American Reacts to European Soccer in Four Simple Steps: A Guide for Americans

Hello! I'm an American on a quest to learn more about history, geography and the universe in general. In this video I've taken up your suggestions to watch a simplified version of how European football is structured. The relegation system surprised me - I might like it better than the way the U.S. does their sports. Looking forward to learning more before (and during) my live stream tomorrow of England vs. Scotland! If you enjoyed this video, please like and subscribe!

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01:25 - Reaction
08:13 - Outro

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[edh]

Euro 2020 is a tournament between countries, held every 4 years.
TheUEFA Champions League is a competition between clubs, held every year.

[craigireland]

The Euros are for national teams, the Champions League is for club teams

[willx]

teams finishing on same points goes to goal difference

[commentbellow]

When teams finish level on points, then goal difference is taken into account.

[davidhoward]

Its called the pyramid system, every team no matter how small, is given hope that one day they can eventually be in the top league..

[Moribax]

The Euros and the UEFA Champions leage are 2 different things.
They have the same structure, but the UEFA Champions League is played every year and is a club competition.
The Euros, on the other hand, are played once every 4 years and is a national competition, where national teams compete.

[timcliffsmith]

Hello, regarding this video, here are some points:

1. Regarding how good the teams promoted teams are versus relegated teams. In the English league, I would estimate that 2 out of the 3 teams promoted every year mange to survive, with 1 often getting immediately relegated again. Of the teams that go down, many find it difficult to get promoted again immediately. Again, perhaps 1 of the the 3 will manage it. However, you do get what are called yo-yo clubs who go up and down quite a bit.
2. In Europe, we consider the American system to be anathema. It is the antithesis of sport. Just a few months ago, some of the top teams from Europe wanted to form an American-style closed league and the reaction was overwhelming condemnation and they were forced to abandon to the idea and apologise. You have to have a system that lets every team have a chance (no matter how small in reality) of achieving the dream of going all the way. that is what it is all about.
3. Again, the Euros is national teams. He is talking about club soccer.

You now need to watch something about tactics! Good luck!

[mickbacon]

Just to confuse you, the English football leagues has 11 tiers in its official structure and clubs can in theory rise through the tiers by promotion. A notable example is AFC Wimbledon, formed in 2002 playing in the 9th tier and now due to successive promotions are playing in the 3rd Tier.

[stephanb]

Champions League is a Club competition, so New England Patriots or Pittsburgh Steelers in the NFL.

The EURO 2020 should have been last year, relegated to this year due to Covid.
The EURO is a National Teams competition, so like The USA against Russia in Ice Hockey (or more precise Austria vs Netherlands like) today

[amadhatter]

About Relegation: While normally the teams that go down a tier are normally one of the stronger teams its not always the case because of the transfers of players (same with teams going up a tier transfers can help them in the next tier).

Some football/soccer players have a bit of ego & will demand to be sold because they see playing in tier 2 as an insult e.g. Team A gets relegated to tier 2, they might have to sell their 3 best players to teams in tier 1 at a discount price (around 50% less then what they could of got if they stayed in tier 1) & 9/10 have trouble replacing them with the same level of quailty player.

That's what's so scary about relegation it has the potential to cripple your team and if your recruitment sucks you could end up being stuck in tier 2 for a while like Leeds Utd, went down to tier 2 in 2004 I think and it took them 16 years to return to tier 1 because of poor decisions.

[alancook]

The Champions League is for club football, which this year was won by Chelsea, as you know. The Euros and World Cup are completely different - these are for national teams, such as England, Scotland and Wales.

[deanwood]

I’m glad you was straight into another video to try and understand the game. Huge respect

[michael_]

Although we often use a 24 hour clock (military time), we'd never say "ninteen hundred o'clock", we'd just say Seven. Also great reaction, the guy does a pretty decent job as summarising it and you asked some very good questions. And yes the idea is that the relegated teams have not performed as well as the top three of the second tier, so they are promoted

[ianp]

The 3 teams that get relegated and the 3 teams that replace them are usually of a similar standard and it’s common for teams to get relegated at the end of the season they got promoted. There are a lot of “yo-yo” teams such as Norwich and Watford in England

[spacefox]

Actually, in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th tiers in England, we do have playoffs between 4 teams (3rd, 4th, 5th & 6th) the winner of the playoff final get promoted along with the teams who finished 1st and 2nd in the league. Basically the top 2 teams in the league get promoted without playing any playoffs.

[gregyoung]

Football is split into two types of games, Club football, this is where you see clubs Like Manchester United, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich etc, these play in their national league, cups and Champions Leaguer. The other type of football is National Football, this is where countries play each other, players can only play for the country they are a citizern of, so you can have players who play in multiple different countries leagues who all play for the same country. The countries play the World Cup, and a Continental Competition for Europe ths is the Euros.

Players play for clubs, they can play in any country, for whoever is willing to pay them the wages they want and they will sign a contract. The best players from each nation can be chosen to play for their country (this is a massive honour and the players get paid a relatively tiny amount to play for the nation, which in most cases is usually donated to a charity)

[juanmalo]

Answering your question in 2:50. Yes it is possible and more common than everybody espected. When that happens, there are a series of criteria for untied and to declare which team is going to be the champion, the criteria is previusly accorded by all the teams in each league in every country, so is not always the same and can change as many times the teams agrees prior the begining of each season.
The most common way, is the direct scoring balance between the two teams involved (remember this teams faces twice times per season). Other common way is with the total scoring account, so in case of a tie at the end of the season, the final winner would be the team that scored more goals.

[rogoththemasterwizard]

to answer your question in regards to the total points thing:

it's more than possible to have teams tied on points at the end of a season, in the event this happens the stat that dictate league positioning is the 'goal difference' (goals scored minus goals conceded), and the team with the best goal difference (highest), in descending order finishes the furthest up the league table etc, in the somewhat unlikely event that teams have both the same points total, and the same goal difference, the next stat that decides standings is the 'goals for' stat, so lets say for ease of explaining that 2 teams finished the season on 70 points, and both had a positive goal difference of 40, the team given the higher standing placement in the table is the team that scored the most goals of the two here, so say for instance one team scored a total of 60 goals and conceded 20 (+40 goal difference), but the other team scored 55 goals and conceded 15 (same +40 goal difference) it's the 60 goals scored that puts them highest in the table standings.

[markwilliamson]

Good luck for your first ever livestream tomorrow Sogal! I hope your buildup and preparations go well and I’m confident you’ll make a spectacular debut.👍

If Scarlett misbehaves show her a red card!😜😆

[JustinCardiff]

Champions league is club teams, euros is national teams.

The champions league is separate from the premier league. The league below the premier league is called The Championship, not the champions league.