0:00 So the US just lost to Belgium in the World Cup. How do we come up with an excuse to bomb the ████ out of Belgium? I'm not kidding. >> Okay, you guys are just talking about it. You guys think that game was just like the worst example in human history of a game, which is why America will always suck at soccer. >> Every four years I convince myself that we have a shot, and every four years I'm wrong. >> Wasn't this the year that everybody's like this we have a shot? >> Yeah. Why would they say that though? >> All right. We get caught up, dude. We get patriotic fervor. They did like last week was July 4th. We just wanted something to believe in and love. >> And we're co-hosting the World Cup. So specifically as a co-host. >> The betting sites were showing like America is doing predictably better. >> Specifically against Belgium. >> Yep. >> Cuz from a sports performance perspective, like the strength and conditioning world, we know we're never going to have a chance in soccer because our best athletes are in football and
0:51 basketball. So if we're flooding like let's say 20 to 40 teams in football, then 20 to 40 teams in like basketball, it's literally like our plan H I J K players playing soccer when they're putting their best players into the world. >> Long game though. It's it's growing. Soccer/football in America is growing. >> If the money gets there. >> The money has been coming since the whole Beckham deal. >> going to get LeBron >> Inter Miami deal to Messi. You know, so it so it is becoming a thing where like like people who are like quote-unquote renowned goats, you're like, well, yeah, why don't I just do the America play? Let me just play in MLS. >> Yep. Right. >> And then get ████ tons of money or crazy deals. And then at that point if it becomes a standard because of just the money, maybe. >> So worldwide it's actually the most like
1:43 paid paid like you get the biggest pay, but then domestically in the US it sucks pay. That's why? >> Yeah. >> Cuz we don't watch it. >> Yeah, we don't watch it. >> Oh, but if they change the ecosystem, the financial system, then the best athletes are going to start going to soccer. >> It's like how WNBA just they all got pay boosts because people started watching it cuz Caitlin Clark came in. >> Oh. >> They won't say that. >> All right. >> Exactly. >> I mean soccer is not it's bigger than it's ever been in America. >> Yeah, definitely. >> I didn't know so many people watched. >> Well, I think World Cup is >> watches, we don't watch. >> Yeah. >> It's also like the gymnastics. It's not like I regularly followed like, oh my god, I can't wait to watch women's gymnastics. But then >> You always say that. You always say that. >> You always talk about beach volleyball, always. >> Beach volleyball is a yes, for sure. But you know, like you don't really like watch all these random I can't wait to watch the the random like
2:34 that one Turkish dude or whatever. Pa pa. You know what I'm saying? Like you don't watch that on a regular, but once the Olympics comes back up. >> But what's also dope about the World Cup though, it's you know, the regular soccer league, it's it's like it's like a money game, right? It's like basketball. It's like who has money, they draft whatever player that they want. To see the players go back to their respective countries to play for them and then use the country's resources for what they have. Like what's that one uh country? Was it Cape Verde or something? >> Where the dude just got 20 million followers overnight? Yeah, so he's a bus driver >> for the goal that he kicked? >> Yeah, he was a bus driver and then he was like, but I really like soccer. I'm going to audition for the World Cup and he is able to go to an international stage from being a bus driver and then gets 20 million views. That's a crazy story. >> then 12 million followers. >> He's not a professional athlete. >> In his country, they just have so little
3:24 [snorts] resources. They're like, hey, I guess we're going to enter in the World Cup. Everyone come audition. So it's just people that just scrimmage and play or whatever and he got good enough to go play. >> They're going to make like a different type of cool running story. >> I was just thinking >> Yeah, it's like cool runnings, exactly like that. >> But they lost. >> Yeah, they lost. But he went going from 46,000 followers to 22 million. >> It's insane. >> That's not a loss. Like I would rather lose everything in the world. >> That's a ████ Nike sponsorship right there. That's crazy. >> They they compared he's got more followers on IG than Tom Brady. >> Holy ████ 22 million? >> Yeah, like that's the most insane >> Well, I mean yeah, cuz soccer is the biggest ████ sport in the world. >> Yeah, world wide. >> The anomaly of like social media just like sometimes people pick up on weird things and they're just like let's go with like it like the what's his name Holland? >> Holland, yeah. >> Yeah, yeah, the the the dude with the >> Erling Holland.
