@@haystackhider7158 lol dude soccer is number 1

@@haystackhider7158 wtf 😂

What did they say?????

@Mickey Finn americans are trully dump is shocking. Soccer which is known as football is far the biggest sport in europe, africa, south america and arguably one of the bigest in asia.... So i dont know what evidence do you need. Apart from athletics football is right therr at the very top!

I live in the states and I personally like that most Americans aren’t into it More for me

@@thenorseprodigy7466 Bro as a Messi fan(the one kind which gets in twitter battles for him) Ronaldo has got skill, i mean you think Pele Bican has made so many scoring records over many years and many were thought to be unbreakable and then he just comes and shatters every one of them! There were plenty good scorers like Ibra, Henry before him but why him? Even now in Serie A when he is past his prime he is scoring like crazy breaking all time records like glass, if you see him playing you cant see what special thing he is doing but his positioning is so good he manages to get 5 shots and score 2 against almost all teams

@@thenorseprodigy7466 Messi will also break these records soon but we can see why, his dribbling and shot precision is crazy along with excellent vision and space interpretation, his sheer genius is visible in his game, you cant see that for Ronaldo because he excels in off the ball movement, his extremely simplistic gameplay looks easy and fraudistic but when you consider his achievements through that compared to other similar strikers and wingers, you realise he is also born with vision of his own, just a bit more restricted near the goal

@@shreshroop Stop crying He’s right bro

@@thenorseprodigy7466 "Anyone can become Ronaldo" Ok good joke. You've lost your point with this phrase already. I can see only a Messi fan and CR7 hater on you boi.

@@Jonathan-gl3tf These guys must not have seen a young Ronaldo in lissbon destroy man utd. U dont just get to United at the age of 18, and compete for ballon d'or 2004 as a 19y old (placed no.12 that year, with older talent like Zlatan, Eto'o, Zidane, Lampard, Drogba, Figo, Maldini placed behind him that year) if u not extremely talented

Even as an American it gives me chills. It’s a shame what UEFA are going to do with it though

Or Indian..... Cricket is the Basketball, Baseball and American Football over here and everyone I talk to says football's boring because you only score 1-2 goals per game on average....

@@ruudboltz6677 True, I hate Indians just because they're CRAZY for cricket... And they don't a single value for football.. Although there are Indians who prefer football over cricket... But its bare minimum.

@@ice_cold4885 I have no problem with cricket. I watch it sometimes and I'm happy whenever India wins. But I watch football more. Indians don't care about football. They call it boring because there aren't many goals scored in a game and it's just 22 men running behind the ball. We need to improve our football philosophy ....

@@ruudboltz6677 Same, that's what... I liked cricket, but every cricket lover made me hate it...

"There are people who say that football has nothing to do with human life, with its most essential things. I don't know how much these people know about life. But of one thing I'm sure: they know nothing about football." Eduardo Sacheri, argentinian writer.

Hillsborough 1989 put Bill Shankly’s comments into context, great man though he was. YNWA 96

@@leogorgone I don't care about Futball and I still have a good life

@@foodies6499 the quotes about how football reflects important aspects of life not that without football you can’t have a good life

@@foodies6499 i don't think you get the meaning

We got a long way to go my friend!

@@TKSREACT Better late then ever!

We’re getting the World Cup, when we go in on stuff we go in. It was crazy here when we were in the last two world cups. I live in Colorado and it’s getting big here, we literally just built a new semipro stadium a half mile from my apartment. Deffo getting tickets to Kansas City and Denver., might go to nyc or la too

@@mr.sushi2221 soccer is getting big where I live in Atlanta.

I agree. With the wave of young players and the world cup in 2026, I can see it gaining popularity this decade.

Thank you brother

@@Gonnie6969 I only say soccer when I ask my friends to play in the park

@@chokemeclpixs5600 you finally left the dark side

@@chokemeclpixs5600 dont say soccer even if asking friends lol, but whatever bro

God bless you

Just tell Americans their leagues are socialist/communist.

And that's why the European Super League was ended before it even got going. That was the system they wanted to adopt with no relegation - a closed shop. The irony is that 4 of the 12 'founding' clubs were American owned but would have had way more than a 1/3 influence in it. (The clubs are Liverpool, Man Utd, Arsenal and AC Milan)

100% agree. Never happening though.

