Football, in my experience, has the most passion out of any sport EVER. It has certainly saved my life, gave me a reason to be, as the quote said in the beginning as well. Kobe, whom you immensely more than likely know(may he R.I.P.), absolutely loved football(your soccer). It is much more than just purely "sport"
This video didn't focus much on defenses. If you want to see more defenses I recommend two videos: - The art of Defending: which shows the defenders stopping the attackers. - Impossible Saves: shows goalkeepers doing miracles.
Yeah, like that Beckham free kick against Greece. It isn’t about the free kick, it’s about the fact we were about to fail to qualify for the World Cup. The goal which came right at the end of the match meant we qualified, it’s hard to overestimate the importance of that goal at that moment.
@@JM-yf3ol that true, and he dosent even know the importance of seeing your contry nacional team play a world cup, that only happens 4 to 4 years, its just the most amazing sports tournament in the history of the world, even bigger than Olympics
FOOTBALL is the biggest popular sport practiced and loved in the WORLD The Yankee version of counterfeit rugby only exists and is consumed in the US, that cheap copy of rugby that never even made it out of the US is so SHIT, how sad and unfortunate
As Footbal fan, it’s sad you don’t recognize the significant of the goals you see. You can only appreciate how some of the goals you see in this video changed our lives and how we feel about this beautiful sport when you know the history.
@@jarmoliebrand2005 I don't think you grasp the importance of certain matches when you simply see "WC Final". You have to know the weight these matches have and what emotional stronghold they hold upon hundreds of millions of people to get that.
@@jarmoliebrand2005 Nah the text doesn't provide enough context for someone unfamiliar with the sport to understand what is going on. In terms of pure, cold facts you can look at see oh that was in the 2000 Euros... but so what? I watched that match live. I remember it. I know the context. He has none of that.
yeah, what was sad was this guy basically didnt seem to even flinch at the goals that were so significant or technically difficult…only the bicycle kicks. Haha, when it showed Lewandowski’s 5 goals in 9 mins, it was like it went in one ear and out the other…perhaps he was waiting for a bicycle kick 😂
@@siggychaloupka7330 Exactly, he had no clue what he was watching and it showed in the lack of reaction to anything, to be fair if I reacted to American sports it would probably look the same ha ha
This video hits so differently when you know each players and games history. I know every player and watched 90% of the games here that took place after I was born. To me its pure nostalgia, gives me so much joy and makes me tear up. Wish there was someone explaining you the stories behind the goals, so you could understand why everyone was freaking out even at less impressive goals. Also you pointed out a mayor issue in the world of football real quick. Everyone is focused on the attacking aspect of football, goals get valued much higher than extraordinary defensive work or goalkeeping. The last defender that got awarded the best player of the year was Fabio Canavaro in 2006.
Context is most of what makes many of these highlights incredible. That Agüero goal for Man City against QPR is one of the most special things in football history. Or the incredible comebacks Liverpool has made in the Champions League. Greece and Portugal winning the Euros 2004 and 2016 are also pretty special, despite neither team playing great football throughout the competitions they've won.
As a German, it was incredible, and we had to pinch ourselves.. sure, there are assholes, but it was more surreal than a celebration for me, no one could believe what happened, sure we were happy to get to the but with that sort of game?
It was a bizarre evening. As a German, the first goal was a relief, the second goal was a lot of peace of mind, the third goal was pure euphoria and starting with the fourth goal it was beginning to feel very surreal and almost uncomfortable, I felt horrible for Brazil and their fans.
Hello Luke.Thanks for your reaction. I have just commenced my 7th decade attending London football matches. The point about those Argentinian goals by Messi and Maradona was that they were decades apart but almost identical. Greece won @150/1 The European Football Tournament for Countries but Leicester won The World's greatest League( The English Premier in 2015) after 38 games of odds of FIVE THOUSAND TO ONE..😀 "Ultras-Our Way Of Life-10,000 Subscribers" or The World or Europe's Greatest Chants" are well worth seeing to begin to capture the atmosphere,my friend..
I think to understand why the Messi-maradona goals were significant you have to understand that Messi is being touted, even at this young age, to be the next best player in the world, and especially to be ‘Maradona’s heir’ to the throne of the Argentinian NT, and scoring that goal shows that he’s capable of taking up that mantle in a rather poetic fashion
The beauty of soccer is difficult to explain. As a fellow American, I can say that I absolutely fell in love with the sport in 1994 when I was twelve. The World Cup was on in the United States and I never knew boys could play the sport, let alone seeing the best players in the world as I was at the time. Watching the beauty of the sport was absolutely captivating. Some Americans made fun of the low-scoring affair, calling it boring. While I could empathize with their position, what I saw was something that was immensely difficult. To me, while I love basketball, it’s way more boring than soccer since they score most times going down the court. Top that with the fact that you can’t use your hands, so to have the grace, the skill, and the raw athleticism to be able to manipulate a ball using your feet. I don’t know, man, it’s just awe inspiring. Couple that with the fact that you can have immensely different styles of play, not necessarily unlike American football, basketball, or even baseball. You have teams that pass and pass and pass and find your weaknesses little by little until they find a seam, e.g. Spain with their Tiki-Taka. You have individual flair, e.g. Brazil. You have solid fundamentals and strict adherence to a system with precision, e.g. Germany. Then you have the raw guts of the Americans, Canadians, and Mexicans. It really is just a beautiful, beautiful game.
@@maxropercalvo6132 Dude STFU. It's called soccer in the US, that's what most of them know it as. Understand this instead of copying and pasting the same stupid ass comment under every post.
The reason the announcers were so excited in those bits were you were like "I don't know why it was that impressive" were because they were very important goals in a championship game, it would be like a player getting an amazing final touch down in the last minutes of a match to win in a final of a tournament. Also they were just very skilled goals too.
To understand the impact of each goal in these compilations you have to get a little backstory behind each one of them. It's insane the scenario through which these goals came. Just rewatching these goals here gave me goosebumps, and these announcers (we call them commentators) they don't scream for no reason.
The man talking in the beginning is the best player in the history of the sport..also the youngest to ever win a world cup he was 16 and won Brazil they first cup..he changed the game..
