NFL Fan Reacts to Football Explained For Clueless Americans

Alright, they finally dive into how European soccer works or should I say soccer actually works, this is European soccer

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Americans like me, so yeah, so far I only watched one video explaining how the leagues work and I was actually very intrigued. at some point it will be linked at the end, the cover circle will be linked below so you can see them, let's jump right in. I'm ready to know I wish I'd known a year ago, this is my crash course on how to translate soccer to American America I'm going to assume you know the rules, the biggest difference between American sports is how offsides and offsides work. clock offsides.

I would have no idea that it is clearly different from offsides, er, you know, American. NFL

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, CU, obviously the offensive defense is set and if someone moves before the ball is put in play, then that's offside. As far as I know the ball is constantly in play in soccer or I'm going to say soccer so when I say soccer. you know what I'm talking about if I'm talking about the NFL I'll just say NFL

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uh the clock I know is like 90 minutes that's all I know about people getting upset because the clock goes up instead of " Get over yourself, it doesn't really matter, Americans also get angry because the clock doesn't stop and games almost end when the referee wants them to and you actually adapt to this pretty quickly, the game lasts an hour and a half." You will have opportunities to score and if you can't score then it's not the clock's fault, right?

Some people, and when I say people I mean both the discussions I had with other Americans and with myself six years ago. So people think that soccer is too slow and when we Americans look at a soccer field, something in our minds we think it's like playing hockey or basketball alone on a big grass field and those types of sports like to go at full speed, like most games, so when two players are standing around passing the ball back and forth, we wonder why they don't try to move forward, they just go and, on the other side, we wait for the defenders to attack the guy with the ball instead of just standing 5 feet away and well that's not how I would see it and here's why in the miniscule amount of football I've seen on TV or whatever that catches my attention , from certain angles you can see even on a television screen how huge the field is, as far as I know, right, I don't use calculations here.

I'm pretty sure these fields are really big and you're covering a lot of distance. I don't know much about the sport, but I do know that you have to have Hella cardio, you know, the ability to be able to maintain the race in this field is huge, so I think the sport where you are constantly moving I wouldn't call it slow, How can they manage to go from one field, you know, from one objective to another? a couple of seconds, that is not possible. The field is too big. Hockey and basketball are played on very small courts, so if you're doing a fast break from one side of the court to the other, it's easy since you're not covering a huge amount of distance, so yeah, I don't necessarily agree.

I agree that it is a slow sport, it is simply much bigger, it is a different dynamic. What you're doing, the key difference is that soccer fields, sorry, soccer fields are much bigger than basketball courts and hockey lines, and if you tried to press the entire field for the entire soccer game. , you would be exhausted and probably lose, so the pace of a football game is actually much closer to that of baseball. Most of the game will consist of guys just passing the ball slowly, not to mention. NFL football is slow, you have a play the last six or seven seconds and then everyone sits for 40 seconds and then they walk with the ball and then it's another six seven, so you know, it seems like every few minutes there's a time out and there's a commercial.

Breaking up the slow pace of American football is really peaceful and then suddenly it will be followed by a short burst of extremely fast action. Basketball players are estimated to run an average of 2-2 miles during a game. Soccer players can run seven, if not 10 miles. During a game, wow, I think of these, the hardest on your body would be tennis and soccer, or soccer. I don't know why he calls it football. That's a little confusing because I know everyone is going to question me in the comments, but Yes, I think you run huge distances in soccer.

I'm going to call it football. I'm going to do the right thing. And then in tennis. You don't run very far. You are running. In fact, it's almost worse. I feel like Tennis players also deserve big props because you run in short bursts and then stop and then you run and stop and jugging and sliding like buddy, it's very hard on your joints and running these short distances is high intensity, so I think tennis is really difficult. also, but yes, there is no doubt that football requires incredible stamina and remember that you only have three Subs in the game, so most of these players will play the entire game.

