FOOTBALL WAR - Oversimplified - A Historian Reacts

welcome back everyone to another reaction video well you've been asking for this one for a while today we're going to dive into oversimplified football war uh and if you have not seen my other reactions to oversimplified videos i've put links to all of my oversimplified reactions in the description below as well as a link to the original content so you can check that out although i'm guessing most of you have already seen it if you're new to the channel welcome take a look around see what you like and if you uh like what you see consider subscribing i would greatly appreciate it we have a nice mix of not only my reaction uh which really are more than reactions i really attempt to try and give more information and add some value to what i'm reacting to it's not just me saying wow and holy cow the whole time but as well as that i i have some original content that i would invite you to check out from my historic site videos to vlogs just talking about various things to my series on forgotten history so with all of that said let's dive into oversimplified football war quick you have two seconds to name these two countries uh honduras el salvador you're wrong unless you got it right then good job they are of course hundreds of honduras salvador one thing these two countries have in common is being fanatic about football or if you're a freedom loving patriot soccer but do they love or if you're a freedom loving patriot soccer most of the world calls it football we americans i don't know why we call american football football because they use their hands way more than they use their feet it makes way more sense to call soccer football than it does to call what we call football i've got my west brom jersey on today i'm a huge west bromwich albion fan love the rangers in scotland and the columbus crew here in the united states uh yeah it's not just el salvador and honduras that are fanatics about football i mean it's pretty much the whole world right um i can remember i was a senior in high school back during the 1994 world cup when a guy got murdered from one of the world cup teams it was uh 94 colombia played against the united states uh the men's teams and there was an own goal scored by one of the colombian players i think his name was escobar on andres escobar uh and he was murdered a couple of days later uh it was pretty horrifying but that shows you how seriously people take this game love it so much they would go to war over it you bet they would and that is no bueno no good i think that's what bueno means if you look at these two countries you might notice one major difference and that is that this one is a lot bigger than this one however this one had a larger population than this one made up mostly of farmers and there wasn't enough land for them to live and work on so they started moving from el salvador to honduras in search of land and by the 1960s a huge number of illegal immigrants had crossed over the border from el salvador isn't that interesting illegal immigration is not something here in the united states we talk constantly about illegal immigration coming up from mexico but there's a lot of that going on you know a lot of people coming in from mexico into the united states aren't coming from mexico they're coming through mexico illegal immigration happens all over the place it's not just there meanwhile in honduras it's 1963 and this guy has just staged a military coup to prevent the rise of communism and is now the military leader of the country defenestration he threw him out a window we talked about that recently began harassing the peasants unions and other left-wing groups but he's a little insecure about the legitimacy of his leadership so he holds an election and wins but then the opposing party says hey man that election was clearly corrupt and fraudulent and also you've been bribed by the rich american banana companies who are taking all of our bananas tax-free and now our economy is in ruins and everyone started to get mad at them now if you ever find yourself the barely legitimate military leader of a corrupt central american country and you start getting into hot water here's a bit of advice that has been tried and tested throughout the century star wars or something else yeah uh so we've talked about this in many other videos before uh it's sometimes called wag the dog there was a movie called wag the dog um you know a lot of times people get accused of doing this when there's a scandal or when they want to take the focus of their country off of something they create something else to put their focus on a lot of times this really isn't happening intentionally but sometimes it is back uh during the monica lewinsky scandal with bill clinton in the 1990s uh he launched some air strikes on a middle eastern country over some terrorist threats and stuff like that and um he was blamed for doing that then that he was trying to distract people from his scandal at home uh anytime you can get people to either focus on something else or unite behind you against something else that's what you're gonna do so he blamed the salvadoran immigrants for stealing all the land and all the jobs and ruining honduras the immigrants found themselves under attack by the hostile locals egged on by the rich american banana companies who wanted all the bananas to themselves the honduran government began evicting salvadoran immigrants who had been living on the land for generations and started sending them back to el salvador the salvadoran elite were furious and protested citing moral reasons but in reality they were just getting a little too crowded so tensions were about as high as they could be but then [Applause] random ronaldo photo there by the way can we just stop and talk my son's a huge manchester united fan i know a lot of people are around the world how epic was that first game for uh for cristiano ronaldo back at manchester united scoring two goals now neither one of them i mean the second goal was pretty cool he meg the guy went right between his legs but the first goal was just kind of i could have scored that one but still it was pretty epic world cup qualifiers and both countries finished top of their qualifying tables so it was now time for them to play against each other in a series of matches the first match took place in honduras the night before the game hondurans gathered outside the salvadoran team's hotel making noise and taunting them the next day honduras defeated the exhausted salvadorans with a late 90th minute goal after the match a young salvadoran fan unable to bear her country's defeat shot herself disturbingly the salvadoran government glorified the incident and made