I always found it funny when Americans say football (soccer) is slow and boring - because that's *exactly* what I think whenever I watch *American* football. Those guys are aaaalways stopping, it's really boring! (No wonder the big attractions and sources of debate of the Super Bowl are the commercials and the mid-time musical show...)

I'm American. 53. Played and coached most of my life. There is no sport that comes close (that is just my preference). I have spent years with talented athletes trying to explain many basic football concepts. For example, when I watch a game, I often don't even care where the ball is because I am watching what several players on both sides are doing without it. To break down a defense, an entire team of players need to move as one, but also move as individuals long before the ball comes near to them. It takes a long time to learn this for casual fans. A player may make dozens of amazing runs and never receive the ball as his goal is to change the shape of the defense and create space for his teammates. When you sort of get it, the game becomes exponentially more interesting. And that is only one example.

I wish others were as patient as you, I completely enjoyed the video. Great work. The line "soccer isn't popular in the US because they can't shove in commercials every 5mins" got me😅

Look at Leicester City's story (with Jamie Vardy) he used to work in a supermarket in lower leagues and won the prem with Leicester who also got promoted up the leagues. Madness 🎉

1.5 billion people watched the World Cup final 2022

Another really cool part about smaller teams meeting big teams in the National Cups is that they can possibly draw in huge crowds for the small stadiums, adding good money to the yearly cash flow

As a brazillian this video is so nice, cause the things that are been teaching are so natural for us who just watch and play a lot of football from child to elders. great video bruh

I love your openmindedness and your cheerful disposition! You seem like a kind person, you give off the good vibes hahah

A lot of people go purposfully to the bathroom during a game to force a goal by the "goals come always, when I am in the bathroom" rule 😂 Keeping the ball is not really a popular strategy when you ask the audiance.

Luton Town FC who recently got promoted and currently plays in the Prem, were in the 5th division of English football just 10 years ago. Successive promotions from League 2 to league 1 from the 2017-2018 and the 2018-2019 season. Pretty remarkable.

Man, it’s so refreshing to see your journey learning about the beautiful game! Your attitude towards it is commendable! Keep it up!

i really like that youre adding so much to the original video, makes it really worth watching!

Offside is actually super easy to understand. Some rules make it complicated, but if you want to understand the main concept. It's very easy: When a team attacks and a pass is played, then at the moment of this pass, draw a line where the very last defensive player is positioned. Any offensive player who is behind this imaginary line is marked as "offside", which in itself isn't illegal at all. But once an offside player receives a pass, the ball is rewarded to the defensive team. The main reason for this is simply to prevent "camping" near the enemy goal, which is very hard to defend.

One thing I didn't hear you mention when you were talking about how cool it is that lower league teams can be drawn against top sides in a cup competition, is the fact that it's traditional to split the gate receipts for these games. The dream for a lower team is to get drawn against a team like Liverpool or Arsenal or Man Utd and play at their tiny home stadium in from of five thousand local fans, and then to bravely earn a draw (tie) meaning you get to play the replay at Anfield or Old Trafford in front of 60,000 - 75,000 and be featured on television in front of millions. These kind of draws can literally save football clubs from going under in some circumstances. Others use these windfalls to build infrastructure etc. It's wonderful to see somebody so enthusiastic hearing about a sport they didn't grow up with. It's infectious, and made me take a fresh look at it and realise how special it is. Subscribed.

It's really nice the way you are learning it. You are clearly being mindful and really respectful to football (soccer) fans and trying to always explain why you don't understand the game. I wish the internet (mainly the trolls) were the same way. Ileraned about NFL way back in the 2000s and I was in a country where no one ever heard about NFL until about 8y ago when it exploded there. Try watching some really old games and some recent ones to see how different is the football (soccer) today. Even the ball changed SO MUCH. It is fun to see.

You have just earned a subscription, love the quality of the video and the sound. Love the way you intake how football works. Mourinho won the Champions League with a team called F C Porto from Portugal. who was an outsider back than.

Tottenham, who are in the top 6 teams in the premier league played an amateur team from the 7th level of the football pyramid (Marine) in the FA a few years ago, during covid. The players from the amateur team do had regular jobs like teachers, painters etc and they got to play again players who earn millions of pounds per year in a genuine competitive match. Fans of Tottenham also raised about £100k for the amateur team which helped them do a load of work to their stadium.

