The manager of leicesters title run actually just came out of retirement this past week to help his favorite club As Roma to stay out of a relegation fight, he could just have enjoyed his retirement but he chose to come back to the club he loves bc it has been struggling truly a legend.
Hope World Cup winner, ams two times CL runner up Mats Hummels (who was one of the two best CBs in the Champions League best XI of the last season and even nominated for the Ballon d'Or will finally get his chance. Such an underrated CB legend of the game
Hi Luke, am so so proud of you falling in love with football ⚽️ man! You are a prime example of someone who 2 1/2 years ago knew absolutely nothing about the beautiful game, and you set out to learn and educate yourself and you’ve set about to talk about to your friends like Corey and get him on board. Your knowledge is getting better and better and it’s so good to see this. I love your enthusiasm and how football has helped you in your bid to keep healthy and fit too. You’re a great guy! 😊💪🏻🙌🏻
Wonderful presentation, always enjoy your presentations. I love football and have since 1962 when I was five years old. I have tried to explain to people in the US why association football is so beautiful but always fell short of convincing anyone, you have done in less than 10 minutes what I never was successful to do in the over 40 years I lived in the USA. Thank you for the terrific presentation, keep loving football. PS: I am a Packer fan, love the NY Yankees, follow the NBA and the NHL as well as a variety of other sports but football is always my first love.
I think you could make a really good “guide to football” for new fans. The ones that are currently out there aren't very good in my opinion and i think you could make a more comprehensive and accurate one. I know this video explains some stuff but i think a full on guide would be a good video.
Very nice essay and captures the beauty of football nicely. I think what you say about stories being told week in week, week out is true. But what is even more amazing is that it is not just the Liverpools and the Arsenals. These stories happen in every small town, in every village, in the Premiership, Championship, League One, League Two and non-League every weekend stretching back generations. The cumulative effect of this shared experience of fandom and rivalry is an incredible culturally binding phenomenon.
Mate, if America does well and gets to the quarter or semi-finals of the North American World Cup in 2 years I think it's going to go absolutely bonkers on that side of the Atlantic in 2026. Nothing wakes up a sleeping American audience better than success, let alone success in the biggest, richest, most played game in Human history. It's only a matter of time before the US becomes a Football nation, trying to stop it is like King Canute trying to turn back the tide.
Good essay, I might just add, That US sports are elitist, the existing owners get to decide which MARKET deserves a team in any expansion, one of the benefits of promotion and relegation at least within the English Pyramid is there is a path for a Small town or Works team to gather support as they grow and improve to find the level of game their supporters financial muscle. Dorking Wanderers is one of my favourite clubs to keep an eye out for they were formed in 1999 by a group of Friends, they started at the Sunday League all amateur level, they've been promoted, Improved their Facilities along the way, they have been promoted more than 11 levels and are now firmly a Semi-pro side attracting nearly 2,000 spectators to each game. If the American Dream is to be shown in a real form it has to be as a Football pyramid but that relies on Americans getting over preconceptions abouts Soccer and instead see what a small start up can add to their community. As I understand it that is the role High School Sports play right now but for many at 18 that dreams ends and this is where Jamie Vardy comes back in He was released by a Pro club at 16 and built his way right up to playing For the National Side, No drafts, no deadline just a guy playing the game. Ian Wright and Stuart Pearce are two other players who although now both retired worked their way backup from Amateur to Pro later in life. I remember the film Invincible, well Soccer has a lot of those stories where you can impose the romance of the rise of the "little guy".
As an Arsenal fan (along with many other English clubs, most other English clubs if you trace their history far enough) I can attest to the principle of starting out as a works team making their way to the top. We are not just Arsenal, it is accepted officially that we are referred to as "The Arsenal" because we were the works team of the Woolwich Arsenal and played our league matches on the green inside the parade ground inside the arsenal itself before crossing the Thames and building a stadium in Highbury and Islington, bit too close to those mid-boys from Middlesex down White Hart Lane for my liking, jeeze I know the area is a sh*thole but why did they let Armitage Shanks build a giant sh*tter there FFS?
