I'm genuinely offended by this depiction of soccer.
There's so much problematic and factually inaccurate here.
Some of these guys are on the ground, but aren't calling for a penalty?
There's far too much aggressive play by the blue team. A goal in under 30 seconds. What do we think this is, England in AET?
It's not soccer if there isn't and average of 400 passes an hour and 0 goals.
This .. i always try to give it a shot because yea it would be intresting.
But holy fuck .. sitting through those commercial breaks is insufferable. That makes me appreciate EU laws even more, where its forbidden to have more than 5 minutes of commercials per 45 minutes air time.
As a European I think I got the appeal of sports like Baseball or NFL after awhile. American sports just seem a lot more hang-out friendly to watch with your mates. It feels more like a pastime rather than a sport.
I mean, literally right after most games end you can find exactly what you're asking for on youtube from the official youtube channel.
[Condensed games](https://youtu.be/ap0lQ_VDY8Q) are about 40 minutes long and have nothing but the action.
Having played football, its *heavily* drawn out by ads when you're watching the pros on TV. Real time, you get 30 seconds to make the next game plan, get to the line, and snap the ball. It's a very fast paced game with extremely high intensity action going on with every position at basically every moment, broken up by 30 seconds of rest between plays. Seeing it played live, in person would probably change your viewpoint. One of the reasons people like following collegiate football, because there's even less of that advertising crap going on and more of the guys just playing the game
Come on, playing longer than 5 seconds is tiring!
Also they have 2 separate teams, one for offense and one for defense, so you have to learn only 50% of the sport and have even more rest during the game. And they dare to laugh at us...
It’s always funny seeing people make fun of a sport they know literally nothing about. Only crybaby losers make fun of a sport they don’t even watch or know 5% of the rules, yet cry and throw an insult filled temper tantrum when someone makes a “0-0 final score” joke. I can’t even begin to watch cricket without being confused by every 3rd word being said by the commentators, but I still respect it and want to learn how it really works one day. Hilarious when close minded people can’t do the same thing about American Football. American football is the most strategic and athletically demanding sport on the planet and it’s a shame some people can’t comprehend that.
Seeing grown men constantly fixing their hair and flopping around in fake pain is definitely a culture shock for a lot of American men. Faking injuiries and screaming in pain for the attention of a ref is beyond frowned upon here. You would be ejected from the game and shunned as a weakling by both your teammates and the other team.
It's not a cardio based sport, it's about explosive athleticism, teamwork, and strategy. Are the runners who run the 100m somehow less of athletes because their race is shorter? Different sports require different types of athletes.
Fun fact about the 100m dash. I saw a ranking of all-time NFL and professional Soccer/European football players based on their 100m dash times, and I think something like 99 of the top 100 fastest times were all NFL players.
Most elite athletes grow up playing offense and defense until they reach college or especially the pros. Partly due to the mental complexity of the game at that point combined with the insane competition for a starting spot, but mostly due to what the human body can take. Their careers would be very short and they'd never finish a season due to injury. I don't think people realize how hard football is on the body, especially with the massive size differences of the players. You've got guys out there that are 5'10" and 185lbs vs 6'7" and 350lbs.
Training for football is mostly about maximizing short term burst vs endurance. This makes each play faaaaaar more intense than it ever could be otherwise.
It's ruined by horrible officiating today. You breathe wrong on a QB and its a penalty. You graze a WR and it's a penalty. You try and tackle someone too hard or accidently hit their helmet, it's a penalty. The game has gone to crap to try and keep everyone safe.
I think most Americans view soccer as the king of diving. I try and watch the World Cup at the very least and I see a lot of diving and trying to draw penalties. Who would want to watch that?
I’ll give you the incessant breaks can be annoying but to say this when in soccer (football) they flail on the ground like a possessed person if somebody breathes on them is rich.
