Awww, I like how the Americans try. Where the rest of the world comes together but America is the odd/weird ones out. Real football about to light the world up.
You base an entire nation off of analysts who literally know nothing about the sport? Lalas probably had to write the questions for them that's how little they know. The entire country is not that way. By the way the majority of us don't even have Telemundo because we don't have any interest in watching it. Get your stuff straight before making bigoted comments because you know about as much about us fans as these analysts know about the sport itself.
Padraig Murphy there was about 10 people huddled up at my gym watching Spain v Portugal and there was only about 12 people there. None of them were Latinos either.
This dude knows nothing. 1) It's not like March Madness, it's the World Cup (the name is self-explanatory) 2) Mexico's team IS NOT as good as he says it is 3) There is now way Morocco wins the World Cup in the next 50 years. They should get a real analyst next time. Jimmy Conrad would do a much better job as a World Cup analyst for FS1 than this Lalas guy.
The lady said its like the march madness, and lalas agreed but added 10 times that.. and how they got to the topic of morocco was the debate on which team on “big return” to the quarterfinals... apparently you dont really listen lol
Messi may be the best player of the Champions League Era. But what makes a GOAT in Soccer? Individual skill, measurable success in both club and national team and the capacity of both carrying a team and making your teammates better, i.e. being what CC might call a force multiplier.Messi fails to check both points 2 for national team and 3 for force multiplying. If there is some candidates for GOAT it should be Pele , Maradona, Franz Beckenbauer and Zinedine Zidane. Among those without World Champions accolades Ferenc Puskas of Hungary and Real Madrid (1950s) should be considered IMHO.
Daniel Price no he’s not , Messi’s impact has been much better, cristiano did his best in 2017, while in 2016 and 2014 he had little impact in the finals and semi finals. Actually he was bad in the those finals. On the other hand, in general Messi as an individual player has more impact on the team even when he does not score. So don’t confuse team success with the individual success, recent example Bayern Vs RM Cristiano literally did nothing and they still managed to qualify, imagine the same thing with Messi and Barcelona ! No way they would beat Bayern without Messi producing a magical performance. Messi as an individual has been better than CR7 in the last two years by a margin. The problem is most people don’t look into details they just care about the results.
It's so cute to watch americans talk about football, however lets be real here mexico iceland morocco are absolutely irrelevant that'd be like rooting for the clippers the suns and the nuggets for next years nba title. Brazil germany and spain are the three huge favourites and teams like france belgium or argentina might pull off an upset. Besides that you're trippin
France or Argentina winning it would not be an upset in my eyes, France are Euro runners up and have world class players. While Argentina are World Cup and Copa America runners up, second best player in the world... so stop disrespecting.
I'm placing combined or multiple bets with the six teams you mentioned as possible winners. I'd love to see Spain win it again (been living in Spain since I was nine) and I think France have a very solid team. As others have commented, Argentina's defence may be their downfall. Brazil and Germany are always among the favourites and Belgium could win it for the first time, just like Spain did in 2010. Outside those six, I would pick Uruguay, Colombia and Portugal as wild bets.
This is the first watchable World Cup segment I've seen this summer because CC and Nick are not pretending they are football experts, they are genuinely asking questions and getting competent answers from this gentleman. I've seen so many segments about the WC and the pundits (as we call them in the UK) can get away with doing little to know research because the general public just expect what they're saying is true, when in reality some of it is absolute nonsence! ESPN are appalling for this. Germany, Spain, Brazil are the best teams by far. Belgium and France are definitely worth a bet, their odds are very favourable considering their talent. Messi however is a total game changer in the truest sense of the word, if Argentina wins this summer he becomes the undisputed greatest of all time. Anything can happen in knock out football. Ronaldo is a phenomenon and one of the greats but cannot change a game by himself anymore so his teammates need to perform as well, Portugal have no chance. Their EURO 2016 win was very lucky. Suarez & Godin of Uruguay, Modric & Rakitic of Croatia, Salah of Egypt and Lewandowski of Poland are the best players outside of those nations so watch out for them. If you're looking for a team to support, I fell in love with Colombia four years ago and their best players have matured since they got to the quarter final that tournament. They have a real togetherness, dance a lot and their best player is a man named James Rodriguez, who may have been the best player in the best team in the Bundesliga this season, champions, Bayern Munich. Few short things: Nigeria have the nicest kits. Ignore his Morocco statement, that is absurd. Don't watch the opening game on the 14th June if it is your first introduction to 'soccer,' wait till the 15th for Spain v Portugal. My heart says Argentina will win it all. Vamos!