I didn't know that, one thing that Americans will appreciate is that other than halftime, there are no commercials, so it's like the anti-NFL, which is cool, that's cool, it's an anti-NFL, damn, so Maybe that's why soccer isn't as popular in the US as the other sports we have here, because they can't shove ads in your face every five minutes. maybe that's why I think fans would enjoy it, you know, corporations wouldn't, no matter where the ball is, teams are always potentially about 30 seconds away from scoring, which creates this kind of constant tension and It also creates a scenario where you can never really run to the bathroom or grab a drink.

Oh wow, football players seem to have a reputation for being lazy in the US because they don't always come right back after falling to the ground and get back into the play. Certainly, some players embellish things and others go overboard, but I don't think it's generally a problem that people think they're being made fun of in Europe too, so here's a fun experiment to try. Next time you have a few minutes, go to a local field and then quickly draw spaces around that field for about 10 minutes and then suddenly run down the middle of the field as fast as you can, you will go to the middle of the field while you're still running have one of your friends push you to the ground and if you can get back up and keep running then you can keep complaining about those guys most of the time they're just getting a little rest yeah. he has a point, you run around there and then you run back and forth as hard as you can a couple of times and then they push you down, yeah, look how, look how you pop up and keep going, no, I fully admit it. down like, oh, fuck this, I'd be done, man or I want, we just keep playing with them or the teams will be a little tired, so who cares, it's not a Matthew Riley novel, the other reason the boys slowly pass the ball around is that one of the strategies currently employed by most teams is simply to maintain possession as much as possible.

Obviously this is no different in American football or why Russia is so good at hockey, the other team can't score when you have the ball to the right so teams just pass the ball back and forth and even pass it back to their own goal because it's better to go back with the ball than maybe make a risky pass and let the other team have the ball. I'll see a team make like 50 passes without the other team touching the ball, which can take a long time, but then they'll fall and score and that's the best thing there is, it's about waiting for the right moment. moment for things to line up, yes, I'm sure one of the negative aspects of sport is yes, when you go to have a drink or decide to go to the bathroom or whatever, that's when the action will happen. right, you don't get that Conant commercial break to do that, that's just Murphy's Law, that's how it works well and everything comes together at the right time in terms of positioning and similar formations, usually you'll have three or four numbers like 4 42 or four 3 three or 4 2 3 1 so yeah this is what I don't know anything about by the way basically each team can have different strategies but also different formations so this is a 42 31 so that some computers could run this. constantly and other equipment may perform totally differently, right.

I'm sure there are advantages: some have a more defensive mentality, maybe others have a more possessive mentality. It's in a way that they surround the other team and when they get the ball they can pass it. around like in some kind of network, or teams just play with different formations, uh, throughout the game, you know, maybe it's not as simple as, oh, this team has this formation all the time. I don't know, you can, you can. Consider that, if you like, these numbers will always add up to 10 and then the goalkeeper simply assumes different positions including centre-backs who simply remain as defenders and then full-backs are both the left and right back who will defend but then usually , they will also join the attack and then we have midfielders like a center.

I've never heard those terms. I've heard of midfielders, but not the first two. He mentioned a midfielder who can go both ways. He is fine, an attacking center. midfielder or a central defensive midfielder, okay, and then up front we have like a left wing and a right wing, sometimes a center forward and a forward in front, who will do the JW of him to score goals. I've never heard that either way. Mention that makes it easier to get into football is that you can legally watch some old matches on YouTube. This is different than American Sports, why isn't there a website I can go to watch any game like iTunes?

Sports, that's great. I might have to take a look at some old games for reference if they're really easy to find like that. I appreciate that that's really cool for a lot of athletes, it's annoying to think they would do that. I want to show you some history, right, many sports are difficult to access. I can pay $2 to watch any game in history, as if all of these games are recorded somewhere they exist, yes, but I can't watch a 1986 World Series game unless an international pandemic shuts down the world and there's no sports, they just put it on NBC or something, come on, so anyway that's a good point, so keeping the ball and attacking is known as positive football, you're always trying to move forward. this is what most teams do this is what people like to see a little more it's kind of exciting it's more exciting to see it that way right but of course there's always a yin to the yang so the yin is this guy called José Mourinho and he basically says I don't want the ball I'm going to stay back with my players in front of my goal and you're not going to score and then from time to time when you're falling asleep and all your players are up in my zone let's go We're going to steal the ball and we're going to run and score, which sounds a little risky except it really works if you do it right.

