American football is international now. There are American football teams in asia, Africa and Europe but let's face it, none of those teams can beat a division 2 college team let alone the worst NFL team so by default the Superbowl champs have the right to say that.
@Kabelo Ntsala there's an american football league in nigeria I don't remember if they're amateur or semipro but it does exist and quiet a few past and current NFL players are nigerian descent.
I don't get it. For a network it would be important, sure. But people don't watch programs for the commercials, do they? They watch a match for example because it interests them. And so if enough people would watch an international match, they would have to broadcast it.
Americans do not understand the tactics of soccer. They think oh well it's just a bunch of people running around and a kicking a ball but in reality the game has so much skill and technique they would never understand.
Well we Americans don't care about your opinion because football is really fun to watch unlike trash soccer. You can hate all you want but thats just what we like.
American Football WAS played with your feet in its very early days. It was a variation on traditional football (soccer) where you could advance the ball down the field by kicking it while players were allowed to tackle you. Then later more Rugby rules were introduced and it became more like Rugby where you could hold the ball, and kicking it was no longer allowed. But everyone had already been calling it football so the name stuck. They didn't realize that 100 years later there would be the internet and global media satellite TV and the name would cause confusion...get over it...
To be honest though, i don't care that the USA don't love soccer as much as Europe or Asia do. Just don't try to force that your sports(american football, basketball, baseball) are the best in the world, because out of those 3 probably only one(basketball) do outsiders really care about.
alghi fari baseball is huge in Asia and the favorite sport in the Caribbean and second behind soccer in south and central America. In Puerto Rico, Dominicans were being killed because they won the world classic. There are also some good teams in Europe. I think alot of soccer fans are to delusional to realise though that another sport is famous world wide. Yes it is the most famous sport but there is no need to hate on the people who don't enjoy it.
jaxxx 1 Dafuk you talking bout, baseball is not the Caribbean's favourite sport not even in top 5 and I live in the Caribbean, it's actually football (not the rugby like bs)
Jack Frozt I don't know where you live here in the Caribbean but I gotta ask if you really live here or if you are some European dude pretending to live here to make a point that soccer is the best, you see Americans spell it favorite not favourite and you know what that makes me think
I am from the west Indies is 1-football 2-cricket where I'm frm basketball will be 3rd cant speak for the rest of the West Indies as I'm not sure if they play it
+DELT4WOLF Perhaps he meant the arguments stated in the presentation were really good, the design of the presentation itself wasn't good at all, but that doesn't matter for me and yes she could work a lot more on her presentation skills, but that doesn't make the whole presentation awful.
+Dimitri Payet The English were the first to use the term "soccer" as a shorter way of saying "association football" and as an easier way of distinguishing it from "rugby football" that was subsequently shortened to "rugger" for the same reason.
Ronaldo Messi Ofcourse there are. Center defenders and goalkeepers are generally tall. Also some strikers and center midfielders. But being tall isnt necessary in football. It's about skill.
Watching a game end 0-0 but the menatlity, the play and the crowd gives you gosehumps for 90 minutes, its better than eating burgers for 2 hours watching egghand.
Champions league, WORLD Cup, Europa League, Euro Cup, Copa America theyre all the most watch competitions but World Cup will always beat any sports even no matter what
Baseball is all over, from Japan to Canada, to the Dominican Republic and Mexico. Football is gaining traction in the UK and there is a Canadian League. Basketball is huge all across the globe from China to Argentina to Spain. Yes soccer is bigger, but I think it is also anti-Americanism that is why those sports aren't bigger.
And another thing: It's called Football! American football is played with the hands for over 90% of the time so call it American Handball or American Rugby. You play Football with your feet and that's why it's called football!
You know what rugby is actually called? Rugby Football. Now why does it have football in the name? Because it as a decedent of the actual game football. Wait, but we Brits invented football, and you use your feet to shoot and score. Did we not? Yes you guys did, but that is called association football. Which is also a descendent from football. So what is football? Football is a sport where people run on foot (not horseback like the rich people playing polo were doing) and they can run the ball, throw the ball or kick the ball to a designated area. What we did was make it into two sports instead of one. One where you kick it, and one where you throw/run the ball to a designated area.
Maybe you should do some research before telling people what they should call things. If you knew th history of the several different football codes you wouldn't be making these stupid comments.
Americans dont know how physical and exciting a game of football can be in England the sheer pace and explosivness they play the game their. Every league is different the spansih league is fast and skilfull, the Serie A is slower but technical, the EPL is phsically is quick the Bundesliga has a nice mix between all of them.
I'm American, but i love football so much, i watch all 5 of the major European Leagues and know mostc players. I support Poland's national team, too. about as much as i do the U.S. I really hope football takes off here though. also, i can understand the difficulty level as I've played for 12 years. most Americans just don't get it though...
