 4.
Football is full of different playstyles. A lot of the top teams are possession sides but you have counter attacking teams, very defensive teams, teams who play a fast passing style. That's what keeps the game insteresting
It's not as impossible to climb the ranks as he made it sound, I just say Luton town... Also, the American obsession with trophies and titles is not as central in Europe, there are much more important things going on, example, Barca could win all the possible titles in a season but if they loose both classicos the same season... Then it was not that great a season after all... Priorities. There is nothing more important to a Barca fan then beating Real, nothing except maybe Catalonian independence I guess. 😅
Guys I would simply advise you to understand football don't watch things like this you'll get bord out of your skull just go and watch a game. Or watch a full game on tv but g to a real match exspirence the atmosphere I have investive feelings to a team then go to that club
You're not quite right about the release clause. The figure appointed to any player is the amount you have to assure you are willing to pay (if the sale goes forward) before being allowed to even TALK to the player about a transfer. It doesn't mean if you turn up with the money you have the player. You only have the right to open negotiations.
6:30 I never thought about it like that. I'll certainly look at it differently now whenever a footballer is hamming it up over an injury. Ye go for it, you deserve it, have a rest lol.
Big diferene is there is not college or high school... only clubs... the bigger the citty the bigger is th club.. that give you more long term plannig... but less individual choice...
A player is offside if any part of his body that can legally score a goal (that's every part except the arms) is further upfield than the last opposing defender when the ball leaves the foot of the player passing to him. It was brought in to stop teams just leaving one of their players standing by the goal all match.
The depth of the English game should have been mentioned; in a country smaller than most of your states my fourth division side are averaging over 10,000 a week this year.
We have a few football teams here in the UK that we call “Boomerang Clubs” as they often get promoted to a higher league one year only to get relegated back down again the next year. Peterborough United is a big example of a Boomerang Club.
my team is the 1.FCN here in Germany and it is THE "Fahrstuhlmannschaft" - "Elevator Team" of the Bundesliga, relegated 9x down to Liga 2 and 8 time up to Bundesliga. It still holds second most national titles in Germany with 9, but mostly they won in the 1920s... the good old times... nowadays we are far too long in Liga 2, but at least this saison we do not have to worry about relegating into Liga 3 🤪
You were the King of the draws Daniel! It was really fun to watch it while you were outside at night. What about the European Cup? You have to watch that as well. Writing all the predictions on a paper. Sorry we threw you out of the World Cup. We still don't have a great team. We have no real strikers yet.
Do the Man City one, I was a season ticket holder there when they were rubbish and in the third league When I move to the other end of the country they get rich 😢but I loved the days following them up from third tier back to premier league 😊
I never immersed myself with fotball as a kid or even as an adult. But living in Europe and it being all around me all the time I picked up on most of this. Even the offside rule that so many people struggle with felt really logical to me. I must be weird.
the offside rule is basically a rule against 'cherry picking'. an attacking player cannot be involved in a play when they are ahead of the last defender. so basically they have to be either behind or inline with the defence when the play involves them like receiving a pass
I don't know where you guys specifically live, but you could go watch a game of the Maryland Bobcats, only pro team in the state that plays in 3rd division in Boyds, MD. If you want to see 1st division game there are both the Philadelphia Union and the DC United, and even Loudoun United a 2nd division club from Leesburg, Virginia, just west of DC
The whole relegation and promotion thing explains how celebrities like Ryan Reynolds and Tom Brady are buying teams. They bought lower levels teams because they’d be cheap to buy. They inject boatloads of money into the clubs in order to get better players and move up. They would make a huge profit if they sell the clubs after making the premier league
On getting food when my team were in there first Scottish Cup one of my pals decided to beat the half time queue by going to the pie shop a minute or so before half time. Was he was heading down the steps there was this almighty cheer as we scored a goal. Not just a goal but our first ever goal in a Scottish Cup final. He is still trying to live it down😂😂😂😂 BTW we went on to defeat Dundee United 2-0🏴😂🏴🦄
Relegation would mean having more leagues and teams which would effect the major franchise's so I doubt this would ever be allowed, there are 92 teams in the professional football pyramid do you see the 30 odd teams in the NFL wanting a smaller piece of the pie?
25:20 It might have been said already, but the release clause basically is something a player adds to his contract when he joins a club these days (almost all the time).. It is to ensure a player is not treated as a slave at a club... i'll explain that bit next paragraph. if a club comes along that the player wants to join, he can- leave the club, regardless of whether the club he is at wants to keep him or not. Once a club offers the release clause fee, it is down to the player whether they want to sign for this other club or not, the club is obliged to accept the offer (and its usually very high) .a few decades ago, a player called jean marc bosman wanted to leave his club at the end of his contract & A club in france I believe wanted to sign him, but his club didn't accept the offer. They then reduced his wages during the next season and stopped playing him... he took the club to court and won on the grounds of" freedom of movement". He successfully won his case . This created what became known as "the bosman ruling". This ruling meant that players could leave at the end of their contract and join any team that wanted them. After this ruling, the "release clause fee" was soon introduced, to allow players who where unhappy- or could be unhappy or maybe wanted to move to a bigger club in future, the opportunity to leave their club immediately in a transfer window- but the club that wants the player must pay the full fee. It allowed the clubs to get something back for the player and for the player to go a club that clearly desired him. ALTERNATIVELY, the player could wait out his contract, and join another team at the end of his contract on a "bosman"
Sounds a little like waivers in the Major League Baseball players' collective bargaining agreement, where if a major-league baseball team wants to demote a player to their minor-league farm team (basically the equivalent of a reserve squad), they have to first give him a window where other clubs are allowed to take him, on the condition that they actually put him in their major-league squad. It's a little like if an EPL team couldn't demote a player to their reserve team, at any time of the year, without first giving other EPL teams a chance to pick him up if they're willing to make him part of their first team and not their reserve squad. So players can't be forced to play on a minor league (equivalent to reserve league) team if there's a major-league team anywhere in the league that's willing to let them play major-league ball.
Without the pyramid and promotion and ‘regulation’ the game would lose its soul here. I go every home game along with 6,000 to 7,000 others to see my team, Gillingham FC, who play currently in League Two. If there was no chance of us getting promoted back to League One or the Championship, I probably wouldn’t bother going. Of course there’s the worry of relegation, but it only makes it all the more intense!
About the release clause. When a club agrees to pay the release clause for a player they're interested in, only they can buy that player. It's often a race to see who's gonna get their wallet out first to get a good player. Tough competition. That's what many people didn't understand about Neymar's transfer from FC Barcelona to PSG. Neymar didn't see a cent of the 200M you heard people talk about. Barcelona really wanted to keep Neymar, so they set his release clause at a crazy 200M dollars, hoping that would discourage other clubs from taking him. They just didn't realize that PSG had oil-rich Qatari owners who could do the unthinkable: spend 200M dollars on a release clause, hence all the buzz around that transfer.
there are some very interesting things that happened in german football most notably kaiserslautern who won the german cup in 95/96 and got relegated in the same season, winning second division in 96/97 and the bundesliga in 97/98 something nobody else has ever achieved winning the bundesliga as a newly promoted team. Why is that interesting? Because they are currently qualified for the cup final and also fighting against Relegation (this time from the second division) this could lead to them playing in the third division and the europa league next season which would be somewhat hilarious
not to forget the 1.FCN who won national championship in 1968 and relegated down in the following year... we also did it after our League Cup win in 2007, relegating in 2008. Still the only club in Germany relegating down after a title... not once but twice...
27:47 when players are signing kids, they’ll be scouted whilst at school, usually when they’re playing exceptionally for county or district clubs. They’ll then join the club’s school system (which most big clubs have) or move in with a foster family close to the club they’ve joined and go a normal school there. At either a football academy school or local school they learn and get their qualifications whilst also training and developing as a player. Eventually when they enter their late teens, they’ll either get promoted to their club’s first team if they’re exceptionally good, get released and have to get a job of join a lesser club, or get sold/loaned (temporary transfer-usually for one season) to a rival who thinks they have space for that player in their team.
