@lm9613172863189@adhd_jeeba Abstaining from intoxicants is hardly specific to Buddhism though. I’d struggle to find any major religion NOT pushing some form of sobriety. Psychedelics are a dice roll and these weak minded insecure bodybuilders experience serious ego death. They are too weak mentally.
FIFA is taking down all the viral clips appearing to expose the Argentinian cheating against Egypt on X and other social media platforms. 🇪🇬🇦🇷
The game is a scam!
🚨Mohammed Salah on the loss vs Argentina today:
🗣️: “It’s difficult to accept a result like this because I honestly don’t think football was the deciding factor tonight.
We gave everything we had, but when the officiating consistently go against you, it becomes impossible to compete.
I’m not looking for excuses, but everyone watching could see what happened. At this level, you expect fairness above all else. Instead, it felt like they already had their favorites. The entire world saw that today, and that’s all I’ll say.”
🚨Full interview of Egypt's Coach Hossam Hassan at full-time:
"I will say what's on my mind regardless of the consequence, this was clearly a rigged match and the whole world saw it"
"And I want to say one more thing, if they want Argentina to win so bad, why call everyone to come and participate?"
@KLVsays I understand many people hate Lalas but you guys are on a television show as analysts for the World Cup. I know he’s not as qualified as Henry, but the dude just wanted him to elaborate. It’s good for the audience.
as a palestine supporter, I only get greek food when I’m in america
because I know my money will never reach Israel
because the greeks don’t pay their taxes
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.
@DaMidgetZimbo I think that’s the argument of best athletes though. Very small percentage of our preschool age are getting a soccer ball. They’re all getting the other balls.
@wheelertarr@Sxndo05@Binoruna Like who gives a fuck if she hasn’t been convicted, got her black ass in 4k trying to shit on a bus pretending to be crazy.