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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff you should know from house Stuff Works

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Speaker 1: dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh

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Speaker 1: Clark with Charles W. Chuck Brian. That's weird. I know.

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Speaker 1: I was thinking like I'm gonna come it with something

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Speaker 1: not YEA halfway through somebody said I sounded burned out

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Speaker 1: on the Sugar episode. Let's sad because I was kind

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Speaker 1: of burned out. I was right before vacation. Oh yeah, sure,

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Speaker 1: we've been going and going and going and going and

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Speaker 1: going and going, but now you're recharged. Yeah. Oh man, yeah,

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Speaker 1: yeah good. I somehow transferred from like a type A

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Speaker 1: person to a type V person on vacation. It was

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Speaker 1: like that hardcore of a vacation. Wow. And that lasted

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Speaker 1: a couple of days. Yep. I still got a little

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Speaker 1: bit going on. Hang on to that be I still

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Speaker 1: have the corn rows in my hair that I had

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Speaker 1: put on the beach. Thank you. You like this shaking

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Speaker 1: them around? Yeah? Uh so, Chuck, Yes, do you ever

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Speaker 1: play soccer when you were a kid. I did not

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Speaker 1: as a kid. Oh yeah, no, I didn't start until

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Speaker 1: high school. So you played for your high school team.

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Speaker 1: I played for B team and uh for a couple

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Speaker 1: of years. And then at red And High School are

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Speaker 1: the class in front of me was loaded with star

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Speaker 1: talent like that you met like no, no, well that too,

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Speaker 1: but um, yeah they were really good and so and

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Speaker 1: I wasn't a very good soccer player. I mean I

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Speaker 1: was okay, just because I'm fairly athletic, but I wasn't

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Speaker 1: like these guys had played since they were kids and

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Speaker 1: they all got scholarships to college and like they went state.

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Speaker 1: So I was the type that was like, why bother,

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Speaker 1: I'll never be that kid. Yeah, I like, you know,

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Speaker 1: I'll sit on the bench and I you know, that

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Speaker 1: was my role. So did you get any like did

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Speaker 1: you score any goals or anything? Now? I had an

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Speaker 1: assist one game, which was pretty excit my eighth grade year.

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Speaker 1: And uh that's just the fact that I remember and

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Speaker 1: assist in my eighth grade year shows how bad I

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Speaker 1: wasn't soccer no, I know to me, and I got

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Speaker 1: a football story like that. Yeah, I played for a

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Speaker 1: little bit like um forty five minutes I think at

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Speaker 1: the y Um, I was all ready to go like okay,

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Speaker 1: a new sport, let's play this, and um we were

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Speaker 1: playing We're like first day I got my T shirt

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Speaker 1: on and like was learning how to dribble the ball,

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Speaker 1: and um, some kid asked like when we're gonna have

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Speaker 1: our first game, and the coaches like, oh, there's stuck

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Speaker 1: going to be any games. We're just gonna scrimmage one

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Speaker 1: another in our team and we're it's just practice. That's

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Speaker 1: all you're ever gonna do is practice. There's not gonna

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Speaker 1: be a game ever, that's weird. I was like, see

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Speaker 1: you later. How long until my mom comes and gets like,

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Speaker 1: I'm only in this to beat down someone else exactly,

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Speaker 1: I'm so competitive, you know. But that was my experience

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Speaker 1: with soccer and I never, like, uh, had a thing

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Speaker 1: against it. It It. It just always seems so like European

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Speaker 1: to me. It definitely is that where its origins came from.

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Speaker 1: So I was sensing something. It's the world though it

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Speaker 1: is now for sure. Well, I mean it always has been. Man,

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Speaker 1: this that is a good setup. But to call it

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Speaker 1: European though, I mean it's America's, you know, kind of

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Speaker 1: one of the only nations that hasn't fully embraced soccer. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: for sure, it's the soccer and the imperial system of measurement,

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Speaker 1: that's right. Yeah, And I have theories on that, which

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Speaker 1: we'll get to. Oh, I want to hear that, and

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Speaker 1: why the USA hasn't embraced it like other folks. Well,

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Speaker 1: we have three perfectly good other sports. Yeah, well four

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Speaker 1: if you count hockey, which is like soccer on ice.

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Speaker 1: It is a lot like soccer on ice. When I

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Speaker 1: was researching this, I realized, like, wow, you know there's

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Speaker 1: basically one game, and then everything is a variation on

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Speaker 1: that basic game. Yeah, it's uh to take an object

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Speaker 1: and to try and drive it into an opponent's area. Yes,

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Speaker 1: the same with American football, really right, same with basketball. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: baseball is the one that's different. It is different, but

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Speaker 1: technically if you look at the field as switching sides

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Speaker 1: the outside of the stadium is like their goal, it's close,

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Speaker 1: And I think there's stem from the same prehistoric games,

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Speaker 1: whatever they use as a goal. Not took took in

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Speaker 1: this case, but chick mo all all playing uh, what's

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Speaker 1: what is it? Popped up polk go ahead, and I

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Speaker 1: don't know what that is. That's a mind game, was it?

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Speaker 1: It's possibly the hardest game anyone's ever created, and they

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Speaker 1: were playing it for two thousand years. Basically, it was

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Speaker 1: ground else the game was over. But you couldn't use

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Speaker 1: your hands. I don't believe you hit it with your

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Speaker 1: win the game, you had to hit it through a

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Speaker 1: got it through the ring, the game was over. But

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Speaker 1: like that sounds impossible. Hip ball hip ball exactly? You

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Speaker 1: get a medicine ball and a hoop and and hip

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Speaker 1: surgery afterwards. Yeah, I mean it sounds awful. But the

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Speaker 1: Maya weren't the only ones who were who were playing

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Speaker 1: a game like that, like kind of all over the

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Speaker 1: world there were instances of soccer being played. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: China third century BC is where they have the oldest

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Speaker 1: scientific evidence. Uh, and it was an exercise in a

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Speaker 1: military manual. And then um, the Han dynasty had something

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Speaker 1: called suchu, which is a leather ball filled with feathers

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Speaker 1: and hair lighter. I guess than the Mayans. They probably

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Speaker 1: way too heavy. Well, apparently the Chinese started out using

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Speaker 1: human heads supposedly, really yeah, supposedly that predated succhi. Is

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Speaker 1: that real though? I don't know, but I saw it

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Speaker 1: I can't say if it's real or not. Well with succhi,

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Speaker 1: like the net wasn't on the ground, no, but still

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Speaker 1: pretty close to soccer, but you couldn't use your hands. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And then in Japan they had kamari um, which they

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Speaker 1: still play today. Actually, is it apparently a little more

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Speaker 1: ceremonious than um succhi like Succi is a little maraucous,

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Speaker 1: actually see what kumari looks like. But the description here

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Speaker 1: It sounds a little bit like pucked up poke yeah exactly. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but I think all this lends creates the fact that

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Speaker 1: at similar times. The Greeks the Romans had games like that.

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Speaker 1: They did UM and then in England. England considered the

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Speaker 1: And so like the whole town was involved, and like

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Speaker 1: the literally geographically and population wise, the whole town was involved,

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Speaker 1: and there's a lot of damage to property and apparently

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Speaker 1: it was outlawed from like the thirteenth century to the

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Speaker 1: seventeenth century. It was the hooligans were playing the sport

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Speaker 1: up exactly. They weren't just the fans, and even though

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Speaker 1: which I think is really neat. Like you know, other sports,

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Speaker 1: like I said, you can trace it back to a

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Speaker 1: just like you said, started started like you know, narrowing

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Speaker 1: In fact, the origin of the word soccer. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: not true. Soccer was the word for it eighteen years

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Speaker 1: before the word football was used for it by the English.

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Speaker 1: They invented the word soccer. Supposedly, although this is one

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Speaker 1: as a matter of debate. Charles Redford Brown was an

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Speaker 1: Oxford student. Uh well, I guess let's tell the story.

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Speaker 1: a Freemason lodge, I think so. So they had this

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Speaker 1: because like each each team, each school, UM, they were

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Speaker 1: So they finally came together at Cambridge and said, let's

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Speaker 1: We like to kick it around. And that's where the

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Speaker 1: split between rugby and soccer came. Um they called it,

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Speaker 1: uh well, they called it associate Asian football and association rugby.

