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BUT THE MAIN REASON IS THAT THE WORLD CUP IS THE BEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. UCL is the best CLUB of every country from the leagues. World Cup is every 4 years as well making the intensity greater.
I guess there’s technically club World Cup too, and I wish FIFA put more effort into it too, because I really want to see Flamengo play some really good EU teams like Man city or Bayern.
Bro react to Lewandowski scoring 5 goals in 9 minutes. He came on the pitch at secound half, his team (bayern) was losing 1:0, and he scored 5 goals in less than 10 minutes breaking few guiness records
champions league: best clubs from all around Europe Europa league: step down from the champions league but still with great teams (in Europe) world cup: best countries from all around the world Olympics: basically irrelevant in football (countries play there under 21 teams) ranked it goes: world cup champions league Europa league *and not even close:* Olympics
@@lalboimanlun1230 Madrid is a city. Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid, Getafe CF, Rayo Vallecano, UD Leganes, AD Alcorcon, CF Fuenlabrada, RCD Carabanchel and many more are teams from Madrid.
You already get my respect for backing relegation. Some of the best football matches I've seen are teams fighting relegation, makes for intense football.
World cup is the most important trophy of them all and Champions league is most important tournament at club level and Olympics football matches are not that big of a deal hope you understand now ☺️
@@Unbekannt089 do Brazil (most World Cup wins) and Argentina ring any bells? Edit: I will grant you that there is a far greater concentration of exceptional teams in Europe than anywhere else, but South/Central America are not far behind with Uruguay, Columbia, Mexico, etc all playing international football at a high level.
I dont know what is the problem in Basketball its the same NBA is the league were play the "clubs" and then USA is the national team that play in world cup.
@Landon Reihs This adds nothing? All that was said was that the 'club competition' and the 'world cup' structure are the same for European Football and NBA Basketball
No one cares abt the olympics.... the world cup is the most important trophy for national teams (ex: france spain portugal etc)... the champions league is the most important trophy for club teams (barca madrid psg bayern etc)
There’s a difference between club and national soccer. Club teams consist of players from all around the world who are bought and sold by clubs. The national teams only have players from that country and have separate competitions. The champions league is club, the world cup is national.
The reason for 3 points for a win is because when it was 2 teams were much more likely to play defensively to get draws and the guaranteed point, so they changed winning to 3 points to encourage more attacking play.
europa league is the best mind u the leading teams in all 5 of the top teams in europe are playing in the europa league, if we (united) somehow get above liverpool which i dont think is impossible right now bc we r a game in hand and if we win we will be 2 points behind
@@kkmac7247 earlier this season current situation: ac milan are in europa league man united are in europa league real sociedad were top of la liga at one point i think leverkusen were on top of bundesliga at one point as well ligue 1 was the exception to this rule but who cares its a farmer league anyway
Pick the team you feel the most connected to, the team who’s play style you like the most. I’m a Man United fan since I grew up with my dad being one and I love them to death. It’s all about finding that love and connection for a team and stick with it for the rest of your life.
id love to see you react to leicester city winning the premier league in 2016. they got relegated only a couple seasons beforehand, but got promoted again and won the title. greatest underdog/sporting upset story ever.
I don't really think he would 100% get the achievement. It's harder when you have no prior knowledge of who the best teams are and how leagues really work
Even better than that Darra as they were 100/1 ON***** to get relegated when tailed off at the bottom the previous season and made the most miraculous escape to stay up. THEN they lost their Manager during that Summer and they were 5,000/1 ODDS to win the league.... *****100/1 ON means risking £100 just to win £1. THat is how certain they were to get relegated !
Also everything other than the olympics and the world cup is club teams like barcelona and psg but the world cup and olympics are international like spain and france so for club the champions league is most important but for country world cup is the most important. Also support chelsea they are exciting and have a good future
as a brazilian i still value soccer in olympics cause the teams are U-23 (with 3 players with no age-limit), so its kinda a 'rookie world cup' for more structured and/or traditional national teams, some young players get the time to shine (even lots of them are already playing in the best international clubs)
Try reacting to a full 90min match! I think after watching a full match, you can appreciate the player's skills and goals better because you'll see how hard it is to pull off!