To be honest I am glad Americans are not part of the footballing scene I just feel they would take away the beauty of the game. I know I am pretty small minded saying that but it's just difficult to imagine them reflecting well the image of the game and appreciating it.
Poochie Collins lol have you seen the LA after the Lakers won or the Philadelphia after the Superbowl. Lol let's not act like Americans are innocent. But OP is small minded also for the fact Germany fans are passionate but have their fair share of hooliganism that fucks everyone's day. If being beautiful is destroying shit than that ain't beautiful.
*@MrBlue : I did say "mostly don't." I'm of the stance that people should be allowed to like what they do, if it's not hurting anyone. Who cares if certain countries like certain sports, and dislike certain sports, more than others?*
At least we don’t rig match fixing and monopolize leagues that are so fucking pointless to watch. Example seria A watched Juventus when the league every year that is not “beautiful” that’s fucking boring. Also you’ve obviously have never been to America but the people who do support football (soccer) here have a deep passion that every fan around the world shares.
Like the rest of the world paints a positive image? Congrats, you are small minded...The amount of racism by the fans in european soccer is obscene, especially germany so gtfo. FIFA is the most corrupt sporting organization in the world, but yea, let's just gloss over that. Also european players disrespect the sport by diving every other play. Watch any european match and they're diving all game. That's the ultimate disrespect to the game, and it pisses me off every time I see it because of people like you who claim football is for the rest of the world only because of your ignorant underlying assumptions of americans.
Great speech, great points. Well done! One more thing I would add, not just the commercials, but in soccer you go to the stadium and you watch 45 min of action, then a 15 min brake and another 45 min of action. In Basketball, Baseball, Football...there is an action-pause-action-pause-action-pause...time out home team, time out away team, commercials time out, short brake, long brake...and people sit there eat something, drink something...on average NBA game lasts 2-3 hours and the game itself it's 48 min. NFL average action time is about 11 minutes and another 174 minutes in replays, commercials, time-outs...
Football action time is a complete 60 minutes bro. There's action every single minute and because of those pauses it allows the players to go full speed 100% every play to go at it as hard as they can
Gabe Delao I am talking about the delay between the actions. I love NBA very much, but when one team goes hard at the another after 2-3 plays there is time-out. It's kinda boring. As soon as you get all pumped up for action...time-out. Just imagine MMA...few punches...time-out...and again and again. Would you watch that?
i think in the us the whole culture is different. the dont go to watch a game in the stadium just for the game but to enjoy these many hours for example with the family and to drink and eat with friends
+Caesar Vespasian footballers are some of the best athletes in the word. Do not say stupid things. Height and weight make no difference in how good of an athlete you are
Caesar Vespasian Football players are sumo fighters in armor, shut the fuck up. A lot of "soccer" players dashed faster than bolt in 50 meters. That's not being an athlete, right?
Baseball and basketball are the dumbest, biggest waste of times out there. At least football you get to see people hit each other. But lets be real. the world cup will ALWAYS be superior to the super bowl, world series and whatever the basketball final game is called
+bobafett979 You realize that that comment is very vague and doesn't represent any of the sports. In soccer there are many things you must do tactically in order to have a chance to score (hence the low scores). In basketball there are many ways you must attack the basket based on how the defense is read, and the moment you score you must immediately rush back to your side to defend quickly. Same goes for American football in that you must read what the defense will do next which isn't always easy. And for baseball (the one I have the most experience with) isn't easy to play at all. Hitting a round ball, with a round bat, that is being pitched at speeds of 90+mph is one of the hardest things to do in sports. And no sport is hard to watch if you spend time going into the details of a play to occupy yourself
+Big Cat23 look, I play basketball know very well about it, played football beginning yeas of my high school time, baseball I played as a past time. But soccer? Simply stating 4-3-2-1 isn't a tactic, just a formation and that is what appears to all people. I played soccer casually and noticed that it doesn't really take much strategy
Here's the thing about soccer that I fell in love with (I'm American, that was originally into basketball/football). The Energy of the Sport. The energy is big to the games,players, and rivalry. It makes me upset that we can't have that energy in our American sports. I think if more people were exposed to it in America then we would love it.
Football/Futbol (soccer) has passion. Like you said it's a religion. I would devote my whole life to it if I could. The atmosphere in the stadiums is just amazing. The arguments you gave for why basketball, baseball and American football is so popular in the US are also the arguments for why I think the sports are so lame. Advertisment everywhere, constant time-outs, lots of goals/points. A football match flows and the fans dance like it's a living thing. The build up to a goal, the explosion of joy it brings and then the celebration afterwards make it so much better. You can really lose yourself in a match. I can't even describe the feeling when your team wins the Champions League in the final minutes of a game... or lose it... (Bayern fan here :D)
M4n44n I agree 100% with you. Im a Porto fan. We won a CHampions League in the final minutes from you. :) eheheh This year we meet again, this time at the quarter-finals, but ill be honest, odds are totally on your side. Cheers from Portugal.