Football is "life". All the world plays the game, from England, to Angola, to Spain, to New Zealand, to India, to Russia, to Israel, Iran to Italy etc. Its the biggest sport in the world. And me being an avid football fan I thought I would explain the set up of our league and competitions. Unlike America we dont just have our national league, we can play other teams around the world. Literally every country has a league. The Biggest tho are England, Spain, Italy and Germany, but you get massive clubs in Brazil and Argentina. In England the league consists of 4 Divisions. Been around for 160 years and the FA Cup (explain later) is the oldest domestic sporting event in the world. As I said we have 4 divisions (we call them leagues now, but up till the 90s and the influx of major TV rights, this was changed to Leagues). You have the Premier League (formerly Division one), which has 20 teams, each playing a home and away game. The winners after 38 matches are English Champions. The top 4 teams qualify for the European Champions League, and 5th place (maybe 6th or 7th depends on who wins the League Cup or FA cup) go into the Europa League. The bottom 3 get relegated to the Championship (2nd Tier of English Football and Formerly Division 2) The Championship have more teams 24 Teams and the Top 2 get promoted to the Premier League and 3rd to 6th play a knock out, and the winner the final gets promoted also to the Premiership. This is called the Play Offs and the Championship Playoff is the biggest monetary prize in sport for the winning team. This is due to revenue (as the game is played at the National stadium Wembley), TV rights, Sponsorship rights and also prize money itself. The bottom 3 get relegated to League one Then you have League one (formerly Division 3) and League two (formerly Division 4). This is same set up as the Championship, the top 2 get promoted, i.e League 1 top 2 go into the Championship and League 2 top two go into League 1. Same play offs to get into the above league and same relegation, but less prize money obviously. As League 2 is the lowest of professional Leagues, bottom 2 go into the Conference which is not sponsored by the League itself, and 2 from the Conference get promoted. Which for you Americans is Wrexham this year who is owned by Ryan Reynolds. There a numerous leagues that are not professional that interlink for promotion and relegation. During the season you also have 2 Domestic cups. The league cup which is a knockout competition for only the teams in the top 4 leagues (Premier league to League 2), and then the FA cup which literally every football team can participate. From Sunday leagues up wards. Usually have over 700 teams competing in KO rules. Obviously all non Leagues start off and this get dwindles down till they play teams in the league that are not in the Premier League (Championship to League two) which when they enter becomes the 1st round of the FA cup. Then in the 3rd round the Premiership teams enter the draw for the round. Some teams you never hear off as play amateur football have the chance of playing the big teams like Man U, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, Man City, if they are lucky and this has happened numerous times in the past. Obviously the big teams win but the TV rights and revenue are massive for these small clubs. And the whole country roots (unless you support them) for the lower teams to do a shock. Which has also happened. The cups are only English Teams allowed bar a few Welsh teams. No Scottish or Irish or any other country allowed, so the 700 odd teams that compete are just teams in England (and Wales). Scotland have their own league and cup competitions. i..e the Scottish FA Cup and Leagues for Scottish Teams. (same set up but less clubs, and have relegation, promotion) The winners of the 2 cups go into the Europa League. If the winners get into the Champions League or Europa League due to finishing in the Top 5 of the Premiership, teams finishing 6th or 7th get into Europa. Also while the season is on certain clubs play European cups (as mentioned above). The Champions League is the biggest, all The big clubs who won their countries league or finished between top 2 and top 4 (Each country have different amount of teams allowed due to League positions. The top country leagues get 4, where as the smaller countries may get 1 or 2). Basically they are structured like the World Cup. Groups of 4 teams play home and away and the top 2 go into a KO (home and away). The Europa League is the same structure, but some teams finishing 3rd in their group in the Champions League will go into a play off with those finishing in 2nd in the Europa Groups, to play in the Europa League Knock out. The winner of the Champions League become champions of Europe, the winners of the Europa League just win that but its the 2nd Biggest European trophy, but do get automatically entered into the Champions League regardless of where they finished in their own countries league for the nest season. For some teams they can play 3 times in 6 days throughout the season. The season starts August and is played till May. We even play over Christmas with boxing day (a ban holiday in the UK for the 26th December) being the biggest day of Football as its a bank holiday and pubs and grounds are filled up to watch games. Plus its the biggest day for TV rights as due to christmas literally the whole world tunes into games shown for the Premier League, especially in countries that do not follow Christmas, like China, Middle East etc. The English Premier League is the most watched Football league in the world, possibly only Spanish La Liga coming anywhere near its popularity. The following season the winners of the Champions league will play the winners of certain continents that have a similar set up So they will play the winners of Oceanic (Australia, New Zealand etc), South America (Brazil, Argentina etc) and the winners of the African trophy (teams from Nigeria etc playing each other). Thats called the Club World cup. Its not really that popular as only usually 4 teams play and its a KO. Then you have the National Team. Players can play in any country, but will still (if good enough) represent their national team. Like Ronaldo played in England and Spain but plays for his country Portugal. The National team have 2 trophies. The big one is the World cup. This starts with the qualifiers, these consists of all countries in their continents playing each other in group stages and the winners and 2nd placed go into the World cup itself. And I assume you understand the world cup structure. Then you have your Continent trophy. In Europe its called the European Cup. Africa it called the African Cup of Nations etc. The qualifiers of both are played throughout a league season, but the top leagues suspend games on the weekends for those weeks. So you may have 4-5 weeks in a season disrupted for the qualifiers. Hope you followed that. I am an Arsenal fan, we've been around since 1888. The 3rd most successful team in England, FA Cup 14 times (record for most FA cup wins), League cup twice and 2 European trophies that were merged into the Europa League set up. (I would be here all day explaining the previous European Cups set up). Its a London team and the player in the clip Bergkamp who you saw flicking the ball and twisting round the player is hi playing for us, and the left foot to right foot lobbing the defender to score, was him playing for his country Holland. He also did exact same goal for us that season. He is probably the 2nd or 1st greatest player we had at Arsenal. Thierry Henry (who you may know as he retired to play in the US) is probably our greatest ever player. But this season we have a few young kids that are ripping up the league, in SAKA, young Black English kid who missed a penalty for England in the European Final and git racial abuse, idiots, but he captured the nation still who rallied to defend him and kick out the racists on line. And our Captain Odegaard, Danish player but amazing.
I feel it is very fitting that the video starts with a quote from Bill Shankly. Liverpools history as a club is a great one. Legendary managers, players and supporters. YNWA
As a Liverpool fan myself, it's definitely one of the best. Another favourite of mine is - "Of all unimportant things, football is by far, the most important" - Pope John Paul II
I really like the fact that you appreciate football(or soccer as you guys might call it). You have no idea how big this sport is outside of the states. The entire world watches it, except the us.
Dude! This video is full of incredible importan moments and players in football. For those who have been following this sport for years, we got the chills with this!
Every second of that video iconic, it's brings back the memories, drive, shock off the moment we all witness that,some stuff will became legendary after a while, I was just a kid and was asking my father how that bald dude outplaying entire Brazil team, he replied I don't know, never seen anything like that, in that moment it didn't felt huge but now it does.
That Messi goal was so impressive because he manages to play through all those players without loosing possession earning it a spot as one of the best goals ever
There are two videos I recommend for you to watch, you should give a go to “understanding European soccer in four simple steps” and afterwards definitely watch “(European) soccer explained for Americans” to get a more in-depth understanding of the concepts you learn in the first one. This second video I feel is very helpful and I don’t really see content creators new to the sport watch it that often. From what I remember neither of both gives you a full explanation of the rules though.
That 'little spin move' by Bergkamp is unmatched to this very day. It's not a standard move like in basketball but that difficult to exercise that only a few geniuses would even THINK about trying it, let alone succeeding. One of the all-time great goals
This is a compilation of iconic moments, beautiful goals and dribbles. There's World Cup finals, the first time some teams won a particularly difficult trophy to win, e.g European Champions League. Then there's football legends like Mardona, Pele. Its painful to watch this video bcoz you just can't relate if you don't understand the occasion.
I'm English, and I watch both our football and American football. But I will forever prefer association football. The bicycle kick, an absolute art. When Ronaldo is in the blue, his bicycle kick vs Juventus, look how high he jumped. The Champions League is the 2nd biggest trophy in football. And that Tottenham comeback we saw with Lucas Moura, and that Liverpool one where you mentioned the crowds, we're in the same week. To reach the Champions League final. The biggest club competition in the game.
If you knew the background of the games you saw you would’ve been even more impressed, some clips are from world cups or champions league games with so much history and passion. It’s really difficult to describe such a big feeling.
Sometimes 11 players carry the burdens of hope, passions and dreams of an entire nation and country. The collective euphoria of victory or agony of defeat is shared and felt by all. The scale of it all is truly amazing to witness. Despite its relative simplicity. Football or soccer is really hard to get good at. That's why moments of pure brilliance in football is so treasured. It's a magical experience that's hard to come by for both the competitor and spectator.
The context of all these moments is what makes them legendary. For most of these moments it would require some time to explain the importance and what makes them extraordinary. Because some of those goals look great but it's the context. For example scoring a great goal is nice but it happens all the time by chance. However you recognize the immense talent of some of these players because they consistently produce these incredible gestures when the stakes are at their highest (derbies, cup games, world cups...) This video also makes me realize how much stuff I know about football (which is why many of these goals make me emotional: the history of the teams, of the players, of the completions, of the games...). This explains the passion in the commenters voices
Every single time I come across this “the beauty of football” video I get emotional. No matter what. And when the principe become the king of the bernabeu I crack bad. I love football
Baseball. Basketball. American football. Hockey. Your big four. Far too much money involved in those for football to make any real headway. Amongst other reasons, but that initial statement doesn't help.
