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[Milanisti @Cmarinas11]

Kansas City is GREAT place for a practicing Muslim to live LOL

[Underdog @Underdog]

BREAKING: Sporting Kansas City has emerged as the top MLS suitor for Mohamed Salah.

A move to the MLS is viewed as a longshot due to Salah's preference to stay in Europe and Saudi Pro League’s heavy interest; however, he remains open to a move to MLS, per @tombogert.

[Milanisti @Cmarinas11]

Don’t let @AlexiLalas see this. He’d ask how the u9 coach will be able to max out his 401k yearly and afford his 2027 Tahoe under this model.

[Frank Michael Smith @frankmikesmith]

The USMNT will be stuck at the World Cup until it adopts Germany's blueprint

In 2000 Germany finished last at the Euros and decided it was time overhaul the system. They built 390 regional training bases to make sure one was within 25 km of every kid in country. They hired 1,200 full-time coaches, invested €48 million per year and mandated that every pro club build a certified youth academy or lose its license

The cost to families was $0 and 14 years later, 21 of the 23 players who won the World Cup came directly from the system

[Milanisti @Cmarinas11]

@pS4turn @BobertRent @shmaleb588 @StefanskiRuined Why doesn’t that same analogy work for any other major sport.

[Milanisti @Cmarinas11]

@pS4turn @BobertRent @shmaleb588 @StefanskiRuined The American system works for every sport, it’ll work for soccer too.

[Milanisti @Cmarinas11]

@BobertRent @shmaleb588 @StefanskiRuined Steve you’re referring to the best of the best, the elite guys. why do you think the players are good enough to only have to play 1 year in college and go pro? They’ve been playing basketball since they could walk. The sport isn’t gatekept

[Milanisti @Cmarinas11]

@benghazi_ebooks @StefanskiRuined 100%. The problem is LONG before the college system. Here are the seasons pricing at my local YMCA for my 4 year old.

Basketball season $35 -8 weeks
Flag football $60 - 8 weeks
Volleyball $50 - 8 weeks
Soccer $130 - weeks.

Why do you think that is……

[Milanisti @Cmarinas11]

@shmaleb588 @StefanskiRuined It works for Basketball, it works for football, it works for baseball. As others have mentioned the problem is the sport is financially gatekept. Soccer in the states is like golf, lacrosse or tennis. It’s for the rich

[Milanisti @Cmarinas11]

My middle school students call this SGAing. And I’m so glad that’s the legacy these nba players are leaving on these kids. Mamba mentality is gone. Just flop and hope for the best

[BrickCenter @BrickCenter_]

AJ Dybantsa was foul baiting like CRAZY in his FIRST EVER NBA game 😭😭😭

[Milanisti @Cmarinas11]

Such a DUMB take Alexi. Enough dude. It’s all for show, it’s all for engagement. Why in gods name would youth soccer coaches be making more than Football? Basketball? Hockey? No one’s saying free, but can you give me a single plausible argument as to why soccer is 3x the price??

[Alexi Lalas @AlexiLalas]

@dpshow @KevinFrazier Hey Kev, I’m good, but thanks for your concern. I’ve consistently said I’d love soccer to be free. But who should pay for free soccer? Also, do you think those who work in youth soccer are greedy and should make less money? If so, why? Hope you’re well and I respect your passion.

[Milanisti @Cmarinas11]

Mexico is the true sleeping giant when it comes to Soccer. How they’re not the best in the world baffles me. They have everything you think you’d need to be successful

[All Fútbol MX 🇲🇽 @AllFutbolMX]

🚨🤯 NEW: The Mexican Government and Liga MX will create 2,000 NEW ACADEMIES across the country, with the goal of finding new talents like Gilberto Mora.

They also plan to FURTHER EXPAND scouting efforts across the United States. 🇺🇸👏🏼

Via @el_pais

[Milanisti @Cmarinas11]

@Seraphinaf5 71

[Milanisti @Cmarinas11]

@Rayshard07 @Ziaire The last spot is obviously being reserved for Cam Reddish

[Milanisti @Cmarinas11]

@RegulusMuthias Who’s we

[Milanisti @Cmarinas11]

To further prove this narrative. Realize that the entire starting 11 come from upper middle class families or families of retired professional athletes. The ENTIRE starting 11. Is wealthy America

[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.

[Milanisti @Cmarinas11]

It’s 100% pay to play. Just signed up my 4 year old at the local YMCA for a soccer season. It’s $180 for the season. Basketball is $45 for the same season. Explain to me how that makes sense.

[tilde @Misterbignest]

@DPearsonPHL People blame pay to play essentially for populist grievance reasons. It's not really the problem. The problem is the thing that you pay for also sucks. We don't have good coaching infrastructure at any price point.

[Milanisti @Cmarinas11]

@Jodie0sz Minnows is a harsh word. There’s 195 countries and we’re arguably in the top 15 consistently.

[Milanisti @Cmarinas11]

@RegulusMuthias No not at all. You’re asking a country rooted in capitalism to not be capitalist. It’s not going to happen. I honestly don’t see a solution

[Milanisti @Cmarinas11]

Sam on the contrary, the system its self is not flawed. It’s simply that the system is reserved for those who can afford it

[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.

[Milanisti @Cmarinas11]

Football best in the world
Basketball best in the world
Baseball best in the world
Hockey best in the world
Track and Field best in the world
Golf best in the world

Soccer in the states is a middle/upper class sport. We have a culture problem. Plain and simple

[Milanisti @Cmarinas11]

MLS is behind 2 separate pay walls to watch. No one is going to watch that

[𝙰𝚗𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚗𝚢 ✭ 🐴 @GEORGEPlCK3NS]

Are any of y’all gonna really watch the MLS after the WC ends?