You might want to look for a video on one of the big stories in German football right now: Frank Schmidt and Heidenheim. Schmidt was born in the small town of Heidenheim Southern Germany, he played for 1. FC Heidenheim, then became the coach of 1. FC Heidenheim 17 years ago and has since led them from the 5th tier all the way to the top tier for the first time this season. He is the ultimate home town hero.

Dude, kudos to you for having an open mind! I grew up playing soccer, lacrosse, and football, and just totally got absorbed into the Premiere League as a kid! It’s so much fun, and it runs basically from August till May, there’s always games going on, and in the few months there aren’t, it’s transfer time (silly season). Hope you keep up with it, it’s easier now than it’s ever been here in the States!

Just subscribed dude. Your enthusiasm to learn the game is awesome. Next content should be you in England watching a game live. Keep rocking brother!

I’ve seen my local team (Cardiff, Welsh but play in the English leagues), get promoted, relegated, reach 2 of the cup competitions finals in 4 years, whilst in the 2nd tier. The rollercoaster of emotions you get in non-USA sports is insane

Young Lionel Messi got cought by Barcelona talent seekers and brought him to Spain at the age of 13, to Barcelona football academy. And with him .Barcelona became the first club to achieve the sextuple, winning six top-tier trophies in a single year . And Argentina is reigning world champion.

I'm a Brazilian, and congratulations for this video man. The explanation was awesome and your reaction too. And I laughed pretty hard about murphys's and the match, because it is really common to go for a beer or to the restroom and a team scores. Again, awesome video.

I love that you take such an interest in football. I grew up with this, so everything is rather clear to me, but I love your enthousiasm.

04:56 I like that the five mile run is exactly 5 miles

A couple things: As a smug European I’ve kinda loved watching Americans react to this explainer for some time by now. While basically everyone willing to watch it is generally respectful, I haven’t seen anyone show an understanding of the game like you. Your insights were refreshing!! Secondly - and something I’ve seen work very Well on other channels with the same focus - is the European fan culture. It is a World apart from what I’ve experienced when travelling the East Coast at least (maybe Iowa is crazy, idk lol). It can be amazing to see and be swept up in your local rivalries. The songs, the chants, the spectacles, the lore, the stories, and not to mention the legacies. Some of these clubs have had rivalries that go back more than a literal(!) century. Thirdly if you want to get into floorball in an easy way, this summer Germany hosts the Euros - the European Championship in football. The video aludes to it but basically the best players in Europe leaves splits up into their nationalities and play each other. The tournament is structured a bit more like playoffs and it is just amazing. A few nations Will actually play each other for the final four spots later next week. You should give them a watch!!

U can tell someone who really got so much interest in sport or just doing it for views, u seem highly interested in football and you smart enough to pick up on it quick, guaranteed soon you'll be explaining tactics to others! Great review bro!

A release clause is usually ridiculously high for very good players which are virtually impossible to pay

2004-05 Champions League final, Liverpool vs Milan, possibly the most edge of the seat come back of all time

11:10 Here in Portugal there is an old saying that says that "attacks win games but defenses win championships"... And Mourinho happens to be Portuguese...

Avid football fan from the states here i can attest that you are correct in your assessment of formations at around 8:50. Teams will typically start the game or showcase in the buildup a particular formation and generally try and stick to it, but it is totally fluid. The team i support, Arsenal, right now the coach has them playing in one formation when they have the ball and another formation for when they don't and it has been working very well.

You’re correct with your formation assessment, it usually varies within the game. On a basic level, teams tend to have one formation when they are attacking and one formation when they are defending. The ones you see displayed like the 4-4-2, 4-2-3-1 etc are typically the defensive ones, when the team DOESNT have the ball. Though that may start to change in years to come, you may see broadcasters show what teams might do in/out of possession more with their pre game graphics

You are exactly right about the release clause issue. Thats why climbing the league ladder is much harder than it sounds, for example in Germany. In theory a small regional club can work its way up all the way to the 1. Bundesliga, but - and thats a big but - there are other hurdles than just winning the matches. Usually, a club wins matches if it has really great talented players. But since small clubs dont have much money, they mostly unable to hold great players when the big 1. division clubs with the deep pockets come and offer the player millions. In addition to this, there are other problems to go to the pro leagues, kinda in the small print. For example, to be able to enter in the 1. Liga a club needs to have a proper home stadium, that can hold at least 40,000 spectators or so. And thats another huge expense, to build something like that. Basically, it can only work if you have a really potent sponsor. Like the Leipzig club when it got Red Bull as a sponsor (or even owner), or Wolfsburg with VW as a sponsor. But on the bottom line its still better than some American pro leagues, where the teams can even stay in if they never win a game.