4:14 >> Oh, yeah, the Norwegian guy? >> Yeah, everyone's favorite guy right now. That guy's a freak though. You watch >> He's dope though. >> Funny because like all the crazy social media viral clips are like him like picking up and putting away the clothes and just being a nice oaf. >> [laughter] >> Yeah, he's gentle giant, right? >> Yeah, the gentle giant, yeah. >> Cuz he's wandering around the field and you go like okay, this guy's field IQ is like zero cuz he's like in all the wrong spots and then in 3 seconds he's in the perfect spot and he puts the goal in. You're like, what the ████ He just looks like he's just walking around the field doing whatever. >> [laughter] >> Yeah, he's insane. >> Are you are you sad? Anybody here sad for Cristiano Ronaldo? >> Yeah. >> Uh, I wouldn't I he's first of all one of the best looking guys ever. >> [laughter] >> Yes, he's sexy. >> Yeah, where do you How can you be sad for that? >> He's been beating up his wife for like I think in their whole lives he's been with the same chick. >> And they've been he's been rich for how
5:04 long? >> He's been rich forever. Like yeah, not >> Highest paid athlete in the world? >> They also made him a character in in one of the new fighting games and he's ridiculously OP. >> That's what I'm saying. >> What fighting game? >> Fatal Fury, the new one. >> They put him in [laughter] That is ████ funny. >> Yeah, he's not even a secret character. He's just like on the normal rosters. >> What's his move? Does he just kick all day? >> Yeah, he just has like crazy soccer ball moves. >> And he's a nice guy. I interviewed him cuz I interviewed him like 12 years ago. He's a super nice cat. So like ████ that guy. >> But I'm sad though because any goat you kind of want to see their last >> thing, you know? Do you get to call somebody a goat though if they don't get any World Cup title? >> why I mean that's why I mean like goat potential cuz cuz even like Kobe you know, before he passed like his last time on the Lakers, he didn't really get to make it to the finals, too. So, anytime you have that like goat status person, >> Yeah, but he's still he's still got them
5:56 rings, though. >> Yeah, yeah, true, true, true. >> Like, Ronaldo just didn't actually get those rings, you know? Like, those those trophies. That's crazy. >> So, I would like to have see him face off Messi or see Neymar face off Messi or Neymar face off Ronaldo, but both of those teams got robbed. >> Dude, we would we we would have had a power outage in the United States from all the TVs watching that ████ That would have been absolutely insane. >> But then at the same time that Ronaldo's like reign of World Cup ends is also where like Messi get goes gangster against Egypt and comes back from nowhere. >> That was crazy, yeah. >> Even Tom Brady said that was a better comeback than 28-3. Yeah, that's >> Did you guys see that compilation thing where it was like super cuts of of Ronaldo not getting the ball? Is that for real? Like, people are really trying not to pass him the ball? >> I don't know enough about it. >> I don't know I don't know Portugal's dynamic like that, to be completely honest. >> Like, his own team is really like, "No, don't get
6:46 >> They don't like him? His own team don't like him? >> I I think a compilation is hard. It paints a really strong narrative at the most of most >> Cuz like there's really that video had really obvious moments where like he was right ████ there and they just didn't give it to him. And he and then he even goes like, "What the hell?" >> Also, though, like when you're in the World Cup and like you got a chance to score while the whole world's watching you, like what what is what is a player to do? Always pass to Ronaldo? I don't know, you know? Like, what what are you going to do? >> True. But like, should they have? Probably. >> Yeah, I don't know enough to know if that's like an anomaly or if it's like normal. >> You know what I trip out about when like the World Cup comes around? Like, so people get so invested at a level that like things like death threats come out. >> Oh, dude, yeah, there >> Or like the racial ████ that happened to Speed when he was streaming there? >> Oh, yeah. >> And like every they started yelling out racist ████ cuz they're some countries are pretty tough on racism at the games.
