@zagnut@aakashgupta Once again, American kids are choosing to play other sports. Ones that are more popular and lucrative in America. In Europe, Soccer is everything. That isn’t the reality here.
@zagnut@aakashgupta Just because a lot of children play soccer doesn’t mean the country’s best athletes pursue it when they get to meaningful stages. You’re wrong and just won’t admit it. Which is fine. Go off, king.
@MAGA_Chad@Somedevil40Sox@aakashgupta Yeah I read it. Every sport has expensive programming that one can do, including basketball. But the fact remains that simply playing the sport is extremely inexpensive, which is why most of the world can do it. And not doing the expensive programming isn’t the end all.
@zagnut@aakashgupta The top athletes choose to play football and basketball when they get to high school and beyond. Yeah, a bunch of little kids play soccer. That’s been the case for a long time
FWIW, 2 sources who told me the same thing: Trump called Infantino to understand the rules, didn’t make a specific ask & was told it was being independently reviewed
"If Trump had put his thumb on the scale and achieved this result, he would have a field day bragging about it”
@DssIntrepid@moseshessstan Only if you ignore the fact that Arab nations attacked Israel the day after its founding. So by your standards, the whole thing is the Arab world’s fault