FOOTBALL WAR - Oversimplified - A Historian Reacts

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[liambenn]

I gotta say, I think you really found the perfect reaction formula, lots of people do bad reactions where they just sit there and watch saying "wow" every 10 seconds, some people do talk and try to stop and add stuff but they tend to watch stuff they have no understanding about so they don't do it very well, but you watch videos that you do understand the history behind, and even if you don't the first thing you say at the start of those videos is "I don't know too much about this" but you still add meaningful commentary by showing people who haven't studied history how events are connected, the Shiroyama reaction was the perfect example to me, you said you didn't know a lot about eastern history, but you still managed to add meaningful commentary and went out of your way to look things up whilst watching the video to add to your knowledge and to still add to the video even though you explicitly told us you didn't know too much about eastern history.

I decided to write this short appreciation comment because of the stuff you'd said at the start of the video. We all really do appreciate how much you teach us all about history, and even for those of us who've studied history, you still manage to teach us some things.

[jyu]

The term "soccer" comes from the full name of the sport "association football." The British used to call the sport "soccer" for short and exported the term to her colonies. Britain then assimilated with the rest of Europe and began calling it football rather than soccer. However, the term soccer stuck in her former colonies.

[naythancruz]

Summary of the story : don’t let the US take your bananas

[Argentum_Rex]

What a pleasure to hear an American speak and understand football, appreciating the sport.

[gamingkami]

Nice to see an American who supports a football club which isn't any of the "top 6"

[redmendoza]

Thank you for talking about this because I'm a Honduran and so it makes me happy that a historian like you talk about this. Obviously I am not in favor of war.

[MassimoVas]

I like the fact that you’re a football fan. If you knew me in an everyday situation you would consider me a quiet guy, but if you knew me while watching football you would consider me the loudest and rudest person ever

[Regimentz.]

Best history reaction channel. Everything you say actually sounds smart. Other channels just say "oh ok" the remain silent. Props to you

[tintim]

20, 000plus Casualties for only four days of fighting is an insane attrition rate. I wonder how long both country’s would have been able to keep the war going if the OAS didn’t stop it.

[yovnx]

Hi! a Colombian here. The story of Andrés Escobar, how was he killed and everything behind it fills the entire country with shame because it is proof of how corrupt was Colombia's football back there and how everything that could be done wrong was actually done. Andres Escobar was one of the most promising players of their generation from Atletico Nacional and he went along with what we know as the ''Golden Generation'' team to the US WC. The entire team was incredibly inflated by Colombian press because of how they played the South american qualifiers including a historic win 0-5 to Maradona's Argentina on 1993. Because of that, Colombia came in as one of the favourites of the tournament according to the local and international press.

What happened then? The team could not handle that pressure and crumbled down losing the first match 1-3 against Rumania and then, on the second match against USA, Andres Escobar made an own goal that lead to a final score of 2-1, Colombia was knocked out of the WC on the first stage and the whole country put the blame upon Escobar's shoulders including some powerful people and drug lords that ruled the country after the death of Pablo Escobar 6 months ago. He was killed after a discussion on a night club in Medellin and it was and is still clear that he was killed because of that own goal.

The murdered who worked for a powerful drug lord back then, only served 11 years in prison and then was released thanks to good conduct. It tarnished our already spoiled international image and reputation and somehow, we as a nation are still recovering from such dark past.

[michaelnicchetta]

The 30 for 30 doc The Two Escobars from the first season is about the player murdered during the 94 World Cup and well worth watching

[kamuflaj]

Can't wait for the Emu war reaction

[jimdock]

Never expected you to be a West Brom fan 😂 big man utd fan from Ireland here absolutely love this channel been watching your videos on the way to work all week!

[mwwq]

4:00 was about to say "Like the war on drugs and the watergate scandal" but I did a quick search and saw that the war on drugs was declared before the watergate scandal came out.

[mikegaines]

Love yoir originals as well. Even though we're close in age I wish I had a had teacher like you coming up. Didn't really get into history until I joined the military and read hundreds of history books during deployments. Keep up the good work

[joshuawatkin]

Hey man I’m an United fan like your son but I live 30mins from the Hawthornes and used to work very close to it. Just wanted to say love your content I learn a bit more than I don’t from when I watched the original video so thank you

[Atlacatlgames]

My grandfather fought in that war . He was drafted in 1969 at the start of the war .

[eastondebolt]

El Savador and Honduras played once already in a 0-0 draw about a week ago in which the power went out halfway through lol. In the third round of Concacaf each team plays each other twice home and away. So the next time they play is in January.

[engrossingwaffles]

Wasn't able to celebrate the 200k subscribers but I wanted to say congratulations 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[skitskot]

Massive respect for not choosing one of the so called “big six”. You now have a sub.