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Dude you have no idea. It's not just in Europe that this format exists, in South America it's also like that, well, at least in my country it is, I'm Brazilian. Often the fight at the bottom of the table is more exciting than the fight at the top, teams literally give their lives to stay in the top division. This year, my country's second division is a lot of fun to watch, this Sunday will be the last round of the championship, and coincidentally, the two teams that are vying for the last spot to move up to the first division will face each other, I won't lose this game for nothing! And I'm not a fan of either of these two teams 😂

Relegation is common sense in all the world. Thats why the matches are so interesting

Football is brutal in regards to the relagation and you have to understand it goes on all the way down the divisions all the way from pros, semi pros to amateurs.. it's one of the things that make footbal great.. i mean you can play like shit in your NFL,NBA aso aso and NOT be punished, some even do it on purpose to get an advantage during the drafts.. which is btw something we don't have aswell in Football if you suck, you pay the price

Also another important thing to say: Transfers. They are the equivalent of trades. There are 2 windows to make transfers: a summer window and a window mid-season (all the month of january) and only during these window transfers can happen. Also, transfers can get wild. All the clubs from the entire world can make business, and thanks to that you can see Japanese playing in Italy

relegation and european qualification adds so much because it means practically every team is fighting for something, throughout the whole season. every game is truly important

The world cup is/has always been played in the summer, between seasons, but this year it is being held in Quatar, which sucks, and is a corrupt decision. You can research it on your own. In Quatar it is too hot to hold the tournament in the summer, thats why it has to be in the fall/winther, and why all clubs have to take a break, which is very disruptive in terms of the fixture list. Also, players get injured in the world cup, which is bad for the club the player belongs to. Certain teams also have many more players competing in the world cup, which means that the fatigue will be a big problem for certain clubs (but at the same time, those clubs are richer, and have a deeper squad to compensate.

The champions league matches are going on right now i mean right now if you wanna see Messi in action maybe tune into the Juventus vs PSG game on tv in about an hour's time

One quick correction : 6:05 they don't usually take a break from the normal leagues for the world cup. Usually the world cup takes place between June and July when most, if not all of the league's are already on a break. This year is an exception because FIFA decided to let Qatar host (that's a whole different conversation) where it was decided conditions would be too hot for players to play through during the usual June and July months so it was moved to November/December where it would be cooler for players. As far as I'm aware this is the first this has happened. But yeah to sum up normally we don't break for the world cup, it usually happens during the summer break.

I like how open-mindedly you're coming at this. I didn't hear you rip the sport once, and I'll hang out and sub for at least the rest of this series simply because of that.

About relegations, in Spain we have a club, Deportivo La Coruña, that in 2004 was playing the Semi Finals of UEFA Champions league, so top 4 of clubs in all Europe and now they are playing in 3ºDivision that its consider a semi-profesional division. So relegations can be brutal indeed.

Playing the FIFA video game quickly schools you on this sport, especially for understanding how rosters and signing players works. I was never into football until a couple of years ago and now I follow regularly.

Relegation is one the features that makes it exciting. In Europe (and I guess in the rest of the world except North-America) this exists in all sports: basketball, volleyball, handball, you name it. If it were only about the first place for the championship, then soon ever more teams will have nothing to play for if the championship becomes out of reach. With the European cups (Beside the Champions League there are also the lower tiers Europa League and Conference League), there are 5 to 7 places in the top of the ranking that gives access to one of the leagues next season. Usually there are 10, 12 teams competing till the last match day for one of these - very much desired - spots. And at the bottom, there are usually 5 or 6 teams fighting to avoid relegation. This means, that up untill the very last match day most teams have something to play for. In a league of 18 teams, there are usually just 1 or 2 teams that are done early: they can't reach an European league spot nor can they relegate.

Relegation is such an important factor and honestly it wouldn’t be the same without it. In 2015 my city’s team Atalanta was one spot away from being relegated, and now it is getting consistently top 10 every year. Just imagine if it got relegated and got stuck for a while in 2nd division

You should react to A clueless American’s guide to Premier league/Champions league. They are an easy way to learn some of the basics and give you a good insight into some different teams

Relegation fight is awesome. Towards the end of the season, it's often more difficult to play vs a relegation fighting team than a champions league spot contender... they are so focused and determined and stadiums are one fire... Relegation system is necessary in football due to the insane amount of professional teams in each country. It also gives a lot of variety to the system. Each year different teams. different stadiums and fan bases get to the division above.