I recommend the Welcome to Wrexham docu series. Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney joined(buy) the team a few years ago. You can follow their progression up from League 5, I think they're already in League 3. It's a lot of fun and you get a little bit more understanding of the history of football and the fans' attachment to their team.

Very nuanced video. Well done on the video chaps from London

Hey, you actually have one of those cup fairy tale stories happening right now in Germany. Saarsbrucken, a 3rd division mid table team, knocked out one 2nd division team and 3 Bundesliga teams, including Bayern Munich that is one of the best teams in the world. Saarsbrucken is now in the semi finals and it's really awesome to see how football can gather a community around such a story. Everyone, (but their oponents ofc) is cheering for them at this point. Also, in many countries, winning the cup grants you a spot on Europa league(in Portugal it does). So from time to time you get a 2nd or 3rd division team playing international games

14:42 happens in the cup occasionally. “Giant killers“ we call those teams.

In Cup competitions, the first few rounds are between lower quality teams only, to "weed out" as many as possible. Then the best of those carry on to play against the higher ranking teams (top 3 leagues). Occasionally, a low-ranking team goes quite far, eliminating professional teams. When that occurs in my country (Portugal), those low-ranking teams are nicknamed "tomba-gigantes", which translates as "giant-toppler".

Just wanted to drop by and say I loved your patience and willingness to learn. Coming from another yank who got into soccer again recently!

My team Ipswich Town have recently been victim of an FA Cup giant killing, at home to Maidstone United 1-2, who are 5 levels below us in the league system! This was an amazing achievement for Maidstone, and will be talked about for many years to come. Additionally Ipswich were in League One (3rd level) last season and gained promotion to the Championship, and this season currently we are one of the contenders for promotion to the Premier League, this is very rare and would be an amazing achievement for Ipswich, and again would be talked about for many years.

For the world cup 1994 in USA there were requests if it was possible to stop the play every 15 minutes for commercials

The fact about the league system can be very impactful for the club and a whole community. I’m from Geneva, Switzerland and a supporter of Servette FC, our club is really old and was famous back in the 50’-70’ and 80’ where we had most of our trophies (17 times Swiss champion in total, third club with most trophies in CH) but then in the 2000’ the club had a financial crises and cause of some bad management after that, we spent 12 years between the second and third Swiss league, in 2019 we came back in first Swiss league and this year we played the Europa League, the emotions are incredible and it brings back the people from the city to the stadium, to support the club of our heart

i subbed cause u called it by its right name, football. They are also keep passing to create space or an opening so they can score. the formations changes during the game depending on the situation I.E. attacking or defending or, keeping possession etc.

Ha! As a long time football (soccer) player and watcher, watching this has made me have a bit of empathy about players who sat down after a tackle for the first time, never thought of it as a rest. When I used to play 11 a side I got tackled two footed and nearly flipped in the air and got straight back up, I should probably have stayed down for a few minutes, my knee clicks every time I walk since and this was 15 years ago 😅😅

I have seen a ton of american youtubers react to this video. However, tht video thou informative it was clearly made by an american that (as he said) has been watching soccer for 5 years. It has several mistakes and skips several important subjets.

No commercial breaks during the game, except at half time. Instead they have advertising hoardings surrounding the perimeter of the pitch and sponsor's logos on the teams shirts that are highly visible during the games.

You should have a look at Dorking Wanderers, they started recently at the very bottom and are working they up. And of course you should watch Welcome to Wrexham. The FA Cup is open to the top ten tiers of English football (there are other competitions for many of the other tiers), but only a few teams from tier 10 get selected each year. It’s not often won by the lower tiers, but there’s a saying, ‘anything can happen in the FA Cup’, and it often does

Also last weekend a FA cup match took place between Manchester United (Premiership team) and Coventry City (Championship Team) it was so close was very nearly a high upset the highs and lows were immense. The FA cup is synonymous for lower league teams playing higher league teams and every year there is always an upset. It is so good to watch the cup runs

9:54 if you are interested in a very insane football match to watch, may I recommend the 2014 World Cup semifinal between Brazil and Germany. It's certainly a good example of why you can't go to the restroom during the match. I know two people that did - and ended up missing 3 goals. (The other semifinal, Argentina vs the Netherlands, was however quite the snore-fest.)

