American Reacts to The Beauty of Football - Greatest Moments 

Thank you that was a fab video. May i make a suggestion. This team in the link was probably the greatest national team I ever saw. Brazil encapsulated the term the beautiful game. This link does include your favourite bicycle kick xx ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dmwRB3f6ui8.html

Wales v Denmark. Tomorrow. Amsterdam. Cymru am byth.

Curved balls....you give the ball a spin when kicking it. The physics behind it is called Maxwell effect.

Some answers to your questions: 1. Curved balls: soccer players are trained to kick the ball in various ways, straight, curved with the inside, curved with the outside, with the toes, with the heel etc. They curve the ball e.g. to get around defenders and make it harder for goal keepers because the ball comes from a more difficult angle if it's curved. Another reason is to be able to pass to somebody when you cannot pass directly in a straight line because he is being marked by a defender. 2. Free kicks are awarded to the opposing team when a team commits a foul. They can be anywhere on the pitch. If they are close enough to the goal, the player taking the free kick might make an attempt to score directly out of the free kick. If the free kick takes place farther from the opponents goal, they will just pass it. If the foul takes place within the box, it's a penalty kick, not a free kick. 3. If you want to see raw talent and brilliance in all aspects of the game (dribbling, passing, shooting), watch videos of the Brazilian player, Ronaldinho. 4. UCL = UEFA Champions League. 5. Inbounding a corner kick: you don't have to be out of bounds. You have to be out of bounds when you throw in the ball after it had left the field on the sides. 6. Time limit on inbounds: no, there isn't, but the ref can take the possession away after some time if he feels like you are wasting time.

Need some GOALKEEPER action - SCOTT STERLING of Yale is probably the best penalty kick stopper ever. GORDON BANKS (England) save against Pele (Brazil) in 1970 is a classic from 51 years ago.

The barrage of videos that are waiting for her😅

can I tell her?... 🤭😂

She's still neutral in the greatest debate

@@Diamond-vy1lx Ronaldinho is the best

@@mvf1998 the best at highlight reels

Some curve: Sure That curve: Not really...

Most great free kick takers have beautiful curving shots. None have that ridiculous amount of curve

It’s the combination of curve and power that’s truly incredible. That is arguably the greatest free kick ever. Fabien Barthez (the French goalkeeper) is no pushover but he was rooted to the spot. I remember watching that game live and everyone was thinking no way Roberto Carlos was even going to attempt that. Not from that distance, surely?! Cue a million jaws hitting the floor as the net rippled.

left foot, uses the left corner side of the foot(somewhat), and power. difficult for most pro players. but maybe not Roberto Carlos. So if use right foot you'll see the curve going the other way. Knuckleball.

That my friend... Is a banana 🍌

Except it makes no sense to say he was pretending. That would imply it was a routine they practiced. The fact it was completely improvised is what made it iconic.

@@matthewchampion8214 good point.

I would like to disagree....

Also the other three goals with a weakened team

Also helps that it capped off an incredible comeback from 3-0 down in the first leg. Everyone had written Liverpool off, especially against Barca, and yet they pulled it off.

Took me a while, ngl

You know thats a joke un english, but here un Argentina messy as a word has no meaning

@@acuarionohyogaable Really? I coulda sworn that Messi meant "even better than Maradona". 😜 Jokes aside, love them both! Greetings from Sweden.

And ironically, the one who is known as a sex symbol named Ronaldo is as camp as a row of pink tents

Was* so precise

Go you Redmen

because the rule is that most of the time, when the ball leaves the field, you don't need the referee authorisation to put it into play

I ran around my front room like a mad man when Origi put that in...I will grow up one day!

@@russbillington6291 nar mate we all did

You mentioned about learning about stadiums so would suggest you learn about Spion Kop and link to football stadiums! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Spion_Kop

...and UEFA is short for "Union of European Football Associations"

@@eviljesus84 so its United Champions League... :D

@@eviljesus84 Well, yes... but it's in french. Same with FIFA.

@@Vickzq uhh... no. In French, it would be UAEF - Union des Associations Européennes de Football. Ironic as it is, English is actually, the 'lingua franca' of the modern world (even amongst the French) FIFA is French though, so you at least got that right

UEFA Christiano League 😁

It's not the World Series, it's the World's Series - because it was sponsored by a newspaper caller the Daily World.

