Jamey Haws

🎶 …I got the night vision like the wise old owl...🎶🎶

[Jamey Haws @Jamkai]

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[Jamey Haws @Jamkai]

@Erling @NerdAtCoolTable @Jumpman23 💥⚽️💥🏀

[Jamey Haws @Jamkai]

@absolutkylian Clearly 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[FOX Sports @FOXSports]

The Viking Row gave this FIFA World Cup one of its most unforgettable traditions.

Thank you, Norway. 🇳🇴

[Jamey Haws @Jamkai]

CYOG 🔴⚪️⚽️

[JACCINTA @AFCJaccy]

🚨🗣️ Leandro Trossard on staying in touch with his Arsenal teammates during the World Cup ahead of Belgium’s quarter-final against Spain:

🗣️“Yes, of course. Before today’s game, I had a FaceTime call with William Saliba, Mikel Merino, Martin Zubimendi, David Raya and Bukayo Saka.

🗣️ It was a relaxed conversation. We wished each other the best for the rest of the tournament, although tonight we’re on opposite sides.

🗣️ I even joked with Merino, Zubimendi and Raya that I’d either score or provide an assist against Spain.

🗣️ That’s the relationship we have at Arsenal. We compete fiercely when we represent our countries, but there’s always mutual respect and support.

🗣️ Everyone wants to win the World Cup, but we’re also proud to see our teammates doing well. That’s the culture and togetherness we’ve built at Arsenal.

#ESPBEL

[DailyAFC @DailyAFC]

🗣️ “He is not the guy who speaks the most. But when he does speak, everyone listens.” 🤝

Norway manager Stale Solbakken on Martin Ødegaard. 🇳🇴

[footypulse @futbolfc1564]

@erling Let’s settle this

[Jamey Haws @Jamkai]

🇳🇴 v 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[Jamey Haws @Jamkai]

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[Jamey Haws @Jamkai]

@Pascal_Laurent_ Please get this Man out City so I can celebrate & pull for him all the time.
-Arsenal Fan

[Premier League India @PLforIndia]

Gunners shining on the world stage 😎✨

@Arsenal

[Jamey Haws @Jamkai]

Great read and right on the money! ⚽️🎯

[Paul Spacey ⚽️ @PaulSpacey]

https://t.co/x9E06LGrxP

[Jamey Haws @Jamkai]

@CarliLloyd @stuholden Both of you have been great in the WC coverage. I’ve been saying the same things Stu says either just before he does or just after. Has happened so many times since the tournament started. 🎯⚽️

[The Right Time with Bomani Jones @righttimebomani]

Why the USMNT is the Texas A&M of the soccer world

“There are some schools, no matter who they are or where they go, they are just 8 win schools.”

[Jamey Haws @Jamkai]

@LTrossard @BelRedDevils Well deserved Leo! Good luck going forward! 🇧🇪⚽️💪

[AM☬ @AbsoluteMxssi]

Zlatan Ibrahimovic reaction to every country eliminated from the World Cup is killing me 😭

[Jamey Haws @Jamkai]

😁⚽️❤️💪

[Jamey Haws @Jamkai]

This is the absolute truth!

[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.

[Jamey Haws @Jamkai]

This! 🎯

[factualdiscovery @rodesc3]

@USMNT_Thoughts The product of the “pay to play” system in our country

[Jamey Haws @Jamkai]

Now’s the time to punch home your very valid point about how youth soccer is done in the US @lanondonovan. Let’s fix it man! 🙏

[Jamey Haws @Jamkai]

@periodista1492 @ESPNFC You’re so right. I said this almost every f-n gm.