WEBVTT - How Soccer Works 0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:04.560 Welcome to Stuff you should know from house Stuff Works 0:00:04.600 --> 0:00:13.280 dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh 0:00:13.400 --> 0:00:19.919 Clark with Charles W. Chuck Brian. That's weird. I know. 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:22.520 I was thinking like I'm gonna come it with something 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:26.520 not YEA halfway through somebody said I sounded burned out 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:30.920 on the Sugar episode. Let's sad because I was kind 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:33.240 of burned out. I was right before vacation. Oh yeah, sure, 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:35.440 we've been going and going and going and going and 0:00:35.520 --> 0:00:39.440 going and going, but now you're recharged. Yeah. Oh man, yeah, 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:43.519 yeah good. I somehow transferred from like a type A 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:46.000 person to a type V person on vacation. It was 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:49.400 like that hardcore of a vacation. Wow. And that lasted 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:52.920 a couple of days. Yep. I still got a little 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:55.200 bit going on. Hang on to that be I still 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:57.000 have the corn rows in my hair that I had 0:00:57.040 --> 0:01:00.560 put on the beach. Thank you. You like this shaking 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:04.120 them around? Yeah? Uh so, Chuck, Yes, do you ever 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:06.720 play soccer when you were a kid. I did not 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:10.040 as a kid. Oh yeah, no, I didn't start until 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:13.360 high school. So you played for your high school team. 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:16.000 I played for B team and uh for a couple 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:18.759 of years. And then at red And High School are 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:23.000 the class in front of me was loaded with star 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:28.440 talent like that you met like no, no, well that too, 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:33.119 but um, yeah they were really good and so and 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:34.959 I wasn't a very good soccer player. I mean I 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:37.440 was okay, just because I'm fairly athletic, but I wasn't 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:39.840 like these guys had played since they were kids and 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:44.000 they all got scholarships to college and like they went state. 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:47.600 So I was the type that was like, why bother, 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:51.120 I'll never be that kid. Yeah, I like, you know, 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:53.520 I'll sit on the bench and I you know, that 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:56.600 was my role. So did you get any like did 0:01:56.600 --> 0:01:58.440 you score any goals or anything? Now? I had an 0:01:58.480 --> 0:02:01.560 assist one game, which was pretty excit my eighth grade year. 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:05.200 And uh that's just the fact that I remember and 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:07.440 assist in my eighth grade year shows how bad I 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:09.080 wasn't soccer no, I know to me, and I got 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:12.760 a football story like that. Yeah, I played for a 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:18.079 little bit like um forty five minutes I think at 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:20.959 the y Um, I was all ready to go like okay, 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:25.880 a new sport, let's play this, and um we were 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:28.639 playing We're like first day I got my T shirt 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:30.919 on and like was learning how to dribble the ball, 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:33.800 and um, some kid asked like when we're gonna have 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:36.839 our first game, and the coaches like, oh, there's stuck 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:38.840 going to be any games. We're just gonna scrimmage one 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:42.720 another in our team and we're it's just practice. That's 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:44.680 all you're ever gonna do is practice. There's not gonna 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:47.359 be a game ever, that's weird. I was like, see 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:50.760 you later. How long until my mom comes and gets like, 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:53.480 I'm only in this to beat down someone else exactly, 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:57.000 I'm so competitive, you know. But that was my experience 0:02:57.000 --> 0:03:00.560 with soccer and I never, like, uh, had a thing 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:03.079 against it. It It. It just always seems so like European 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:07.040 to me. It definitely is that where its origins came from. 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:10.160 So I was sensing something. It's the world though it 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:14.040 is now for sure. Well, I mean it always has been. Man, 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:16.960 this that is a good setup. But to call it 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:20.880 European though, I mean it's America's, you know, kind of 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:24.000 one of the only nations that hasn't fully embraced soccer. Yeah, 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:30.120 for sure, it's the soccer and the imperial system of measurement, 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:32.679 that's right. Yeah, And I have theories on that, which 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:34.800 we'll get to. Oh, I want to hear that, and 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:39.080 why the USA hasn't embraced it like other folks. Well, 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:42.240 we have three perfectly good other sports. Yeah, well four 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:44.680 if you count hockey, which is like soccer on ice. 