@@theborderer1302 then why was it not named Daily's Series

@@AdrianJNyaoi don't be thick

@@ejiroodibo5154 Because the US = world for many Americans. International = between states 😭😭

I was always wondering why they call it the world series if its just American teams. thanks for clearing that up but it could also be argued that it has now developed a secondary meaning as in the most important baseball tournament in the world (might be true but not enough to call it that) and probably when they chose that name they kinda meant this secondary meaning, too? What are your thoughts?

there was a brazilian journalist that said: Football it's the most important thing among unimportant things".

The frigging Argentinian Pope* European Popes never were so fond of this sport.

He's argentinian, gotta love football

@@chucku00 I don't know chap, Karol Wojtyła was a good goalie back in his younger days by all historical accounts...

@@chucku00 where are you from

The best quote is "Football is a great thing, but we must not forget it's full of air". (Giovanni Trapattoni) Or "If a man love a woman more than a iced beer watching the Champions League finale, maybe it's true love, but he's not real man" (Vujuadin Boskov)

@@nicoladc89 There is another good one by Vujadin Boskov .... football is football Another one from Luis Aragonés ... football is win ..., and win..., and win..., and win again..., and again...., and again .....

I remember asking my college physics professor back when that kick happened. He said Bernoulli's Principle was at play with that one. Roberto Carlos was a master of the free kick, and kicking with the center-outside of his foot with massive force!

@@djoscartj From what I've read, it was a combination of the physics of a curved shot and a knuckleball - the air bladder inside compresses when kicked hard af, and when the compression rebounds it exaggerates the spin on the ball. In a typical knuckleball, a la Ronaldo's best free kicks, spin is minimal, so the bladder compresses and rebounds kind of randomly, giving the ball it's weird left-right-up-down flight pattern. Someone nerdier than me will probably correct this.

Super Mario comes to my mind...

Exactly. Not the best goals, but probably the most important.

Alsoo, some impossible come back that she doesnt understand too

@@queenbutuncrowned1780 Yeah, the Moura hattrick for spurs against ajax is the perfect example. Not the craziest of goals, but with context it's great.

Honestly I would love England to watch the original video a few times before their games just to remind them how beautifully they can play if they embrace it. I'd rather see them go out in with a dramatic, enthusiastic battle than fizzle out with uninspired play.

GOL GOL GOL GOL GOL GOL GOL GOL GOL

So true xD

The Norwegian commentator when Norway beat England back in the 80s was incredible.

Every Spanish or South American game commentators are aweso,e

@@chissaa-ec5pg Italian too. The energy they bring sometimes is extreme tbf xd

Pmsl 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Gerald is an american name modified from Gerrard.

That was Totti...chief of Roma for over a decade😄😄😄😄😄😄😄

Gerald : Wanna play Gwent?

She'll learn soon enough his real name is Slippy G.

Rugby Union.

how many cl titles win zlatan? ;)

😄 touché! Then again, Zlatan got cursed with hubris way back, the better Zlatan plays, the worse his team gets.

@@freizent what are you trying to prove buddy

Impossible doesn’t know Zlatan

@@freizent Doesnt matter.

Sponsors need their money, right...

It has not been in the early years.

@@DeadliestWarriorZZ well more like the advertising space they bought

stupid rule

Not if they have a plain vest or t-shirt underneath.

And UEFA stands for Union of European Football Leagues so the U does kinda stand for union

Don't worry about forgetting its name. just like FIFA it is a very corrupt organization.

Did you notice you had 8 JAW DROP MOMENTS, in this vlog, yes there is a time limit to take corners and congratulations you know more about football than 60% of USA .

Correct. There's other Champions Leagues in other confederations and sports, so most people refer to it as the UCL in order to distinguish it from the others, like the CAF Champions League or the CONCACAF Champions League.

@@seban678 Union of European Football Associations, hence UEFA & not UEFL :D

And so you should. But also understand that when that happened in 1998 I was crying tears of joy and millions with me.

that is a classic

This video was biased against Real Madrid(Barca Fan made it)...No moments of Sergio Ramos and only one moment of Cristiano Ronaldo

I am German and I was 13 back then And I to this day think its one of the greatest goals ever.

@@atharvpatil0 actually, Ronaldo has three moments in this: 6:12, 10:01, 13:07

She'll learn!!!