Some countries have 3 domestic competitions running through the season as well as European competitions, so there is the potential for a team to win 4 competitions at the same time. You also have the Super Cup which is the winner of the Champions League v the Europa League winners. The Europa league is a lower tier version of the Champions League for teams that didn’t manage to qualify for the Champions League. Then you have The Club World Cup which is a mini tournament between the winners of the top continental club competitions (Champions League, Copa Libertadores, Asian Champions League, etc) around the world. Then you have the Euros, Asian Cup, African Cup of Nations and the Copa America, this is where the national teams compete to be champions of their respective continents. Then you have the World Cup which is self explanatory. Plenty of trophies to be won and excitement to be had.
Actually, everything said in this video about soccer (football) also applies to the 5 other continents (North and South Americas, Africa, Asia & Oceania). Since you're (north) american, let me explain how it works for you: 1-While Europe is called "UEFA" in soccer, North America is called "CONCACAF". 2-Like europeans, each country in CONCACAF, all the way from Canada to Panama, have their local leagues (yours is called "Major League Soccer"). 3-Unlike most 1st division leagues in the world, Major League Soccer (MLS in short) does not have a promotion and relegation system. On the opposite your lower divisions have it. Also, MLS is one of the few leagues to host playoffs after the regular season, and the only one with conferences. The only league which exactly works the same I can think off is the australian A-League, without the conferences. 4-Despite all of that, USA's soccer federation still host a national cup on the side of the MLS, so you have like 2 playoffs tournaments during the season! lol 5-CONCACAF, like every region in the soccer world, host their variant of the Champions League each year: the CONCACAF Champions League. While in Europe we have 32 clubs running for the big title, in North America, you have 16 clubs from multiple countries (including USA), running in a true single elimination tournament (there is no group stage in your variant)!
You gotta understand that after the season in the different leagues is over, players often, rather than going into offseason vacations, are called by their national teams to play international tournaments. Besides, with club tournaments going simultaneously with the league games, big clubs have to managed the amount of games each player gets throughout the year, and whether to put more effort into winning the league, winning a cup tournament, while trying to get into next season's champions league.
@@koolboy8622 The competition as a whole does, but the UCL final is the most watched single sporting match in the world so it could really go either way Also, players that have not won either yet tend to want the cl more, and players that have won one or the other just tend to want the one the haven't won yet more
Also worth noting there's a 'Club World Cup' every year for winners of each continental tournament; basically the Champions League winner from Europe, and equivalent winners from South America, North America, Africa, Asia, etc.
And just wait until you hear that every continent does the exact same thing, talking about the league, domestic tournaments, and continental tournament, and and the end every champion of their continent play in a continental cup call the Club World Cup.
There is also the euros which is the national teams in Europe battling it out. Here in Europe its actually seen as more competitive in recent years as its been some time since there has been a real Challenger from outside of Europe like brazil or Argentina.
The video you watched was about club competitions. The World Cup, the Olympic football tournament are national competitions, where national teams call up their best players to compete in. Also, each continental confederation has a tournament, where the finals happens usually every 4 years, alternating with the World Cup. Europe has the Euro, South America has the Copa America, North America has the Gold Cup, Africa has the Cup of Nations, etc. All these tournaments usually have qualifying rounds, which are played in the 2 years before the actual finals take place. These games happen on predetermined times, called International Breaks, where club competitions are mostly put on hold for a couple of weeks while the national teams play each other. One last thing, in keeping with the non-professional ideals behind the Olympics, the football tournament is played mostly by Under-23 squads. The 4 teams from Europe, for example, are the semi-finalists from the U-21 European Championship.
I saw the Messi v Ronaldo game and out of all the players in the pitch Messi played the best. It was just his team that was not putting in work he fought till the end
The world cup you represent your countrie, in the champions league you represent your team About the olympics you are representing your countrie to but normally managers just sent young players to play and gain experience playing together with each other Btw great video
A little background knowledge: Back in the day, before 1933, when there was no world cup, the Olympics were considered the the maximum soccer competition
Yes, although FIFA only recognizes the 1924 and 1928 Olympics, that is why Uruguay has 4 stars on its shield (2 Olympics (1924,1928) and 2 World Cups (1930,1950)
The soccer in the Olympics is for U23 national teams ( although each team can have 3 players over the age limit), and the World Cup is without age limit
the world cup is international teams, like brazil and france, while the champiosn league is club teams, like chelsea and barca and real madrid. the olympics is u23 for international teams. also u should support chelsea london is blue
The UEFA Champions league is a club competition taking place every year. As said in the video, its the best clubs from each country. The FIFA World Cup and Olympics are national team competitions, where players represent their country. You can think of it like the NBA (domestic league, consisting of clubs), the FIBA World Cup, and basketball in the olympics.
