And the Final of Copa America this year proved that. The Americans who host the Final in Miami organized a 25 minutes long half time show with Shakira, violating the FIFA rules and making angry a lot of people, primarily footballers and coaches (and the idea of a Colombian singing in the Half Time of Colombia-Argentina is really excellent, chapeau). Germans try the halftime show in 2017 during the final of DFB-Pokal, the results was 75k people booeing the singer. The US organization of the Copa America was a disaster. Let's hope the Americans have taken notes for the next World Cup.
Super what 👀?? Let me paint you a picture … 1 - If the Super Bowl was cancelled one year, no one (and I mean no one) outside the US would care. 2 - When the highlight of your sport is ‘the halftime’ entertainment - that says a lot about that sporting event.
This is why americans are brainwashed by the halftime commercials that are highly obese and unhealthy by their own aggressive ads within their own country.
If I go to a gig, I'm there for the music. If they stopped the gig half way through to play a quick game of some team sport, I'd be seriously pissed off.
it's actually hard to find apples to apples comparisons because 200m people watched at least part of the last superbowl but the avg concurrent viewers was 123m so there are different numbers floating around but I wouldn't be surprised at all if Eurovision had more viewers! (I also wouldn't care, I don't even follow American football lol)
This video shows how "Americans" lives is a fucking bubble! Only 200M people watching and they really think Super Bowl is a thing... hahahahaah BTW, the name of the sport is FOOTBALL, not soccer! Call it right and give your "Rugby" another name, please...
So yeah, the Real Madrid vs Barcelona game alone has more views than the superbowl final. I see allot of "Its a international trophy against a national one" excuse. A league game, alone, not a final, not a intercontinental or international game, just a regular league game againsta Barcelona vs Real Madrid has more viewers than the Superbowl
The World Cup is so big, that if you simply walk down any central street of any relatively big city in almost any part of the world outside the US you will always have a TV broadcasting a game in sight.
In England, you rarely see English flags 🏴 flying (you don’t often see the Union flag 🇬🇧 flying either). In fact, the flag of St George 🏴 (English flag) is kind of seen as a nationalist, anti-immigration thing (the closest thing you would have in America is flying the confederate flag, even though it’s not the same thing). And yet, during the World Cup (and the Euros), particularly if England are doing well, and have reached the knockout stages, you see English flags flying _everywhere;_ outside pubs, shops, houses, even flying from cars. It is, without doubt, the closest thing to a show of national unity we have in this country. And of course, the other British nations, Wales 🏴 and Scotland 🏴 (Northern Ireland is part of the UK, but not Great Britain), will support anyone _but_ England! If anyone is wondering about The relationship between the different nations of the United Kingdom, the closest thing I can liken it to is a familial rivalry. Sure, you might criticise your sibling, but God help anyone else who criticises them (for the most part). How dare you make fun of them…that’s our job!
@@TPRM1 Same in Germany. Flying the flag in private, ouside of "before official buildings" or "at international events" is simply not done unless you want to be seen as quite right-leaning. But during the Euros, world cup and a bit during the Olympics they come out in every form. I liked the covers for side mirrors that you see more and more.
@@TPRM1most people will support anyone but England, not only Wales and Scotland. That team and its fans are doing everything to be the most hated team.
One of the things that is different in Association Football/soccer compared to American Football, is that much fewer goals are scored during a game, the average is between two and three. This makes every goal more important and it is common to hear people jeering loud enough outdoors (or through open windows) that you can hear it all over town. This usually relies on immigrant communities but during the last few games, many people might pick a favourite even if their national team isn’t in the game anymore.
and even though during the supercup you will see it played in any sportsbar as well ,but thats true to any larger soccergames as well , what impressed me most during WM/EM are the puplic viewing , on the large screens , and volks flocking up in the streats like a concert or such
The name “World Cup” explains everything. It is a global event. The Superbowl is only watched by Americans or people who used to live in America (like me) because only people like us understand the “football” game that is played with hands.
These Americans who watch NFL football Don't know that the actual game they playing is a cheap knock off or rip off of rugby Bring a rugby player against an entire NFL team n they done NFL is a lot less bloody n brutal than rugby So yeah y'all would be done
@@3XC4LIBURR Funny enough, the NFL is one of the few major sports organisation in the world that hasn't signed the World Anti Doping Agency code.. Meaning American Football players are juiced to the gills and they're not even really trying to hide it
Same as they have world series baseball, but only Americans play. 😅. Football is watched the world over. American football is like rugby but players only play for like 11 minutes not 90!!
American Football refers to the "football" originally from the United States. European Football is a misnomer therefore, as it refers to English Football, originally from England.
@estebanmontero7179 The reference is to the _origin_ of the style of football. Isn't "American" football also played in Australia, Germany and Argentina? So you want global football and global American football? That's just silly. In reality American football is a dumb name in any case.... it isn't played with ones 'foot'and technically it isn't played with a 'ball'.
@@garyt123 they had no shame, a sports in fact that entire game using their hand than foot and called it Football 😂 , it would be perfect if we called it HandEgg 😂
I don't really like football but the "halftime show" is just a concept that does not work in world football. Most people use that time to pee, do small tasks that can't wait, relax a bit after 45 minutes of tension, etc. Nobody cares about what is on TV in those 15 minutes.
Nothing unusual coz they even start education from a geographic map with the US in the center of the world and halves of cut Eurasia on the sides. Many countries making their world's maps with them in the center, but no one but the US is cutting other continents on a geographic map. Being THE MAIN means more, than teaching kids proper geography.
Americans wont consider themselves part of the World as long as their military makes sure not even a ballon can intercept into their country. I really beleive to most of Americans the rest of us may as well be living on the moon.
@@LeperMessiah2it's the Calimero-syndrom, which a large par tof the rest of the world suffers from when comparing themselves with the US. Saying this as a Dutcman and thus European. Most Europeans are quite cocky but like to tell themselves it's Americans that are the cocky ones, which some might be, but it's mostly ignorance rather then arrogance imo.
It is estimated that 500 million people around the world watch the Grand National, that's a horse race here in England, and if those figures are correct, that makes it about twice as popular as The Superbowl.
And European Football Championship 😊 On a side note, no one even cares about FIFA women’s World Cup (or whatever they call it) and not many wouldn’t care even if the USA would’ve win it continuously for a century 😂. So, yeah. Sorry team USA.
@@darrylbrookes2780, I think it's technically at every Euro's or WC, but the TV channels know we don't want to see it so don't really bother showing it.
@@Ejadopatra Omg.... Less about the actual event and more about the break entertainment!! 😁 It's just like Eurovision!!! 😅 (Most of us watch it because of the clowns/trolls and the break entertainment!
Yes, Ryan, the world doesn't revolve around America. At least you and others in the states are learning about this. I've tried three or four times to watch NFL After half an hour i gave up.
A kid in the middle of nowhere in Africa probably knows Real Madrid and Cristiano Ronaldo. But if you ask them about the Dallas Cowboys, they'll probably ask, "Is that Samuel L. Jackson's latest movie?"
Yep. I can attest to that. I'm Namibian, and I can go to a village anywhere in Africa and they will know who Sadio Mane is, who Christiano Ronaldo is and who Messi played for- even who John Terry is and who he played for. They'll know what the Champions League is, La Liga, the Bundes, Premier League, etc.. Ask them about the Super Bowl, and they'd expect you to talk about food.
I'm Zimbabwean, at the age of 5 I knew about not only the premiere league but the world cup... Didn't even know about football till some years later after I moved to the UK
An American commentator tackled this one. Of it being the World Series but its only Americans. She argues that the USA has the best players in the world and if any other team in the world showed up to the Series they would be beaten and beaten hard. Makes sense but you need to have the games to prove that. The same could be said for the USA footbal team. No one took them seriously then year by year they get better. Just call it the American Series.
i got invited to a Philadelphia Eagles game..... i refused, because i only would watch the cheerleaders....because i dont know anything about the game and would get bored in a few minutes... i played Handball and of course, Football.....never watched Baseball, American Football, ice hockey and Basketball.... the 1st league American Football team in the city close by have around 4500 audience per game... the 3rd league Football team in the same city got 27.000 audience per game.... both teams play in the same stadium!
Only an American would think that an American-only sports event would attract a bigger TV audience than the final of a sport that consumes the interest of most countries in the world.
@@chestersemaver Yes, The confrontation between Switzerland and Serbia in the World Cups, especially in 2018, has been marked by tensions related to Kosovo.
American football is rugby but with armour, CBI and no flow. Football is a game of skill played worldwide. You can play football (soccer) with just a ball.
American football has absolutely nothing to do with rugby except for the overall shape of the ball. In rugby you pass the ball behind you, that changes every thing!
And the ball doesn't need to be a ball at all honesty, it just needs to be sort of shaped like a ball and be light enough to not break one's foot with a kick
@@RosieLee777 They would pass out after playing continuously for more than a minute (rugby = long distance running, American football = short sprints), oh, and every player needs to be able to play offense and defense in rugby.
Let's just realise the fact that Super Bowl is an event of the US... (It's ONE nation). The World Cup is what it says, a WORLD cup.. A lot more countries competing... The WORLD is a LOT more than the US... 😉 Greetings from Sweden!🤘🇸🇪
Yeah, you'd have to be eternally online or American to think Superbowl "feels like the biggest thing ever". No one watches it here. Never met a single person that even watched a game of it..
@@bionicgeekgrrlhonestly wish American football never existed, the US would be such a powerhouse in sports like Football and Rugby, instead the use their talent for a sport only played by them 😔
@@kiboma4209That's a bit like AFL (Aussie rules football) in Australia. Outside of Melbourne, most people don't give a toss about. It was invented in Melbourne and mostly played in Melbourne. Bizzare.
0:15 "The biggest sporting event in America" definitely not in the world. What is a Super Bowl vele? is it some Soup Bowl where they compete to finish the biggest soup bowl in the world?
