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    NFL Fan Reacts to Understanding European Soccer in Four Simple Steps: A Guide For Americans



    NFL Fan Reacts to Understanding European Soccer in Four Simple Steps: A Guide For Americans

    All y hello I hope you’re having an awesome weekend it is Super Bowl weekend for football or I should say American football here uh tomorrow but uh I’m over here learning about actual football you could say right football in Europe as we call soccer for some reason here

    In the us and we’re looking at understanding soccer or football in Europe in four simple steps a guide for Americans This is a main for a guide for me and I will admit I played some different sports growing up but I never got to play soccer I don’t have anything

    Against it I’ve just never gotten into it right never found the time of getting into it and I feel like it looks pretty energetic pretty wild and and a passionate sport from what I saw the other day looking at some crowds and Ultras at uh well football games

    Throughout Europe it was pretty intense this is from pen and paper it’ll be linked in description down below so you can check them out let’s just dive straight into this I think I have a lot to learn as far as I know everyone tries

    To get the ball and kick it into the net but uh I’m sure there’s a little more to it than that let’s take a look soccer in Europe in four simple steps a guide for Americans although from the outside it may seem complex and confusing to understand how soccer Works in Europe

    You really only need to know four things number one each country has its own Soccer League season each country has its own League okay see I didn’t know that I just arrogantly assumed it was like one League where they all face each other okay that’s kind of cool run from

    August to May in which each team plays every other team twice once at home and once on the road games are divided into two 45 minute halves and when the game is over the winner is awarded three points the loser zero and in the event of a tie each team gets one

    Point oh so you don’t go by wins and losses necessarily it goes by a point system and then you each get a point for a tie okay so that’s different right I’m used to I guess obviously American sports like baseball football basketball you go by your record right your wins

    And losses speak for themselves it’s kind of interesting going with a point system here after each team has played all the other teams twice the team with the most points is crowned champion of the league they get a big trophy a parade and the season is over there are

    No playoffs there’s no playoffs but more on that in a minute before the books so you just get the most points throughout the regular season and that’s it you win what I could have sworn there were like big games weren’t there like I don’t know what you would call them bowl

    Games Cup games something right BS are closed on the season there is still one small bit of housekeeping to be done number two relegation we’ll use the German league as an example every year when the German league has concluded and the champion has been crowned the three

    Teams with the least amount of points are kicked out of the League this process is known as relegation the three vacant spots are subsequently filled by the top three teams from Germany’s second division and unlike say baseball in the US teams in the second and subsequent divisions are not owned by

    Teams in the top division imagine if the Pittsburgh Pirates or Oakland Raiders had to fight at the end of each season just to stay in the league What If instead of coasting to the bottom for better draft picks they were fighting to The Bitter End to avoid the $40 million

    Revenue loss that relegated teams suffer in the first year alone okay I did not know that that is actually pretty freaking cool I like that okay that brings a whole new level of League wide competition if you’re at the bottom of the totem pole you actually really have to fight and

    Scr for your position um as a Bears fan right Chicago Bears right here like the NFL is the opposite people or or teams rather at the bottom are that are having a horrible season they just play horrible on purpose towards the end cuz they get rewarded for being

    Bad they get high draft picks the next year so they can get some better players this is a whole another level imagine getting kicked out so there’s teams you could follow and if they do bad they could just be gone and then the next year you’re watching they’re not

    There that is actually insane and I like it uh I also like how there’s a fact where you could be a team in I guess what would you call it like a lower league or an amateur league and you could claw your way into the big time is that is that a correct

    Assumption that is freaking cool CU he’s right baseball football like major sports the teams at the bottom there there’s really no incentive to try hard you can just kind of throw the season I mean they’ll never admit that but come on there’s no incentive or there’s no fear rather of like being

    Kicked out cuz you’re bad right you just get rewarded with good draft picks and stuff and then you can rebuild and whatever try and get better and you know that system’s not terrible I mean I get that that has its pros and cons as well

    At least you know like you still have a spot and you can get better and cl your way to the top but I I admittedly I think this is really cool that gives them incentive to really try every year cuz if they don’t they could get kicked