As some other comments probably already mentioned, World Cups were ALWAYS played in the summer, during that May to August break. This year in Qatar is the exception because they're basically in the desert, air is dry and temperatures go as high as 45°C (113°F for you lot), so they had to move WC to winter to make conditions playable, which completely messes up the schedule of local leagues, meaning they'll now have to be forced to go on a one month break.

Love your openess! Trust me, it is not that hard to follow. In the past three years, I have learned, Cricket, Darts, Chess, Rugby ( Afl, Nrl, Union ), Formula 1 and Horse-Racing... All of them, I had never had clue about. Now I am not just watching, but can also play most of them! Keep up the good work!

Great video. As an Englishman who grew up with football of course (Tottenham fan for over 30 years now) but also watching NFL and probably prefer watching NFL now (Dolphins fan for about as long), I do like the concept of the wage cap in the NFL. Often the most successful teams in Europe these days are the richest who spend more money on players, wages and so on. Wage caps and draft picks help balance things out a little and I like that a lot.

First time I've seen you, I love seeing someone discover and try to learn about football. Subscribed from England. 😊

I love that format, that puts more pressure on the teams

To understand what is great about the promotion and relegation format, watch the Leicester city story! They (my team) were almost relegated 1 season, then went on to win the premier league title the next season. Incredible story.

Please post your reaction on "Best Goalkeeper Saves in Football" and I love how you equally respect sports other than the one you are most passionate about.

I commend your openess and enthusiasm for learning this new sport beloved all around the world! I am from Argentina and play 5v5 indoor football every tuesday. But I lived a couple of years in the States. When we were living together, my brother and I would watch the 49ers every week.

(European) soccer explained for americans by TheOnDeckCircle is your video my friend. For learning the Rules.

I live in Europe and love watching football. I'm also trying to get more into American Football as despite not knowing much about it, from what I have learned and seen it seems like a sport I would certainly enjoy. I gotta say I enjoy these videos and your reactions as well as your respect for the sport.

Love the video! Interesting to see an outside perspective to what us Europeans find very normal. This season is weird though, with the world cup in november. That has never happened. Its usually in july.

Nice to watch this video. Welcome to the soccer/football world my friend. I think every sport can be beautiful and special if you are open-minded and get to see the best games (at the beginning, at least). They are all a kind of art to be admired 😁

like your style of reactions, keep up the great work!!

6:30 Yeah, but it's not usually like that, usually World Cup is played in August but because this years World Cup is played in Qatar and it's too hot to play in August it's moved to November, so this season started earlier then usual and will have this unusual November break. Another thing to note is that each country has it's own scheduel and it can be very different mainly due to weather conditions, so many countries don't play in January because it's too cold or some northern countries start their season in the spring and instead of that big summer pause they have that pause durring winter because summers aren't as hot but winters are very cold.

Step 5 If you wanna qualify to the champions league you have to finish top 4 in your league if its in the top 5 league (Top 5 leagues is the english league , german , french , italian , spain league ) But other league if they finish 1st they either get a spot in it or have to go vs other teams that finished 1st in there league It might be hard to learn this but if you do your good

Usually they don't take a break for the World Cup in europe because the World Cup is in June/July, which is after the end of the season. This year they had to take a break because someone (probably after getting a fat check under the table) thought it was a good idea to have the world cup in the middle of the desert, which would be terrible during the summer, so they moved the World Cup to November/December, basically in the middle of the european season

We do have playoffs in the English Football League. In the Championship, the top two teams go up to the Premier League automatically and teams 3, 4, 5 and 6 play each other for the 3rd promotion spot. Similar rules apply to all the lower divisions but with more automatic promotion spots.

When I spent time in the US back in the day, the closest thing to European football was oddly Baseball. By this I mean the local nature of the teams, the fan base, the frequency of games and the way the league works, reminded me of the Football League back home.