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:46.520 It is a lot like soccer on ice. When I 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:49.040 was researching this, I realized, like, wow, you know there's 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:55.360 basically one game, and then everything is a variation on 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:59.560 that basic game. Yeah, it's uh to take an object 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:02.640 and to try and drive it into an opponent's area. Yes, 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:07.080 the same with American football, really right, same with basketball. Yeah, 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:09.560 baseball is the one that's different. It is different, but 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:13.880 technically if you look at the field as switching sides 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:17.720 depending on who's on offense and who's on defense, and 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:23.120 the outside of the stadium is like their goal, it's close, 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:27.520 but like field hockey, lacrosse. You're right, the hi I yeah, 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:31.080 And I think there's stem from the same prehistoric games, 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:35.159 which were you know, took took in the gang running 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:37.400 around with a rock trying to throw it at you know, 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:40.560 whatever they use as a goal. Not took took in 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:44.480 this case, but chick mo all all playing uh, what's 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:47.520 what is it? Popped up polk go ahead, and I 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:50.279 don't know what that is. That's a mind game, was it? 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:54.680 It's possibly the hardest game anyone's ever created, and they 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:58.800 were playing it for two thousand years. Basically, it was 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:03.800 a nine inch diameter heavy ball that couldn't touch the 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:06.280 ground else the game was over. But you couldn't use 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:08.280 your hands. I don't believe you hit it with your 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:11.080 hip Yeah, I think I have heard of that. To 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:12.880 win the game, you had to hit it through a 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:16.640 ring that was like high overhead and like once somebody 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:18.960 got it through the ring, the game was over. But 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:24.040 like that sounds impossible. Hip ball hip ball exactly? You 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:27.400 get a medicine ball and a hoop and and hip 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:31.919 surgery afterwards. Yeah, I mean it sounds awful. But the 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:34.159 Maya weren't the only ones who were who were playing 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:36.720 a game like that, like kind of all over the 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:41.839 world there were instances of soccer being played. Yeah, and 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:46.000 China third century BC is where they have the oldest 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:49.640 scientific evidence. Uh, and it was an exercise in a 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:54.679 military manual. And then um, the Han dynasty had something 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:58.200 called suchu, which is a leather ball filled with feathers 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:02.080 and hair lighter. I guess than the Mayans. They probably 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:04.440 learned a thing or two like that, this ball is 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:07.520 way too heavy. Well, apparently the Chinese started out using 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:12.760 human heads supposedly, really yeah, supposedly that predated succhi. Is 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:14.400 that real though? I don't know, but I saw it 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:17.320 in several places I know, but it was definitely worth repeating. 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:20.520 I can't say if it's real or not. Well with succhi, 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:24.720 that was a small net onto a bamboo cane, so 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:27.559 like the net wasn't on the ground, no, but still 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:30.560 pretty close to soccer, but you couldn't use your hands. Uh. 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:34.280 And then in Japan they had kamari um, which they 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:37.039 still play today. Actually, is it apparently a little more 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:42.280 ceremonious than um succhi like Succi is a little maraucous, 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:44.080 is the impression I had? Yeah, And I'm meant to 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:47.440 actually see what kumari looks like. But the description here 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:49.919 is that they stand in a circle and you pass 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:52.760 the ball uh around to each other without letting it 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:55.800 touch the ground. So it sounds like a Hackey circle. 0:06:56.000 --> 0:06:59.440 It sounds a little bit like pucked up poke yeah exactly. Yeah, 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:01.839 but I think all this lends creates the fact that 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:05.480 it's sort of variations of similar games in different cultures 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:09.520 at similar times. The Greeks the Romans had games like that. 