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Speaker 1: so they called rugby rugger, and they called association football

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Speaker 1: But it was among like soccer was played among the

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Speaker 1: wealthier elite. And then once it started spreading to the

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Speaker 1: kind of a silly name, it really is for that

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Speaker 1: the punter. And the kicker and there everyone you know

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Speaker 1: if there's a a name mix up that that we

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Speaker 1: should have for football, it should should be called rugby. Really,

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Speaker 1: it much more resembles rugby than soccer. Yeah, man, this

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Speaker 1: I had just learned in this show that rugby and

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Speaker 1: soccer were like, we're sort of the same game until

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Speaker 1: they split. I didn't realize that. Yeah, I hadn't realized

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Speaker 1: it either. And I think rugby stayed among the upper classes,

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Speaker 1: the upper classes. You said soccer was upper classes. No,

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Speaker 1: Soccer eventually spread to the lower class, and that's when

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Speaker 1: it became a game of the people. But rugby never

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Speaker 1: spread to the lower classes. I mean it may have now,

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Speaker 1: but you would think rugby would be the you know,

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Speaker 1: rough and tumble. Yeah, I don't know, makes sense to me.

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Speaker 1: So that was eighteen forty eight, and that whole process

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Speaker 1: FIFA came along, the Federation Internationale, the Football Association. I'm

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Speaker 1: not quite sure what Continental accent that was supposed to be,

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Speaker 1: but it was a European accent. And by this point

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Speaker 1: Um like century Well yeah, but they still had rule

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Speaker 1: changes over the years. But um, in eighteen sixty nine

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Speaker 1: England hasn't won a World Cup for so long. There's

425
00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:06,399
Speaker 1: sort of like the Chicago Cubs of of international soccer

426
00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:11,440
Speaker 1: in English fans or notorious for just being depressed already,

427
00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:15,760
Speaker 1: like at the start of the World Cup. Um there, Well,

428
00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:18,760
Speaker 1: I probably can't say that joke. There's some good jokes

429
00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:21,440
Speaker 1: about it. Yeah, but I mean it's a big deal

430
00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:23,720
Speaker 1: to win the World Cup, so much so that like

431
00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:28,240
Speaker 1: huge deal. It happens every four years. Twice during World

432
00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:31,359
Speaker 1: War Two there wasn't a World Cup, so there's there.

433
00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:34,520
Speaker 1: We're in the twentieth World Cup ever, and only I

434
00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:38,680
Speaker 1: think eight teams, eight nations have ever won it. Italyst

435
00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:43,000
Speaker 1: like four, I can't remember who is three, maybe Brazil,

436
00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:47,320
Speaker 1: I don't know. Uh, And then like England and France

437
00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:50,000
Speaker 1: each have one and they had it when they were hosting,

438
00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:53,680
Speaker 1: so apparently there's a huge home field advantage. But um,

439
00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:56,439
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just an enormous deal to win the

440
00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:59,359
Speaker 1: World Cup. Like not only are you saying or have

441
00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:02,359
Speaker 1: you shown that you're the best team in the world,

442
00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:06,840
Speaker 1: Like not just space is involved, but time as well,

443
00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:11,800
Speaker 1: Like you're one of the greatest soccer teams ever to play. Yeah,

444
00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:16,080
Speaker 1: and it's it's neat because all these all these players,

445
00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:20,520
Speaker 1: um play professionally as well, so they're pitted against each other.

446
00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:23,840
Speaker 1: Like you know, if you've got a guy from Germany

447
00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:25,639
Speaker 1: on your team and you're playing Germany, like all of

448
00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:29,560
Speaker 1: a sudden, your opponent or your teammate is now your

449
00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:32,040
Speaker 1: opponent because you're playing for your national team. So it's

450
00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:34,399
Speaker 1: I don't know, there's it's a more emotionally charged, I

451
00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:38,160
Speaker 1: think for that reason. Well, so let's let's talk about like,

452
00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:41,479
Speaker 1: let's take a giant step back and talk about the

453
00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:56,120
Speaker 1: basics of playing soccer after a message brick, Okay, Americans

454
00:25:56,760 --> 00:26:04,520
Speaker 1: and Canadians and Josh, you've got two teams. You've got

455
00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:07,800
Speaker 1: eleven players, which includes your goalkeeper on each side. And

456
00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:10,840
Speaker 1: the goal is obviously to kick the soccer ball into

457
00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:13,000
Speaker 1: the goal. The goal is to make a goal. Yeah,

458
00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:15,200
Speaker 1: and the ball has to be completely over the line

459
00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:18,120
Speaker 1: if the if the goalkeeper manages to get a hand

460
00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:20,399
Speaker 1: on it while it's you know, on the line. And

461
00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:23,280
Speaker 1: again he's he or she or she is he allowed

462
00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:26,320
Speaker 1: to use his hands in what's called the goal box. Yes,

463
00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:28,639
Speaker 1: and that's the only player allowed to use his or

464
00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:33,600
Speaker 1: her hands. Um. And you know, it's a sport of gentlemen,

465
00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:37,320
Speaker 1: at least it started out that way. So you're supposed

466
00:26:37,359 --> 00:26:40,639
Speaker 1: to kind of admit when you've had a handball, although

467
00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:43,159
Speaker 1: that doesn't go down quite as much anymore. No. Now

468
00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:46,000
Speaker 1: it's usually the other players raising their hand and saying

469
00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:48,440
Speaker 1: he touched it with his hand, right, and then the

470
00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:51,200
Speaker 1: guy be like, oh, it's so true. It just goes

471
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:56,959
Speaker 1: down from there apparently a player named Diego Maradona. Oh,

472
00:26:57,080 --> 00:27:00,280
Speaker 1: the hand of God. Yeah, and the World Cup one.

473
00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:03,119
Speaker 1: And then he later said like, yeah, I hit it

474
00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:05,280
Speaker 1: with my fist a little bit. Yeah, what are you

475
00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:09,080
Speaker 1: gonna do? Well, it's now it's soccer legend. It's like

476
00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:11,480
Speaker 1: the immaculate reception in football. It's the hand of God

477
00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:14,080
Speaker 1: goal and soccer. But mayor Donne he's one of the

478
00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:19,480
Speaker 1: greatest ever so because he used his hands. No, no, uh,

479
00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:22,000
Speaker 1: you've got two forty five minute periods. Um. The thing

480
00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:25,320
Speaker 1: that Emily likes about soccer is it lasts for a

481
00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:29,040
Speaker 1: finite amount of time. You'd think, well, no, it does,

482
00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:32,280
Speaker 1: and there's something called extra time. Well it is, and

483
00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:34,840
Speaker 1: that's the clock never stops like it does in other sports.

484
00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:37,919
Speaker 1: But while players are down, are injured, or there's a

485
00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:41,680
Speaker 1: stoppage of play, um for for injury, they will keep

486
00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:43,800
Speaker 1: track of that time and they add it on. But

487
00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:47,240
Speaker 1: it's never that much. It's like a few minutes usually. Yeah,

488
00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:49,280
Speaker 1: so at the end of the forty five minutes, Uh,

489
00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:50,959
Speaker 1: you'll see a little guy on the sideline hold up

490
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:54,920
Speaker 1: a digital clock that says like four minutes, and then

491
00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:56,480
Speaker 1: so you play for an extra four minutes and that

492
00:27:56,520 --> 00:27:59,240
Speaker 1: gets really exciting because you know, if it's coming down

493
00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:02,159
Speaker 1: to the wire, you know, like you know you're if

494
00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:05,120
Speaker 1: you score a goal to win in penalty time, that's

495
00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:08,720
Speaker 1: like huge, That's like triple O t in NHL hockey.

496
00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:12,240
Speaker 1: But some guys have been accused of like faking injury

497
00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:16,560
Speaker 1: to add injury time. Yeah, well, or extra time or

498
00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:20,080
Speaker 1: or to keep Yeah. I mean, should we talk about

499
00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:25,120
Speaker 1: diving and faking and well traumatic, let's let because it's

500
00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:29,359
Speaker 1: a big deal. Uh. Diving is um when a player

501
00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:35,560
Speaker 1: either completely fakes we'll say, exaggerates contact or injury or

502
00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:39,480
Speaker 1: completely fakes it like not even gets touched, dives on

503
00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:42,240
Speaker 1: the field, rolls around on the ground holding their shin

504
00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:47,880
Speaker 1: usually like they've got a compound fracture, and um, it's

505
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:51,200
Speaker 1: a it's it's a big controversy in the sport, and

506
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:54,800
Speaker 1: it's I think the biggest reason why Americans don't fully

507
00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:59,640
Speaker 1: embrace the sport. Uh supposedly that's yeah, a huge reason

508
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:05,760
Speaker 1: because Americans are used to American football, where you spit

509
00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:08,960
Speaker 1: out teeth or tape up a broken bone to play

510
00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:11,480
Speaker 1: the game. Like you're not going to see an NFL

511
00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:14,840
Speaker 1: player rolling around on the ground screaming unless they have

512
00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:18,320
Speaker 1: a bone sticking up through their skin like they're tough.