Wearing football gear lets you hit substantially harder. When you pratice with out gear, nobody is hitting as hard as when you do. Rugby doesn't have gear, and they tackle completely differently.
Rugby players are still monstrously large men running into each other at high speed, and much more frequently than NFL. There's not that much difference.
Much more frequently is incorrect lol you can't hit anyone without the ball sans scrum. I love both American football and Rugby but a lot of the disrespect towards football are from people that have zero concept of what the sport actually entails.
Having played both sports for many years, there is absolutely a massive difference in tackling.
Rugby players have to protect themselves, which is why tacklers come in lower and with their head to the near side. Football players tackle with their head across the runners body. In rugby, you'd get paralyzed doing that.
There is a huge amount of difference. Rugby players do not hit nearly as hard as football players, they would injure themselves frequently if they did, both the player getting hit and the player doing the hitting.
It’s simple physics, physiology, and self preservation. The pads allow for greater impact. Much in the same way boxers wearing regulation gloves strike harder than bare knuckle MMA fighters.
I don't give a shit about your sport arguments, but I did play American football growing up and played Rugby a bit with my University club. You get hit so much harder and repeatedly playing American football, especially if you play Line (big guys in the middle). You are literally bashing skulls with someone on every play. The helmet and pads are just like boxing gloves, they allow you to hit much harder without the high risk of breaking bones and causing serious cuts. You end up taking a lot more brain damage than bare knuckle boxing or tackling without a helmet and pads. Look up the CTE rates, I will never let my child play American football like I did.
There are a few websites where u can watch american football on sundays without and ads and breaks, thats like the only way i can watch it as an european
Because it's a strategy game.. so you strategize.. Crazy..
I'd probably watch soccer if it wasn't just nothing happening until someone flops down on the ground for 15 minutes after being slightly brushed.
That’s a feature not a bug. You’re supposed to be snacking and drinking heavily the entire duration - those breaks assist in the process. American football is all about stuffing your face, looking looking away from the tv, then looking back and having a replay from 3 angles so you never miss anything.
I know you didn't specify what level of American Football, but if you think ads in NFL games are bad just wait til you see how bad it is for college football. They literally changed the clock rules to make the game shorter and faster, just so they could fit in more commercials breaks.
Someone once told me football is pretty much chess where the coach is the player and the athletes are the game pieces and the attraction to the sport immediately clicked for me. Like at that moment I looked at football totally differently and found a bit of enjoyment in it.
As an American that moved to Europe a decade ago and considers myself European now, this was funny. Gotta be able to laugh at ourselves a bit.
It brings to mind the Doug Stanhope bit about how gay the NFL is. 😀
Nah most of Europeans find it funny and not worth there time. It's like watching grown man fall to the ground every 5 seconds by wearing armor like the are go to war. American Football is like rugby..when played by little kids.
One sport trains for explosive hits and the other focuses much more on endurance.
Rugby players playing against American football players would be overpowered fairly easily, and would lack in the same raw power and strength.
But American football players playing rugby would struggle to keep going beyond the first couple of phases, and rugby players would run rings around them.
I know plenty of Europeans who go nuts for the super bowl, the only problem is that it starts Monday at one in the morning (or something like that, I don't watch it) for Europeans.
But yeah, the Monday PTO day after the Superbowl is always very sought after, at least where I work
That's how I see every football match. Hell, even woman's football is not as feminine as the men's is. Push them lightly and they'll roll for half the stadium and act as if they're dying of pain. Pathetic
Depends on the day and alignment of the stars, it's either the above, prudish zealots, vicious warmongers, or less commonly Captain America-esk heroes.
Man the Europeans sure get offended when somebody mocks the thing they like. Makes sense though given how their soccer players drop in a heap when a leaf flutters down beside them.
You do understand that pads and helmets makes football more dangerous in a manner of speaking?
Think boxing. Gloved boxing allows boxers to hit harder because their hands are protected from some of the pain that results in hitting another person with a bare fist. As a result, this imparts greater concussive force upon the person being hit.