The World Name, for The World Game is FOOTBALL Fact ... Our world governing body, is called F.I.F.A. meaning Federation International FOOTBALL Association ... Its simple, we have a round ball and we kick - control it with our Feet, that is why its called FOOT - BALL
some release clauses at the top are..Jude Bellingham - Real Madrid - €1bn (£871m/$1.08bn) ... Ansu Fati - Barcelona - €1bn (£871m/$1.08bn) ... Pedri - Barcelona - €1bn (£871m/$1.08bn) ... Ronald Araujo - Barcelona - €1bn (£871m/$1.08bn) ... Vinicius Junior - Real Madrid - €1bn (£871m/$1.08bn) and then a new clause is set after they move, my team is oxford utd because im from oxford. we are in div1 so the 3rd tier. and because we are close to playing to be promoted, we now have scouts turning up to buy our best players, so some may move up 1 or 2 leagues. so then we have to scramble to fill their roles. so our scouts will be out watching other teams to fill some gaps or take a spot of a player who isnt as good as the manager wants in any position. you also have players on loan who might only be with you for a season, like a goal keeper you can get a premier teams 3ed team one as he would be extra to what they needed, plus it takes some of their costs. as in, we would pay their wages which balances their books and they do not get fined and lose points for spending to much.
Come on guys, please don’t force feed us Brits this stupid game.7refs,bend down,touch the ground, whistle blows, everyone bangs crash helmets, everyone falls over, ball disappears somewhere,crowd go wild, team gain 2 feet, then pop concert for 30 minutes. It must take longer to get dressed for a player than a boxer. Helmet, shoulder pads,every other part of the body pads.🌭🍔🍟🥨🥞🍕🍿🍩 that should last you until bedtime 9PM. ⚽️⚽️⚽️😂
3rd round day, the second Saturday in January is when the premier leauge joins the rest of the teams in the FA cup, it's colloquialy known as 'Giant Killer Day' this is because there will always be some conference/3rd leauge team that beats a priemership team and knocks them out of the FA cup. It's an amazing day to see a playing field being levelled and top flight teams being decimated.
As a Tottenham fan, hope we can convert you as we share a common hatred of the Arsenal 😅 Right now we’re a great team to watch, as we play very fast football with mainly attacking play. Also look at Bolton wanderers, a classic giant of English football were flying high in the 2000s, eventually run into ruin financially and would be relegated from the premier league in 2012, in 2020 they would reach league 2 and almost not even exist anymore, now they are slowly climbing up.
Has anyone outside the Premier League won the FA Cup? 🏆 The last team to win the FA Cup from outside the top tier predates the Premier League*, with Trevor Brooking's famous goal clinching the 1980 trophy for Second Division West Ham against holders Arsenal. 🏆 * From the start of the 1992-93 season, the first division became the second tier in English football. The champions would now be promoted to the Premier League. ⚽
19:50 2 weeks ago in the German "DFB Pokal" (the same tournament like the FA Cup in England) a 2. division team (Kaiserslautern) has beaten a 3. division team (Saarbrücken) to advance to the german cup final. Saarbrücken has beaten top tier teams like Mönchengladbach. They also have beaten the record bundesliga champion Bayern munich. Bayern (929 Million €) has the largest Team salary in Germany by a mile (saarbrückens Team salary to compare: about 5 million €). It doesn't happen to much but you see, it is possible. If Kaiserslautern will beat Leverkusen in the final they will get a spot in the Euro League as a 2.division team. That would gave them a massive TV contract. That's the beauty of this Sport.
You will have the Copa America this year to get some experience of football in America on a large true football scale. I hope you guys will be watching that.
American here. I don’t understand why the clock is a mystery in soccer. It seems so unnecessary and somewhat arbitrary. Also, soccer seems a perfect fit for sudden death overtime (like NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs). Tied after regulation time? Next goal wins. I can’t imagine an important playoff hockey game ending on series of penalty shots. (And no I don’t even like the shootouts in NHL regular season play).
Watch the damn Euro 24 ... When the feeder system is bound to the state: Highschool Football. People can change the club, as there usually multiple clubs in a city, or close by, that's called freedom of choice. Also the US feeder system allows people to disregard their actual education getting educational credits via playing sports, in Europe or better Football nations one may be good in sports at school, but it has nothing to do with your education beyond being just a basic class like maths, physics, biology, art, languages, etc. So this system is about getting an education and not about feeding people into the sports. This american system is actually an quite Orwellian approach to the sports. It's just like military schools, all about the prestige of the nation instead of the capability of the human being, because in 10 - 15 years that player and there are 100 000's of them that don't make the cut, will be spend, or disgruntled - having never gotten that big contract, just like Al Bundy (Married with Children) - but won't be able to do his own finances 'cause: "I got through College doing Hand-Egg." That's confession of failure, a declaration of bankruptcy for a nation. Go look up the education a Russian Soldier gets. Philosophy, Physics, Maths, Languages, ... it's insane. Even European standards are low against that.
Idk if you guys know, But Ryan Reynolds bought Wrexham (the team) in 2020 when they were in division 3, and theyve just been promoted to division 1 for next season (2024/25). Two more promotions and they will be in the Premier League ⭐🏆
14:55 the problem is that in USA you buy a franchise to enter a league. None of that in Europe. You got a team that's a part of the countries football federation, federation has X rules, GO WILD and to earn money you gotta have a good marketing, and rise trough leagues because higher tiers get better sponsors and even TV deals
And to confuse matters we do have play offs in many leagues below the top. But that's not for the legue championship...... Take the EFL championship. The champions (Leicester City) and the runners up (Ipswich) automatically get promoted to the Premier league.... But positions 3-6 (currently Leeds, Southampton, Norwich and West Bom) go into a playoff system The winner of that playoff gets the 3rd promotion place which means those are super important games for those 4 clubs
About "getting food or drink" ... Why do you think bars/caffés get full at game-time? You just sit with your fellow supporters shouting at the players, while ordering beers/snacks. At home.. Well, refrigerator with beers are always at "listening-distance" (at least) from the TV.
You know what will happen to you if you take a vuvuzela to football match? You'll need to get it surgically removed. Everybody hates them. They're just not a thing in football.
Football is such an important part of European culture that almost every kid plays it (either just for fun like during recess or after school, or at a club). In Germany, where I live, the kids who play at clubs also have A ,B and C teams (by age group) and take part in regional tournaments. There is a programm (by DFB, German Football Association) in which the best kids from the small local clubs are scouted and invited to join for special training, addtional tournaments and further sounting by the professional clubs. That's why many top players can trace their way back to a small town club with a muddy pitch and having to carry home all players' club jerseys to wash them when it was their turn.
5:18 Last Sunday, I was watching a Portuguese league game (FC Porto vs Sporting CP) with 2/3 minutes left to finish, Porto was winning 2-0, I went to the kitchen to prepare a coffee, When I returned to the living room it was already 2-2, Sporting in a minute scored 2 goals...
Some teams which were in the equivalent of today's Premier League when I attended junior school in England (then called First Division), have indeed faded into near obscurity, except among their loyal fans. Everton is the only team never to have been relegated from the top league in England. Of the 22 teams in the First Division in the 1960/61 season, Sheffield Wednesday, which ended second, now play in the Championship (2nd level league), as do four other teams. Blackpool and Bolton have both sunk to the 3rd level.
VAR is simply a bunch of guys in a room watching cameras, if someone scores a goal it might be contested so they stop play and about 30 people then study the cameras and decide the outcome it’s a pain in the arse A good idea for you guys would be to maybe get an American plying their trade in Europe to appear and answer any queries, that would help you more guys
Weeeeelllllll.... You getting blocked by Arsenal could be explained by the fact that their owner is an American businessman... Just throwing that out there....