José is considered one of the best coaches out there and he has the trophies to back it up, that's great, there are a lot of important tournaments with teams that, I'm told, if you try to make that team keep the ball all the time, like most cooches they would have destroyed them, they were too old and would have simply worn out and been wiped out, but it has a strategy based largely on defense first, but it may end up working really long term because it is very difficult for the other team to score, if done well and then they get tired.

When they get sloppy, you end up stealing the ball and then you can charge in as a unit and you know you'll probably score the ball after all. That's great. Wow, by playing this negative defensive strategy they were able to win and even though These teams employing the strategy seem to get a bad R for playing negative football instead of positive because keeping the ball seems to be the ultimate goal right now, so obviously There is more thought put into it than what I have described here as Diego. Simeone and Atlético Madrid have been using this negative strategy for years.

The four main football countries in Europe are England, Spain, Germany and Italy. England has the Premier League, Spain has La Liga, Germany has the Bundesliga and Italy has Syria. Okay, so take a country. They are all the same, but to take a country, England, the Premier League consists of 20 teams, each team plays other teams once at home and once away, and these leagues do not have playoffs, you get three points for a win and one for a tie. with the most points in the season and this can and has come down to the last day of the season before, in the US our leagues have pretty much the same teams every year so if you get stuck even if you start losing on purpose, in reality you will berewarded with the first pick in next year's draft, that's what we alluded to in the last video when I was just learning about the leagues and I like how you have incentives to be good at European soccer or American soccer because if you're bad , you can be expelled. of the league, I think it's mind-blowing, I think it's really crazy and it's something I've never heard of here, the teams are incentivized, almost if they're not Top Dog, they might as well be bad so they can be rewarded with like more cap space new draft picks all these different things right, it's totally opposite, it's weird if you finish last in one of these leagues, you literally get kicked out by the league, but call it relationship because it sounds better before we continue , here is a brief comment on the MLS Major League Soccer is the top league in the United States, it is different in many ways from the European leagues, there is no relegation, so the teams do.

It stays the same from year to year and there is a C salary, so it's like any other American sport. Talent-wise, I guess, globally speaking, it seems to be a good league, but it's certainly not on par with any of the European leagues. The Premier League that is at the top below them is a league called the English Football League Championship. The three teams that finish bottom of the Premier League are relegated to the Championship for the next season and replaced by three Championship teams. three teams in the championship were relegated to League One, the bottom three in League One or related to League 2 whose losers go to the National League whose losers are no, no one really cares about them except their moms in this part, but you get the idea unless you really get into football, you'll never hear anything below the Premier League again just so you're aware of what's going on there, this system makes a but I think it's really cool, ya You know, he alluded to the last video I saw.

Here you know there are different tournaments I think, and then the fact that you can get promoted, I think it's great that there are certain scenarios where someone down here says we're talking about the Premier League, then someone in an efl Championship or even up League One, they may be able to play a Premier League team. I think it's cool to have matchups like that where you can have a second or third tier League team that can play against the pros at the top. I think it's a great opportunity not to mention how great it would feel if you were a League One team, you're really really good, you go up to Efl, you're really really good again and you can sneak into the Premier League after a couple of years or something that is very interesting to me and is something that I have never heard of in sports with any of the sports that I have followed here.

I just think it's interesting stuff in the first place just because you're near the end. of the standings, your games can still be extremely important, they still count because you are no longer trying to win the league, but now you are literally trying to stay in the league and the higher the league you are in, the greater the control. what you will get. get from TV contracts, so it's a big deal, it also creates this kind of theoretical meritocracy where you can start a team with a bunch of guys anywhere in the country, get into some sort of little league, and then, Finally, reach the top.