I like your ethusiasm and it is fun to play soccer but I cannot watch it after playing it now I love football. But I know you love this sport with all your heart so keep playing
America is the whole continent, not only the USA... Soccer is really called football, that's the way it's called all over the world... The USA should call their violent papaya shaped ball & helmet game, North American Rugby, it's a more appropiate name for it...There is hardly any football play in this type of USA Rugby...
In America continent called football(⚽) not soccer or sucker , South America (Spanish,Portuguese,French,Ducth)Central and Caribe(Spanish,French and English) calls football/futbol/futebol/fotbol/Fussball/football ⚽
I agree, "American Rules Rugby" would be a more accurate descriptor. But then there's that pesky point that Rugby is also "football" (the game is rugby football with rugby football union and rugby football league variants). Ooooh well :-D
Shrek Cosby who cares is time to change that name also the name America and american you are a country not a continent you don’t hear people from Germany say they are europeans they say Germans or people from Italy they say italians etc you are the only people in the world who put wrong names to things and the worst thing is you believe you can
No, he's telling you to read a history book on the history of sports, and not some grade school history survey book you uneducated, half-illiterate dolt. Anyone with a decent education would know why "football" is called "football", and why the sports of "association football", "Australian football", "Rugby Union football", "Canadian football", and "American football" all share the same name and have to be distinguished from each other. And in fact, since only one of those is played with a round ball and makes contact with the hands illegal, it soccer that is in fact the odd duck in the football family of games. Anyone in touch with the history of sport would know that much of modern athletics can be traced by to the village sports of medieval England, which were perhaps older than that but the history of how Roman children's ball sports intermingled with the Gaelic traditions still perversed by the Brits is lost to time. Suffice to say that we know for a fact that the term "football" dates back to the middle ages, and referred collectively to the sorts of sports played by peasants. We don't know what the peasants called these sports, because it wasn't written down but the aristocrats that mentioned them called them "football" because they were played with a ball by people who - quite unlike 'proper' sports like hunting and jousting - were on foot. Village sports were diverse with each village having its own rules, but they generally could be grouped into two sorts - those that allowed the ball to be moved by hand and those that didn't. Eventually in the 18th century, the rules for the games began to be codified, becoming today Rugby and Soccer. When the English colonized America, they brought their ball sports and their stick sports with them, but unchained from mother England American sports diverged in the rules. Rounders became Baseball, and the village sports that allowed movement with the hand became codified as American Football. Soccer as known and played in America, from the 1860's to the 1930's, but it never really caught on as a national sport the way Baseball had. During this period, it was common to refer to "Association Football" both in England and America as "soccer". Calling it football didn't begin until the 1950's, when the Latin American nations (which only knew one sort of football) exported the term back to Europe. But in America and Australia, with two sorts of football, one more important than the other, the old English term "soccer" stuck. The reason soccer died in America is complicated, but has to do in part with the Great Depression. Baseball was by far the national sport, but soccer was vying then for #2. But the problem was radio and the fact that American sports developed professional leagues that were highly organized and designed to entertain. Soccer on the other hand stayed mired in the amateur club tradition and the feuding disparate professional leagues all went bankrupt. By the 1950's, and the invention of TV soccer was already waning in the USA (but not enough to keep us out of early world cups). With no money backing it, only regional interest, and neither a professional league to give your love to nor a presence in TV to inspire anyone, soccer simply faded away and became a sport someone else played. Americans played baseball, basketball, hockey, and football. They played more volleyball than soccer. Until title 9 came along and someone noted that soccer would make a perfect girl's sport to pair with the more manly football.
Soccer is a 10x more popular now than when it was posted. My local team, the timbers, sells out every game, and the whole city loves them. It's growing.
Jimmy Garoppolo, REAL men play football (i.e soccer).If you can last 30 minutes in a professional match then you are fitter than a MARINE.Its more physically and emotionally demanding than any other sport. I have played basketball, tennis, hockey and run at least 12km a week but SOCCER is the ultimate work-out.
Brian Chiwakata bro 12 km a week is nothing. I'm from America and run 10 km a day (around 60km a week) at 7:30 mile pace. That's around a 45 minute 10k. I also play SOCCER over 45 minutes a game and I'm not even close to as fit as a marine. I like the sport, so what I'm an American. Why does it matter. Just because of where I live. And I'm not fat either, I don't get why Americans are stereotyped as being fat.