I really like how you are approaching to this awesome sport!!! I’m sure a lot of people have already suggested you matches, but you need to know the best 5 leagues in the world which are premier league, la liga, bundesliga, serie a and league 1 which are english, spanish german italian and french leagues. Also i’d love to see you learn a lot about the past of the sport, for example serie a is one of the weakest leagues between those 5 leagues but once was the league where every best player wanted to play. Nowadays the best leagues is surely the english one and it’s really easy and beautiful to react to some of those matches but even in other leagues there are some of the most iconic teams ever such as ac milan who are coming back into form after some years of delusional performances but still cannot reach the level of the top teams in europe ( ac milan is the 2nd most winning team in the champions league and has had a whole lot of legends like gullit or kaka just to name some of the most famous one)

Keep it up, great intro to the beautiful game

Love seeing you learn about the sport!

the interesting part of the relegation system is not that you club can go down, it's that you can make a club with your friends, play on the lowest league and ascend divisions until becoming a top-tier club just with your performance

you should react to Robert Carlos too, he was a left wing defender, who was known for his fast hart hitting shots and different skills (which made him one of the early attacking defenders ever); his kicks were so powerful because of his knees/legs full of muscle (he was kinda small with 5`6/5`7 )

Also another thing to explain is transfers. Transfers are available in two windows: the summer window (June to August) and the winter window (January). Teams pay a fee to the team that currently has the player they want, and then they get to register the player. For example, Liverpool paid a fee of about £60 million to Portuguese club Benfica if I remember correctly for Darwin Núñez, which meant Benfica could release him from his contract and he could sign for them. Players can transfer for free if their contract has expired, and sometimes a player will go to another team for a year or two and come back later, which is called a loan move.

To clarify there isn't normally a break in the league for a world cup, the world cup is usually held in the summer so the leagues dont have to stop. This year is an outlier as a result of it being held in Qatar

today is the last day of champions league group stage starting in like 1 hours....and messi is playing ...you can tune in if you want

My mother is Danish so I grew up with soccer as my main sport. American sports are all weird to me. I love watching Americans learn about soccer because it blows my mind how much people don't actually know. I've subscribed. I want to see what you learn as you learn it.

The cool thing on cup games - as an amateur player it could happen that you are playing aginst your heros in a real competition! And it happend every year, that a team of teachers, workers and bankers can kick out a pro team out of the cup...

I'm a Sunderland fan (7th most successful English league team ever, although not for a very long time....). We were up there in the top league with Manchester United, Liverpool, etc. We got relegated. Then the season after that, in the 2nd division, we got relegated AGAIN. 5 years of being in the THIRD division, we finally got promoted back to the second division. Fun!

If you want to look at some videos related to the fight to avoid relegation, try using the term “football great escape”. Its the british term for teams that have been in the relegation zone until very late in the season, and seemingly against the odds with great performances, escape relegation. Notable great escapes include West Brom in 2005, West Ham in 2007, Fulham in 2008 and probably most heroic is Leicester in 2015 (but i cant say why for spoilers for what happened next 😉).

Not in every country the season starts in August and ends in May. There is League's like A Lyga(Lithuania) Optibet Virslīga(Latvia) and Meistraliiga(Estonia) and Other country's the Season starts in February and ends in November or December.

You seem to be a really nice guy mate,god bless ya man

Excellent I’m gonna enjoy your journey!

check out liverpool fc

I'm from Denver (living in Seattle, I get hell for being a die hard Bronco) but I've picked up Arsenal (English Premier League, usually considered the best league in the world) about 10 years ago and love them just as much. I'll never switch from either team. I'll sub to watch your journey my guy! (Also, Arsenal are incredibly sitting top of the table right now! Broncos... not so much)

Love the double upload :)

Fun fact. Teams used to get two points for a win and would share the points in the event of a draw and get 1 each, literally getting an even split. However teams in drawing situations wouldn't want to risk losing their point, just to gain another point, so games often ended up being quite defensive trying to protect what a team already had. To combat this leagues introduced a bonus point for a win. So if a team won the game, they would get 3 points rather than 2. That way there was a much greater incentive to really play for the win. You note that they don't get anything extra based on the scorelines and there had been plans to introduce a similar rule to grant a 1/4 of a point for each goal over a certain amount and things like this, but these proposals never got any traction.

The promotion/relegation factor is why soccer (and all other sports with this) are so much fun! With it, you can literally create a team of your own with some buddies of yours and sign on for the system and in a potential future climb all the way up to top league.

I became a Manchester United fan over 20 years ago because I heard about them winning the Champions League in a dramatic way (check it out, Manchester United vs Bayern Munich final). It's been a rollercoaster to watch and support such a storied team, and I'll be their fan through the highs and lows. It's a great pick for a club to follow IMO.

