Aaron Rohlfing

PSU ‘21 ME, PSU ‘23, @nittanyvillepsu

[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.

[Chelsea FC @ChelseaFC]

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[PDC Darts @OfficialPDC]

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[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

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The agreement is set to be completed.

#CFC prepare official announcement for the upcoming days, but Xabi said YES. 💣

[Penn State Football @PennStateFball]

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[Adam Hammer @adamhhammer]

Who sold their souls to host this garbage?

- Zero stadium parking at all & no tailgating
- $150 transit tickets to/from game
- Trains postgame skip Secaucus and go straight to NYC
- No outbound trains for all of NJ Transit for 4 hours (!!) from NYC before every MetLife game – 5 of which are on weekdays btw
- Cancellation of free, public fan zones

The fan zone on the Rio beach in 2014 was one of the best parts of my trip + Germany offered completely free train transport for the entirety of 2024 Euros.

Hot, hot garbage. Not a single person involved cares about making this accessible for the fans. Shame on you @FIFAWorldCup @NJGov @NJTRANSIT & literally every single person at every single level of US government who agreed to this trash.

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[Penn State Men’s Hockey @PennStateMHKY]

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[Penn State Men’s Hockey @PennStateMHKY]

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[Aaron Rohlfing @aaronr1252]

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