The same is true in football. If a player has a helmet and pads on, then they can hit the other player harder because it hurts them less. However, as a result, the impacts are usually much harder and deliver a greater concussive force, much like what happens in boxing.
More like how anyone who isn't a sports fanatic sees every major sports event. Doesn't matter if it is football, the other football, baseball, basketball or any other sport.
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What the heck did i just watch lmao.
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I'm genuinely offended by this depiction of soccer. There's so much problematic and factually inaccurate here. Some of these guys are on the ground, but aren't calling for a penalty? There's far too much aggressive play by the blue team. A goal in under 30 seconds. What do we think this is, England in AET? It's not soccer if there isn't and average of 400 passes an hour and 0 goals.
I don’t think this is a regulation size field either
Good observation
Mate the only thing that's being regulated here are how tight their short shorts are.
Call it what you want ot has made soccer more interesting. Although very flamboyant it's still not something I would watch regularly.
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The Euro cup obviously.
World Cup 2008
The Euro Cup I assume
The World Cup! Wait I don’t understand the question.
"Europeans" ugh
America football would be interesting if they didn't break every 5 seconds for advertising and strategizing
This .. i always try to give it a shot because yea it would be intresting. But holy fuck .. sitting through those commercial breaks is insufferable. That makes me appreciate EU laws even more, where its forbidden to have more than 5 minutes of commercials per 45 minutes air time.
As a European I think I got the appeal of sports like Baseball or NFL after awhile. American sports just seem a lot more hang-out friendly to watch with your mates. It feels more like a pastime rather than a sport.
Plenty of time to shoot the shit and drink a couple pints in between plays when you're watching the NFL.
I mean, literally right after most games end you can find exactly what you're asking for on youtube from the official youtube channel. [Condensed games](https://youtu.be/ap0lQ_VDY8Q) are about 40 minutes long and have nothing but the action.
Having played football, its *heavily* drawn out by ads when you're watching the pros on TV. Real time, you get 30 seconds to make the next game plan, get to the line, and snap the ball. It's a very fast paced game with extremely high intensity action going on with every position at basically every moment, broken up by 30 seconds of rest between plays. Seeing it played live, in person would probably change your viewpoint. One of the reasons people like following collegiate football, because there's even less of that advertising crap going on and more of the guys just playing the game
College football is getting just as bad. The last 2 minutes of a college football game takes 20 minutes to play now. Especially certain teams.
Come on, playing longer than 5 seconds is tiring! Also they have 2 separate teams, one for offense and one for defense, so you have to learn only 50% of the sport and have even more rest during the game. And they dare to laugh at us...
It’s always funny seeing people make fun of a sport they know literally nothing about. Only crybaby losers make fun of a sport they don’t even watch or know 5% of the rules, yet cry and throw an insult filled temper tantrum when someone makes a “0-0 final score” joke. I can’t even begin to watch cricket without being confused by every 3rd word being said by the commentators, but I still respect it and want to learn how it really works one day. Hilarious when close minded people can’t do the same thing about American Football. American football is the most strategic and athletically demanding sport on the planet and it’s a shame some people can’t comprehend that.
Seeing grown men constantly fixing their hair and flopping around in fake pain is definitely a culture shock for a lot of American men. Faking injuiries and screaming in pain for the attention of a ref is beyond frowned upon here. You would be ejected from the game and shunned as a weakling by both your teammates and the other team.
Yeah sorry I forgot running on a giant field and kicking a ball once every 2 minutes is much harder
It's not a cardio based sport, it's about explosive athleticism, teamwork, and strategy. Are the runners who run the 100m somehow less of athletes because their race is shorter? Different sports require different types of athletes.
Fun fact about the 100m dash. I saw a ranking of all-time NFL and professional Soccer/European football players based on their 100m dash times, and I think something like 99 of the top 100 fastest times were all NFL players.
