Nōmey

Dad, amateur international traveler, Tech, tech, aaaaand more tech.

[Balogun @balogun]

My debut World Cup… it hurts to wait 4 years to compete at the highest level our sport has to offer. I want to say sorry to our fans it was not good enough when it mattered most and we let you down

Soccer in America will only become bigger the belief, the talent, and the passion is continually growing and I know the best days are in front of us, the future belongs to those who never stop believing, this moment will fuel us. We will be back

Why not us?

For the nation. For the flag.
🇺🇸🦅
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[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.

[steve ceruti @Ceruti]

Neymar talking shit here just about sums up his career

[Pablo Torre 👀 @PabloTorre]

Big win for birthright citizenship

[Nōmey @Nomey44]

Beer is too cold? Man, better than hot and flat you weirdos.

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

Happy July 4, America.
Our accents are better, your beer’s too cold, it’s football not soccer & cricket’s more exciting than baseball..but you’re the second-best country in the world and I love our Special Relationship, not least because you’re all historically British. 🇬🇧 🇺🇸

[Adam Mockler @adammocklerr]

DOGE was a complete failure.

[Nōmey @Nomey44]

As everyone predicted they increased the deficit and are responsible for people dying. I’ll vote for anyone who sends these clowns to prison.

https://t.co/IyQWaTkowg

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

Sen. Mitch McConnell’s wife reportedly traveled to China just three days after he received CPR following heart attack.

https://t.co/tCfIx3ffZi

[Nōmey @Nomey44]

If these Nazis are so “patriotic” why do they cover their faces? You so proud show us who you are cowards.

[Mitchell Miller @mmillerwtop]

A group of masked men gathered at Union Station today and called for reclaiming the country and getting rid of immigrants. Some held Confederate flags. They have been marching across Capitol Hill.

[Secular Talk ([email protected]) @KyleKulinski]

Elon took $38 billion from US taxpayers to make a bunch of rockets explode while he illegally cut pediatric cancer research, meals on wheels and USAID. He’s the ultimate fraud and parasite.

[National Park Service @NatlParkService]

You know it’s hot when you go outside and it’s hot.

[Jennifer Jenkins @Jenkins4Florida]

The 2nd Amendment wasn’t intended for weapons of war to murder kids in classrooms, but here we are…

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

The Trump DOJ has dropped an investigation into a company whose contaminated baby formula may have led babies to die.

The Justice Department spent years investigating Abbott Laboratories over how it managed a baby formula facility where potentially deadly bacteria was discovered and suspected of causing infant deaths.

Some prosecutors believed they had evidence to criminally charge the company, but top decision makers instead closed the probe.

https://t.co/Vhh960YBGp

[Cyberpunk: Edgerunners @edgerunners]

Heavy is a crown. Heavier is the chrome. 👑

[CREW UPDATE] // +1 EDGERUNNER // WEAK KINGSLEY

[John Iadarola @johniadarola]

Do you ever wonder what you'll have to pretend to believe tomorrow? Next week? Next year?

[The Pink King @DayalSami]

Maybe Billionaires don’t deserve to have a voice

[Nōmey @Nomey44]

Jesus Christ what a pathetic human being.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Q: Will you hold anyone in your administration accountable for the strike on a school that killed more than 100 children on the first day of the war?

Trump: Nobody did that on purpose. Mistakes are made. I would ask Pete Hegseth that question

[Nōmey @Nomey44]

@HiMyNameIsSeton I wish someone else was on. He’s so dumb