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arsenal 담원 ENG/한국어/日本語/SVE

[S👻 @scrapytweets]

The only reason why people believed Bruno deserved the prem player of the season was cos they hate Arsenal and all their players

[LEC @LEC]

IT'S STARTING TO FEEL LIKE 2019 AGAIN

[Carli Lloyd @CarliLloyd]

You rest when your playing career is over. Period.

[jimmy toots @futtywap]

Ormund Hightower vs Daemon Targaryen

[Sebastian @WhyNotSebastian]

The most depressing thing about loving soccer in the USA is seeing the pattern of everyone not care, then misunderstand, then get hype, then clown on soccer once the USMNT lose, then just move on.
Repeat every 4 years.

[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.

[BearsShowYo @BearsShowYo]

Malik Tillman after this game

[Zak☔️ @MilanZak6]

Italians tryna chime in on World Cup drama✌🏽😭

[Kris Wall @KrisWall92]

Dan Burn and Jordan Henderson #england

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

You can always rely on Mikel Merino.

[Kylian Mbappé @KMbappe]

Madame Celeste Amarilla,
Vous êtes une femme méprisable et indigne de sa fonction.
Vous ne représentez pas le Paraguay, ce pays qui a transpiré la passion et l’honneur tout au long de la compétition. Par votre inconscience et votre racisme décomplexé, le monde entier a déjà oublié le parcours et l’effort historique que vos joueurs ont réalisés durant cette coupe du monde pour laisser place à une dame incompétente donnant la pire image possible de son pays.
Je ne laisserai jamais aux gens comme elle, la liberté de laisser propager leur haine et leur racisme à travers le monde.

[. @tosinmm_]

USMNT fans seeing that Folarin Balogun can play against Belgium

[maybe: xavier (nba champ new york knicks enjoyer) @couldbexav]

proper corruption at play here, finally becoming a real football nation

[Westeros Central @WesterosCentral]

Haaland

[Derrico Henrio @derrico_henrio]

Europoors seeing that we’ve started to care enough about soccer to start bribing FIFA

[ESPN @espn]

Breaking: Folarin Balogun will be available to play in USA's Round of 16 match against Belgium on Monday, FIFA announced.

The FIFA Disciplinary Committee has suspended the red card issued to the USA striker during their Round of 32 win over Bosnia and Herzegovina.

[tora @toratora_poke]

倉庫だ。この砦が放棄された時のまま、価値ある品が手つかずで残されているようだ。
君たちは望むままに手を伸ばしてもいいし、余計な寄り道を避けて先を急いでもいい。

[mel 🇧🇷 @eneffy_]

KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK vai tomar no cu

[JB @jb2forty]

Send £50 to your friend who organises stuff today. I tried to take up his role today and quit within 25 minutes. They are truly undervalued members of society