Carlos Vazquez messi truely deserves justice n dat justice is fifa accolades should give him a w.c.2014 ws Argentina's w.c.higuains legitimate goal ws disallowed by da bluddy Italian referee...da referee ws a bias...feel sry 4messi..I will curse da Italian referee for disallowing da clear goal...2014 w.c.would hv bin Argentina's!!sry messi I'm hurt till now..can't 4get 13_7_14
Literally the World Cup is the worldwide month long celebration it’s so beautiful to know that the world comes together 4 times of year for this and its baisically a party.
Sounds like Messi is pretty underrated in the US, the majority of people over in Europe acknowledge this has been Messi's era and not Ronaldo's. Not to mention the fact that no one thinks Maradona was better and or greater than Messi. In all honesty, he's a coin flip for G.O.A.T
Ronaldo? Hairstyle maybe. Yes, some power kicks but that don't make me feel like to watch him for 90min. Messi, any touch of the ball from him is just beautiful and magical. If he decides to run with it, my god even better. Scoring? Wow, pinpoint accuracy. Creativity? Probably the most creative one in LaLiga. Ronaldo is quite creative in diving. Probably people like to watch him dive and his hairstyle.
I think that's a very Biased point of view. The argument between Messi and Ronaldo is about 50/50 other than the negative perseption the media give Ronalod
In this case here it's more ignorance and lazyness to be more informed about the sport. Don't change the subject and call them all dumb, it's not the sole cause of school shootings...
Morroco?? Jajajajajajaja No Idea Mexico? Iceland? The same thing. There is NO WAY those countries win the World Cup. 0% chance. With those types of comments now I see why USA always is one of the worst teams in Soccer.
Luis Miguel Parodi Aguilar what did u even listen to? Lol lalas said iceland would be fun to watch but wont win the world cup, morroco was just a debate topic of “big return” dark horse. He said they can maybe get to quarter finals
Belgium, Portugal, & England are all legit darkhorses to win their first World Cup. Anything lower ranked than is just an upset sleeper, like Senegal/Columbia/Croatia/Serbia.
"Mexico always underperforms, based on the talent they have". Yep... As a Mexican myself, that statement is the entire history of Mexican soccer in a nutshell.
It's only Americans that think Messi isn't as good as Maradona because he's not won a world cup. It's an idiotic argument. There are 22 players in a football game. Messi is one man. If his team does not win a world cup it is not because of him. He was incredible at the last world cup and has been continually great for the last decade. Sorry but you never hear educated, European football fans saying he needs to win a world cup.
Oli Mercer Messi had carried the whole team to the world cup final other players are good for nothing in Argentina and this guy says Messi sucks he needs to get his head checked or something , and best of luck to Argentina and Messi and I believe Messi will win the world cup it's very tough but if other players help Messi then world cup is near
You've got Belgium, France, Argentina, I even hate to say it but England who have insanely good returns to win it all including the ability and capability to win it all and this guy says Morocco? SMH x 10000000
Wayne Bergeron I'm rooting for Portugal (player) & England (team). Rooting for Mexico makes ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE as they are our archrivals in the sport.
you'd better watch some games of Morocco , and check the squad , Morocco is better than Portugal in terms of style f play , Spain of course no , but better than portugal .
looooooool in actuality Portugal is the dark horse to win this year and should have been Lalas' response. That back line is still solid despite Costa going godmode on them.
Mexico the most underperforming nation ever? Are you having a laugh.. clearly it's either England or Netherlands. Both teams have had WORLD CLASS players for decades and yet still can't win anything. At one point England had a World Cup squad of Rooney, Owen, Beckham, Gerrard, Lampard, J.Cole, G. Neville, Terry, Ferdinand, Cole, Robinson.. If you can't win a World Cup with that team then you've MASSIVELY underperformed, not to mention how strong the bench was as well.
The world's biggest and most competitive sport event the Fifa World Cup otherwise known as the soccer-football world championship is the most televised sport on planet earth. Billions of people will watch nations compete each other for the Holy Grail which is the Fifa World Cup. It comes every 4 years like the Olympics, but it is a global phenomenon that makes every nation in the world watch. It isn't just a sports event but a huge global party where all countries can come in a have fun as fans and meet people from all over the world and enjoy the sport which moves nations in the world.
Alexi Lalas has so much undeserved credibility in the American media for someone who barely keeps up with world football and focuses mostly on American products
I would say LeBron and Messi would be a nice comparison. Both of them always in the debate for the GOAT and carrying their teams to the finals and getting unfairly criticised.
Carter knows absolutely nothing about the sport... The Germans aren't even big, a lot of very finesse technical passers with not much height to them.. even the defenders aren't as big as they used to be. They don't even play such a brute style anymore, just technical scoring machines.
