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[HollidayDoc @HolidayDoc11]

@aakashgupta Yeah so round of 16 is as good as it’s ever going to get. That includes 5 of our starters speaking English as their 2nd language.

[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.

[HollidayDoc @HolidayDoc11]

@Jermainejunior Real progress is not having to rely upon players from other countries every 4 years. We shouldn’t require their (your) help.

[HollidayDoc @HolidayDoc11]

@NjTank99 It costs 100 times more to play youth soccer vs those other sports.

[Dan Wetzel @DanWetzel]

Maybe making travel soccer even more expensive will help the US finally get good.

[dandelion georgism 🔰🏗 @DolphinMossad]

“And every four years when the World Cup comes around, we will say that we’d dominate if we had a stronger youth program.”

“And will we develop a stronger youth program?”

“We will not.”

[HollidayDoc @HolidayDoc11]

@AzPetrich Do a little research and remind yourself that title IX invented women’s soccer when the rest of the world never wanted it. You should have won more than 4 World Cups by now.

[HollidayDoc @HolidayDoc11]

@samtripoli The problem is the pay to play system for our youth players. Our development model for talent is literally opposite from the rest of the world. They invest in youth players and their potential. We charge them. That’s why our best athletes play football and basketball. It’s free.

[Kelvin Loyola @KelvinLoyola]

I remind those angry that FIFA is doing the USMNT favors that FIFA also allowed this in 2002 against the U.S. in a quarterfinal with Germany against the wall.

They owe us one.

[HollidayDoc @HolidayDoc11]

@samtripoli It was a bullshit red card. Also the ref who called it has been investigated by the Brazilian government for giving out bullshit red cards in the past.

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@WeilandScottSTP @xsyntryk1 Pretty sure this is from a Charlotte show in 2000.

[HollidayDoc @HolidayDoc11]

@CrackAmicoRAP Killing his momma and then doing what to his daddy?

[HollidayDoc @HolidayDoc11]

Classic.

[HollidayDoc @HolidayDoc11]

@PJaccetturo Pretty sure everything we’ve been told about our history is a lie.

[HollidayDoc @HolidayDoc11]

@gregreese Yeah dude. Please do a deep dive on this cartoon character. See if you can put Rogan in there too.

[HollidayDoc @HolidayDoc11]

@WeilandScottSTP Weiland was the mother fing man.

[USMNT Only @usmntonly]

SPORTS SCIENCE IS BACK.

Incredible breakdown of Malik Tillman's free kick against Bosnia in the World Cup Round of 32 👨‍🔬

[HollidayDoc @HolidayDoc11]

@BosniaNTBall Quit complaining and go conquer some countries before the next World Cup.

[HollidayDoc @HolidayDoc11]

@LizCrokin @GenFlynn Sounds like a yankee white trash nepo baby funded by our tax money that’s being laundered through the military industrial complex. Is that the nail on the head @GenFlynn or are you guys in the “waste” business?

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@Broadcaster005 Yeah these dudes have overstayed their welcome.