Brian Brady

ERHS MUSTANG SOCCER 🐎⚽️

[Alex @AO1865]

Now this is a movement I can get behind.

[FOX Sports @FOXSports]

Fans singing 'Hey Jude' to Jude Bellingham after an England win never gets old 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[JACCINTA @AFCJaccy]

💣🚨 Declan Rice explains why he embraced Martin Ødegaard after the final whistle.

🗣️ “When the final whistle went, there were no opponents anymore. I didn’t see Norway or England. I just saw my captain.”

“I know how much this game meant to Martin. I know how much he carries on his shoulders, not only for Norway but every single day as a leader. Seeing him hurting like that… I couldn’t just walk past.”

“We’ve built something special at Arsenal. We’ve celebrated together, we’ve suffered together, and we’ve pushed each other to become better players and better people. That doesn’t disappear because we’re wearing different national team shirts.”

“I just wanted him to know he wasn’t standing there alone. Football can break your heart in one moment, but the people you share the journey with help put the pieces back together.”

“In a few weeks, we’ll be back at the Emirates fighting side by side again. He’ll still be my captain, I’ll still fight for him, and together we’ll keep chasing the biggest trophies for Arsenal.”

“For 90 minutes we represented different countries. But the bond we have at Arsenal is bigger than one match. That will never change.

#NORENG #AFC

[FearBuck @FearedBuck]

Jude Bellingham stopped to speak with a disabled reporter and did so in Spanish so the reporter could understand ❤️

[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.

[Men in Blazers @MenInBlazers]

"Have another shot, and text your bosses to say you're not coming in tomorrow." — Jude Bellingham

You heard the man, England fans 😉

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Love it…the Cape Verde national team landed home to a heroes welcome….today is also their Independence Day….theres gonna be a massive party!

[FOX Sports @FOXSports]

Hey Jude always hits for Bellingham 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[Athletics @Athletics]

All-Star Nick Kurtz has a nice ring to it 🤩

[Seton O'Connor @HiMyNameIsSeton]

Three days ago no one understood the offside rule.

Today people are confidently siting article 27 and VAR protocols 😂

[Conor O'Neill @ConorONeill_DI]

We're getting *kinda* close to having a conversation about whether Nukes is the best Wake Forest player ever.

[Athletics @Athletics]

Say hello to your All-Star starting first baseman 👀

[Cincinnati Reds @Reds]

2024 2nd overall pick ➡️ 2026 MLB All-Star

Congrats to Chase Burns!

[Joe Scarborough @ScarboroughNow]

“It was like watching Buster Douglas ride Seabiscuit on skates in Lake Placid on ice against the Russians.”
~@rogbennett on mighty Cape Verde’s miraculous performance tonight against Messi’s Argentina

[Seton O'Connor @HiMyNameIsSeton]

This kid playing for Ivory Coast... Yan Diomande

Three years ago he was playing high school and UPSL soccer in Florida.

This summer he is one of the hottest players in the world and might get a transfer fee of $100+ million to go to Liverpool

[Brett Kollmann @BrettKollmann]

“Oh Balogun is just playing for the U.S. because he couldn’t make the England squad”…Folks, that is the entire promise of our nation.

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

And then we’ll beat your ass with them.

[Taylor Twellman @TaylorTwellman]

Pulisic. 🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼 #USMNT

[Langston Wertz Jr. @langstonwertzjr]

If Elon Musk were to make a significant contribution to, say, the United States Social Security fund, which costs about 1.5T annually, that would change today's narrative a bit. Just thinking out loud.

[DailyAFC @DailyAFC]

Arsenal legend Thierry Henry doing kick ups with Zlatan Ibrahimović at the World Cup. ⚽️ 🤹‍♂️

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Lmao amazing 🤣