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:14.560 They did UM and then in England. England considered the 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:18.800 birth of modern soccer slash football yeah, but can't be 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:21.080 traced to a single person, which is kind of neat, No, 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:25.000 it can't. Um And for centuries they played a game 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:29.240 that was, I guess the predecessor of um soccer. And 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:32.800 it was like inter or inter village play, so like 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:36.200 in a holiday, one village would be like, hey, let's 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:40.320 play this game. That's gonna be soccer one day. Yeah, 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:44.360 And so like the whole town was involved, and like 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:49.720 the literally geographically and population wise, the whole town was involved, 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:52.840 and there's a lot of damage to property and apparently 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:56.600 it was outlawed from like the thirteenth century to the 0:07:56.600 --> 0:08:00.000 seventeenth century. It was the hooligans were playing the sport 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:05.160 up exactly. They weren't just the fans, and even though 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:07.640 even though it was banned, it didn't go anywhere. And 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:11.080 finally the band was lifted and school kids kind of 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:15.400 took over from there and started making more formal rules. Yeah, 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:18.400 which I think is really neat. Like you know, other sports, 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:19.760 like I said, you can trace it back to a 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:22.680 single inventor, but soccer is it was a game still 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:26.720 as a game of the people, invented by kids who 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:30.000 just like you said, started started like you know, narrowing 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:34.000 down rules and as being kids, you know, yeah, being kids. 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:38.520 In fact, the origin of the word soccer. Yeah, I 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:43.160 like this. Most people think like, oh, Americans invented that. Nope, 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:46.640 not true. Soccer was the word for it eighteen years 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:52.760 before the word football was used for it by the English. 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:55.960 They invented the word soccer. Supposedly, although this is one 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:58.920 as a matter of debate. Charles Redford Brown was an 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:02.960 Oxford student. Uh well, I guess let's tell the story. 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:05.680 It was um. At one point they had a meeting 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:11.160 two at a I think at Cambridge, now at a 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:13.599 well in Cambridge, but at a I believe it was 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:17.280 a Freemason lodge, I think so. So they had this 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:19.040 meeting and they basically said, all right, we gotta get 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:22.680 real with these rules and really determine what this sport is. Yeah, 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:26.400 because like each each team, each school, UM, they were 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:28.640 all playing something very similar, but they were to have 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:31.200 their own rules, and before when one team wanted to 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:33.880 play another team, they would say they'd have to spend 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:37.000 However long it took to like decide what rule would 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:40.200 overrule what rule, and it was just a big pain. 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:43.840 So they finally came together at Cambridge and said, let's 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:47.840 establish this, let's codify this. We like to pick up 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:50.840 the ball and hit each other pretty hard. Well, we don't. 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:53.360 We like to kick it around. And that's where the 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:57.440 split between rugby and soccer came. Um they called it, 0:09:57.720 --> 0:10:02.239 uh well, they called it associate Asian football and association rugby. 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:04.680 And at the time, and of course now kids still 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:06.440 like to shorten things and they would add an e er, 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:11.160 so they called rugby rugger, and they called association football 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:15.920 uh a soccer, and then soccer and that was it. 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:20.440 But it was among like soccer was played among the 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:24.800 wealthier elite. And then once it started spreading to the 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:27.800 lower classes, they called it football. And it spread through 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:30.920 the world among the lower classes, and that's why just 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:35.599 became football, and we have American football, yeah, which is 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:37.560 kind of a silly name, it really is for that 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:40.080 one because really the only person who foots it is 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:43.640 the punter. And the kicker and there everyone you know 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:45.240 knows that they are a bunch of chumps. I mean, 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:49.959 if there's a a name mix up that that we 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:52.640 should have for football, it should should be called rugby. Really, 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:56.800 it much more resembles rugby than soccer. Yeah, man, this 0:10:56.960 --> 0:11:00.280 just gut confusing for a second, like it, but never 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:03.360 I had just learned in this show that rugby and 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:05.560 soccer were like, we're sort of the same game until 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:07.680 they split. I didn't realize that. Yeah, I hadn't realized 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:11.440 it either. And I think rugby stayed among the upper classes, 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:15.240 the upper classes. You said soccer was upper classes. No, 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:18.240 Soccer eventually spread to the lower class, and that's when 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:20.040 it became a game of the people. But rugby never 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:22.880 spread to the lower classes. I mean it may have now, 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:25.080 but you would think rugby would be the you know, 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:28.120 rough and tumble. Yeah, I don't know, makes sense to me. 