Professor Skye I kinda disagree with one thing your saying. Partially. I’m Irish and for that reason, I do always support any team playing against England. Even France, and Ireland has a worsening relationship with French football following 2009. But while politics does naturally have an involvement in soccer, soccer’s not a portrayal of politics and many times is an escapism from it. To support your national team isn’t to support its wrongdoings, but simply just to show pride in where you’re from. And if you don’t have pride in where you are from, you don’t need to support your country (lots of people from Liverpool don’t support England). Anyway, huge fan and love the videos!

I’m rooting for Morocco because ‘this time for Africa’. 2nd best World Cup song of this century.

If Morocco beats Spain , Portugal , and tops it off with France. Poetic

I'm rooting for Argentina to win it all

I think another issue that makes the choice of who to root for more complicated is that even though it’s true that Morocco was colonised by France and Spain Morocco has occupied Western Sahara since the 1970s despite the native people there wanting independence

Hello Professor Skye! I'd absolutely love to hear your thoughts on Del Toro's Pinocchio.

As a Canadian, the cool thing is the only team in the tournament to get a goal against Morocco (albeit an own goal) was Canada, and the Moroccan keeper, Bono, was born in Montreal (but was raised in Morocco). Speaking of your immigration point, our group was crazy in that our keeper, Milan Borjan was an ethnic Serb who was born in Croatia who ended up playing against Croatia in the group stage and Bono, was born in Canada and ended up playing Canada. Also with the first World Cup held in the Middle East, it's cool that Morocco has three different areas/cultures/people it is representing and has rooting for it; Africa, the Arab/Muslim world, and the people from the other continental soccer federations who want to see an non-South American/non-European make/win the final. I have to slightly disagree with you at 9:44 that "everywhere in the world that's not American, has a much more rigid sense of nationality" and say that what helps Canada become the number one country where this is the case (in my opinion) is 1) the bilingual/dual element that's been around since this country was colonized which married French/Roman Catholicism and English/Protestantism which, from the beginning, meant you couldn't define being a "Canadian" as one thing; 2) our small, but still more visible First Nations, Metis, and Inuit population that remind us that everyone here came from somewhere else (where in the States, their share of the population is much lower; hence the continued usage of terms like "Eskimo" and "Indian"); and 3) the official policy of multiculturalism that has encouraged the retention of culture even among communities (like Ukrainian Canadians who've been here for over a 100 years). I think this is really manifested in the fact that our Conservative Party has been called the only centre-right party that actively courts, and relies on, the immigrant vote to get into power (I think of the hijab wearing, motorcycle driving, dental hygienist immigrant from Iran who narrowly lost in a riding in Halifax in the last Nova Scotia election or the PhD/MBA female immigrant from Jamaica who's contested the federal leadership the last two times, even winning the equivalent of the state primary in Saskatchewan) and just the sheer number of first generation immigrants (i.e. people who were born elsewhere) who run for, and serve in our federal and provincial parliaments (iirc, Canada has more Sikhs in the cabinet than India).

Those are good reasons to support the french team professor. Now if we lose the final at least I will have a reason to be happy about the french victory. Greetings from Argentina🇦🇷

Im a big fan of Hakimi. He was born and raised in Madrid, went through Real Madrid's youth academy and even played for Real Madrid's first team. The standard for world class players with more than one citizenship is the national teams will try to convince the player to play for their teams and most (if not all) of the time players choose the better national team but not Hakimi. As one of the young stars of spanish football the spanish football federation was absolutely sure he was going to pick Spain's national team but to everyone's shock he chose Morocco instead. I dont know much ab Morocco but I'm rooting for Hakimi

This Is Profound, Thank You.

That Tchouameni goal was RIDICULOUS! It's the kind of thing I try to do in videogames and never succeed at lol. I'm based in Boston and tend to root for Marseille too (my family is from Provence), altho I admit I don't follow soccer super closely most years. Like you, I'll be rooting for France as I always do, but can't be anything but happy for Morocco if they were to beat us.

These soccer vids are 💥🔥

I think the entire conversation around which team to root for on principle is moot when at the end of the day you're watching a tournament organized by FIFA and held in Qatar.

Your wife seems to be one of the few sane Serbian people left. All the rampant nationalism among the majority of the population is one of the main reasons I left.

I'm rooting for Morocco because they are proving that they can still achieve great things that Europe dominates at despite being regularly exploited by these massive European nations. If England beat France it would be the same. Morocco winning tells athletes, hey you can still wing without playing for the colonizer. This can also boil down to the simple desire for David to beat Goliath.

Orgulloso de ser argentino🇦🇷🇦🇷😭😭😭😭well played france💟

I am from Qatar I visited ny Brooklyn I faced a lot of racism I have been for 5 month vacation because I am Arab and Muslim so I disagree with from my experience

But in America everyone is not just American? Seams like it's always African-american, Asian-amatican, and then American becomes the "white" or something. Just a thought^^ I wish people could just be people. I loved that video you showed =D This is indeed something about football witch is fantastic

this video is quite silly

Haven't watched the video but judging by the title it does matter. Morocco is a third world country and France is not.

Toc toc toc c’est le Maroc

I would love to support Morocco for all the other reasons stated, but as a lesbian, I cannot support a country where homosexual activity is deemed illegal 🤷