They view fit people ass tiny skinny people, Americans are big and jacked people to them we look big, also I am a thirteen year old American patriot and I run over 3 miles a day straight and have never played an organized game of soccer
NUMBER 1: you borrowed the name "football" from us, and you'll never outgrow that. NUMBER 2: your Superbowl will never be as big as World Cup [ever!]. NUMBER 3: our exotic wives are much more beautiful (ouch!). NUMBER 4: soccer is a real sport with an average of about 95% of game time, not "sporting entertainment" which has less than 20 minutes of the actual game play, and all the rest is commercials, fan shots, ref calls, time outs, etc. NUMBER 5: cause your favorite pastime is exactly that - YOUR favorite past time (not ours). NUMBER 6: because your highest paid basket baller and footballer don't make as much as the highest paid footballer [real football]. NUMBER 7: cause its not something you can dominate, and whatever you can't dominate, you act like children and try to ridicule all because you can't conquer it. NUMBER 8: cause America is tiny. The rest of the world is very, very big. NUMBER 9: cause FIFA isn't American. It can't control or benefit from its massive amount of $$$. And finally, NUMBER 10: because it requires real skill.
Number 6 is by design...football and basketball players have salary caps so one team doesn't just buy the best players and always win the championship every year...
Main Channel eLDaNkPaBLo Her grandpa is from Chile. So ... its in her genes. Pretty in the face, but not enough to make me notice it the first time I watched.
NUMBER 11: Football has better atmosphere than the NFL, and better fan moments. St Etienne vs Man Utd Aris fans singing in the dark Dynamo Dresden world record banner
LDMG LOL ... can be really, realy wild though. Dangerous too ... not just at the Premier or First Division level. Some amatures clubs (and fans) are CRAZY. Crazy like, cutting of the arms and legs of a referee. Yeah ... that's football for you. Gotta love it. I'm just happy the "rich boys" aren't stil betting their homes, boats, and wives on matches. Remember the own goal abt 3 or 4 World Cups ago? BAM? Shot and dead. Some idiot probably bet his house on the match.
Excellent talk. Back to the issues of scores, the quality of a "soccer" match is not defined by the number of goals scored, but how the game is played- nuances that can't be measured (e.g. England 0 Brazil 1 in 1970). I've tried watching basketball but the event of scoring is diluted through the quantity of points scored
without respect football is nothing, i mean FOOT.BALL..... also...size doesnt matter at football so every single person in the world no matter what size, can play together at same team
LOL America is the USA, it's the only country that actually matters, especially for Europe who depends on it for protection like daddy LOL Soccer was called that by the British who invented the game, so what's your point Goldfarb?? LOL When the best player of soccer in the world is a child-like Latino midget, that tells you how pathetic a sport it is LOL Basketball's best players are true supermen, 6'7", 6'8" 250 lb, football players are built like trucks, they would easily squash a rugby player #LOL
Caesar Vespasian Lol your name sounds Latino. no offence. btw if Football player are so tough why do they wear so much Protection unlike Rugby players. Lol a Rugby player would destroy a Football player without their protection. I don't even hate American Football. btw. its a good sport but it would be better if they remove their protection. just saying. and no Football was what Soccer was called before Rugby and Gridiron Football.
In regards to "valuing leisure time", watching a football game now takes 3+ hours because there are so many commercials. It's the reason I started watching soccer recently. Those games go quickly because there aren't any commercials during the two halves. Players are also moving during that entire time, as opposed to football where players move for maybe ten minutes of the sixty in the game. Listening to these reasons, I bet you could apply them to hockey as well (to a lesser degree).
@@smdFrozen even heard of neymar who earns 95 million euros per year and mahomes earns around 40 million dollars whole Ronaldo earns that much money just from Instagram
Soccer is the second fastest growing sport in America despite already being the most popular sport in the world. How can you say that Americans will never accept???
J Dupree not really bud. just this month alone @ my store we sold 6× as many basketballs as we did soccer balls and about 4.5× as footballs vs soccer balls. Christmas doesn't lie. Neither does American Sports
The U.S. Youth Soccer organization says that participation in soccer is 30 times higher now than it was just 40 years ago. There were 103,432 children registered to play soccer in the U.S. in 1974, 1.6 million children registered to play in 1990, and more than 3 million registered to play in 2014. The Wall Street Journal noted that youth participation in soccer is double that of tackle football and larger than baseball by about 1 million participants.
because its not soccer its football. real football is played with the feet whereas american football is played with the hands so why the fuck do you call it FOOTbally
dhruv goswamy dude just stop! We grew up with our sport and we call it football. That's never going to change! Soccer is a great sport don't get me wrong. But it will never take place over great Grid iron football rivalries like Alabama vs Auburn (the iron bowl), Georgia vs Florida (the world's largest outdoor cocktail party), Ohio State vs Michigan (the game) and so on! Soccer is an amazing sport, but it will never decrown Gridiron football
Warbrain 777 You haven’t played on a team theres lots of plays in football(soccer) and its not as easy as basketball or handegg(american rugby) It has taken me my whole life to get good at football but here in the US I barely play basketball and im truly above average cuz Im tall it doesn’t take that much skill, just know how to shoot and layups and there you go
Arturo Resendiz soccer just know how to kick and run and your good. I was pretty good at soccer, all I had to do was run around people (because I’m pretty fast).
