Nashville fan here. Thanks for coming all the way to visit! I hope you enjoyed it (despite the ridiculous concessions prices, although hopefully the ticket price compensated for it a bit). Cheers!
Gee I was at that Match. I was in the Away Section Screaming for Atlanta. Took a 6am EST Coach Bus from Atlanta to be there to lose. The Southeast is so rich now with Football between Atlanta, Nashville, Charlotte, Orlando, and Fort Lauderdale. We're all at each other's necks whenever we play each other.
You definitely should make your way to a STL City game! The crowd in St Louis LOVES their team, and theyve been doing phenomenal as a new team this year.
Good video its fun to see people from elsewhere come to MLS games. Do have to always mention when I hear it though the interesting fact that the Iceland clap actually originates in the US, we’d been doing it here for a long time (I think it started in college basketball) and a Scottish fan saw it and took it back to Scotland, where an Icelandic fan heard it and brought it there. Similar sort of thing to how people outside of the US think of “the wave” as the “Mexican wave” but it actually was first done at Oakland A’s Baseball games and spread to Mexico from there.
Definitely got some of our chants wrong. The taunting of the keeper is a carry over from out local hockey team. When Joe Willis (our keeper) makes a big save the chant is "Joe says no!". Also, the supporters sections was chanting "oooooooh NSC" not Tennessee.
I went to a Nashville SC match in 2021 when they played my club (Orlando City). It was the last season before they moved to Geodis (they're 2nd season in the league). I was incredibly impressed with their fans, being only the 2nd season of existence. I think that because Nashville's population has been growing so rapidly over the last decade, and that they only have 2 of the 4 "main" professional sports in America (NHL & NFL), really helped get locals behind the club.
You guys should experience SPECIFICALLY an opening day American football match with an open roof like MetLife in NY ( New Jersey ) they’re our Wales in the Tri state area lol this season should do the trick starts September!!!
Top Class showing the anthem! I am a season ticket holder for Nashville SC. If you guys ever come back to the states, let me know. What teams do you guys follow in the UK? Love the video.
you should visit an Austin FC game if you're ever in town. sold out every game in our history with one of the newest and most beautiful MLS stadiums. cheers from Austin, and great video!
@@helloantoniotraveladventures late to this video, but you should be made aware that Austin FC is the MK Dons of MLS, although we try not to hold it against the fans there who would have preferred their own team to stealing Columbus's--and Columbus was given a replacement team with better ownership that's been quite successful.
We traveled to Nashville to see them beat St. Louis, unfortunately. Nevertheless, we found the experience really fun and the fans super nice. Took us an hour to go three miles in that traffic afterwards though. :-)
@@helloantoniotraveladventures Well, not too far for us, about a five hour drive from StL. :-) Most of City's opponents are on the west coast so we may travel out there once a season.
Enjoyed the video, glad you guys enjoyed your trip. There's no question MLS isn't anywhere close to the same standard as the EPL, but it's still cool to have professional soccer here in the States. Soccer is a sport that is growing in popularity and footprint here, so it's encouraging to see. My dream is to one day go to a Premiere League Game, I don't even care which team. I just want to experience the atmosphere and culture that I grew up watching every Saturday morning on TV.
You guys need to come see the champions in action up in Columbus, our coach is amazing, with a sort of total football approach, The Crew's football is very attractive, and if you're lucky you can also catch an OSU Buckeyes American Football match in one of our oldest stadiums, holds over 100,000 people.
"Joe says no." As in Joe Willis, the gk. Also, as mentioned already, "Ooh oh, NSC," not "Tennessee." The chants are almost all the same as other MLS sides. Or in the case of the "It's all your fault" chant, taken from the local hockey team.
You missed out on the party outside the supporter's section after the match with the la brigada de oro. Better off to hang around, sing the songs, than fight the traffic.
I mean... sure, Nashville is a new team, but the Portland/Seattle rivalry is 20 years OLDER than the MLS is. The supporter groups for those two teams have been around for 50 years. I guess that's not "since the 1880s" old, but it's not like soccer has no history or older culture here either.