"In America we don't follow soccer" first of all lots of people all over north and south America follow soccer. Second, in the USA lots of people do follow soccer. You might not but lots do
That goal from Charisteas sent the country to heaven and back. And not just Greece, but many other underdog countries were rooting for the Greeks to win the whole thing! 🥳
I would say that soccer has become very popular in the US, with many, many people - compared to even 20 years ago. Literally everywhere I go, there are many people playing it, and following it, and watching it. And almost every other state has a big team, with a big fan base - see Georgia, Texas etc. - ie states you would not think of. I think that the more you will learn about football, the more you will discover how many people like and follow it in the US. And btw, there are quite a few good videos on YT explaining the rules of soccer.
The demolition of Brazil is something that seems to have left deep scars and trauma in the Brazilians. What is even more crazy is that Germany was ahead 0-5 before 30 minutes had passed, and the German coach told his team to slow down and stop scoring so much. Otherwise it might have ended 1-15. And what made it more painful was that it was a world cup in Brazil, it was on home soil.
Nice, love the desire to understand and appreciate football. You might want to check out the basics first - how football is played in Europe, as it kinda differs from the way it is done in the US. There is on old vid called - 'understanding European soccer in 4 simple steps' it is gonna lay the foundation. Plus, I am sure people will add important things in the comments. Cheers!
To really appreciate this video you'd have to know the significance of some of these goals - not only are some great goals by themselves, but what they meant in the context of the matches they were played in made them epic. People around the world in every country explode with joy when these things happen, even when its not for their team.
Football (soccer) is more than just sports. It's the crowd, the chanting, the passion of the supporters, the Ultras, the choreos, the smoke, the bengalos
Gotta react to more to understand the game and understand how insane some of these clips are . Obviously with the occasions of some of these games and the history behind them helps to appreciate the clips more . You should watch vids on the rules about the games and you can watch actual games too to understand
The highlights of the famous European Champions League final between Liverpool and AC Milan -- regarded as one of the greatest comebacks ever -- is certainly available on TH-cam.
as a Liverpool fan watching that montage there of the 3-3 comeback in 2005 final was amazing and the 4-3 comeback in 2019 semi final. absolutely amazing
This video is MUCH more impactful, meaningful, and appreciation when you KNOW the goals they scored at the time of the game, importance of the match and the time of their career or the type of matches those goals happened in. Watching great goals is one thing, like Bale's overhead kick goal, but knowing he did it in a European Final is quite another. Or Beckham's Freekick against Greece in the last minute of injury time. Or the Spurs come back goals against Ajax in the CL Semi final, all done in the last few minutes.
As someone who’s only a casual Football fan, the insane thing to me is the cultural significance of the sport. I’m from Denmark, and in 1992, we won the European Cup despite not initially qualifying. Only getting in due to the unfortunate situation in Yugoslavia. This was before I was born, but it’s something that is still brought up pretty often here.
Some of the goalkeeper you see here are legends and the very best - but it’s football sometimes the goal is so beautiful and stunning they just have to stand there frozen and watch, take it in.
The goal where the person was flying in the air and did a header past iker casillas ( top 3 goalkeeper of all time ) was beautiful- some things you cannot stop except watch in awe. It may look and feel humiliating but it’s really not , that’s what so beautiful about the game.
@@eros7953 Yeap, that was Van Persie, of Netherlands and that game was played against Spain, in the 2014 World Cup.(Idk if you do happen to know who scored that, but felt to just share it)
I can give you an approximate answer; In order for one to like football, one must love football more than anything in the world, one is not a simple spectator in a sports show, he is a soldier in a war that has been going on for decades. You have sporting events, we have battles that take place out on a court
The thing with this video is that the plays have more to do with their context than with the actual play or the player ability. That's why maybe some of them looked to you like a "normal" play
This is why soccer (futbol) is called the most beautiful game. The passion. It’s a world wide sport. Reason why it hasn’t broken through (on the rise) in the United States is because there are too many sports. Baseball, football, basketball, hockey, etc. that’s taking most of the attention. If you go outside of the country, soccer is the main sport.
This video really isnt for any first timers to watch basically its a video where all football fans understand and remember the nostalgia and deep meanings of each reel in the video. I put myself in your position and i was like there is no way i would understand anything from.whats going on. I think you should watch videos of football basics or the football championship modes made in each continent to better be familiar with the tournaments, teams, players, formations, to better understand the weight of everything. Also to start off with the familiar players like ronaldo and messi you could watch their videos too to understand how their rivalry and brilliance in football started to this day and why it is a rivalry.
the love for a football club is only rivaled by the love of one’s own family, and even then it’s not a close competition. at 1:59 you can see iniesta in the camp nou, he sat on the pitch until late into the night. he signed a lifetime contract that would only be broken when he was sold to another club, and that’s what happened.
I love your newfound love for European Football, just to clarify. You are also helping me to understand the game more. I went to a school that didn't have a soccer team, nor did any of the local schools. Backwoods Oklahoma...LOL. At 8 minutes and 45 seconds you say that you don't understand the weight of what you just watched. Diego Maradona was a hero to Lionel Messi. Messi completely recreated a goal that Maradona had made during his career. It was a nod to Maradona. Thank you again for what you are doing to help others see the beauty in the game of Football. (sorry guys, NOT the NFL)
i feel like you brought up a very important point - about why football didn't really sink in as an exciting sport in the US. It's just a theory, but the reason may be a lack of exposure to the sport since young. Not that I'd know since i dont live there, but I currently live in Asia, and a good half of us boys have at least played football with our friends during school breaks or whenever, and much less Europe where the football fanbase is the largest. Because of the exposure, we can understand and appreciate the sheer skill, practice, sweat and quite literal blood and tears the professionals put into the sport and these may cause the jarring treatment football is given in between US and the World (Europe in particular). I suppose NBA in the US is the nearest thing football is to Europe
Nah, most American children play Soccer from a very young age, it's just that the expectation for most kids is that they grow out of it and begin to focus on other sports like Football, Baseball, Basketball, Hockey, Wrestling, etc. once they turn 7 or 8 years old. We play it at gym class or on the school grounds during recess, so it just seems like a really simple game. There's also the perception that the men that play Soccer are soft because they are always falling down at the slightest touch, so no boy wants to be labeled as weak. I'm not saying that Soccer players actually are weak, it's just the perception. The expectation is that you should try to fight through the tackle and retain the ball not just go down and win a free kick. Also, another important factor is the type of people who play Soccer. In the rest of the world Soccer is a "working class" sport. That's largely not the case in the United States. If you want the sports played by and supported by the working class, that's Football and Basketball.
I see much more flopping in NBA games than in any football (real football, not hand-egg) match. Flopping in NBA is even considered a skill, with players such as James Harden making a career out of it.
This is my second video ive seen by you and i can tell you genuinely want to try and grasp the understanding of the sport and the meaning behind much of the scenes you are seeing. I appreciate that, so if it is possible, i would love to see a reaction to this when you have some more context re the moments shared. I know it will cause a much deeper and emotional reaction as well appreciation for the game we love. All the best on your channel.
Watching these best moments, I remember them and cried during all the video. It's insane how it's emotional. Your videos shows in my recommendations and I understand you'll watch the world Cup in Qatar. I advise you to watch the football matches with the British commentators or any other European commentators as their passion is coming through you. It's a great moment to share anyway 😭❤️😉
There is nothing that can make me feel the passion and emotion that I do for my club and my country during a 90 minute game. It’s life and death it’s love and hate it’s joy and despair. The only way too describe it is, it’s the beautiful game.