513
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:21,360
Speaker 1: And uh, Americans are used to that. And I think

514
00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:24,840
Speaker 1: when Americans see a soccer player get tapped on the

515
00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:27,760
Speaker 1: shin and they roll around on the ground screaming, I

516
00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:32,000
Speaker 1: think they don't admire that quality. There's the nicest way

517
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:35,680
Speaker 1: I can say it. It's becoming more more prevalent in basketball.

518
00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:38,840
Speaker 1: They call it flopping. Yeah, because of international a lot

519
00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:42,160
Speaker 1: of players is one of the theories. Oh is that right, Yeah,

520
00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:45,120
Speaker 1: the influx of European players. It's like man who nobly

521
00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:48,800
Speaker 1: he's one of the greatest floppers ever. Yeah, it's true.

522
00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:51,520
Speaker 1: But the NBA is now finding floppers, which is yeah,

523
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:54,040
Speaker 1: probably not going to change much. No, it's not because

524
00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:56,920
Speaker 1: they find them like five grand, yeah, which is no

525
00:29:56,960 --> 00:30:00,320
Speaker 1: big deal when you're super rich. But I think it's

526
00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:05,760
Speaker 1: very controversial. Um, I'm trying to not insult people, but

527
00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:12,880
Speaker 1: speaking very generally, Northern European countries, England, America aren't into it,

528
00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:17,320
Speaker 1: except Germany is supposedly big into Germany will dive for sure. Uh.

529
00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:21,479
Speaker 1: Southern European and South American countries do it more. Uh.

530
00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:25,640
Speaker 1: And while Americans hate it. Every language has a term

531
00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:29,480
Speaker 1: for like a complimentary term for what they call gamesmanship.

532
00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:34,640
Speaker 1: So it's just a different philosophy and other parts of

533
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:37,360
Speaker 1: the world and we I don't understand it as an American,

534
00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:41,560
Speaker 1: it's cheating to me. But UM, I read a good

535
00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:43,320
Speaker 1: blog post from this one guy who has a few

536
00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:48,280
Speaker 1: theories arranging from the broken window theory to uh where

537
00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:50,160
Speaker 1: like if you are exposed to it all the time,

538
00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:52,160
Speaker 1: you get used to it, and then if you're not

539
00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:54,960
Speaker 1: exposed to it, like you're an American, when you see

540
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:57,240
Speaker 1: somebody do it like you're exposed to in the World Cup,

541
00:30:57,240 --> 00:31:00,000
Speaker 1: all of a sudden booms he seems horrendous. Yeah, right,

542
00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:04,200
Speaker 1: uh And from that all the way to um he

543
00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:08,640
Speaker 1: thinks that just how some countries UH view the law,

544
00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:12,240
Speaker 1: even in ethics. Like he traveled to Argentina and he said,

545
00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:15,000
Speaker 1: in Argentina, I had a lot of conversations with soccer

546
00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:18,240
Speaker 1: players and they were like, in America, you follow rules,

547
00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:22,840
Speaker 1: because the rules in Argentina you break rules until you

548
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:26,480
Speaker 1: get caught. So it's you should try and get away

549
00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:29,360
Speaker 1: with it unless you get caught. It's part of the game. Um.

550
00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:31,479
Speaker 1: He was. He had a conversation apparently with one guy

551
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:35,720
Speaker 1: about the newspapers in the US. How you can go

552
00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:38,120
Speaker 1: to a newspaper box and it's just full of newspapers.

553
00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:40,240
Speaker 1: And they were like, why don't you take all the newspapers?

554
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:42,800
Speaker 1: You know, I've thought that before, and it's like, because

555
00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:45,200
Speaker 1: you really only need one, Yeah, unless you want to

556
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:50,760
Speaker 1: go sell them. I guess. So you have some free time, sure,

557
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:54,600
Speaker 1: go sell some newspapers that you told. Anyway, diving to

558
00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:57,560
Speaker 1: put a bow on it very controversial still and some

559
00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:00,120
Speaker 1: in England are calling for it now, like hey, we're

560
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:03,680
Speaker 1: falling behind here because we're not embracing this tactic. So

561
00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:06,840
Speaker 1: we should be diving more. We should be diving more.

562
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:09,080
Speaker 1: If you can't beat them, join them kind of things. Yeah,

563
00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:11,440
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know if that's the prevalent attitude

564
00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:14,000
Speaker 1: because it's um. Like I said, it started out as

565
00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:16,880
Speaker 1: the gentleman's sports. You admit when you foul, you certainly

566
00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:20,000
Speaker 1: don't fake uh a foul or an injury. Well that's

567
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:23,200
Speaker 1: what happened to Peppe. He didn't like that Thomas Mueller

568
00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:27,720
Speaker 1: was was diving. Yeah, pretended like his eyes were gouged

569
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:31,000
Speaker 1: out in the match. It's a lot of pro wrestling

570
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:35,400
Speaker 1: theatrics that happened. Yeah, just look up on YouTube, like

571
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:37,360
Speaker 1: best top ten dives. It's kind of fun to watch

572
00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:40,440
Speaker 1: some of these grown men roll around like that. There's

573
00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:42,920
Speaker 1: this one when they're clearly not injured. There's one that

574
00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:48,240
Speaker 1: was probably the most um fantastical dive of all time,

575
00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:51,560
Speaker 1: and it took place in a qualifying match between Chile

576
00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:55,320
Speaker 1: and Brazil to get into the World Cup. It was

577
00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:58,920
Speaker 1: like the match that you have to win, and um,

578
00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:04,160
Speaker 1: the goalkeeper for Chili, Roberto Rojas, suddenly screams and is

579
00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:07,840
Speaker 1: grabbing his eye and like a couple of feet away

580
00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:10,360
Speaker 1: from him is like a lit flare just going off

581
00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:13,959
Speaker 1: on the field right, and like he's bleeding from his

582
00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:18,640
Speaker 1: eye and everything, and everyone's like what just happened? Apparently

583
00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:22,160
Speaker 1: he lit the flare himself, throw it on the ground,

584
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:26,320
Speaker 1: fell down, screaming, had a blade in his glove, cut

585
00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:31,280
Speaker 1: his eye open. That's w yes, and um, he was

586
00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:34,120
Speaker 1: just riding on the ground and they took the game

587
00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:37,440
Speaker 1: like they technically gave it to Chili and like disqualified

588
00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:43,200
Speaker 1: Brazil automatically. And somebody, one camera man happened to have

589
00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:49,560
Speaker 1: gotten photos of Rojas, basically of Rojas like cutting himself

590
00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:54,400
Speaker 1: and um they Chili got disqualified, Brazil got into the

591
00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:59,400
Speaker 1: World Cup, and Rojas was banned from international play forever.

592
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:03,680
Speaker 1: But he started wrestling well. Apparently. Brazil later offered him

593
00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:06,000
Speaker 1: a job as a goalie trainer. He was so good,

594
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:12,520
Speaker 1: so like the the country he almost dove into disqualification

595
00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:16,920
Speaker 1: offered him a job. Yeah. So you know, it's a

596
00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:20,520
Speaker 1: part of the game now. Um, I think what most

597
00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:24,680
Speaker 1: UH soccer fans agree on is that it's because it's

598
00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:26,320
Speaker 1: a part of the game, then it's the onus is

599
00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:29,920
Speaker 1: on the ref to spot that stuff and not allow

600
00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:33,359
Speaker 1: it and not be fooled by flailing arms and you know, oh,

601
00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:36,759
Speaker 1: my eyes, my eyes. Yeah, that's just crazy. Like that's

602
00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:40,319
Speaker 1: a ref job is to keep an eye off for deception. Yeah,

603
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:42,279
Speaker 1: and it's a big pitch. I like, I don't I've

604
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:44,440
Speaker 1: always lobbied for more refs. I don't see why they

605
00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:47,520
Speaker 1: don't have. I mean, they have linesman stuff, but I

606
00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:49,000
Speaker 1: don't know. There's a lot of room out there. I'd

607
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:50,719
Speaker 1: have two or three dudes. There's a lot of room.

608
00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:53,640
Speaker 1: Do we say how big the field is? Yeah? It varies,

609
00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:57,160
Speaker 1: which is odd. Yeah, there's not a regulation field yeah,

610
00:34:57,239 --> 00:35:00,320
Speaker 1: but it's uh, typically a hundred yards by fifty yards

611
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:03,360
Speaker 1: like an NFL football field. I also saw another typical

612
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:06,160
Speaker 1: one is a hundred and twenty yards by seventy five yards,

613
00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:10,360
Speaker 1: which is that's big. That's like two football fields almost

614
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:13,840
Speaker 1: into a square. I should have looked up for World Cup, um,

615
00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:15,880
Speaker 1: but I did not. I think that might be the

616
00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:18,479
Speaker 1: regulation size. So it's a lot of ground to cover.