@@chrismartinez5922 but they have a capitalist league and promotion and relegation is the superior league of the superior socialism (in the form of a social democracy)

It won't happen in America. They are used to it and that's how they see it. In Europe we hate that format, because we always want to see best team to compete at highest level and recent bs with "super league" proved that europe fans all against US type of league. We can't tell Americans what is good or bad in sports, because we grew up in totally different environment and we see good/bad from totally different perspective :)

new zealand, australia, canada: just ignored

Poland: "piłka nożna" (piłka is ball and nożna is adjective from noun leg - noga) :D So it's like 'legball'

Giacomo Magai In Cyprus we sometimes call "football" "μαππα" (mappa) which comes from the Italian word "mapa"

The rest of the world gives the US a hard time cos they are an English speaking country. For an English speaking country to call it anything but football is disrespectful to the sport

@@vassiliskyriakou interesting that we don't have an official word "mapa" but various dialectical words "mappa/mapa" (perhaps of Greek origin) that mean "web, intricate mass", maybe referred to the goal or the ball, since was made usually with hair in the ancient times.

I love Zlatan but man he would get ripped to shreds in the NFL

@@TKSREACT He is joking. But when it comes to Zlatan getting ripped, yeah he is very ripped when he takes his shirt off! 😉

@@TKSREACT probably,but hey we will never know

average NFl player 6'2 216 lbs. Ibra 6'5 210 if man trained he could prolly go nfl

@@jeffersowilson7936 bruh its not just about height and weight. Zlatan would have no chance playing in the nfl lol. And im european, huge ibra fan and barely watch american football. But still, just no bro

Football is a very hard game, thats what makes it special and the all game can shift with a goal...and the small teams can win to the biggest one...

If American loves fast paced, high scoring game. Futsal should be their alternate to football

@@hazwanzaidan1579 exactly

Yes, but commercial television is not about exilleration. It's about being just interesting enough to make people watch the ads. So from a commercial point of view, it's about avoiding the too boring to keep watching rather than about showing the most exciting, there's no extra commercial value in exilleration, there is commercial loss in boredom. Football has got both, because it is so difficult to score in what is a huge target.

Good point!

Amongst examples across generations such as Pele, Maradona, Baresi, Hassler and most of the Spanish dynasty side

"You Play football with your head, and legs are there to help you". Johan Cruyff "It's like everything in football - and life. You need to look, you need to think, you need to move, you need to find space, you need to help others. It's very simple in the end." J. Cruyff

Only usa play american football they are the only big player

D'Schwiz isch i dä Top 15 ir Wäutranglischtä. Fürnes Land mit 9 Mio. Iwohner nid schlächt.

@@waynebrady1819 que dijiste?

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@@CarlosHernandez-zk1pe que es gay

I hear that, but I still believe technique & football IQ are the most important things, not size

He did it for the money.

@@May16Joe it doesn't matter what got him started. you can see he's legit loving the sport anyways

@@David-qq9bk you never know

@@May16Joe How else would you know though?

@@reintaler6355 he's a "know it all" i bet he's all fun at parties!

Thank you for giving "soccer" I mean football a chance. We would appreciate if you affect people to try it out too. :)

Ynwa

YNWA

Man United, Liverpool, Spurs and Arsenal all have american owners. It is all business right now.

@@pdrochhh yeah correct. Though in Germany luckily there are still more limitations on commercialization of football. All clubs are owned majoritily by their association, so everyone in the association (every fan can become a member) has a vote on the clubs matters.

@@lal12 most of the clubs here in Portugal are like that too. Im a Benfica member so I know hhow that work. but its way more loose that it is in Germany. a few clubs were destroyed because of these types of owenership

@@pdrochhh is Daniel Levy an American?

@@lal12 RB Lepzig wants to know your location

Somehow television companies here manage to shoehorn in a ton of adds in association football matches

No we don’t we have ties in the NFL too

Football is not the same without relegation

@NA Phiri? No, he's french

@@guidojansen6720 yeah i dont like the way sports are handled in america. Its very corporate, and its gotten to the point where teams could be bottom of the league but win the title the next year because they just go out and get a bunch of stars. The NBA has a huge problem with this, because the players hold all the power and the teams mean nothing. Its all very commercial and there just isnt any heart in it imo

I honestly don't want the usa to get involved with Football (soccer) too much. They will just destroy how the existing norms with how it is right now and make it all about money like other American sports

@@guidojansen6720 even though i like the relegation part in football. It has become that people now only cheer for the top team. Nowone wants to be a fan of a mid range team which you can only see a few of the games a season. In the NFL you can cheer for whatever team you like and be guaranteed to see every game.

When did ukraine make a 1/4 for the world cup ?

@@jsimm798 2006, we had a rather easy 2nd place in a group with Spain, Saudi Arabia and Tunis, and then made it through Switzerland in 1\8.

Ok thanks for that bit of history 👍🏽

I looked up soccer in Ukraine. It says it’s the most popular sport. I’m glad i live in America. We have better more interesting sports and I’m not interested in soccer because I didn’t grow up in a culture to like it. Americans do our own thing but we succeed and whatever we do which is why we’re number 1 in Olympic gold medals 🏅

@@westhoodqualzini7884 haha.. soccer as ur call it is the best sport on earth.. Americans don’t like it cause they aren’t good at it.. it’s called football not soccer.

