American Football Coach REACTS to “The Beauty of Football” for the FIRST TIME

In this video, an NFL fan reacts to soccer’s greatest moments.

#highlights #soccer #football

[erik]

Football, in my experience, has the most passion out of any sport EVER. It has certainly saved my life, gave me a reason to be, as the quote said in the beginning as well. Kobe, whom you immensely more than likely know(may he R.I.P.), absolutely loved football(your soccer). It is much more than just purely "sport"

[romulomontes]

This video didn't focus much on defenses. If you want to see more defenses I recommend two videos:
- The art of Defending: which shows the defenders stopping the attackers.
- Impossible Saves: shows goalkeepers doing miracles.

[Manaf]

Football is not just a game. It’s a passion. It’s an emotion🥺

[collinkenney]

I think it's really important to understand the context of these goals. What's at stake, the level of skill, etc

[aziizali]

As Footbal fan, it’s sad you don’t recognize the significant of the goals you see. You can only appreciate how some of the goals you see in this video changed our lives and how we feel about this beautiful sport when you know the history.

[janmeyer]

This video hits so differently when you know each players and games history. I know every player and watched 90% of the games here that took place after I was born. To me its pure nostalgia, gives me so much joy and makes me tear up. Wish there was someone explaining you the stories behind the goals, so you could understand why everyone was freaking out even at less impressive goals.

Also you pointed out a mayor issue in the world of football real quick. Everyone is focused on the attacking aspect of football, goals get valued much higher than extraordinary defensive work or goalkeeping. The last defender that got awarded the best player of the year was Fabio Canavaro in 2006.

[ichbinfun]

1:20 Pelé's talking
This guy : who's this talking ?
Me watching : 💀
😂

[ideiasradicaispt]

Context is most of what makes many of these highlights incredible. That Agüero goal for Man City against QPR is one of the most special things in football history. Or the incredible comebacks Liverpool has made in the Champions League. Greece and Portugal winning the Euros 2004 and 2016 are also pretty special, despite neither team playing great football throughout the competitions they've won.

[jeffedrade]

7-1 was a holy shit. I'm brazilian and when our team lose that kind of way... it was a disaster in our history. we will never, ever forget.

[gasp]

Would love to see you react to football fans from europe and south america! The passion in this sport unmatched!

[Isleofskye]

Hello Luke.Thanks for your reaction. I have just commenced my 7th decade attending London football matches.
The point about those Argentinian goals by Messi and Maradona was that they were decades apart but almost identical. Greece won @150/1 The European Football Tournament for Countries but Leicester won The World's greatest League( The English Premier in 2015) after 38 games of odds of FIVE THOUSAND TO ONE..😀
"Ultras-Our Way Of Life-10, 000 Subscribers" or The World or Europe's Greatest Chants" are well worth seeing to begin to capture the atmosphere, my friend..

[kooffire]

There are monster goalkeepers 😂😂😂 sometimes playing against them is the most annoying thing in the world.

[steven]

The beauty of soccer is difficult to explain. As a fellow American, I can say that I absolutely fell in love with the sport in 1994 when I was twelve. The World Cup was on in the United States and I never knew boys could play the sport, let alone seeing the best players in the world as I was at the time. Watching the beauty of the sport was absolutely captivating. Some Americans made fun of the low-scoring affair, calling it boring. While I could empathize with their position, what I saw was something that was immensely difficult. To me, while I love basketball, it’s way more boring than soccer since they score most times going down the court. Top that with the fact that you can’t use your hands, so to have the grace, the skill, and the raw athleticism to be able to manipulate a ball using your feet. I don’t know, man, it’s just awe inspiring. Couple that with the fact that you can have immensely different styles of play, not necessarily unlike American football, basketball, or even baseball. You have teams that pass and pass and pass and find your weaknesses little by little until they find a seam, e.g. Spain with their Tiki-Taka. You have individual flair, e.g. Brazil. You have solid fundamentals and strict adherence to a system with precision, e.g. Germany. Then you have the raw guts of the Americans, Canadians, and Mexicans.