Messi could skip the World Cup and be BY FAR the best player ever. "Messi is always in Maradona's shadow" How about in EVERY other tournament or competition besides the 1986 World Cup? Maradona is in MESSIS shadow. Believe that.
You have no idea what Maradona represents to Argentinians then. Maradona is worshipped in Argentina and in South Italy, he represents so much, to win a wc, is something that adds so much. And let's be real, messi is not the same, when he plays without iniesta and xavi. In my opinion, a player that only performed for 1 team with the best players in the world can't be called above maradona. People in Argentina sometimes seems that they have no empathy or connection with messI. Might be from the fact that he is more a European than an South American.
Sam Olbur to say it ain't close or maradona is in messi's shadow is just a plain lie, mate. Maradona won everything in his career, including titles with teams not even close to what messI have with Barcelona and Argentina national. You can have the opinion that messi is better, I'll disagree and accept that, but to say it ain't even close is at least hyperbolic.
Well, maybe Maradona is popular in Argentina. Messi is popular worldwide. Maybe Maradona is like hero in Argentina. Messi is hero worldwide in my opinion. Probably the people who are from argentina think messi is in maradona shadow, I think football is in Messi's shadow. Titles? You really want to count? Maradona never won a CL so please don't go there. By the end of Messi career, each of his three child can have two ballon d'or and a pair of golden shoes. So please stop. Also, off the pitch, Messi is a much better role model than Maradona. Maybe people need to wake up a bit.
Alexi Lalas, cool man, unforgetable because his hair (cut?), regular player but humble. I remember from usa '94, that team played with dignity they played as good as it could be and put usa soccer into the spot. His opinion was only good intentions. "Everybody is good, they can make it, etc.", nothing compromising.
Richard maximus Morocco won’t get near the semis. They have a very average squad.they don’t have a lethal striker. Arguably their best striker plays for a mid table super lig side. He has only 7 international goals( only one of these coming against a decent opponent) Their keeper plays for a mid table segunda division side. They have no chance of getting to the semis
Look for Messi to be in the greatest of all time to surpass the likes of Maradona, Pele, the Brazilian Ronaldo and Zinedine Zidane, he needs to win the biggest prize football has to offer.
Brett Reason Won two Serie A titles and a UEFA Cup and made Napoli title contenders which they never were before or after. And sorry WCs are 10x more prestigious than Champions League
Americans talking about football, and most sports in general for that matter, are bad enough but American women when talking about sports only ever bring one topic to the conversation and she predictably did it at 3:25. Their female "journalists" made the Olympics unwatchable.
I think in my opinion the Americans and English should make a deal and call the sport officially in English Soccer-Football so both the American and English translation are put together.
This dude either knows little about Football or he's a gas bar attendant pumping tires. In 2016 Mexico "playing up" in the COPA Quarter Final Mexico were pummeled by Chile 7-0. Yes 7-0 in a playoff round lol.
i really wish Messi wins the world cup if sweden doesn´t win it. i think that he deserves it. but i don´t think that hehas the win it to prove that he is the greatest ever. imo he has already done everything that he needs to be known as the GOAT of football
What are your World Cup predictions?
Germany
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First Things First: Cris Carter and Nick Wright USA🇺🇸
First Things First: Cris Carter and Nick Wright Spain or Germany. I want Argentina for messi but they're just not good enough.
Morocco hahahah
1:20 LMAO march madness is nothing compare to WORLD CUP!!!!
World Cup breaks Americans brain, they do have a lot of problems with it.
That just shows you they have no appreciation for the magnitude of this event
WTF is march madness?
Source of Bollywood this “expert” is so wrong so many times he’s one of reasons the world thinks Americans don’t know much about futball
Allen Gigika he played in the World Cup
FINALLY a segment on the greatest sport in the world🙌🏻🙌🏻
Pobbyy this is cringe
yandel 321 your cringe
The BEST sport in the world.
BIGGEST sport, commercially wise, not the best. "Best" is a subjective term. Common sense.
Ilham .abdil apart from basketball
Ilham .abdil im live in UK. I've been watching football my whole life. Now I've realised basketball is better still love football as well
Ilham .abdil what's your favourite team
Football ⚽️ is the best sport ever
did she just compare the world cup to march madness? smh
Aaron Anthony It’s just as intense but it’s on a bigger scale.
There is too much ignorance in that statement. The intensity of the world cup cannot be compared to any other sport, especially college sport.
She’s a dolt.
My name's stephen and i love blowing 3-1 leads 💯 bigger scale
Aaron Anthony we've had peoples families threatened during the world cup like Zuniga after he injured Neymar
They should of asked him who's better Michael Jordan or LeBron James
Saturn Owls Knowing not jordan hater but i guess its LJames is better
I don't know LeBron but MJ has the will to win. Technically speaking, I think watching MJ is much more enjoyable. LeBron is more physical though.