The Premier League leverages, that's like trying to take a single baseball team and get to the majors while the other better teams with bigger pockets are trying to buy all your best players all the time, but for the teams in the top. winning the Premier League sounds easy enough, maybe you play one game a week, but that's the problem, there are other things going on here, so there's also the carabal cup, which is a tournament open to the top four leagues in England, and then there is the FA. Cup that has been going on forever and is literally open to all similar teams in England, so more than 700 teams participated in this tournament last year.

Imagine if every major and minor league baseball team had won a giant tournament. That's great, could any team win? Yes They Could, that would never happen here and that's why I think it's cool, yeah it doesn't have to happen all the time, but the idea that just once or twice a year all these teams at various levels can play each other It's something interesting. a spectator's point of view on, let's say, baseball because that's the case for me, although I'm an NFL fan, but I'm actually a lifelong baseball fan, probably the most that's why I played the most while grew, even below AAA, a single baseball and then even down to just local guy that's not really attached to Major League Baseball, but it's something very abstract, like the fact that a small town team can play, you know, the Chicago White Sox or the New York Yankees or the Boston Red Sox.

That sounds great to me, Major. The league team might end up stopping them, but that might not be right and that's why it would be fun as a spectator and it would also be fun for the players. I just think that opportunity every once in a while sounds really refreshing and cool. And it's not something you see here, but the fact that you can see that in Europe with football, I really like small teams bothering bigger teams, it always stands out to me at some point, such Maybe some do, but is that likely? a non-Premier League team is going to win no, probably not, yes, it's probably not more fun to think about in theory, but it's possible and it's fun, the finals of the tournament is an opportunity for the team from the Premier League show that we are the best. better like you really can't trample this team that is levels below you are you really that good?

It's true it's as if there are multiple angles. I think it's the fun big one, like what if we could find the best team in? Europe and I don't mean that each country has a team, it is the European Championship that happens every four years. I'm talking about the league clubs, so the best teams from all over Europe from 55 different countries battle it out every year. It's the UEFA Champions League, yes, so a side note about these acronyms here. FIFA is the organization that organizes big international tournaments like the World Cup and helps coordinate things in different regions.

The world is divided into six different regions. UEFA is Europe, that's where it is. the best players go conaf maybe you've heard of because that's what the United States is in the association football confederation of Northern Central America and the Caribbean and then it's like the rest of the world and each of these groups has tournaments with national teams nationals and their league. clubs like conquering the C champions league and the UEFA Champions League and these are called as the champions league but actually it is just a tournament so the UEFA Champions League is played along with the UEFA Europa League, which is kind of like the NCAA and basketball. tournaments, but with a little twist, they play the qualifying rounds for the Champions League first, so if you get knocked out of the big tournament but finish high enough, you can just go down to the Europa League and try to win that and I Generally, you won't get into the rankings, you'll have teams that you may have heard of as an American, like Manchester City, Liverpool, Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur from Spain, it would probably be Barcelona, ​​​​Atlético of Madrid and Real Madrid.

In Italy we will have Juventus, Inter, Roma and Atlanta. Germany is pretty much dominated by Brucia Dortmund and Byron Munich, yes, and to be fair, it shows how much I'm not versed in the sport. Obviously, there are a lot of Americans, that would be. You will be able to name or even know that you are very familiar with all of these teams. The only ones I've heard of are Manchester United Liverpool Real Madrid that's it between all of these so that's what I and then there are other popular teams by St. ger from France and Leon from France and Ajax from Holland and then you add Russian teams and you're ready to party, so back to the Premier League you remember how your team is playing that kind of standard 38 game schedule, so now at the same time too.

Every time you compete in the Premier League, the Carabal Cup, the FA Cup and the Champions League, gosh, there are plenty of other little one-off games too, so even if you have the best team, you're still probably not going to compete. winning all these tournaments just by attrition, so this sounds very busy, right, it's fair to say, honestly, I'm just being honest, this is all very intriguing to me, it's interesting, right, it's also a little bit cloudy as confusing no, I'm not completely confused, but you know, I'm not going to act like I'm an expert after this video because I'm not right, I feel like there's a lot to this. like it has deep layers, I mean, it seems like there's a lot going on, it's not a cut and dry thing, like you play your regular season, then you play the playoffs, then you play a championship, and then you play maybe another championship after that, as if not.