    Out not to mention the fact that in England nine different teams have gone financially insolvent within 5 years of relegation okay interesting enough you’re thinking what about that whole lack of playoffs part number three each country also holds an elimination style tournament referred to as a cup but

    Instead of being held after the 9-month league is over Cup games are scheduled in between League games normally in the middle of the week oh wow one additional perk about the cup system is that teams from all levels down to semi professional and even some amateur teams

    Are invited to play and if they do well can progress and occasionally even knock off a top team so every year these midweek elimination games continue until there are only two teams left who play each other in the Cup Final again really cool so you could be

    On a third or fourth level down you know a um amateur league but you could you could get a chance to play against like the pros at the top I think that’s actually really cool I’ve always been a fan of like you know upsets and underdogs where you can you

    Know have a bunch of more quote unquote normal people getting to play against Pros that really never happens much here in the US but I I’ve always liked that idea like what if a good college team just for an example got to play against the pros just to see what happens it it

    Might be pretty fun in a sense this is kind of like that you third or fourth level amateur teams could play a top team I think that’s cool right you never know you might see an upset it’s I think it’s good for them they get big experience

    Versus Pros and if not if the pros win well at least they’re solidifying hey we’re the pros for a reason we’re top level you know either way you look at it’s kind of cool right after 90 minutes A Cup champion is crowned they get a trophy and a parade so between the

    League and Cup games we get a great picture of who the best and worst teams in each country are agre wait a second you ask what would happen if the best teams from each country in Europe all got together and played each other good idea the resulting competition is called

    The UEFA Champions League without a doubt the single greatest Club competition of any sport anywhere in the world period think of the NC tournament but with better quality of play more than double the fan base and quadruple the enthusiasm wow yes Europe even has their own version of the NIT as well so

    Through a complex and drawn out process teams from all over Europe compete just to qualify for this tournament and starting each September the top 32 teams are put into eight groups of four each team plays the other members of its group two times once at home and once on

    The road okay come December the winner and runner up from each group move on to the knockout round and this is where club soccer is at its finest teams are paired up individually and again play one home and one away game with the winner from each pair moving on to the

    Next round until only two teams Remain the Champions League final is then held as a single game each year in May unless it’s the World Cup year this is the most soccer game of the year so they play multiple games in the first rounds but then that final game for the final two

    Teams is one game is that is that what I heard right um so like it’s all on the line big time pressure which is kind of cool I don’t mind the multiple games in in other rounds but when it comes that final round with the final two teams

    That survive I think one game is always better after 90 minutes A Champion is crowned the trophy is awarded parades commence and all clubs go on break until the mad fires back up again in August so to review number one each country has its own League number two the worst

    Teams are kicked out of the league and replaced by the best teams from the next division number three throughout the year each country also holds a playoff type tournament called a cup and number four the UEFA Champions League is a tournament involving all of Europe and is the most important competition in all

    Of club soccer and so they have the cup games throughout the year during the season right they also have the UEFA Champions League tournament during the season as well is that what I’m connecting here damn that’s a lot going on you got to understand this is all new

    To me so this is a lot at once I it’s not that hard to follow but it’s like it’s just kind of mind-blowing I I got to admit right I didn’t have any expectations going in of of good or bad but this is exceeding what I thought like this is exceeding my

    Expectations this is pretty interesting I I did not know the the leagues and and how everything works was structured like this I pretty much only knew fundamentals right that you have players on the field I know there’s fouls and tackles and you know you pass the ball

    Around and obviously your goal is to score a goal right and score the most to win duh I knew that I also knew that there were 45 minute halves you know 90 minutes total and that it can run past that correct sometimes it’s about the extent I knew

    I’ve seen games been passing over the years I barely I’m talking about seeing few minutes of games at maybe someone else’s house in the backr I’ve never sat down watched like a whole game just not something I’ve been able to do but I have to say this was really good

    Actually this was a lot of good information at once and I I can see how this could be a really great spectator sport as well I mean obviously amazing for the players highly competitive I can see that and and especially when you’re dealing with this point system when

    You’re dealing with if you’re at the bottom you can get chopped out of the league like that is crazy stuff I had no idea it existed like that then the fact that you have these great competitiveness uh High highly competitive tournaments where you have the best of Germany versus the best of