13:25 VAR is just the video surveillance Offside is simple: If you are past the second last opponents player your teammates can't pass the ball to you. (second last is usually the defender nearest to the goalkeeper but it's worded that because in some cases the goalie ends up in front of other players although that's exceedingly rare) and some people think it's a dumb rule, but without it teams would have a big incentive to just leave half of their team behind to prevent those kind of passes. it'd KILL the game in the midfield and that's where you can see a lot of tactics at their best
I find it ironic that Americans who don't really know much about Football need an explanation for how VAR works. Yet actual die hard football fans, who probably played as kids and maybe in a Sunday League or just simply the "Armchair Fan" and although we understand how VAR works in theory NO ONE understands how it works in practice.
var is absolute rubbish as for offside ive been a footy fan all my life and i still couldnt make it make sense mainly because the cockwombles who who make the rule constantly keep changing the defanition of offside , how dose the saying go if it aint broke dont fix it
in england we have 4 professional leagues prem, then championship , league1 , league 2 after that we have what is called non league divsions which is made up of another ton of leagues which are semi professional and yes all have promotion and relegation
Saying your feeder system is more robust is wrong every single club has youth systems going from 8yr old upwards. So take England, over 700 clubs with youth systems.
Hiya Spencer and Daniel, My club Newcastle United made the Champions League last season, it was really great, this season Newcastle are currently in 8th place, I hope Newcastle make the Europa League, next season, its a rollercoaster being a Newcastle fan, its so exciting, would you bring Promotion and Relegation into NFL or any other U.S sports? this means there maybe 2 teams in 1 city, if there both in the same division there would be a derby game, both clubs could even play at the same ground, makes you wonder doesn't it, this is Choppy in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England
You mentioned hypothetically Kansas City winning the Super Bowl and then being relegated a couple of years later, that literally happened in real life here. Leicester City won the Premier League in 2016 and were relegated last season. They’re doing well this season and looks like they might come back up again, though
they're cheats
They know
Yeah, my club Aston Villa won what is now called The Champions League. Probably the biggest prize in world football, except the world cup. And got relegated 5 years later.
@@VillaFanDan92 Deadly Dougs doing Villa getting relegated in '87
I hope Leicester and Ipswich go up automatically, although it would be pretty mad if Southampton made a late charge and went up
Football is an institution in Europe, you can hear a conversation about a team in every bar across Europe, everyday, every hour, every minute. 😎✌
When you meet new people, talking about football is like an easy go-to topic to break the ice 80% of the time, doesn't matter where :D
And Latin America, and Africa, and in the middle east... Honestly, very few places don't have football as the main sport.
the same in South America. The best players come from South America, and they are not the best player for nothing, they were playing in the best football in the world. Last year Villareal toured south America, in 3 games received 12 goals, and converted none. They were supposed to be one of the best of Europe. I assurance that if Barcelona o Real Madrid tour South America, they will face big defeats.
@@palvealdVillareal is not even close to the best clubs in Europe. Just look at the world cup for club football, the uefa champions league winner almost always wins it. Don't get me wrong, i like watching south american football but don't use a club like villareal to compare 😂
You talked about teams fading into obscurity, and the narrator says that "nobody cares" about teams in the national league. Just to help you understand how important the game is, even at such a low level, teams in the national league (5th tier) can play in front of thousands of fans (average gate about 3,000, the top clubs average 6,000-8,000).
Even in the 6th tier, there are quite a few teams that pull in over 2,000 fans per match on average, and can go up to about 3,000-4,000 for a big match such as a local derby or top of the table clash.
Absolutely 👍 my club took 33,500 supporters to Wembley for the National League Play-Off Final in 2010
The Wrexham documentary alone proves that people do care.
Exactly. In Sweden, Hammarby had 30k in attendance in the second tier of Swedish football (our top flight is ranked 24th in Europe lol). The idea that people don't care about anything but the elite level is so wrongheaded. Understandable that someone used to franchise sports and coming at it from the outside would think so though.
Alemannia Aachen in german forth League regularly has 20k fans at home games. My favourite Club (fourth division, fifth division next, played a cup game against a local rival with 7k fans in the stadium and 13k fans watching the clubs' livestreams on youtube. And a lot of us don't care about Bundesliga or Champions League and are only interested in these clubs which, for the uninformed spectator, have faded into obscurity.
This must have been produced before Maidstone's FA Cup run this season. Because a *lot* of people cared about that.
You said Arsenal blocked content.. Do you know who owns Arsenal?
An American Stan Kronke who is a big owner of LA Rams amongst many other U.S teams in various sports and is worth in excess of £7bn +.. everything arsenal do on or off the
field has to be ratified by him
So in soccer, offside is similar to offside in ice hockey, but the blue line is not painted on the field because it is "moving" with whoever the last defender before the goal is. That's why the two side refs are usually always on the same level as the last defender.
this is correct, with one exception ( but i guess its fair that its not mentioned, because the offside rule is "complicated" enough as it is if you have no clue): there is indirect offside, where an attacking player is actually offside when a pass is played, but he does not actively engage the ball and does not disctract opponent players (thedefending goalkeeper is meant here with players, if you think deeply about it ^^). instead another player of the attacking team that was not offside can get the ball from the pass and then the offside position of the player that was actually in offside when the pass is played is removed and the game continues normally without a foul being called.
i guess if you have no clue what im writing about, im sure there is a good yotube video that will explain what i mean (:
@@homerp.hendelbergenheinzel6649Actually, you guys are wrong on another point. The offside line is always where the second guy closest to the goal line is.
This is the best explaination I'v ever heard! I know the offside rule but have so much trouble explaining it for someonewho has no clue. Kudos!
@@l.h.3586 I interpret "defender" as an illustrative term, not a formal thing
@@l.h.3586you're wrong too.... that only applies if there are 2 players in the opposite half. Even if you are the last player but you are in your half.... no offside. ^_^
@@TheBloodypimp Hehe! You're right!
Our Football clubs are the heartbeat of our cities, towns and communities. We are intrinsically linked to them. It's the world's no 1 game and a year round obsession 👌⚽🧡
your city is your team
@@philhebden374Depends on the city. My team is FC St. Pauli, and we say Hamburg is brown-white! HSV supporters claim something else.
Relegation/Jeopardy in the league makes it far more exciting. Like this season in the Premier League, it's looking like a 3 horse race to win the title between Liverpool, Man City & Arsenal & it will probably go down to the last game of the season to see who is crowned champions. But there's 5/6 teams at the bottom who will all be scraping it out not to be 1 of the 3 teams relegated on the last day of the season. Making it a nail biting last day of the season, with loads of different storylines all being played out.
The extra spice to these matches is teams trying to stay in the league will be playing teams trying to win the league. Hence highly fancied winners have to travel to away stadiums with passionate fans cheering on their strugglers to put one over on them. Fans of other teams that will be effected by the result will, if not publicly support the team that could provide the better outcome for their own. A fantastic mesh of interest & passions not even involving your own team !!
Will still never beat Man Utd thinking they'd won it...... Agueroooooooo !!! 😂
@colinpearce5856 No doubt. Gonna be a lot of heartbreak & a lot of joy. The championship is the same with 3 teams battling for the 2 automatic promotion places
Just look at Everton and their desperate race against FA. This already more thrilling than most of American sports. Can they score enough points? Will FA add some more penalties for them? I found myself cheking this situation almost every weekend, and I'm not even Everton fan (just a little rooting for my boy Miko). Name me something in any american sports that can be so entertaining?
@@АлександрАнтипин-к6д 🤣🤣🤣
Football is a game of anticipation. Nobody expects more than 4 goals in a match, the average is 2 goals, 0-0, 1-0, 1-1, 2-0. The excitement is the possibility of your team scoring when they go forward and the possibility of the opponents scoring against your team. That's the very base level of football. After a while you'll understand the Ins and Outs of the game
Also because it is a lower scoring game than American sports, it means the goals mean more which makes it more exciting (or in a lot of cases more like sense of relief) when your team does score. I mean I don't know why anyone would get excited over a score in basketball, they score 2-3 times in a minute.