Messi or Ronaldo
Awww, I like how the Americans try. Where the rest of the world comes together but America is the odd/weird ones out. Real football about to light the world up.
nelson oliphant There is alot of immigrants in America who watch futbol and the sons and daughters of immigrants as well
Exactly bunch of fake bandwagon fans ! I can't wait till Fox's world cup ratings tank. Because all American fans will see it in Spanish Telemundo
You base an entire nation off of analysts who literally know nothing about the sport? Lalas probably had to write the questions for them that's how little they know. The entire country is not that way. By the way the majority of us don't even have Telemundo because we don't have any interest in watching it. Get your stuff straight before making bigoted comments because you know about as much about us fans as these analysts know about the sport itself.
nelson oliphant The world does not come together for the world cup. Nayn countries don't actually
Padraig Murphy there was about 10 people huddled up at my gym watching Spain v Portugal and there was only about 12 people there. None of them were Latinos either.
Did she just compare march madness to the world cup? LMAO
kweezy b The format Not the relevance of tournaments
Oscar Villalobos THE WOMAN SAID
"IT'S BASICALLY MARCH MADNESS"
She should be put in jail for that
kweezy b what is March madness?
This dude knows nothing. 1) It's not like March Madness, it's the World Cup (the name is self-explanatory) 2) Mexico's team IS NOT as good as he says it is 3) There is now way Morocco wins the World Cup in the next 50 years. They should get a real analyst next time. Jimmy Conrad would do a much better job as a World Cup analyst for FS1 than this Lalas guy.
Awn Al-Hadeed warmballer for life
The lady said its like the march madness, and lalas agreed but added 10 times that.. and how they got to the topic of morocco was the debate on which team on “big return” to the quarterfinals... apparently you dont really listen lol
Conradinho for life
Awn Al-Hadeed “this Lalas guy” was a World Cup quarterfinalist with the USA
March Madness LOL
Morocco have Spain and Portugal in their group and he really picks Morocco ppl don't waste your money
lol
and they have iran the best team in asia
Spain yeah , but nobody cares about Portugal , they're a lucky team . Morocco plays as a team and they've some great names .
He said they have a chance just like every other 31 teams do at this moment since nobody has played yet. Never said they WILL. Learn context...
Lucky team? We'll see how you do against us. Good luck with that.
we'll see . wh we defeat u i'll comeback to this comment section to see how you'll react
Since my team is out I'm gonna full on Messi fan boy.
Jeb Kush gang gang
I’m swedish with english family, so i’ll start supporting Messi in the quarter finals.
Same asf 🇺🇸😔
Same!
Same
Don't overlook Belgium, they are loaded with talent.
Hey Momma way too much talented players
With a dubious manager but alright
no guarantee of success. at the euros got beat by wales who didnt even qualify
It's so Sad Listening to American talk about Football
About time there's only so much you can get out of talking about LeBron.
Hey did you know lebron owns part of Liverpool
rikelme90 what does LeBron have to do with the world cup?
Americans talking about football which they call soccer lmao
Football players wear helmets and pads. This is soccer. A woman's game.
This is soccer, idiot. I swear I see this debate all the time. It's only called 'fútbol' in Latin America, 'calcio' in Itally, etc.
Waheed joe Khan exactly, it’s embarrassing. Most Americans have no clue about the beautiful game
It's beautiful because women play it. Women take dicks for fun. You take dicks for fun. Steve Gerrard is beautiful. It's the law of distribution.
thats kinda rude but ok. anyways i love SOCCER/FOOTBALL but u have to admit football makes more sense than soccer.
Messi is already the GOAT 🐐
Messi may be the best player of the Champions League Era. But what makes a GOAT in Soccer?
Individual skill, measurable success in both club and national team and the capacity of both carrying a team and making your teammates better, i.e. being what CC might call a force multiplier.Messi fails to check both points 2 for national team and 3 for force multiplying. If there is some candidates for GOAT it should be Pele , Maradona, Franz Beckenbauer and Zinedine Zidane. Among those without World Champions accolades Ferenc Puskas of Hungary and Real Madrid (1950s) should be considered IMHO.
Hans Blödorn Ronaldo has been better in the Champions League 😂
Daniel Price no he’s not , Messi’s impact has been much better, cristiano did his best in 2017, while in 2016 and 2014 he had little impact in the finals and semi finals. Actually he was bad in the those finals.
