Mark Yurovsky

Attorney at Law. Founder and Partner at @vyz_law. MBA in Finance and International Management.

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@HawkEmDownChris

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@thomasrp93 Not good

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The good news is you scored a goal

The bad news is you hopped the barrier, fell into a tunnel, and the goal was called back

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@Beardaknowledge Don't like the position changes

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@Beardaknowledge Hate that instead of Turner moving to LF, 4 other players will have to move positions

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@JohnBolaris Vincent was a staple of every Mafia movie. RIP Big Pussy

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@Villgecrazylady Educate yourself, dumbass

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@Beardaknowledge He is a complete moron

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@Beardaknowledge This team isn't different from the ones the last several seasons. Can't really expect much here

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@975TheFanatic @BillColarulo Rumors by whom?

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@LesBowen Can't

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@SportsRadioWIP We were told Michkov was him

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@SharpFootball Brady New England vs. mahomes Chiefs

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@Deandre1745 @DPearsonPHL Maybe it is for the girls, the alternative of American football, hockey and baseball is not as realistic or popular as soccer would be

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Valid point regarding hockey. However, in most other countries that the United States competes against in hockey, hockey is either number one or number two sport. I think the bigger issue is not so much as affordability, but rather as the Sport's prestige. Most boys in the United States do not grow up. Hoping to become an elite soccer player. For boys soccer is at the most number 5 sport. It is completely different for the girls though

[Sam Mahmood @TheSammahmood_]

The U.S. soccer federation is a poor return on invested capital.

I played soccer for 20+ years.

Grassroots.
Academy.
D1 college.
Pursued professionally after.

And I’ll say the quiet part out loud:

The US soccer infrastructure is broken.

In America, we treat playing D1 soccer like it is the peak achievement.

For most families, clubs, coaches, and players, the entire youth soccer machine is built around one goal:

Get recruited.
Get a scholarship.
Play college soccer.

But if the objective is to produce world-class players, D1 soccer is a terrible development path.

From 18-22, some of the most important technical development years of your career, you are preparing for a 3-4 month season built largely around athleticism, direct play, set pieces, fitness, and survival.

Now compare that to an 18-year-old in Spain, Argentina, Morocco, Italy, England, or France.

That player has likely been in a professional environment for years.

Training daily.
Playing meaningful matches year-round.
Competing against grown professionals.
Getting thousands more touches.
Learning how to solve the game under pressure.

The gap is massive.

And it shows.

American players are usually athletic.
They are usually fit.
They usually compete hard.

But at the highest levels, that is not enough.

The biggest difference is technical comfort.

We do not move the ball like Spain.
We do not combine like Argentina.
We do not play with the same fluidity, rhythm, and confidence you see from countries where the game is embedded into the culture from childhood.

That comes down to volume.

Volume of touches.
Volume of street soccer.
Volume of futsal.
Volume of unstructured play.
Volume of high-level training environments.
Volume of meaningful games.

In the US, youth soccer is expensive, overly organized, overly coached, tournament-driven, and too often built around winning games at 13 instead of developing players for 23.

Parents spend thousands.
Clubs charge thousands.
Travel teams fly all over the country.
Showcases become the product.
Recruiting becomes the scoreboard.

But the return on invested capital is poor.

We probably spend more money on youth soccer than almost any country in the world, yet the technical output does not match the investment.

That is a broken operating model.

And like any business, if the output is weak, you do not blame the customer.

You inspect the system.

The US has talent.
The US has athletes.
The US has money.
The US has facilities.

But the foundation is wrong.

We built a pay-to-play, college-recruiting machine and confused it for a world-class player development system.

Those are not the same thing.

Until we fix the grassroots layer, increase meaningful touches, make development less dependent on family income, and stop treating college soccer as the top of the mountain, the US will keep underperforming relative to its resources.

I’m not saying this to trash US Soccer.

I’m saying it because I lived it.

And if we actually want to become a powerhouse, we have to be honest about the infrastructure first.

[Balogun @balogun]

My debut World Cup… it hurts to wait 4 years to compete at the highest level our sport has to offer. I want to say sorry to our fans it was not good enough when it mattered most and we let you down

Soccer in America will only become bigger the belief, the talent, and the passion is continually growing and I know the best days are in front of us, the future belongs to those who never stop believing, this moment will fuel us. We will be back

Why not us?

For the nation. For the flag.
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@getnickwright Not good. Not good, at all

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@ESPNFC Not a good tournament for him, to say the least