Great to see you’re open to other sports. 👍 I enjoy a NFL game if it’s on TV although I don’t know all the rules (I’m from Australia). We love our football (soccer) here and enjoy the World Cup where I put ALL other programs on pause only to watch it for a month. 😉⚽️

Not sure about other leagues but in the UK, the 3 teams that go from the 2nd division (championship) up to the top (premier league) consist of 1st and 2nd in the league as well as the winner of the championship playoffs. This is simple, at the end of the season 3rd play 6th twice and 4th play 5th twice (home & away), the winners of those 2 match ups play in a single game final where the winner is the third team that is promoted

Also a number of leagues in Europe where summer leagues are played to avoid the harsh winters, many of those run from February to October.

The world cup is usually played in July and August after the end of the season, this world cup is an exception because it is played in Qatar, and another detail that is not mentioned in the video is that during the season they are also usually held the "national team stoppages" which is 1 or 2 weeks in which the leagues stop and the qualifying matches for the World Cup are played. PS: for those who want to watch amateur soccer at the moment, the "stream world cup" is also being played, which is a world cup between streamers, and the positive thing about amateur soccer is that many more goals are usually scored than in professional soccer

I know your channel is focussed on american football but love to see you in football realted topics. Keep doing it!

Cups are also so exiting in the UK we have the FA cup where almost all teams can play. On Saturday my local team how are in the 6th tier beat a team in the 3 tier. If they win there next game then they have a chance of playing all the biggest teams in england.

The goal difference (made vs conceded) is the tie breaker in the event two teams have the same amount of points

You should go live on twitch or tiktok during a World Cup game. Now that the knockout stage is here it is going to be more intense. You can also ask questions and get them answered live.

Today Ipswich (2nd tier team) were defeated by Maidstone (6th tier team) at Ipswich’s home ground. Because of the cup system they get half the ticket revenue from the game as a boost to their club and get to play again against bigger teams. The cups each country host are magic as they allow these games that would never normally happen and create great stories

all the games are planned out well so that these pauses of league matches in each countries are normal when another competition is starting, where you have to be somewhere else for example

Teams are not permanently kicked out ( relegated ) from a division of a league. They can get promoted back again in the future. It has happened that a small team from the 4th division has been promoted right up to the Premier League, in England. This is the kind of stuff that dreams are made of for the fans, and ensures that every team has something to play for during the season. Check out Hoffenheim in Germany.

this is a great step to understanding soccer, now you should watch highlights of actual games like barcelona vs madrid or manchester united vs liverpool

The World Cup this year is being hosted in November & December because of the location. It's always in the summer, when it's normally held.

You should react to The Art Of defending thats gonna be a great video to watch👍

There is actually something we call the playoffs but they work differently from country to country to decide the final team to go up (or sometimes keep their place in their current league)

There are play offs in divisions below the Premier League where usually the 3rd-6th place team play each other and the winner of 3rd v 6th and 4th v 5th over home and away play each other in a one off match and the winner gets promoted and also a trophy So a team finishing second gets promoted and no trophy but the league champion and play off winner do

The big leagues in Europe usually don't go on pause for the two big international competitions (World Cup and European Championship) since usually those fall right into the break period in the northern summer. World Cup has been moved to winter this year due to a slight problem with temperatures in the country it is being held in.

Including the facts that there's usually a preseason trophy to be won and the Europa League to play in for the teams who finished just below Champions League qualification in position, every team from every country has about 3-4 titles to play for in a year.

Usually World Cups and other international tournaments are held after the season is over, but this time they rescheduled it to November because summers in Qatar are too hot for playing football.

Respect all around 🤝 I’m trying to understand your football as well

There is also Europa League (former UEFA Cup). Teams who were not good enough to qualify to UEFA Champions League (i.e. CL) are being placed there. Then also after CL group phase some teams are going to UEFA league. It's a separate tournament with lower status but also very good to watch. Winners of both cups then play a game and winner gets UEFA super cup.

I would recommend watching a highlight video on all World Cup finals, it’s not that many matches since the World Cup is only every 4 years

The lower divisions DO have a playoff to decide who gets promoted. I think some countries the first place team goes through auto but the next places might have a playoff like 2nd versus 3rd to decide who gets to go up.

The final matches that decide the relegation places and promotion places in each of the lower divisions are often among the most exciting of the season in each country, because there is so much at stake financially and honourwise ( for instance being promoted to a higher division than the team in your neighbour city or town 😉 - or finally returning to the higher division after a relegation followed by several bad seasons ), so the players will fight like mad for every ball and often play above their normal capacities. In some tournaments - for instance in England - the teams ending up 3rd to 6th in a lower division will play each others for the third promotion place in two playoff matches / games - in others the 3rd place team in the lower division will battle the 3rd last team in the upper division for the last promotion place / avoiding the last relegation place ( a final chance for this team for survival in the higher division ).