At around 3 minutes you a ask "Who's this guy" that does an insane bicycle kick that's been described as the best of all time by a LOT of greats, is Zlatan Ibrahimovic, commonly just called just Zlatan, A swedish player who's played for a lot of the best clubs, and is still playing for AC Milan, very well i might say, at 41 years old... The maddest thing about this goal is that the game ended 4 - 4. The English were very much favored before the game (It was a friendly), and were expected to win. The English team scored 4 goals. Zlatan scored 4 goals, for the tie. He's one of the greats of the modern era, and a real character. No fear, and absolutely massive, together with a huge ego and the skill to back it up is a good package :D
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The best thing about football (soccer) is that it is truly the world's game. There are literally thousands of professional football clubs, all over the world. The pool of talent is so much greater than that of any American sport. Every team is international. My local team has players from Iceland, Malawi, Egypt, Moldova, Israel, etc. Players are not recruited from college, they are trained in academies since they are just kids. The width of the fan bases, and the depth of the history and culture are immense. The greatest football clubs are not "franchises". They don't have silly names and don't move around. They are founded by railway workers, miners, or schoolboys, 130 years ago. They have deep ties to their local communities and cultural baggage. When Barca plays Real Madrid it is not just two good "teams" going up against each other. It is the ultimate symbol of Catalonian independence going up against the ultimate symbol of monarchy and the capital. When Rangers plays Celtic, it's the Protestants vs. the Catholics. And the sport itself is open to everyone. The bar to play is super low, and there are so many different roles and positions one can play. The perfect combination of tactics, intelligence, creativity, fighting spirit, teamwork, athleticism, ball control, endurance, positional awareness, luck, etc.
It really sucks that you don't know the background of these goals or the stories. It is truly mesmerising, and can bring the most coldhearted man to tears
You can't really get the beauty of football from a short video on youtube(i do appreciate you taking the time) it is passion, it is motion, it is so much in 90min. The best players in tye world are lovely to see, but nothing beats those stories about YOUR club, about YOUR clubs success
Football games have literally started or ended wars between countries. That's how much passion there is in it! American sports are entertainment. Football is a lifestyle, a passion...just life! Every game day, mothers and wives say goodbye to fathers and husbands like we were going to war. Sometimes we come back bruised after a game fight. Sometimes the visiting team needs a police escort to leave the city. PASSION!!!
even when i think u missed some moments and there are lot of moments when you have to know some about what happen there when it's not only the beauty of the goal. But i want to say a big thx for a real reaction. i hate it when ppl are overreact just to get some views. hope you keep that realness in the other videos cause this is not the newest ;) have a nice day
I am spanish, so I live in a "Soccer fever country" but I prefer football, 100% sure. I watch NFL, college and USFL games, I Would watch high school games if could XD Greetigns from a spanish Patriots fan
A video like this isn't designed to show someone unfamiliar with football why it's good. It's for people who already love soccer and are familiar with the moments being shown. The editing style makes that clear. There's a tiny bit of text for the goals etc but you don't have any of the actual context. You'd be better either watching videos with like "best goals" or "best saves" or "best defense" etc or videos concentrating on one story like Leicester winning the Premier League, Liverpool comeback against Barca, that kind of thing.
I read something ages ago explaining that Americans generally prefer high-scoring sports with a degree of predictability in them. Football rarely has high scores, and as a fan you cant “call the plays” the way you can do with US football, there’s no sweep, trap or counter equivalents. This is why football has never quite caught on, because the concept of playing for 90 mins and ending 0-0 just doesn’t fit expectations. I’m intrigued to know if that’s something you agree with. There’s also the TV aspect, it’s not easy to get a US network to broadcast for 45 minutes without an ad break 😅
Boy, in that video there is at least 10 world class legendary goalkeepers... That position is the hardest in football, the goal-frame is 7.32m (8 yards) of width and 2.44 m (8 foot) tall... the goalkeeper must fly...
Its harsd for you to picture the buildup, the tension, the drive and the significance of some of these goals. they came atkey times in key matches and in some cases they won trophies that can only be won once every 4 years after painful grind and determination.
Football is the world's sport. America likes to isolate itself, most americans think that American football is the pinnacle of sport and I can't even think of one American footballers name 🤷🏻♀
I think that football is popular for two reasons. One, the intense highs and lows you get as a supporter or player. Two, you need only a ball to play, which means it’s the sport of the working class.
Watch any video about Argentina and Maradona in the quarter finals of the 1986 World Cup. If you're serious about wanting to learn, then when you learn about the context surrounding THAT game, its meaning to the argentinian people and the look of absolute joy on El Diego's face, you'll begin to understand.
My opinion as to why football isn't as famous in the USA as other sports is because people in the US like their sports to be fun, entertainment and more joy than other things... In Europe and most of the world, football is a passion we live for, many times is not really entertaining maybe because your team isn't doing well or your favourite player is injured, but we're always there next to them. This is a sport also about pride... NBA for example has this unwritten rule of not dunking and doing humiliating stuff while winning by a lot, in football that is not the case, if a team can score 10 goals in the most humiliating way, they will.
All football needs is players and a ball. For most other sports, so much other equipment is needed. This is a sport most can afford to play as kids. Anywhere.
Football, in my experience, has the most passion out of any sport EVER. It has certainly saved my life, gave me a reason to be, as the quote said in the beginning as well. Kobe, whom you immensely more than likely know(may he R.I.P.), absolutely loved football(your soccer). It is much more than just purely "sport"
Fax bro
Well, Kobe grew up in Italy as a kid, so ofc he'd love football. And Italy loved him. May he rest in peace
Football is like gladiator but more thrilling for me
football is life
Its not a sport...is Religion. Respect please.
This video didn't focus much on defenses. If you want to see more defenses I recommend two videos:
- The art of Defending: which shows the defenders stopping the attackers.
- Impossible Saves: shows goalkeepers doing miracles.
He can see the highlights of Brugge x Porto
@@NibanoTransmontano Porto-Brugge was better
and "Manuel Neuer vs. Algeria"
Not many skills either, which are a very artistic part of footie
@@tobyk.4911 Tim Howard vs Belgium, that man was a brick wall for the US
Football is not just a game. It’s a passion. It’s an emotion🥺
Fax
its a Religion
Think it was Bill Shankley who said this, people say that football is a matter of life and death, they're wrong, it's much more
@Trump lost, move on dude, relax, it's a quote from one of the most famous managers, you "nut job"
Its my life, i would not know what would keep my life interesting without football
I think it's really important to understand the context of these goals. What's at stake, the level of skill, etc
Yeah without context it's just a guy kicking a ball
Yeah you cannot feel the tension and intensity all along the game
Yeah, like that Beckham free kick against Greece. It isn’t about the free kick, it’s about the fact we were about to fail to qualify for the World Cup. The goal which came right at the end of the match meant we qualified, it’s hard to overestimate the importance of that goal at that moment.
@@JM-yf3ol that true, and he dosent even know the importance of seeing your contry nacional team play a world cup, that only happens 4 to 4 years, its just the most amazing sports tournament in the history of the world, even bigger than Olympics
FOOTBALL is the biggest popular sport practiced and loved in the WORLD The Yankee version of counterfeit rugby only exists and is consumed in the US, that cheap copy of rugby that never even made it out of the US is so SHIT, how sad and unfortunate
As Footbal fan, it’s sad you don’t recognize the significant of the goals you see. You can only appreciate how some of the goals you see in this video changed our lives and how we feel about this beautiful sport when you know the history.
For quite a few goals, there’s a description beneath which highlights the goal’s importance. It’s a shame he didn’t seem to really look at that.
@@jarmoliebrand2005 I don't think you grasp the importance of certain matches when you simply see "WC Final". You have to know the weight these matches have and what emotional stronghold they hold upon hundreds of millions of people to get that.