You should follow up the Brazilian league more Closely next season (we don't follow the eropean calendar. Our season starts and end on the same year). It is a standard league, 20 teams, everyone plays one another home and away. But we have 12 clubs that are considered big and expected to win things. And here's the best part: FOUR teams get relegated. No playoffs. Bottom four? Out! This means that a lot of big clubs end up relegated. Besides that, since commenbol is a confederation with only 10 countries, the Libertadores Championship (equivalent to the Champions League in Europe) needs a lot of Brasilian teams to the current format. So we have 6 spots for it and 6 for the Copa Sudamericana (equivalent to the Europa League). So teams are always fighting for something. You could be battleling relagation and end up in an international competition. That's what happened to Cruzeiro last season. They were battleling relegation but secured the last sport to the Sudamericana on the last round. Now they are in the final that's gonna happen this next Saturday! TL;DR: Follow the Brazilian League for excitement!
What a presentation. To be honest, I also had similar experience to American sports. Back then American football caught my attention from the manga/anime I read/watched (Eyeshield 21), then I was trying to watch the full game and it was torturing. The endless commercials that pause/stop even kill the momentum of the game were the reasons why it ain't popular outside the US. And if some of you said football (soccer, duh) is a boring game especially you people who called this game as commie propaganda. Touch some grass man, it ain't got nothing to do with comunism. In fact a lot of us who are football fans had horrible experience with comunism and we don't endorse or support comunism (ask the ex east German folks). Then the American game was 60 mins game but it last for 3 hours and 2/3 of airing duration was commercials. But then, I accidentally subscribe to NFL channel and Chiefs vs Rams 2018 game highlight popped out on my home, and quite frankly that moment made me falling love to the American game. That made realize, there were tons of exciting moments that weren't just scoring touch down. Moments that made the games exciting (catches, runs, tackles, sacks etc). Do the same thing to other sports, find some highlights, got some contexts, and find the things that made the game exciting. That is also what happened to me for baseball, I also used to think that it is boring game where you just throw the ball and hit it with bat and the game last for for 3-3.5 hours long. Then I read a manga about Koshien high school baseball, I got things that made the game exciting, that made realize the home run is not the only exciting thing, then the Ohtani things happened. Now I am falling in love for seeing the canon ball or the dancing ball that throwed by pitcher which is hell of dedication and craftsmanship to mastering the multiple pitching techniques. Then the closing of statement from your essay is on point. The attitude towards international competition for American sports need to be addressed. Hey, Super Bowl champion ain't world champion. World Series champion ain't world champion. The attitude for not sending the best players to international competition are backfired. Just take a look the stupid reaction to Noah Lyles's statement about NBA and world reaction to FIBA world cup. Just take a look for some baseball fans said that WBC was just glorified exebition, but the Japanese sent Ohtani, Sasaki, Yamamoto, Darvish and how serious they were. Remember! England had similar attitude back then in late 1800s to early 1900's and look where are they now. Singing football is coming home every international tournament yet they failed (most of the time) miserably. And yeah, Imperial system is stupid it is pain in the ass and you should throw it to the trash, cus none of y'all (even us) can convert gallon to inch cubic without calculator nor converter.
Nice video. in 2002 I predicted that USA would win a world cup by 2030. Not gonna happen but I strongly believe that once you start loving and playing the game, you will be FOR SURE one of the best national teams in the world. I lived in US for a while and my advice is to pratice a bit more outside academies: in the street, on the beach, futsal, "altinha" (passing without letting the ball touch the ground), etc. It's important to create intimacy with the ball and hence, skills. I think it's equivalent to what you do with basketball, you have different ways of having fun. Also very important is to start very very young, like professional musicians do. It;s impossible to be a professional if you start late. Greetings from Brazil, and as we say: come to Brazil!