The World Cup is country based rather than individual club football. So you get France versus Spain rather than Paris St Germain versus Barcelona. Personally I prefer club football and once you have a team to follow in UK it's great seeing how they do each week and watching them go up or down the league table. Many kids just follow the team their parents followed and you get generations of supporters all going to the match together. Most towns have a team and the club just uses the name of the town as its title, eg Liverpool, Ipswich, Cardiff etc. London is pretty big so has quite a lot of teams, Arsenal, Chelsea, West Ham, Crystal Palace etc. The Premier League has 20 teams so they play 38 matches over the season home and away and all the points are added up each week and at the end of the season the Premier champions are presented with a trophy. Currently Manchester City are the team to beat, but Manchester United had several years when they were the champions. I'm sure there are some good videos around giving the basic rules of the game, but basically it is a game played with feet and any touch with a hand or arm is penalised. It's ok to head the ball though. The goal keeper wears a different coloured strip to the rest of the team so that the referee can more easily check who is handling the ball as the goalie is allowed to catch or punch it. Hope you get to like the game more as you get familiar with it.

there are also videos explaining the positions on the pitch

Good work lad. It's good to see a genuine outsiders opinion of the game. If you are just starting out as a Premier League fan you should consider supporting Arsenal, our journey back to the top is just starting at the time you are getting interested. Come along for the ride. Plus there is a good documentary on Amazon about last season which would give you a good introduction to the team and characters. COYG

Goal difference only come into play ( take goals against away from goals scored) in the event of a points tie. So if 2 teams have the same points but 1 team has a +2 GD and the other has a +1 GD the +2 goes above them

Also, props to the creator of the original video for going to the trouble of filling in the sample league table - ACCURATELY.

Great vid! As a UK fan of the NFL (Go Jets) its fascinating to see the reverse here. United used to be great, but are less so now. The champions league can be won by any team competing (in theory), historically its been won by teams from Portugal, The Netherlands, Romania but the most successful teams come from the big leagues of England, Spain, Italy, Germany and France. All have legendary teams with often over a century of success and glory.

World cup is almost always during the summer. So usually it takes place during the off season in terms of all the other competitions.

The great thing about the relegation/promotion battle is that often the relegation battle at the bottom of a league is a better story and better to follow than the title race! It’s like when NBA teams are fighting to get into the playoffs knowing those who finish below he playoff spots get nothing, and it goes right to the wire. The promotion playoffs is also a thing in some league and that is just the same as NBA/NFL, but honestly so often it’s the relegation battle that’s more entertaining.

Usually the World Cup is in the Summer where the leagues pause anyway. Because this year it is in winter, the leagues have to do a large break when the league is just halfway thru.

MLS also has a cup tournament called the Lamar Hunt US open cup. Lamar hunt was also a founding father of the NFL.

Besides the title race that's between 2-3 teams and the relegation fight there's also the fight for the ticket to next year's continental competitions (Champions League, Europa League and Conference League in Europe plus the equivalent of these in the other continents) so depending on the Uefa rankings ( based on the accumulative performance of teams from each league in these tournaments of the last 5 years) of each League they receive a number of access spots in these tournaments, so top 4 leagues ( England, Spain, Italy and Germany by Uefa Rankings) they 4 secured( no qualification rounds needed)UCL spots, then Leagues lower than them get less spots like for example France or Portugal ( they usually fight for 5th place along with the Netherlands) get 2+1(the +1 means they have to go through qualifiers) and as you down they are reduced like Belgium, Switzerland or any other top 15 league( which as i said before can change drastically from year to year depending on how good or bad the teams representing their country were, so one country that's maybe 10th like Turkey last year they were 20th or like Ukraine that was before the war 9th or something they are know outside the top 15) gets 1+1 UCL spots and the total of European spots (UCL, UEL and Conference) goes from 7 for the top4 to 6, to 5 for leagues in the top 15, to 4 for leagues from place 16 or lower like Israel, Romania etc ( none of them secured so for them is 0+1 for Champions League) and the weakest 3-4 get only 3( leagues like the San Marino which is by far the worst league and national team in Europe) and there's the exemption of Liechtenstein that only 1 spot in the qualifiers for conference because they don't have a league but only a cup because by uefa law you need to have a league of at least 8 teams competing and they only have 7. So then you don't only fight for the title or avoiding relegation( which is not the last 3 in all leagues, some relegate 2 or 1 depending on how many teams they have in each league, for example Spain has 20 teams and relegates 3 but Greece that has 14 teams relegates 2 or Croatia that has 10 teams and relegates 1) but also for European access so it matters if you are 4th or 5th for example. Sorry for being a little too long.