Even amazing passes get you excited or skills/dribbles...last minute tackles....amazing gk saves. Football just has amazing moments that have you at the edge of your seat
That happens a lot on the first matches at the World cup and European cup and it's annoying.
That's why I loved Croatia so much. Pressureplay from the the first second.
@@Josh00T Exactly, but my point was directed at Americans and anyone else that doesn't understand it.
The base level is pick a team in any match and you'll feel the anticipation. They won't understand formations and what's a good/bad tackle/save etc at the beginning
Ye, I never understood the "low scoring" complaint. Personally nothing gets me fired up more then a central midfielder turning and dictating tempo after receiving from the defense, or maybe a pass combination in tight spaces that eventually shifts the point of attack, or even a really dominant defensive performance where a defender keep winning duel after duel. Theese are the things that makes me want to watch the sport, of course nothing beats your team scoring in terms of emotions, but that's mostly a competitive thing, not the reason why I grew to like It.
The idea that it's the same teams in the NFL year after year and that if you suck you get rewarded is not only boring as hell but bizarre, and that you have no comps where everybody and anybody can play is also boring, these differences are some of the reasons normal club games have way way more viewers than the superbowl final.
or they play twice to three times as many matches as an NFL team a season
@@coletripp4814 Not really sure of your point?
@@markaitcheson3212 I dont think thats why so many Americans watch the superbowl, but it is because college football started before the NFL and so players who are done in college need somewhere to go. And by giving them to the worst team allows that to have a chance to win it all. Which is more exciting that watching out same few teams win every year.
Arsenal (my club) even told their fan channel, Arsenal Fan TV, and made them take out the Arsenal part.
18:17 the top 4 leagues in England are all fully professional. I support a team in League One (3rd tier), Oxford United, who are a professional club. The third tier isn’t complete ‘obscurity’, there’s still thousands of fans that go to each of the games in these leagues. We managed to get to the top league in the 1980’s, and won the League Cup in 1986.
I've been a Fulham fan since the old days when there was no Championship and it was Division 1-3 after the Premier, seen my team in all of the key leagues and to a European final.
I remember you winning the League Cup.
Pretty sure Ray Houghton scored for you in that game. I remember being excited when we signed him for Liverpool. He was a class act.
I absolutely love the beauty of our football pyramid but one thing I don't like is the 4th league being 'League 2' and the 3rd league being 'League 1'...It should be Premier League, League 2, League 3, and League 4 imo because it might be confusing for newbies getting into it. Like why is the 2nd tier called the Championship??...cos it sounds better for TV maybe? My team Queens Park Rangers are in the Championship by a thread 😂
@@Bennyboy138 it used to be Premiership-Division 1- Division 2- Division 3.
I’ve been supporting Exeter city for years. Seen a few promotions and relegations. Will never be more than a League 1 side but can always dream. Saw them get a 0-0 at old Trafford many years ago.
I utterly disagree with the (idiotic, to say the least) statement that 'only their Mum's care about the league at this point.'
Considering there are 20 tiers in England alone.
cry more , no one cares if it ain't Prem
Considering National league clubs can tkae 10s of thousands of fans to wembley, yes they do@merlinbotha363
@@merlinbotha363 la Liga, série a
@Romanovic-c5d yeah, who cares about Seria B , Serie C, etc , or La Liga B?
@@merlinbotha363 a lot of people, like the Italian et Spanish.
*YALL need to watch this video By Zealand " WHY THE USA SUCKS AT FOOTBALL ⚽" He explains the history of the sport in the US*
What the video failed to mention is that in England, the top 2 teams gets promoted straight to the premier league, while third to sixth are sent to a knockout-style mini tournament playoff with home and away legs, with the winner getting the third promotion spot.
Also championship playoffs are usually the hypest set of matches of the year due to how much is at stake.
He intentionally simplified it because the rules regarding promotion and relegation vary from country to country I think he just wanted to present a baseline understanding that would fit most countries' systems. He only used the English league as an example.
Football ( soccer to moron USA American ) is a TACTICAL game, tactics require intelligence something USA American games all lack. Foot ball players are fast, they are are also averagely heavy, you try running at speed and being fouled and not getting hurt. The attack is looking for an opening, a chance to score, one cannot score if they are not in charge of the ball.
@@24magiccarrot exactly. in germany, for example, 2 teams are directly relegated ( last & 2nd to last go down and best and 2nd best go up). the 3rd best team from the lower and the 3rd to last team from the upper division play a 2 game match to see who gets the spot in the upper league.
funnily enough, these two games are related to as "relegationsspiele" which means relegation games in germany. for the teams that go directly down we have a totally different term ( "abstieg"/"absteiger") which would be best translated with decline or decliners ^^
Release clause is kind of "if someone offers this money we have to accept it", so it takes the owning club out of the equation. And then the team that offered that money can negotiate with the player directly on their personal contract. The player doesn't have to accept the move if they don't want to. Anyone else who wants to buy the player would have to offer the same money as the clause to negotiate with the player direct. So it doesn't make the player a free agent.
In England, we don't really have many release clauses. I'm not sure I've heard of too many players moving in England because another team decided to play the release clause.
Although I think in Spain release clauses are compulsory in every contract.
That's one of the reasons Paris SG bought Neymar back in 2017. FC Barcelona set his release clause at 222m Euros, thinking they were safe, as only the previous year Manchester United set a new world record fee when they bought Paul Pogba for 89m Euros. But the Qatari owners of PSG were happy to more than double the world record fee to buy Neymar out of his contract, and Neymar himself wanted to go there and there was nothing Barcelona could do about it.
I think many contacts have release clauses but many are never triggered
@@georgeloyal2051 yes, specially for young, seemingly promising players that flop.
@@mathres17 even those who don't flop but turn out decent might have like a 40 mil release close that might not ever be triggered
And right now, due to Barcelona doing things like setting an astronomically high Release Clause and pretty much over paying everybody. They are in a deep financial hole, and still refuse to sell players.
To add to this existing thread, in Lionel Messi's final contract with Barcelona, his release clause was reportedly set at €700 million (around $750 million). Nobody was willing (or able) to pay that, so he didn't move during that final contract. If someone had offered say $600 million, Barcelona may have accepted it, but even that is crazy money as the world record transfer for a player is around $250 million. So his contract expired, he became a free agent and joined Paris St-Germain. After a couple of seasons there, he became a free agent again and moved to Miami.
Banging video :) The European Championships is coming up this Summer, I highly recommend trying to watch a few games. Or at least watching the daily recaps each day for the month it's on, might be useful to get a grasp of the top players in the modern game, etc ...
Waste of time.
There were a few "watch along" world cup videos posted by Americas, and they're simple not interested in the game.
Americas has the attention span of goldfish, that's why their sports stop every 10 seconds 😂
I’ve never understood the idea that football is slow or boring compared to US sports. My wife watches baseball and they celebrate if someone hits the ball. Once. It changes personnel quickly I guess, but nothing happens for most of the time.
Exactly. American sports are slow and boring. Football is the complete opposite.
It's not the game it's Americans attention span that's the problem.
yeah same with the NFL, i actually can enjoy it but most of it is the coach coming up with tactics and players trying to remember those tactics and standing around. The 'plays' are mostly bursts of couple of seconds. And matches take 3 hours.
I tried to watch an NFL game once.
I've seen more ads than grass of the field.
I used to watch baseball when channel 5 used to have it on from midnight to 4 in the morning. It's great for putting you to sleep 💤
The richest single game in sport is actually the championship league play off final which is played at Wembly .The winner takes the third place promotion to the Premiership which is worth several hundred million pounds .