Compare how much Lebron makes per year and Messi makes per year. Messi makes a lot more than Lebron and Messi isn't the richest soccer player, far less for Cr7 (Cristiano Ronaldo for those who don't know).
Kelsey, I totally agree with you! Your analysis is spot on! I'll just say/add/repeat that soccer/football is the MOST played AND watched sport in the galaxy!!
What some people don't realize is that a soccer game can still be very entertaining even if it ends just 0-0 or 1-0. Goals aren't needed to make it entertaining to watch. The game can life from the tension alone, it doesn't necessarily need many goals to make it interesting. But I'm not going to force my opinion on anyone. To each his own. I just think that many Americans are a little to ignorant towards soccer. Most people don't even give it a chance and most people saying that it's boring probably don't even know the rules and have probably never seen a full >good< game of soccer. Which might be one of the problems. Let's be honest, the MLS isn't exactly a league with high quality teams. Maybe if they showed some more English Premier League, German Bundesliga or Spanish La Liga more people would be interested in soccer.
You seem like a pretty reasonable person so I'll try to explain as best I can. Americans are not very excepting of ties, nor do we like the idea that 1-0 is an insurmountable lead. The NFL goes for YEARS without ties, to the point where the players don't even know you could end in a tie. I hear all the time "well, you just don't understand the game", we understand it perfectly, kick the ball in the net. There just aren't enough elements in sports present in soccer that we enjoy. And because it's still not a big money game here, it's difficult to get kids to play it past childhood, especially when they see LeBron James on television every night. It doesn't matter which two teams they show from those leagues, sports in the US are built on regional rivalries. Boston vs. NY. Washington vs. New York. Chicago vs. Minnesota. LA vs. SF. etc. Detroit vs. Chicago. Those names you said are meaningless when the NY Giants are playing the Philadelphia Eagles.
Naim Ghamlouche The US produces some very capable athletes that aren't huge (though plenty of them are). There just isn't a youth system in place to actually develop the talent.
Dylan Seals, children in the US dont want to become soccer stars, they're more attracted to the sports that are famous over there.. people are recognising football there after it too late.. unless that changes, nothing else can be said about football in the US!
Im american and im not a big fan of the other sports. i love soccer and if i could be the best at a sport it would be soccer. and americans arent greedy like that. people who talk bad about america only go off of what others have falsly accused of as
Basket Ball,Foot ball, and baseball dont entertain me as much as soccer does. im as impressed as can be about soccer. this is kind of hypocracy. u dont like american sports just as alot of people everywhere in the world doesnt watch soccer. i love soccer
So then why do you think she is talking about you? I didn't hear hear her not acknowledging USMNT fans, of course they are out there. And I feel ya brotha, but we need to make ourselves heard. We need more focus on our youth player developments. Argentina for example has not only a strong National team but their U23 team is also highly ranked. Our team didn't make Olympics.
soccer players have strong bodies especially in the premier league in England. Not all soccer players are as short as messi . Secondly soccer is the greatest and most popular game in the world, not in just one country . I respect your choices in America
"soccer players have strong bodies especially in the premier league in England." ---> How the fuck players have strong bodies "especially in the PL in England" while the PL is full of footballers coming from everywhere and the same can be said for other major leagues in Europe... So Ronaldo had a strong body at Manchester but not in Madrid?
especially a speech like this... given in front of an american audience (with the knowledge it will reach a much wider american audience via youtube & social media), which portrays american society and culture in a not-so-favorable light
+Eddie Russell Stupid teachers making us do speeches to the class, some peopele have get more anxiety doing a speech than others do... (I get anxiety like no other😂)
Luis Sanchez the only way to avoid anxiety (to some extent anyway) is to write and re-write and re-write AGAIN (and again) what you will say and then follow an outline or flashcards during the speech - almost word for word if you have to. the only other way to be comfortable is to give the same talk over and over and over and over... it also helps a great deal if you are presenting to a (very) sympathetic audience
These points are absurdly stupid. Maybe the US does not like soccer as much because they did not grow up with it or they do not have as much history with it. Americans grow up with sports like football, baseball, basketball and some nascar.