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:33.760 So that was eighteen forty eight, and that whole process 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:36.000 really just kind of occurred over a few decades in 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:41.280 the nineteenth century. Um and apparently in nineteen o four 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:48.640 FIFA came along, the Federation Internationale, the Football Association. I'm 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:52.040 not quite sure what Continental accent that was supposed to be, 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:56.120 but it was a European accent. And by this point 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:58.920 that it was pretty the rules were pretty well defined. 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:03.080 Um like century Well yeah, but they still had rule 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:06.880 changes over the years. But um, in eighteen sixty nine 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:10.000 is when they introduced goal kicks, and then eight seventy 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:14.280 two corner kicks, and then one is when they had 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:17.320 a single referee that would like run the show and 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:19.400 throw people out of game or matches. I guess we 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:23.880 shouldn't say games even though we're Americans. Their matches played 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:28.240 on a pitch pitch out of field. Uh, but that's 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:31.000 when they started like giving penalties and assigning free kicks 0:12:31.040 --> 0:12:35.080 and umpires who were previously overseeing the game became linesmen 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:37.840 and it really and that's where the field itself took 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:40.440 shape too, because they were like, well, we're gonna start 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:41.920 in the middle of the field, we should draw a 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:45.040 circle around it. Yeah, it'll everybody know where to be. Yeah, 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:47.680 not let guys in there. And the gold penalty box 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:50.679 if we're gonna have penalties, and if the goalkeeper can 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:52.600 touch it, maybe he shouldn't be able to touch it 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:56.240 out in midfield. And like it grew very organically, it 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:58.440 seemed like from the shape of the lines of the 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:02.160 field to the rules, right, pretty neat. Yeah, well apparently 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:06.319 it's even still taking shape. Like they recently up there 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:09.440 changed their rule where it used to be, um, if 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:12.600 you were a forward, you there had to be a 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:15.760 defender between you and the goal, and now they've changed 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:17.720 it to make it more exciting, so you have to 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:20.760 at least be in line with the defender. Gives more 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:23.760 chances to take shots on goal apparently. Well, yeah, that's 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:28.559 the convoluted and ever evolving off side rule, which we'll 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:30.960 get to later because we'll explain. I mean, I know 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:33.560 everyone in the world knows about soccer, but a lot 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:37.000 of this is gonna be explaining for Americans watching the 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:40.440 World Cup right now. Yeah. World Cup fever America just 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:44.240 won begana did you watch? Are you into it at all? 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:46.920 I'm trying, Chuck, and it's not working. Well, you don't 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:49.320 have to be. Well, you mean I just watched the 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:53.240 NBA finals and and that was a little heartbreaking, that's right, 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:55.880 because you're weirdly in Miami heat fan. Yeah, we're big 0:13:55.920 --> 0:13:59.200 heat fans, um and and the Heat didn't win. Are 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:00.840 you gonna be a Heat fan and when Lebron leans 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:03.679 or is that okay? Yeah, we like the whole team. 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:06.480 I'm kind of worried though, because you know, they're talking 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:08.840 about how the bench didn't really show up for the finals, 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:12.960 the bench like the non starters. Well, I know, but 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:15.800 Miami doesn't have much of the bench. Miami should have 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:18.920 a great bench, like they're all great players, but they're 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:22.320 just not. They didn't show up. They did last year. 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:27.120 Uh yeah, well they had different players too. At any rate, 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:31.400 I'm worried about my team. Yeah, that's because they're done. 