Hello and welcome to a very special episode of the vlog because today
we are talking American vs Canadian soccer i'm actually at the us versus
Canada soccer game in Hamilton, Ontario.
This behind me is a world cup qualifying game.
Woooooooo.
Yeaaaahhhh!
CA-NA-DA
stop hold it right there okay maybe not there let's take a step back there's more to this
story than i've told you
because normally i go to these types of things with my american friend jason.
But due to circumstances he couldn't make it.
So i drove across the border into the u.s to jason's house to show him my experience at the game.
and yes i also brought him some canadian food but that video was on our TikTok page which you can check out later if you like
but back to the matter at hand.
Now we're going to talk about soccer the world cup what it means for both of our countries and how my life
has revolved around soccer i'll tell you how
but first
and possibly more importantly...
Pie.
Nothing more american than apple pie in u.s i'm finally back again for the first time in four months.
Welcome back.
Thank you.
Cheers
today i'm talking about something that maybe a lot of people don't know as much about american
versus canadian soccer because i grew up playing soccer i did grow up playing it did you yeah what
i know i went to the canada u.s soccer game in hamilton ontario i'm gonna show you what happened
because it was a magical time both countries coming together to compete but also in love
yeah i went i filmed hold on whoa there it is now that was impressive this game was top seed canada
and U.S. playing each other so it was a big game big implications for what could happen down the line
and there was a lot of americans there well it was pretty cool okay so i just gotta i
just gotta show you what happened oh see it's very cold what are you doing it was so cold
Look at your long-johns.
Let's go.
All right so we found some americans outside tailgating to get their opinion on some things
so let's see if we can infiltrate. Where are you guys from? Chicago. What do you think about the
state of soccer in the u.s it's getting better yeah maybe soccer fans team us always be in the
world cup where canada's always shut out i would love both of us to go oh yeah but today i would
love you to lose but reap canada stereotype is americans were about football and like soccer
was like this foreign thing that nobody wanted to care about but it's harder to ignore especially in
today's world i started in grade school elementary school elementary school beyond that though like
you didn't watch soccer i didn't watch soccer i also didn't grow up necessarily
watching leagues in europe you know when it came to like the world stage italy is having an italian
background my grandparents italy was such a huge thing to cheer for because canada was never a
contender u.s was always kind of in there canada made the world cup once in 1986 before i was born
okay but this year they're on the brink of making it to the world cup for the first
time in 40 years really so we'll get you to the world cup there's a huge long process of playing
other countries to like rank yourself to exactly right now canada is at the top of the group and
for me soccer i grew up with soccer my dad still owns a soccer store he's owned it for 40 years
i played soccer like i was too slow to make any rep team but i still had a lot of the skills like
i watched maradona juggle a soccer ball when i was like three or four i wanted to like him
wow
now i can still pick up a ball you can juggle and it's like an international
language went to downtown toronto there was some guy juggling in the middle of
street i went up to him and we just we didn't say a word to each other
and we started juggling the ball and like it's just this beautiful thing
that can bring people together even though this competition how do you feel i gotta eat
that's great you guys just come in for the game yeah driving through hamilton reminds
me of small town and south mississippi it's the signage i think yeah very old school
u.s oh here's again there he is again canada this is basically our episode come to life i wish jason
were here for that there's jason right there this is amazing he needs that for the next episode
comment does jason need that costume oh i think so yeah which you're actually taking for this game
who's going to win i would like canada to win but it's going to be very close and uh see you again
american canadian american canadian where are you from albany new york
canada and i just appreciate you serving america here
what do you feel about the chances for obviously the us and canada going through
i think they're good yeah i think we're both looking good to head to qatar
i hope so i would love to meet canada in qatar would that be great i don't like canada
yeah well the hospitality has been great canada's been amazing
oh
the most hard channel thing to do the countries versus yeah you can't get a
better date it's the best we wish look at this
oh
i just figured out what we got to do in true canadian fashion go and apologize
we have to hey guys canadian fashion apologize i apologize for the win
that's all right i hope you're all right
we'd rather have you at the top of the table yeah if someone's not us if you enjoy your
time yeah where'd you guys come where are you from florida look at there you go boom it's upside down
no we're good you're good i'm obviously disappointed you know the us uh we want
to get a win every game we play happy to have a strong competition like canada in uh
obviously the hope is that the us and canada both qualify look when i play fifa
or i play football manager i want a canadian on my team i hope that canadians want an american on
their team too you know there's just good vibes back and forth and that's what i hope for two
canadian fashion apology apologize well here's our friends my friends i'm proud of what canada
did okay very well i'm proud of them but again it's not over we'll see you in qatar there you go
wow
that's not true
um
naturally naturally
uh they look like they're gonna hurt you
nice
there you go well done that was great i wish i was that i know i really do and i'm glad to have
been able to show you the beauty of it so give me your give me your reaction i need that suit
yes you do comment below you have to comment below does it find myself one of those how do
we get it i don't know send it send a link amazon it's a little bit not me but i feel like i would
you could pull it up yeah fun game yeah i wish we would have scored a goal well i'm glad you did
i think this really showed the respect we have for each other countries and people they were
everyone was great the americans were amazing that we talked to and that guy was the best i'm proud
of what canada did but we'll see you in qatar we'll see you in the world cup is that going to
happen or it's very yes it's almost impossible for not to happen both teams would have to lose
every game so both canada and us will be in the world cup together running this should
it should happen we're this close and that's why the games this span of time in the next few weeks
are going to sillify that are we going to qatar we're going to qatar we got some pie left that's
the best so in this same stadium what we did is we went to the i took you to the grey cup uh
and you can watch that video right here uh in front of us it was an amazing time your first
experience at a cfl game yeah but same stadium exact same stadium as this game so go ahead
and take a look at there watch some more maybe subscribe hit the bell up to you or don't it's
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