Formations differ based on teams and philosophies of their coaches. Some are very rigid and use only one formation every game, but it is one they seem to be very effective in. Another coach may switch around a few formations, to counter opponents and may also switch during the match, and teams may have different formations to default to when they possess the ball and another when they are out of possession.

Good video like the comment below I like your thoughtful patience - when the narrator said there are 3 teams down and 3 teams up in England a play-off system does come into effect , because only the top 2 teams in the lower league go up then those finishing 3rd to 6th have play-off games to see who is the 3rd team promoted - this was introduced to keep interest in the league competion up to the last match. My team progressed from League 1 to the championship this year despite finishing 10 points behind the 3rd placed team in the regular season

just the first 4 minutes i already liked the vid, the type of amigo you watch a game with

Adding to the wear and tear, the big clubs have players that play for their national team aswell. This included the Euro(or equivalent outside EU) cup and World cup with their qualifiers, so many of the big players have added games to just their club games every year. This also adds on to friendlies and training camps so the national teams can actually perform well in the qualifiers and main events.

Massive props to u for being so inquisitive. I think you'd be interested in watchin the Welcome To Wrexham show. Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney from Always Sunny bought a low league welsh football team and are taking them up the leagues, hoping to one day get them into the English Premier League. Good introduction for Americans on the magic and culture of the beautiful game.

love the enrgy. Us Europeans often overlook how new this must sound to a person who grew up in a country where the sports culture is so deeply eradicated AND fundamentally different from European Sports. Videos like this also help us look at our most famous sport from a different perspective. Not to mention the fact you are soaking in this information with the best mentality: I don't know, hence I listen and work my way through the information I gather. Here in Europe we are much more familiar with American sports' dynamics than most american people are with europan football, due to media coverage and how American culture is generally more close than European culture (here it's also fluid as it would be between California and Massachussets, I guess, also geographically speaking). It's crazy, great work, loving this.

Watching you get blown away by basic football explanations makes me appreciate the game ive loved my whole life even more. Please become a football fan man, hope one day you love it as much as me

Sub number is now 5 instead of 3 but still, the majority of the teams play from start to finish

I noticed you referred to the Premier League as "the pros", I'm sure you were just speaking colloquially, but in fact (in England) most teams are fully professional all the way down to the 5th level.

20:00 dont worry about the amount of games the premier league play, my team is in league 1 were we have to play 46 league games a season plus play in the 2 cup tournaments ( which we start earlier) the premier league teams dont enter until the 3rd round and there is also a smaller cup the lower leagues are entered into. 23:00 the release clause isnt in every players contract, it would be something negotiated to be added or left out when they sign the player or renew the players contract .

In 2020, my team Bayern Munich won the Sextuple. They got the Champions League, the Bundesliga, the Pokal, German Supercup, UEFA Supercup, and the FIFA Club World Cup. That was an amazing season! There is nothing in the world like watching your team win trophy after trophy in a season. The fact that it doesn't happen often makes it even more special! I grew up watching the NFL and nothing it has can hold a candle to football for me

Im glad you saw this video , because there is a huge point to... point. (Sorry for my poor Baguette english) The only nation in the world which doesn't have relégation system in his sports is the nation that's called "The Land of Opportunity". 😂 Man, we would be so pissed that we couldn't burn to the hell our greatest rival ! Imagine not being able to break down a close rival , that is unconceivable 😅

I'm sure others have mentioned it, but what you're talking about around 15:00 is what makes a team like Luton Town such a marvel. For a tiny club to climb up to the top flight from the fifth division in a matter of a couple decades is the kind of story that only this league system allows for! Look into Girona in LaLiga too if you're interested (though they have the big time investors behind Manchester City's success, unlike Luton, which I think is owned at least partially by fans).