7:36 You never seen that? >> What do you mean tough on it? >> Like, they'll they'll find who's who yelled that and really prosecute them. They'll really yeah. Some countries, like UK is like that, I think. >> Oh, snap. I definitely saw that one I mean, I think if you get caught on a virus >> Cuz sometimes the whole the whole stadium looks like they're making gorilla noises. You know what I mean? Like, how are you going to punish the whole stadium? >> That's true. You know what I mean? Because they're so racist about like insulting over sports. Like, they'll say whatever will hurt you. It doesn't even matter, you know? >> [snorts] >> Was that there's like a Chinese streamer girl and then everyone started doing the >> And the WHOLE PLACE THE WHOLE PLACE >> IT WAS LIKE 50 people behind her going China China China. >> think it was a Korean girl and then that one guy got like fired or something from his actual job. >> Dude. >> But then you also see like the other like versus Mexico game where like those guys are looking back and they're like like they're going to like kill them and then you're like, wait.
8:26 >> It's not just the fans though, too. Cuz like, you know, Peyton Manning used to walk up to the line and he would he would shout like, "Brenda Brenda Brenda Smith." And like the guy the defender on the other side is like, "What the ████ That's my wife's name." And like like he's doing that to get in that guy's head to ████ with him. You know what I mean? >> Really? >> Yeah, dude. >> They would do stuff like that? >> ████ yeah. >> That's crazy. >> Crazy wild boy stuff is tight. >> Wilding out with >> You see you see how people be getting mad pissed at the whole like Korean coach, too? >> Mhm. >> After Korea lost and so like when the Korean team like like landed back in Korea like people were just out there screaming and yelling at them saying things like you stole our money like tax money or whatever stuff like that or like it was some shady reason that that guy got hired. I want people to actually get into the comments. Anybody who knows anything specifically about the dirt on the Korean situation because I don't know if that was some sort of like what
9:17 what was it? Like nepotism or something where like like some sort of political got somebody else to replace a position and he became the coach out of nowhere. You know, some weird ████ like that. But like people got super pissed because he played that last game super wrong. But I mean, death threats come out for the World Cup uh specifically. >> Oh, for sure, yeah. You have to love how Trump got that guy to the red card suspended, and then the guy didn't do ████ in the game, and we and then we lost the game by four goals. >> That's insane, dude. >> [laughter] >> What the hell was that? >> Uh that was wild. >> That's not considered I mean, I'm sure a lot of people calling it cheating, but like but what's the rationale? What's the rationale for that? >> He thinks it was a bribe. A lot of people thinks that we we bribed them somehow. >> Yeah, but like >> No. >> Splain. Splain yourself. >> Okay, so so Trump calls FIFA, right? And he goes, "Hey, this red card thing, I want you to take a look at it cuz I
10:08 think it's total horse s███." And then FIFA's like, "Yeah, we agree." >> So this guy wasn't supposed to play in the game? >> He wasn't He wasn't supposed to play in the next game, which was the game versus Belgium. >> And then they And then they reversed it. >> game so hard. >> Yep. And so they reversed it, and then the guy played in the game, and we lost got got absolutely murdered. >> [laughter] >> So it didn't matter. >> That game was so weird though, like >> It was terrible. >> So does US like not Are they not big fans of soccer mainly because US is sucky at it? Is that the main reason? >> Yeah, yeah. We just have not our best Not of our our best athletes don't play soccer. >> Can you name an American soccer star? Exactly. >> Cobi Jones. >> Exactly, right? >> But what's So what's the magic that happens when you have like, let's say, Mets fans? Like, why are they big fans of Mets even though the Mets are >> They're born there, and they they suck ass, yeah. >> But I think it's the league, right? >> can't get behind that soccer-wise, where