+Sonny Collins yeah but if you grow up in places where it is popular you can be influenced by it. It does not matter how old it is as long as they grow up with it.
+Augie Lodholz well that point doesn't stand because I grew up in a area of heavy navy presence....don't want to be in the navy, didn't play football or as you say soccer until I was 16, played rugby the whole entire time... Hates rugby
LOL Soccer was called that by the British who invented the game, so what's your point?? LOL When the best player of soccer in the world is a child-like Latino midget, that tells you how pathetic a sport it is LOL Basketball's best players are true supermen, 6'7", 6'8" 250 lb
Caesar Vespasian basketball players need to be high because the goal is 10 feet high you fucking dumb cow, in football (not american football) you don't need to be high because it's played on the fucking ground.
@King Ninja Indeed but I think "soccer" is just invented by bunch of students in England and people mostly call it football. That's defenitely the real name for it
@@caesarves lol its not about masculinity in football. Its about talent and teamwork above all else. Messi is probably one of the greatest sportsmen to have ever lived, comparing him with NBA is an insult
I really don"t care what y'all say,my opinion is one which represent the thoughts of 6 billion people in the world who have football as their number one sport,case closed.a bunch of handballers can't cope with that
As an American, I'm going to share my thoughts on some sports. First of all, none of the sports discriminate on height or race. There have been hundreds of NFL, NBA, and MLB players that are on the lower end of 5ft. The average is high because it's just easier to be good at the sports if you have the height. American Football: My favorite sport, but I don't watch NFL Baseball: A sorry excuse for a sport Basketball: Fun to play, but watching it is awful Soccer(Football): The third most-fun sport to play behind American Football and rugby, but watching it is even worse than basketball Rugby: The only sport I play right now(For my university), because I'm not good enough at my best position in American Football(which is a defensive back) Anyone that says Rugby is more of a man's sport than American football has never played before. I got hurt way more playing Football. The pads are there because players were dying in almost every game before they were used. And, now they're causing even more injuries because they're being used as weapons(Hince the introduction of more rules like helmet to helmet and spearing). Anyone that says Soccer takes more skill has never played the other sports either. Ya you need more endurance to play soccer or rugby, but the individualized skills needed are much higher in American Football. You play one position, so if you're not the best in the world at that one position, you'll be run over by the opposite who is the best at what he does. And finally, anyone that says American Football is the only manly sport has never played the other ones. Sure it's the most injury-inducing, but that doesn't mean anything. Soccer and rugby players run for the WHOLE game and still take beatings. Basketball players need such a fast reaction time because the court is so small and everything happens so fast
you got my thumbs up sir, American that admits baseball is a sorry excuse for a sport!!! Even golf is imo more a sport than baseball, and I dont like golf AT ALL.
I agree with a lot of what you say but this.... "but the individualized skills needed are much higher in American Football." is nothing but rhetorical gibberish. American handeggers (maybe with the exception of the QB) have some of the lowest skill sets of all sports, maybe only second to certain track events. The majority of handegg positions require maybe only a couple of abilities (mostly strength & speed), & there are even positions in am football where players can go through their entire career without ever touching the ball..... To compare their skill sets favorably to soccer is beyond ludicrous, to be a soccer player in any position, you have to be well rounded in several areas of athleticism (endurance, agility, speed, strength, balance, reactiveness, motor co-ordination) plus a degree of intelligence as you're not being coached through every phase of play unlike american football.
***** You just reassured what I said. I know that soccer players have to be well-rounded in skills, unlike American Football players, which is exactly why I said the individualized skill of American Football players is higher. One player must be the best in the world at what they do or they will be run down by the opposite who IS the best at what he does. In soccer, if you're lacking at one skill, you can make up for it in something else. In football there is no something else.
If you play football, a lot of it is just your body, not your skill. If you play soccer, you only need skill, and you have to be able to do everything.
If America doesn't like it, i don't care. I'll watch it anyway, and around the world it is the most popular. I am from spain and over there soccer is literally EVERYWHERE. If i like it I'll play it.