Why do Americans call baseball the world series LOL

@@christinerose4839 when the teams are from America itself 🗿

@@christinerose4839 Because the newspaper called: "The World" sponsored the first series. I believe the newspaper doesn't exist anymore, I don't know.

And given Arsenal's current record, its a lesson their American owner will have to learn the hard way.

@@rangav248 this comment aged badly didn't it? the gunners are now fourth in the standings.

I love that the US team is apparently in the Golden Gen but they couldn't even make it into the world cup qualifiers.

I very much doubt their succes too many good teams in Europe Are coming up Even from "underdogs" like where im from Denmark. The next talent pool will be big! We might not see the next Messi or Ronaldo but we could see the next 10 Mbappes

@@draico4265 ? world cup qualifiers hasn't happened for us yet. For europe and other places yes. We will play canada, mexico, and Jamaica to qualify for 2022

Not even close. Good try though. The Super league is happening

@@DrBell-gi7bf To make more money, limit it to a few teams only and advertise it heavily. Yep sounds like any US sport

@@DrBell-gi7bf this aged badly

@@ngweso it's still happening. You don't have your facts together.

up the reds

@nicos frangeskou Fair comment.

@@troyjansen8662 Noooo! :)

yeah i thought it was a poor example. Firstly the very nature of soccer and the amount of miles a player covers on average means it would make no sense bulking up like NFL stars. That said tho, you then have the likes of Adama or Akinfenwa both I think would manage fine in the NFL

@Mickey Finn you seem to be just a troll that purposefully just takes an opposite stance for the sake of it, you were all over these comments with your often insult laden, negative bullshit. Did you not have anything better to do with your time? If you actually need to refute someone's point, how about doing so with politeness, and address specific points raised or actually raise points yourself.

@Mickey Finn you seriously are a toxic human being, look at your comment above, it is a vile apropros of nothing remark that both raises no points or address any, and this isnt the only one like it among the comments on this video. Nice try at dismissing my valid critique with a poor attempt at gaslighting, I can't wait for your next insult laden, poorly thought out, dishonest reply.

Lol

Why is it even called american football? American rugby would make more sense

It’s the same in Australia We have our own code of football as well, so soccer is used here too. At least in Aussie rules football its mostly kicking not throwing like nfl lol. When I’m talking about football/soccer with people who are fans I’ll call it football, but talking to a normal person here you can’t do it cause they’ll think you’re talking about a completely different sport. It will still be called soccer in America and Australia even if it were to somehow shoot up in popularity, simply because there’s another code of the sport that’s already used and it would be too confusing to change now.

@@BrandonSG13 And that is one of the reasons Football will never reach the heights it's reached in Europe

@@hette457 American rugby and rugby are very different albeit similar

@@hette457 "the whole world" canada, austrlia new zealand, italy not being part of the world...

Not really, teams here have communities too. They’re just called franchises not clubs

United States not america south america is america too

its much more boring and has been around longer so of course people around the world watch it more

@@spongeboyonly Americans are people from the usa

@@tuque3669 adverts are way more boring and so is the scoring every 3 seconds in basketball. Baseball and hockey are the only us sports I can watch

@@tuque3669 Rugby is very popular around the world and it does not have commercials like NFL does.

Or shoes. I played barefoot. Or two bricks, just to make it challenging.

@@AIIXIII0 Not even 11 people You literally can take 10 people And split it 5vs5

@@debianlasmana8794 5v5, small goal. No keepers. That was fun.

I agree. If you're a fan of a football team you commit for life.

In Italy quite the same

Tbh, thats boring to watch

Love Hitc sevens/sport :)

HITC sevens has like Zidane 25 in his ranking 😭😭

@@yvans. lul

@@user-fo2ik1vt4b no it's informative! You should watch those types of videos to get more knowledge about Football! Stop watching skill highlights and start watching information video to understand the sport history

Yeah he used to play for my team feyenoord rotterdam he was an amazing player

Henrik was a top drawer player. He never really played in the premier league apart from a brief spell for Man Utd. Great striker

football is simple, but playing football as simple as you can its hard

it doesnt revolve around just scoring it revolves around money mostly

@@tahmeede9475 As a football fan, we can not deny our club owners care about money aswell...That's why they wanted to create the super league.