On the other hand, in general Messi as an individual player has more impact on the team even when he does not score. So don’t confuse team success with the individual success, recent example Bayern Vs RM Cristiano literally did nothing and they still managed to qualify, imagine the same thing with Messi and Barcelona ! No way they would beat Bayern without Messi producing a magical performance. Messi as an individual has been better than CR7 in the last two years by a margin. The problem is most people don’t look into details they just care about the results.
Abdul ! How can I reply to something that is incorrect at every point. Oh well
Daniel Price Ok ...
Messi doesn't need to win the World Cup he is already the greatest.
Intonational football isn't the highest level anymore it's the champions league.
not at the highest level ? Imao . Club Football is slowly dying. At least in europe. Every league is predictable ( except epl ) yes even is the ucl .
Sriram Kaliyurmannar but the world cup is unpredictable
It's PELE
Find a new soccer analyst.
Shaz yes please
Lol the fact that they say lead analyst hurts,Warren Barton is way better,Stuart Holden and more
Shaz and fast!! And please, for the love of God, don't say soccer.
Disagree, im a huge football fan and this analyst is knowledgable, i you dont think so then youre insane
It's so cute to watch americans talk about football, however lets be real here mexico iceland morocco are absolutely irrelevant that'd be like rooting for the clippers the suns and the nuggets for next years nba title.
Brazil germany and spain are the three huge favourites and teams like france belgium or argentina might pull off an upset. Besides that you're trippin
France should be with those three
France or Argentina winning it would not be an upset in my eyes, France are Euro runners up and have world class players. While Argentina are World Cup and Copa America runners up, second best player in the world... so stop disrespecting.
Argentina defense will be their downfall
I'm placing combined or multiple bets with the six teams you mentioned as possible winners. I'd love to see Spain win it again (been living in Spain since I was nine) and I think France have a very solid team. As others have commented, Argentina's defence may be their downfall. Brazil and Germany are always among the favourites and Belgium could win it for the first time, just like Spain did in 2010. Outside those six, I would pick Uruguay, Colombia and Portugal as wild bets.
I wouldn't exactly call it an upset if France or Argentina won
Leo Messi the GOAT.
PELE IS THE GOAT
Long way to go. Still haven’t won single World Cup.
Not even the best in his era let alone all time. CR7 is better on almost every metric.
Messi - GOAT
to be fair this is the greatest era in terms of talent we have ever seen in football
This is the first watchable World Cup segment I've seen this summer because CC and Nick are not pretending they are football experts, they are genuinely asking questions and getting competent answers from this gentleman. I've seen so many segments about the WC and the pundits (as we call them in the UK) can get away with doing little to know research because the general public just expect what they're saying is true, when in reality some of it is absolute nonsence! ESPN are appalling for this.
Germany, Spain, Brazil are the best teams by far. Belgium and France are definitely worth a bet, their odds are very favourable considering their talent. Messi however is a total game changer in the truest sense of the word, if Argentina wins this summer he becomes the undisputed greatest of all time. Anything can happen in knock out football. Ronaldo is a phenomenon and one of the greats but cannot change a game by himself anymore so his teammates need to perform as well, Portugal have no chance. Their EURO 2016 win was very lucky.
Suarez & Godin of Uruguay, Modric & Rakitic of Croatia, Salah of Egypt and Lewandowski of Poland are the best players outside of those nations so watch out for them. If you're looking for a team to support, I fell in love with Colombia four years ago and their best players have matured since they got to the quarter final that tournament. They have a real togetherness, dance a lot and their best player is a man named James Rodriguez, who may have been the best player in the best team in the Bundesliga this season, champions, Bayern Munich.
Few short things: Nigeria have the nicest kits. Ignore his Morocco statement, that is absurd. Don't watch the opening game on the 14th June if it is your first introduction to 'soccer,' wait till the 15th for Spain v Portugal.
My heart says Argentina will win it all. Vamos!
You had some great and memorable predictions here, wow
Argentina all the way
Lil Jerusalem 🏆🌎🎆🇷🇺
Stop the madness , if first in the group a quarterfinal vs Spain, a semis vs Germany n final vs Brazil
no chance. They won't make it out the group.
Lil Jerusalem fifa awes messi a w.c.
Carlos Vazquez messi truely deserves justice n dat justice is fifa accolades should give him a w.c.2014 ws Argentina's w.c.higuains legitimate goal ws disallowed by da bluddy Italian referee...da referee ws a bias...feel sry 4messi..I will curse da Italian referee for disallowing da clear goal...2014 w.c.would hv bin Argentina's!!sry messi I'm hurt till now..can't 4get 13_7_14
Literally the World Cup is the worldwide month long celebration it’s so beautiful to know that the world comes together 4 times of year for this and its baisically a party.