@@jarmoliebrand2005 Nah the text doesn't provide enough context for someone unfamiliar with the sport to understand what is going on. In terms of pure, cold facts you can look at see oh that was in the 2000 Euros... but so what? I watched that match live. I remember it. I know the context. He has none of that.
yeah, what was sad was this guy basically didnt seem to even flinch at the goals that were so significant or technically difficult…only the bicycle kicks.
Haha, when it showed Lewandowski’s 5 goals in 9 mins, it was like it went in one ear and out the other…perhaps he was waiting for a bicycle kick 😂
@@siggychaloupka7330 Exactly, he had no clue what he was watching and it showed in the lack of reaction to anything, to be fair if I reacted to American sports it would probably look the same ha ha
This video hits so differently when you know each players and games history. I know every player and watched 90% of the games here that took place after I was born. To me its pure nostalgia, gives me so much joy and makes me tear up. Wish there was someone explaining you the stories behind the goals, so you could understand why everyone was freaking out even at less impressive goals.
Also you pointed out a mayor issue in the world of football real quick. Everyone is focused on the attacking aspect of football, goals get valued much higher than extraordinary defensive work or goalkeeping. The last defender that got awarded the best player of the year was Fabio Canavaro in 2006.
Last and only defender and I think it's a shame
It really makes the video a tough watch. I think the video title mislead him.
@@bensylar1910beckenbaur if that counts
1:20 Pelé's talking
This guy : who's this talking ?
Me watching : 💀
😂
🤦♂my reaction literally 😂
💀 is the perfect reaction to that one
American Football Coach REACTS to “The Beauty of Football” for the FIRST TIME
+1 😂😂😂
@@h0pesfall Bro, anyone knows Pelé. Seriously. It's the only thing people know.
Context is most of what makes many of these highlights incredible. That Agüero goal for Man City against QPR is one of the most special things in football history. Or the incredible comebacks Liverpool has made in the Champions League. Greece and Portugal winning the Euros 2004 and 2016 are also pretty special, despite neither team playing great football throughout the competitions they've won.
7-1 was a holy shit. I'm brazilian and when our team lose that kind of way... it was a disaster in our history. we will never, ever forget.
You can never forget the victories and world cup titles either . It was only one game Brazil will forever be respected 💪
As a German, it was incredible, and we had to pinch ourselves.. sure, there are assholes, but it was more surreal than a celebration for me, no one could believe what happened, sure we were happy to get to the but with that sort of game?
😄Oh yes, that was a very nice evening. 🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍸
It was a bizarre evening. As a German, the first goal was a relief, the second goal was a lot of peace of mind, the third goal was pure euphoria and starting with the fourth goal it was beginning to feel very surreal and almost uncomfortable, I felt horrible for Brazil and their fans.
I almost passed out when I seen the score
Would love to see you react to football fans from europe and south america! The passion in this sport unmatched!
Hello Luke.Thanks for your reaction. I have just commenced my 7th decade attending London football matches.
The point about those Argentinian goals by Messi and Maradona was that they were decades apart but almost identical. Greece won @150/1 The European Football Tournament for Countries but Leicester won The World's greatest League( The English Premier in 2015) after 38 games of odds of FIVE THOUSAND TO ONE..😀
"Ultras-Our Way Of Life-10,000 Subscribers" or The World or Europe's Greatest Chants" are well worth seeing to begin to capture the atmosphere,my friend..
I think to understand why the Messi-maradona goals were significant you have to understand that Messi is being touted, even at this young age, to be the next best player in the world, and especially to be ‘Maradona’s heir’ to the throne of the Argentinian NT, and scoring that goal shows that he’s capable of taking up that mantle in a rather poetic fashion
There are monster goalkeepers 😂😂😂 sometimes playing against them is the most annoying thing in the world.
Factsssss
Like Peter Schmeichel. The blueprint for the modern goalie!
The beauty of soccer is difficult to explain. As a fellow American, I can say that I absolutely fell in love with the sport in 1994 when I was twelve. The World Cup was on in the United States and I never knew boys could play the sport, let alone seeing the best players in the world as I was at the time. Watching the beauty of the sport was absolutely captivating. Some Americans made fun of the low-scoring affair, calling it boring. While I could empathize with their position, what I saw was something that was immensely difficult. To me, while I love basketball, it’s way more boring than soccer since they score most times going down the court. Top that with the fact that you can’t use your hands, so to have the grace, the skill, and the raw athleticism to be able to manipulate a ball using your feet. I don’t know, man, it’s just awe inspiring. Couple that with the fact that you can have immensely different styles of play, not necessarily unlike American football, basketball, or even baseball. You have teams that pass and pass and pass and find your weaknesses little by little until they find a seam, e.g. Spain with their Tiki-Taka. You have individual flair, e.g. Brazil. You have solid fundamentals and strict adherence to a system with precision, e.g. Germany. Then you have the raw guts of the Americans, Canadians, and Mexicans.
It really is just a beautiful, beautiful game.
nice and complete comment man. Glad to see americans are starting to appreciate the actual football :)
There is NO sport in the WORLD or in any LANGUAGE of the WORLD called "soccer"
@Trump lost, move on Football *
@@maxropercalvo6132 Dude STFU. It's called soccer in the US, that's what most of them know it as. Understand this instead of copying and pasting the same stupid ass comment under every post.
@Trump lost, move on
⚽FOOTBALL⚽
The reason the announcers were so excited in those bits were you were like "I don't know why it was that impressive" were because they were very important goals in a championship game, it would be like a player getting an amazing final touch down in the last minutes of a match to win in a final of a tournament. Also they were just very skilled goals too.
Bro doesn't know how emotional these goals are, I do as a Belgium who plays football
To understand the impact of each goal in these compilations you have to get a little backstory behind each one of them. It's insane the scenario through which these goals came. Just rewatching these goals here gave me goosebumps, and these announcers (we call them commentators) they don't scream for no reason.
The man talking in the beginning is the best player in the history of the sport..also the youngest to ever win a world cup he was 16 and won Brazil they first cup..he changed the game..
PELE... The best of them all.
Football is "life". All the world plays the game, from England, to Angola, to Spain, to New Zealand, to India, to Russia, to Israel, Iran to Italy etc. Its the biggest sport in the world.
And me being an avid football fan I thought I would explain the set up of our league and competitions. Unlike America we dont just have our national league, we can play other teams around the world.
Literally every country has a league. The Biggest tho are England, Spain, Italy and Germany, but you get massive clubs in Brazil and Argentina.
In England the league consists of 4 Divisions. Been around for 160 years and the FA Cup (explain later) is the oldest domestic sporting event in the world.
As I said we have 4 divisions (we call them leagues now, but up till the 90s and the influx of major TV rights, this was changed to Leagues).
You have the Premier League (formerly Division one), which has 20 teams, each playing a home and away game. The winners after 38 matches are English Champions. The top 4 teams qualify for the European Champions League, and 5th place (maybe 6th or 7th depends on who wins the League Cup or FA cup) go into the Europa League.
The bottom 3 get relegated to the Championship (2nd Tier of English Football and Formerly Division 2)
The Championship have more teams 24 Teams and the Top 2 get promoted to the Premier League and 3rd to 6th play a knock out, and the winner the final gets promoted also to the Premiership. This is called the Play Offs and the Championship Playoff is the biggest monetary prize in sport for the winning team. This is due to revenue (as the game is played at the National stadium Wembley), TV rights, Sponsorship rights and also prize money itself. The bottom 3 get relegated to League one
Then you have League one (formerly Division 3) and League two (formerly Division 4). This is same set up as the Championship, the top 2 get promoted, i.e League 1 top 2 go into the Championship and League 2 top two go into League 1. Same play offs to get into the above league and same relegation, but less prize money obviously.
As League 2 is the lowest of professional Leagues, bottom 2 go into the Conference which is not sponsored by the League itself, and 2 from the Conference get promoted. Which for you Americans is Wrexham this year who is owned by Ryan Reynolds.