Your genuine and that was a class video

You were talking about how the cup competitions between teams from different leagues sounds really cool, because of the opportunities it provides, you couldn't be more right, these games are crucial in terms of revenue for the smaller clubs, TV money, media engagement, a chance to showcase potential talent to be sold, merchandise, and higher ticket revenue as these draw the larger crowds, and getting new fans in the door as people will be more likely to take their families to games like these types of games. It's also a great experience for the players from lower leagues to get the chance to play in packed 30/40 thousand plus stadiums which must be an amazing memory When a smaller club beats a bigger one we call that Giant killing, and everyone loves when it happens

15:26 - that makes it look like Germany has 4 tiers only, no idea why he stopped there while giving some other countries more.^ I'm not a sports guy myself, but I know it goes right down to the suburb clubs. Which is one reason I tend to say we replaced wars with sport, from the local conflicts against "those guys over the hill/river/whatever" to playing against other nations.

My club Netherlands, Eindhoven, PSV. Four Americans play there, Dest, Tillman, Pepi and Ledezma, in the past we had Beasley. Despite the fact that it is a small sport in the USA, several American players play in the Champions league, including the four mentioned above.

There are playoffs in the lower divisions (leagues), for example: in the EFL Championship, England's second tier. The two top teams of this league get promoted automatically. But if you finish between 3rd and 6th place, these 4 teams will play eachother. 3rd vs 5th, and 4th vs 6th played over two legs and the scores stick, one team wins 1-0 in the first "leg", game if you will, that team will start with a 1-0 advantage in the second game, the score will read 0-0 (1-0), 0-0 being the score of the actual game and the (1-0) being the score for the 'series'. The winners of these two games will play a single match, the winner of this game will then be the third team to be promoted.

The way that they have gotten around advertisements in soccer is tons and tons of on-field advertising, on the banners next to the field, on the jerseys, next to the goals, on replay transitions, etc.

not every player will have a release clause and usually when there is one it's an astronomical price so when his team dont want to negotiate a sale of a player the team thats trying to buy him will be forced to pay around double what they normally would.

2:07 You're right. In the Bundesliga, a player runs an average of 11 kilometers (7 miles). Running after every ball is physically impossible. 4:10 Okay, was covered later.😂

6:50 I would also like to point out that defenders passing the ball amongst themselves is a way to get the other team to move forwards because they want the ball back, and the hope is they will leave spaces for the attackers to exploit.

One outdated information on this video is that each team is only allowed 3 substitutions throughout the game This used to be true, while in some friendlies and pre-season games they allowed 5 (or unlimited subs in some cases) But during the times of the Big V in 2020 they started allowing 5 subs in competitive games, which initially was meant as a temporary measure but ended up being beneficial and made permanent. Also, in games that can not end in a draw, each team is allowed 1 extra sub if the game goes to overtime. They now also allow a "free sub" in case a player gets concussed.

Yes Jose Mourinho is one of the greatest football coaches he's called "the special one" you should watch the video "How Mourinho won everything with no money" just shows how big of a role coaches play in football and depicts Mourinho's class in very good way

Regarding the option of founding a club and rising through the ranks, let me share an inspiring tale from the Club Dorking Wanderers. Despite starting in the depths of English football, at the 17th tier, in 1999, this club has climbed to the national league (5th Tier) through sheer determination. Led by their chairman, who wears multiple hats as manager and former player, the club has orchestrated an incredible journey, securing an astounding 12 promotions in just 23 years. It's a testament to the power of passion and perseverance in the beautiful game.

@iwrocker props to you for approaching this with excitement and an open mind, unlike many American footvall fans and their tired “oh, soccer is so boring, blah blah blah”. I’d love to sit with you to watch a game so I could further introduce you to the nuances of the sport. This year the Copa America is being played here in the US, so that’s a must see. And in two years we’ll have the World Cup here!

There are ads all over the players jerseys and all along the stadium, and players usually get ad deals for tv commercials that run year round.

The wonderful thing about football (soccer) is that it's much easier to defend than to attack. To score a goal you generally have to put together some kind of move that involves a few passes and someone beating someone, plus a shot past the goalkeeper (I'm generalising, of course; there are other ways), and if the defending team stops this sequence at any point, then the attacking side has to start again. That's why football is generally very competeitive, and why lower teams can beat bigger teams (as always happens in the cups). The other wonderful aspect of football is the goal. Because scoring a goal is a rare event, and often a single goal can decide a game, it means that just getting near the opponent's goal is quite exciting, and when the opponents get anywhere near your goal, it's very nervewracking. And the release and celebration when a goal goes in is just superb.

