Justin Wolf

Preds - Titans - Dawgs

[ArtButMakeItSports @ArtButSports]

Lamentation (flipped, detail), by Gerard David, 1515-23, 📸 by Roberto Schmidt

[Mario Schlosser @mariots]

Now that there are only 6 world cup games left, I feel deep remorse that I skipped Jordan - Algeria at 11pm three weeks ago

[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.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Told you.

[World Cup 2026 @ofootball__]

Thank you Cape Verde! 🇨🇻❤️

[ArtButMakeItSports @ArtButSports]

Composition (Petit univers), by Joan Miró, 1933, 📸 by @morgantencza for @FortyOneMag

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Why is it ‘cancelled’ in the U.K. but ‘canceled’ in the U.S.?

Because we gave them that L in 1776.

[Justin Wolf @Wolfster007]

@johnewing You make American sports viewers look like idiots w tweets like this. Learn the rules or just pay attention. You're a disgrace.

[Brooks Bratten @brooksbratten]

#Preds 10th overall pick Wyatt Cullen has worn a Nashville logo before - his dad, Matt, played for the Predators from 2013-15. That's Wyatt on the right before a game at Bridgestone Arena. Full-circle moment for the Cullens. #NHLDraft

[Justin Wolf @Wolfster007]

@TopDownHockey He's a late bloomer, Mr. Bacon #letsgopreds

[Justin Wolf @Wolfster007]

@madisonbadger00 @NewsHour Yeah DOGE worked so great and he can't even clean a damn pool. This administration has no business touching vets' benefits.

[Mike Herndon @MikeHerndonSk1]

I don’t know what the ceiling is, but this is without question the most fun USMNT have ever been. Brave and attacking style of play. Nothing like the defend and counter plucky American approach of yesteryear. That was a joy to watch.

[ArtButMakeItSports @ArtButSports]

@PaulCarr Radius, by Helen Frankenthaler, 1993

[. @playboicurrryy]

saying "are our" in a sentence

[ArtButMakeItSports @ArtButSports]

Hercules and Nessus, by Giambologna, 1599

[Nashville Zoo @NashvilleZoo]

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[Justin Wolf @Wolfster007]

@Maverick1997 @MikeHerndonSk1 He should be ridiculed until he stops flopping. It's pathetic and is tarnishing the game.

[Justin Wolf @Wolfster007]

@snoopyhero53 @ULTi_ULTi @grok Accusing someone of half assing while using grok, oh the irony.

[Justin Wolf @Wolfster007]

@ArponBasu Bolts fans think it's still 2021