    France versus the best of Italy and so forth right that sounds like it would be really cool and really like crazy in Adrenaline fi I bet those are high stakes games so uh yeah I’m impressed I’m actually impressed for sure I mean that was soccer and four simple steps a

    Guide for Americans I’m sure there’s even more than that this was just a literally a three and a half minute super easy guide right I’m sure there’s a lot more to it but I tell you what for being an easy guide there with just the basics like I said this is

    Pretty complex and this has got me very intrigued so I can’t wait to see your comments on this anything you would like to point out I’m going to read and I do appreciate uh you know it’s a theme on my channel I I might put NFL fan in

    There in the title for the algorithm right but I was a lifelong NFL fan I’m not as much anymore I I’ll admit I don’t watch most of the games anymore whereas I used to watch religiously I used to play the video games the whole nine yards right um I feel like the league

    Has gone downhill I feel like NASCAR I put those in my titles I’m not the biggest Nascar fan like I used to be again 10 20 years ago feel like that Sports gone down hill so with a lot of American Sports kind of being up and down and not as great as I

    Remember them 10 or 20 years ago I’m open to new things I’ve really taken in Formula 1 I’ve really taken in rally I really lean towards rally even out of that matchup uh you know taking in new cultures even in the form of sports uh I feel like it’s pretty interesting

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    48 Comments

    1. @plantepedellen on

      I am fan of a team from tier 3 in Denmark. We relegated last season and half the players left the club… Now the team is 60% local youngsters and players from the area. We hope to get a promotion next season. But we have meet clubs from tier 1 in Denmark in the CUP, and we won. We beat FCK and OB from tier 1. FCK played 1/16 finals in UEFA Champions league against Man City Yesterday. So it is a mix of turnements and matches against clubs you meet alot and some you Dont meet many times..

    3. @mats7492 on

      GErmany alone has about 30.000 football (soccer clubs).. and most clubs have more than just one team
      the german football association has 10(!) million members..
      there are literally millions of people in germany playing amateuer football in a league..
      the top 3 leagues are the professionals

    5. @Pipe_Avileins on

      Another thing that really pumps the thrill is at the final match of the champions and as well the other great tournaments (like the world cup), when the teams are tied in goals at the end of the match, you have 30 minutes overtime (two 15 minutes halfs with a 5 min intertime), and if they are still tied when that ends, the winner is determined by a penalties shootout: five for each team, if both score them is a 1 on 1 until a team loses it or the goalkeeper stops it❤.

    6. @LeeMoore-tu4gr on

      You should check out the Highlights from just over a week ago in the English FA Cup where a team from the 6th division beats a Team from the Championship which is one level below the Premier League. Check out Maidstone United defeats Ipswich Town

    8. @Darkmatterdwarf on

      For the Cup tournament you missed a very important part: As a small town amateur club, you don't need to win to win ( 🙂 ). The amateur club always gets homeground and most small teams rent the stadium of one of the larger clubs around in order to sell tickets to the large fanbase that follows the bid teams. If you normally play with 200-300 viewers and get a chance to sell 30k tickes in one go, there is your budget for the youth teams for the next years, the renovation for the clubhouse…. This windfall money is the best boost to the base of the sport you can hand out.

    9. @robdin81 on

      What surprises me the most is that the US has a super merit based culture (the best earn the most) but not when it comes to sport. US soccer, NFL, MLB, NBA all have the same structure with regards to sport competitions.

    11. @itskyansaro on

      German Cup is very cool, we often get Surprises, when a 3rd or 4th Division team manages to Give a 1st Division team a Run for it's money. currently the German Cup is still in it's Quarterfinal phase, since last week the Last of the Quarter Finals had to be moved because of bad Weather, But on the 12th of March the 3rd Division team of saarbrücken will face the 1st Division Team of Borussia Mönchengladbach, and saarbrücken has already eliminated two other 1st Division teams, Frankfurt and Bayern Munich from the Tournament.

    12. @FeelMetalMan on

      there's another european cup called UEFA Europa League that has the same structure as the Champions League, but involves the second line best teams of major leagues, best teams of minor leagues (according to a league rating system) and top league country's Cup winners also get a spot into it. It's considered a meh trophy against the Champions League and gets far from its revenue, but the winner gets a spot in Champions League, which is huge.