No wonder that the Super Soup Bowl is so popular in the US, since half of it's citizens are living in poverty.. That explains a lot, thank you for learning me that. 😉
I don't care about football in general, but whenever it's the European Cup or the World Cup, everyone goes crazy, and I (sometimes) like to join in. The entire city is in a different mood ‐ drunk & euphoric or drunk & heartbroken or just drunk.
@@nilianstroy champions League is really not comparable to the euros and world cup. Yes most people that are interested in football in any way watch the UCL final. But here in Germany at least, as happy and collectively united as we have been this summer has only happened 3 times in this millennium, this summer with Euro24 being in Germany, 2014 when we won, and 2006 when the world cup was in Germany. It's not comparable to almost any other thing.
@@lukakaps9548 the champions league final is only behind the world cup and European Cup finals... anyone that follows football knows that... it averages 400+ millions viewers...
Tried to watch the super bowl one time, after 3 hours being bombarded with commercials that they occasionally interrupted with some football, I turned the shit off...
American football in general is terrible to watch as a European.. Just talking, ads over ads and almost no action.. I watched the Super Bowl once and literally fell asleep cause it’s so drawn out
I don't know if it has increased in recent times, but they conducted a study a few years back to see how long the ball was in play for during NFL games on average. The result? 11 minutes! 11 minutes of an hour long game, which takes 3 hours to broadcast! I've never been surprised that American Football generally struggles for support outside the US. If you take Rugby Union as a comparison (and I believe a leading influence in the development of American football), the contrast is stark. Aside from scrums, rugby is in almost continuous motion throughout 80 mins. It's no wonder many Europeans find American football boring to watch.
@austinseven4720 The funny thing about Europeans who just hate America and therefore hate American Football for no other reason than its American, is that all the 'reasons' they give about how boring or terrible or not world wide the sport is are completely false. I am a brit, who has loved football for his whole life, and fell in love with Am football 10 years ago. They are both tied as my favourite sport, and I watch almost every NFL game and every game from big football events, along with every chelsea game and champions league. And let me explain to you how you are wrong. Firstly, while your stat is correct, let's look at the same stat in football: In the Premier league, the ball is in play fot 58 mins on average. So right then and there you are watching 32 + mins of dead ball and rolling around. Secondly, this constant "action" that you speak of in football is completely false. Just because the clock is always ticking and the ball is on the pitch for 60 mins does not mean that stuff is happening for all of that time. If you watched England at the euros over the last month, I'm sure you can agree as to how a game of "constant ball in play" is utterly boring. And as a side note, due to how the game has developed from a monetary stand point, the big teams are so big, that over half of the the premier league plays negative defensive football when they face these teams leading to a lot more boring matches than we would like. Am Football on the other hand is literally designed to be entertaining and have constant action, much as you think it's the exact opposite. Now I will preface this by saying I agree with you and everyone about how the adverts suck and would be much nicer if we didn't have them. But they are a side product of the American greed so that's aside from the sport. (Plus it does make the nfl the highest earning and most profitable sports league in the entire world, which includes the prem and UCL and world cup). Back to the sport itself though, the reason there is breaks within the game, and so little "action time" as you say, is because the sport is played at full sprint and full intensity on every single play. 5-10 seconds of everything you've got on every single play. Imagine Usain bolt running his hundret meter, and then asking him to do another 100 right after without a rest expecting the same high level of speed. Impossible. So the players need a breather between each play. Which by the way if you understand the sport, you don't even notice the 10 - 30 seconds I'm between plays because you are still analysing the last play because the there is so much going on that replays are actually interesting go watch to see every part of the play. And next is the 4 down situation. This goes for all American sports, but in football specifically each team is given 4 attempts to move the ball 10 yards, if you do not do so, you HAVE to give the ball to the other team. This means that there is ALWAYS action on every play, because each team is trying to score every time they have the ball. There is no, holding possession, or time wasting, or playing a low block with no possession. Essentially all the parts of world football that we hate are outlawed my American Football. You either try to score, or you give the ball to someone who will try. This makes the sport eternally interesting from minute 1 to minute 60. Also the scoring format is perfect. It's low enough scoring that every single score is exciting, but it's not too high scoring like basketball where each individual score doesn't really mean anything. In football it's is far too difficult to score a goal, and because its the only way to score points, each goal means so much. Usually 2 goals means a game is basically over, 3? Might aswell turn that aucksr off cos the other team has given up already. In am football however, 3 scores is definitely not too much, and even with 2 minutes left on the clock, even down by 17 points, a team can come back. This is due to being able to stop the clock by utilising tactics and time outs, this is also due to innovative ways of getting possession of the ball back (onside kicks) and like I mentioned before, after you score your first 7 points to start your late comeback, the other team isn't allowed to just hold the ball for the rest of the time, they HAVE to try to advance the ball. Which leads to turnovers and the most incredible endings to games. And on a regular basis too, week in week out there is so much drama. American Football is far more interesting than world football unfortunately, but it's too difficult to understand and too high of a barrier to entry for the rest of the world. This leads to unfair analysis about stuff that you don't understand. I'll leave you with this: we saw the best final that we will ever see In the 2022 Qatar World cup final. If you think back to most other finals you have watched, they are usually boring, timid performances that end in 1-0. Happens most world cups unfortunately. It's undoubtedly the best sporting tournament of all time, and it almost always ends in boring finals. Really anticlimactic. Over the last 10 years of watching this sport, there has been what can be considered 2 boring superbows. In that same time there have also been the 4 superbowls which are debated as the best ever.
@@Capta1n4mer1ca I was making a comparison to Rugby Union not football in terms of constant play. Which there is as the ball doesn't go dead bar line outs and penalties, though scrums take longer than they should. And yes, as a football fan I'm aware that there is a lot of time wasting which is why you get ridiculous added time these days. As for the rest of your rant, projection much? My disinterest in American football has absolutely nothing to do with my opinion of the USA as a country, and I'd be willing to bet that is the same thing in most cases. I didn't criticise American Football fans; just highlighted that the way the game plays out is one likely reasons that it isn't as popular outside of America.
@@Capta1n4mer1ca I watched every Superbowl and 90 percent of playoff games in the last 10 years. But I wouldn't watch it on an american channel. We only have half the number of ads and it is still the second worst part of the game. The worst part is the halftime show.
Football is so accessible. Children start playing it, women's football is huge, older people often play in teams, you can play alone practising skills, with 2 people or multiple people. You don't need any special equipment, even a tin can can be used and anything for goal posts. It's a sport for the people!
And it has all the ingredients at any level. Technique, stamina, power, speed, tactics, toughness, creativity, team spirit, egos, foul play, luck, on a totally different level it's still the same game with the same things deciding who wins.
That's probably the key to its success, anyone can play it, rich or poor, regardless of your height and so on, the sport is very accessible to anyone and that likely led to it being so successful because it doesn't matter if you are in a modern country in Europe or a developing country in Africa, football is very accessible, it doesn't matter much if you're tall or short or fast or slow runner, it's still accessible as skill and tactics is what usually wins in this sport. Compared to American sports, you've got American football that you really have to be big and musclier to be successful, in basketball, height goes a long way, these sports rule out quite a sizeable amount of the population which limits it's success.
Actually the US have qualified almost every time since 1990. Only missed out in 2018, and 5 out of the 9 times they did qualify in that time, they even made it out of the group stage. And with CONCACAF (the confederation of North America, Central America and Caribbean football) now being granted SIX guaranteed World Cup places, their participation (as well as Mexico's and Canada's) is virtually guaranteed for every future World Cup.
U.S.A. played England in the 2010 World Cup. The game was scheduled to kick off at 19.30. but the USians turned up late at 19.42 and claimed they'd won it anyway.😅
To be fair the WC is every 4 years, but even comparing the Super Bowl to other annual events, it is still far behind the Tour de France (3.5B) or the Champions League Final (450M), just because they are truly global sports, not just the US and a few Mexican or Canadian fans. I mean even US people can understand that!?
@@speleokeir Yup, the nearest power station to me was designed specifically to cope with power surges caused by people putting their kettles on during ad breaks 🤣
In terms of worldwide TV audience, the Super Bowl isn't that impressive actually. In fact, more people watch the final of the Eurovision Song Contest each year, than the Super Bowl.
You can't compare a country, no matter how big, with a whole planet. American football is a local game played by locals and unlike regular football, isn't really a thing elsewhere. Moreover, I suspect that many Americans watch the Superbowl only in the hope of another nipplegate 😂
@@wolfshadow_Obama_Osama the Champions League is not the same as the world Super Bowl The World Cup is… a league is not the same as a world event.. if you wanted to be the same as a league, then remove the word world from it
When you looked up the rivalry between football nations what you got were clubs from different European cities (Barcelona, Madrid, Munich). That doesn't have anything to do with the World Cup. The strongest football countries usually are Brazil, Argentina, Spain, Italy, Germany, France and England. So whenever any of those play against one another it will be a great game and watched all over the world. The best European clubs play against each other in the champions league (ucl) and that is where you will see games like Barcelona against Bayern Munich or Real Madrid against Manchester United.
I wonder if he'll tune in in 2026 when it goes to Mexico/USA/Canada? Will be interesting to see the viewing figures for that tournament as it will be the biggest ever held across the biggest geographic location.
Well yeah... But it's kind of unfair to compare viewers with 1 night event Super Bowl and the whole World Cup with 64 matches. Also world cup is every 4th year, Super Bowl is every year.
I'm from Argentina, we played against France, and around 1.5 billion people watched the 2022 World Cup final live on television. That day more than 5 million people reunited to celebrate in the Obelisco (a Buenos Aires landmark)
I think the slightly sarcastic nature of the comments is because the Superbowl winners call themselves "World Champions" and baseball has the "World" Series. I think this annoys quite a few fans of truly worldwide sports, like football.
