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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.

[Hater Report @HaterReport]

Trump watching Iran get eliminated from the World Cup in the 96th minute

[🇵🇸 𝓜𝓪𝓻𝓸𝓬𝓲𝓷𝓱𝓸 🇲🇦 @ounahesque]

La Tunisie quand c’est pas le Mali en face

[Sleeper @SleeperHQ]

Every time De’Aaron Fox shoots the ball:

[Spurs Legion @SpursLegion]

A ROOKIE IS SHOWING UP OVER A VETERAN GUARD FACING ELIMINATION.

WOW.

[Joe Adam @JoeAAraiza]

I CANT WAIT UNTIL FOX IS NO LONGER ON THIS SPURS TEAM

[Spurs Culture @SpursCulture]

Spurs in 7

Goodnight

[Shea Serrano @SheaSerrano]

fuck these guys

spurs in 6

[Hartlepool United FC @Official_HUFC]

11' Charlie Kirk is shown a yellow. 🟨

[0-0] | #HUFC

[J @YoSoyJmonsta]

@_onlyscott I’m only going by the GK….Columbia

[bum @BattleRapBum]

Nahhhh son was wylin RT @thisisrory I’ll slap the shit out of Joe Budden’s bald head with Pump It Up playin in the background.

[J @YoSoyJmonsta]

@LakeShowYo Video quality is nice 👍

[Wario64 @Wario64]

Nintendo Switch 2 preorder links (up on April 24):

Best Buy https://t.co/zxWHJnCu6g
GameStop https://t.co/Xgz8QL4hFe
Target https://t.co/HOf5R142Hz
Walmart https://t.co/uhPnAuC7u7 #ad

Amazon US not expected to have the console (no Switch 2 page available)

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

Term of the day: Coaxial Cable

Definition: A hollow copper cylinder, or other cylindrical conductor, surrounding a single-wire conductor having a common axis (hence coaxial). The space between the cylindrical shell and the inner conductor is filled with an insulator which may be plastic or mostly air, with supports separating the shell and the inner conductor every inch or so. The cable is used to carry radio frequency signals to or from antennas, etc.

[DramaAlert @DramaAlert]

AI is being used to bring historical figures back to life

[wavey @cass_wavey]

@SL77707 “That shyt was ka ka!”

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

Whoever invented the phrase “lefty loosey, righty tighty” is the real MVP.

[J @YoSoyJmonsta]

@futREALc @adam_couser @Dynasty_Addicts @luireigns He actually didn’t hurt anything. He said it himself.

[Julian Weeks @JulianWks]

Shut up and take my money 🔥

[ᐅᗕᐱᐱᓵᔑ @_CallMeDennis_]

@scrufacejean Law enforcement??? Oh shit… it’s up for Mr. Livingston… 😭