Trent Johnson

Works for Energy Transfer (formerly Crestwood). former coach at Liberty North, Excelsior Springs and Liberty. chiefs, Mizzou, royals, Chelsea, sporting kc

[Trent Johnson @coachjohnson_12]

@samuelLgriffin You mean bill self doesn’t tweet? Like cmon it’s a rivalry…

[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.

[Trent Johnson @coachjohnson_12]

Inject into my veins!

Go go USA!

[Excelsior Springs Men’s Hoops @ExcelsiorHoops]

Please consider doing your firework shopping at To The Moon Fireworks in Excelsior this year! Carson has been kind enough to donate back 10% of your purchase and 100% of the proceeds from the fireworks raffle to Excelsior Basketball!

[Trent Johnson @coachjohnson_12]

@royalsreview Why in gods green earth does Jensen not PH there?

[Paul Biancardi @PaulBiancardi]

The top 10 point guards in the final SC Next 100 for the class of 2026. @SCNext

[Trent Johnson @coachjohnson_12]

@cdotharrison Gives us wolves and thunder

Ant will get healthy and wolves owe them from last year

[Trent Johnson @coachjohnson_12]

@JohnyJ_15 This lineup 🤷🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️

[Trent Johnson @coachjohnson_12]

@FDSportsbook Salvy

[FanDuel Sports @FanDuelSports]

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13 LOSSES
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[Trent Johnson @coachjohnson_12]

@FDSportsbook ⚾️

[Carrington Harrison @cdotharrison]

Kansas fans spent all last week trying to convince us Bryson Tiller can’t play to spend this week excited about a kid returning that couldn’t get on the floor for them who is older than Tiller. He really hurt their feelings.

[Trent Johnson @coachjohnson_12]

@TheBlueDodger Yes and yes

[Trent Johnson @coachjohnson_12]

@royalsreview Leave the lineup with the best players in no matter lefty righty and roll with them

[Trent Johnson @coachjohnson_12]

@samuelLgriffin Hahahaha

[Trent Johnson @coachjohnson_12]

@FDSportsbook @FanDuel Bryson