Offside rule: When the attacking team with the ball passes the ball forward...the player recieving the ball MUST be behind or in line with the last defender (not including the defending goalkeeper) ie as soon as the ball is kicked (touched) by the player passing to him..he cannot be ahead of the last defender..or it will be ruled offside. There is slightly more to this with various circumstances, but thats the basic jist of it. This is when you see replays of the attacking move freeze framed on screen with 2 lines accross the pitch..showing where the last defender and the attacking player who is being passed to as the ball is kicked. It can literally come down to a half inch difference sometimes. The attacking player must time his run perfectly to beat the offside trap set by the defending team.
The second to last defender counts. If the goalkeeper is second to last and there is a defender behind him, he is still offside in soccer. Being a goalkeeper doesn't matter.
Or even more accuratelly, the attacking player must be behind 2 defenders (where the goalie is counted as 1 defender). So, if the the goalie, for some reason, is out of position, there has to be 2 defenders between the attacking player and the goal when the pass is made.
On the release clause thing, when you pay a player's release clause they don't actually get released. It's basically a transfer fee that the club has to agree to. For example if a player's release clause is $50,000,000 and a team bids $35,000,000 for him the club would be able to choose whether or not that release clause is good enough but if a team bids $50,000,000 then the club is required to accept the offer and then they can negotiate with the player. If the player refuses to join the team that bid $50,000,000 for him he'd just stay at his old team. He can't choose to move to a team that didn't pay his release clause if they didn't accept.
Also if more than one club activates the release clause it's up to the player to choose what club he wants to go to or if he wants to stay at his original club.
Most players don't have release clauses since Spain is the only big league to require them but Spanish player's release clauses are usually massive because they'd prefer to go through standard negotiations so that they can reject offers from rival clubs or if the player becomes better than how good he was when the contract was first signed the release clause would still be too high for any club to realistically pay no matter how good the player becomes are. There are plenty of players in LaLiga with release clauses of $1,000,000,000.
This is because of a transfer that happened in 2017. A player called Neymar - you may have heard of him, he was touted to be as good of a player as Messi and Ronaldo however his career came a little short, he was still an amazing player but not on the same level - had his release clause in his contract with a club called Barcelona of $235,000,000. He was Barcelona's star boy along side Messi and Barcelona thought that no club would spend $235,000,000 for a player but one extremely rich club did. Paris Saint-Germain or PSG for short activated the release clause and signed him. This left Barcelona with a lot of money to spend on replacements however the replacements were not the best. They bought two players, both for $145,000,000. The first was Coutinho from Liverpool and the second was Dembele from Dortmund. Coutinho would end up leaving the club for $20,000,000 in 2022 and Dembele (Who was injured for a long time and didn't really do well until 2022 and 2023 when he started playing amazingly for Barcelona) ended up leaving for $50,000,000 with a release clause that only activated 5 years after his original signing. However the contract also stated that Dembele would get 50% of the transfer fee from the release clause so Barcelona only made $25,000,000 on him.
Because of that happening with Barcelona selling a player for $235,000,000 then buying two replacements for $290,000,000 but then ending up making only $45,000,000 back from those sales only 5 years later (So they basically lost $10,000,000 and their second best player in Neymar leaving, one of their best players in 2022 and 2023 in Dembele leaving, and a player who did really poorly for them in Coutinho also leaving.) Most big teams in LaLiga - especially Barcelona - give all best players $1,000,000,000 release clauses so that no team can buy them out so that the same thing won't happen again.
Wouldn't "Minimum Release Clause Sum" be a more accurate name for this?
Germany with world largest soccer association and club structure have a 13 level deep system of leagues. There are over 2000 different leagues in this system with over 30.000 teams compete in it.
I've never known that😂
13 leagues of semi professional or amateur? England amateur leagues go to around level 21/22 and I believe it’s league 11 that is the lowest semi pro level.
@@liambriggs1302 take it with a grain of salt but IMO 1st, 2nd Bundesliga and 3. Liga are professional football.
The Regionalliga (5 in total) and the Oberliga (13 in total) should be semi-professional but with a mix of amateurs and maybe some professional in some cases. But the most part should be semi professional.
In level 6 and below there are amateur teams but you can still climb up the ladder if you are successful enough. But each league and level brings also additional requirements for the license to play there,that stress your financial situation.
German Regional League is more profesional league then semi-pro.
Most teams who play are second teams from Bundesliga teams(Freiburg II), teams with big fan base(Kickers Offenbach) and maybe 3 amateur team what came from Oberliga.
I mean thats my opinion...
@@Milak96 IMO it depends on the contracts of the players. A full-time payed player is way more professional then a half-time player. And I'm not sure how financially potential the lower level teams are. A second or third division of a big club could be financially better then smaller clubs.
We don’t have vuvuzelas in Britain 🇬🇧 - that’s just a South African 🇿🇦 thing!
Every European fan hated them for the racket they made. 😂
Centre backs who stay in defence.
John stones: "Am I a joke to you" 😂😂
Joško Gvardiol, CB in MCity. He loved to score all of his life.
Franz Beckenbauer, one of the most offensive center backs of all time... but back then the game was so slow, he was able to make it back to position when a ball was lost in offense...
Midfielders are considered the generalist, all round players. They are usually the brain of the team. Many great football coaches and managers used to be midfielders in their playing days.
A few teams in England have gone from the top flight to the fifth tier (Still mainly full profesionals). Notable teams are Oldham Athletic and Luton Town, although Luton have recently won promotion back to the Premiere league after nine consecutive seasons, which is pretty good going considering the little they've spent compared to most?
I don't still understand the e on the end of Premier (or the pronunciation). Is it that US English never calls anything premier, they only know the French word premiére and say it "preem-yeah" same? It's ok, we've anglicised it already, it's "prem-yuh".
Ok, this is the first football video I've watched ever since today, so I'm gonna rant here. It's been 2 years in a row of Arsenal absolulutely bottling the Premier Lague title. Our biggest title race competitor, Liverpool, just fumbled away crucial points against a midtable team, and we just lost against a midtable team as well. Now our second competitor, Manchester City, that were given for dead, are 2 points ahead of us in first place and both Liverpool and us have already played our 2 matches against them. Now we relly on the midtable teams that Manchester City has to play against in his last games to tie or win against them, which is nearly impossible. We are doomed.
I tried to tell an an American movie reactor to try the running around a field experiment after he said footballers go down too easily, he really didn't understand.
This is a good explainer video at laying out some of the key appeal that may get lost if you don’t know what you’re watching. For me it’s always been a couple of things: both teams are 20/30secs away from scoring…. and the free-flowing nature of the game. This creates a gnawing see-saw of tension that isn’t so present in sports where there are short bursts of coordinated action. With soccer, there’s an unpredictable quality that can be utterly anxiety inducing when you’re invested. Because of the ‘low-scoring’ deadlock nature of it, one tiny mistake and the punishment can be brutal. There’s more to it, of course but this idea is good to have in mind when getting into it…👍⚽️
Not every player has a release clause . In Spain it's a rule that every player has a release clause but most of the good players have ridiculous ones that no one would ever pay. If your a minor team with not much money you might have a young kid come through the youth team and you know you won't be able to keep him so a release clause would be a good idea. If another team bids the amount set in the release clause that player has to atleast enter negotiations but is not under obligation to leave but usually the bidding team is better so he leaves.
*They 🇺🇸 were always terrible at playing F⚽⚽TBALL and because of that frustration...Now I understand WHY THEY 🇺🇸 CHANGED the name to the REAL F⚽⚽TBALL and call that kind of "Helmet Rugby" "football"*
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*They 🇺🇸 prefer to be good at Baseball, American Football, and they are actually very good*
*..It would be embarrassing 😅 if they were not good at sports that they 🇺🇸 themselves invented*
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Signing very young players is getting stricter in the PL. As these 8,9 and 10 year olds can't be bought but are free to move on a youth contract the biggest clubs would poach the best kids by offering well paid jobs to the parents and maybe a brand new home to move in with their talented son. They decided this was exploration and strictly speaking the under 14's can only be picked to train with a club within a certain radius. 14-17 year olds that can't sign a professional contract until an adult and 18 can sign a contract elsewhere but the club losing the player can demand a 'training' fee which could be as much as £2m based on achievements. A tribunal will decide the fee if the clubs can't agree.