YES to this, it’s patently ludicrous and arrogant af! Can you imagine _any_ other country declaring a team WORLD champions just for winning a domestic competition?? Cause I can’t! Except maybe North Korea or something 😂
@@CazTanto 🌹I do not comment until I watch a video in its entirety. Ryan's initial reaction was typical Americana. Never question my motives as they are, unlike yours, genuine and genial. I suggest you take a refresher course in etiquette as well.
1:50 a few years ago, they wanted to emulate the NFL Half Time Show at the final of the DFB-Pokal (German cup; this is the single biggest annual game in German football) and had song performances. This was massively criticized, nobody cared, and it has been dropped since. Besides, the half time is only 15 minutes and unlike in American football, a soccer match goes 45 minutes uninterrupted by commercials. So you WANT that 15 minutes break. If in the stadium, you go to the restrooms or buy a beer and a wurst. If watching from home, these 15 minutes are for the halftime analysis of the game, or world news, and of course a few commercials. So, no time for a half-time show either way.
To add to that it was not only critized but the artist was merciless booed off the whole time. th-cam.com/video/_Kq6TecvP-k/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/pfgKFYobQYg/w-d-xo.html That being said it was not quite the same as the NFL half time show. The stage was smaller as you cant really do a whole show including construction and deconstruction on the main pitch in the 15 Minute that a pause goes.
I remember when Camilla Cabello played before a big final a couple years ago and she cried on social media because fans were chanting in support of their team rather than singing along to her.
At the recently concluded Copa America, Shakira (a legit wide audience star) had a halftime show. She was good, but lengthening the halftime to almost 30 minutes created an even bigger shit show for Conmebol...(security concerns, the fans storming to stadium with no tickets, the issue at the Colombia/Uruguay semifinal, the horrible grass overlaid on artificial turf, etc...) Tons of criticism and rightfully so.
By unofficial accounts, the last WC final between Argentina and France in Qatar 2022 was watched by over 3 billion people worldwide (picture the thousands watching the game on a single giant public screen in India or Bangladesh, then multiply that by thousands more around the world...). Even in the U.S., bars, restaurants and even shopping malls and outdoor giant screen venues were packed with people watching the match. The biggest rivalry involving national sides in football is probably Brazil vs Argentina. When it comes to clubs, the biggest rivalries are most likely Real Madrid-FC Barcelona in Europe (Spain) and River Plate-Boca Juniors in the Americas (Argentina).
Well, tbf, from americans perspective each state is like a country and USA is their world. Kinda thats the attitude, and it is not entirely wrong. USA is a federation. Governors are like the President of their own country if we consider size, laws and culture. I mean if we were to compare USA states to european coutries.
i tried to watch the superbowl once. too many interruptions, the game itself was entertaining, but i couldn't make it through the end, i wanted to watch a sport match, not a long commercial add with a show in the middle and some football here and there
In the news around the world, outside of the US, is probably much more attention to the halftime show than the game... few images of the winners with the trophy (3 seconds, maybe) and 5 minutes commenting on who was singing, the lights, etc.
It's not that surprising considering that American Football is almost exclusively an american sport. As big as it is nationally you can't compare it to a worldwide event with multiple countries taking part in it
It was actually invented in Quebec and the Canadians still play it, but fuck them I suppose, Pure United Stater greed and entitlement to not even recognise the gridiron league literally right next to there's. It's like an Englishman refusing to learn about the Bundesliga.
No, but the point is that the US sells everything to its citizens as a global event: “World Series” for example, which of course is a misnomer and explains why they are so egocentric as a nation. The World Cup, on the other hand, really is a global event.
No American Football is played all around the world by now. A little more in rich nations hence the cost of equipment. I played American Football 15 years ago i i lived in a small city in the eu. The thing is even if you have one American Football club in a small city with one youth and one adult team. But you have like 6 football clubs with multiple teams across diffrent age groups (sometimes multiple teams per age group) thats why american football cant compare to how many people play football.
@@TelendilI think the point being made is the numbers of people who play American sports outside of America is pretty infinitesimal in comparison to football as to be basically insignificant, although I know the numbers are growing.
@@penname5766 Thats what i said... I only pointed out that it is not almost exclusively american. Btw the more or less exclusively american sport If there is any is Baseball.
The World Cup actually has a closing ceremony that is held before the match and usually has a famous singer or group playing being Shakira the most celebrated; she has performed in four closing ceremonies and for every performance she writes a different song. The most famous is Waka Waka which has 3.96 billion views on TH-cam.
5:16 Rio is in a different time zone than London, and in a very unsuitable time zone for all these billions of people in Asia (8pm in Rio is 3am the next morning in Beijing). That alone should account for the drop in viewership.
Time zone almost certainly a factor...plus I would also say that by 2016 there was probably far more digital coverage than even 4 years prior...and social media etc. The figures given seemed to suggest tv broadcast figures only. Dunno?
@@vallejomach6721 Actually no. The calculation for viewership is a complicated one. It does include internet streams today. It also tries to take into account multiple people (a family, a group of friends, people watching in a pub or people watching it on a large public screen) watching on a single device.
I grew up in Australia and even small children are allowed to get up in the middle of the night to watch sporting events. I remember getting up to watch the Olympics and the Wimbledon finals in particular.
@@ktwashere5637 sure, but if the "prime time" of the top Olympic events is 8pm or 9pm, you may watch every day or almost every day. But very few people are going to get up at 3am for that. Maybe once or twice for a key event, when your athlete is in an important final. but certainly not 14 days in a row. It does make a difference whether the Olympic day runs from noon to 10pm your time, or from 8pm to 6am.
@@pitoune2866Arg vs Bra, biggest game in football and in a world cup final? That would be the most watched thing ever for ever. Closest I can think of was river Vs bocs at libertadores Cup final, and that got everyone watching.
England vs Argentina would be bigger. Every European team will be rooting for Argentina 😅 Or Maybe a CR7 led Portugal Team vs Argentina would break the internet.
@@nachopuma13 The second sentence already shows that your view is limited to South America. I'm pretty sure any UEFA champions league final with two European rivals would catch more viewers than the Copa Liberatores, simply because 800 million potential European viewers is much more than 450 million South American one. From a theoretical point probably something like China - India would be the biggest football final if those countrties would be any good in it. From what football currently is a big European country (e.g. France, Germany) against a big South American country (Brazil, Argentina) has the biggest potential.
@@martinohnenamen6147 so the way football has become today, I can't estimate which of the countries would be the most attractive game if we were talking about 30 years ago, I would definitely say Brazil against Argentina, because according to my opinion , these countries have the players with the greatest talent they offer magical moments in the game. today in football what counts more is the tactiks endurance and strength of the players. here and there a messi, a ronaldinho or a ronaldo come out who are magicians and stand out from the rest. ps i am from europe
Just after the war my Dad was one of the British soldiers in Egypt helping to run a transit camp for German, Austrian and Italian prisoners of war waiting to go home. When the Brits and other nationalities got together for a sporting show down it wasn’t American football they played, of course it was proper football.....
Finally, an American who admits that the Super Bowl is so boring that people only tune in to watch the half-time show! A survey done in 2020 showed that the ball is actually"in play" for only 18 minutes during the entire four quarters. I watched an exhibition match at Crystal Palace in London back in 1985 or 86 and we left after nearly three hours of watching nothing happening.
I really never understood how people who watch a 4 hours long match in which only 15 minutes are actual game can consider boring a real football match. American football matches are more boring than the 24 hours of Le Mans at 5am with the Safety Car in.
All countries have something that is considered "required viewing" and those things can be funny to outsiders. Here in Finland, the required viewing is the president's ball on our independence day. It mostly consists of the president shaking hands with the guests. Foreigners can't understand why anyone wants to watch that. But it usually gets close to 3 million viewers, which is quite a lot in a country of 5.6 million people.
@@wuhtevah3840 The point is they comment on the dresses, hair, whatever, talk about who got invited and why (besides the political elites, ambassadors, whatever veterans are left, other bigwigs, they invite artists, athletes, etc., technically an "ordinary" person could earn an invite) and later, when everyone is in, they do interviews, etc. People do the same at home (though probably not interviews but commenting on them). It's a thing, for people who are interested. It sort of "outs" the bigwigs for everyone, so they can't stay incognito, and the president gets the raw end of the deal there with the handshakes and greetings, getting pegged down a bit, so there are some upsides for a democratic republic. Also, it may not be very active watching.
The Superbowl is mainly watched by an American audience. The World Cup is watched by a worldwide audience, so therefore, the audience figures are considerably larger. It's great to watch an American release that what they have been led to believe is wrong.
I don't underestimate SB, but the main difference between US and European or South American sports, is the fan base. In the US every sports team is a franchised entreprise. Like supporting Coke vs Pepsi or smt like this. In Europe the clubs are fan based, it's like religion. Rather more than religion, you can change religion or wife, but you can never change the team you support.
24.2M alone watched the 2024 European Championships final on the BBC. Viewing figures beyond that haven't been released however for the entire competition.
@@WickerrmanI think any European country playing against Germany feels the same. In the Netherlands it’s our biggest rival too. Wonder which country Germany would pick? Maybe France or Spain?
@@thanossnap4170 Probably true, but it would still be a big match, cus as we constantly hear...everyone wants England to lose cus of singing a certain song. People typically either support or dislike England, very similar to Argentina in that sense.
Biggest rivalries in international football would be Brazil vs Argentina and in Europe maybe I‘m biased as a German but I feel a lot of the classic matchups involve Germany: Germany vs Netherlands, Germany vs England and Germany vs Italy all have a special feel to them.