10:59 it's like, even though we're we're suck at it, we can't just become fans? >> I think if we start winning a bit I think we have two are football and basketball and baseball is too good. >> Oh, there's just too many other >> I think if we if we can get our team going, I think we'll have soccer fandom. >> Like, it's more exciting to watch? >> Think about it like this. The Mets suck, and they spend more money than any other team in the whole league, and they still suck. You know what I'm saying? Cuz but they can afford that because they have so many ████ fans, and it doesn't matter that they suck. >> makes sense because I always thought like, we all grow up playing soccer, but then how come it just disappears, and then it's not a thing? Like we we think of soccer being a kid's thing, right? Like you do it as a child and then you're done. But then you don't watch it as an adult. >> Cuz even our best players, once they go to college, they play for Europe. Cuz that's where the money Cuz that's where the money's at. >> Well, plus if you had a kid, right? So
11:49 you you're talking to Tyga and he's like, "I want to play soccer." I'd be like, "Uh think about playing baseball, think about playing football, think about playing basketball way before soccer. There's way more money in that." >> Yep. Even hockey. >> So it's like soccer's for fun, but don't think about it as a like >> As far as the United States goes, yeah. Otherwise, anywhere else go for it. >> grew up playing soccer and he owned the Italian soccer team, but he's still playing basketball here cuz he just makes way more money. >> And think about it, too, like how would you incubate a soccer player? Like here in America, you're not going to like there's no there's no place to send a kid where it's like he's going to be a killer soccer player compared to like Brazil and all these other countries that have like they have ████ farming systems for like soccer players, you know what I'm saying? >> The only day that we have a chance of being actually good is the day that we're like down to just be like, "All right, I guess we'll call it football as well like the rest of the
12:39 world." >> The weird thing though is like when I watched that last game for against Belgium, I'm like, "That's really the best people that America could have? >> [laughter] >> Like for real, that's really the best? Or am I like just seeing some weird political ████ go down where these guys ended up in those positions they didn't deserve?" Like that can't be the best guys, right? >> Against Croatia, they looked like they were the best guys. Remember that, the first game? >> I didn't see it. >> We killed them. >> We've been looking good. >> Cuz it's like like Cool Runnings, like if we have a really good sprinter right now and they couldn't make the Olympic team, they probably would honestly be on the American bobsled team before they go on American soccer team, before they teach them how to like dribble and stuff. >> It just makes sense. Yeah. >> It's just It's on our our tier list, it's like on one of the lowest sports. There's so many other ways that they can win a world title. Like if you're a true athlete, right, and your goal's is to win a world title somewhere, there's
13:29 like so many other things, like maybe I'll be javelin or I'll do a decathlon before you go, "F███ it, I guess I'll play soccer." >> Yeah, it is one of those things where if you can kick the ball hell of a well and somebody's just like, "Hey, be a kicker on this football team instead." >> Yeah, if you're a kicker, they're probably I'll go I'll go kick for the Raiders and make way more money than go play soccer. >> Right. >> it conflict with any popular sports seasons? Cuz that's another thing, too. Cuz like if it's playing during the time we have football, then everyone's not even going to watch that. They're going to watch football. >> seasonally. >> Yeah. So, it's it's a money thing, huh? >> What? There's the World Cup. And so, you know, there if there's a chance, it's it's going to happen. Like and it will happen, I think. I think it's still trending upwards. More people are just into it than ever, and then stars are coming over to America, so the money's coming in. >> All we got to do is like what we do for basketball and just have all Mexicans that we scout from Mexico
14:20 >> who will go back and play for Mexico. >> Who plays for US. >> Yeah. >> They'll play for the US until they go back for the World Cup. >> My favorite thing is FIFA. >> lost, too. >> My favorite thing is how FIFA is so hardcore about sponsorships that like they have to put black tape over like a bottle of Heinz ketchup. >> Yeah, or the or the Levi's logo. >> The Levi's one was hella good. >> And then Levi's changed their logo on IG. >> With the black tape? >> No, they they put the blanket over their logo. Yeah. >> funny.
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