Best way to look at it is this... everything they are talking about in the video is club football. Those clubs can sign players from whatever nation (some leagues put restrictions on this some don't). So like the team Neymar is on has French, Argentinian, Italians, dudes from all over. The relegation thing is a trip...Imagine an MLB team getting dropped for a minor league club. It makes the last match day of the season pretty damn interesting. Cool video, man.
I've watched a couple American youtubers react to this video now and they always scoff at the 'no playoffs' part. I think what most of them struggle to realize at first is that a league season in soccer does not have the same character as a regular season in American sports, it's much more intense and singular games are significantly more important. you can't just compare European leagues to an NBA season with the playoffs detached. That of course would be boring and anticlimactic af. The lack of a playoff tournament plus the prospect of teams actually having to face consequences for performing badly makes the normal season itself much more suspenseful and better
and relegation is ensuring constant competition and improvement. If a team underperforms it will be replaced. If the replacing team is performing well, another team that performed worse will be relegated.
@@meganoob12 yep, that's what I meant by 'teams actually having to face consequences for performing badly'. American sports basically incentivizes owners to use their franchise as an easy cash grab. Why would I want to change and start to run my team with the objective to win if all I get for not doing so is the next big superstar, who I can use to sell tickets and jerseys for the next 10 years.
In Italy we have playoffs in each division below the first one. For example in the second division the first and the second get promoted directly, while the third team that get the promotion is the winner of the playoffs between 6 teams (from 3rd to 8th position). Also there are the playouts, in the second division 3 teams goes in the third division directly, while the 4th team is the loser of the playout. (In the playout there are only two teams).
There are now three different European club competitions. The top is the Champions League, where the losing teams of the qualifying rounds are transferred to the Europa League, then later the 3rd placed team of each group are transferred to the Europa League. The second-tier is the Europa League, which has the same process as the Champions League but now the losing sides of the qualifiers and the 3rd place teams get transferred to the Europa Conference League. The third-tier is the Europa Conference League. How many teams qualify from each country depends on the strength of the top flights among every country. England has 7- with the top 4 teams in the standing qualifying for the Champions league, 5th-6th place qualify for the Europa League, and the 7th place qualifying for the Conference League. Normally teams from the higher ranked leagues (England, Germany, France, Spain and Italy) get automatic byes to the group stages of their competitions. Normally it is teams from the lower ranked leagues (San Marino, Finland, Wales, Ireland, Hungary and Moldova) who have to go through the qualifying rounds of those competitions.
In England (and most other countries) there are two major trophies to be won. They run independently. First of all there is the league where you play each other twice and the team with the most points wins the league title based on the full season. At the same time there is another knockout competition involving all teams from the top dogs in the Premier League right down to amateur teams. In England it's the FA Cup. The last game, between the two teams left standing is the FA Cup final and the winner gets the FA Cup.
Honestly you're dead right about promotion and relegation. It's the best part of European club football. Such a simple idea but it allows me to dream that the club that plays in my local park can rise through the leagues and eventually end up in the Premier League.
Each and every small town or village usually has at least one club, and bigger towns and neighboring towns have even a lot more than a single club (depending on country, "the cup" can have several hundred or even more than a thousand candidates), and those matches usually are the most intense because of those rivalries. the fans also mostly are much more loyal to their own regional club that already their grandfather was a fan of, no matter which league they play and whether they win or lose, much more than people who only select one random team from a fixed short list of teams that only went there because some rich person bought them a slot in the league and who never really can lose (be kicked from the league), and to whom they have no real connection.