"I'll call it football, I'll do the right thing." Can I say it? ..... I love you LOL Greets from Germany!

Great video of your honest reaction and interest into football as an American. I would also suggest that you check out JJ Watt's recent interview in a show called the Overlap with great Premier League ex-players. He also talks about the journey of understanding football coming from the NFL to being a part-owner of an English club in the Premier League. It was a class act interview

Its quite common now for teams to adopt different formations for different phases of play, for example as the team progresses the ball forwards, one of the (typically) 4 defenders in the back-line will move into the middle of the pitch alongside the other 1 or 2 midfielders, this gives the attacking team numerical superiority in the centre of the field and are able to effectively pin the other team into their half. You have to have very good players to pull this off though. This is just one example, coaches have different formations and tactics for pretty much any scenario, the best ones do anyway

respect for calling it football

European Fotball is very entertaining for 2 aspects: Unlike sports like basketball, the player never trully has full control of the ball. The ball is at your feet, not in your hand. That means possession can switch rapidly (just like in hockey). The rules of football makes it so the whole thing is focused on the ball, not on your opponent (looking at u, american football). In american football its all about strength. Except for the quarter back, the rest dont require much ball skill. For crying out loud you run with a ball in your hand. Its all about how capable u are to not be drop kicked. In EU Fotball skill with the ball matters a lot. And i dont mean dribbling necessary. Go to a pitch and try to make a 30m pass.. and then have someone pass you a 30m air tall pass and try to stop the ball with your foot. You'll see the difference between catching a ball in your hand, and make a foot stop in football.

A lot of them scenarios have happened where teams have been promoted from division 1 to the Premier league over the seasons and much lower teams have beaten Premier league teams it all adds to the magic and as long as it's not your team it's amazing to watch, we take it for granted but now when you think about it it's really a great system.

Fun fact! Coventry (currently 7th in the championship with virtually no chance of promotion to the Premier League this season) have made their way to the FA cup semi final. They have pretty much no chance of winning, but IF they pull the upset, they will be playing in the Europa League next season, making them the first english team to play in Europe while not being in the Premier League the season before. Similar case in Germany where Bayer Leverkusen is the ONLY first division team left in the competition. If they lose, a 2nd (and possibly 3rd) tier german club will play in the Europa League

As a 60-year-old English fan, I started my interest in the game in the 1960s, in the schoolyard. We called the game "soccer" back then. Soccer is an abbreviation of "asSOCiation" as in Association Football to differentiate the game from the Rugby Football Union (RFU) and Rugby League Football. All of which are played in the UK.

This man correctly calls the sport, Football... for that alone u got my sub.

My local team Hull City went from League 2 all the way up to the Premier League. We had a few seasons in the Premier League, relegations, promotions and went back to League 1, we're currently in the Championship pushing for the playoffs to get promotion back to the Premier League (I'd rather miss the playoffs in the hope of another exciting Championship season) I can't imagine watching a sport without promotion and relegation.

Another thing to add. 13:39 Some big teams also have a secondary team which resides their reserves and graduated youth academy players (who play in a different team and in a separate league exclusive for youth academy players). And those secondary teams are placed at the 2nd or 3rd tier of the league, in addition to being given a rule exclusive to them that they can't be promoted even if they are eligible (being runner up, ranked 2nd in the league for example) or even win the league. They must play at least one league level below their main side and they are not eligible to play in the National Cup matches (Coppa Italia, FA Cup, Copa Del Rey etc). Like Real Madrid B & Barca B in La Liga 2, Juventus Next Gen in Serie C, etc etc. 19:15 this 2023/24 season is the last time where that will apply. For the next 24/25 season there will be a new system being implemented and removing the rule where those 3rd place group stage teams (out of 4 teams in each groups) to be moved down to Europa League's knockout stage. There's also a unique rule where the Cup winners will be automatically be eligible to play on Europa League in the next season if they don't already qualified via the league. Same thing with the winners of UECL eligible to play in UEL the next season, and UEL winners eligible to play in UCL next season. UCL winners will also be automatically qualified to play in UCL next season, even if they don't qualify in the league.

Remember, Championship, League 1 and League 2, are all professional leagues (League 2 players earn about 4000-9000 pounds per month)

Just pay the release clause... Paris had to pay 222 million to Barcelona for Neymar. Barca paid 86.2 millionen to get him.