Just to give you a picture of football in England, I grew up in a small town of 20,000 residents, and played for a pub team in an amateur Sunday league. However, anyone can start a team from scratch, if they can find enough players. This small town also had a town team of a much higher standard, although still amateur.. Some of these players may go on to play for a semi pro team in a nearby larger town. Most cities , about 100, will have a full

The season doesn't usually get paused for the world cup, its meant to be held in the "off season" (only this year has it been held mid season)

You just missed the MLS Cup Final between Philly and LA this past weekend. It was genuinely the most exciting game in MLS history.

You HAVE to react to Ultras, our way of life to actually deep the love and pride we feel.Would be an amazing upload

Only thing I can add and not sure if someone has mentioned it, but normally the world cup is held between seasons.. this year is kind off a once off. That being said hope you grow to like it and find a team you can call your own!

It´s nice to see you find genuine interest in this new sport (for you). So if you want to delve into the biggest national leagues, here are some head up: The English Premier League is almost universally accepted as the best league in the world, also it´s the one with most revenue, which makes sense. The internal competition is better than any other top league, usually having 6 teams that are regularly competing for top spots plus 1-2 dark horses each season, but for the last few years it´s slowly becoming a 2-horse race between Manchester City and Liverpool FC. They tend to underperform internationally as of late, just as the English National team, Liverpool being the most successful with 6 Champions League titles. The German Bundesliga is nowadays THE training ground for the best young talent in the world, with teams like Borussia Dortmund and RB Leipzig developing teenagers from lower leagues and then selling them for huge profits. It´s also the most fan-friendly league in the world, these clubs have the so called 50+1 rule which decrees that every club´s shares must be owned by the fans themselves, so no oil clubs here, and the stadium attendance is the highest in the world. It´s got a high quality of play, especially on the offensive, with top clubs performing well internationally, however many consider it a lower tier league because its top club, Bayern Munich, dominates to the point of having won the last 10 leagues in a row. Bayern, apart from being an international powerhouse for 50 years without pause, has historically been the foundation of the German national team, the second most successful team in history after Brazil. The Italian Serie A was also a one-horse race for many years until very recently, with Juventus Turin going through a crisis, which has allowed for a extremely entertaining competition between 4-5 top teams. Italian coaches are internationally regarded as tactical masterminds, specialising in defense and counterattack. It´s becoming a very exciting league again, both internally and in European competitions, with sleeping giants like AC Milan, Napoli and Inter Milan starting to compete again on a high level. Weirdly, the Italian national team failed to classify for the WC after becoming European Champions just last year, they´re still an historical powerhouse tho. The Spanish La Liga has always been a two-horse race between argueably the biggest rivalry in club football, Real Madrid and FC Barcelona. They meet twice a season in a game called El Clásico, which every football fan in the world watches. These clubs´ rivalries were heightened even more for many years because 2 of the best players in history, Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, used to play for each of those clubs respectively at the same time, and the clashes were epic af. Both teams are also very successful internationally, Real Madrid being the all time Champions League winners with 14 titles, and Barcelona achieving a Sextete (they won all six competitions they played in a year), apart from providing the backbone of the most successful Spanish national team in history, a team that won 2 back to back European titles and a World Cup inbetween. Hope this helps!

One relevant point is that usually World Cup doesnt stop leagues or national competitions because is hold in summer time (between seasons). However this year because of Qatar weather was consider too risky to play during summer time in Qatar due to high temperatures.

I think you should react to (all champions league finals from 2000 to 2022) so you can see who the big dawgs of Europe are and how did they do in the last two decades It’s like a fun 20 minute vid

You could also watch a video about defending in soccer

They're technically wrong about no playoffs, Germany has 16th place from the first division and 3rd place from the second division play 2 games to see who's in the first division next season. The second division in England also has promotion playoffs, 3rd v 6th and 4th v 5th, winner of those face of against one another to see who gets promoted