As a French, have to say you forget France vs England for when I lived in Glasgow, Scotland, the Welsh, Scots and the Irish were with me too 😊 And France vs Italy is huge too, especially here in the south east of France where you have people with both nationalities. But that's maybe cause I'm French
Clubs: Clubs usually represent cities (some cities have multiple clubs, e.g. London with several clubs competing in the Premier League). Clubs always need to find the most talented players, some clubs ( like Barcelona) are therefore very invested in young players (youngsters in their teens) development to bring them in their team later on. Clubs also trade players (not like slavery, basically they trade the right to have a player under contract). Each country has its own leagues with the best clubs playing in top league (e.g. the Premier League in England, Serie A in Italy, Bundesliga in Germany, La Liga in Spain) and lower leagues. The goal of each club is to be in the highest league and win, ending the season in last place usually has the club relegated to the second league and the winner of the second league gets into the highest league. UEFA Champions League is a multinational league for european clubs in which the 36 best clubs from the previous season in the highest national leagues take part. Teams ins UCL both try to become the UCL winners and to keep being successful in their national leagues (they do partake in both at the same time). Also, there is the UEFA Europa League which basically is the second tier european league, thus far less relevant) National teams: Each county has its own team. The manager of such a national team has to find the best players from that country and form a team that is capable of showing good performances. Therefore, within such a national team, each player are under contract at club, including clubs abroad (Kylian Mbappe, considered one of the best players nowdays, just switched from Paris to Madrid, but as a French citizen he contiues to play for the French national team). The national organizations responsible for the national teams are members of continental confederations (UEFA is one them) and the global confederation FIFA. The continental confederations oversee the continental championship (e.g. the Euros) and FIFA oversees the World Cup. European national teams compete in the UEFA tournament every four years (for example this year and next time in 2028) while the World Cup is held every four years, too (next time in 2026 in Mexico, US and Canada, and then again in 2030 mainly in Spain, Portugal and Morocco). I hope that short overview helps a bit. For sure the final game of UCL would be the better comparison as it isn't a global tournament and the rivaling teams are clubs and therefore more similar to the teams in NFL.
In 2023 Liverpool v Man Utd had a global audience of around 600m...that's one match - Barcelona v Real Madrid...650m across 185 countries. Football is massive!
Im in U.K. and I I used to watch it every week before it went to sky . Now I can only see the Super Bowl and the matches in U.K. in the summer when we get to see a few American teams do battle .
Just for laughs and giggles.. 2018 final, France vs Croatia (im Croatian btw). 65M pop France, 4M Croatia. Imagine a country of 4M ppl in a game watched by 1.1B of ppl worldwide.
Super Bowl needs half time show and all of the series and movie trailers and commercials to be seen in US and around the world, it's not just for the game. The World Cup does not need such paraphernalia to be what it is. Not even the Olympics can match a World Cup Final game. Even the Champions League can beat Super Bowl ratings.
in a worldcup final, i'd say Brazil vs Germany would bring the most people. those 2 teams are legendary To add other sports to the audience competition , i checked the numbers for Formula 1 (445M watched at least a race in 2021, whith an average of 70M per race), and the 24H of Le Mans (113M watched the 2023 race on TV and 431k were watching it from the grandstands)
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The world cup doesn't need a halftime show and halftime of a football match isn't long enough for a show. The football IS the entertainment.
First of all it is a business ran by super rich people.
Nor does play stop for commercial breaks 🤦♀️
And the Final of Copa America this year proved that. The Americans who host the Final in Miami organized a 25 minutes long half time show with Shakira, violating the FIFA rules and making angry a lot of people, primarily footballers and coaches (and the idea of a Colombian singing in the Half Time of Colombia-Argentina is really excellent, chapeau). Germans try the halftime show in 2017 during the final of DFB-Pokal, the results was 75k people booeing the singer.
The US organization of the Copa America was a disaster. Let's hope the Americans have taken notes for the next World Cup.
The ball is in play in an NFL game for around 15 minutes.
Oh you’re talking about your game that people fake injuries and the score is a blowout of 1 to 0. That game. Oh boy very eliciting
Super what 👀??
Let me paint you a picture …
1 - If the Super Bowl was cancelled one year, no one (and I mean no one) outside the US would care.
2 - When the highlight of your sport is ‘the halftime’ entertainment - that says a lot about that sporting event.
Facts!!! 🤣🤣🤣
This is why americans are brainwashed by the halftime commercials that are highly obese and unhealthy by their own aggressive ads within their own country.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🎉 factttssss
Facts 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🤣🤣🤣
If I go to a gig, I'm there for the music. If they stopped the gig half way through to play a quick game of some team sport, I'd be seriously pissed off.
More people watch Eurovision than the Super Bowl
Chuckle . . .
im belgian and in my country only old people watch Eurovision
@@kwintendebruyn3738 My Sister lives in Belgium, and she said that a lot of younger population watches Eurovision.
Eurovision is trash, though. I know exactly two people who actually watch it every year and I'll never comprehend.
it's actually hard to find apples to apples comparisons because 200m people watched at least part of the last superbowl but the avg concurrent viewers was 123m so there are different numbers floating around but I wouldn't be surprised at all if Eurovision had more viewers! (I also wouldn't care, I don't even follow American football lol)
It's almost like Americans think the world revolves around what Americans like. Across the world, football (or soccer), is like a religion.
This video shows how "Americans" lives is a fucking bubble!
Only 200M people watching and they really think Super Bowl is a thing... hahahahaah
BTW, the name of the sport is FOOTBALL, not soccer!
Call it right and give your "Rugby" another name, please...
Americans don't know what religion is. They have atheists and cults though.
So yeah, the Real Madrid vs Barcelona game alone has more views than the superbowl final. I see allot of "Its a international trophy against a national one" excuse. A league game, alone, not a final, not a intercontinental or international game, just a regular league game againsta Barcelona vs Real Madrid has more viewers than the Superbowl
And if you win in the World Cup, you are actually world champions.
😂 👏🏻
Super Bowl Winner: I am World Champion!!!
World: Who the fuck are you?
😂😂😂
@@carloshenriquevalentecampo7845 lol 😂
@@carloshenriquevalentecampo7845 🤣🤣👍🏻
The World Cup is so big, that if you simply walk down any central street of any relatively big city in almost any part of the world outside the US you will always have a TV broadcasting a game in sight.
In England, you rarely see English flags 🏴 flying (you don’t often see the Union flag 🇬🇧 flying either). In fact, the flag of St George 🏴 (English flag) is kind of seen as a nationalist, anti-immigration thing (the closest thing you would have in America is flying the confederate flag, even though it’s not the same thing).
And yet, during the World Cup (and the Euros), particularly if England are doing well, and have reached the knockout stages, you see English flags flying _everywhere;_ outside pubs, shops, houses, even flying from cars.
It is, without doubt, the closest thing to a show of national unity we have in this country. And of course, the other British nations, Wales 🏴 and Scotland 🏴 (Northern Ireland is part of the UK, but not Great Britain), will support anyone _but_ England!
If anyone is wondering about The relationship between the different nations of the United Kingdom, the closest thing I can liken it to is a familial rivalry. Sure, you might criticise your sibling, but God help anyone else who criticises them (for the most part). How dare you make fun of them…that’s our job!
@@TPRM1 Same in Germany. Flying the flag in private, ouside of "before official buildings" or "at international events" is simply not done unless you want to be seen as quite right-leaning. But during the Euros, world cup and a bit during the Olympics they come out in every form. I liked the covers for side mirrors that you see more and more.
@@TPRM1most people will support anyone but England, not only Wales and Scotland.
That team and its fans are doing everything to be the most hated team.
One of the things that is different in Association Football/soccer compared to American Football, is that much fewer goals are scored during a game, the average is between two and three. This makes every goal more important and it is common to hear people jeering loud enough outdoors (or through open windows) that you can hear it all over town. This usually relies on immigrant communities but during the last few games, many people might pick a favourite even if their national team isn’t in the game anymore.
and even though during the supercup you will see it played in any sportsbar as well ,but thats true to any larger soccergames as well , what impressed me most during WM/EM are the puplic viewing , on the large screens , and volks flocking up in the streats like a concert or such
The name “World Cup” explains everything. It is a global event.
The Superbowl is only watched by Americans or people who used to live in America (like me) because only people like us understand the “football” game that is played with hands.
Footbal wtith hands!!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Lets not forget the "World Series" that only one country participates in. 😂😂😂
These Americans who watch NFL football
Don't know that the actual game they playing is a cheap knock off or rip off of rugby
Bring a rugby player against an entire NFL team n they done
NFL is a lot less bloody n brutal than rugby
So yeah y'all would be done
@@3XC4LIBURR Funny enough, the NFL is one of the few major sports organisation in the world that hasn't signed the World Anti Doping Agency code.. Meaning American Football players are juiced to the gills and they're not even really trying to hide it
Same as they have world series baseball, but only Americans play. 😅. Football is watched the world over. American football is like rugby but players only play for like 11 minutes not 90!!
It’s “global” football not just “European”. Football is global.
American Football refers to the "football" originally from the United States. European Football is a misnomer therefore, as it refers to English Football, originally from England.
@@garyt123 yes but no, to really check is with "global" if you just used european football, you will no see the others continents
@estebanmontero7179 The reference is to the _origin_ of the style of football. Isn't "American" football also played in Australia, Germany and Argentina? So you want global football and global American football? That's just silly.
In reality American football is a dumb name in any case.... it isn't played with ones 'foot'and technically it isn't played with a 'ball'.
@@garyt123 they had no shame, a sports in fact that entire game using their hand than foot and called it Football 😂 , it would be perfect if we called it HandEgg 😂
Funny that they say that because the biggest national teams and players are from South America : Brazil, Argentina, Pelé, Messi, Ronaldo, Maradona etc
I don't really like football but the "halftime show" is just a concept that does not work in world football. Most people use that time to pee, do small tasks that can't wait, relax a bit after 45 minutes of tension, etc. Nobody cares about what is on TV in those 15 minutes.
true
So true
Not true at all, it is true that a lot of people don't care but to say nobody cares is just false.
ok. 1 person cares^^
Well i never met a person who cares
American football means nothing outside the US, particularly a football not played with foot😅
Thank you 😂
And without a _real_ ball. 🤦😂
Yep and their wear an "armure" not to get hurt, poor little things 😂
I'd rather watch a real man game like rugby
@@garyt123 yeah like the rugby world cup lol
@@davidhines7592 but rugby is a MAN’s sport, American foodball is for kids
The difference between the world and the US bubble!!!