8:40 yeah that's right, the formation is basic positions, throughout the game a 433 can turn into a 343 etc when the middle midfielder drops between the defenders and the full backs push up etc.

The open mindedness and curiosity was so refreshing to see. Also thank you for calling it Football. I think it’s a pet peeve for many fans when the US crowd calls it soccer. It’s the only one of the “football” sports where you can’t use you hands (unless goalie) and the biggest sport so I think it deserves to be the de facto Football 😂

Each half is 45 minutes, so most will have bought (or smuggled in) snacks, food and drinks and then during the 15 minute break between the 2 halves you can refill.

You should look up the super league and what happened When some owners tried to introduce a league like the nfl.

Some things I'd like to add or are fun to know: 4:56 Not sure how old the original video is but they changed the maximum amount of substitutions to five a few years ago 8:34 Some teams do that, e.g. when they're in the lead they'll sometimes change to a more defensive formation in order to keep their lead. The opposite can also happen. This usually happens after a substitution, when an attacker is substituted for a defender/midfielder or vice versa. 14:31 Leicester City FC from England actually managed to win the Premier League in 2017 while being in League One about seven years prior, they're currently in the EFL Championship competing for promotion again. Supporting a football club can be a rollercoaster sometimes. 14:55 Luton Town FC did just that, ten years ago they played in the National League (5th tier) and are currently playing in the Premier League, becoming the first ever team to rise from the National League to the Premier League 17:02 Two major European clubs actually got knocked out by lower tier teams this season. Bayern Munich (champions of Germany for the last 11 consecutive years and six time Champions League winners) lost to 1. FC Saarbrücken who play in the 3. Liga and Ajax Amsterdam (Dutch record champions and four time Champions League winners) got knocked out by fully amateur side USV Hercules who play in the Dutch fourth tier. Cup football can be incredibly fun to watch in the early stages of the tournament because bigger teams have everything to lose while lower league teams have nothing to lose, upsets happen basically every year which makes it very exciting to follow and watch. Anything can happen. 20:51 It is, and that's not even considering the international breaks yet. UEFA is already fitting in more games by expanding the Champions League (because UEFA is corrupt and more games = more money), much to the disdain of managers because their players will get much more strain on their bodies by playing these extra matches. We're already seeing loads of injuries because of this busy schedule and it'll probably get worse in the next few years. I really enjoyed this video, keep it up!

Smaller teams also get to share the gate fees with the larger teams within cups, so if a lower league team does well and ends up playing a premier league team. They can literally pay their whole years costs through the tv money and gate fees alone. It also allows big teams to test their younger or 2nd string players against a less (long term league) impactful match.

Thank you for using the word football for the sport that is known throughout the world as football.

If you want to watch a football game and don't know where to start, I suggest watching 2022 World Cup Final between Argentina and France, one of the best games ever And yes, couple leagues are really busy, England is the most football busy country of all, because you have around 40 league games (38 in Premier League, 42 in Championship etc) at least 1 Carabao Cup game (and it can go up to 5), the same with FA Cup so another 5-7 games if you go to the final and then there are European championships like Champions League, Europa League and Conference League : you have 6 group stage games and if you are good enough to go to the final, you play 13/15 games in Europe during a season I also have to mention that the best players are not only playing all these games for their club, but they also get called up to their national teams so it's another couple games for your country and if it's World Cup (or EURO/AFCON/Copa America/Gold Cup/Asian Cup) year, you have an entire additional tournament to play

With you talking about the FA cup and the potentials for “giant killings” as we call it, check out Lincoln city FA cup run in 16/17 season, first non league (national league) team to make the quarter finals, knocking out premiership, championship and league one teams along the way. Also talking about how you like the Idea of how a group of friends can set up a team and try to get to the premiership, look at Marc white and Dorking wonders formed in 1999 and they have won something like 13 promotions in that time and are now national league team (4 leagues from prem) they have a KZfaq called “bunch of ammeters”

I would add a big part of people just standing around passing is not just taking a break but it’s both the defense and offense trying to force the other into ideal scenarios. The offense is trying to pull a defender out of position so they can trigger a run to exploit a space that opened up to advance the ball. The defense is trying to pressure the offense to either make a mistake and give the ball away for a fast break or force them to kick the ball to the goalie who will then kick the ball long and then the defenders can win the header to get their team possession.