The Champions league is a club tournament, all of the biggest clubs from each European country try to qualify for the Champions league. World cup happens every 4 years and it is a competition of the best countries in the world. Olympics do happen every 4 years like you said but my personal opinion on Olympics is the recognition of other sports like track, swimming, shooting, skiing and others. So, World Cup and Olympics are World National tournaments, Champions league is a European club tournament. I hope I did well. Cheers from Croatia🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷, you're Vice-Champions of the World🙌🏽🙌🏽
I'm a bacelona fan but you should not go for Barca we are in a decline right now I recommend Bayern, Dortmund, Liverpool or Chelsea and Manchester city
When u are fan u stay with club, even in tragic season.... I'm Chelsea fan and when in 2012 we won CL beating Barca in 11m shots I think next season was going be great, then we get relegated from CL to European League I was thinking what happened to my favourites.... But then we get a better and better won EL (only team in history that own CL and EL cups simultaneously). It's love, passion for the club..... Don't become a flag
The reason for cups being played within the calendar year during the middle of the week is because theirs pretty much multiple tournaments that goes on and if each one is held after the league time will be the essence and players need their vacation time. Plus that’s when players are loaned or bought so it’ll mess the team build and training with new players can throw tactics off. World Cup is the most important tournament as every country that qualifies play to be the best country in the world. The Champions league is the best tournament for clubs as a whole. Each continent does have its own CL style tournament like in South America we have the Copa Libertadores. Plus theirs the olympics for a country which isn’t so special and theirs tournaments for each continent like copa anerica, gold cup, cup of nations... and and the confederation cup for the winner of each continent.
World Cup - national type of competition Olympic - national competition but with restriction of age players Champion league - club only competition but only for Europe. There are lot of other competition beside those three that are prestigious too.
Lemme make it simple: there is a trophy called ballon do’r which is given to the best playet in a particular year... so Messi won 6 of those and Ronaldo has won 5
Yes, it's vote for best player by journalist.... I compare this to JD Power award's. U can get ballon d'Or, but still loses in CL and National cups. Football is TEAM Sport.
The champions league is for club soccer. Players from different counties can play in the same club. In the World Cup, the best players from around the world are selected to play for their counties and they play in the most important tournament of them all. Which is the World Cup of course which is held every 4 years. There is also another big European tournament called the uefa euro which is basically the World Cup but only for European teams. That is also held every 4 years
Cup games between league games are great because it forces coaches to maximumise their resources. This way it also gives lower teams a chance to win something because big clubs ie Man United, Liverpool, Chelsea etc prioritise the League/CL and so if they're still in those competitions, often play their second string teams in the cup and almost sacrificing it to protect their key players. Playing a cup tournament after the season totally takes that aspect away. Over here in England, the Cup Final is usually played the week after the regular season finishes and is seen as the closing segment of the season.
In Champions League you have clubs from various european countrys and a club can have players from different countrys. In the World Cup the teams are formed by the best players of the own country that play in different clubs in different countrys..
Champions league games are also played in between league games. After the round of 16 draw is done they usually wait until after Christmas to do the knockout stages. In some countries, there are two cups to be won like in England where you can win the carabao cup and then later on you could win the FA Cup. Winning either of these cups means you are automatically qualified to the Europa league which is like the champions league but not that exciting cause bad teams like arsenal are in it. Another thing is (I’ll use England for an example) the winner of the FA Cup and the winner of the English top division play against each other for the FA Community shield which is basically a pre season trophy. Last thing is that the winner of the Europa league and the winner of the champions league play against each other at the beginning of the following season to try and win the uefa super cup. The cup is also basically a pre season cup and it’s usually the champions league winner who wins the trophy. Hope all this extra stuff made sense.
Hi there from Spain. Just for clarify some thing. Yup, the national ligue and the cup is played at the same time, difference from USA is that ligue games are only played on weekends, and cup games in days like Tuesdays or Wednesdays for the teams to rest. Champions Ligue is also played at the same time as ligue and cup (Wednesdays and Thursdays) tournaments, this has been a matter of conflict all over Europe whenever two teams face each other whenever one of them had less time to rest. About the "soccer teams world cup", it doesn't really matters to fans, we feel that Europe is so powerfull in soccer that not other team in the world would beat us in a game, so whoever wins the champions ligue, is supposed to be the winner of the teams world cup. About the "national world cup", it has a totally different meaning, this is played every four years and each player plays for their own country defending their land and people in the biggest soccer tournament of all time. The country who wins, takes it all, and as it is a ONLY SOCCER TOURNAMENT, it's usually considered more important than the Olympics but they are the same in theory but not in feeling.
The World Cup is every 4 years, the last World Cup was 2018 so the next one is 2022. The World Cup is when teams play for there country but Champions league you play for your club so like Barcelona for example is a club
If there has to be a winner (knockout game or a final) then if game is tied after the 90 minutes then the game goes to extra time (15+15 minutes) and then after that if it's still tied it goes to penalties (penalty taker tries to score from the penalty spot which is 11 or 12 metres from the goal and the goalkeeper will try to stop it) where at first each team takes 5 penalties and if the winner isn't decided still then the team whose player misses first loses if the other manages to score.