617
00:35:19,239 --> 00:35:23,480
Speaker 1: And each side has ten men or women or eleven

618
00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:30,160
Speaker 1: ten eleven including the goalie, right, Okay, and um, the

619
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:32,960
Speaker 1: the personnel is divided into You've got a goalie on

620
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:37,000
Speaker 1: each chan, and then you also have three different other

621
00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:42,120
Speaker 1: types of players. You have um fullbacks also known as defenders.

622
00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:47,640
Speaker 1: You have halfbacks, which are known as midfielders. And then

623
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:51,719
Speaker 1: you have forwards and they do different jobs depending on

624
00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:54,680
Speaker 1: their name, and you can have different numbers of them.

625
00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:57,000
Speaker 1: It's up to the coach. There's not a regulation like

626
00:35:57,040 --> 00:35:59,120
Speaker 1: you have to have this many fullbacks, this many forwards.

627
00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:02,360
Speaker 1: Play to your strengths, right, and then the formation that

628
00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:05,400
Speaker 1: you're using can be described in numbers. So the example

629
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:07,600
Speaker 1: of the grabster gives them this one is four or

630
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:11,040
Speaker 1: four two formation would be four full backs, four midfielders

631
00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:13,440
Speaker 1: and two forwards. Right, that's right, So what are the

632
00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:16,680
Speaker 1: full back to chuckers? The full backs are generally the defense,

633
00:36:16,719 --> 00:36:20,520
Speaker 1: the defenders. They hang closer to the goal. On a

634
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:24,000
Speaker 1: full attack, they will cross you know, the center line

635
00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:27,719
Speaker 1: and and you know, try and score. But generally the

636
00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:32,000
Speaker 1: fullbacks are defenders. Uh, you're they. If you hear someone

637
00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:34,520
Speaker 1: say you're marking your opponent, that just means you're you're

638
00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:37,160
Speaker 1: getting up on him and defending him or her right,

639
00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 1: rather than like a zone, you're defending the person. Yeah,

640
00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 1: well not really. It's not like a Manda manner zone.

641
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:47,560
Speaker 1: It's just if if a player with the ball comes

642
00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:50,040
Speaker 1: near you, you go to either mark them or tackle them.

643
00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:53,000
Speaker 1: Um or actually you market player without the ball tackle

644
00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:55,000
Speaker 1: tackle a player with the ball. But if you're an

645
00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:56,719
Speaker 1: American and you don't know much about soccer and you

646
00:36:56,800 --> 00:36:59,560
Speaker 1: hear tackle and you think, why are they still standing?

647
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:02,600
Speaker 1: Tackle doesn't mean like NFL football where you take them

648
00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:06,000
Speaker 1: down to the ground physically. It means you you're making

649
00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:09,440
Speaker 1: a defensive play. Like when you see you guys slide

650
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:12,600
Speaker 1: in like a slide tackle, that's a that's a tackle.

651
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:15,080
Speaker 1: You're making a play on the ball. To a defender,

652
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:18,600
Speaker 1: but that doesn't doesn't mean that anyone's hitting the ground.

653
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:22,319
Speaker 1: You can both be on your feet. Uh, and it

654
00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:25,880
Speaker 1: could be considered a tackle. I didn't know that. Um.

655
00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:30,239
Speaker 1: Did you know they also call bait that you use

656
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:36,920
Speaker 1: for fishing tackle silly silly josh. Um. All right, so

657
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:40,400
Speaker 1: you've got your goal area. We discuss penalty kicks. Uh.

658
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:44,280
Speaker 1: That is uh, if you follow someone within the penalty box,

659
00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:47,160
Speaker 1: then you get that free penalty kick. And that's you know,

660
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:49,080
Speaker 1: I'm not a guaranteed goal, but chances are you're going

661
00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:50,359
Speaker 1: to get a goal out of that. Yeah. I would

662
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:52,799
Speaker 1: imagine the percentage is a lot higher. The only time

663
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:54,520
Speaker 1: you're allowed to touch it with your hands is if

664
00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:57,120
Speaker 1: it goes out on the side. Uh, and then you

665
00:37:57,160 --> 00:37:59,160
Speaker 1: throw the ball in with two hands over your head.

666
00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:03,840
Speaker 1: It's called to throw in. Um. If it goes out

667
00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:06,719
Speaker 1: on the inline, you're either going to have a goal

668
00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:11,560
Speaker 1: kick by your goalkeeper or if the people who are

669
00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:15,160
Speaker 1: coming to score on you, the attackers, kick it out,

670
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:18,000
Speaker 1: then the opposing team's goalie kicks it back in right

671
00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:21,640
Speaker 1: the defender goalie. Yeah. Yeah. If the defender kicks it out,

672
00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:23,920
Speaker 1: then you get what's called a corner kick, and a

673
00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:27,920
Speaker 1: corner kick is what you call a set piece, and

674
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:29,880
Speaker 1: that's when you you put the ball in the corner

675
00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:33,040
Speaker 1: and you kick it in front of the goal. And

676
00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:36,279
Speaker 1: the set of it is is you there are many

677
00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:40,200
Speaker 1: different formations, um you'll use for a corner kick, and

678
00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:41,719
Speaker 1: the object is to get it up in the air

679
00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:43,560
Speaker 1: and try and head it in or get it in

680
00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:47,040
Speaker 1: however you can. But um, there's just different formations in

681
00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:50,040
Speaker 1: front of the goal. Uh, you're marking your opponent if

682
00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:52,239
Speaker 1: you're a defender, you're trying to get free from being

683
00:38:52,239 --> 00:38:55,640
Speaker 1: marked if you're an attacker, and when the ball's in

684
00:38:55,719 --> 00:38:57,960
Speaker 1: the air, it's kind of every man for himself. That's

685
00:38:57,960 --> 00:38:59,919
Speaker 1: where it gets a little rough. That's the and that's

686
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:02,600
Speaker 1: the basic strategy is is so you've got the fullbacks

687
00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:06,439
Speaker 1: back protecting the goal virtually at all times. The midfielders

688
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:08,959
Speaker 1: are doing a little bit of that. They run a lot,

689
00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:11,560
Speaker 1: but they're also the ones who are like driving the

690
00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:13,759
Speaker 1: ball down the field and then trying to kick it

691
00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:16,520
Speaker 1: towards the goal so that the forwards who are closer

692
00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:18,920
Speaker 1: to the opponent's goal can head it in or kick

693
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:21,440
Speaker 1: it in. And that's the basic strategy. Of moving the

694
00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:25,240
Speaker 1: ball back and forth through soccer. Right. Yeah, you'll typically

695
00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:28,600
Speaker 1: see an offensive attacker shoot down the wing on the

696
00:39:28,719 --> 00:39:30,600
Speaker 1: on the side of the field with the ball and

697
00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:34,560
Speaker 1: essentially do what a corner kick is, which is just

698
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:37,080
Speaker 1: get it in the air towards the center of you know,

699
00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:39,359
Speaker 1: the field, in front of the goal. Because once it's

700
00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:41,200
Speaker 1: in the air, you can head it. Yeah, you can

701
00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:46,319
Speaker 1: head it, you can kick it, you can chest it. Yeah,

702
00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:49,719
Speaker 1: you probably wouldn't chest the goal in that's generally to uh,

703
00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:52,879
Speaker 1: to get the ball back down on the ground. Yeah, yeah,

704
00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:57,680
Speaker 1: for you to to you absorb its momentum exactly. Um,

705
00:39:57,719 --> 00:39:59,360
Speaker 1: if you if the ball is in the air and

706
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:01,960
Speaker 1: somebody's going to head it and you kick, try to

707
00:40:02,040 --> 00:40:06,640
Speaker 1: kick the ball, you might get what's called a yellow card, yeah,

708
00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:08,759
Speaker 1: which is a penalty card. So you've got your one

709
00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:12,160
Speaker 1: referee running around, right and uh, if he sees you

710
00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:14,399
Speaker 1: do that and he decides to give you a yellow card,

711
00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:17,760
Speaker 1: he will pull literally a yellow card from his pocket,

712
00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:23,399
Speaker 1: hold it up. I'm showing it to everybody, right, and

713
00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:25,400
Speaker 1: then he puts it back and he pulls out a

714
00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:28,520
Speaker 1: little notebook and he writes down the number, which is

715
00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:30,560
Speaker 1: so cute. That you know, it's just not kept up