She's American.. she knows only about the "american football" that is actualy imported there from our rugby.. Changed some rules and rename it "American Football". They call Football "soccer" REALLY? muhahaha. I laugh everytime i hear that.

As a Chelsea fan and I am sure Hammers/Gunners fans would agree, I was so happy when Liverpool beat Spurs in that final.

The Bergkamp goal is one that doesn't look spectacular to football newcomers, because Bergkamp makes something that is INCREDIBLY difficult look easy. He just gets everything perfect in three touches, to conjure a goal almost out of nowhere. An experienced football watcher seeing the long pass is not going to assume there's a strong chance of a goal because of how difficult it will be to get that ball under control, get past a marker who is right on his shoulder and then beat the keeper from not the greatest angle. And then he just does all three in quick succession.

I've always wondered who it was that scored that goal..

@@KaitainCPS Good point, I don't think I've ever thought about it in that way. Usually after a pass like that and proper marking players just try to hammer it into the corner immediately which is a low percentage shot or control the ball, carry it wide and look for a cross. That Bergkamp found this solution speaks volumes about his instincts.

​@@KaitainCPSAlso, not any random defender and not in an everyday match. Bergkamp was unique and that goal was the perfect summary of the kind of player he was.

but honestly the best games i watched in last little while got to be the spain vs croatia and france vs switzerland matches in eight-finals of euro cup those matches were exciting becuase you never know how it will end

@@bigpod Search for Red Bull Salzburg - Red Star game.

@@bigpod There are plenty of matches like those. Milan Liverpool UCL final 2005, Italy France World Cup Final 2006, Barcelona PSG UCL 2017, Italy Brazil World Cup 1970, Italy France EuroCup 2000, Spain Argentina World Cup 2010, Manchester United Bayern Munchen UCL 1999. But more of other things, the great beauty of football is that everyone can defeat everyone. For example, in rugby the 14th team in the ranking (Italy) never won against the second (New Zealand), in football the 14th (Switzerland) defeated the 2nd (France).

That's the particularly of football. Scoring a goal is high stakes. It takes one goal to turn the tides of a whole game.

nah the holy grail is the knuckleball

@@ptolem139 or billebrant don't know the English word

inward curls are easy and basic

The outside of the foot spin is the one

@@joealyjim3029 Absolutely! After seing Roberto Carlos doing it regularly on TV, i tried to get consistent with that too from a non moving ball. (i never played in a club, just in the school and among friends, but this still was important ;-) and it worked.)

As an absolute demolition I agree. But for raw emotion Spurs/Ajax the following night beats it out.

i'm real madrid fan and I love this game

the confederation of Europe!! To be exact:)

@@berndheghmanns1437 Yes, The Union of European Football Associations

I remeber very few about that day, except for the fact that the black dutch playera with glasses looked so cool un them. I hated him at the end of the game thought cause i'm argentinian so... Yeah... We still got our revenge a few years later thoug ;D

Im English and this is still one of my favourite goals of all time. I remember watching it as a kid and everyone was trying to replicate it at school the next day. Bergkamp is a legend of the sport and I'm a Liverpool fan saying that.

It should be remembered that Argentina were coming of winning one of the most dramatic games in World Cup history to hold out for almost an entire game before conceding Bergkamp's wonder goal.

That curve is sheer power. Roberto Carlos is the most powerful kicker I ever seen.

Actually they do. There was a scientific paper written on this goal a while back.

@@Damindeater nerd

The look on Barthez's face watching that ball swing back and going in his goal was epic.

@@RichO1701e yes, and very happily so

And yet, Roberto Carlos did something incredible that time

@@JacopoBasanisi didnt they change the ball design that made his skill less effective?

And the version with the outside of the foot ist really fascinating. Also called "trivela".

Another QI factoid on this subject is the film 'Bend it like Beckham' is so called because of Beckham's ability to curve the path of the ball.

@@JacopoBasanisi to me, this is one of the most beautiful goals ever.. free kick from 37m.. I know there are lot of other nice ones, but I would always pick Robertos...

Videos like this are usually made by people who whatched 3 matches in all their life.

spain vs holand lmao

One fine exmple is Donnarumma save in Euro 2020 final match... It was thanks to that kid that Italy won.

Or Vinnie Jones versus Gazza 😯

@@konradlure8729 True XD

I was thinking that and I'm not English.

As a scotsman, even I can accept it was a thing of beauty.

