zales

[zales @bpizales]

Let’s go Pineapple Prince 🍍🍍 #NFLDraft2020

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

I hope the next global trend is critical thinking

[𝓒𝓙 🐅 @BurrowBeliever]

Our Grandfathers had Star Wars

Our Fathers had Lord of the Rings

We have Dune

[zales @bpizales]

@therealtsmiff @KFCBarstool gabby is soft that’s why. it was hilarious

[fab @nolantenct]

hans zimmer might be the greatest man are you hearing this

[Timothée Chalamet @RealChalamet]

DUNE: PART THREE

[Zain @ItzzZain10]

The one day there are no World Cup matches, wimbledon decides to shit the bed with four straight set matches

[zales @bpizales]

@dpshow @TaylorTwellman but when everyone doesn’t show up, you turn to leaders & there was none of that either. so then what? coaching? competition? they just aren’t that good? ehhh maybe this is just our level…

[zales @bpizales]

@City_Xtra @GoodKidManCity @SamLee nahhhh stay away from that shit fest

[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.

[zales @bpizales]

@UnfilteredSoccr hmmm hmmmm hmmmmm do tell more mister howard

[Ryan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @TheEleventhChav]

The Americans don’t seem to realise getting all hyped up about your team just to be disappointed and heartbroken when they inevitably crash out of the tournament is what international football is all about

[zales @bpizales]

@rebekah_e_s @_verticalray_ good. we don’t need soft supporters. we need dawgs

[Van Lathan Jr @VanLathan]

Man. Cmon man.

[Wimbledon @Wimbledon]

55th Grand Slam semi-final. 15th at Wimbledon.

Novak Djokovic outlasts Felix Auger-Aliassime in the longest quarter-final of all-time at #Wimbledon

[zales @bpizales]

CINEMAAAAA

[Wimbledon @Wimbledon]

Speechless.

#Wimbledon

[FanDuel @FanDuel]

PLEASE LISTEN TO THE TELEMUNDO CALL OF MESSI'S GAME-TYING GOAL 🗣️

#FIFAWorldCup | #Argentina

[zales @bpizales]

@FPLMaineRoad seriously?! belgium played pissed off & for good reason while the U.S played like it was an exhibition game?

[zales @bpizales]

@fiago7 come on. this just screams hater? why is this a bad thing? see nothing wrong with it. if germany had a pulse, they could’ve gained more supporters too.

[zales @bpizales]

I’ll kms

[jaden @JadenAFC]

Lukaku hammer in 2014 and 2026 yeah nuke the federation

[zales @bpizales]

@esc_gabe unfortunately cooking my country. deserved