You can watch the Super bowl all over the world, it's just that nobody outside the US cares about it.
self centered egos as if the world revolves around them
It's not even shocking.
The Premier league on its own has more viewers than the superbowl.
The only shocking thing is that a lot of Americans dont know this 😂
I hate to say this but the sporting world doesn’t revolve around american football.
The fact that he is surprised says it all... 😂
that is typical : you guys in the US live in a Fantasy World where you believe the US is in the middle of the world
Lol, China called they want their Middle Kingdom title back,
Nothing unusual coz they even start education from a geographic map with the US in the center of the world and halves of cut Eurasia on the sides.
Many countries making their world's maps with them in the center, but no one but the US is cutting other continents on a geographic map.
Being THE MAIN means more, than teaching kids proper geography.
Americans wont consider themselves part of the World as long as their military makes sure not even a ballon can intercept into their country. I really beleive to most of Americans the rest of us may as well be living on the moon.
Why the diss? It's not a matter of life or death
@@LeperMessiah2it's the Calimero-syndrom, which a large par tof the rest of the world suffers from when comparing themselves with the US.
Saying this as a Dutcman and thus European. Most Europeans are quite cocky but like to tell themselves it's Americans that are the cocky ones, which some might be, but it's mostly ignorance rather then arrogance imo.
It is estimated that 500 million people around the world watch the Grand National, that's a horse race here in England, and if those figures are correct, that makes it about twice as popular as The Superbowl.
Copa America has more viewers than the Superbowl.
Literaly
And European Football Championship 😊
On a side note, no one even cares about FIFA women’s World Cup (or whatever they call it) and not many wouldn’t care even if the USA would’ve win it continuously for a century 😂.
So, yeah. Sorry team USA.
@@chestersemaver women's football is on the rise they just threatened a managers life
@@itsamejcwoman's football is comedy gold 😂😂
The WC doesn't have a half time show because football is pure. Nothing should take away from the sport. It's all about the beautiful game.
Let's not forget superbowl have ad break every 10 minutes too lol
its prob gunna get on in 2026 , id just hope they do an opening show insted or can keep it to 5 or 6 mins
@@darrylbrookes2780, I think it's technically at every Euro's or WC, but the TV channels know we don't want to see it so don't really bother showing it.
@@AlexanderWinterborn-r6p, yes, but you're still watching the football, right??
@@Ejadopatra Omg.... Less about the actual event and more about the break entertainment!! 😁 It's just like Eurovision!!! 😅 (Most of us watch it because of the clowns/trolls and the break entertainment!
Hint: The world cup is a global event, and 95% of Earth’s population is outside the US.
Exactly! But the problem is that they think they are the center of the Universe. That's why NBA champions call themselves "World Champions"😂
It's always very fun to see when Americans blow their bubble and have this shook of reality on internet, not only about sports.
USA people are an actual experiments
@@estebanmamberto1212😂😂
@@estebanmamberto1212world Champions, when no other Country plays it.. !!
Why American football is called football?! It´s more like handegg...
the ball was supposed to be one foot long, hence the name football.
Yes, Ryan, the world doesn't revolve around America. At least you and others in the states are learning about this. I've tried three or four times to watch NFL After half an hour i gave up.
A kid in the middle of nowhere in Africa probably knows Real Madrid and Cristiano Ronaldo. But if you ask them about the Dallas Cowboys, they'll probably ask, "Is that Samuel L. Jackson's latest movie?"
Yep. I can attest to that. I'm Namibian, and I can go to a village anywhere in Africa and they will know who Sadio Mane is, who Christiano Ronaldo is and who Messi played for- even who John Terry is and who he played for. They'll know what the Champions League is, La Liga, the Bundes, Premier League, etc..
Ask them about the Super Bowl, and they'd expect you to talk about food.
I'm Zimbabwean, at the age of 5 I knew about not only the premiere league but the world cup... Didn't even know about football till some years later after I moved to the UK
Basketball is probably is more known worldwide than American football
What is Dallas Cowboys?
@@beenyoni "What is A Dallas Cowboys?"
The thing about american football/baseball events is you need entertainment to distract from the sport.
From all the adds too.
@@MegaMonomer soooo true
An American commentator tackled this one. Of it being the World Series but its only Americans. She argues that the USA has the best players in the world and if any other team in the world showed up to the Series they would be beaten and beaten hard. Makes sense but you need to have the games to prove that. The same could be said for the USA footbal team. No one took them seriously then year by year they get better. Just call it the American Series.
Bingo!
i got invited to a Philadelphia Eagles game.....
i refused, because i only would watch the cheerleaders....because i dont know anything about the game and would get bored in a few minutes...
i played Handball and of course, Football.....never watched Baseball, American Football, ice hockey and Basketball....
the 1st league American Football team in the city close by have around 4500 audience per game...
the 3rd league Football team in the same city got 27.000 audience per game....
both teams play in the same stadium!
Only an American would think that an American-only sports event would attract a bigger TV audience than the final of a sport that consumes the interest of most countries in the world.
And let’s not forget that a sports involving so much enthusiasm and fanaticism in itself that, it literally drew two countries into a war 😉
@@chestersemaver Yes, The confrontation between Switzerland and Serbia in the World Cups, especially in 2018, has been marked by tensions related to Kosovo.
@@jabessantana7412 i was referring to a 100 hour shooting war between El Salvador and Honduras in 1969 AKA "Football War"
American football is rugby but with armour, CBI and no flow. Football is a game of skill played worldwide. You can play football (soccer) with just a ball.
American football has absolutely nothing to do with rugby except for the overall shape of the ball. In rugby you pass the ball behind you, that changes every thing!
I'd watch american footballers play a game of rugby.
And the ball doesn't need to be a ball at all honesty, it just needs to be sort of shaped like a ball and be light enough to not break one's foot with a kick
@@RosieLee777 They would pass out after playing continuously for more than a minute (rugby = long distance running, American football = short sprints), oh, and every player needs to be able to play offense and defense in rugby.
Lmfao, it would be a loud cry be the mericans 😂 its not fair they would say@@RosieLee777
Let's just realise the fact that Super Bowl is an event of the US... (It's ONE nation).
The World Cup is what it says, a WORLD cup.. A lot more countries competing... The WORLD is a LOT more than the US... 😉
Greetings from Sweden!🤘🇸🇪
More people watched BBC top gear with Jeremy clarkson than super bowl
Much better
Far more entertaining too.
Yeah, you'd have to be eternally online or American to think Superbowl "feels like the biggest thing ever". No one watches it here. Never met a single person that even watched a game of it..
Just as an aside 870 million watched the rugby world cup too!!!!!
And I'd say that as a sport is more comparable to American Football than Football is.
@@bionicgeekgrrlhonestly wish American football never existed, the US would be such a powerhouse in sports like Football and Rugby, instead the use their talent for a sport only played by them 😔
@@kiboma4209😂😂 America would be a powerhouse in sports like rugby in your dreams
They also estimate that 500 million people watch The Grand National.
@@kiboma4209That's a bit like AFL (Aussie rules football) in Australia. Outside of Melbourne, most people don't give a toss about. It was invented in Melbourne and mostly played in Melbourne. Bizzare.
The fact the super bowl has
Less than 13 minutes of time the ball is actually in play for a 3 hour event
Is just crazy
What??? No way!
@@vpvp961 Yup, tho' I think it's actually 13 minutes and 30 seconds.
@@amadeusendymion1272 I have often read ELEVEN minutes! Do this search ' how long is the ball in play in an nfl game'
Is that true??? Omg ahhaa
Most boring sport ever!
0:15 "The biggest sporting event in America" definitely not in the world. What is a Super Bowl vele? is it some Soup Bowl where they compete to finish the biggest soup bowl in the world?
No wonder that the Super Soup Bowl is so popular in the US, since half of it's citizens are living in poverty.. That explains a lot, thank you for learning me that. 😉
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0:55 - I love how you called it "European Football" and then said "soccer", with your hands mimicking quotation marks! It was funny.
I don't care about football in general, but whenever it's the European Cup or the World Cup, everyone goes crazy, and I (sometimes) like to join in. The entire city is in a different mood ‐ drunk & euphoric or drunk & heartbroken or just drunk.
champions league final too.
@@nilianstroy champions League is really not comparable to the euros and world cup. Yes most people that are interested in football in any way watch the UCL final. But here in Germany at least, as happy and collectively united as we have been this summer has only happened 3 times in this millennium, this summer with Euro24 being in Germany, 2014 when we won, and 2006 when the world cup was in Germany. It's not comparable to almost any other thing.
@@lukakaps9548 the champions league final is only behind the world cup and European Cup finals... anyone that follows football knows that... it averages 400+ millions viewers...
😂 me too
@@nilianstroyyeah, but champions league isn’t really watched by non-football fans, while the European and World championship is
Tried to watch the super bowl one time, after 3 hours being bombarded with commercials that they occasionally interrupted with some football, I turned the shit off...
American football in general is terrible to watch as a European..
Just talking, ads over ads and almost no action..
I watched the Super Bowl once and literally fell asleep cause it’s so drawn out
I don't know if it has increased in recent times, but they conducted a study a few years back to see how long the ball was in play for during NFL games on average. The result? 11 minutes! 11 minutes of an hour long game, which takes 3 hours to broadcast! I've never been surprised that American Football generally struggles for support outside the US. If you take Rugby Union as a comparison (and I believe a leading influence in the development of American football), the contrast is stark. Aside from scrums, rugby is in almost continuous motion throughout 80 mins. It's no wonder many Europeans find American football boring to watch.
@austinseven4720 The funny thing about Europeans who just hate America and therefore hate American Football for no other reason than its American, is that all the 'reasons' they give about how boring or terrible or not world wide the sport is are completely false.