June and July are gonna be litttt🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️
Sounds like Messi is pretty underrated in the US, the majority of people over in Europe acknowledge this has been Messi's era and not Ronaldo's. Not to mention the fact that no one thinks Maradona was better and or greater than Messi. In all honesty, he's a coin flip for G.O.A.T
No one in Europe has said that this is Messi's era lol,what are you talking about ?
PELE IS the best ever
Ronaldo? Hairstyle maybe. Yes, some power kicks but that don't make me feel like to watch him for 90min. Messi, any touch of the ball from him is just beautiful and magical. If he decides to run with it, my god even better. Scoring? Wow, pinpoint accuracy. Creativity? Probably the most creative one in LaLiga. Ronaldo is quite creative in diving. Probably people like to watch him dive and his hairstyle.
Jerry Lam Yeah, his creativity is best when he is watching Ronaldo win a 5th UCL from his couch
I think that's a very Biased point of view. The argument between Messi and Ronaldo is about 50/50 other than the negative perseption the media give Ronalod
When he said Ronaldo is one of the most popular people in the world I was expecting that Nick would start a Lebron vs Ronaldo debate
Not supporting a Team because the logo on their jersey is too small has got to be the dumbest reason I've ever heard
In this case here it's more ignorance and lazyness to be more informed about the sport. Don't change the subject and call them all dumb, it's not the sole cause of school shootings...
That's just rude and uncalled. It seems like you're detached from reality.
Messi is Greatest Ever regardless if he will win World Cup
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agree👍🏼
Seeing you guys talking about soccer is wonderful, as a Brazilian fan of this show, it's a whole new experience
Morroco?? Jajajajajajaja No Idea Mexico? Iceland? The same thing. There is NO WAY those countries win the World Cup. 0% chance. With those types of comments now I see why USA always is one of the worst teams in Soccer.
Luis Miguel Parodi Aguilar what did u even listen to? Lol lalas said iceland would be fun to watch but wont win the world cup, morroco was just a debate topic of “big return” dark horse. He said they can maybe get to quarter finals
Totally, all the World Cups have been won by a group of five to seven countries no more. They are always the same
Belgium, Portugal, & England are all legit darkhorses to win their first World Cup. Anything lower ranked than is just an upset sleeper, like Senegal/Columbia/Croatia/Serbia.
"Mexico always underperforms, based on the talent they have". Yep... As a Mexican myself, that statement is the entire history of Mexican soccer in a nutshell.
I’m sorry but please don’t ever compare the World Cup to something like March madness like cmon, March madness is trash compared to the World Cup
It's only Americans that think Messi isn't as good as Maradona because he's not won a world cup. It's an idiotic argument.
There are 22 players in a football game. Messi is one man. If his team does not win a world cup it is not because of him. He was incredible at the last world cup and has been continually great for the last decade. Sorry but you never hear educated, European football fans saying he needs to win a world cup.
Oli Mercer Messi had carried the whole team to the world cup final other players are good for nothing in Argentina and this guy says Messi sucks he needs to get his head checked or something , and best of luck to Argentina and Messi and I believe Messi will win the world cup it's very tough but if other players help Messi then world cup is near
Actually un Argentina a looot of people prefer Maradona. Here is like a LeBron MJ comparisson. With the same arguments
Luciano Ribero you are right
Did he just say Morocco as a dark horse lol
You've got Belgium, France, Argentina, I even hate to say it but England who have insanely good returns to win it all including the ability and capability to win it all and this guy says Morocco? SMH x 10000000
A.M PICTURES England won’t win it. No chance.
A.M PICTURES England is going Out in the knock Out stages.
U don’t watch the World Cup if u think England has a chance
Look at what I said. He was talking about returns, I said for the odds England would be good money OVER Morocco, didn't say they'd win
He’s just trying to looks smart in front of people who don’t have a clue about football. I find it irritating.
Girlfriend as a Jamaican myself I would never in the life of me think that you're a Jamaican very nice to see great job!
Respect to Nick for showing genuine interest and enthusiasm in this topic
Get it correct: Many Americans are NOT supporting Mexico.
Wayne Bergeron I'm rooting for Portugal (player) & England (team). Rooting for Mexico makes ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE as they are our archrivals in the sport.
It would be like the Red Sox rooting for the Yankees if the Sox did not make the playoffs. Zero sense. It's the opposite.
Great reporting and analysis! Love this channel!
Morocco oh my god, that is the worst thing he said, they aren't even in the conversation for black horse 😂😂😂
you'd better watch some games of Morocco , and check the squad , Morocco is better than Portugal in terms of style f play , Spain of course no , but better than portugal .
