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@ByDougMcIntyre @FOXSoccer you’re a retard

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@WrestleFeatures cody fan and a sami fan.

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@blueyank4life @CarliLloyd @ObstructedView you are like either really dumb or just rage baiting for pennies. either way here’s your 11 cents. embarrassment to real american football fans.

[gio🦁 @Clapped_Dre]

The day US soccer players stop needing to have an average household income of 300k a year to have youth development is the day we start competing for a cup

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@WrestleOps @WONF4W yeah he’s annoying

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@LudwigAhgren ragebait

[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.

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holy fuck she’s actually crazy 😂😂

[Madrid Zone @theMadridZone]

🚨 Celeste Amarilla: "YES, my post against Mbappé WAS RACIST.

That's why I deleted, it was unfortunate.

However, I will NOT apologize, I said what I had to say.

I come from a society where gays were beaten and where calling someone a sh*tty n*gger was the most usual thing.

I come from that generation, so now I'm trying to build a different Celeste Amarilla, that's capable of co-existing with others.

Have patience, I'm trying."

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@DrChiRho @CalebPongratz10 deadass. all these 4 week football fans really piss me off how they think McKinnie is subpar or didn’t give his all in every match. ridiculous.

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@MadridXtra she’s actually so stupid

[U.S. Soccer Men's National Team @USMNT]

You believed. You filled stadiums. You brought the game into homes and communities across the country.

Most of all, you showed everyone what this crest means. Thank you.

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@espn cum has been cancelled

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@NickRTFM american defending right there sadly

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@FFF COOK HER

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@KMbappe COOK

[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.

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@EM_Creates @USMNT both meh

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@PierceMaso528 @NickRTFM ok bot. i’m literally ok if he did intervene somehow 😂

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@GMillar1874 @appiecule nope. he said it with his chest. all players should do this lol. say whatever obscene thing you want to say, just don’t cover your mouth and you won’t get in trouble 😂