It really is just a beautiful, beautiful game.

[ChrisM-bnvr]

The reason the announcers were so excited in those bits were you were like "I don't know why it was that impressive" were because they were very important goals in a championship game, it would be like a player getting an amazing final touch down in the last minutes of a match to win in a final of a tournament. Also they were just very skilled goals too.

[mirzapiteus]

Bro doesn't know how emotional these goals are, I do as a Belgium who plays football

[MyHaytem]

To understand the impact of each goal in these compilations you have to get a little backstory behind each one of them. It's insane the scenario through which these goals came. Just rewatching these goals here gave me goosebumps, and these announcers (we call them commentators) they don't scream for no reason.

[jervi]

The man talking in the beginning is the best player in the history of the sport..also the youngest to ever win a world cup he was 16 and won Brazil they first cup..he changed the game..

[sdzvbkr]

Football is "life". All the world plays the game, from England, to Angola, to Spain, to New Zealand, to India, to Russia, to Israel, Iran to Italy etc. Its the biggest sport in the world.

And me being an avid football fan I thought I would explain the set up of our league and competitions. Unlike America we dont just have our national league, we can play other teams around the world.

Literally every country has a league. The Biggest tho are England, Spain, Italy and Germany, but you get massive clubs in Brazil and Argentina.

In England the league consists of 4 Divisions. Been around for 160 years and the FA Cup (explain later) is the oldest domestic sporting event in the world.

As I said we have 4 divisions (we call them leagues now, but up till the 90s and the influx of major TV rights, this was changed to Leagues).

You have the Premier League (formerly Division one), which has 20 teams, each playing a home and away game. The winners after 38 matches are English Champions. The top 4 teams qualify for the European Champions League, and 5th place (maybe 6th or 7th depends on who wins the League Cup or FA cup) go into the Europa League.

The bottom 3 get relegated to the Championship (2nd Tier of English Football and Formerly Division 2)

The Championship have more teams 24 Teams and the Top 2 get promoted to the Premier League and 3rd to 6th play a knock out, and the winner the final gets promoted also to the Premiership. This is called the Play Offs and the Championship Playoff is the biggest monetary prize in sport for the winning team. This is due to revenue (as the game is played at the National stadium Wembley), TV rights, Sponsorship rights and also prize money itself. The bottom 3 get relegated to League one

Then you have League one (formerly Division 3) and League two (formerly Division 4). This is same set up as the Championship, the top 2 get promoted, i.e League 1 top 2 go into the Championship and League 2 top two go into League 1. Same play offs to get into the above league and same relegation, but less prize money obviously.

As League 2 is the lowest of professional Leagues, bottom 2 go into the Conference which is not sponsored by the League itself, and 2 from the Conference get promoted. Which for you Americans is Wrexham this year who is owned by Ryan Reynolds.

There a numerous leagues that are not professional that interlink for promotion and relegation.

During the season you also have 2 Domestic cups.

The league cup which is a knockout competition for only the teams in the top 4 leagues (Premier league to League 2), and then the FA cup which literally every football team can participate. From Sunday leagues up wards. Usually have over 700 teams competing in KO rules. Obviously all non Leagues start off and this get dwindles down till they play teams in the league that are not in the Premier League (Championship to League two) which when they enter becomes the 1st round of the FA cup. Then in the 3rd round the Premiership teams enter the draw for the round.

Some teams you never hear off as play amateur football have the chance of playing the big teams like Man U, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, Man City, if they are lucky and this has happened numerous times in the past. Obviously the big teams win but the TV rights and revenue are massive for these small clubs. And the whole country roots (unless you support them) for the lower teams to do a shock. Which has also happened.