After 18 it's a matter of making an acceptable offer to the players club to buy the player or paying the release clause.
To answer your question, no a player never has to accept a transfer out of a club. There's been stories of managers putting players on planes to fly to sign for another club and the player not arriving. There was also the famous story of Bogarde at Chelsea. Signed by one manager who left after a few weeks of signing him. The next managers didn't want Bogarde and tried numerous times to sell him. He refused so they kept making him play for the u21 and then the u18's. He played 11 times for Chelsea during his 4 year stint. Collecting a reported £160k a month during this time!!
Of course the flip side is players or their agents try to engineer a move out of a club. That happens a lot.
That first bit you typed was something that really caused some serious problems for Ben Lederman:/
In england you could set your own team up and if things went incredibly well you coukd eventually find yourself in the premier league. Its highly unlikely but the "pyramid " structure gives fans of all clubs that essential thing they need.....hope.
And the current classic example is Dorking Wanderers - founded in 1999, they started playing at level 17 of the football pyramid. As of last season they’ve been promoted 12 times in 24 years and are currently playing in the National League (level 5).
Happens often in smaller leagues. In Sweden, we have plenty of smaller clubs, often formed by immigrant communities or a friendship group in specific parts of a town relatively recently, that have managed to reach the highest or second highest tier of the pyramid. As of now, you'll find FC Stockholm Internazionale (founded 2010), Nordic United (founded in 2004 by Assyrians), Ariana FC (founded in 2015 by Malmö Afghans) and FC Rosengård (famous for their social outreach) in Division 1 (the third tier, semi-professional). In the fourth tier you can find Dalkurd (Kurds from Dalarna, have played in the top flight), FBK Balkan (Yugoslav immigrants in Malmö, Zlatan's first club), several Syriac clubs, etc.
@@arwelp They featured in an episode of Welcome to Wrexham. That owner/manager is quite the character, the Del Boy of football.
@@alpine_newt Yes, they’ve got a RUclips channel, @BunchOfAmateurs . Unfortunately it looks like they’re going to be relegated this season.
The other big name is FC United who started with a group of fans of Manchester United who didn't like what the cubs new owners were doing (hardly surprising) so they set up their own team which is interesting in that it dosn't have an owner instead being owned by its fans.
It's currently in the 7th tier
Russian Teams tend not to do well in European Competition.
He missed out Benfica, Sporting Lisbon and FC Porto from Portugal who are almost guaranteed to be in European Competition every season.
Ukraine's Shakhtar Donetsk and Dynamo Kiev are regulars.
Olympiakos of Greece are almost always there, AEK Athens and Panathinaikos are regulars too.
Switzerland has FC Basle who were regulars until recently.
Austria has Red Bull Salzburg who pretty much dominate the Austrian League.
Denmark has FC Copenhagen.
Scotland of course has Rangers and Celtic.
Serbian side Red Star Belgrade have WON the European Cup, over 30 years ago now but it happened.
Romania's Steaua Bucharest won it in the 80s too but they've fallen apart and I'm not sure which of the two current clubs is the REAL Steaua today.
Turkey's Galatasaray are common entrants whilst Fenerbahce and Besiktas are not uncommon entrants.
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If I wanted to create A Pan-European League these are all teams I'd invite along with the likes of Arsenal, Chelsea, Bayer Leverkusen, RB Leipzig, Athletic Bilbao, Sevilla, Lyon, , PSV Eindhoven, Feyenoord, Sparta Prague, Slavia Prague, Anderlecht, Standard Liege and Club Brugge.
I miss the days when it was simply Division 1, 2, 3, and 4. The Championship sounds too good for Division 2, and League 2 sounds too good for Division 4.
Football is full of different playstyles. A lot of the top teams are possession sides but you have counter attacking teams, very defensive teams, teams who play a fast passing style. That's what keeps the game insteresting
The owners of Arsenal are American. They also own the LA Rams. Might explain a few things 😂
Watch our beloved Bundesliga in Germany and there watch my Hometown Team Borussia Dortmund.
It’s football
🤣 offside and var good luck guys it's infuriating people who have been watching football for decades 🤣
It's not as impossible to climb the ranks as he made it sound, I just say Luton town... Also, the American obsession with trophies and titles is not as central in Europe, there are much more important things going on, example, Barca could win all the possible titles in a season but if they loose both classicos the same season... Then it was not that great a season after all... Priorities. There is nothing more important to a Barca fan then beating Real, nothing except maybe Catalonian independence I guess. 😅
Guys I would simply advise you to understand football don't watch things like this you'll get bord out of your skull just go and watch a game. Or watch a full game on tv but g to a real match exspirence the atmosphere I have investive feelings to a team then go to that club
You're not quite right about the release clause. The figure appointed to any player is the amount you have to assure you are willing to pay (if the sale goes forward) before being allowed to even TALK to the player about a transfer. It doesn't mean if you turn up with the money you have the player. You only have the right to open negotiations.
6:30 I never thought about it like that. I'll certainly look at it differently now whenever a footballer is hamming it up over an injury. Ye go for it, you deserve it, have a rest lol.
Big diferene is there is not college or high school... only clubs... the bigger the citty the bigger is th club.. that give you more long term plannig... but less individual choice...
This Video is great but a few years outdated, nowadays you are allowed 5 substitutions/team every game..!
A player is offside if any part of his body that can legally score a goal (that's every part except the arms) is further upfield than the last opposing defender when the ball leaves the foot of the player passing to him. It was brought in to stop teams just leaving one of their players standing by the goal all match.
The most unenthusiastic narrator I've ever heard in a video 😅
I quite liked it. He seemed to do a good job explaining. Betterer than me at least 😅
@@elizabethsimpson4430 naah it was terrible, he got so many things wrong
Don't forget the europa league and europa league conference.
The depth of the English game should have been mentioned; in a country smaller than most of your states my fourth division side are averaging over 10,000 a week this year.
We have a few football teams here in the UK that we call “Boomerang Clubs” as they often get promoted to a higher league one year only to get relegated back down again the next year. Peterborough United is a big example of a Boomerang Club.
Rotherham United even more so. 6 years in a row between the Championship and League 1, last season they stayed up - this year back to League 1!
We call them yo-yo clubs in Scotland - Hearts & Dundee Utd being notable examples ;)
I've heard the term "yo-yo club" not Boomerang Club.
Yeah prety sure theyre called yoyo clubs
my team is the 1.FCN here in Germany and it is THE "Fahrstuhlmannschaft" - "Elevator Team" of the Bundesliga, relegated 9x down to Liga 2 and 8 time up to Bundesliga.
It still holds second most national titles in Germany with 9, but mostly they won in the 1920s... the good old times... nowadays we are far too long in Liga 2, but at least this saison we do not have to worry about relegating into Liga 3 🤪
You were the King of the draws Daniel! It was really fun to watch it while you were outside at night.
What about the European Cup? You have to watch that as well. Writing all the predictions on a paper. Sorry we threw you out of the World Cup.
We still don't have a great team. We have no real strikers yet.
Do the Man City one, I was a season ticket holder there when they were rubbish and in the third league
When I move to the other end of the country they get rich 😢but I loved the days following them up from third tier back to premier league 😊
I left the country at the end of that mad time - the last action I saw at Maine Road was Stuart Pearce putting his penalty into the stand!
The thing about Arsenal is they alway try to walk it in
I never immersed myself with fotball as a kid or even as an adult. But living in Europe and it being all around me all the time I picked up on most of this. Even the offside rule that so many people struggle with felt really logical to me. I must be weird.