her into a national and at the next game fans brought pictures of her to the stadium emotions were running high which is actually something that that happened with the guy i told you about earlier the colombian player who was murdered he was he was ambushed in a like in a parking lot by three guys who shot him uh six times and the one guy kept saying goal goal goal every time he fired the shots uh responding to the number of times that the word goal was said on the broadcast but people brought his picture to the next game that um that was played yeah i mean this is this is pretty heavy stuff and we've already got tensions between these countries and now you've got this match it's a recipe for disaster hi as the next match took place in el salvador and this time the tables returned the hondurans had to endure a sleepless night in their hotel and the next day before the match started instead of the honduran flag the salvadorans raised a dirty rag so great job at reducing tensions decisively over the exhausted hondurans while spectators battled in the stands team hunter has fled home in a bulletproof bus with rocks being thrown at them and the honduran coach reportedly told his players that they were lucky they lost in response to the defeat hondurans began terrorizing the salvadoran settlers even more in some cases reportedly throwing them off their land and burning down their homes and the immigrants began fleeing back to el salvador the final game in mexico would decide who went to the world cup it was close but el salvador came out victorious knocking honduras out of the tournament the atmosphere is riotous literally and back in honduras attacks on the salvadoran immigrants further increased this was too much for el salvador to bear with its people under attack and an unmanageable refugee crisis on its hands el salvador severed all diplomatic ties with honduras and declared war wow the football war is also known as the 100 hours war because that's how long it lasted making it one of the shortest wars in history el salvador started by carrying out air raids on strategic locations within honduras including tonkontin international airport which prevented the honduran air force from getting into the sky then with their superior army they began an invasion along two major roads complete with light tanks and infantry their advance was rapid and they were quickly approaching the honduran capital then the organization of american states met in a bit of a panic and unanimously agreed that war between el salvador and honduras was a bad thing and probably shouldn't continue so they went to el salvador and said can you please stop invading and el salvador declared not until they stopped being jerks and so the war went on well especially because they're winning right you know i mean you've already invaded why stop especially if you're on the steps of their capital and you're about to possibly win the war the honduran air force finally got into the sky and with aid from neighboring nicaragua they successfully carried out air raids on salvador and air bases and oil facilities crippling the salvadoran supply line and stopping their advance dead caught in a bit of a stalemate the situation was no longer advantageous to el salvador so when the organization of american states once again asked them to stop and agreed to ensure the safety of the salvadoran immigrants el salvador relented and a ceasefire was organized on the 18th of july then the oas said can you now please withdraw your troops from honduras no please no please no please no do it or will sanction you you know what just for you so el salvador pulled its troops out of honduras on the 2nd of august and with casualties in the thousands i mean think about this is a four-day war those are pretty substantial casualties for a four-day war between two relatively small nations i mean it doesn't seem like a lot but that's a lot war was over the economies of both nations were damaged by the war and el salvador didn't have the capability to take care of all the returning immigrants a crisis that eventually helped cause a civil war the war left behind land and border disputes some of which are still a cause of tension to this day el salvador went on to play in the world cup but lost every match they played and didn't make it past the group stage didn't even score a goal in the end nobody achieved anything and there were no winners except for this guy [Music] so uh let's talk about this because uh the world cup qualifying for uh for north and central america is actually going on right now well work qualifying is going on for everybody but specifically those two nations let's see if they're involved and when they play each other so they had the group stages already for the concacaf world cup qualifying el salvador won their group uh won three games out of four uh scored 13 goals only allowed one uh they they had a 1-1 tie in that one uh or was it 0-0 i don't know uh anyway yeah they tied 1-1 with montserrat and then let's see el salvador and honduras are both in it so you see it right there so the way this works is now that they're down to the final eight the final stage the third round they call it the top three finishers automatically go to the world cup the fourth goes to an inter confederation playoffs where they'll have to play someone from another confederation probably south america i would guess but right now you've got mexico canada the united states the three largest countries in the confederation that are in the lead and the u.s actually just played honduras and got their first win after uh two draws they they were like tied one to one with 20 minutes to go and then scored three goals in the last 20 minutes i watched that game it's pretty exciting but uh so you know honduras and el salvador are very much in this still when did they play each other looks like they play each other on uh january 30th of 2022. so that may very well have either a spot in the playoffs or a spot in the world cup on the line when they play each other because that'll be the next to last match it looks like out of them so big big deal there they'll be interesting to see what happens there so let me know your thoughts 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Channel: Vlogging Through History

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Keywords: oversimplified reaction, reaction video, vlogging through history, cold war, el salvador, football war, history reaction, football war reaction, oversimplified reactions, history teacher reacts, central america, oversimplified football war, historian reacts, soccer war

Id: NZ6etoM54K4

Length: 12min 41sec (761 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 14 2021