American reacts to (European) Soccer Explained for Americans

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  @mrakmal7114 · 1 year ago

  Btw they changed it to 5 substitutes now instead of 3. And there's a special case where if a player is subbed out due to a concussion, it doesn't count as part of the 5 normal substitutes.

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• JO

  @jordansita5808 · 1 year ago

  I referee youth and high school soccer here in the US, but I&apos;ve always been fascinated by the European soccer scene. One thing that&apos;s hard for Americans to understand is just how intense the rivalries are between clubs. I mean, if your team gets thrashed in a derby match on Saturday, you might not want to show your face at school on Monday! The rivalries in European soccer are on a whole different level.<br>Please react on rivalries in soccer

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• MD

  @mdramizraja5310 · 1 year ago

  Tiki Taka is not a group &nbsp;of players. It&apos;s a play style. Players play one touch football and move the ball around quickly and doesn&apos;t let the other team to settle to defense. Barcelona was successful and continue to play the style. Spain won 2010 World Cup by adapting tikitaka.

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• ME

  @melvinpink2877 · 1 year ago (edited)

  Remember when you pick a team, it&apos;s for life.<br>That&apos;s from a European perspective. <br>Ps. The Busby babes

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• FO

  @fourthwall1899 · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fECIgnboVCw&amp;t=955">15:55</a> <br>Since you mentioned it, in 2013 a team called Wigan Athletic got relegated from the Premier League but still ended up winning the FA cup at the end of the season by beating Manchester City in the final. A true underdog story.<br><br>However an underdog story in football doesn&apos;t get better than Leicester City. Against all odds, they won the Premier League for the first time ever in 2016 after almost getting relegated the season before. You can read more about their fairytale season. There are a lot of videos in YouTube too about their story. You should react to it some day.

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• RA

  @raistormrs · 1 year ago

  Most important thing to understand in all of this, Football is not a Game... it is a very serious matter. For example, i&apos;m a German and when there is something like a Worldcup on, the Manager will have to explain himself to 80+million self declared experts who all know better than the Manager in charge, we judge and complain about every decision the Manager makes and i mean every decision...

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• CA

  @cariocaemfuria3946 · 1 year ago

  Hey, Cindy, hello from Brazil. Here&apos;s the &quot;position guide&quot; for you:<br><br>Obviously, the goalkeeper is the goalkeeper.<br><br>The center backs (usually 2 or 3) are the ones right in front of the goalkeeper. Their job is mainly to stop the other team from scoring. Those are usually tall guys with great impulsion and strengh.<br><br>The fullbacks are the ones next to the sidelines. Although this is firstly a defensive position, often they will help playmaking from the sides, depending on the strategy. Those guys must be super fit and have great stamina because usually they are the ones who will run the most miles on your average game. One on each side.<br><br>The midfielders are usually the more lean and elegant players (think Zidane) with the better possession skills and tend to be less &quot;specialized&quot;, they must be good at all fundamentals of the game because they need to play both offense and defense. They can be divided in defensive or attacking midfielders depending on their best skills, but ideally they need to do both at least competently. Usually 3 to 5 players per team, sometimes on a line, othe times on a square or triangle, depends on the team&apos;s formation.<br><br>Forward are the general offensive positions. They are responsable for passing through the other teams&apos; defenses and/or scoring. Those can be roughtly divided on: center-forward or just forward, the less specialized forwards, who are versatile on the offense. Wingers, the forwards specialized on the sides of the field. They must be really fast, lean and skillful and good on the 1 v 1 or even 1 v 2 (think current &apos;fifa the best&apos; winner Vinicius Jr). Some formations have no wingers, some have one on each side. And finally the Striker or Center midfielder, this is the more phisically threatening and imposing player on the attack who can essencially outpace and/or overpower the opposing center backs (for example, R9) and score goals on a more &quot;direct&quot; approach. Usually just one player on modern football, but sometimes 2 (more so historically) or even 3 in certain game situations.<br><br>I hope this helps!

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• SC

  @schwaiger1995 · 1 year ago

  Winning a treble has been done by a bunch of clubs in Europe: Barcelona and Bayern Munich have done it twice, Celtic (Scotland), Ajax &amp; PSV (Netherlands), Manchester United and City and Inter have done it. <br><br>The only teams to ever win a sextuple (six titles in a year) were Bayern Munich and Barcelona. Because there&apos;s two other competitions that weren&apos;t mentioned in the video: the Club World Cup where the Champions League winners of each continent play each other and the UEFA Super Cup where the Champions League winner plays the Europa League winner. Both happened relatively recently: Bayern won it in 2020 and Barcelona in 2009.

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• DR

  @Dreyno · 1 year ago

  Don’t randomly pick a team. Watch and eventually you’ll feel an affinity with one or two.

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• AN

  @andrenascimento5432 · 1 year ago

  It would be interesting if you saw some videos of some goalkeepers too, we have goalkeepers who are real walls like Neuer (from Germany), even goalkeepers who score goals, Rogerio Ceni (from Brazil) who has more than 100 goals from free kicks and penalties, even being a goalkeeper.

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• RV

  @RVFFICA · 11 months ago

  Atalanta (not a typo)<br>But bro slid in Premiere League like we wouldn&apos;t notice 😂

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• BI

  @bilalmani · 1 year ago

  The bad reviews about fifa means not the game sucks but it is kinda not evolving following the expectations from year to year. still It is a really fun game to play !

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