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The One Piece is real

[Buyoun @mtrunyon14]

I mean I wore my best anime t-shirt, so no, I’m not really sure why she wasn’t interested in a second date.

[Buyoun @mtrunyon14]

Fantastic tweet

[PointlessHub @HubPointless]

Augustus Gloop dying in that chocolate tube

[Buyoun @mtrunyon14]

This is a pretty spectacular collapse

[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.

[Buyoun @mtrunyon14]

Imagine paying several thousand dollars for that performance. Sheesh

[Buyoun @mtrunyon14]

I mean if that’s the effort the US defense gives, I’m glad Belgium is talking shit. I would.

Might be the slowest goalie I’ve ever seen.

[Buyoun @mtrunyon14]

Has this team ever played soccer

[Buyoun @mtrunyon14]

Somebody need to put Tim Ream down.

[Buyoun @mtrunyon14]

Truly a useless back line

[Buyoun @mtrunyon14]

This team is hard to watch sometimes

[Buyoun @mtrunyon14]

MALIIIIIKIKKKK LETS FUCKING GOOOOOO

[Bleacher Report @BleacherReport]

Rudi Garcia says Belgium is not "just defending itself or the national team," but "defending football in general" by appealing FIFA's suspension of Folarin Balogun's one-game ban

(Via @TheAthletic)

[Buyoun @mtrunyon14]

What a bar

[Matt @stealth_riot]

Went to planned parenthood with my old roommate and there were church ppl outside accusing her of abortion so I said “We’re here to find out if she has cancer. So we’ll see if your god is good or not” And I shit you not when we came out they weren’t there anymore

[Erling Haaland @ErlingHaaland]

Well well well 😂

[Buyoun @mtrunyon14]

You can’t ask for much more from a World Cup match

[Buyoun @mtrunyon14]

This is match is bedlam and I love it

[Buyoun @mtrunyon14]

This match is so fucking fun

[Buyoun @mtrunyon14]

That card is easily very different than Balogun’s

[Buyoun @mtrunyon14]

This match is fucking awesome

[Buyoun @mtrunyon14]

LETS GOOOOOOO

[Buyoun @mtrunyon14]

A fucking perfect ball and a man with all day to head that one in