There a numerous leagues that are not professional that interlink for promotion and relegation.
During the season you also have 2 Domestic cups.
The league cup which is a knockout competition for only the teams in the top 4 leagues (Premier league to League 2), and then the FA cup which literally every football team can participate. From Sunday leagues up wards. Usually have over 700 teams competing in KO rules. Obviously all non Leagues start off and this get dwindles down till they play teams in the league that are not in the Premier League (Championship to League two) which when they enter becomes the 1st round of the FA cup. Then in the 3rd round the Premiership teams enter the draw for the round.
Some teams you never hear off as play amateur football have the chance of playing the big teams like Man U, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, Man City, if they are lucky and this has happened numerous times in the past. Obviously the big teams win but the TV rights and revenue are massive for these small clubs. And the whole country roots (unless you support them) for the lower teams to do a shock. Which has also happened.
The cups are only English Teams allowed bar a few Welsh teams. No Scottish or Irish or any other country allowed, so the 700 odd teams that compete are just teams in England (and Wales). Scotland have their own league and cup competitions. i..e the Scottish FA Cup and Leagues for Scottish Teams. (same set up but less clubs, and have relegation, promotion)
The winners of the 2 cups go into the Europa League. If the winners get into the Champions League or Europa League due to finishing in the Top 5 of the Premiership, teams finishing 6th or 7th get into Europa.
Also while the season is on certain clubs play European cups (as mentioned above). The Champions League is the biggest, all The big clubs who won their countries league or finished between top 2 and top 4 (Each country have different amount of teams allowed due to League positions. The top country leagues get 4, where as the smaller countries may get 1 or 2).
Basically they are structured like the World Cup. Groups of 4 teams play home and away and the top 2 go into a KO (home and away). The Europa League is the same structure, but some teams finishing 3rd in their group in the Champions League will go into a play off with those finishing in 2nd in the Europa Groups, to play in the Europa League Knock out.
The winner of the Champions League become champions of Europe, the winners of the Europa League just win that but its the 2nd Biggest European trophy, but do get automatically entered into the Champions League regardless of where they finished in their own countries league for the nest season.
For some teams they can play 3 times in 6 days throughout the season. The season starts August and is played till May. We even play over Christmas with boxing day (a ban holiday in the UK for the 26th December) being the biggest day of Football as its a bank holiday and pubs and grounds are filled up to watch games. Plus its the biggest day for TV rights as due to christmas literally the whole world tunes into games shown for the Premier League, especially in countries that do not follow Christmas, like China, Middle East etc. The English Premier League is the most watched Football league in the world, possibly only Spanish La Liga coming anywhere near its popularity.
The following season the winners of the Champions league will play the winners of certain continents that have a similar set up So they will play the winners of Oceanic (Australia, New Zealand etc), South America (Brazil, Argentina etc) and the winners of the African trophy (teams from Nigeria etc playing each other). Thats called the Club World cup. Its not really that popular as only usually 4 teams play and its a KO.
Then you have the National Team. Players can play in any country, but will still (if good enough) represent their national team.
Like Ronaldo played in England and Spain but plays for his country Portugal.
The National team have 2 trophies.
The big one is the World cup. This starts with the qualifiers, these consists of all countries in their continents playing each other in group stages and the winners and 2nd placed go into the World cup itself. And I assume you understand the world cup structure.
Then you have your Continent trophy. In Europe its called the European Cup. Africa it called the African Cup of Nations etc.
The qualifiers of both are played throughout a league season, but the top leagues suspend games on the weekends for those weeks. So you may have 4-5 weeks in a season disrupted for the qualifiers.
Hope you followed that. I am an Arsenal fan, we've been around since 1888. The 3rd most successful team in England, FA Cup 14 times (record for most FA cup wins), League cup twice and 2 European trophies that were merged into the Europa League set up. (I would be here all day explaining the previous European Cups set up). Its a London team and the player in the clip Bergkamp who you saw flicking the ball and twisting round the player is hi playing for us, and the left foot to right foot lobbing the defender to score, was him playing for his country Holland. He also did exact same goal for us that season. He is probably the 2nd or 1st greatest player we had at Arsenal. Thierry Henry (who you may know as he retired to play in the US) is probably our greatest ever player. But this season we have a few young kids that are ripping up the league, in SAKA, young Black English kid who missed a penalty for England in the European Final and git racial abuse, idiots, but he captured the nation still who rallied to defend him and kick out the racists on line. And our Captain Odegaard, Danish player but amazing.
I feel it is very fitting that the video starts with a quote from Bill Shankly. Liverpools history as a club is a great one. Legendary managers, players and supporters. YNWA
As a Liverpool fan myself, it's definitely one of the best.
Another favourite of mine is -
"Of all unimportant things, football is by far, the most important" - Pope John Paul II
Absolutely correct. Side note, how great to see that goal from Gini.
I really like the fact that you appreciate football(or soccer as you guys might call it). You have no idea how big this sport is outside of the states. The entire world watches it, except the us.
There is NO sport in the WORLD or in any LANGUAGE of the WORLD called "soccer"
@@maxropercalvo6132 Well there isn't a single sport whose official name is called Football either.
MLS is growing FAST it’s definitely on its way especially with Millennials and everyone younger. 2010 World Cup in Africa made me a fan for life.
Dude! This video is full of incredible importan moments and players in football. For those who have been following this sport for years, we got the chills with this!
Every second of that video iconic, it's brings back the memories, drive, shock off the moment we all witness that,some stuff will became legendary after a while, I was just a kid and was asking my father how that bald dude outplaying entire Brazil team, he replied I don't know, never seen anything like that, in that moment it didn't felt huge but now it does.
"who is that talking?" 😂
You've come so far Luke, keep going in your journey
You need read action subtitle for understand the beauty of this game
this video hits so much different when you understand the context and significance of the goals/matches.
True
That Messi goal was so impressive because he manages to play through all those players without loosing possession earning it a spot as one of the best goals ever
There are two videos I recommend for you to watch, you should give a go to “understanding European soccer in four simple steps” and afterwards definitely watch “(European) soccer explained for Americans” to get a more in-depth understanding of the concepts you learn in the first one. This second video I feel is very helpful and I don’t really see content creators new to the sport watch it that often. From what I remember neither of both gives you a full explanation of the rules though.
That 'little spin move' by Bergkamp is unmatched to this very day. It's not a standard move like in basketball but that difficult to exercise that only a few geniuses would even THINK about trying it, let alone succeeding. One of the all-time great goals
Lol. He says he didn't really think about doing it, it just happened in the heat of the moment. Lol.
This is a compilation of iconic moments, beautiful goals and dribbles. There's World Cup finals, the first time some teams won a particularly difficult trophy to win, e.g European Champions League. Then there's football legends like Mardona, Pele.
Its painful to watch this video bcoz you just can't relate if you don't understand the occasion.
Dude is watching this, unfazed, not knowing how hard some of these highlights are to do on a football pitch.
Me: watching Lewandowski score 5 goals in five minutes.
Him: not giving a piece of s**t
These are iconic moments, you have to know the background to appreciate it.
I'm English, and I watch both our football and American football. But I will forever prefer association football. The bicycle kick, an absolute art. When Ronaldo is in the blue, his bicycle kick vs Juventus, look how high he jumped. The Champions League is the 2nd biggest trophy in football. And that Tottenham comeback we saw with Lucas Moura, and that Liverpool one where you mentioned the crowds, we're in the same week. To reach the Champions League final. The biggest club competition in the game.
I appreciated the fact that you wanted to see defensive plays. Most people just want to see goal soring.
If you knew the background of the games you saw you would’ve been even more impressed, some clips are from world cups or champions league games with so much history and passion. It’s really difficult to describe such a big feeling.
