Alex

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced ~ UTSA Alumni🔸

[Alex @AlexMunoz96]

The older I get the less I tweet, the less I post, the less I snap. The more I realize that we create the lives we want others to see and it’s really not how it is.

[Ian Carroll @IanCarrollShow]

If you watch Ben Shapiro and don’t realize you’re watching Israeli propaganda, you are retarded.

[Sher Khan @K4anSh3r]

Good bye, Ronaldo. You won and you lost but you never rigged. Respect.

[Sam Mahmood @TheSammahmood_]

The U.S. soccer federation is a poor return on invested capital.

I played soccer for 20+ years.

Grassroots.
Academy.
D1 college.
Pursued professionally after.

And I’ll say the quiet part out loud:

The US soccer infrastructure is broken.

In America, we treat playing D1 soccer like it is the peak achievement.

For most families, clubs, coaches, and players, the entire youth soccer machine is built around one goal:

Get recruited.
Get a scholarship.
Play college soccer.

But if the objective is to produce world-class players, D1 soccer is a terrible development path.

From 18-22, some of the most important technical development years of your career, you are preparing for a 3-4 month season built largely around athleticism, direct play, set pieces, fitness, and survival.

Now compare that to an 18-year-old in Spain, Argentina, Morocco, Italy, England, or France.

That player has likely been in a professional environment for years.

Training daily.
Playing meaningful matches year-round.
Competing against grown professionals.
Getting thousands more touches.
Learning how to solve the game under pressure.

The gap is massive.

And it shows.

American players are usually athletic.
They are usually fit.
They usually compete hard.

But at the highest levels, that is not enough.

The biggest difference is technical comfort.

We do not move the ball like Spain.
We do not combine like Argentina.
We do not play with the same fluidity, rhythm, and confidence you see from countries where the game is embedded into the culture from childhood.

That comes down to volume.

Volume of touches.
Volume of street soccer.
Volume of futsal.
Volume of unstructured play.
Volume of high-level training environments.
Volume of meaningful games.

In the US, youth soccer is expensive, overly organized, overly coached, tournament-driven, and too often built around winning games at 13 instead of developing players for 23.

Parents spend thousands.
Clubs charge thousands.
Travel teams fly all over the country.
Showcases become the product.
Recruiting becomes the scoreboard.

But the return on invested capital is poor.

We probably spend more money on youth soccer than almost any country in the world, yet the technical output does not match the investment.

That is a broken operating model.

And like any business, if the output is weak, you do not blame the customer.

You inspect the system.

The US has talent.
The US has athletes.
The US has money.
The US has facilities.

But the foundation is wrong.

We built a pay-to-play, college-recruiting machine and confused it for a world-class player development system.

Those are not the same thing.

Until we fix the grassroots layer, increase meaningful touches, make development less dependent on family income, and stop treating college soccer as the top of the mountain, the US will keep underperforming relative to its resources.

I’m not saying this to trash US Soccer.

I’m saying it because I lived it.

And if we actually want to become a powerhouse, we have to be honest about the infrastructure first.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

In Germany, a talented 14-year-old earns his club money. In America, his parents pay the club $15,000 a year.

That single inversion explains why "we will not" is the most accurate line ever written about US soccer.

FIFA built a global system for this. Training compensation and solidarity payments send a cut of every transfer fee back to the clubs that developed the player, from age 12 onward. Develop one future pro and your academy gets paid for a decade. Barcelona's La Masia, Ajax, every Bundesliga academy runs on this logic. The kid is the asset.

US Soccer refuses to enforce those rules. When Seattle's Crossfire Premier claimed its $60,000 share of DeAndre Yedlin's transfer to Tottenham, it got nothing. Claims on the Dempsey and Bradley transfers died partly because the federation couldn't even produce the youth training records.

So American clubs earn zero dollars when a kid turns pro. They earn when a kid enrolls. Which makes the parent the customer, and the product is whatever keeps the parent writing checks: travel tournaments, hotel weekends, $500 showcase events, private training at $100 an hour. Elite pathways run $8,000 to $20,000 a year. A comparable academy spot in Italy costs about 120 euros.

Follow the incentive one level deeper and it gets darker. A club dependent on fees can't cut its weakest paying players, so rosters optimize for retention over development. The scouting pool shrinks to families who can afford the cliff, which appears around age 11, exactly when development matters most. The country runs a talent filter sorted by household income instead of ability.

Every four years someone proposes fixing this. The proposal always requires the people profiting from the $15,000 model to vote themselves out of business.

They will not.

[Favian Renkel @FavianRenkel]

Attention all new US Soccer fans: Here’s a map of all the domestic teams. Choose one and support!

#MLS #USL

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

One big US soccer thought: our youth development has to get more affordable. One of my kids plays travel. It’s at least $5k a year & this isn’t even super high end. We can afford it, thankfully, lots can’t. Youth sports costs in the US are out of control, soccer more than most.

[Alex @AlexMunoz96]

@RGIII We lose because it’s a play to pay system so the most talented players aren’t the ones that get looked at. It’s the wealthiest people that can afford to pay for an academy to get their kids exposure. If we would adopt a European model we’d be the best in the world no doubt.

[Alex @AlexMunoz96]

@wediditco Always gonna have your back with that one!! Hope you’re doing well my friend, miss you as always! Idk why it’s not letting me respond to your DM but here it is!

[Stew Peters @realstewpeters]

This is a heartbreaking but incredibly important resource.

Bookmark this.

[ThePatrioticBlonde™🇺🇸 @ImBreckWorsham]

Would you support a third party if the candidate was Tucker Carlson or Thomas Massie?

[REJOIN CAMPAIGN @sonofr]

IF OUR GOVERNMENT WON’T SANCTION ISRAEL YOU CAN DO YOUR BIT BY NOT BUYING ANYTHING MADE OR GROWN IN ISRAEL!

Check the barcode…729, remember it next time you shop.

Every little helps!

[AIPAC Tracker @TrackAIPAC]

Laura Loomer says anyone who reposts us should be banned from Twitter. 😂

[Alex @AlexMunoz96]

@Test1153293 @royalserf True, that’s defensible

[Championship Rounds @ChampRDS]

🚨 In a now-deleted post, Daniel Cormier exposed Eric Trump for asking him if any of the UFC White House fights were rigged:

"I'm probably going to get a lot of flak for bringing this to light, however I refuse to stay silent... Shame on anyone trying to ruin this beautiful event."

[𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐔𝐍𝐄𝐒 @Antunes1]

Why is nobody talking about this??????

[Stew Peters @realstewpeters]

IAN CARROLL: “UFC is owned by Ari Emanuel, son of Benjamin Emanuel—an actual Israeli terrorist. His IMG agency supplied models to Epstein’s Jean-Luc Brunel.”

Trump’s WH 250th anniversary event is sponsored by literal Israeli terrorists and Epstein associates.

[No Jumper @nojumper]

71 children from an Orthodox Jewish school have been rescued from underground tunnels connected to a sewer system in New York.

[MAGA Cult Slayer @MAGACult2]

We all intuitively feel this.

WE WILL NEVER LET IT GO.

[Alex @AlexMunoz96]

@SabbySabs2 Honestly who even watched this show? Shit was not funny at all.