Sure, just by looking at your name I know you aren't biased at all
yes of course i am Moroccan , but im pretty sure none of the people who were surpprised when he said Morocco , that they know anything about Morocco
Ramdani Badreddine
LMAO better than Portugal???!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA
looooooool in actuality Portugal is the dark horse to win this year and should have been Lalas' response. That back line is still solid despite Costa going godmode on them.
Is there any country in the world which doesn't show Fifa World Cup ?
Darkhorses(legit chance to win it all): Belgium, Portugal, England. Sleepers(could sprout a huge upset): Senegal, Columbia, Croatia, Serbia).
Brett Reason don't forget Mexico
So no one peeped how 2 of them(The guest and Jenna) were talking about size does matter throughout the whole segment? He definitely smashed.
Mexico the most underperforming nation ever? Are you having a laugh.. clearly it's either England or Netherlands. Both teams have had WORLD CLASS players for decades and yet still can't win anything. At one point England had a World Cup squad of Rooney, Owen, Beckham, Gerrard, Lampard, J.Cole, G. Neville, Terry, Ferdinand, Cole, Robinson.. If you can't win a World Cup with that team then you've MASSIVELY underperformed, not to mention how strong the bench was as well.
SuperMillwall1885 now they have Sterling , Alli, Kane, Lingard, Rashford. Well see
Nick’s reaction to “Morocco” is just priceless 😂
The world's biggest and most competitive sport event the Fifa World Cup otherwise known as the soccer-football world championship is the most televised sport on planet earth. Billions of people will watch nations compete each other for the Holy Grail which is the Fifa World Cup. It comes every 4 years like the Olympics, but it is a global phenomenon that makes every nation in the world watch. It isn't just a sports event but a huge global party where all countries can come in a have fun as fans and meet people from all over the world and enjoy the sport which moves nations in the world.
I feel American media is the weird one in the group thats just in the group for comedic relief when it comes down to covering football.
that guy knows his stuff. Respect.
It's always good to see an american football expert who is actually an expert
Found that the host was born in Jamaica I'm a fan
Morocco? jesus bloody christ
Morocco are in same group as Portugal and Spain, what pathway
Alexi Lalas has so much undeserved credibility in the American media for someone who barely keeps up with world football and focuses mostly on American products
This man just said Morocco lmfaooooooooo
Mo Salah turned me Muslim
I got Germany and Spain as favorites
He is talking to them like it is World Cup 101
I would say LeBron and Messi would be a nice comparison. Both of them always in the debate for the GOAT and carrying their teams to the finals and getting unfairly criticised.
Kanishk Joshipura don’t disrespect Messi like that. 😂
Lebron James is an incredible athlete and human being. YOU are the one being disrespectful.
We better see more World Cup segments this summer
Carter knows absolutely nothing about the sport... The Germans aren't even big, a lot of very finesse technical passers with not much height to them.. even the defenders aren't as big as they used to be. They don't even play such a brute style anymore, just technical scoring machines.
Messi could skip the World Cup and be BY FAR the best player ever. "Messi is always in Maradona's shadow" How about in EVERY other tournament or competition besides the 1986 World Cup? Maradona is in MESSIS shadow. Believe that.
You have no idea what Maradona represents to Argentinians then. Maradona is worshipped in Argentina and in South Italy, he represents so much, to win a wc, is something that adds so much. And let's be real, messi is not the same, when he plays without iniesta and xavi.
In my opinion, a player that only performed for 1 team with the best players in the world can't be called above maradona.
People in Argentina sometimes seems that they have no empathy or connection with messI. Might be from the fact that he is more a European than an South American.
Yo he can mean the world to them and respect to him for that. I'm saying who the better soccer player is. It ain't close, bruh
Sam Olbur to say it ain't close or maradona is in messi's shadow is just a plain lie, mate. Maradona won everything in his career, including titles with teams not even close to what messI have with Barcelona and Argentina national. You can have the opinion that messi is better, I'll disagree and accept that, but to say it ain't even close is at least hyperbolic.
Well, maybe Maradona is popular in Argentina. Messi is popular worldwide. Maybe Maradona is like hero in Argentina. Messi is hero worldwide in my opinion. Probably the people who are from argentina think messi is in maradona shadow, I think football is in Messi's shadow. Titles? You really want to count? Maradona never won a CL so please don't go there. By the end of Messi career, each of his three child can have two ballon d'or and a pair of golden shoes. So please stop.
Also, off the pitch, Messi is a much better role model than Maradona. Maybe people need to wake up a bit.
Sam Olbur Maradonna is on another level bruh. Messi does not compare. Maradonna is the best ever period.
