Chandler Jarrell

[Erling Haaland @Erling]

It followed me home 🦝🤣

[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.

[Georgia Tech Football @GeorgiaTechFB]

The @UnderArmour era is here.

#StingEm 🐝

[Golazo America @GolazoAmerica]

Mauricio Pochettino's love for Chick-fil-A might be the most unexpected storyline of the USMNT's World Cup so far 😂🐔

[derrick @datsderrick]

For our knockout stage… fly an HBCU marching band to Santa Clara. Whiteout like Penn State. Play Neck. Come out to Enter Sandman in the first half and 2001/Sandstorm in the second half. Play Mo Bamba at the second half hydration break.

College football it up. #USMNT

[Travis Wall @tjwall17]

If you read anything today, make it this.

[Chandler Jarrell @chandlerjarrell]

@Nic97067339 @Toby_Christie @whatsundersteer Read this comment as I just arrived at the Lincoln airport

[Nebraska Volleyball @HuskerVB]

30-0, 20-0 in the B1G, 6 to go

[USL League One @USLLeagueOne]

.@Union_Omaha has officially named Vincenzo Candela as the club’s third head coach following his impressive interim stint!

➡️ https://t.co/d1m77jxoz8

[Georgia Southern Men's Soccer @GSAthletics_MSO]

📰No. 19 Eagles Upset No. 4 Thundering Herd, 2-1

➡️ https://t.co/IzIiCKSYYE

#HailSouthern

[Chandler Jarrell @chandlerjarrell]

Jack Porter x Nebraska 👀

[Nebraska Football @HuskerFootball]

Attack everything.

[Men in Blazers @MenInBlazers]

USMNT fans right now.

[Georgia Southern Athletics @GSAthletics]

Soar beyond, Freedom.

[College Football Zone @CollegeFBonX]

If you’re a real ball knower tell me who this is.

[ESPN @espn]

USA vs. Canada started off in MADNESS 😳

📺: ABC/ESPN+/Disney+

[Football @BostonConnr]

Glad we made the score bug for the Super Bowl the worst possible thing imaginable

[Chandler Jarrell @chandlerjarrell]

@jtaylorhinson @LisanAlGiab24 @petenakos @on3 @transferportal @SWiltfong_ @callmeagentdwil @FCProspects_ @QCSports @portalgems Since we’re living in the past…
6 claimed national titles opposed to 3

[The Best Kind of Worst @BestKindOfWorst]

I think I speak for the entire Country, move over Fiesta or Sugar Bowl. The Pop Tarts Bowl deserves to be one of the Big 6. Pop Tarts Bowl Football clears the Fiesta and Sugar Bowl. Might even clear the Peach Bowl.

#PopTartsBowl #CFBPlayoff

[Chandler Jarrell @chandlerjarrell]

These lot are too casual

[Chandler Jarrell @chandlerjarrell]

Looks like Dabo found his kicker