Sometimes 11 players carry the burdens of hope, passions and dreams of an entire nation and country. The collective euphoria of victory or agony of defeat is shared and felt by all. The scale of it all is truly amazing to witness. Despite its relative simplicity. Football or soccer is really hard to get good at. That's why moments of pure brilliance in football is so treasured. It's a magical experience that's hard to come by for both the competitor and spectator.
I'm french and I can say i got chills seeing this video
He just pointed out the biggest problem in football.
Appreciation for defenders.
React to Lionel Messi the world's greatest 3rd edition please 🙌🏻❤
The context of all these moments is what makes them legendary.
For most of these moments it would require some time to explain the importance and what makes them extraordinary.
Because some of those goals look great but it's the context. For example scoring a great goal is nice but it happens all the time by chance. However you recognize the immense talent of some of these players because they consistently produce these incredible gestures when the stakes are at their highest (derbies, cup games, world cups...)
This video also makes me realize how much stuff I know about football (which is why many of these goals make me emotional: the history of the teams, of the players, of the completions, of the games...).
This explains the passion in the commenters voices
Every single time I come across this “the beauty of football” video I get emotional. No matter what. And when the principe become the king of the bernabeu I crack bad. I love football
Baseball. Basketball. American football. Hockey.
Your big four. Far too much money involved in those for football to make any real headway. Amongst other reasons, but that initial statement doesn't help.
if you have no connection to a team it means nothing. The moment you have a team... you are hooked.
"In America we don't follow soccer" first of all lots of people all over north and south America follow soccer. Second, in the USA lots of people do follow soccer. You might not but lots do
That goal from Charisteas sent the country to heaven and back. And not just Greece, but many other underdog countries were rooting for the Greeks to win the whole thing! 🥳
And in my country it sent us to hell…
I would say that soccer has become very popular in the US, with many, many people - compared to even 20 years ago. Literally everywhere I go, there are many people playing it, and following it, and watching it. And almost every other state has a big team, with a big fan base - see Georgia, Texas etc. - ie states you would not think of. I think that the more you will learn about football, the more you will discover how many people like and follow it in the US.
And btw, there are quite a few good videos on YT explaining the rules of soccer.
The demolition of Brazil is something that seems to have left deep scars and trauma in the Brazilians. What is even more crazy is that Germany was ahead 0-5 before 30 minutes had passed, and the German coach told his team to slow down and stop scoring so much. Otherwise it might have ended 1-15. And what made it more painful was that it was a world cup in Brazil, it was on home soil.
Nice, love the desire to understand and appreciate football. You might want to check out the basics first - how football is played in Europe, as it kinda differs from the way it is done in the US.
There is on old vid called - 'understanding European soccer in 4 simple steps' it is gonna lay the foundation. Plus, I am sure people will add important things in the comments.
Cheers!
Search for "a clueless guide for Americans to football"
To really appreciate this video you'd have to know the significance of some of these goals - not only are some great goals by themselves, but what they meant in the context of the matches they were played in made them epic. People around the world in every country explode with joy when these things happen, even when its not for their team.
Football (soccer) is more than just sports. It's the crowd, the chanting, the passion of the supporters, the Ultras, the choreos, the smoke, the bengalos
😀Glad to see an American, is becoming one of us(a football fan).
Gotta react to more to understand the game and understand how insane some of these clips are . Obviously with the occasions of some of these games and the history behind them helps to appreciate the clips more . You should watch vids on the rules about the games and you can watch actual games too to understand
The highlights of the famous European Champions League final between Liverpool and AC Milan -- regarded as one of the greatest comebacks ever -- is certainly available on TH-cam.
as a Liverpool fan watching that montage there of the 3-3 comeback in 2005 final was amazing and the 4-3 comeback in 2019 semi final. absolutely amazing
This video is MUCH more impactful, meaningful, and appreciation when you KNOW the goals they scored at the time of the game, importance of the match and the time of their career or the type of matches those goals happened in. Watching great goals is one thing, like Bale's overhead kick goal, but knowing he did it in a European Final is quite another. Or Beckham's Freekick against Greece in the last minute of injury time. Or the Spurs come back goals against Ajax in the CL Semi final, all done in the last few minutes.
As someone who’s only a casual Football fan, the insane thing to me is the cultural significance of the sport.
I’m from Denmark, and in 1992, we won the European Cup despite not initially qualifying. Only getting in due to the unfortunate situation in Yugoslavia.
This was before I was born, but it’s something that is still brought up pretty often here.
Or the 2004 Greek team and even now we still don't believe we won the whole thing especially how bad we have been the past 8 years.
Some of these goals changed peoples lives the emotion behind these moments it’s raw
Some of the goalkeeper you see here are legends and the very best - but it’s football sometimes the goal is so beautiful and stunning they just have to stand there frozen and watch, take it in.
The goal where the person was flying in the air and did a header past iker casillas ( top 3 goalkeeper of all time ) was beautiful- some things you cannot stop except watch in awe. It may look and feel humiliating but it’s really not , that’s what so beautiful about the game.
@@eros7953 Yeap, that was Van Persie, of Netherlands and that game was played against Spain, in the 2014 World Cup.(Idk if you do happen to know who scored that, but felt to just share it)
@@psh10gamer6 yes I did know but I put flying person cause I doubt he would know van persie-
I can give you an approximate answer; In order for one to like football, one must love football more than anything in the world, one is not a simple spectator in a sports show, he is a soldier in a war that has been going on for decades. You have sporting events, we have battles that take place out on a court
Some clips made me cry AGAIN
Me too man, me too
The thing with this video is that the plays have more to do with their context than with the actual play or the player ability. That's why maybe some of them looked to you like a "normal" play
As a Liverpool fan I can confirm that Liverpool comeback had me in tears, brilliant stuff
This is why soccer (futbol) is called the most beautiful game. The passion. It’s a world wide sport. Reason why it hasn’t broken through (on the rise) in the United States is because there are too many sports. Baseball, football, basketball, hockey, etc. that’s taking most of the attention. If you go outside of the country, soccer is the main sport.
This video really isnt for any first timers to watch basically its a video where all football fans understand and remember the nostalgia and deep meanings of each reel in the video. I put myself in your position and i was like there is no way i would understand anything from.whats going on. I think you should watch videos of football basics or the football championship modes made in each continent to better be familiar with the tournaments, teams, players, formations, to better understand the weight of everything. Also to start off with the familiar players like ronaldo and messi you could watch their videos too to understand how their rivalry and brilliance in football started to this day and why it is a rivalry.
the love for a football club is only rivaled by the love of one’s own family, and even then it’s not a close competition. at 1:59 you can see iniesta in the camp nou, he sat on the pitch until late into the night. he signed a lifetime contract that would only be broken when he was sold to another club, and that’s what happened.
for us, who followed the game our entire life, this brings a lot of memories good or bad
That bill shankley quote was the quote I chose for my senior yearbook in high school
You have to Watch Messi the goat
I love your newfound love for European Football, just to clarify. You are also helping me to understand the game more. I went to a school that didn't have a soccer team, nor did any of the local schools. Backwoods Oklahoma...LOL. At 8 minutes and 45 seconds you say that you don't understand the weight of what you just watched. Diego Maradona was a hero to Lionel Messi. Messi completely recreated a goal that Maradona had made during his career. It was a nod to Maradona. Thank you again for what you are doing to help others see the beauty in the game of Football. (sorry guys, NOT the NFL)
i feel like you brought up a very important point - about why football didn't really sink in as an exciting sport in the US. It's just a theory, but the reason may be a lack of exposure to the sport since young. Not that I'd know since i dont live there, but I currently live in Asia, and a good half of us boys have at least played football with our friends during school breaks or whenever, and much less Europe where the football fanbase is the largest.