All of this is mixed together and I'm like, "Wow, you know, if you can win three trophies in a year, that's special, it's called a triple. Wow, if you win four, that's called a quadruple, but that sounds difficult, it sounds weird. so the biggest payday is for winning your league, although for some reason I find the champions league hard to beat for excitement, so although you can, football teams tend to trade players less than in the US In the US, instead, teams simply buy players from their current club, so a contract will include their salary, obviously, but also something called a release clause, which is a fee that would go to the current club for that player. , so while any team could negotiate a transfer fee with a player's current club, a buyout clause takes that current team out of the negotiations, so a baseball player unhappy with the situation could demand. a trade and they could trade him and he would be happy, but if they refuse to trade him then he would be stuck, whereas a football player could just find another team willing to pay that Release Clause, that's fine and once a team agrees to pay Clause, then they can negotiate directly with that player, so a really good player, a really valuable player, and the team he's on have to be intermingled.

They have to have something good in a good relationship, otherwise someone else might just buy them, buy them. That's what I'm talking about here with that whole release clause, like at the end of the day you want a good team as a whole, but a team has to be good with really good players, obviously, the better player, the higher it will be. fee so that the current club can exit and find a reasonable replacement, another big difference is that while most sports in the US have a trade deadline and this is followed a few weeks later where Players can't move to another soccer team, pretty much the opposite, so most of the time you can't move to another team.

There are two periods a year called transfer windows where you can move around during the process (okay, usually before and then mid-season), you can sign a new contract for another team at any time, but you can't actually start playing for them until the next transfer window and the latest in terms of contracts is that in the US most leagues have a draft, but football is a lot like the wild west, so teams hire players or just I say that kids like to enter their Youth Academy from a very young age, like 10-8 years old, and smaller teams that find a really good player might also include something called a sell-on clause when selling a player to a bigger team. big one that says that if the team that bought that player turns around and sells the player back to an even bigger club, then that original team will get a percentage of that secondary sale, so I'm definitely going to go.

See more, it was really cool to learn about all the different positions and of course how there are different strategies. You know, keeping the ball is like the popular strategy. Generally, it's true, and that's kind of a blanket statement, but yeah. It means that the more you have the ball, the more chances you have to score. The other team doesn't make much sense. At the same time, it's interesting how that coach is known for focusing heavily on defensive strategy and how it actually works. The guy has a nice trophy room, right, um, I think that's really interesting.

I'd love to hear your comments below on what kind of strategies sound like. They stand out rather to you, um and then of course, you know, but I don't know. There's a lot to unpack here, I mean, it's a global sport that's arguably the most popular sport in the world. SimplyThey have left me behind. I never got into it, it's not what I got into and feel like. As if it were never too late, right, better late than never. I feel like when I was a kid I loved playing all the different sports and I would like you to know that I would have taken a couple of years and played soccer too, uh, I think so.

It just would have been educational, it would have been fun, uh, I also heard that I don't know how true this is. I think that's pretty true, but I think in general I would say maybe I don't know what the timeline is. maybe in the last 10 years, five years, I don't know, I think soccer or European soccer I think has really exploded here in the US, ultimately I think we're generally a little late to the game, it's always been here and There were always groups of Americans who always loved and grew up with football, of course, but overall I think it's always been overshadowed by NFL basketball, baseball and football, and you know well hockey and anything else, so yeah, listening to the different strategies, uh. you know how big the field is, the movement, all of that I think is really interesting and not to mention the way it works with the leagues and the schedule and all these things and the integration between different levels and it's something very different from what I'm used to it and it makes it really intriguing for me and it's a lot deeper than I ever imagined.

I really think that part stands out the most to me, so yeah, I can't wait to hear your thoughts below. Always learn a lot from you uhKeep up your amazing suggestions too. I appreciate it. I appreciate you seeing it. That's all I have for you on this one. My name is Ian. You're watching IW Rocker until next time. We'll see them later here.