SOME LEAGUES DO HAVE PLAY-OFFS Using the English leagues as an example. Specifically the Premier League and Championship. At the end of the season, the bottom 3 Premier League teams are demoted to the Championship. But the only the top 2 championship teams get automatically promoted to the premier league. The third team to get promoted to the premier league is decided by a play-off tournament involving the teams that finished in third, fourth, fifth and sixth. So the four teams are grouped into pairs, i.e. third and fifth, and fourth and sixth. Third and fifth play each other twice and fourth and sixth play each other twice and the winners advance to the play-off final. Then those two teams play each other once and the winner of that game gets promoted to the premier league along with the two teams that finished first and second in the Championship.
In football Olympics is a training place more, than a serious tournament, so World CUp is most important tournaments for national teams. Btw, National Leagues and Cups and UEFA Champions League are the Club tournaments, when FIFA World Cup and tournaments like UEFA Championship are the National team tournaments.
The Word Cup is played every 4 years by Countries National Teams with their best players. The Olympics are usually played by U21 players and a few pros. The Champions league, like the cup, is also played during the regular season every year. This tournament hosts the top teams from every league from every country in Europe based on their position on the table. Remember, these teams have players from all over the world so it's not like the World Cup or Olympics.
The Champions league/Europa league is a club competition, World Cup is international teams, also the World Cup is more important because the Olympics is the under 21 team besides a couple of older people
The world cup is for national teams so countrys play each other and it's held every four years. The champions leauge is for football teams so the final could be between two teams from the same country and it's held annually
As to why cup games arent held after the regular season: Cup in England at least runs from early August to mid May. 14 Rounds, even though better teams gets byes straight to later rounds (best teams to 9th round). Midweek games get plugged into the typical one game per week schedule every two to three weeks.
YESSSSS PLAYOFFS AINT SHIT TO THE FOOTBALL SYSTEM! the league + cups + possible European competition makes everything so much more exciting throughout the whole season, not just at the end!
Actually in Champions League best club teams of each country go against each other, while in world Cup each national team is against an other. There is big difference between team club and national team
There are 2 type of competitions in Association Football, the national team ones and the Club ones, there is a Club world cup (irrelevant compared to UEFA champions and even Europa league) where each continental confederation champion participates (usually dominated by European clubs and ocasionally south american clubs), then you have continental cups (each confederation has one or two tournaments, the most important ones are Champions league and Europa league in Europe and then Libertadores and Sudamericana in South America), europa and sudamericana winners may not qualify for a club world cup (there are plans to organize CWC each 4 years qualifying the last 4 years UCL and UEL and Libertadores winners and a playoff round for two of the lastest sudamericana winners), and national leagues which generally have similar organizations in division systems with qualifying seats distributed based in national league coefficients (so uncompetent leagues may not even have direct qualifying seats and would have to go through a playoff qualifyer round against similar and superior teams from other countries, (AJAX made it to the semis in 2018-2019 season even after making it to the champions league through playoffs) And then you have National Teams tournaments, which are completely different, the most important tournament is the World cup (there are world cups of younger classed squads) and there are also continental tournaments (UEFA EURO, Copa América, African championship, etc...) each tournament has a different qualifying process (Copa américa doesn't even have one as there are only ten national teams in the Conmebol association), also it is important to take notice that the continental champions MAY NOT qualify for the world cup as that tournament has a different qualifying process completely independent from the continental tournaments (though there was a Confederations cup where each continental champion competed but that tournament has been folded) The olympic games are basically irrelevant but i would like to consider it like a U-23 World cup as each Olympics are played each 4 years...
The reason with the cup games being played throughout the season is that the lower level cup games at the beginning can have over a hundred teams that are locally based. For example, in England, there can be 7 or 8 preliminary games with semi pro teams before the pro teams play, and then it’s a few more weeks until the teams in the top division play their first game. Playing possibly 15 games in a row at the end of the season wouldn’t work with fitness levels, especially with the lower level teams
There are playoffs but for lower league teams, for example in England the top 2 teams in the second division (championship) will be promoted but then the teams placed between 3rd and 6th will have a playoffs, 3rd will play 6th and 4th will play 5th and the winner of these two matches will play in a playoff final to get promoted to the 1st division (premier league)