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:35.200 They're not done. Look, don't bait me on the podcast. 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:40.560 We've had conversations about this before, have we. So anyway, 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:43.880 we were depressed because you below the Miami Heat loss. 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:46.760 So I'm wondering if there's like some sort of weird 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:50.040 sports hangover that's going on right now that's keeping me 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:52.320 from being on the world But at the same time, 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:54.720 it's like, no, I think I'm just not into soccer 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:57.480 that much. So I mean, I'll keep watching here there, 0:14:57.520 --> 0:15:00.080 but yeah, I don't have World Cup fever. I this 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:03.160 is what I'm saying, I do because I follow I'm 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:05.040 one of the soccer fans that like I don't follow 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:08.560 the follow the Premier League and we'll get to all 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:10.520 that stuff. But that's the number one league in the 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:16.400 world pretty much, English Premier League. I don't follow MLSHO, 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:19.040 no one does. No, they got their fans. Yeah, and 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:20.880 we're getting a team here in Atlanta, so I'll probably 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:23.880 go to some of those. Yeah, I might go to those. Yeah. 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:27.480 Lot of sports is often better than TV sports, I 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:32.720 think always sometimes Jerry's just laughing everything. It depends on 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:37.160 where you're sitting, especially, Uh yeah, well that's true for 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:38.920 any live event. If you're in the nose bleeds, it's 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:43.400 gonna you're gonna suffer. Um. But I really get into 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:47.120 the World Cup. I watched the f A Cup, um, 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:50.000 and I watched the Olympics. The f A Cup that's uh, 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:53.160 which that's also every four years, but it's in the 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:57.520 two years. That is that European is it? Okay? Yeah? 0:15:58.040 --> 0:16:03.080 The Football Association Cup? Is that what that is? I 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:07.280 just always called that a cup, the fock Cup, yeah, 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:10.360 or I guess you'd call it the Euro two and 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:14.760 that right, Jerry. I think there's something else that's the 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:19.200 euro Cup it Yeah, I think there's um, well, let's 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:21.680 talk about this. We we mentioned that FIFA came about 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:26.920 in nineteen o four and that it took over codifying 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:32.760 the rules, setting up regions this for international play. These 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:37.200 aren't professional leagues, and they put together something called the 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:42.040 World Cup eventually in nineteen thirty. And technically I'm sure 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:45.720 FIFA was involved, but really it sounds like Uruguay took 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:49.080 the reins and said, hey, like, we're we got a 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:51.640 really good team. We just beat all of you in 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:54.680 the Olympics, and we want to do it again. So 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:56.840 what if we pay for all of you to travel 0:16:56.920 --> 0:16:59.960 to Uruguay and we'll all play. We'll have a nice 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:03.200 little tournament and see what happens. So Uruguay pretty much 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:07.879 paid for everybody's passage to Uruguay and then soundly beat 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:12.560 everyone and became the first World Cup champions in nineteen Yeah, 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:15.280 a common thing that would happen later for the host 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:20.520 team to win. Yeah, big advantage because you're at home. Yeah, 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:23.320 and actually that's if you host the World Cup, you're 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:28.120 guaranteed entry into the World Cup. That's right. Uh, whil 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:29.720 should talk about the World Cup a little bit? Then 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:34.239 why not everyone else has to qualify? Host team gets in, 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:37.960 Like you said, Uh, they're thirty two teams and they 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:45.560 come from six regions and it's it's it's you have 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:49.480 to play your way in basically. Yeah. So those six regions, 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:52.040 you said, like, it's divided differently for each World Cup 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:54.040 because they just want to have a good balance. Right. 