I am a German sports freak. I enjoy almost every sport on TV. Really almost every single one. Except Baseball. The most boring sport ever. Here are my 15 favourite sports 1. Football 2. Basketball 3.Track and Field 4. Boxing, 5. Darts 6. Handball 7. Tennis, 8. Hockey 9. American football 10. Ski Alpin 11. Formula 1 (mid 2000s were much better) 12. Cycling 13. Biathlon 14. Swimming 15. Fieldhockey. Bu I follow also sports like Volleyball, Luge, track cycling Rugby, MMA, ski jumping, snooker, 3x3 Basketball, Beachvolleyball, Golf, Tabletennis, Judo, rowing and more, but only occasionally and in passing. I love every sport a little bit but Baseball is the most boring sport ever, similar to cricket
something that you can never get across on videos is atmosphere. Even people that can’t stand watching football on tv will love going to a game.my gf couldn’t stand football before o got with her, I took her to a few games and now she’s in the queue for a season ticket
Allot of Americans see in football just if you run or not. If you run like a chicken,then you are amazing footballer. I saw that in Miami podcast. Running is less important then understanding the game. Messi all career run 5 km a game, and he is still the best scorer,assister,playmaker,dribbler,aye vision,decision making..
Like I've said before Luke, in America you guys didn't have much access to football, US TV networks just didn't really show it, with things like TH-cam there's much more access to it now, ive enjoyed watching your journey into football (even if you chose Spurs, yes im an Arsenal fan 😂) but long may it continue dude
Pro/Rel is a big debate I've seen between American fans, some are very much for it others very much against. I'm not sure if the US is ready for it yet. Especially the MLS. I think there was talk of the USL bringing it in at some point to see how it works.
Soccer isn't wrong, it's rooted in Football history. In England, in the early days of the sport, it was common to use the designation Association Football, which was cut short to Assoc, then modified to Assoccer (a common suffix for sports at the time; rugby union was referred to as rugger, for instance), with the prefix as- later getting dropped, forming the contemporary word Soccer. Ultimately there isn't much of a point in fighting american fans over this, as they already have another sport called football.
Luke! Many thanks for your video! Sadly, your people are scarfed of nations outdoing your nation! This is why the US has not taken to football in full yet! The nearest sport to Soccer (football) is NHL Ice Hockey! Even then the US does not dominate! Why does Basketball seem itis just a second sport in the rest of the world? Why has American football and Baseball fail miserably in the rest of the world and the US wonders why? Just mention my post to those Soccer haters in your country Luke!
As long as you dont have relegation, your players/teams are not fighting. They play for the money, cant get paycut cause they relegated and suck, clubs wont care if they play bad, or dont need to put money in the squat.. Also youth academies owned by the clubs, or working with them.
The French wrote Gawd Save [insert gender based ruling monarch title her], and the English wrote the Star Spangled Banner, it was originally a drinking song about the joys of getting rat arsed y'know. 🤣 Even though I'm English I've always loved the Italian national anthem, it has so much pomp and a strong juxtaposition.
FYI, I'd prefer Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance no1 (Land of Hope and Glory) as our national anthem, much better than blowing smoke up the arses of Vlad the Impaler's in bred descendants.
@@darthwiizius Didn't know that, very interesting. Yes , the italian is very dramatic. Argentine's also quite ....picturesque. I like the calm japanese too.
The manager of leicesters title run actually just came out of retirement this past week to help his favorite club As Roma to stay out of a relegation fight, he could just have enjoyed his retirement but he chose to come back to the club he loves bc it has been struggling truly a legend.
Hope World Cup winner, ams two times CL runner up Mats Hummels (who was one of the two best CBs in the Champions League best XI of the last season and even nominated for the Ballon d'Or will finally get his chance. Such an underrated CB legend of the game
Hi Luke, am so so proud of you falling in love with football ⚽️ man! You are a prime example of someone who 2 1/2 years ago knew absolutely nothing about the beautiful game, and you set out to learn and educate yourself and you’ve set about to talk about to your friends like Corey and get him on board. Your knowledge is getting better and better and it’s so good to see this. I love your enthusiasm and how football has helped you in your bid to keep healthy and fit too. You’re a great guy! 😊💪🏻🙌🏻
Wonderful presentation, always enjoy your presentations. I love football and have since 1962 when I was five years old. I have tried to explain to people in the US why association football is so beautiful but always fell short of convincing anyone, you have done in less than 10 minutes what I never was successful to do in the over 40 years I lived in the USA. Thank you for the terrific presentation, keep loving football.