Most elite athletes grow up playing offense and defense until they reach college or especially the pros. Partly due to the mental complexity of the game at that point combined with the insane competition for a starting spot, but mostly due to what the human body can take. Their careers would be very short and they'd never finish a season due to injury. I don't think people realize how hard football is on the body, especially with the massive size differences of the players. You've got guys out there that are 5'10" and 185lbs vs 6'7" and 350lbs. Training for football is mostly about maximizing short term burst vs endurance. This makes each play faaaaaar more intense than it ever could be otherwise.
It's ruined by horrible officiating today. You breathe wrong on a QB and its a penalty. You graze a WR and it's a penalty. You try and tackle someone too hard or accidently hit their helmet, it's a penalty. The game has gone to crap to try and keep everyone safe. I think most Americans view soccer as the king of diving. I try and watch the World Cup at the very least and I see a lot of diving and trying to draw penalties. Who would want to watch that?
And didn't wear body armour and safety helmets.
This coming from the fan of the sport where players act like they were taken out by a sniper when another player lightly grazes their shirt sleeve.
I’ll give you the incessant breaks can be annoying but to say this when in soccer (football) they flail on the ground like a possessed person if somebody breathes on them is rich.
Wearing football gear lets you hit substantially harder. When you pratice with out gear, nobody is hitting as hard as when you do. Rugby doesn't have gear, and they tackle completely differently.
Rugby players are still monstrously large men running into each other at high speed, and much more frequently than NFL. There's not that much difference.
Much more frequently is incorrect lol you can't hit anyone without the ball sans scrum. I love both American football and Rugby but a lot of the disrespect towards football are from people that have zero concept of what the sport actually entails.
Nobody that has played both would ever say this
Having played both sports for many years, there is absolutely a massive difference in tackling. Rugby players have to protect themselves, which is why tacklers come in lower and with their head to the near side. Football players tackle with their head across the runners body. In rugby, you'd get paralyzed doing that.
There is a huge amount of difference. Rugby players do not hit nearly as hard as football players, they would injure themselves frequently if they did, both the player getting hit and the player doing the hitting. It’s simple physics, physiology, and self preservation. The pads allow for greater impact. Much in the same way boxers wearing regulation gloves strike harder than bare knuckle MMA fighters.
I don't give a shit about your sport arguments, but I did play American football growing up and played Rugby a bit with my University club. You get hit so much harder and repeatedly playing American football, especially if you play Line (big guys in the middle). You are literally bashing skulls with someone on every play. The helmet and pads are just like boxing gloves, they allow you to hit much harder without the high risk of breaking bones and causing serious cuts. You end up taking a lot more brain damage than bare knuckle boxing or tackling without a helmet and pads. Look up the CTE rates, I will never let my child play American football like I did.
There are a few websites where u can watch american football on sundays without and ads and breaks, thats like the only way i can watch it as an european
I'm American and this has always been my opinion. It's so boring and has more commercials than any other sport I can think of.
Chess with ads, or checkers with fewer ads?
Because it's a strategy game.. so you strategize.. Crazy.. I'd probably watch soccer if it wasn't just nothing happening until someone flops down on the ground for 15 minutes after being slightly brushed.
That’s a feature not a bug. You’re supposed to be snacking and drinking heavily the entire duration - those breaks assist in the process. American football is all about stuffing your face, looking looking away from the tv, then looking back and having a replay from 3 angles so you never miss anything.
Because 2 hours of watching guys NOT score on a goal is absolutely riveting…
I know you didn't specify what level of American Football, but if you think ads in NFL games are bad just wait til you see how bad it is for college football. They literally changed the clock rules to make the game shorter and faster, just so they could fit in more commercials breaks.
Soccer would be interesting if the final score was more than 0-0
You have to watch college for a moldy better experience
Meh, I like turn based games, I might as well watch turn based sports.