716
00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:34,719
Speaker 1: by someone else, right, exactly thousands of people and and

717
00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:37,840
Speaker 1: a huge computer network. But he writes it on a

718
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:41,239
Speaker 1: little bit um, and he doesn't like the way that

719
00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:43,439
Speaker 1: never came out, so he'll erase it sometime and try

720
00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:48,000
Speaker 1: it again. And um, so that you've got a yellow card,

721
00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:50,400
Speaker 1: it doesn't really do anything. It's basically it amounts to

722
00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:54,320
Speaker 1: a warning. You've been tagged by the rest. Yeah, and

723
00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:56,880
Speaker 1: you can get a yellow card for any um penalty

724
00:40:56,920 --> 00:41:01,120
Speaker 1: they deemed severe enough, like any hard foul. They can

725
00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:04,920
Speaker 1: give you a yellow card on or uh yeah, or

726
00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:07,520
Speaker 1: they can just say it was a regular foul, no

727
00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:10,279
Speaker 1: yellow card needed. Uh. And you get a free kick

728
00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:13,879
Speaker 1: from that spot. And it's either indirect or direct, meaning

729
00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:16,360
Speaker 1: if it's indirect, another player has to touch it before

730
00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:17,960
Speaker 1: you can take a shot on goal, before you can

731
00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:19,800
Speaker 1: take a shot on goal. But if it's a direct,

732
00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:22,680
Speaker 1: the person kicking it can try to kick it into

733
00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:25,440
Speaker 1: the goal. Yeah. And that's another set piece. That's when um,

734
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:28,200
Speaker 1: you see someone you know goes to take a free

735
00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:31,040
Speaker 1: kick and you see if it's close enough, you know,

736
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:32,920
Speaker 1: if it's down the field, you just kind of restart

737
00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:35,040
Speaker 1: immediately and get the game going again. But if it's

738
00:41:35,040 --> 00:41:37,080
Speaker 1: close enough to the goal, we can get a shot.

739
00:41:37,080 --> 00:41:39,440
Speaker 1: That's when you see the players lined up in a

740
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:42,520
Speaker 1: row ten yards. You can't get closer than ten yards

741
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:44,799
Speaker 1: to the ball, and that's you know, they're covering their

742
00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:49,160
Speaker 1: private parts and uh, trying to position themselves. And it

743
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:51,719
Speaker 1: looks weird if you're not used to it, Like why

744
00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:53,600
Speaker 1: would you line up in a wall in front of

745
00:41:53,840 --> 00:41:55,799
Speaker 1: the guy kicking it. Well, it's because you want a

746
00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:58,200
Speaker 1: big wall in front of the guy kicking it and

747
00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:02,560
Speaker 1: the goal there is to not even just I mean

748
00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:04,080
Speaker 1: you want it. You can't block the ball, which would

749
00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:08,120
Speaker 1: be great, but um, it's to mask the getting the

750
00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:14,080
Speaker 1: goalkeeper's way. Can they jump at all? Oh yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, okay,

751
00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:16,640
Speaker 1: yeah you can jump at that ball. I mean I

752
00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:20,360
Speaker 1: took one to the face one time. It's not fun. Yeah,

753
00:42:20,600 --> 00:42:23,640
Speaker 1: you know, I can't even tolerate like a dodgeball or

754
00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:26,040
Speaker 1: anything like that. Yeah, you'll see you'll see players jump

755
00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:28,719
Speaker 1: and kind of turn their body away from contact so

756
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:31,719
Speaker 1: they don't get mauled. But like I said, it wasn't.

757
00:42:31,719 --> 00:42:36,040
Speaker 1: One thing you're trying to do is to shield the

758
00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:37,719
Speaker 1: the goalkeeper. So they like a lot of times they

759
00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:39,919
Speaker 1: don't even see the kick coming because of the wall,

760
00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:42,680
Speaker 1: and then it's in the net behind him and boom,

761
00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:44,880
Speaker 1: and then they roll around the ground and say, my eyes,

762
00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:51,000
Speaker 1: I'm flopping all right, So chuck um. If you have

763
00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:55,280
Speaker 1: a yellow card and uh, you do something else, yeah,

764
00:42:55,520 --> 00:42:58,600
Speaker 1: you're probably gonna get a red card. And a red

765
00:42:58,640 --> 00:43:03,720
Speaker 1: card means that you're a jet from the games. Red

766
00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:07,040
Speaker 1: in a single game or in a tournament, even in

767
00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:09,680
Speaker 1: some tournaments. Yeah, or you can go straight to red

768
00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:11,800
Speaker 1: if you do something really really bad. That's what happened

769
00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:17,840
Speaker 1: to Peppe. Yeah, you can go Pepe mia Ham. And

770
00:43:18,520 --> 00:43:20,880
Speaker 1: those are the three soccer players you know? And uh,

771
00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:25,160
Speaker 1: can you name one American? Um Americana to know he's

772
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:29,520
Speaker 1: Argentinian American men like the guys on the team right now?

773
00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:31,880
Speaker 1: Can you name one? You know? It's sad Is. I

774
00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:35,080
Speaker 1: keep wanting to say carch Karai and I know he's

775
00:43:35,120 --> 00:43:38,759
Speaker 1: like volleyball. Yeah, I don't know why my brain keeps

776
00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:41,080
Speaker 1: going there. Well, you're not a fan. I wasn't trying

777
00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:45,520
Speaker 1: to make you seem dumb for not knowing. You're definitively

778
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:49,120
Speaker 1: proving that. I just wondered how little you followed it. No,

779
00:43:49,239 --> 00:43:51,480
Speaker 1: I don't know any of the guy's names. The answer

780
00:43:51,560 --> 00:43:55,799
Speaker 1: is not at all into it. Landon Donovan is probably

781
00:43:55,840 --> 00:43:58,680
Speaker 1: the most famous American soccer player, right yeah, Landon Donovan,

782
00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:00,680
Speaker 1: but he was not even named to the team due

783
00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:04,000
Speaker 1: to some controversy. Are not due to some but causing

784
00:44:04,120 --> 00:44:10,640
Speaker 1: controversy because he's old. Okay, he's like early thirties. Yeah,

785
00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:15,680
Speaker 1: it's crazy, that's old, but it is. But America's you know,

786
00:44:15,880 --> 00:44:18,680
Speaker 1: the coach came out, you're in Klinsman, the former German star,

787
00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:21,920
Speaker 1: and said, we're not gonna win anyway, so we're just

788
00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:26,560
Speaker 1: trying to get better. Americans is not there loser attitude? Well,

789
00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:28,640
Speaker 1: it is, but it's realistic. You know the Germans, they

790
00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:32,840
Speaker 1: they throw down the realism and he's uh, he's you know,

791
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:35,560
Speaker 1: anything can happen. But America is not on the same

792
00:44:35,640 --> 00:44:39,919
Speaker 1: level because chances are the kids out there their dad

793
00:44:39,920 --> 00:44:43,560
Speaker 1: didn't play, and their grandfather and their great grandfather. It's uh.

794
00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:47,120
Speaker 1: When it's ingrained in your society over generations and generations,

795
00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:51,840
Speaker 1: you're gonna get better. And it's not a national sport.

796
00:44:51,840 --> 00:44:54,719
Speaker 1: It's like fifth. Well, let's talk about England and it's

797
00:44:55,680 --> 00:44:59,319
Speaker 1: it's probably the best prime example of having soccer as

798
00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:03,120
Speaker 1: a national sport. Yeah, one of I should say, but

799
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:05,600
Speaker 1: it's the one that has kind of set the stage

800
00:45:05,719 --> 00:45:10,520
Speaker 1: for how you have a national functioning sport of soccer.

801
00:45:10,640 --> 00:45:13,919
Speaker 1: So England and you're talking about their Premier League. Yes, yeah,

802
00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:18,600
Speaker 1: the Barclays Premier League is the top soccer league in

803
00:45:18,640 --> 00:45:23,160
Speaker 1: the world. Every not every nation, but almost every nation

804
00:45:23,200 --> 00:45:27,719
Speaker 1: has their own own professional league. Um. You've got the

805
00:45:27,719 --> 00:45:32,400
Speaker 1: Premier League, which is numerous Uno, uh, Spanish Premira, the

806
00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:39,000
Speaker 1: Italian league, it's probably the second best right now, Spanish

807
00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:43,360
Speaker 1: is probably third. You've got the Bundesliga in Germany, France

808
00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:48,480
Speaker 1: has one, Russia, Brazil, Mexico, Japan, we've got our own MLS. Um.

