Edwin Tapia

Expert in business development, marketing and Information Technology. El fútbol y viajar por el mundo son mis pasiones! Always keep learning to make progress!

[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.

[Ton @PedriViibes]

" توقعاتي لكأس العالم 2026 "

النهائي الكبير 🇦🇷 VS 🇪🇸
الأرجنتين تتوج بكأس العالم Back to Back باذن الله

البرتغال اذا سارت الأمور على مايرام ستغادر من قبل ميسي ورفاقه في ربع النهائي..

المانيا، فرنسا يُغادرون مبكراً

المفاجأة هذة النسخة من قبل منتخب من امريكا الجنوبية..!

[BlaqueMide @BlaqueMide]

"We call Lionel Messi the GOAT not because he has a world cup but because football in his presence found its purest voice"

Peter Drury might be the greatest fan of Messi 😭

[TyC Sports @TyCSports]

¿EL TEMA DE LA SELECCIÓN PARA EL MUNDIAL 2026? 🎶

@matipelliccioni estuvo en La Bombonera junto a Palmito, que compuso "LA CUARTA ESTRELLA".

[Sensei Johnny Lawrence @JohnnyLCKai]

3 Doors Down - Be like that

RIP Brad Arnold 🙏 #BradArnold #3DoorsDown #MusicVideo

[𝕐o̴g̴ @Yoda4ever]

In Brasil, a drunk man was lost, and his own bull went out to look for him and took him home..🐂😅

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This is awesome

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

Wow…

[El Canal De Boca @ElCanaldeBoca]

Everybody loves Boca / Todos Aman a Boca 🫶🏻 🇸🇪

💬 Daan, mamá de Lewis Schouten jugador de @AZAlkmaar habló con #ElCanaldeBoca y nos contó cómo vivieron la experiencia de la final ante Boca.

#DaleBoca 🔵🟡🔵

[Ballon d'Or @ballondor]

Nominated for the 2023 Ballon d’Or

Lionel Messi
@InterMiamiCF
@Argentina

#ballondor

[L/M Football @lmfootbalI]

This American dad enjoying Messi ball and calling Antonella ‘the first lady of soccer’ is hilarious 😂

[Messismo @Messismo10]

Saluda el tipazo.

[Alex Becker 🍊🏆🥇 @ZssBecker]

I constantly get the comment "why do I work after hitting a 9 figure net worth".

It's the same reason I train combat sports at 35 (aka zero chance to do it on the highest level)

The GOAL is not the point. The WORK and journey is.

TODAY is the goal. Your only goal should be to reach a point where you can fill your life with the most satisfying work, purpose and journey you can.

Then simply enjoy the day for the day. This is the peak. There's no where to "escape" too or end goal that will make you perma happy.

Stop worrying about the destination. Today is as good as it will ever be. Make sure you have a good fight.

A billions dollars won't make me happy. It won't give me some life that is more "fulfilling" than the one I can give myself today.

The work towards it is just a personal journey I enjoy.

I will never do anything worth while in combat sports. I'm to old, its too late. Yet I will keep training hardcore simply for the personal journey.

I aim to compete at low levels, a completely pointless goal in terms of money/achievement compared to others...But a journey I find excites me.

Fill your life with the same and stop looking for an "exit" ramp to fulfillment and joy. You'll never get it.

You are PERMA locked to today and they journey you choose. Even when you complete it, it will still be today and you'll need another journey.

So find journey's you find worthwhile OUTSIDE their end goal. Getting to that goal won't make TODAY any better. The goal doesn't even matter, your gonna die and likely someone has done it 10x better at one point.

For better or worse today is all you get. It's never getting better than today. Your happiness will always be tied to today, not a list of goals completed.

TODAY is it.

[-1899- @_Futbolero_]

My GOAT at 35. 😎

[-1899- @_Futbolero_]

No estoy enfadado con Messi, sus razones tendrá para no esperar al Barça. Quería volver pero no tuvo paciencia. Que sea feliz en Miami, no puedo ni podré decir nunca algo malo del mejor jugador de la historia, el que tanto me ha hecho disfrutar durante años.

[Cosmo @cosmo_army]

5 minutos de Messi en la BRESH

[All About Argentina 🛎🇦🇷 @AlbicelesteTalk]

Updated version of Muchachos by the World Champions 💙🇦🇷🎶🏆