The cups are only English Teams allowed bar a few Welsh teams. No Scottish or Irish or any other country allowed, so the 700 odd teams that compete are just teams in England (and Wales). Scotland have their own league and cup competitions. i..e the Scottish FA Cup and Leagues for Scottish Teams. (same set up but less clubs, and have relegation, promotion)

The winners of the 2 cups go into the Europa League. If the winners get into the Champions League or Europa League due to finishing in the Top 5 of the Premiership, teams finishing 6th or 7th get into Europa.

Also while the season is on certain clubs play European cups (as mentioned above). The Champions League is the biggest, all The big clubs who won their countries league or finished between top 2 and top 4 (Each country have different amount of teams allowed due to League positions. The top country leagues get 4, where as the smaller countries may get 1 or 2).

Basically they are structured like the World Cup. Groups of 4 teams play home and away and the top 2 go into a KO (home and away). The Europa League is the same structure, but some teams finishing 3rd in their group in the Champions League will go into a play off with those finishing in 2nd in the Europa Groups, to play in the Europa League Knock out.

The winner of the Champions League become champions of Europe, the winners of the Europa League just win that but its the 2nd Biggest European trophy, but do get automatically entered into the Champions League regardless of where they finished in their own countries league for the nest season.

For some teams they can play 3 times in 6 days throughout the season. The season starts August and is played till May. We even play over Christmas with boxing day (a ban holiday in the UK for the 26th December) being the biggest day of Football as its a bank holiday and pubs and grounds are filled up to watch games. Plus its the biggest day for TV rights as due to christmas literally the whole world tunes into games shown for the Premier League, especially in countries that do not follow Christmas, like China, Middle East etc. The English Premier League is the most watched Football league in the world, possibly only Spanish La Liga coming anywhere near its popularity.

The following season the winners of the Champions league will play the winners of certain continents that have a similar set up So they will play the winners of Oceanic (Australia, New Zealand etc), South America (Brazil, Argentina etc) and the winners of the African trophy (teams from Nigeria etc playing each other). Thats called the Club World cup. Its not really that popular as only usually 4 teams play and its a KO.

Then you have the National Team. Players can play in any country, but will still (if good enough) represent their national team.
Like Ronaldo played in England and Spain but plays for his country Portugal.

The National team have 2 trophies.

The big one is the World cup. This starts with the qualifiers, these consists of all countries in their continents playing each other in group stages and the winners and 2nd placed go into the World cup itself. And I assume you understand the world cup structure.

Then you have your Continent trophy. In Europe its called the European Cup. Africa it called the African Cup of Nations etc.

The qualifiers of both are played throughout a league season, but the top leagues suspend games on the weekends for those weeks. So you may have 4-5 weeks in a season disrupted for the qualifiers.

Hope you followed that. I am an Arsenal fan, we've been around since 1888. The 3rd most successful team in England, FA Cup 14 times (record for most FA cup wins), League cup twice and 2 European trophies that were merged into the Europa League set up. (I would be here all day explaining the previous European Cups set up). Its a London team and the player in the clip Bergkamp who you saw flicking the ball and twisting round the player is hi playing for us, and the left foot to right foot lobbing the defender to score, was him playing for his country Holland. He also did exact same goal for us that season. He is probably the 2nd or 1st greatest player we had at Arsenal. Thierry Henry (who you may know as he retired to play in the US) is probably our greatest ever player. But this season we have a few young kids that are ripping up the league, in SAKA, young Black English kid who missed a penalty for England in the European Final and git racial abuse, idiots, but he captured the nation still who rallied to defend him and kick out the racists on line. And our Captain Odegaard, Danish player but amazing.

[misterkim]

I feel it is very fitting that the video starts with a quote from Bill Shankly. Liverpools history as a club is a great one. Legendary managers, players and supporters. YNWA

[Naren-rmqq]

I really like the fact that you appreciate football(or soccer as you guys might call it). You have no idea how big this sport is outside of the states. The entire world watches it, except the us.