809
00:45:48,560 --> 00:45:51,040
Speaker 1: But the best players in the world generally played for

810
00:45:51,080 --> 00:45:54,000
Speaker 1: the Premier League. Yeah, around the world, not just you

811
00:45:54,040 --> 00:45:57,839
Speaker 1: don't have to just be yeah British, you can from

812
00:45:57,840 --> 00:46:00,960
Speaker 1: wherever and play for for these teams. Yeah. In the

813
00:46:01,080 --> 00:46:04,120
Speaker 1: MLS in the United States is getting better, but it's

814
00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:09,239
Speaker 1: generally like where old players go to play. Well, I

815
00:46:09,239 --> 00:46:11,520
Speaker 1: have a question for you, did did um? And that's

816
00:46:11,560 --> 00:46:15,600
Speaker 1: an old tradition. Apparently Pale finished out his his career

817
00:46:15,680 --> 00:46:18,200
Speaker 1: with the New York Cosmos. Yeah, there's a great documentary

818
00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:21,400
Speaker 1: on that team. The Beckham played for the Galaxy in

819
00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:26,160
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. Um Landon Donovan plays MLS, But that's twice

820
00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:28,879
Speaker 1: that you've called him old. I'm sorry, Mr Donovan. If

821
00:46:28,880 --> 00:46:31,400
Speaker 1: you're listening to this, well, I mean it's it's up

822
00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:33,440
Speaker 1: and comers who aren't good enough to play in the

823
00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:36,920
Speaker 1: other world leagues. And it's older guys who used to

824
00:46:36,920 --> 00:46:39,200
Speaker 1: play for the Premier League and you know, want to

825
00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:40,600
Speaker 1: come to the US and live in l A and

826
00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:43,799
Speaker 1: make a little scratch. So I have a question about that,

827
00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:45,920
Speaker 1: because it was more than a little scratch, Like they

828
00:46:45,960 --> 00:46:49,200
Speaker 1: paid Beckham like quarter of a billion dollars to come play.

829
00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:51,960
Speaker 1: Do you know if like they recoup that in any way,

830
00:46:51,960 --> 00:46:53,600
Speaker 1: shape or form, Like did it pan out to be

831
00:46:53,600 --> 00:46:57,280
Speaker 1: a good investment or was it all for him? Um?

832
00:46:57,320 --> 00:47:01,080
Speaker 1: I mean they obviously signed a David Beckham for I mean,

833
00:47:01,080 --> 00:47:03,319
Speaker 1: he was good, but he wasn't like England's best player

834
00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:07,560
Speaker 1: or anything knows name recognition. They were trying to get seats.

835
00:47:08,040 --> 00:47:11,040
Speaker 1: But I'm wondering, like that's a lot of cash. Could

836
00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:13,600
Speaker 1: they don't really have made that back because he wasn't

837
00:47:13,640 --> 00:47:15,920
Speaker 1: their only player. I mean, I'm still he saw to

838
00:47:15,920 --> 00:47:19,080
Speaker 1: feel the team around him. Well, Donovan plays for l

839
00:47:19,120 --> 00:47:22,000
Speaker 1: A too, I think, is that right? Yeah? Um, did

840
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:24,879
Speaker 1: you see that the ad of Beckham's from a couple

841
00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:27,480
Speaker 1: of years back, the Pepsi ad where he kicks like

842
00:47:27,520 --> 00:47:30,160
Speaker 1: three balls into three different trash cans on the beach,

843
00:47:31,120 --> 00:47:34,120
Speaker 1: and like, was it real? If it's not, it's the

844
00:47:34,200 --> 00:47:37,120
Speaker 1: most amazing, editing job you've ever seen in your life.

845
00:47:37,280 --> 00:47:39,520
Speaker 1: It was probably real. Usually don't fake that stuff. It's

846
00:47:40,120 --> 00:47:42,919
Speaker 1: crazy what he did. Then, Yeah, and these I mean

847
00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:46,120
Speaker 1: the men and women of the international on if you're

848
00:47:46,120 --> 00:47:51,560
Speaker 1: playing for your country, the talent is unbelievable. Yeah, because um,

849
00:47:52,880 --> 00:47:56,920
Speaker 1: like there's all there's professional leagues and then each FIFA team,

850
00:47:57,040 --> 00:47:59,120
Speaker 1: which by the way, has more member nations than the

851
00:47:59,239 --> 00:48:01,759
Speaker 1: u n which is really saying that. I think it's

852
00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:06,360
Speaker 1: like two. Oh, that's pretty cool. Um, But each fiefa

853
00:48:06,440 --> 00:48:09,759
Speaker 1: member team also as a national team that you play for.

854
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:12,440
Speaker 1: So you were saying that, like for the English Premier

855
00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:15,040
Speaker 1: League players for the best players from around the world

856
00:48:15,080 --> 00:48:18,080
Speaker 1: typically go play there, but when it's World Cup time

857
00:48:18,160 --> 00:48:20,360
Speaker 1: they go back to their home countries and like you

858
00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:23,520
Speaker 1: were saying teammates will play against one another for their

859
00:48:23,560 --> 00:48:26,799
Speaker 1: their nations and yeah, and then when they go back

860
00:48:26,840 --> 00:48:29,200
Speaker 1: to their club, teams are just like, hey, good to

861
00:48:29,239 --> 00:48:32,799
Speaker 1: see again. Um. So, the Premier League, the prem as

862
00:48:32,840 --> 00:48:38,880
Speaker 1: they call it, has other sub leagues, and you, uh,

863
00:48:38,920 --> 00:48:41,480
Speaker 1: if you finish in the bottom three in your division,

864
00:48:41,520 --> 00:48:44,640
Speaker 1: you were relegated and sent down to another league's you know,

865
00:48:44,960 --> 00:48:49,799
Speaker 1: it's sort of like a minor league baseball. Um, but

866
00:48:50,120 --> 00:48:52,920
Speaker 1: not a player. The whole team gets sent down. The

867
00:48:52,920 --> 00:48:56,160
Speaker 1: whole team gets sent down, which is pretty neat, makes sense. Yeah,

868
00:48:56,160 --> 00:48:58,400
Speaker 1: so you're you know, if you have any friends that

869
00:48:58,440 --> 00:49:03,000
Speaker 1: follow the prem there, unless they're like, man, you fans

870
00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:05,360
Speaker 1: are arsenal fans who are like the big hot teams.

871
00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:08,840
Speaker 1: It's like the Yankees, although people certainly take issue with that.

872
00:49:09,080 --> 00:49:12,920
Speaker 1: I hate the Yankees. Um. Yeah, you're fighting to not

873
00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:15,359
Speaker 1: get relegated. And then if you are in the top

874
00:49:15,400 --> 00:49:18,200
Speaker 1: three of the lower division, then you get sent up,

875
00:49:18,480 --> 00:49:21,560
Speaker 1: and if you're the top two, you automatically get sent up.

876
00:49:22,200 --> 00:49:28,360
Speaker 1: If you're for the third place, the next four the

877
00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:32,200
Speaker 1: highest ranked teams playoff. And that's a big deal because

878
00:49:32,640 --> 00:49:36,160
Speaker 1: more money, more advertising revenues. Yeah, it's just it's you

879
00:49:36,160 --> 00:49:38,839
Speaker 1: don't want to get sent back and relegated. It's bad, bad, bad,

880
00:49:39,239 --> 00:49:41,760
Speaker 1: And I didn't really have I I had no idea

881
00:49:41,800 --> 00:49:45,719
Speaker 1: about this until researching this article. Um, I didn't really have,

882
00:49:46,080 --> 00:49:49,719
Speaker 1: um a sense of like just how bad it is.

883
00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:52,839
Speaker 1: I can imagine, like the difference in revenue for a

884
00:49:52,880 --> 00:49:56,080
Speaker 1: team between you know, being in the Premier League and

885
00:49:56,160 --> 00:49:59,399
Speaker 1: being in the first division the one below. It year

886
00:49:59,480 --> 00:50:02,440
Speaker 1: over year just nuts. So I mean like depressing I

887
00:50:02,480 --> 00:50:05,399
Speaker 1: think is a team. Yeah, I can imagine how often

888
00:50:05,440 --> 00:50:08,839
Speaker 1: does that happen? Well, it depends on your team. So

889
00:50:08,920 --> 00:50:11,680
Speaker 1: but every year, every year they go down and three

890
00:50:11,719 --> 00:50:14,879
Speaker 1: teams go up. Yeah, yeah, that's cool. Yeah. And so

891
00:50:15,200 --> 00:50:17,799
Speaker 1: if you're an American prim fan, you pick out just

892
00:50:17,960 --> 00:50:20,839
Speaker 1: a team. I don't based on like anyone picks out

893
00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:23,720
Speaker 1: a sports team when they're not from that country, UM,

894
00:50:23,760 --> 00:50:25,560
Speaker 1: based on players you like or whatever, and then you

895
00:50:25,600 --> 00:50:28,840
Speaker 1: follow them, and um all all of my American friends

896
00:50:28,880 --> 00:50:32,400
Speaker 1: that follow have picked out different teams. It's kind of fun.