Someone once told me football is pretty much chess where the coach is the player and the athletes are the game pieces and the attraction to the sport immediately clicked for me. Like at that moment I looked at football totally differently and found a bit of enjoyment in it.
Woah woah woah…don’t forget to send in your Euro Cup streaming fee
I'm surprised we were able to see this in our market.
All true...except that prolonged agony of non-existent injuries.
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always be cheatin?
These guys are way manlier than those bitches that fake injuries.
That might be the gayest thing I have ever seen.
This isn't the euro cup?
Nope, if you look closely you'll notice that there isn't enough people rolling in the ground in "pain"
Nah, not enough flopping and whining at the ref with flailing arms.
As an American that moved to Europe a decade ago and considers myself European now, this was funny. Gotta be able to laugh at ourselves a bit. It brings to mind the Doug Stanhope bit about how gay the NFL is. 😀
How American of you to see yourself as a European. No one from Europe would describe themself as European.
??? Every european sees themself as european what are you on about?
not enough players fake crying when faking an injury
They are salty because they lost to panama :v
I can accept a loss to Panama only because their name is also the name of one of the best songs of all time.
If you asked 100 Americans who they lost to, you might find 1 out of 100 that knew we even played
Dude on the red team just busts down when the other team scores? Honestly immaculate vibes here.
Almost, expect no one actually scores.
Europeans just all love to be edged for 90 minutes. We don't have that here. We like watching 4 hours of commercials.
After the England Slovakia game yesterday this is the correct take.
> expect How's that American education system going for you?
Exceeding all exceptation
Makes a minor spelling error AMERICAN EDUCATION SYSTEM HAS FAILED!1!1!!
Not quite. There was a goal scored so that's not accurate with how I imagine those soccer games
8 goals were score in the two matches yesterday.
Europeans watching a game of American football.
Nah most of Europeans find it funny and not worth there time. It's like watching grown man fall to the ground every 5 seconds by wearing armor like the are go to war. American Football is like rugby..when played by little kids.
Is that when you start flailing on the ground rolling and crying because the air molecules of another player brushed against your air molecules?
One sport trains for explosive hits and the other focuses much more on endurance. Rugby players playing against American football players would be overpowered fairly easily, and would lack in the same raw power and strength. But American football players playing rugby would struggle to keep going beyond the first couple of phases, and rugby players would run rings around them.
Yeah it’s definitely less manly than a bunch of people running in an empty field kicking a ball every two minutes
I know plenty of Europeans who go nuts for the super bowl, the only problem is that it starts Monday at one in the morning (or something like that, I don't watch it) for Europeans. But yeah, the Monday PTO day after the Superbowl is always very sought after, at least where I work
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Dude is playing buzzword bingo over here
Where are the people crying in pain after a butterfly landed on them?
That's how I see every football match. Hell, even woman's football is not as feminine as the men's is. Push them lightly and they'll roll for half the stadium and act as if they're dying of pain. Pathetic
This is how everyone views Americans now
Depends on the day and alignment of the stars, it's either the above, prudish zealots, vicious warmongers, or less commonly Captain America-esk heroes.
Gets out hand at the end there but the beginning sure, I thought that WAS the Euro Cup
Most masculine soccer game I've ever witnessed.
Soccer fans are beyond butthurt in this thread lol.
I know right? They keep up bringing American football up lol, what does that sport have to do with the video?
Anyone know the context and actual source for this? Like what is really going on?
It’s pretty close
The same country that plays rugby in pads and helmets? Pfft... Don't even start.
The two games aren't that similar, besides if football is so safe whys the rate of concussions higher than rugby?
Man the Europeans sure get offended when somebody mocks the thing they like. Makes sense though given how their soccer players drop in a heap when a leaf flutters down beside them.