@@dammac5377 Excellent, funny how some things stick in your mind. Thirty five years ago an immensely talented footballer used his hand inappropriately and it still comes up. Thierry Henri, commits a similar offence and its water under the bridge to us Irish. Apparently they won the World Cup a while back but no one ever mentions it.

To add to this, it is basically impossible for a human to shoot a ball without any sort of spin and therefore curve. So while adding a certain curve to a shot is a skill deliberately used, every shot will have some sort of curve, becoming more noticable the longer a ball travels. Also wind becomes a factor aswell on longer distances.

Also called the Magnus Effect.

I knew all that lol

No, that is not why planes fly. It has an effect, but it is tiny compared to the angle of the wings cutting through the air. Think of how a paper airplane works.

@@sp4zzer Nearly all flight theory explains it through the pressure difference on the upper and lower side of the wings. And if the plane starts and lands in increases the effect by using the flaps. The majority of scientists explains the pressure difference by the Bernoulli principle. So maybe your teachers were no proponents of the prevailing theory. Of course, any scientific theory may be falsified and replaced by a better one. As I am no aeronautic scientist, I stick at the prevalent theory, till the majority in the subject change their convictions.

Roberto Carlos could do it better than anyone.

Nobody can do what Carlos did, neither Roberto Carlos. The wind curved the trajectory.

Roberto Carlos what was impressive with him was the heaviness of his strikes.

@@nicoladc89 not just the wind, a scientific study was done on it and it turns out he somehow hit the ball in the perfect spot so that it spins in the air in a specific way that helped the wind to curve it that much

@@MrRiad-lf8xl The Roberto Carlos free kick was deviated by wind. A player can hit the ball in the perfect sport etc... but he can't give the ball that effect. After that you can study all the physics behind, but doesn't matter, the ball was deviated by the wind. Roberto Carlos himself admits that it was thanks to the wind. Every player use the Magnus Effect and the Bernoulli's Principle kicking a free kick (the ball is an object in a fluid), but in that case was thanks to the wind if Carlos scored.

Doesn't the ref usually have to restart the play first? Quick corner/free kicks have become somewhat rare because everyone always has something to argue about to delay time...

@@nari5025 Usually the rule is if the ball left the field you can put it back in without a whistle from the referee, be it throw-ins, goal kicks or corner kicks. Corners usually just take time to take because most of the time the center backs go for the header so you have to wait for them, but I am pretty sure that if you wanted to you can take the corner pretty much insantly.

Yes you should, or copa90-why ultras are so important to football

Remember, that to the ultras, football is a religion, not just a game, played on the footballfield.

@@saluzama6426 yeah that's a better intro to ultras

After that to understand them watch "Why Ultras Are So Important For Football" Oh and Ultras and Hooligans are not the same!!

i miss the " Bomber " Gerd Müller...

I'd say young AND European. Almost non mention to Brazil and its 5 world cup championships. It only showed the two worst loses in the last 30 years. 98, beaten by France in the Final and 2014, humilated by Germany. 😂

Yes most of the stuff is really recent when the game is not as beautiful as it was imo. Some of the stuff Cruyff made in the 70's was really groundbreaking and i doubt few players if any can really replicate it today and even if they do they are just doing something that someone did before and did it better.

Made by young whippersnapper lol so you what 80 y/o who witnessed the greatness of pele live

@@jinujoju8183 I'm 60 and I most certainly remember as a 9yr old in the summer of 1970 when Pele was the star of that great Brazil team at the Mexico world cup. Jairzinho, Carlos Alberto, Gerson, Tostao, Rivelino, Felix etc. One of the greatest teams ever at a tournament. I also remember as a 13 & 17 yr old the great Dutch teams led by Johan Cruyff in the world cups of '74 & '78. I was also privileged to see both Cruyff and George Best play during their careers. Sadly I never got to see Pele in the flesh but thankfully there was this wonderful invention called the television.

I always smile when I hear "the greatest player to ever live". Don't get me wrong, Messi is a genius. But so was Stanley Mathews or Ferenz Puskas or Alfredo de Steffano - in their day. Josef Masopust, Bobby Charlton, Garrincha, Best - in their day. Claudio Gentile, Rivelino, Pele, Beckenbauer, Moore, Johan Cruyff - in their day. Schuster, Zico, Lothar Matthaus, Marco van Basten, Shearer - In their day. Should I go on? It's impossible to say who was 'the greatest of all time'. The best might be the greatest 11 of all time. But good luck with that!