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:57.240 So the US, the North American had three slots, South 0:17:57.280 --> 0:18:00.680 America had five, Europe had thirteen, Asia had for Africa 0:18:00.720 --> 0:18:04.520 had five. Then there's Oceanica which doesn't get a direct spot, 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:07.800 but um, those are kind of up for grabs, like 0:18:07.800 --> 0:18:10.000 you gotta play away in Mexico and Uruguay got those 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:14.560 last two spots because Mexico hammered New Zealand, yes, which 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:17.240 is part of Oceana, right, and they had to play 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:20.960 for their spot, that's right. So those those teams that 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:23.600 ended up playing for their spot aer going on to 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:27.480 the World Cup had the opportunity to because over the 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:31.840 last four years they've started accumulating points, correct, Yeah, And 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:35.239 you play qualifying matches right in. FIFA's keeping track of 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:37.639 all this stuff and figure out who's who and who's 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:41.200 doing well enough, and then ultimately thirty one teams plus 0:18:41.240 --> 0:18:45.239 the host country are elevated into World Cup play, that's right, 0:18:45.560 --> 0:18:48.760 and the World Cup play um divides those thirty two 0:18:48.800 --> 0:18:52.320 teams into eight groups of four, and those eight groups 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:56.119 are populated by the top seeds. So they want to 0:18:56.119 --> 0:18:59.480 make sure that one group isn't like the first four 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:03.400 seeded teams in the world. Yeah, they're knocking it out. Yeah, 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:05.600 they wanted like to be a good tournament right over, 0:19:06.080 --> 0:19:08.399 so as much as you can at least, right. So, 0:19:08.480 --> 0:19:10.879 there's a top seed in each of the groups, and 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:14.480 then the other ones are randomly picked, the other three 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:17.359 in each group, and then you have group play, which 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:20.600 is around robin where every team plays every other team 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:24.240 and they're accumulating points during this group play. Yeah, you 0:19:24.320 --> 0:19:26.200 get three points for a win, one for a tie, 0:19:26.560 --> 0:19:29.720 nothing for a loss. Uh. And with the groups, there's 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:32.760 there's always one group that's super tough. If you've got 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:35.280 three or more good teams in a group, it's called 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:37.119 the group of death. And the US is in that 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:40.639 group right now, Germany, Ghana, US and Portugal. So although 0:19:40.680 --> 0:19:43.919 Portugal apparently they're not showing up well, they got spanked 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:45.960 by Germany. But I did see that game and it 0:19:46.080 --> 0:19:49.800 was Pepe's fault in part that they got spanks so bad. Well, 0:19:49.840 --> 0:19:53.080 Germany is really good. Yeah, but Portugal wasn't supposed to 0:19:53.119 --> 0:19:55.720 be like four to nothing back, No, no, not at all. 0:19:55.800 --> 0:19:59.080 I mean it was a huge margin of victory. Yes, 0:19:59.160 --> 0:20:02.199 I wouldn't say up that, but because I expected Germany 0:20:02.240 --> 0:20:04.880 to win, and that huge margin of victory can really 0:20:05.040 --> 0:20:08.320 bite Portugal in the end. So when you have UM 0:20:08.359 --> 0:20:11.600 on the hind end, right, when you have teams playing 0:20:11.600 --> 0:20:15.920 one another, UM, they're accumulating points. If for some reason, 0:20:16.280 --> 0:20:19.000 at the end of group play, UM and all teams 0:20:19.040 --> 0:20:21.440 have played one another, all four teams have the same 0:20:21.480 --> 0:20:24.879 amount of points, you then go to point differential. So 0:20:24.960 --> 0:20:27.600 Germany really like help themselves out they did in Portugal 0:20:27.720 --> 0:20:31.479 really again got bit in the rear end by losing 0:20:31.520 --> 0:20:34.399 forward and nothing. That's a huge point differential. And then 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:38.399 beyond that, if everybody still somehow had the same number 0:20:38.400 --> 0:20:41.760 of points accumulated the same point differential, then they'll go 0:20:41.840 --> 0:20:44.199 to total number of goals scored. I thought it was 0:20:44.200 --> 0:20:48.280 a fashion show. That's that's the fourth If if that 0:20:48.560 --> 0:20:53.480 is even, then yes it's a walk off. Yeah, so 0:20:53.760 --> 0:20:56.360 that's how they do the group play. And then after 0:20:56.440 --> 0:21:01.360 group play comes the uh knockout round. Yeah, then you're 0:21:01.359 --> 0:21:04.520 down to sixteen and it's basically just single elimination and 0:21:04.560 --> 0:21:06.880 that's where there are no ties. You can have ties 0:21:06.920 --> 0:21:09.879 in the group round, um, but you can't in the 0:21:09.920 --> 0:21:13.160 knockout round because you've got to knock somebody out you do. 0:21:13.600 --> 0:21:15.639 So if you're tied at the end of the game, 0:21:15.680 --> 0:21:17.840 you're gonna have a shootout, which is when you alternate 0:21:17.880 --> 0:21:22.000 the free kicks or I guess penalty kicks until I 0:21:22.040 --> 0:21:25.680 think there's five, and then whoever whoever has the most 0:21:25.800 --> 0:21:28.560 wins and that's you know, it's kind of exciting, but 0:21:29.119 --> 0:21:30.880 I think purists don't like to see it come down 0:21:30.880 --> 0:21:33.600 to the PK's, you know, oh really, Yeah, they want 0:21:33.600 --> 0:21:37.960 to decide because I don't know what the the percentages are. 0:21:37.960 --> 0:21:43.000 But it's uh, pretty rare to to stop. I'm not rare, 0:21:43.040 --> 0:21:46.680 but it's pretty easy to score a p K. Well, yeah, 0:21:46.720 --> 0:21:50.000 so a penalty kick. Your goalie is in front of 0:21:50.040 --> 0:21:54.120 the eight yard by eight foot goal, yeah, which wants 0:21:54.119 --> 0:21:55.720 a lot of ground to cover. Yeah, it is. And 0:21:55.760 --> 0:21:58.840 there's he's not allowed to come out from the goal line. Yeah, 0:21:58.840 --> 0:22:02.000 he or she you're right, you're right, I'm sorry, is 0:22:02.160 --> 0:22:07.480 huge me a ham Uh, well, you're not a fan. 0:22:08.000 --> 0:22:14.600 And the pelee right exactly, I've heard of both of them. Um. 0:22:14.680 --> 0:22:17.440 And then the soccer ball is placed ten yards, no, 0:22:17.640 --> 0:22:21.000 twelve yards away from the goal line, and that's where 0:22:21.040 --> 0:22:23.200 you take your kick. So yeah, it's easy, but that's 0:22:23.200 --> 0:22:26.040 the whole point to shootout. It gets high scoring. Well, 0:22:26.080 --> 0:22:28.760 I mean it is. It is exciting, but um it 0:22:28.840 --> 0:22:30.600 it'd be like at the end of a baseball game 0:22:30.640 --> 0:22:32.399 if it's tied, to have like a home run derby. 0:22:32.600 --> 0:22:38.000 That would be awesome. I would love to see that. Uh. Interestingly, 0:22:38.080 --> 0:22:41.480 before nineteen o two, the um the penalty could be 0:22:41.560 --> 0:22:43.840 taken and this is for any penalty. You could take 0:22:43.880 --> 0:22:46.719