I am a brit, who has loved football for his whole life, and fell in love with Am football 10 years ago. They are both tied as my favourite sport, and I watch almost every NFL game and every game from big football events, along with every chelsea game and champions league.
And let me explain to you how you are wrong. Firstly, while your stat is correct, let's look at the same stat in football: In the Premier league, the ball is in play fot 58 mins on average. So right then and there you are watching 32 + mins of dead ball and rolling around. Secondly, this constant "action" that you speak of in football is completely false. Just because the clock is always ticking and the ball is on the pitch for 60 mins does not mean that stuff is happening for all of that time. If you watched England at the euros over the last month, I'm sure you can agree as to how a game of "constant ball in play" is utterly boring. And as a side note, due to how the game has developed from a monetary stand point, the big teams are so big, that over half of the the premier league plays negative defensive football when they face these teams leading to a lot more boring matches than we would like.
Am Football on the other hand is literally designed to be entertaining and have constant action, much as you think it's the exact opposite. Now I will preface this by saying I agree with you and everyone about how the adverts suck and would be much nicer if we didn't have them. But they are a side product of the American greed so that's aside from the sport. (Plus it does make the nfl the highest earning and most profitable sports league in the entire world, which includes the prem and UCL and world cup).
Back to the sport itself though, the reason there is breaks within the game, and so little "action time" as you say, is because the sport is played at full sprint and full intensity on every single play. 5-10 seconds of everything you've got on every single play. Imagine Usain bolt running his hundret meter, and then asking him to do another 100 right after without a rest expecting the same high level of speed. Impossible. So the players need a breather between each play. Which by the way if you understand the sport, you don't even notice the 10 - 30 seconds I'm between plays because you are still analysing the last play because the there is so much going on that replays are actually interesting go watch to see every part of the play. And next is the 4 down situation. This goes for all American sports, but in football specifically each team is given 4 attempts to move the ball 10 yards, if you do not do so, you HAVE to give the ball to the other team. This means that there is ALWAYS action on every play, because each team is trying to score every time they have the ball. There is no, holding possession, or time wasting, or playing a low block with no possession. Essentially all the parts of world football that we hate are outlawed my American Football. You either try to score, or you give the ball to someone who will try. This makes the sport eternally interesting from minute 1 to minute 60. Also the scoring format is perfect. It's low enough scoring that every single score is exciting, but it's not too high scoring like basketball where each individual score doesn't really mean anything. In football it's is far too difficult to score a goal, and because its the only way to score points, each goal means so much. Usually 2 goals means a game is basically over, 3? Might aswell turn that aucksr off cos the other team has given up already.
In am football however, 3 scores is definitely not too much, and even with 2 minutes left on the clock, even down by 17 points, a team can come back. This is due to being able to stop the clock by utilising tactics and time outs, this is also due to innovative ways of getting possession of the ball back (onside kicks) and like I mentioned before, after you score your first 7 points to start your late comeback, the other team isn't allowed to just hold the ball for the rest of the time, they HAVE to try to advance the ball. Which leads to turnovers and the most incredible endings to games. And on a regular basis too, week in week out there is so much drama.
American Football is far more interesting than world football unfortunately, but it's too difficult to understand and too high of a barrier to entry for the rest of the world. This leads to unfair analysis about stuff that you don't understand. I'll leave you with this: we saw the best final that we will ever see In the 2022 Qatar World cup final. If you think back to most other finals you have watched, they are usually boring, timid performances that end in 1-0. Happens most world cups unfortunately. It's undoubtedly the best sporting tournament of all time, and it almost always ends in boring finals. Really anticlimactic. Over the last 10 years of watching this sport, there has been what can be considered 2 boring superbows. In that same time there have also been the 4 superbowls which are debated as the best ever.
@@Capta1n4mer1ca I was making a comparison to Rugby Union not football in terms of constant play. Which there is as the ball doesn't go dead bar line outs and penalties, though scrums take longer than they should.
And yes, as a football fan I'm aware that there is a lot of time wasting which is why you get ridiculous added time these days.
As for the rest of your rant, projection much? My disinterest in American football has absolutely nothing to do with my opinion of the USA as a country, and I'd be willing to bet that is the same thing in most cases. I didn't criticise American Football fans; just highlighted that the way the game plays out is one likely reasons that it isn't as popular outside of America.
@@Capta1n4mer1ca
I watched every Superbowl and 90 percent of playoff games in the last 10 years. But I wouldn't watch it on an american channel. We only have half the number of ads and it is still the second worst part of the game. The worst part is the halftime show.
If half your reason to watch a sports final is the music at half-time, that says more about the sport than anything else.
You can't imagine what is going on during World Cup on this planet! (except USA)). It's mind blowing.
Super Bowl is being played in the middle of night for euroupeans. Plus, it
is BORING.
Too many timeouts and garbage commercials. No one watches that. Plus, it's a soap opera and full of absolute hate.
Football is so accessible. Children start playing it, women's football is huge, older people often play in teams, you can play alone practising skills, with 2 people or multiple people. You don't need any special equipment, even a tin can can be used and anything for goal posts. It's a sport for the people!
And it has all the ingredients at any level. Technique, stamina, power, speed, tactics, toughness, creativity, team spirit, egos, foul play, luck, on a totally different level it's still the same game with the same things deciding who wins.
at school a ball made whit paper was anought to play in the class room
also no almost-inevitable brain injury, which is a pro.
@@judiharris8796 here in italy friends over 40yo meet once a week to play between friends
That's probably the key to its success, anyone can play it, rich or poor, regardless of your height and so on, the sport is very accessible to anyone and that likely led to it being so successful because it doesn't matter if you are in a modern country in Europe or a developing country in Africa, football is very accessible, it doesn't matter much if you're tall or short or fast or slow runner, it's still accessible as skill and tactics is what usually wins in this sport.
Compared to American sports, you've got American football that you really have to be big and musclier to be successful, in basketball, height goes a long way, these sports rule out quite a sizeable amount of the population which limits it's success.
It’s just when America describe American events as World Series when only America participates.
Well, sometimes there are foreign players in the teams.😝
yeah and then the real World Champion of baseball is Netherlands.
Tom Brady always celebrate himself for winning the world championship after every single super bowl win
"The World" was an American newspaper that sponsored "The World Series" in baseball so it is a bit misleading on both sides .
@@scarlett105😂😂😂
It's bot European Football, it's World football. Hence World Cup, even the US qualify occasionally
Actually the US have qualified almost every time since 1990. Only missed out in 2018, and 5 out of the 9 times they did qualify in that time, they even made it out of the group stage.
And with CONCACAF (the confederation of North America, Central America and Caribbean football) now being granted SIX guaranteed World Cup places, their participation (as well as Mexico's and Canada's) is virtually guaranteed for every future World Cup.
i think he meant to distinguish between american football and football/soccer
Unlike the World Series !!!! Really America, you are a standing joke.
Emphasise on *occasionally*
U.S.A. played England in the 2010 World Cup.
The game was scheduled to kick off at 19.30. but the USians turned up late at 19.42 and claimed they'd won it anyway.😅
Soccer is a man's pride and a country's power culture pride. Soccer is not just a sport, but a man himself.
To be fair the WC is every 4 years, but even comparing the Super Bowl to other annual events, it is still far behind the Tour de France (3.5B) or the Champions League Final (450M), just because they are truly global sports, not just the US and a few Mexican or Canadian fans. I mean even US people can understand that!?
Half-time at the World Cup is generally a time for discussing the game, getting food, or moaning about the referee or the commentators
Having a pee and putting the kettle on. Electricity and water use sky rockets at half time .
Aardman based a whole film on that in 'Flushed Away'😁
@@speleokeir Yup, the nearest power station to me was designed specifically to cope with power surges caused by people putting their kettles on during ad breaks 🤣
In terms of worldwide TV audience, the Super Bowl isn't that impressive actually. In fact, more people watch the final of the Eurovision Song Contest each year, than the Super Bowl.
as a european im pretty sure the eurovision probably has a shadow audience,its a pretty known event even when no one really talks about it
EVEN THE CRICKET WORLDCUP HAD VIWERSIHP OF 600MILLION which might be 3rd biggest or 4th biggest thing so lol superbowl is nowhere
And younger people tends to not even care about it. In my surroundings at least.
I think the superbowl ranks 7th or 8th, behind even the rugby world cup and very much the cricket world cup
You can't compare a country, no matter how big, with a whole planet.
American football is a local game played by locals and unlike regular football, isn't really a thing elsewhere.
Moreover, I suspect that many Americans watch the Superbowl only in the hope of another nipplegate 😂
For those wondering, the Champions League Final got 450 million viewers.
3. 5 Billion
@@tangusdeheney6736 ‘The 2024 UEFA Champions League final had an estimated global audience of 450 million viewers’
@@wolfshadow_Obama_Osama World Cup gets billions of views
That’s equivalent to the Super Bowl
Not the Champions League
@@tangusdeheney6736 ok we already know. Why did you reply 3.5 billion to someone saying the Champions League gets 450 mil views. Don’t make no sense
@@wolfshadow_Obama_Osama the Champions League is not the same as the world Super Bowl The World Cup is… a league is not the same as a world event.. if you wanted to be the same as a league, then remove the word world from it
As a good Brazilian, I had to gogle "Super Bowl" to know what this is about LOL
When you looked up the rivalry between football nations what you got were clubs from different European cities (Barcelona, Madrid, Munich). That doesn't have anything to do with the World Cup. The strongest football countries usually are Brazil, Argentina, Spain, Italy, Germany, France and England. So whenever any of those play against one another it will be a great game and watched all over the world.
The best European clubs play against each other in the champions league (ucl) and that is where you will see games like Barcelona against Bayern Munich or Real Madrid against Manchester United.