    13. @nicoladc89 on

      Just to give some numbers.

      UEFA has 55 associated national federations

      The biggest are Football Association (FA) in England, RFEF in Spain, FIGC in Italy and DFB in Germany.
      England has 92 pro clubs, Spain 42 pro clubs, Italy has 100 pro clubs, Germany has 56 pro clubs.

      124 clubs partecipate to the FA Cup (736 counting the qualifications to the Cup), 44 teams partecipate to the Coppa Italia, 126 teams take part to the Copa del Rey and 64 to the Deutscher Fußball Bund Pokal.

      The English Premier League, the Italian Serie A and the Spanish La Liga has 20 teams, the German Bundesliga has 18 teams.

      The English Championship has 24 teams, the Italian Serie B 20, the Spanish Segunda Division 22, the German 2. Bundesliga 18.

      The English League One has 24 teams, the Italian Serie C has 60 teams (in 3 divisions) and the German 3. Liga 20.

      The English League 2 has 24 teams.

      These are the professional leagues in the main federations. But there are other semi-professional leagues, for example in Italy Serie D (166 teams), Eccellenza (500 teams), Promozione (903 teams), Prima Categoria (1585 teams), Seconda Categoria (2157 teams) and Terza Categoria (1817 teams). And yes if a Terza Categoria team continue to win could be promoted up to Serie A. For example Chievo Verona in 1968 was in Seconda Categoria less than 40 years later played for the qualifications to the Champions League.

      The best teams of each league compete in UEFA Champions League, this year 78 teams have partecipated to the qualifications for the finale stage and 25/27 was directly qualified. So around 100 teams.

      But it's not the only European cup, there are the Europa League and the Conference League.

      For example, in Italy the First 4 teams in Serie A play the Champions League, 5° and 6° play the Europa League, 7° the Conference League.

      All of those professional clubs has not only the main team, but also the youth teams, for example AC Milan has 12 teams from Under 8 (with children less than 8 years old) to Primavera that's a professional Youth team. Davide Calabria, the captain of AC Milan, started to play with AC Milan when he was 11, Paolo Maldini when he was 9 or 10. Totti started to play for Roma when he was 13. Messi started to play for Barcelona when he was 12.

      The U19 teams of the clubs who play the Champions League plus other 32 U-19 teams partecipate to the UEFA Youth League.

    15. @control2XS on

      4:25 so a small correction, you said "the next year you're watching, and they're not there?". They aren't there IN THAT LEAGUE, but they do still exist, they just drop to the league below. With that comes smaller crowds, smaller teams, smaller revenues etc etc etc.
      Imagine being a Raiders fan, and after a dismal season you CAN still watch the NFL, but if you want to keep watching the Raiders you have to travel around the country watching them play in small towns against local teams.

      And yes, "small" teams in lower leagues can absolutely claw their way up (although usually it takes a lot of money).
      If you're interested in those kind of stories I would HIGHLY recomend the documentary series "welcome to wrexham", which follows the story of the Wrexham team that was bought by Ryan Reynalds and Rob McElhenney. It's a great way for Americans to start learning more about football (not just the sport, the whole culture!)

    17. @control2XS on

      Something to notice about football clubs as well is that they aren't really franchises – notice how all of the names in this video are essentially just European cities.
      So while in the NFL for examples franchises may move cities, in football your club IS your city, the two are inseparable (we dont talk about MK Dons), and often the fortune of your city and the people within it can be closely tied to the fortunes of your football club.