897
00:50:32,560 --> 00:50:35,120
Speaker 1: But then I'll watch a few, uh, like I watched

898
00:50:35,160 --> 00:50:38,120
Speaker 1: the finals and stuff, but generally I just follow like

899
00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:41,400
Speaker 1: the international play. It's just the style of game. I

900
00:50:41,400 --> 00:50:43,279
Speaker 1: don't have time for all the sports. You know, I

901
00:50:43,360 --> 00:50:47,200
Speaker 1: know you're a busy man, busy guy. So Chuck, you

902
00:50:47,239 --> 00:50:53,439
Speaker 1: want to talk about the dark side of soccer hooliganism. Yeah, yeah,

903
00:50:53,520 --> 00:50:57,320
Speaker 1: it's gotten a lot better. Um. Yeah, apparently really bad though,

904
00:50:58,320 --> 00:51:03,120
Speaker 1: like who soccer hooligans or sometimes fighting for their team's

905
00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:07,320
Speaker 1: honor and sometimes they're just drunk Englishmen who like the

906
00:51:07,360 --> 00:51:10,959
Speaker 1: scrap and use as an excuse. But it got bad

907
00:51:11,120 --> 00:51:13,200
Speaker 1: for a while, but they've cracked down on. I think

908
00:51:13,239 --> 00:51:16,040
Speaker 1: when they started cracking down on teams and penalizing the

909
00:51:16,040 --> 00:51:20,600
Speaker 1: clubs themselves for acts of hooliganism. I think think that

910
00:51:20,680 --> 00:51:23,760
Speaker 1: might have caused some changes. Yeah, that's that's crazy. They

911
00:51:23,840 --> 00:51:26,440
Speaker 1: the UM, I don't know if it was FIFA who

912
00:51:26,640 --> 00:51:28,880
Speaker 1: did it. Maybe it was the was it the Premier

913
00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:33,279
Speaker 1: League itself was saying like if your team is associated

914
00:51:33,280 --> 00:51:37,640
Speaker 1: with hooliganism, will sanction your team and you guys have

915
00:51:37,760 --> 00:51:40,759
Speaker 1: to play in an empty stadium and we'll totally miss

916
00:51:40,760 --> 00:51:47,240
Speaker 1: out on ticket sales. That's huge. Um. The hooligans themselves

917
00:51:47,320 --> 00:51:50,240
Speaker 1: could be banned from even traveling to where a match

918
00:51:50,440 --> 00:51:54,440
Speaker 1: was like, you can't get into this city, Yeah, not

919
00:51:54,600 --> 00:51:59,120
Speaker 1: the stadium, the city. Um, and yeah, like you said,

920
00:51:59,160 --> 00:52:02,560
Speaker 1: apparently it worked pretty well, but in the interim, a

921
00:52:02,600 --> 00:52:06,000
Speaker 1: lot of people died, Like a lot of people have

922
00:52:06,080 --> 00:52:10,040
Speaker 1: died because of soccer. Um, well, not only hooliganism, but

923
00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:13,440
Speaker 1: uh stampedes and being crushed and yeah, that's gotten a

924
00:52:13,480 --> 00:52:16,719
Speaker 1: lot better too. But um, you know, I remember growing

925
00:52:16,760 --> 00:52:18,600
Speaker 1: up hearing a couple of times where there was some

926
00:52:19,239 --> 00:52:23,040
Speaker 1: like awful smashing of people. Yeah, in hundreds of people

927
00:52:24,320 --> 00:52:29,480
Speaker 1: f a Cup match there was um in Britain, fans

928
00:52:29,480 --> 00:52:32,400
Speaker 1: were crushed. And remember in the Black Friday episode that

929
00:52:32,440 --> 00:52:35,399
Speaker 1: we did, we talked about crushing death and what that's like.

930
00:52:36,360 --> 00:52:39,319
Speaker 1: I think in the article that I cited, there's a

931
00:52:39,320 --> 00:52:41,760
Speaker 1: picture of somebody being crushed to death, like up against

932
00:52:41,760 --> 00:52:44,719
Speaker 1: the fence at that game. It's a pretty famous picture.

933
00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:48,439
Speaker 1: It's awful. I can't imagine, yeah, being crushed to death

934
00:52:48,840 --> 00:52:53,960
Speaker 1: the worst. Uh. So, I guess we should explain the

935
00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:58,000
Speaker 1: off sides rule just because that is a confusing thing

936
00:52:58,080 --> 00:53:03,400
Speaker 1: for some Americans who don't follow soccer. Um is it? Yeah,

937
00:53:03,840 --> 00:53:09,120
Speaker 1: because it's it's changed some over the years, and uh,

938
00:53:09,200 --> 00:53:11,720
Speaker 1: we'll just go ahead and explain it. UM easily stated,

939
00:53:12,160 --> 00:53:16,920
Speaker 1: you're off side if an offensive attacking player is UM

940
00:53:16,960 --> 00:53:20,280
Speaker 1: in front of all of the defenders. They say, behind

941
00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:23,719
Speaker 1: the line of defenders. But if you're watching as if

942
00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:25,919
Speaker 1: they're an attacker, then I just call it in front

943
00:53:25,920 --> 00:53:31,399
Speaker 1: of um before the ball is kicked to you. So

944
00:53:31,920 --> 00:53:35,160
Speaker 1: it originated in the early days basically to keep the

945
00:53:35,239 --> 00:53:36,960
Speaker 1: lazy kid from just hanging out in front of the

946
00:53:37,040 --> 00:53:39,680
Speaker 1: goal and waiting for the ball to come down there.

947
00:53:40,239 --> 00:53:42,799
Speaker 1: They called it um. In the forties they called it

948
00:53:42,840 --> 00:53:47,320
Speaker 1: sneaking and sneaker yeah, like you're a big fat sneaker

949
00:53:47,320 --> 00:53:50,239
Speaker 1: because you're just waiting there like a lazy get So,

950
00:53:50,280 --> 00:53:53,319
Speaker 1: in greater detail, the attacking player you have to be

951
00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:57,080
Speaker 1: on the opponent's half of the field. Okay, so you

952
00:53:57,080 --> 00:53:58,920
Speaker 1: know the field split down the middle. You gotta be

953
00:53:59,040 --> 00:54:01,080
Speaker 1: on the off pens of half of the field. For

954
00:54:01,080 --> 00:54:05,000
Speaker 1: it to be called off sides, the attacking player is

955
00:54:05,160 --> 00:54:08,280
Speaker 1: closer to the goal line than the last defensive player.

956
00:54:08,560 --> 00:54:12,600
Speaker 1: Goalie doesn't count and the ball, so that's important the ball.

957
00:54:14,400 --> 00:54:16,279
Speaker 1: You can be off sides, you can be in front

958
00:54:16,360 --> 00:54:20,880
Speaker 1: as long as the ball isn't isn't coming your way. Basically,

959
00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:23,920
Speaker 1: if you play the ball or interfere or with a defender,

960
00:54:24,320 --> 00:54:26,560
Speaker 1: that's when it When it's off sides. As soon as

961
00:54:26,560 --> 00:54:28,680
Speaker 1: that players kick the ball and the balls in the air,

962
00:54:29,080 --> 00:54:32,080
Speaker 1: you can run in front of that defender or behind

963
00:54:32,080 --> 00:54:35,759
Speaker 1: the defender. I know that sounds so confusing. Yeah, I

964
00:54:35,800 --> 00:54:40,160
Speaker 1: wasn't confused by it before, but I am now. Uh yeah,

965
00:54:40,200 --> 00:54:43,839
Speaker 1: well that's my best way of describing. That's what off

966
00:54:43,840 --> 00:54:45,640
Speaker 1: sides is. If you if you want to just watch

967
00:54:45,680 --> 00:54:49,680
Speaker 1: the game, simply just remember you can't just be hanging

968
00:54:49,680 --> 00:54:53,399
Speaker 1: out in front of the goal. Yes, that was my understanding. Yeah,

969
00:54:53,680 --> 00:54:57,040
Speaker 1: that's the clear up. That's the real, basic, most basic

970
00:54:57,160 --> 00:55:00,279
Speaker 1: version of the rule without any of the subtleties. And

971
00:55:00,520 --> 00:55:03,200
Speaker 1: you can't be all sides. Uh. If it's a throw

972
00:55:03,280 --> 00:55:05,200
Speaker 1: in or a corner kick or a goal kick, then

973
00:55:05,280 --> 00:55:06,880
Speaker 1: it's you know, every man for himself. You can do

974
00:55:06,920 --> 00:55:10,160
Speaker 1: whatever you want. It's only when it's in regular play,

975
00:55:11,560 --> 00:55:15,520
Speaker 1: not a restart. Does that makes sense? Yeah, okay, yeah

976
00:55:15,560 --> 00:55:17,880
Speaker 1: it does. He explained it pretty well. I think so.