It's so funny to watch his brain rebooting after learning that 3'600'000'000 people did watch the World Cup in 2018. 😂
I wonder if he'll tune in in 2026 when it goes to Mexico/USA/Canada? Will be interesting to see the viewing figures for that tournament as it will be the biggest ever held across the biggest geographic location.
Yes it was funny
Well yeah... But it's kind of unfair to compare viewers with 1 night event Super Bowl and the whole World Cup with 64 matches. Also world cup is every 4th year, Super Bowl is every year.
@@bionicgeekgrrl dont fall for project blue beam
@@jasonsk4097 project what now?
I'm from Argentina, we played against France, and around 1.5 billion people watched the 2022 World Cup final live on television. That day more than 5 million people reunited to celebrate in the Obelisco (a Buenos Aires landmark)
The 5 million wasn't that day, it was 2 days later when we try to have a parade with the players
Sobrevivió el McDonald's?
@@andrs901cuando llegue el fin del mundo, sólo las cucarachas y el McDonald's de Pellegrini sobrevivirán..
@@albo_ar De igual manera, reventaron el obelisco
I think more people in Bangladesh celebrated Argentina's victory than Argentinians in Argentina 😅
"El clásico" between Barcelona and Madrid has more audience than the Superbowl, around 400 million around the world see that match
Argentina vs Brazil the goat of football derbys
So you are happy that 50% of the viewers are there for the half time show!!!
I think the slightly sarcastic nature of the comments is because the Superbowl winners call themselves "World Champions" and baseball has the "World" Series. I think this annoys quite a few fans of truly worldwide sports, like football.
YES to this, it’s patently ludicrous and arrogant af! Can you imagine _any_ other country declaring a team WORLD champions just for winning a domestic competition?? Cause I can’t! Except maybe North Korea or something 😂
Even for clubs, football has a legit world championship (which is good, but everyone care more about UCL and Libertadores)
They are starting learning that non-US people might be better in "their" sports, for example in basketball. Jokic, Doncic, Giannis, Nowitzky....
🌹American learns for the first time there is a whole world outside their border that doesn't care how arrogant they are.
Certainly not the first time in Ryan's case
Did you even watch the video?
@@CazTanto 🌹I do not comment until I watch a video in its entirety. Ryan's initial reaction was typical Americana. Never question my motives as they are, unlike yours, genuine and genial. I suggest you take a refresher course in etiquette as well.
1:50 a few years ago, they wanted to emulate the NFL Half Time Show at the final of the DFB-Pokal (German cup; this is the single biggest annual game in German football) and had song performances.
This was massively criticized, nobody cared, and it has been dropped since.
Besides, the half time is only 15 minutes and unlike in American football, a soccer match goes 45 minutes uninterrupted by commercials. So you WANT that 15 minutes break. If in the stadium, you go to the restrooms or buy a beer and a wurst. If watching from home, these 15 minutes are for the halftime analysis of the game, or world news, and of course a few commercials. So, no time for a half-time show either way.
To add to that it was not only critized but the artist was merciless booed off the whole time.
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That being said it was not quite the same as the NFL half time show. The stage was smaller as you cant really do a whole show including construction and deconstruction on the main pitch in the 15 Minute that a pause goes.
I remember when Camilla Cabello played before a big final a couple years ago and she cried on social media because fans were chanting in support of their team rather than singing along to her.
@@sylvcast9948 "artist" being a bit of a stretch here anyway.
@@arthur_p_dent fair enough
At the recently concluded Copa America, Shakira (a legit wide audience star) had a halftime show. She was good, but lengthening the halftime to almost 30 minutes created an even bigger shit show for Conmebol...(security concerns, the fans storming to stadium with no tickets, the issue at the Colombia/Uruguay semifinal, the horrible grass overlaid on artificial turf, etc...) Tons of criticism and rightfully so.
America needs to realize the world isn’t just them
Gratitude for calling football by its real name!!! ⚽💝⚽
By unofficial accounts, the last WC final between Argentina and France in Qatar 2022 was watched by over 3 billion people worldwide (picture the thousands watching the game on a single giant public screen in India or Bangladesh, then multiply that by thousands more around the world...). Even in the U.S., bars, restaurants and even shopping malls and outdoor giant screen venues were packed with people watching the match.
The biggest rivalry involving national sides in football is probably Brazil vs Argentina. When it comes to clubs, the biggest rivalries are most likely Real Madrid-FC Barcelona in Europe (Spain) and River Plate-Boca Juniors in the Americas (Argentina).
And then we have the "World Series" - which nearly the entire world doesn't compete in.
Boring! 🥱
or care about...
Americans don't like to lose, that is why the US also doesn't compete in F1
Well, tbf, from americans perspective each state is like a country and USA is their world. Kinda thats the attitude, and it is not entirely wrong. USA is a federation. Governors are like the President of their own country if we consider size, laws and culture. I mean if we were to compare USA states to european coutries.
Its easier to say america number one when there aren't other competitors
Even the final of the European football champions is watched by three times more people than the Super Bowl and Eurovision also has more viewers.
Americans, you guys are definitely in your own world when it comes to sports
World Cup has an opening ceremony and a closing ceremony with various music stars. friendly regards Jeff from Austria.
American football and baseball are local sports.
Real football and rugby are global sports.
Add Basketball to the list of global sports.
@@hansjanko7966 Yes. But still a minor sport.
i tried to watch the superbowl once. too many interruptions, the game itself was entertaining, but i couldn't make it through the end, i wanted to watch a sport match, not a long commercial add with a show in the middle and some football here and there
I watch the highlights which just show the game time and don't include all the stoppages and skip the half time show
Never heard about Super Bowl, what is that? A new hype? What do I miss. Greetings from Spain
I had no idea what the Super Bowl was
Superman's bowl... 😅 We have super girl, super dog... And now super bowl
In the news around the world, outside of the US, is probably much more attention to the halftime show than the game... few images of the winners with the trophy (3 seconds, maybe) and 5 minutes commenting on who was singing, the lights, etc.
More people watch the cricket world cup compared to the super bowl!!
And cricket is already a sport nobody outside former British colonies has any idea about
90% of them are probably from India. Having a population of 1.5 billion helps.
@@quinob true
@@quinob Just like with Superbowl. It is pretty irrelevant outside of USA
more people watch competitive swimming world wide than watch the Superbowl
It's not that surprising considering that American Football is almost exclusively an american sport. As big as it is nationally you can't compare it to a worldwide event with multiple countries taking part in it
It was actually invented in Quebec and the Canadians still play it, but fuck them I suppose, Pure United Stater greed and entitlement to not even recognise the gridiron league literally right next to there's. It's like an Englishman refusing to learn about the Bundesliga.
No, but the point is that the US sells everything to its citizens as a global event: “World Series” for example, which of course is a misnomer and explains why they are so egocentric as a nation. The World Cup, on the other hand, really is a global event.
No American Football is played all around the world by now. A little more in rich nations hence the cost of equipment. I played American Football 15 years ago i i lived in a small city in the eu. The thing is even if you have one American Football club in a small city with one youth and one adult team. But you have like 6 football clubs with multiple teams across diffrent age groups (sometimes multiple teams per age group) thats why american football cant compare to how many people play football.
@@TelendilI think the point being made is the numbers of people who play American sports outside of America is pretty infinitesimal in comparison to football as to be basically insignificant, although I know the numbers are growing.
@@penname5766 Thats what i said... I only pointed out that it is not almost exclusively american. Btw the more or less exclusively american sport If there is any is Baseball.
halftime is for ads since we dont stop the game every 5 seconds to sell d pills or ssri
The World Cup actually has a closing ceremony that is held before the match and usually has a famous singer or group playing being Shakira the most celebrated; she has performed in four closing ceremonies and for every performance she writes a different song. The most famous is Waka Waka which has 3.96 billion views on TH-cam.
I really loved Waka Waka and since I'm also from Colombia I felt honoured when Shakira participated as one of the singers.
I always thought superbowl was the bowling tournament
I thought it was some kind of magnificent bird
I remember the first time I heard of the Superbowl i thought oh is that a big bowling tournament. Glad it wasn't just me .
It sounds like a horrible, semi-liquid, punch-like food-drink combo served at a failed party.
5:16 Rio is in a different time zone than London, and in a very unsuitable time zone for all these billions of people in Asia (8pm in Rio is 3am the next morning in Beijing). That alone should account for the drop in viewership.
He's American and didn't think of that. It hurts when they have to think.
Time zone almost certainly a factor...plus I would also say that by 2016 there was probably far more digital coverage than even 4 years prior...and social media etc. The figures given seemed to suggest tv broadcast figures only. Dunno?
@@vallejomach6721 Actually no. The calculation for viewership is a complicated one. It does include internet streams today. It also tries to take into account multiple people (a family, a group of friends, people watching in a pub or people watching it on a large public screen) watching on a single device.
I grew up in Australia and even small children are allowed to get up in the middle of the night to watch sporting events. I remember getting up to watch the Olympics and the Wimbledon finals in particular.
@@ktwashere5637 sure, but if the "prime time" of the top Olympic events is 8pm or 9pm, you may watch every day or almost every day. But very few people are going to get up at 3am for that. Maybe once or twice for a key event, when your athlete is in an important final. but certainly not 14 days in a row.
It does make a difference whether the Olympic day runs from noon to 10pm your time, or from 8pm to 6am.
0.8 billion watched the 2023 Rugby World cup - so even that is larger than the SuperBowl - SuperBowl is nearly exclusivly USA views only.
Rugby is an Sport many can play....you need cash to play American Demolition Derby!
The rest of the world doesn't care about hand egg. Football ⚽️is king.
The highest viewership ever would be a final between Brazil and Argentina for sure.
No, you would need one country from South America and one from Western Europe. Otherwise you would loose half the attention.
@@pitoune2866Arg vs Bra, biggest game in football and in a world cup final? That would be the most watched thing ever for ever.
Closest I can think of was river Vs bocs at libertadores Cup final, and that got everyone watching.