    19. @gjalie on

      and then there's also besides 'club teams' players called up to play for their country qualifying and playing for continent based cups like the European cup and ultimate the World Cup each of which is played every 4 years

    23. @colinafobe2152 on

      my local team from my country went bancrupted, off… now i am following an english club for decades. they are very historic club. in fact they are responsible for US soccer league. since i start supporting them they were in 2nd rank, promoted to top english league, then were relegated to 3 rd level, then progressed up to top level. played in europe cups too… soccer system is extremely exciting

    25. @Echo30Mike on

      In England, we have the FA cup and the league cup. They're both knockout type events culminating in a trip to the national stadium and the further one goes in those tournaments, the more money they earn ( TV money, gate receipts and prize money ). The FA cup I believe is the oldest football tournament in the world. Typically the top 2 tiers will not enter that tournament draw until the 2nd or 3rd round. However, the tournament doesn't actually start at round 1. They have pre-tournament rounds where the teams from say the 8th, 9th and 10th will play eachother. The initial sets of matches are draw out of a bowl. Each team is allocated a numbered ball. the balls are put in a bowl and somebody pulls out balls. Each pair of balls drawn decides who plays who. The first ball drawn gets home advantage, the 2nd ball drawn then plays away from home. Usually that far down the league structure, the teams are part time teams and the players are unpaid. Universities have such teams, but all the players are amateurs. Right at the very start of these pre-tournament games, you'll have a handful of teams that also have a fanbase – but their fans are typically in the hundreds. Eventually as the pre-tournament 1st game creates a winner of each game. They go back in the hat and somebody draws out the balls to decide who plays who in the next round and so on. Eventually, as the rounds progress and the team numbers reduce, you start to get towards the proper start of the FA cup first round. In the first round, you will have a mix of teams from the 5th to 10th tiers that won their earlier rounds with all the other teams from the 3rd and 4th tiers playing their first games of the FA cup. It is not illogical to expect a few teams in the 3rd and 4th tiers ( who were once very successful and once plied there trade in the top tier and now through whatever reason, have fallen on hard times and have dropped down 2, 3 or 4 leagues ) to be drawn against a totally amateur team. Some of these teams that were once successful, have 20000 – 35000 fans and now they're playing against a side who has 100 " part time " fans. Every year there are cup upsets. You see eventually, when the bigger top tier teams start taking the cup seriously, they'll stop fielding their reserve players or their 2nd string team, but generally, the bigger of the top two tier teams will usually not really make a concerted effort to win that cup game, because they might be prioritizing promotion or avoiding relegation. By the time the 5th round or 1/4 final starts to happen, you're usually left with 95% of the teams still in it – who are all in the top tier. Ultimately, it's only ever the biggest teams in the country that will lift the trophy, so some teams do not take it seriously. But you will get some teams from the lower reaches ( tiers 4-7 ) that might get to the 5th round, the quarter final or the semi's. In England, we love supporting the underdogs. The bigger teams might have hundreds of millions worth of players sat in their reserves team, but feel they can push aside a team of amateurs. However, as often happens, when the game then gets televised and there's prize money, the big teams that are used to playing on perfect pitches playing nicey nicey come up against a team of amateurs who see it as their biggest game of their lives and on TV. The underdog then might scrape a 1 nil win and that is called a giant-killing. It happens. The earlier stages of each round are played over 90 minutes, with extra time and penalties if its all level. At the penalty shootout, literally either side could win. the later stages ( around the 5th round and onwards ) if it's all square after the 90 minutes, they then play a replay at the other teams ground. If that game is then all square, it goes to extra time and penalties. The TV and prize money on offer for winning each round increases, but the bigger teams are generally not bothered about the extra revenue, but the smaller clubs still left in the competition, its an absolute lifeline. Imagine having a 4th or 5th tier team in the 1/4 final playing against Manchester United at the home ground of the underdog. Man Utd put out a weakened side and it ends a draw. That home game at £10 a ticket ( 2000+ fans ) + TV money for the smaller club can be the difference between breaking even or being in debt at the end of the season. Now, consider the replay. It's now being played at Old Trafford with a capacity of 70,000. The underdog scrapes together 10,000 fans, and Man Utd bring in 60,000 fans. But the ticket is £40. The underdog will get a huge slice of the £400,000 generated from their own fans buying tickets. £400,000 to a side low down the tiers, might mean they can hire a proper coach. Buy a minibus, maybe even buy a few players better than what they have and possible go semi-pro. This is what happens. Some years ago, there used to be a gentleman's agreement that the losing team would receive all the prize money, tv money and gate receipts from both teams – because the winning team of that round would go into the draw for the next round where the prize money increases. This allowed so much money from the game to filter down into grassroots football. It may have changed since that used to be a thing, but a good cup run by a lesser side can turn around that teams fortunes for a number of years. I remember Burton Albion getting to play Middlesbrough in the semi final replay and getting robbed by a dodgy decision from the referee. The money they made from that cup run helped them grow and they came through 4 or 5 tiers. There really is no cup tournament anywhere in the world like this. The cup final is usually beamed live to around 100 countries around the world and is usually watched Live by around 1/2 billion football fans.