The US has won tournaments... 5 gold cups to be exact and almost shocked the world best, Brazil for Confed Cup. Yes its true we arent number 1 in the worlds game but the interest is multiplying
you do realize gold cups are only in North America and Mexico is in the lead for 6 gold cups btw, brazil has 5 titles for 1st place in the world soyea..., america has to beat Europe and then South America to become number 1.
you've got some cups because there is not any competition,it's either you or mexico.also saying that brazil is the world's best team shows how little you know about football.if you played with the north american teams you would have won nothing
γιαννης σμ A cup is a cup and a win in a tournament. Also Even with Brazil losing to Germany 7-1. Brazil still has the most World cups at 5. So saying they are the world best is not a stretch. But people always get angry when you choose one option so ill say they are one of the best team in football. I know nothing about soccer lol yet no argument stop sounding like a moron. Funny im not even a Brazilian fan but I give credit where its due and history so far in the game doesnt lie.
they are 8th in the world.their last world cup was 12 years ago.you can't call it a tournament if there are only 3 teams involved.the euro starts with all the european countries and then there are group stages with 16 teams from which 8 pass and so on
@@weitzfc1 just because a sport is more manly and tough does not mean it is better. In soccer you don't have to be strong. All you need is skill, speed, passion and the love for the game. But you have to admit. The usa soccer team is shit. Pulisic is the only good player in your national soccer team. And pulisic plays for a big club. And that club is Chelsea
I doubt it. You put more money into football (soccer) than many Euro countries do right now & you still struggle to beat teams like Haiti & El Salvador...
+Chris Ward it was a good project, but from what I know about senior theses (which isn't much) this is too small. My guess is just some presentation for an assignment or extra-curricular thing.
It's all about larger than life athletes. Who's gonna get on board with a 5'5" 160 pound football prodigy vs a 6'4" 250 pound American football quarterback who's dropping dimes in the NFL? Americans just simply look at "soccer" as "not exciting". Why would they when that linebacker just put a hit on that running back, knocking his helmet off? It takes brain power to get on board with football. And Americans just want quick, cheap thrills. Hence American football. Sad but true.
They both have strategy; but football is more interesting because there aren't as many pauses. Imagine playing and doing free kick then stopping and doing a free kick, that's more like American football; just legalize some fouls, add steroids, and pause the game a lot more and football will start looking like eggball.
The pauses in American makes it interesting and that you don't know what to expect on the next play. You are trying to guide down the field to get points either by FG or by 6 points. How you do it is on each sequential play. Do I pass or run the ball? How much yardage is needed? Etc. It's an interesting dynamic because it's unpredictable. On 3rd and 1, you need one more yard to get a fresh set of downs. You would think, just run the football. But nope, many times, a team may elect to pass and if completed can lead to huge gains like a 40 yard play. All you needed was 1 and you got 40. So they are interesting in different ways. As far as steroids, I don't think you know what you're talking about.
That's 5 minutes I'll never get back. Let me sum it up for anyone who doesn't want to waste 5 minutes of their life: She contends that we Americans don't like soccer because we're so conceited about our American sports (baseball, football and basketball), we're obsessed with higher scores and we love the $$$ our sports brings in. The speaker didn't mention the fact that so many of us find soccer mind-numbingly boring. Just that we are greedy and haven't the ability to appreciate what a fine game soccer is. As a mother whose kid played in Little League, I'm eternally grateful that the popularity of soccer didn't become a thing here in the U.S. until my kids were grown. I would have supported them if they'd chosen to play, but I would have considered it a torturous sacrifice that loving parents do for their kids. I loved the Little League games and was always sad when the season was over. As a teen, I loved HS Friday night football and hated to see the season end. Not big on basketball, but I attended most of our HS games for the social scene. I'm pretty sure you couldn't have dragged me to a soccer game in HS. Now, if that makes me conceited and greedy, so be it.
She is trying but she has no idea what she talking about. The main reason why America doesn't focus on soccer compare to Football Basketball and Baseball is schools. In middle and high school you have three seasonal sports seasons. Fall, winter, and spring. Soccer and football are fall sports so you have to pick one to join, and football is an American version of mod football compare to soccer. So less people tend to join the soccer team compare to the football team, and as we watch our family and friends play the sport those who get into the sport more will watch higher levels football also has more "action" compare to soccer so play by play we feel something happens even if they don't score compare to soccer were it feels like they kick a ball and sometimes someone makes a goal. (Think Nascar, unless you're into the sport it just people making a left turn all day unless their is a crash.) As to why we are bad at soccer. It is a skill/money issue. If you good in soccer you are better off playing another sport as the NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB, etc you will make more money than FIFA. Compare to many countries where their soccer teams make the most hints why our woman's team is one of the best in the world. Our best female players tend to head toward soccer, volleyball and tennis compare to baseball basketball and football.
1994 World Cup was hosted by the USA when there was no professional league in the country. In 1996, Major League Soccer began. In 2002, the USA reached their highest finish in the World Cup since 1930. MLS has reached 19 teams, and has 3 more on the way with another 5 cities lining up to be the next one in. The amount of money going into the sport currently is at a record high. I'm sorry, but your points don't match America currently... they match America 20 yrs ago.