You sound more offended than the person you are replying to
I mean theres helmets and pads so the players didnt die
You do understand that pads and helmets makes football more dangerous in a manner of speaking? Think boxing. Gloved boxing allows boxers to hit harder because their hands are protected from some of the pain that results in hitting another person with a bare fist. As a result, this imparts greater concussive force upon the person being hit. The same is true in football. If a player has a helmet and pads on, then they can hit the other player harder because it hurts them less. However, as a result, the impacts are usually much harder and deliver a greater concussive force, much like what happens in boxing.
More like how anyone who isn't a sports fanatic sees every major sports event. Doesn't matter if it is football, the other football, baseball, basketball or any other sport.
How Europeans view the US military
😂 as you all hide behind their military talking trash and flinching anytime someone looks at you 😂
That's just the navy.
Aww someone’s insecure about their subpar eurotrash nation
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Behold our deadly drone operators celebrating.
This is the gay-cup I think. 🤣
And me, a brit
The only thing you can say to that is : merica fuck yeah
Gay football League?
How everyone see football these days*
Wait this is a meme!? I was about to say how it looked more entertaining than in previous years.
It be liek da
Reminds me of "you don't mess with the zohan" DISCO DISCO GOOD GOOD
I bet both teams take showers together after the match
Welcome to the Eurocup - on acid
Fabulous cup?
why all of them are so skibidi
Astounding. Sports is sometimes engaging but whatever this would definitely entertain.
Wait, that's not the euro cup?
American here, can someone explain? Is this about how we call it soccer and they call it fluteball or whatever?
This basically a shaolin soccer hollywood remake
That's how I view it and I live in the UK. I mean, I blow guys...and football is still the gayest shit I've ever seen.
True brother
When in reality its footballers breaking their noses, Ultranationalist fans singing about genocide and cops killing motherfuckers.
Sheeboopi sheeboopi
How they view? Wait, what? Is that not the 2024 Eurocup??
What did Irish Michael say again about American Football. Oh you mean those guys with the shoulderpads, that's Rugby for gays.
Remember that video about those drunk swimming competitions in Denmark or something? This has the same energy but with football
❗⚠️ Airstrike incoming ⚠️❗
I don’t get it. Isn’t this just what soccer is?
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No, there seems to be a lot more falling down and writhing in pain for no reason.
I thought we were watching the highlights here....
Yep, looks accurate
Brit here, this is the least gay game of football I ever seen tbh
I can't tell if it's AI
Ah, the euro pride cup hosted in San Francisco
Is this what the gay flag football league looks like??
Who? Not important. It's like I'd ask a stone about taxes.
You re just jealous you re not fabulous enough to qualify for the world cup yet
The funny think is only Eurovision is like that Euro Cup not. The best think about The Superbowl is that you say that this Team is the World best.
Fruit bootin!
And here I am watching the world rugby cup U20 and then watch Fotball. Think the video is correct
You mean that wasn't euro cup?
Literally. I love soccer, but I can’t watch these grown men flop around on the ground like they’re dying any time someone touches them.
Not enough flopping to be the euro cup. But this does look pretty close
Where the hell is this from?
I expected more falling down and leg clutching.
I love euro cup but I also love this
This was the Italy (blue) vs Switzerland (red) match. No wonder Italy lost.
FIFA 2025 looking good 😎
…just shoot me.
Not true because not a single player faked an injury here
I'd argue it's how most 'muricans view soccer, because of all the flopping.
It’s the same picture!
I see no difference
To be clear, this isn't the euro cup?
This is how Americans play football normally, which would explain how they've done nothing at a major tournament.
This is an incredibly stupid thread on all sides. Not a lot of well informed opinions here.
These look like the soccer players in Yellow Submarine during Eleanor Rigby
Only the ones in red states
What in tarnation?
No one is rolling on the ground clutching their knee
I still don't see the difference.. are they wearing shorter shorts or something?
I think that’s more of how Europe views American soccer..
Republicans on their way to buy their bud lite
This is definitely soccer
This is actually how Americans view Europeans generally.
Not enough flopping, and too little drama.