3:50 nba basketball court fits inside one of the 18 yard boxes where the keepers hang out
the offside rule is basically a rule against 'cherry picking'.
an attacking player cannot be involved in a play when they are ahead of the last defender. so basically they have to be either behind or inline with the defence when the play involves them like receiving a pass
you go to uni to learn shit not to play sports
I don't know where you guys specifically live, but you could go watch a game of the Maryland Bobcats, only pro team in the state that plays in 3rd division in Boyds, MD. If you want to see 1st division game there are both the Philadelphia Union and the DC United, and even Loudoun United a 2nd division club from Leesburg, Virginia, just west of DC
It's not European football. It's the biggest sport in the world.
And WOW the pronunciations 😂😂😂
We don't have to be obnoxious to promote our sport. Soccer or football who cares. It's just a name
The video was specifically about football in Europe! Did you not notice? Wakey-wakey!
@@rikmoran3963 told by an American who had no clue.
Blind leading the blind comes to mind.
@@miladeskandari7 Who mentioned soccer?
They get mad about that 😂😂😂
YES, MAN,... WE DO GET MAD IF YOU CALL IT SOCCER.....UUUHHHH....even hated writing it..!!
"""Premiere""" League. No, just no. Read it again, look closer... Whoever made the video needs a few lessons in basic language comprehension
The whole relegation and promotion thing explains how celebrities like Ryan Reynolds and Tom Brady are buying teams. They bought lower levels teams because they’d be cheap to buy. They inject boatloads of money into the clubs in order to get better players and move up. They would make a huge profit if they sell the clubs after making the premier league
On getting food when my team were in there first Scottish Cup one of my pals decided to beat the half time queue by going to the pie shop a minute or so before half time.
Was he was heading down the steps there was this almighty cheer as we scored a goal. Not just a goal but our first ever goal in a Scottish Cup final.
He is still trying to live it down😂😂😂😂
BTW we went on to defeat Dundee United 2-0🏴😂🏴🦄
If you wont to watch a game that as it all then watch Manchester United v Liverpool in this season's F A CUP game . A 120 Minutes of mayhem.
Relegation would mean having more leagues and teams which would effect the major franchise's so I doubt this would ever be allowed, there are 92 teams in the professional football pyramid do you see the 30 odd teams in the NFL wanting a smaller piece of the pie?
25:20 It might have been said already, but the release clause basically is something a player adds to his contract when he joins a club these days (almost all the time).. It is to ensure a player is not treated as a slave at a club... i'll explain that bit next paragraph. if a club comes along that the player wants to join, he can- leave the club, regardless of whether the club he is at wants to keep him or not. Once a club offers the release clause fee, it is down to the player whether they want to sign for this other club or not, the club is obliged to accept the offer (and its usually very high)
.a few decades ago, a player called jean marc bosman wanted to leave his club at the end of his contract & A club in france I believe wanted to sign him, but his club didn't accept the offer. They then reduced his wages during the next season and stopped playing him... he took the club to court and won on the grounds of" freedom of movement". He successfully won his case . This created what became known as "the bosman ruling". This ruling meant that players could leave at the end of their contract and join any team that wanted them. After this ruling, the "release clause fee" was soon introduced, to allow players who where unhappy- or could be unhappy or maybe wanted to move to a bigger club in future, the opportunity to leave their club immediately in a transfer window- but the club that wants the player must pay the full fee. It allowed the clubs to get something back for the player and for the player to go a club that clearly desired him.
ALTERNATIVELY, the player could wait out his contract, and join another team at the end of his contract on a "bosman"
Sounds a little like waivers in the Major League Baseball players' collective bargaining agreement, where if a major-league baseball team wants to demote a player to their minor-league farm team (basically the equivalent of a reserve squad), they have to first give him a window where other clubs are allowed to take him, on the condition that they actually put him in their major-league squad.
It's a little like if an EPL team couldn't demote a player to their reserve team, at any time of the year, without first giving other EPL teams a chance to pick him up if they're willing to make him part of their first team and not their reserve squad. So players can't be forced to play on a minor league (equivalent to reserve league) team if there's a major-league team anywhere in the league that's willing to let them play major-league ball.
@@philipmcniel4908 interesting!
Without the pyramid and promotion and ‘regulation’ the game would lose its soul here. I go every home game along with 6,000 to 7,000 others to see my team, Gillingham FC, who play currently in League Two. If there was no chance of us getting promoted back to League One or the Championship, I probably wouldn’t bother going. Of course there’s the worry of relegation, but it only makes it all the more intense!
About the release clause. When a club agrees to pay the release clause for a player they're interested in, only they can buy that player. It's often a race to see who's gonna get their wallet out first to get a good player. Tough competition.
That's what many people didn't understand about Neymar's transfer from FC Barcelona to PSG. Neymar didn't see a cent of the 200M you heard people talk about. Barcelona really wanted to keep Neymar, so they set his release clause at a crazy 200M dollars, hoping that would discourage other clubs from taking him. They just didn't realize that PSG had oil-rich Qatari owners who could do the unthinkable: spend 200M dollars on a release clause, hence all the buzz around that transfer.
there are some very interesting things that happened in german football
most notably kaiserslautern who won the german cup in 95/96 and got relegated in the same season, winning second division in 96/97 and the bundesliga in 97/98 something nobody else has ever achieved winning the bundesliga as a newly promoted team.
Why is that interesting? Because they are currently qualified for the cup final and also fighting against Relegation (this time from the second division) this could lead to them playing in the third division and the europa league next season which would be somewhat hilarious
not to forget the 1.FCN who won national championship in 1968 and relegated down in the following year... we also did it after our League Cup win in 2007, relegating in 2008.
Still the only club in Germany relegating down after a title... not once but twice...
27:47 when players are signing kids, they’ll be scouted whilst at school, usually when they’re playing exceptionally for county or district clubs. They’ll then join the club’s school system (which most big clubs have) or move in with a foster family close to the club they’ve joined and go a normal school there.
At either a football academy school or local school they learn and get their qualifications whilst also training and developing as a player.
Eventually when they enter their late teens, they’ll either get promoted to their club’s first team if they’re exceptionally good, get released and have to get a job of join a lesser club, or get sold/loaned (temporary transfer-usually for one season) to a rival who thinks they have space for that player in their team.
Relegation introduces Jeopardy, Jeopardy introduces Drama and Drama is what makes Football interesting
The World Name, for The World Game is FOOTBALL Fact ... Our world governing body, is called F.I.F.A. meaning Federation International FOOTBALL Association ... Its simple, we have a round ball and we kick - control it with our Feet, that is why its called FOOT - BALL
some release clauses at the top are..Jude Bellingham - Real Madrid - €1bn (£871m/$1.08bn) ...
Ansu Fati - Barcelona - €1bn (£871m/$1.08bn) ...
Pedri - Barcelona - €1bn (£871m/$1.08bn) ...
Ronald Araujo - Barcelona - €1bn (£871m/$1.08bn) ...
Vinicius Junior - Real Madrid - €1bn (£871m/$1.08bn) and then a new clause is set after they move, my team is oxford utd because im from oxford. we are in div1 so the 3rd tier. and because we are close to playing to be promoted, we now have scouts turning up to buy our best players, so some may move up 1 or 2 leagues. so then we have to scramble to fill their roles. so our scouts will be out watching other teams to fill some gaps or take a spot of a player who isnt as good as the manager wants in any position. you also have players on loan who might only be with you for a season, like a goal keeper you can get a premier teams 3ed team one as he would be extra to what they needed, plus it takes some of their costs. as in, we would pay their wages which balances their books and they do not get fined and lose points for spending to much.
Come on guys, please don’t force feed us Brits this stupid game.7refs,bend down,touch the ground, whistle blows, everyone bangs crash helmets, everyone falls over, ball disappears somewhere,crowd go wild, team gain 2 feet, then pop concert for 30 minutes. It must take longer to get dressed for a player than a boxer. Helmet, shoulder pads,every other part of the body pads.🌭🍔🍟🥨🥞🍕🍿🍩 that should last you until bedtime 9PM. ⚽️⚽️⚽️😂
3rd round day, the second Saturday in January is when the premier leauge joins the rest of the teams in the FA cup, it's colloquialy known as 'Giant Killer Day' this is because there will always be some conference/3rd leauge team that beats a priemership team and knocks them out of the FA cup. It's an amazing day to see a playing field being levelled and top flight teams being decimated.