Low scoring games are the most exciting games. The lead you get is much more fragile, and it can turn at any point, leaving you at the edge of your seats. Nothing is as boring as a game that was decided in the first 20 minutes, and now we are just waiting for the suffering to end
First of all its not soccer its FOOTBALL, and a world wide sport not like american football, american football is local and jest for americans.Football has more skils then any other sport in the world, its not jest about the goals and scores, its much more then that.
EXACTLY THANK YOU! In soccer we have Champions League, World Cups, and much more it's called football since we actually use our foots. American Football should be called Handball.
This is simply not true. Sorry maybe when you were young in the early 90s before the mls existed but now 65,000 peaple attend on average Seattle sounders matches. Can't tell me Americans don't care about soccer
Tottenham .Hotspurs Not every American hate soccer just like not every European loves Soccer. I'm European and my favourite sports to watch are American Football and Hockey.
those numbers are false. I live in the area. cl stadium can hold around 68 k people. sounder games almost never use the upper half of the stadium. and certainly don't average a near sell out.
the sounders averaged 43 k per game last year... doubling the attendance of any other mls team. Sounders are an outlier and not a good representative of national interest
Exactly what I thought right as I read the title to this video. There is some preconceived notion that Americans hate everything that isn't American Football.
get fucked xD americas a useless country stick to your own sports and isolate yourselves from the rest of the world so that you dont get thrashed by the majority
+Iron Divad "America's a useless country" I don't know if there's ever been a quote more wrong than that. That is... Just wow. That is so far off. Somebody could write a 500 page detailed book on why America is actually the most important (I won't say best) country, but I'll just leave it at this: Without America, have fun under nazi regime
As an American... I say that Americans love soccer/futbol. If one looks it up on wikipedia (page on *Soccer in the United States* ) at the time of this comment's posting, you will find in May 2015 there were 24.4 million soccer/futbol players. It is the third most played team sport in the USA, and the FIFA Women's World Cup drew 26.7 million viewers from the USA - more than half the population of Argentina *or* more than many S. American countries that often field very good and high-level teams such as Chile. P.S. Chile's Men's Team is currently ranked as *9th* by FIFA.
When compared to the other major 2015 summer sports events, the Women’s World Cup finals viewership beat out the NBA Finals (19.94 million viewers) and the Stanley Cup finals (5.5 million viewers) with 25.4 million viewers, nearly equal with the viewership of the NBA Finals and the Stanly Cup Finals combined, and we're talking about WOMEN'S SOCCER vs the NBA Finals and the Stanly Cup Finals combined
You know there is a CFL (Canadian Football League) this presentation has horrible points and our women just won their world Cup...so to say we will never accept soccer is bs I am American and I just watched us loose to Argentina in Copa America and I'm going to watch us fight for 3rd place... America will grow and succeed in soccer you couldn't be more wrong
Why do you think she is talking about you? Her points are actually on point. A lot of us who are U.SMNT fans also think akin to what she is mentioning here. You must just have be insecure lol. There is definitely an issue when we think Michael Bradley is going to win us any titles. Watch any of the past Copa games, he was not only lacking direction, but would actually lose the ball in bad positions. As a friggin CM. We have some bright spots on our team, but our true fans need to come out of the woodworks and USMNT needs to feel important enough to focus on academies. Keep the young inspired players, who is coming from nothing, to continue playing and not be deterred but situational issues. Those are the players that will have the hunger to win us titles.
+Dilla Vibe Who said Michael Bradley was winning us any titles? I don't even really like Michael Bradley he isn't that good I said US will get better at soccer I didn't say with this squad... there is a reason Argentina whooped this squad and her point isn't true because I'm American and knew we would loose to them and still watched it... so people who are saying I'm insecure and That Americans are too cocky are full of it
+Dilla Vibe We don't just watch shit just because we think we will win...that is something that someone who has a grudge against Americans would say just sayin
+rich10054 haha I never said you did bro. I'm saying who ever is in charge with the decision making for USMNT is faulty. And if you are going to reply to me read my whole comment. You saying "I'm American" provides nothing to the table lol, I am American as well, so is she, everyone on this comment board probably are too. We all have opinions. It's the ones that are actually backed up by evidence that are worth listening to. And people, it's just me saying ur insecure because you think I'm talking about you. You ever heard of speaking in GENERAL, you aren't America's opinion as a whole tf. People here do watch these other sports more. People here do demand more out of their sport. I've heard countless of times fellow peers stating they don't watch futbol because of the low scoreline.
NO DEBATE, LET'S PROVE IT !! Its because people don't know about both of the sports very well that they don't understand the core meaning of both the sports and hate the other. So, Soccer fans who think American football is also very good--->> LIKE NFL or American football fans who think soccer is very good----->> COMMENT SO, it is LIKES vs COMMENTS=Soccer vs Football, ... lets go and lets see who leads. And, everyone who reads this shall argue/compare no more.