England vs Argentina would be bigger. Every European team will be rooting for Argentina 😅
Or Maybe a CR7 led Portugal Team vs Argentina would break the internet.
@@nachopuma13 The second sentence already shows that your view is limited to South America. I'm pretty sure any UEFA champions league final with two European rivals would catch more viewers than the Copa Liberatores, simply because 800 million potential European viewers is much more than 450 million South American one.
From a theoretical point probably something like China - India would be the biggest football final if those countrties would be any good in it.
From what football currently is a big European country (e.g. France, Germany) against a big South American country (Brazil, Argentina) has the biggest potential.
@@martinohnenamen6147 so the way football has become today, I can't estimate which of the countries would be the most attractive game if we were talking about 30 years ago, I would definitely say Brazil against Argentina, because according to my opinion , these countries have the players with the greatest talent they offer magical moments in the game. today in football what counts more is the tactiks endurance and strength of the players. here and there a messi, a ronaldinho or a ronaldo come out who are magicians and stand out from the rest.
ps i am from europe
Just after the war my Dad was one of the British soldiers in Egypt helping to run a transit camp for German, Austrian and Italian prisoners of war waiting to go home.
When the Brits and other nationalities got together for a sporting show down it wasn’t American football they played, of course it was proper football.....
European football doesn't need halftime shows to keep the fans entertained 😅
Brazil is the best in football, how people even dare to call it “European” ?????
@@drjoaozinho because 7:1
@drjoaozinho lol stop glazing yourself Brazil is getting worse and worse every year should I remind you 7:1 against Germany
Bro should be a comedian@@drjoaozinho
Finally, an American who admits that the Super Bowl is so boring that people only tune in to watch the half-time show! A survey done in 2020 showed that the ball is actually"in play" for only 18 minutes during the entire four quarters. I watched an exhibition match at Crystal Palace in London back in 1985 or 86 and we left after nearly three hours of watching nothing happening.
I really never understood how people who watch a 4 hours long match in which only 15 minutes are actual game can consider boring a real football match. American football matches are more boring than the 24 hours of Le Mans at 5am with the Safety Car in.
more people watch me playing tennis on a rainy sunday than the superbowl
6:26
England vs Germany
Brazil vs Argentina
To name a few..
All countries have something that is considered "required viewing" and those things can be funny to outsiders. Here in Finland, the required viewing is the president's ball on our independence day. It mostly consists of the president shaking hands with the guests. Foreigners can't understand why anyone wants to watch that. But it usually gets close to 3 million viewers, which is quite a lot in a country of 5.6 million people.
Not here, nothing like "required"
Dude... You guys need hobbies....
@@wuhtevah3840 The point is they comment on the dresses, hair, whatever, talk about who got invited and why (besides the political elites, ambassadors, whatever veterans are left, other bigwigs, they invite artists, athletes, etc., technically an "ordinary" person could earn an invite) and later, when everyone is in, they do interviews, etc. People do the same at home (though probably not interviews but commenting on them). It's a thing, for people who are interested.
It sort of "outs" the bigwigs for everyone, so they can't stay incognito, and the president gets the raw end of the deal there with the handshakes and greetings, getting pegged down a bit, so there are some upsides for a democratic republic.
Also, it may not be very active watching.
@@blechtic That sounds like something only homosexual people and some women would do.
Ah, the famous Finnish sense of humour at work...
The look on an American’s face when he realises the world doesn’t revolve around them! 🤣🤣🤣
The Superbowl is mainly watched by an American audience. The World Cup is watched by a worldwide audience, so therefore, the audience figures are considerably larger. It's great to watch an American release that what they have been led to believe is wrong.
I don't underestimate SB, but the main difference between US and European or South American sports, is the fan base. In the US every sports team is a franchised entreprise. Like supporting Coke vs Pepsi or smt like this. In Europe the clubs are fan based, it's like religion. Rather more than religion, you can change religion or wife, but you can never change the team you support.
It's not European football it's world football!
About 1.5 billion watched the 2022 final apparently.
24.2M alone watched the 2024 European Championships final on the BBC. Viewing figures beyond that haven't been released however for the entire competition.
Not many people watch the superbowl outside of the US. It's like the american eurovision
Each year they search to sell it in french channel.
" its the best show of the year, taylor swift ll sing"
Nobody know the rules and nobody watch.
Biggest Internation rivalry within two relevant national teams is Brazil x Argentina
Those are the 2 I was thinking of, but being English...England v Germany would be pretty huge too given the history!
@@WickerrmanI think any European country playing against Germany feels the same. In the Netherlands it’s our biggest rival too. Wonder which country Germany would pick? Maybe France or Spain?
@@Wickerrman nah, england is not on that level
@@Wickerrman England v. Germany is a big rivalry.... for England. Germany don't feel the same.
@@thanossnap4170 Probably true, but it would still be a big match, cus as we constantly hear...everyone wants England to lose cus of singing a certain song. People typically either support or dislike England, very similar to Argentina in that sense.
Yep.......that's why it's called: WORLD Cup....... A difference of roughly 7.7 billion 😂
Death of princess diana😢 was insane.... every household in the world watched the news because of her! RIP
World Cup with 32 nations vs. Super Bowl only in US. Nothing's strange!
Biggest rivalries in international football would be Brazil vs Argentina and in Europe maybe I‘m biased as a German but I feel a lot of the classic matchups involve Germany: Germany vs Netherlands, Germany vs England and Germany vs Italy all have a special feel to them.
As a French, have to say you forget France vs England for when I lived in Glasgow, Scotland, the Welsh, Scots and the Irish were with me too 😊
And France vs Italy is huge too, especially here in the south east of France where you have people with both nationalities.
But that's maybe cause I'm French
The way Ryan pronounces UEFA is hilarious 😂
It tells us he doesn’t know football without telling us he doesn’t know football. 😂
Imagine The US and Russia actually putting some effort in soccer and face eachother in a World cup game.... The Views would be sky high..
Clubs:
Clubs usually represent cities (some cities have multiple clubs, e.g. London with several clubs competing in the Premier League). Clubs always need to find the most talented players, some clubs ( like Barcelona) are therefore very invested in young players (youngsters in their teens) development to bring them in their team later on. Clubs also trade players (not like slavery, basically they trade the right to have a player under contract).
Each country has its own leagues with the best clubs playing in top league (e.g. the Premier League in England, Serie A in Italy, Bundesliga in Germany, La Liga in Spain) and lower leagues. The goal of each club is to be in the highest league and win, ending the season in last place usually has the club relegated to the second league and the winner of the second league gets into the highest league. UEFA Champions League is a multinational league for european clubs in which the 36 best clubs from the previous season in the highest national leagues take part. Teams ins UCL both try to become the UCL winners and to keep being successful in their national leagues (they do partake in both at the same time). Also, there is the UEFA Europa League which basically is the second tier european league, thus far less relevant)
National teams:
Each county has its own team. The manager of such a national team has to find the best players from that country and form a team that is capable of showing good performances. Therefore, within such a national team, each player are under contract at club, including clubs abroad (Kylian Mbappe, considered one of the best players nowdays, just switched from Paris to Madrid, but as a French citizen he contiues to play for the French national team).
The national organizations responsible for the national teams are members of continental confederations (UEFA is one them) and the global confederation FIFA. The continental confederations oversee the continental championship (e.g. the Euros) and FIFA oversees the World Cup. European national teams compete in the UEFA tournament every four years (for example this year and next time in 2028) while the World Cup is held every four years, too (next time in 2026 in Mexico, US and Canada, and then again in 2030 mainly in Spain, Portugal and Morocco).
I hope that short overview helps a bit. For sure the final game of UCL would be the better comparison as it isn't a global tournament and the rivaling teams are clubs and therefore more similar to the teams in NFL.
In 2023 Liverpool v Man Utd had a global audience of around 600m...that's one match - Barcelona v Real Madrid...650m across 185 countries. Football is massive!
When will Americans realise that that NFL around the world can't be taking seriously. It's child's rugby with padding and everyone laughs
most American's dont care what international audience think about American football LOL
Im in U.K. and I I used to watch it every week before it went to sky . Now I can only see the Super Bowl and the matches in U.K. in the summer when we get to see a few American teams do battle .
@@ryanwuzer Absolutely.
It's why they are ignorant and the average I q doesn't live up to European Standards.
@@julieb737 nobody from the U.k uses that terminology. You are lying because there are to much rivalry between the 4 nations.
Its basically a sort of rugby but with padding and helmets. The 2023 rugby world cup had a viewership of 1.1 billion in total.
Just for laughs and giggles.. 2018 final, France vs Croatia (im Croatian btw). 65M pop France, 4M Croatia.
Imagine a country of 4M ppl in a game watched by 1.1B of ppl worldwide.
Only 4 million , believed u were more.
@@Christophe-pl5xu its actually 3.8M. I was being generous
Super Bowl needs half time show and all of the series and movie trailers and commercials to be seen in US and around the world, it's not just for the game. The World Cup does not need such paraphernalia to be what it is. Not even the Olympics can match a World Cup Final game.
Even the Champions League can beat Super Bowl ratings.
in a worldcup final, i'd say Brazil vs Germany would bring the most people. those 2 teams are legendary
To add other sports to the audience competition , i checked the numbers for Formula 1 (445M watched at least a race in 2021, whith an average of 70M per race), and the 24H of Le Mans (113M watched the 2023 race on TV and 431k were watching it from the grandstands)
Oh the audience for this one would be Huge, the match to avenge 2014
Last time, Brazil vs Germany was embarrassing to watch... France vs Brazil would bring more people IMHO.
@@cabritsanscorgaming Even as a German I say "Let's not talk about that" ;)
@@HubiKoshi or making it this time 7:0!
I would think a Brasil vs Argentina final would be the biggest game in the history
How can you call it football when you don't kick the ball? ....rest of the world football ⚽
‘Soccer’ = football
American ‘football’ = handegg
its the size of the ball..one foot long..