PS: I am a Packer fan, love the NY Yankees, follow the NBA and the NHL as well as a variety of other sports but football is always my first love.
I think you could make a really good “guide to football” for new fans. The ones that are currently out there aren't very good in my opinion and i think you could make a more comprehensive and accurate one.
I know this video explains some stuff but i think a full on guide would be a good video.
I will probably work on one after my semester is over and I have time to write the script
Very nice essay and captures the beauty of football nicely. I think what you say about stories being told week in week, week out is true. But what is even more amazing is that it is not just the Liverpools and the Arsenals. These stories happen in every small town, in every village, in the Premiership, Championship, League One, League Two and non-League every weekend stretching back generations. The cumulative effect of this shared experience of fandom and rivalry is an incredible culturally binding phenomenon.
Luke..2.5 Yrsc ?? Time flies,I remember yr 2st reaction and how my comment was I yr video.
We feel it,Football is getting bigger. Chapeau
Mate, if America does well and gets to the quarter or semi-finals of the North American World Cup in 2 years I think it's going to go absolutely bonkers on that side of the Atlantic in 2026. Nothing wakes up a sleeping American audience better than success, let alone success in the biggest, richest, most played game in Human history. It's only a matter of time before the US becomes a Football nation, trying to stop it is like King Canute trying to turn back the tide.
as a non US citizen.. as a southamerican football lover.. I THANK YOU LUKE.. for this vid.. for your journey.
Amazing video, very glad you made this. thank you
Good essay, I might just add, That US sports are elitist, the existing owners get to decide which MARKET deserves a team in any expansion, one of the benefits of promotion and relegation at least within the English Pyramid is there is a path for a Small town or Works team to gather support as they grow and improve to find the level of game their supporters financial muscle. Dorking Wanderers is one of my favourite clubs to keep an eye out for they were formed in 1999 by a group of Friends, they started at the Sunday League all amateur level, they've been promoted, Improved their Facilities along the way, they have been promoted more than 11 levels and are now firmly a Semi-pro side attracting nearly 2,000 spectators to each game. If the American Dream is to be shown in a real form it has to be as a Football pyramid but that relies on Americans getting over preconceptions abouts Soccer and instead see what a small start up can add to their community. As I understand it that is the role High School Sports play right now but for many at 18 that dreams ends and this is where Jamie Vardy comes back in He was released by a Pro club at 16 and built his way right up to playing For the National Side, No drafts, no deadline just a guy playing the game. Ian Wright and Stuart Pearce are two other players who although now both retired worked their way backup from Amateur to Pro later in life. I remember the film Invincible, well Soccer has a lot of those stories where you can impose the romance of the rise of the "little guy".
As an Arsenal fan (along with many other English clubs, most other English clubs if you trace their history far enough) I can attest to the principle of starting out as a works team making their way to the top. We are not just Arsenal, it is accepted officially that we are referred to as "The Arsenal" because we were the works team of the Woolwich Arsenal and played our league matches on the green inside the parade ground inside the arsenal itself before crossing the Thames and building a stadium in Highbury and Islington, bit too close to those mid-boys from Middlesex down White Hart Lane for my liking, jeeze I know the area is a sh*thole but why did they let Armitage Shanks build a giant sh*tter there FFS?
You should follow up the Brazilian league more Closely next season (we don't follow the eropean calendar. Our season starts and end on the same year). It is a standard league, 20 teams, everyone plays one another home and away. But we have 12 clubs that are considered big and expected to win things. And here's the best part: FOUR teams get relegated. No playoffs. Bottom four? Out! This means that a lot of big clubs end up relegated.
