Chris

[Chris @ChrisWakefield_]

@Delta Flight DL5695 delayed yesterday to 6am now pushed back to 9am, how come? Just trying to get home.

[Boston Radio Watch®️ @bostonradio]

22 years ago tonight, July 18, 2004, the comedy-drama series *Entourage* premiered on HBO, created by @mrdougellin . It ran for 8 seasons and produced 96 episodes.

Great final scene with a perfect musical closing (“Going To California(1971) by Led Zeppelin)

Season 8
Episode 8(”The End”)
September 11, 2011

[Chris @ChrisWakefield_]

@ItaFootPod Blaming Americans is a stretch here. FIFA put in breaks but weather in outdoor locations mostly have met conditions that they would exist. Can argue the climate controlled Sunday is 82, What % of final viewing is American? Your beef is with Gianni

[Chris @ChrisWakefield_]

@MaxBretosSports Private today instead of dictator

[Chris @ChrisWakefield_]

@reighleyc Disney trips get expensive.

[Chris @ChrisWakefield_]

@markgoldbridge Spend one if your streams going through IFAB law updates might save you from dumb tweets

[Chris @ChrisWakefield_]

@theoldzealand It’s late for Mark on English time to be fair

[Chris @ChrisWakefield_]

@emaxstatman Same technology that would have saved Juve this season for an awful 2nd yellow. Be better.

[Chris @ChrisWakefield_]

@MaxBretosSports Sure but this application has been used correctly now in two matches. First use was widely praised. This one because of who’s playing gets extra attention. That’s a clear obvious error. What it’s designed to be used for.

[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

Embolo on a yellow when he saw Paredes coming towards him

[Chris @ChrisWakefield_]

@mcthomasson1979 @MaxBretosSports For mistaken identify it’s been used now on US game. Not sure what you mean.

[Chris @ChrisWakefield_]

@ManagerTactical It’s in the laws of the game. What do you want

[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.

[Chris @ChrisWakefield_]

@GJustjuve Not really. MLS defending came back to bite them in end. Keep building is all you can do.

[Chris @ChrisWakefield_]

@KFCBarstool Go down to a park on Sunday near you and you would see something like that in the over 40 league

[Chris @ChrisWakefield_]

@BosniaNTBall

[Chris @ChrisWakefield_]

@FabrizioRomano

[Big Cat @BarstoolBigCat]

Refs tried to fuck us and we still kicked ass. What a performance. Best country in the world 🇺🇸

[Chris @ChrisWakefield_]

@Ley3Lo @DeeMystikal It’s left wing back but close enough.