Cody Nelson

[Cody Nelson @ccnelson2012]

@IanHatesPodcast At least it’s not like the Carrie remake. “We’re remaking Carrie, except we’re changing everything, and skipping several of the plot points from the book”😂

[Cody Nelson @ccnelson2012]

@hankgreen Less about the goalies and more about the amount of shots and size of an ice rink vs a soccer pitch

[Timothée Chalamet @RealChalamet]

DUNE: PART THREE

[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.

[Cody Nelson @ccnelson2012]

@JoueursBE To add to this, I’d argue that every red should be reviewed after each game in the world’s biggest tournament. Takes no time at all, and ensures fair rulings so teams aren’t screwed and players lifelong dreams aren’t ruined by bad calls

[Cody Nelson @ccnelson2012]

@JoueursBE I understand it’s never happened in the cup, but it happened leading up to it THIS year, and VAR broke protocol to give the card. Are we supposed to allow preferential treatment to other players and allow referees to break rules?

[Cody Nelson @ccnelson2012]

@ESPNFC You also can’t say football is a sport that relies on rules when rules were broken to give this card to begin with.

[Cody Nelson @ccnelson2012]

@ESPNFC Then you have to stop clearing players to play that get reds leading up to the tourney.

[Cody Nelson @ccnelson2012]

@ziplamak Jusy because something hasn’t happened before doesn’t make it the wrong thing to do.The potential trump involvement of course muddies things, but they ultimately reversed what was clearly the wrong decision. You can’t also let refs break VARA protocols with no repercussion

[Cody Nelson @ccnelson2012]

@BelRedDevils Rules also state slow mo can’t be used in red card decisions and it was. Also had several players bans lifted just before the World Cup.

[U.S. Soccer Men's National Team @USMNT]

WHY. NOT. US.

[Hater Report @HaterReport]

Erling Haaland and Martin Ødegaard lead Norway fans doing the “Viking Row” on the pitch at Dallas Stadium 🇳🇴

[ceciarmy @ceciarmy]

Un aficionado del Congo cantó solo en medio de toda la afición colombiana y acabaron celebrándolo con el

[Óscar David Ríos Gil |🎙️✍️📹 Periodista Deportivo @Orios8]

Estas imágenes de los hinchas colombianos alentando a los pocos hinchas de Congo cantando su himno, me llena de un absoluto orgullo.

Que raza hermosa. Que cultura mágica. Que aura infinita.

Colombianos💛💙❤️

[Cody Nelson @ccnelson2012]

@32and0game @Build_A_Player You gotta at least limit this two 1sg and second string, 3rd stringers kill this game

[World Cup 2026 Daily @TotalFootball]

The Norwegian team and fans doing the Row are just beautiful.

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

Norway's Erling Haaland is the first player to score twice on their World Cup debut since...

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Folarin Balogun for the U.S. on Friday.

[Cody Nelson @ccnelson2012]

@Iandennisbbc It’s one of the least liked professional stadiums in the states😂

[Cody Nelson @ccnelson2012]

No way that’s a red card holy shit #mexico #southafrica

[Cody Nelson @ccnelson2012]

You should never blow a 30 point lead, but De’Aaron Fox forcing a layup instead of trying to hold for a foul lost the spurs that game