    28. @garyjohnson9459 on

      As a fan of yo-yo side you get completely different season normally. You go up to the next league and struggle like hell and end up being relegated however you are too good for the lower league and dominate. So we have a season of ‘oh god’ please get at least a point from this. To basically being a lower league Man City and bossing it. Kinda fun and definitely not boring.

    33. @verenasbitch on

      Difference is. In most european leagues down to the 4th division they are pro clubs.
      The players there are no millionaires but they can live with that money

    35. @elchefreedom5063 on

      The real football, is a spectacular sport. Ball toss/American football is amazing but it’s not played with feet. Rugby uses their feet more often than American football.

    36. @Camuska on

      About relegation :
      My local team was part of the french Ligue 1 for years when it was relegated to amateur level due to financial crisis in the team management. Basically, back to league 5. It was horrible; a knife in the back. But it had another effect : the local fans went HAM to support the club. We were the biggest crowd in league 5 history. We cleansed the corruption in the team and went slowly back to ligue 1. Now we have one of the most popular team president, our finances are examplary and our fans are considered one of the most loyal crowd in the country. This very regional support also gave us regional marketing help. And it made the stadium into a family place. Before, only hardcore football fans went to the stadium. Now men, women, little boys and girls come all year long (stadium nearly never not full) and it the safest one in the country for kids and families.
      So while it was long years of suffering, it was also the rebuilding era and ultimately, it made our club the child of the whole region. We all love it, even people who dont care about football, cause its good image.

    39. @TheAlexDekker on

      Everyone loves a cup upset! This season in England, Maidstone United have made it to the Last 16 (round before the Quarter Finals); they are the first team from the 6th tier of English football to make it that far since the 70s!
      In the last round, they beat Ipswich, who are in the 2nd tier, and currently big contenders to be in the Premier League next season – so big upsets do happen!

    40. @malcolmsleight9334 on

      Taking England as the example, the big cup competition is the FA Cup. There are around 1,000 teams participate in that competition throughout the various stages. Almost every year there is a surprise where a lower level team takes out a big name team. One of the more recent was a few years ago when a team from Bradford, who at the time were in like the English 3rd or 4th tier, made it far enough that they were drawn to play Chelsea, who are Premier League team. At half time, Chelsea were winning 2 – 0. Bradford came out for the 2nd half with nothing to lose and won that game 4 – 2. The other side of the small teams playing the big teams is that a small team going to a big team stadium is what the small teams want because they get a percentage of the gate money. That money alone can keep a small team solvent for a number of years.

      Also to note, the cup games are not seeded. It is a random drawing that decides who plays who. Additionally, England has 2 cup competitions during the season. The primary one is the FA Cup, while the other is the EFL Cup.

      On average, the big name teams in England can play as many as 60 games in a season, between league, cup and Europe.

    43. @askesismusic on

      If you wanna watch an AMAZING full football match, available on YouTube is the 2005 champion's league final Liverpool/Milan. Legendary players, epic moments, crazy scenario. A treat.

    45. @Turtlefast235 on

      Thank you for your honesty in admitting that you did not know much about the world's game, and for your respect for the sport, not acting like some Americans who are quick to dismiss and bash the game and its supporters!👍

    47. @marius8648 on

      For the amateurs versus pro part, other cool things about that whan you're an amateur playing against pro and meet them on the field is pretty cool.
      When a amateur team win it's also very cool and their story are remember (and if the pro team is your worst enemy team you can laugh at them for a while) and if you support a bad pro team you have a chance to be happy because you normally have wins against amateurs and even if you do bad at the season and you can't win anything anymore (like being 3-11 in american football) you have matches to root for, a few matches and upsets are sufficient to win a trophy

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