chico

[chico @chicosuavex]

@PaddyTheBaddy is going to be 10x bigger the Mcgregor

[chico @chicosuavex]

@BallinFFB You suck. A guy from Oxford, Ms skateboarded from Oxford to New York in 40 days solo. The only things he had was a skateboard, clothes, a tent, and some food in his backpack. Stop being a pussy.

[chico @chicosuavex]

@OhioTate Ditch him and go Tate

[Ole Miss Football @OleMissFB]

Just Different.

#HottyToddy

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

We are delighted to announce we have completed the signing of Bradley Barcola from Paris Saint-Germain, subject to international clearance 😁🇫🇷

🔗 https://t.co/tlATpsWclC

[chico @chicosuavex]

Free them!

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

BREAKING: Three South Carolina teens arrested after allegedly cutting down a Flock camera & smashing it with a hammer until its battery exploded.

[Pete Thamel @PeteThamel]

Sources: Kentucky is set to hire Alex Brown as the football program’s new assistant general manager. He’s a longtime college front office staffer at Ole Miss, SMU, Rice and Houston. He also scouted for the Atlanta Falcons.

[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.

[chico @chicosuavex]

MALIK TILLMAN YOU’RE HIM

[chico @chicosuavex]

@thomaschattwill @HillingJulie Then move to fucking France you peon.

[Sophia Cai @SophiaCai99]

FULL timeline of the campaign to bring Balogun back, according to a half dozen U.S. government & soccer officials:
- Wednesday after U.S.-Bosnia match: Andrew Giuliani alerted Trump to the red card (Trump & Giuliani had been talking multiple times/week since start of World Cup and regularly before that.)
- Wed night: Giuliani, Lutnick and U.S. Soccer officials began activating on plans to challenge red card
- That kicked off 4 days of coordinated lobbying, legal maneuvering & diplomacy that stretched from Oval Office to Zurich
- On *Thursday* Trump dialed Gianni Infantino and asked abt FIFA’s rules around the red card decision and grounds for suspension. (They’ve known each other for 8 yrs.)
- FIFA declined to confirm any specific discussions but reiterated to POLITICO that the decision to suspend the one-match ban was made by an independent disciplinary committee.
- As U.S. Soccer’s legal team formally prepared & submitted its appeal to FIFA, Giuliani + Lutnick offered to make White House attorneys available to assist
- At the same time, Giuliani and Scott Goodwin — a hedge-fund manager who had helped pay the salary of Mauricio Pochettino — zeroed in on the officiating history of referee Raphael Claus
-Articles examining previous controversies involving Claus circulated among senior gov officials as they evaluated every argument that could bolster the appeal
- On FIFA side, Emilio García, who oversees the legal affairs of FIFA, advised Infantino on the available procedural options
- García + other FIFA officials worked to determine whether the circumstances of Balogun’s tackle met the narrow standards that would allow the disciplinary decision to be revisited
- By Sunday, FIFA announced that Balogun’s one-match suspension would be suspended
- FIFA insists that the decision was an independent one made by its 18-person disciplinary committee, but it would not say whether the decision was decided through a vote, and it has not published a report on the decision.

https://t.co/eXOOUkza6N

[Sam Tripoli @samtripoli]

Fucking treason!

[chico @chicosuavex]

See ya losers.

[chico @chicosuavex]

MALIK FUCKING TILLMAN!!!

[Nick @NickRTFM]

still can’t believe Messi didn’t get a red for this. The inconsistency of calls at this tournament has been horrendous

[chico @chicosuavex]

@mattvanswol Hero. Free him.

[chico @chicosuavex]

@WomensGameMIB

[chico @chicosuavex]

@DaMidgetZimbo @HarryJLFC Reminder.. Dejan Lovren has won more Champions League titles than Arsenal

[chico @chicosuavex]

@netanyahu Fuck you

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Can we just quit giving Americans’ hard earned money to this blood thirsty war criminal? Peace in the Middle East would follow quickly.