Because of the exposure, we can understand and appreciate the sheer skill, practice, sweat and quite literal blood and tears the professionals put into the sport and these may cause the jarring treatment football is given in between US and the World (Europe in particular). I suppose NBA in the US is the nearest thing football is to Europe
Nah, most American children play Soccer from a very young age, it's just that the expectation for most kids is that they grow out of it and begin to focus on other sports like Football, Baseball, Basketball, Hockey, Wrestling, etc. once they turn 7 or 8 years old. We play it at gym class or on the school grounds during recess, so it just seems like a really simple game. There's also the perception that the men that play Soccer are soft because they are always falling down at the slightest touch, so no boy wants to be labeled as weak. I'm not saying that Soccer players actually are weak, it's just the perception. The expectation is that you should try to fight through the tackle and retain the ball not just go down and win a free kick.
Also, another important factor is the type of people who play Soccer. In the rest of the world Soccer is a "working class" sport. That's largely not the case in the United States. If you want the sports played by and supported by the working class, that's Football and Basketball.
I see much more flopping in NBA games than in any football (real football, not hand-egg) match. Flopping in NBA is even considered a skill, with players such as James Harden making a career out of it.
Thanks,The best analysis till now about Soccer/ Football. And... the next WC is in the US
This is my second video ive seen by you and i can tell you genuinely want to try and grasp the understanding of the sport and the meaning behind much of the scenes you are seeing. I appreciate that, so if it is possible, i would love to see a reaction to this when you have some more context re the moments shared. I know it will cause a much deeper and emotional reaction as well appreciation for the game we love. All the best on your channel.
This was my thought too. A little introduction to the game, teams and context would have made a great difference.
Bro just saw Roberto Carlos' freekick and didnt even care like damn that broke physics and my mans doesnt care.
Watching these best moments, I remember them and cried during all the video. It's insane how it's emotional.
Your videos shows in my recommendations and I understand you'll watch the world Cup in Qatar. I advise you to watch the football matches with the British commentators or any other European commentators as their passion is coming through you. It's a great moment to share anyway 😭❤️😉
There is nothing that can make me feel the passion and emotion that I do for my club and my country during a 90 minute game. It’s life and death it’s love and hate it’s joy and despair. The only way too describe it is, it’s the beautiful game.
At around 3 minutes you a ask "Who's this guy" that does an insane bicycle kick that's been described as the best of all time by a LOT of greats, is Zlatan Ibrahimovic, commonly just called just Zlatan, A swedish player who's played for a lot of the best clubs, and is still playing for AC Milan, very well i might say, at 41 years old...
The maddest thing about this goal is that the game ended 4 - 4. The English were very much favored before the game (It was a friendly), and were expected to win. The English team scored 4 goals. Zlatan scored 4 goals, for the tie.
He's one of the greats of the modern era, and a real character. No fear, and absolutely massive, together with a huge ego and the skill to back it up is a good package :D
If you look up "The art of defending" you'll find good defense videos and there are tons of goalkeeping videos everywhere
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The best thing about football (soccer) is that it is truly the world's game. There are literally thousands of professional football clubs, all over the world. The pool of talent is so much greater than that of any American sport. Every team is international. My local team has players from Iceland, Malawi, Egypt, Moldova, Israel, etc. Players are not recruited from college, they are trained in academies since they are just kids. The width of the fan bases, and the depth of the history and culture are immense. The greatest football clubs are not "franchises". They don't have silly names and don't move around. They are founded by railway workers, miners, or schoolboys, 130 years ago. They have deep ties to their local communities and cultural baggage. When Barca plays Real Madrid it is not just two good "teams" going up against each other. It is the ultimate symbol of Catalonian independence going up against the ultimate symbol of monarchy and the capital. When Rangers plays Celtic, it's the Protestants vs. the Catholics. And the sport itself is open to everyone. The bar to play is super low, and there are so many different roles and positions one can play. The perfect combination of tactics, intelligence, creativity, fighting spirit, teamwork, athleticism, ball control, endurance, positional awareness, luck, etc.
It really sucks that you don't know the background of these goals or the stories. It is truly mesmerising, and can bring the most coldhearted man to tears
You can't really get the beauty of football from a short video on youtube(i do appreciate you taking the time) it is passion, it is motion, it is so much in 90min. The best players in tye world are lovely to see, but nothing beats those stories about YOUR club, about YOUR clubs success
I really hope DEEENEYYYYY is on this watch. Greatest football moment after ive seen live, tied with Aguero
Football games have literally started or ended wars between countries. That's how much passion there is in it! American sports are entertainment. Football is a lifestyle, a passion...just life! Every game day, mothers and wives say goodbye to fathers and husbands like we were going to war. Sometimes we come back bruised after a game fight. Sometimes the visiting team needs a police escort to leave the city. PASSION!!!
even when i think u missed some moments and there are lot of moments when you have to know some about what happen there when it's not only the beauty of the goal. But i want to say a big thx for a real reaction. i hate it when ppl are overreact just to get some views. hope you keep that realness in the other videos cause this is not the newest ;) have a nice day
I am spanish, so I live in a "Soccer fever country" but I prefer football, 100% sure. I watch NFL, college and USFL games, I Would watch high school games if could XD
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A video like this isn't designed to show someone unfamiliar with football why it's good. It's for people who already love soccer and are familiar with the moments being shown. The editing style makes that clear. There's a tiny bit of text for the goals etc but you don't have any of the actual context. You'd be better either watching videos with like "best goals" or "best saves" or "best defense" etc or videos concentrating on one story like Leicester winning the Premier League, Liverpool comeback against Barca, that kind of thing.
I read something ages ago explaining that Americans generally prefer high-scoring sports with a degree of predictability in them. Football rarely has high scores, and as a fan you cant “call the plays” the way you can do with US football, there’s no sweep, trap or counter equivalents. This is why football has never quite caught on, because the concept of playing for 90 mins and ending 0-0 just doesn’t fit expectations. I’m intrigued to know if that’s something you agree with.
There’s also the TV aspect, it’s not easy to get a US network to broadcast for 45 minutes without an ad break 😅
Football, if you are not watching the knock-out stage of the World Cup, is really fascinating and enjoying.
Football the only sport that stopped wars
And start Wars ironically
@@Alexm0321 yeah hahahahahh well minor wars 👀 not so bad
In Europe we call "American Football" - Hand Egg Ball
Boy, in that video there is at least 10 world class legendary goalkeepers... That position is the hardest in football, the goal-frame is 7.32m (8 yards) of width and 2.44 m (8 foot) tall... the goalkeeper must fly...
You can't continue living your life without watching the Highlights of Ronaldinho. SERIOUSLY.
Its harsd for you to picture the buildup, the tension, the drive and the significance of some of these goals. they came atkey times in key matches and in some cases they won trophies that can only be won once every 4 years after painful grind and determination.
Football is the world's sport. America likes to isolate itself, most americans think that American football is the pinnacle of sport and I can't even think of one American footballers name 🤷🏻♀
I think that football is popular for two reasons. One, the intense highs and lows you get as a supporter or player. Two, you need only a ball to play, which means it’s the sport of the working class.
Watch any video about Argentina and Maradona in the quarter finals of the 1986 World Cup.
If you're serious about wanting to learn, then when you learn about the context surrounding THAT game, its meaning to the argentinian people and the look of absolute joy on El Diego's face, you'll begin to understand.
My opinion as to why football isn't as famous in the USA as other sports is because people in the US like their sports to be fun, entertainment and more joy than other things... In Europe and most of the world, football is a passion we live for, many times is not really entertaining maybe because your team isn't doing well or your favourite player is injured, but we're always there next to them. This is a sport also about pride... NBA for example has this unwritten rule of not dunking and doing humiliating stuff while winning by a lot, in football that is not the case, if a team can score 10 goals in the most humiliating way, they will.
This is the football we love ❤ hala madrid 🔥🔥🇪🇸
Each goal in this video has so much effects.. I have cried in nine games in this video. Every goal has its weight...
All football needs is players and a ball. For most other sports, so much other equipment is needed. This is a sport most can afford to play as kids. Anywhere.