Besides that, since commenbol is a confederation with only 10 countries, the Libertadores Championship (equivalent to the Champions League in Europe) needs a lot of Brasilian teams to the current format. So we have 6 spots for it and 6 for the Copa Sudamericana (equivalent to the Europa League). So teams are always fighting for something. You could be battleling relagation and end up in an international competition.
That's what happened to Cruzeiro last season. They were battleling relegation but secured the last sport to the Sudamericana on the last round. Now they are in the final that's gonna happen this next Saturday!
TL;DR: Follow the Brazilian League for excitement!
U might want to take a look at San Marino and what they have just done,everyone’s fav micro nation. And as usual brilliant vid
It's a reason it's called "the beautiful game",👍
What a presentation. To be honest, I also had similar experience to American sports. Back then American football caught my attention from the manga/anime I read/watched (Eyeshield 21), then I was trying to watch the full game and it was torturing. The endless commercials that pause/stop even kill the momentum of the game were the reasons why it ain't popular outside the US. And if some of you said football (soccer, duh) is a boring game especially you people who called this game as commie propaganda. Touch some grass man, it ain't got nothing to do with comunism. In fact a lot of us who are football fans had horrible experience with comunism and we don't endorse or support comunism (ask the ex east German folks). Then the American game was 60 mins game but it last for 3 hours and 2/3 of airing duration was commercials. But then, I accidentally subscribe to NFL channel and Chiefs vs Rams 2018 game highlight popped out on my home, and quite frankly that moment made me falling love to the American game. That made realize, there were tons of exciting moments that weren't just scoring touch down. Moments that made the games exciting (catches, runs, tackles, sacks etc). Do the same thing to other sports, find some highlights, got some contexts, and find the things that made the game exciting. That is also what happened to me for baseball, I also used to think that it is boring game where you just throw the ball and hit it with bat and the game last for for 3-3.5 hours long. Then I read a manga about Koshien high school baseball, I got things that made the game exciting, that made realize the home run is not the only exciting thing, then the Ohtani things happened. Now I am falling in love for seeing the canon ball or the dancing ball that throwed by pitcher which is hell of dedication and craftsmanship to mastering the multiple pitching techniques. Then the closing of statement from your essay is on point. The attitude towards international competition for American sports need to be addressed. Hey, Super Bowl champion ain't world champion. World Series champion ain't world champion. The attitude for not sending the best players to international competition are backfired. Just take a look the stupid reaction to Noah Lyles's statement about NBA and world reaction to FIBA world cup. Just take a look for some baseball fans said that WBC was just glorified exebition, but the Japanese sent Ohtani, Sasaki, Yamamoto, Darvish and how serious they were. Remember! England had similar attitude back then in late 1800s to early 1900's and look where are they now. Singing football is coming home every international tournament yet they failed (most of the time) miserably. And yeah, Imperial system is stupid it is pain in the ass and you should throw it to the trash, cus none of y'all (even us) can convert gallon to inch cubic without calculator nor converter.
Nice video. in 2002 I predicted that USA would win a world cup by 2030. Not gonna happen but I strongly believe that once you start loving and playing the game, you will be FOR SURE one of the best national teams in the world. I lived in US for a while and my advice is to pratice a bit more outside academies: in the street, on the beach, futsal, "altinha" (passing without letting the ball touch the ground), etc. It's important to create intimacy with the ball and hence, skills. I think it's equivalent to what you do with basketball, you have different ways of having fun. Also very important is to start very very young, like professional musicians do. It;s impossible to be a professional if you start late. Greetings from Brazil, and as we say: come to Brazil!
I am a German sports freak. I enjoy almost every sport on TV. Really almost every single one. Except Baseball. The most boring sport ever.
Here are my 15 favourite sports 1. Football 2. Basketball 3.Track and Field 4. Boxing, 5. Darts 6. Handball 7. Tennis, 8. Hockey 9. American football 10. Ski Alpin 11. Formula 1 (mid 2000s were much better) 12. Cycling 13. Biathlon 14. Swimming 15. Fieldhockey.
