Comments by "Lynott Parris" (@DenUitvreter) on "NFL Fan Reacts to Understanding European Soccer in Four Simple Steps: A Guide For Americans" video.

  1. Maybe you should react to a video from the supporter perspective, there are some nice English football vloggers like this one, who went to a very atmospheric European game with another football vlogger. You get the whole build up, the tension and a lot of atmosphere. Ajax vs. Borussia Dortmund. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoAt_RwBgg0
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  2. A couple of months ago Ajax Amsterdam lost to Hercules, a team from the 3rd amateur level so 5 divisions lower. A student scored twice and his whole student house had bets on him scoring so tens of thousands of euros were won. 5 years ago Ajax had beaten Real Madrid and Juventus to reach the semi finals of the Champions League. It's always starts 11 against 11 is the cliché. Footballers individually and collectively as a team are very susceptible to changes in form, confidence, pressure, luck, momentum at each stage of the game. If for one team all of that is up and for the other that is all down, it's starts amplifying eachother and the gap in level is bridged and strange things happen. I don't agree with the video entirely. The Champions League is creating an elite of clubs by design.
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  3. It's not fair to blame the Americans for using the word soccer for football, the British did call it that until the early 80's. Calling handegg football otoh....
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  4.  @georgerobartes2008  Of course Europeans have their own word for football. The English version is only in the names of some very old clubs. 'Soccer' featured in 80's English lesson text books. Juniors often find words outdated, they even make words outdated by getting older and still not using it. But don't be too surprised to hear the word in old early 80's BBC footage. So the Americans in the 60's were fully entitled to name their top league and association after soccer. Pele and Cruijff played in the American soccer league. They actually went traditional with that choice of name as your anecdotal but convincing personal evidence shows. They should take pride in their own league and not follow the English in name changes. It's their language now too, it has been for over two centuries. I don't think you should be judgemental about that just because your generation in England let go of a word. The Italians call it 'calcio', and there is no reference to the foot or the ball in that term either if I am not mistaken.
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