Only the new generation think this, yes he may well go into the hall of fame of Football, but to call him the greatest ever is a sign that someone never bothered seeing early colour TV football

​@@at_oussama 80% of all coaches, narrators and commentators says Lionel Messi is the greatest they have ever seen, just throw it on youtube and you'll see your biggest idols saying this

@@slims.5066 Where do you get 80% from? Because of a youtube video showing a load of them saying this - they'd hardly show the same number saying Pele or Puskas in a video about Messi, would they? If you've never really seen some of the greats, you just cannot say Messi is the best there's EVER been.

@@theborderer1302 i'm not saying anything, statistics are

absolutely. Goalies are often discounted but there are really great players on that position such as Bartez, Buffon, Cassillas, Čech, Kahn, Schmeichel (senior) or Neuer. Especially Neuer has redefined how to play as a goalie and many are trying to imitate his style of play.

Definitely! 'Keepers get a bad rap in compilation videos...

So true, the work of goalies looks just as spectacular and they definately did decide a lot of important matches

@@zoroasper9759 just look at Yann Sommer's performance for Switzerland against Spain yesterday!

Maybe she should watch an absolute classic: England vs Germany ;)

Thanks!

Indeed, one of the most controversial goals in the history of football.

@@markwilliamson2864 Indeed Maradonna was a cheat and Argentina won the game by cheating. Says it all.

@@northguy2367 Well, Maradonna _was_ an extraordinary player... his second goal from this same match is considered one of the greatest goals of the 20th century. So they might very well have won legitimately, and they did win legitimately in the finals. That said: Maradonna is/was also not the, er, how to say it politely, most humble of people... and this was just one example. But all in all, it's the referee who has the final word.

Oh well it's not as if England have ever benefited from a tricky goal in the world cup(🗣️ Geoff Hurst 1966)🙄😒😂, but I will give you this though u r 💯 the Maradona one it was a total handball, Actually it makes me think about how many of the greatest but most controversial moments ever in football wouldn't stand up today, cos of the introduction of the instant replay, and rightly so but for some wierd reason u still find some people who are against it

the fact that a 5ft6 player beat a 6ft goalie is laughable. The England keeper, Shilton was/is an embarrassment getting beat like that.

absolutely true...

Well the 2012 final of UCL went spectaculary wrong. A symbol of the fact that sometimes football isn´t the beautiful game. Sometimes the ugly side wins. Not saying undeserved. But ugly.

Possibly. Though we both didn't seem to be really at the top of our game in the recent matches....... could end up more of an ugly struggle..?

I think it's not going to be that much of a good game because eng might sit back and defend. I think Belgium v Portugal will be a better game

England are going to lose anyways

@@RichO1701e ohhj this didn't age well. 🤣😂

Lovers of this game are almost brought to tears by this video so many memories. Joga Bonita indeed.

Oh my God that night was horrifying.

@@taseenalrashid4168 I am sorry, I am german, I disagree :-)

And Germany could have pushed for even more goals if they wanted.

@@olivertell3767 don't worry @Armando Silva i got you, i think my german friend is gonna love this...... POOO PO PO PO PO POO POOO!!!!!

P. S. And dont choose to support some big clubs try something with history in Football, like Hajduk Split from Croatia . The European viewers will appreciate that 💪⚽

@@dragybrate She should support whatever team she is drawn to

@@tillbendixen2434 yea but americans dont look bigger pictures, they see just the richest clubs, they need to dig up a little bit of history

@@dragybrate thats what she doing innt? She barely knew that Man City and United are different teams. Give her time

Also south america teams

Messi > Pele

We'll spotted 🤣

Brilliant!

Another search that might help you is How teams qualify for the champions league

I'm getting old. No offense to Messi, who is indeed one of the great. But Pelé will always remain "the greatest" in my view.

@@Groffili messi> pelé

@@Groffili You can argue a lot about who is the best in history: Messi, Cristiano, Pele, Maradona or many others. But the most spectacular is undoubtedly Ronaldinho. I think to get acquainted with the magic of football, everyone should definitely watch a video with him.

@Vasile Mihai I don't think we'll ever see a player like Goatwaite again. Messi and Ronaldo are like kids in front of him.

@@Lelik_208 great comment. He was amazing to watch. As was Lee Trundle...My favourite player.