Back Gym Special

Energy! Intelligence! Know the goal!

[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.

[Torey Canino-Celis @tj_canino]

🚨LOOKING BACK AT WHY ATTY. VIRGIL LIGUTAN JOINED THE PROSECUTION TEAM FOR THIS IMPEACHMENT TRIAL:

: “What really motivated me to join the private prosecution team is the story of a school principal who was ordered imprisoned for 11 years for pocketing ₱5,000.”

: “If we can send someone to jail for 11 years over ₱5,000, why can’t we remove from office a sitting vice president for allegedly misusing millions of pesos in public funds?”

[Back Gym Special @BackGym]

@fierceLady08 Do you live in the Philippines? lol. The whole society from the police to the government officials to the teachers to individual workers.... they all accept the unacceptable. This will most likely never change.

[Thomas thee Tankengine @goodkidbikecity]

In this case what should happen is the busway should *increase* dispatch by operators and stay exclusive. They did the opposite of what you should do to maintain capacity. As usual

[Amber 🦋 @geeyanii]

Lahat kami sa office ay late today btw. Ganyan kasalot ang INC. Yung mga naghahanap buhay para may maipasahod sa mga inutil sa gobyerno, inaabala. Yung mga nagnanakaw mula sa kaban ng bayan, inaabugaduhan. Nakakasuka.

[Back Gym Special @BackGym]

@SkinsHoops86 He was doing special things for Wichita. Think about how far that program has fallen. Most of the special coaches are definitely flawed

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Aldi's co-founder was once kidnapped and held in a wardrobe for 17 days. His captors were so confused by the cheap, ill-fitting suit he was wearing that they made him show ID to prove it was really him.

His family paid a 7 million Deutsche Mark ransom, around $2 million at the time and the largest Germany had ever seen. Theo Albrecht later tried to write the whole thing off as a business expense on his taxes. After that he barely appeared in public again. Almost no photographs of him surfaced for the next 30 years, and he took a different route to work every single day.

The chain started in one corner store. Theo and his brother Karl grew up working in their mother's tiny grocery in a poor suburb of Essen. Their father had been a coal miner until his lungs gave out, so the shop became how the family ate. Both brothers were sent off to fight in the war. When they came home, most of Essen was rubble, but the little store was somehow still standing.

They rebuilt it on one rule: only stock what sells, and sell it for less than anyone else. They spent nothing on advertising or decorating the stores. The shops were barely the size of a dorm room, with products left sitting in their shipping boxes. By 1955 there were more than 100 of them across Germany.

Then one argument split the company down the middle. Karl was sure that selling cigarettes at the register would attract shoplifters, while Theo wanted them on the shelves. Neither brother backed down, so around 1961 they drew a line across the country, Theo keeping the stores in the north and Karl the south. People still call that border the Aldi Equator. The brothers shortened the company name, Albrecht Diskont, to Aldi.

Both brothers stayed cheap their whole lives. Theo used pencils down to the stub, and the two of them turned down the public honors and awards they were offered. When Karl died he was the richest man in Germany, worth around $25 billion, and Theo was worth close to $17 billion.

The bare-bones format they pioneered went on to take over their home country. Discount chains now take close to 40 cents of every euro Germans spend on groceries, and Aldi and its rival Lidl have grown into the two biggest sellers of store-brand groceries anywhere in the world.

Aldi opened its first US store in Iowa in 1976. It now runs more than 2,600 of them, the third-largest grocery chain in America by number of stores, each one about 10,000 square feet, a fraction of a Walmart Supercenter's 178,000. The crowd lined up on West 42nd Street was waiting for a business that began as one tiny shop in Essen, run by two brothers who counted every coin.

[Niraj @nirajxdev]

"a company just fired 90% of their dev team because claude code finished 2 months of work in 4 days"

[Asian Dawn @AsianDawn4]

Hey, we celebrate in our own way 🤷‍♂️

[Trilly Donovan @trillydonovan]

I think Alabama State might’ve made the best hire of the coaching carousel cycle.

This dude Chris Wright took Langston to two NAIA national title games in four years and they were 1-27 the season before he got there.

332-121 as a head coach in his career!

[Uncle Pas @8EightPillars]

This got me cracking the fuck up 😂😂😂😂

[cowboy @nextokens]

guy who faked-it-until-he-made-it but was starting to get in over his head can’t believe his luck when llms launched

[Back Gym Special @BackGym]

@CuffsTheLegend He is different. This team all year has lost a game and then won, they have been great off an L. They have had a bad series, but them winning will not be suprising.

[Fathers Diary @Fathers_Diary]

Man to man

[lolflix @lolflix_]

Heartbreak is real 🥲

[フィリピン情報局 @npozyPIbnc16995]

フィリピン来て思った🇵🇭
失敗してもみんな気にしてない。

遅刻しても笑う。ミスしても笑う。

もちろん良い悪いはあるけど
日本は失敗しないことが、大事。

フィリピンは
失敗しても前に進むが大事。

だからなのか、みんな明るい。

正直、この考え方は見習いたい。
みんなはどっち派？🇯🇵

[Michael Warburton @For_Film_Fans]

In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.

KURT VONNEGUT was the only one to respond.

His reply was a doozy.

[Back Gym Special @BackGym]

@jesusfalcis LOL 😆 Jinggoy might be actually happier in jail....

[Back Gym Special @BackGym]

@MamaPiaya You can't possibly be this dumb. Either you have idiotic engineers who built it and oversaw it who dont understand erosion and should be fired and their engineering licenses taken away.... or.... way more likely..... funds were stolen and the right materials were not used.

[Back Gym Special @BackGym]

@sejoalzir There are many many ways to stop plunder. Write a law that gives the death penalty to anyone and their family who commits plunder. It won't happen just like federalism won't happen. People in charge dont want change and the Philippines population does not vote for change.