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When a defining moment comes along you either define the moment or the moment defines you

[JMO @Jethrow23]

@zziffyy

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@TheSkyisFalli20 @nance410 Shit take. Dads can’t play matches against their kids, friends would be split up based on skill level? Sounds lame to me.

[CNN @CNN]

Israel shared intelligence with the US that Iran had devised a new plan to assassinate President Donald Trump, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN. https://t.co/J2RihsCuXa

[JMO @Jethrow23]

@LTtheTrucky8 @AndyJ0seph And you “alpha” males hardy har har har don’t know how to read bc it’s been answered a number of times. Go look it up for yourself, I believe in you

[JMO @Jethrow23]

@CoreyClayton @AndyJ0seph Learn how to read and then come back. It’s been regurgitated time and time again for a while now

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Don’t come at me unless you know @databallr

[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.

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@Trimm111 @3LiveJermiah_ @NBA__Courtside Would’ve been higher too but he was forced to chuck bad shots bc literally no one else on the team could shoot. Source: am Kansas fan

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@azsteelers94 @_benparsons You are a garbage human and I pity you

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@DBloom2022 @mattvanswol

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@HasturTime @CBSDickFitzwell *checks location and…

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@collegeftballtv @AndyJ0seph Paying Pat McAfee and Stephen A a combined $50m a year is “good” business strategy?

[JMO @Jethrow23]

@gabos1337 @LHP_CEO @AriLamm I’ll take things that have never happened for $500, Alex. Also, check your taxes and your “National Insurance” payroll taxes. You believe you have free healthcare but you are just paying for it differently.

Btw I think universal healthcare is good and Trump is a psycho 🤷‍♂️

[JMO @Jethrow23]

@gabos1337 @LHP_CEO @AriLamm The houses over here literally dwarfs your houses. Amenities, size, a/c, etc. Congrats your house is made of stone I guess 👍

[JMO @Jethrow23]

@gabos1337 @LHP_CEO @AriLamm Neither is yours dipshit

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@LHP_CEO @gabos1337 @AriLamm wtf are you going on about? God being British. Please tell me you guys don’t believe that over there lmao

[JMO @Jethrow23]

@gabos1337 @LHP_CEO @AriLamm Same and my house has a/c and my beer is cold.

Now go put the bangers and mash in the bag

[JMO @Jethrow23]

@Terry_Aylett @USMNT @FIFAcom

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@sophiebluejays When does Canada play again?