I like this guy, he made a good job
Iceland can beat anyone in the world? Really?...
tiagovalen They beat England in the Euro’s Why not
good quality vid
Vamos Portugal! Let's keep the winning streak going
I'm going!!! Just got my TIX to Game 29!! Nigeria vs Argentina!!! So excited!! who else is going? 🇷🇺
The Wedge 👋🏻
Alexi Lalas, cool man, unforgetable because his hair (cut?), regular player but humble. I remember from usa '94, that team played with dignity they played as good as it could be and put usa soccer into the spot. His opinion was only good intentions. "Everybody is good, they can make it, etc.", nothing compromising.
Perú getting back after 36 years, now with our best player kicked out of the cup due to drinking a coca leaf tea. No better drama than this.
D T facts
Where can i place some online bets. Any help?
Bovada
How to tell an analyst is 'murican? When he just seriously suggested Morocco for WC winners...
Richard maximus Morocco won’t get near the semis. They have a very average squad.they don’t have a lethal striker. Arguably their best striker plays for a mid table super lig side. He has only 7 international goals( only one of these coming against a decent opponent) Their keeper plays for a mid table segunda division side. They have no chance of getting to the semis
Richard maximus In Round 2 of the qualifiers they lost 1:0 to Equatorial Guinea
They do not have a single player who is performing in a top European league. How could they get past their group with Portugal and Spain in.
Richard maximus sorry completely forgot about Benatia😂😂😂. The Eridivise is not a top league
Richard maximus how many times do you want to misspell Hakim’s last name?
Look for Messi to be in the greatest of all time to surpass the likes of Maradona, Pele, the Brazilian Ronaldo and Zinedine Zidane, he needs to win the biggest prize football has to offer.
Tashrif Alam Cristiano & Leo are top 3 along with Pele. Maradona was great for a few years but wasted away winning nothing with Napoli.
Brett Reason Won two Serie A titles and a UEFA Cup and made Napoli title contenders which they never were before or after. And sorry WCs are 10x more prestigious than Champions League
7:46 it’s called the round of 16. Mr “Lead fox soccer analyst.”
1:32 WHAT IS THIS CREATURE? He looks like the grumpy neighbor of Spongebob
Soccer!!!!!??????😂😂😂😂😂
TalkRADIOShow he's laughing at them for saying soccer, not football
Morocco will be out in the group stage, the two places needed are for Spain and Portugal.
Brazil: the way they lost 1-7, in their own World Cup 😂
Americans talking about football, and most sports in general for that matter, are bad enough but American women when talking about sports only ever bring one topic to the conversation and she predictably did it at 3:25. Their female "journalists" made the Olympics unwatchable.
Fil Piovano lol if a dude said (admitted) he only watches Tennis when it's a sexy woman playing he would be crucified & never hired again.
Why do ESPN anchors always say "listen"?
Did they really just compare the world’s largest sports tournament to March Madness Lmfao
I love how Cris Carter talks about soccer hahahah
Why is Mexico Nick Wright’s team
I think in my opinion the Americans and English should make a deal and call the sport officially in English Soccer-Football so both the American and English translation are put together.
World Cup is the greatest sporting event of all time
Regardless He wins or not Messi is the Genuine Goat.Best Ever
This guy knows what he's talking about
This dude either knows little about Football or he's a gas bar attendant pumping tires. In 2016 Mexico "playing up" in the COPA Quarter Final Mexico were pummeled by Chile 7-0. Yes 7-0 in a playoff round lol.
Finally an American sports show talking about no.1 sport in the world
Lmao lalas is on one. Literally no one says maradona is greater than Messi
Alexi is the digest Ronaldo fan he is his hype man
The real footbal....greatest sport in the planet
Dude said Morocco 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
i really wish Messi wins the world cup if sweden doesn´t win it. i think that he deserves it. but i don´t think that hehas the win it to prove that he is the greatest ever. imo he has already done everything that he needs to be known as the GOAT of football
Didn't mention France at all. Interesting....
She said Jamaica
Messi has a patriots squad... Ronaldo has the browns...
Alexi Lalas is clueless....my God im African and i wouldnt bet on Morocco. They are in a group with Spain and Portugal. They arent surviving that!
Argentina going to get easy draws and one hard one and make it to the final and then the strikers come in clutch to seal it and end the curse
Derek Gallardo but it is a difficult group
Americans talking about futbol is like me trying to cook, don't know wtf I'm doing/saying
don't sleep on morocco i kept saying that
Carlos Minez
What are you on about?
The most underperforming team is Argentina. With all the immense talent that that team has, it sucks that Messi has to just carry them on his back
Even though there’s much anticipation about Germany but we have seen defending champion crashing out from the group stage.
Alexi lalas is the best american soccer player ever