@john doughh boring? Boring is having a 2 hour transmission, 11 minutes of gameplay and the rest commercials, yeah thats the average game time in NFL, feel free to google it

Well NBA is exciting man.... Or at least it was when i watched it. So many chsnges in the score and teams with runs of 10 points but then the other one comes back with his own run and the public explode when the team coming from behind gets the lead in the final minutes...NBA was insane. Honestly i dont watch it now since all the idols are gone for me like Bird, Magic, MJ, Stockton, Malone, Hakeem, Reggie, Kobe, Shaq, Nowitzki, Duncan, Robinson, Parker, Manu... If you never saw the old San Antonio playing you lost a lot.... But since Lebron the Sport went Commercial, stars giving hugs everywhere going togheter to thensame team, lile talking in whatsapp all in tje same chat... I dont know, i just dont like their attitude anymore.

@@KaiserM3 I get what you're saying men, all sports are exciting as hell, I enjoy hockey a lot but there's no beauty other than scoring and comebacks While in real football, the videos with the most views are not the ones about comebacks or goals, but the ones about nugmets, dribbles, tiki-taka, defending, etc.

Quite the same in Italy

It's because the "ball" is one feet long.

Do not fear they only do well in sports no one else cares about that much like baseball, basketball and American football. And yes they always do the best in the Olympics but people only care about sports like swimming or archery, etc once every 4 years. Whereas football matches are watched every weekend so our countries care about it and are able to produce top quality players. It will be decades before the US is even considered to be good enough to win the world cup.

@nicos frangeskou That has been true for a long time but that's why I mention the changes to football that have been happening for a while now. The poor kids that play football on the streets became great players because of their flair and technique but the flair players in professional football are rarer these days and not as sought out. And regardless of that, most players that reach the top might have started poor but then were scouted and entered the academies of the biggest clubs of their region because these clubs have the resources to make them better, aka, money. So yes, the US being able to pour a lot of money into their sports has the potential to create great players.

@nicos frangeskou oh, of course. It will be interesting to see what transpires

I agree. The times when the likes of Pele, Zidane, Eusebio ect. learned to play in poorest conditions, but develloped insane skills with a ball are sadly gone. Not that there would not be enough children with such talent and skills, but those kids arern't wanted in club Football anymore in the same way. More and more tactics and strategy as well as hidden fouls are valued over skills, creativity and talent. Yes there are exceptions with the likes of Messi and C.Ronaldo, but there are fewer than in earlier times. The best example for me is the following The germans have a striker who is quite sucessfull because he is creative and unpredictable. (he might not have the ball skills of the 3 guys i mentioned at the beginning, but he has a talent for his position non the less) And what do the trainers/managers do: they aren't fond of him and even try to place him among the substitutes. Because they can't predict what he will do either. They'd rather prefer someone who always plays the same move or tactic over and over again, so they think they can "use" the player as they want to. Sadly. And with the american "methods" the things more valued by the football industry can be trained in an industrial way. (the skills of the 3 i mentioned above can not in my opinion). But one thing might remain: The bodily features of football players don't lend themselves much to cheap muscle and strength improving substances that are said to be prevalent in the 3 mentioned US sports.

@Haniff Azman ah, yes. The true intellectual response :p

Good one, you made my day

May I suggest "handegg" ?

@Cordon Vidger he’s right thoe ur a 3rd world country with a lot of money

@Cordon Vidger random spot in europe. Less chance of getting shot

@Cordon Vidger There's never a better place to live than home.

@@samuelpinder1215 a 2% less chance of being murdered in Europe than USA. You’re technically right but it’s close.

This is the dumbest statement ever... especially if you've ever been to a real third-world country. Meanwhile, w/o bailouts, a lot of European countries would still be in shambles from post-WW2 had countries like the US not given tons of money and resources. Heck, my grandfather left Europe in the 50's because it was in shambles and the US was providing all the military protection anyway, so he just skipped on over the ocean to enjoy the absolute dream that was the US from the 1950s to early 2000s. It's still good for most people now too, the internet just spouts lots of false narratives 😂. We go back to visit family in their country (not going to say which one, but it's a western European country) every few years and I wouldn't trade places with them in a heartbeat. Not for free healthcare or supposed "safety."

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Courtois for sure

Also games like cricket and baseball are just soooooo boring to play or watch. Tennis is way better cause you dont have to wait 10 mins between each swing.

Bro you can't say Americans to watch cricket.. As we indians don't care about American Sports They also don't care about cricket. The thing about football is,its the biggest sport in the world and evey country plays it.thats why this discussion about Football..

It most be called: " American Rugby ".

Because it originated from the same type of football as rugby and European football

Yeah it should..."American Hand Egg" would be my suggestion..because in my understanding - a ball - has to be round like a circle and not egg shaped.

@@michaelgrabner8977 lol i just imagined rugby was renamed eggby xD

Rugby used to be called football, too. The game was brought to america a long time ago and the rules were changed over time