As a Tottenham fan, hope we can convert you as we share a common hatred of the Arsenal 😅
Right now we’re a great team to watch, as we play very fast football with mainly attacking play.
Also look at Bolton wanderers, a classic giant of English football were flying high in the 2000s, eventually run into ruin financially and would be relegated from the premier league in 2012, in 2020 they would reach league 2 and almost not even exist anymore, now they are slowly climbing up.
As a toon fan, didnt go all that well for yas at the weekend pal 🤣
Has anyone outside the Premier League won the FA Cup? 🏆
The last team to win the FA Cup from outside the top tier predates the Premier League*, with Trevor Brooking's famous goal clinching the 1980 trophy for Second Division West Ham against holders Arsenal. 🏆
* From the start of the 1992-93 season, the first division became the second tier in English football. The champions would now be promoted to the Premier League. ⚽
F*ck arsenal 😂
19:50 2 weeks ago in the German "DFB Pokal" (the same tournament like the FA Cup in England) a 2. division team (Kaiserslautern) has beaten a 3. division team (Saarbrücken) to advance to the german cup final. Saarbrücken has beaten top tier teams like Mönchengladbach. They also have beaten the record bundesliga champion Bayern munich. Bayern (929 Million €) has the largest Team salary in Germany by a mile (saarbrückens Team salary to compare: about 5 million €). It doesn't happen to much but you see, it is possible. If Kaiserslautern will beat Leverkusen in the final they will get a spot in the Euro League as a 2.division team. That would gave them a massive TV contract. That's the beauty of this Sport.
You will have the Copa America this year to get some experience of football in America on a large true football scale. I hope you guys will be watching that.
American here. I don’t understand why the clock is a mystery in soccer. It seems so unnecessary and somewhat arbitrary. Also, soccer seems a perfect fit for sudden death overtime (like NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs). Tied after regulation time? Next goal wins. I can’t imagine an important playoff hockey game ending on series of penalty shots. (And no I don’t even like the shootouts in NHL regular season play).
This guy sounds like PlagueofGripes...It was probably him. xD
Watch the damn Euro 24 ...
When the feeder system is bound to the state: Highschool Football.
People can change the club, as there usually multiple clubs in a city, or close by, that's called freedom of choice.
Also the US feeder system allows people to disregard their actual education getting educational credits via playing sports, in Europe or better Football nations one may be good in sports at school, but it has nothing to do with your education beyond being just a basic class like maths, physics, biology, art, languages, etc.
So this system is about getting an education and not about feeding people into the sports. This american system is actually an quite Orwellian approach to the sports. It's just like military schools, all about the prestige of the nation instead of the capability of the human being, because in 10 - 15 years that player and there are 100 000's of them that don't make the cut, will be spend, or disgruntled - having never gotten that big contract, just like Al Bundy (Married with Children) - but won't be able to do his own finances 'cause: "I got through College doing Hand-Egg."
That's confession of failure, a declaration of bankruptcy for a nation.
Go look up the education a Russian Soldier gets. Philosophy, Physics, Maths, Languages, ... it's insane. Even European standards are low against that.
Idk if you guys know, But Ryan Reynolds bought Wrexham (the team) in 2020 when they were in division 3, and theyve just been promoted to division 1 for next season (2024/25). Two more promotions and they will be in the Premier League ⭐🏆
14:55 the problem is that in USA you buy a franchise to enter a league. None of that in Europe. You got a team that's a part of the countries football federation, federation has X rules, GO WILD
and to earn money you gotta have a good marketing, and rise trough leagues because higher tiers get better sponsors and even TV deals
And to confuse matters we do have play offs in many leagues below the top. But that's not for the legue championship......
Take the EFL championship. The champions (Leicester City) and the runners up (Ipswich) automatically get promoted to the Premier league....
But positions 3-6 (currently Leeds, Southampton, Norwich and West Bom) go into a playoff system
The winner of that playoff gets the 3rd promotion place which means those are super important games for those 4 clubs
About "getting food or drink" ... Why do you think bars/caffés get full at game-time? You just sit with your fellow supporters shouting at the players, while ordering beers/snacks.
At home.. Well, refrigerator with beers are always at "listening-distance" (at least) from the TV.
You know what will happen to you if you take a vuvuzela to football match? You'll need to get it surgically removed. Everybody hates them. They're just not a thing in football.
Football is such an important part of European culture that almost every kid plays it (either just for fun like during recess or after school, or at a club). In Germany, where I live, the kids who play at clubs also have A ,B and C teams (by age group) and take part in regional tournaments. There is a programm (by DFB, German Football Association) in which the best kids from the small local clubs are scouted and invited to join for special training, addtional tournaments and further sounting by the professional clubs. That's why many top players can trace their way back to a small town club with a muddy pitch and having to carry home all players' club jerseys to wash them when it was their turn.
5:18 Last Sunday, I was watching a Portuguese league game (FC Porto vs Sporting CP) with 2/3 minutes left to finish, Porto was winning 2-0, I went to the kitchen to prepare a coffee, When I returned to the living room it was already 2-2, Sporting in a minute scored 2 goals...
Some teams which were in the equivalent of today's Premier League when I attended junior school in England (then called First Division), have indeed faded into near obscurity, except among their loyal fans. Everton is the only team never to have been relegated from the top league in England. Of the 22 teams in the First Division in the 1960/61 season, Sheffield Wednesday, which ended second, now play in the Championship (2nd level league), as do four other teams. Blackpool and Bolton have both sunk to the 3rd level.
VAR is simply a bunch of guys in a room watching cameras, if someone scores a goal it might be contested so they stop play and about 30 people then study the cameras and decide the outcome it’s a pain in the arse
A good idea for you guys would be to maybe get an American plying their trade in Europe to appear and answer any queries, that would help you more guys
Weeeeelllllll.... You getting blocked by Arsenal could be explained by the fact that their owner is an American businessman... Just throwing that out there....
13:25 VAR is just the video surveillance
Offside is simple: If you are past the second last opponents player your teammates can't pass the ball to you.
(second last is usually the defender nearest to the goalkeeper but it's worded that because in some cases the goalie ends up in front of other players although that's exceedingly rare)
and some people think it's a dumb rule, but without it teams would have a big incentive to just leave half of their team behind to prevent those kind of passes. it'd KILL the game in the midfield and that's where you can see a lot of tactics at their best
I find it ironic that Americans who don't really know much about Football need an explanation for how VAR works. Yet actual die hard football fans, who probably played as kids and maybe in a Sunday League or just simply the "Armchair Fan" and although we understand how VAR works in theory NO ONE understands how it works in practice.
var is absolute rubbish as for offside ive been a footy fan all my life and i still couldnt make it make sense mainly because the cockwombles who who make the rule constantly keep changing the defanition of offside , how dose the saying go if it aint broke dont fix it
in england we have 4 professional leagues prem, then championship , league1 , league 2 after that we have what is called non league divsions which is made up of another ton of leagues which are semi professional and yes all have promotion and relegation
Saying your feeder system is more robust is wrong every single club has youth systems going from 8yr old upwards. So take England, over 700 clubs with youth systems.
Hiya Spencer and Daniel, My club Newcastle United made the Champions League last season, it was really great, this season Newcastle are currently in 8th place, I hope Newcastle make the Europa League, next season, its a rollercoaster being a Newcastle fan, its so exciting, would you bring Promotion and Relegation into NFL or any other U.S sports? this means there maybe 2 teams in 1 city, if there both in the same division there would be a derby game, both clubs could even play at the same ground, makes you wonder doesn't it, this is Choppy in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England