977
00:55:18,280 --> 00:55:20,040
Speaker 1: And I know that people are gonna say I butchered it,

978
00:55:20,120 --> 00:55:23,600
Speaker 1: but whatever, bring it. Well, I'm sure somebody will explain

979
00:55:23,640 --> 00:55:25,960
Speaker 1: it very eloquently. We can read it for listener mail

980
00:55:26,080 --> 00:55:29,320
Speaker 1: exactly nothing else. Go USA, we play um and this

981
00:55:29,400 --> 00:55:30,759
Speaker 1: is one of the rare shows that we turn around

982
00:55:30,800 --> 00:55:33,880
Speaker 1: really quick because it's Newsy. Thanks to Jerry for that

983
00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:37,120
Speaker 1: way to go, Jerry. Um, but the US plays a

984
00:55:37,200 --> 00:55:41,160
Speaker 1: Portugal Sunday, and if we win that we're looking really good.

985
00:55:41,800 --> 00:55:45,319
Speaker 1: But um, yeah, I don't know Portugal, because even if

986
00:55:45,360 --> 00:55:48,680
Speaker 1: we played Germany, we'll still have accrued enough points from

987
00:55:48,760 --> 00:55:52,439
Speaker 1: beating Ghana and Portugal to go to the final two. Yeah,

988
00:55:52,480 --> 00:55:54,600
Speaker 1: it will lose to Germany. I think everyone's kind of

989
00:55:54,600 --> 00:55:59,640
Speaker 1: accepted that, apparently the coach, especially who is a German.

990
00:56:00,400 --> 00:56:02,759
Speaker 1: I gotta figured it out. Okay, I understand soccer now,

991
00:56:03,360 --> 00:56:07,560
Speaker 1: but our our striker, Josie Altador went down, which is

992
00:56:07,640 --> 00:56:10,960
Speaker 1: not good strikers are Um. We forgot to mention that

993
00:56:11,680 --> 00:56:14,399
Speaker 1: defensive fullbacks you can be a sweeper as well, where

994
00:56:14,440 --> 00:56:16,000
Speaker 1: you're just like going back and forth in front of

995
00:56:16,040 --> 00:56:18,480
Speaker 1: the goal. Yeah, kind of sweeping. And then there's uh,

996
00:56:18,800 --> 00:56:21,480
Speaker 1: some of the offensive Fords can play the striker position,

997
00:56:21,520 --> 00:56:24,239
Speaker 1: which is just like a pure offense. You're attacking all

998
00:56:24,280 --> 00:56:26,640
Speaker 1: the time, attacking all the time. Attack, attack, But we

999
00:56:26,760 --> 00:56:29,480
Speaker 1: lost our striker, which is a big deal. Sure doesn't

1000
00:56:29,520 --> 00:56:33,640
Speaker 1: bode well. Uh well, thanks for all this, chuck, I

1001
00:56:33,719 --> 00:56:37,560
Speaker 1: got nothing else, I understand soccer to a t. Yeah,

1002
00:56:37,600 --> 00:56:40,240
Speaker 1: I mean I wish I was a super expert because

1003
00:56:40,360 --> 00:56:42,560
Speaker 1: I know it probably wouldn't be nearly as fine. I'm

1004
00:56:42,560 --> 00:56:44,520
Speaker 1: sure we got some stuff wrong and we'll hear about it. Oh,

1005
00:56:44,560 --> 00:56:48,480
Speaker 1: we'll hear about it. Yeah. But yeah, go go World Cup.

1006
00:56:48,840 --> 00:56:51,800
Speaker 1: Here's go World Cup. Here's my prediction. We're all winners.

1007
00:56:51,960 --> 00:56:54,880
Speaker 1: Actually have no prediction. Maybe everyone will tie from here

1008
00:56:54,920 --> 00:56:56,840
Speaker 1: on out. Jerry, who do you go for besides the US?

1009
00:56:58,160 --> 00:57:04,279
Speaker 1: She likes chili, Chili in Germany. Nice going, Jerry, Chili

1010
00:57:04,360 --> 00:57:07,319
Speaker 1: is a dark horse. Well, we'll see what happens. Huh. Yes,

1011
00:57:08,040 --> 00:57:09,880
Speaker 1: if you want to know more about soccer, watch the

1012
00:57:09,920 --> 00:57:12,879
Speaker 1: World Cup. Now that you've listened to this episode, you'll

1013
00:57:13,080 --> 00:57:15,440
Speaker 1: know what's going on if you didn't before, and possibly

1014
00:57:15,520 --> 00:57:17,800
Speaker 1: it made it more enjoyable for you. You can also

1015
00:57:17,920 --> 00:57:21,840
Speaker 1: type soccer soccer, not football. It's gonna bring up a

1016
00:57:21,880 --> 00:57:24,680
Speaker 1: totally different article in the search bar at how stuff

1017
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Speaker 1: works dot Com. Don't type in footie. No, no one

1018
00:57:27,520 --> 00:57:31,240
Speaker 1: knows what that is. Um and uh, since I said

1019
00:57:31,280 --> 00:57:35,760
Speaker 1: search bars, time for listener mail. I'm gonna call this

1020
00:57:35,920 --> 00:57:39,800
Speaker 1: props to nurses and our continuing effort to not slight people.

1021
00:57:40,920 --> 00:57:44,160
Speaker 1: I'm gonna read this one. I couldn't help but notice, guys,

1022
00:57:44,640 --> 00:57:47,040
Speaker 1: when I was listening to how placebos worked and stood

1023
00:57:47,080 --> 00:57:49,600
Speaker 1: out to me when you gave Dr Beecher credit for

1024
00:57:49,680 --> 00:57:52,320
Speaker 1: first noticing the placebo effect in World War Two, but

1025
00:57:52,480 --> 00:57:54,880
Speaker 1: you completely overlooked the obvious fact that it was the

1026
00:57:55,040 --> 00:57:58,400
Speaker 1: nurses who had recognized it, and we're putting the placebo

1027
00:57:58,400 --> 00:58:00,600
Speaker 1: effect you could use before Dr Beacher realized that was

1028
00:58:00,680 --> 00:58:04,040
Speaker 1: what was happening. They were making keen clinical observations at

1029
00:58:04,080 --> 00:58:06,880
Speaker 1: the bedside and applying those principles in the field to

1030
00:58:07,000 --> 00:58:10,680
Speaker 1: the benefit of their patients research and action. Of course,

1031
00:58:10,760 --> 00:58:13,600
Speaker 1: credit is due to Dr b for formalizing and publishing

1032
00:58:13,640 --> 00:58:15,960
Speaker 1: the study. Also, I know you guys are sticklers for

1033
00:58:16,000 --> 00:58:19,280
Speaker 1: accurate language, Please remember that doctors aren't the only ones

1034
00:58:19,320 --> 00:58:24,200
Speaker 1: who prescribed meds. Nurse practitioners and physicians assistants do as well.

1035
00:58:24,640 --> 00:58:26,800
Speaker 1: It would be more accurate refer to prescribers in the

1036
00:58:26,880 --> 00:58:31,000
Speaker 1: context of this podcast as healthcare provider or clinician when

1037
00:58:31,040 --> 00:58:33,400
Speaker 1: talking generally about the person who determines the patient's plan

1038
00:58:33,480 --> 00:58:36,520
Speaker 1: of care. What would you guys do? And Jerry uh

1039
00:58:37,000 --> 00:58:38,720
Speaker 1: s y s k is my favorite keep it up.

1040
00:58:38,760 --> 00:58:42,560
Speaker 1: And that's from Amy nurse, US Air Force. If this

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00:58:42,720 --> 00:58:44,680
Speaker 1: makes it the reader mail, she says, please give a

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00:58:44,720 --> 00:58:49,040
Speaker 1: shout out to my fellow nurses in uniform, so men

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1044
00:58:53,360 --> 00:59:00,280
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1045
00:59:00,480 --> 00:59:03,120
Speaker 1: and thank you Chuck. That was a good one. Uh.

1046
00:59:03,240 --> 00:59:04,760
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