Noah

Sys/Net Admin | aspiring duck farmer | I like cars | Go 🦅

[CantaLoupe @CantALoupe_FF]

Alphabet: "just call me the ABCs for short."

The letter D:

[Mike Beauvais @MikeBeauvais]

When the Starbucks barista tells me their new toilets are uncloggable.

[femiiiiii. @femiiiszn]

lying in bed with the nervous system of someone going to war.

[Matt VE @Paparzrr]

Just sped home from work, busted through the front door trampling over my wife and kids. This is the best day of my life

[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.

[Noah @knowahsarc_]

I’ve been considering it since it happened

[ALBINO @AlbinoVEVO]

if my national team did this i would hang myself

[Erling Haaland @Erling]

Well well well 😂

[Fußball Hank Hill 🇺🇲🇩🇪 @BayernAusBoston]

My official opinion of our world cup:

Lose to Bosnia: abject failure
Lose in r.o. 16: bare minimum, disappointing
Lose in QF (to Spain/Portugal): success
Lose in Semi final: unbelievable sucess
Lose final: Unreal
Win: pic of Poch in my living room 4 life

[Noah @knowahsarc_]

@DevinOlsenn Weird. Just had mine done by mobile service out of Columbus, it was free

[Noah @knowahsarc_]

@PlayStation At this rate my kids will be playing my PS3 and PS4 through 2035

[Noah @knowahsarc_]

@nornXP @RinoTheBouncer Get good, kid

[Noah @knowahsarc_]

@MaryTilesTexas

[Noah @knowahsarc_]

Ouch 🤕

[Empire State Building Observation Deck @EmpireStateBldg]

Snow may be in the forecast but the Eagles playing tonight certainly isn’t.

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

A MASSIVE RESULT IN THE CAPITAL 💪

[ESPN FC @ESPNFC]

LAMINE YAMAL OUT OF THIS WORLD!