Bu I follow also sports like Volleyball, Luge, track cycling Rugby, MMA, ski jumping, snooker, 3x3 Basketball, Beachvolleyball, Golf, Tabletennis, Judo, rowing and more, but only occasionally and in passing. I love every sport a little bit but Baseball is the most boring sport ever, similar to cricket
something that you can never get across on videos is atmosphere. Even people that can’t stand watching football on tv will love going to a game.my gf couldn’t stand football before o got with her, I took her to a few games and now she’s in the queue for a season ticket
Allot of Americans see in football just if you run or not. If you run like a chicken,then you are amazing footballer. I saw that in Miami podcast. Running is less important then understanding the game. Messi all career run 5 km a game, and he is still the best scorer,assister,playmaker,dribbler,aye vision,decision making..
long time no see luke hope you're doing well!!! keep up the good works 🦾
HI LUKE, HI GUYS..
. THE BEAUTIFUL GAME IS EVERYWHERE NOW.. AFTER USA26 WC.. THERE ARE NO MORE PLACES TO CONQUER.
I think that don't exist a better sport than other, I think it's only question of culture, so simple like that 🤷♂️
Great video Luke!!
Well said Luke!!
Like I've said before Luke, in America you guys didn't have much access to football, US TV networks just didn't really show it, with things like TH-cam there's much more access to it now, ive enjoyed watching your journey into football (even if you chose Spurs, yes im an Arsenal fan 😂) but long may it continue dude
Pro/Rel is a big debate I've seen between American fans, some are very much for it others very much against. I'm not sure if the US is ready for it yet. Especially the MLS. I think there was talk of the USL bringing it in at some point to see how it works.
First of all, it is called FOOTBALL
Soccer isn't wrong, it's rooted in Football history. In England, in the early days of the sport, it was common to use the designation Association Football, which was cut short to Assoc, then modified to Assoccer (a common suffix for sports at the time; rugby union was referred to as rugger, for instance), with the prefix as- later getting dropped, forming the contemporary word Soccer. Ultimately there isn't much of a point in fighting american fans over this, as they already have another sport called football.
Luke! Many thanks for your video! Sadly, your people are scarfed of nations outdoing your nation! This is why the US has not taken to football in full yet! The nearest sport to Soccer (football) is NHL Ice Hockey! Even then the US does not dominate! Why does Basketball seem itis just a second sport in the rest of the world? Why has American football and Baseball fail miserably in the rest of the world and the US wonders why? Just mention my post to those Soccer haters in your country Luke!
Luke its your channel, but I think you should go on Football panel shows, more than anything you get a new audience to see your views.
"We love brutality". Mate, just show them some videos of Vinnie Jones' playing career. 🤣
As long as you dont have relegation, your players/teams are not fighting. They play for the money, cant get paycut cause they relegated and suck, clubs wont care if they play bad, or dont need to put money in the squat.. Also youth academies owned by the clubs, or working with them.
relegation and promotion is also about money too btw… wage cuts and the lower TV money etc.
@@porafriken which they dont have in US.. That is my point
Why watch soccer when I can watch hockey and get faster higher scoring soccer on skates with hitting and fighting?
Best Anthems: 1- France 2- USA 3- the rest
The French wrote Gawd Save [insert gender based ruling monarch title her], and the English wrote the Star Spangled Banner, it was originally a drinking song about the joys of getting rat arsed y'know. 🤣 Even though I'm English I've always loved the Italian national anthem, it has so much pomp and a strong juxtaposition.
FYI, I'd prefer Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance no1 (Land of Hope and Glory) as our national anthem, much better than blowing smoke up the arses of Vlad the Impaler's in bred descendants.
@@darthwiizius Didn't know that, very interesting. Yes , the italian is very dramatic. Argentine's also quite ....picturesque. I like the calm japanese too.
The American anthem is pretty bad honestly. The flag is ugly too.
@@MoeSzyslak20 The flag is not that good but come on, the harmony on the changing to the "O say..." part is pure beauty and the end is glorious.
PAZZA INTER, AMALA
Can you react to story of messi and ronaldo 😃
hi
What is soccer???