Brit expressions I noticed: - Car park = Parking lot - Front garden = Front yard - Pub = Bar - The States = The U.S./U.S.A. - Proper = Actual/Real/Official-ish - (Eating during the National Anthem = Not Disrespectful, apparently) - Nil = Zero
@@helloantoniotraveladventures The Thunderdome?!? Two teams enter, one team leaves! :)~ Seriously though, I think a rather easy way is to just compare average salaries. Generally speaking a league that pays its players a higher salary, will attract the better player, which is why the EPL is considered the best league in professional soccer. From what I could gather, the average salary for a player in the English Football League is £69,500 per year for League One. The average salary in player salary in MLS is between $300,000 to $700,000, depending on the team. I mean, seriously, MLS teams have homegrown teenage players who earn as much or more than the average League One player.
Miami has several players who are better than every player in the Championship and better than several players in the Premier League. Redondo was scouted by Bayern Munich. Granted Miami also has defenders who are far worse than most of the Championship defenders.
@@PerfectPopStarTV They have Jordi Alba, so there's that, lol. Avila is also good but still young for a center back. I think that Avila, Redondo, Farias (bummer about his injury) and Gomez are all expected to move on to Europe in the next two to three years.
I think your estimation of the level is off. It's definitely at a Championship level. You rarely have full internationals playing for League 1 teams. I will agree that the entire team roster is not always consistent in quality particularly in defending because less money is spent there, however, the overall level is very competitive. I'm also an english expat but I have lived in the US for a number of years and have followed MLS for more than 20 years so I have a good sense of the league as opposed to seeing one game. Cheers. Glad you were able to see a game in person.
For future reference, I wouldn't worry about tipping at the concession stands. That is a relatively new thing culturally, and my entire life growing up we did not tip at concessions stands at sporting events. That is something that has begun with the spin around Ipad era POS systems. I still tip the lowest percentage often if I have the money to spare out of courtesy, but it is not like a sit down restaurant situation where you are culturally expected to tip 100% of the time and it is a big no no not to. I know the nuances of that stuff can be hard to pick up on/understand if you aren't from anglophone NA where tipping is the norm as there isn't a ton of rhyme or reason as to where you do and don't tip, and they basically leave it on as an option at the concession stands for tourists who aren't aware and for people who feel guilty when pressured. There are many situations where tipping expectations are different region to region in NA. I'm from the North East of the US, specifically NY metro area and there is very much a "i scratch your back you scratch mine" sort of attitude with things like tipping etc., and it is with things even like the garbage man. If you tip your garbage man really well around the holiday times where I am from they will come pick up ANYTHING from you, regardless of whether they're supposed to or not for the rest of the year. I moved to Michigan for work, did the same sort of thing, the garbage men were weirded out that I was tipping them and they did not give any special favors lmao. So there is a lot of cultural relativity with that stuff even within anglophone NA. By and large though you really as a tourist should only have to worry about tipping at sit down restaurants, ubers/taxis, and delivery persons like if you order food delivered. Outside of that you shouldn't encounter most other instances where it would be required. Maybe a hotel worker if you stay at a really nice place and they bring your bags up, but most places don't really do that anymore anyway. Either way, hope you enjoyed your visit/stay in the US and get to visit again soon. We love to meet people from other spots in the world, a lot of us never get to leave.
@@helloantoniotraveladventures Dripping with as much condescension as the entire video. I think you all went in quite ready to criticize, or were somehow expecting a Premier League experience, but cheers for giving it a go. I enjoy the channel.
As an American I love hearing British people listen to our national anthem 😅 it's the ultimate rub salt into a wound song. America baby built on dreams and slavery 😅 still the best country in the world also the strongest
@@helloantoniotraveladventures That's probably because it's set to the tune of the Anacreontic Society song which was a gentlemen's club in high society London from 1766 to 1792.
To the shout about away fans wandering around on their own here in the States, I wonder how you prefer that as a Brit? It must be odd. I wish the States could have segregation like they do almost anywhere else in the world but with the size of the country and popularity levels I don't think we'll see it here. I assume segregation makes for a way better atmosphere, though. Cheers!
I think it makes the stadium atmosphere better, but the flip side is that it reinforces tribalism and pulls people apart rather than bringing them together as I feel this sport should do. We don't segregate at rugby here, for example, and I feel that makes it a much more convivial experience
My late step dad was from Brentford ,England. He coached soccer in Texas for 35 years. If he had seen you three EATING DURING OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM, he would've had words for you. He was a paratrooper in the RAF. And would've been ashamed of the disrespect you three showed us. Very very disappointing
