nicholas

come as you are

[𝔻𝕚𝕡𝕤 @dipsMUFC]

Hang it in the Louvre 🤣

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

Bradley Barcola is a Red.

Allez Les Rouges.

[justin serb-ert 🇷🇸🍉 @markocantdunk]

Got up at 6AM to watch Liverpool be down 0-1 to Nottingham Forest

[liz 🌌 luthen's #1 fan @rebelfile]

southern 9/11 just happened close everything we gotta mourn

[Dolly Parton @DollyParton]

A message from the family of Dolly Parton.

[David Ornstein @David_Ornstein]

🚨 Mauricio Pochettino on course to agree new contract & extend reign as USA head coach through to 2030 World Cup. Barring unexpected change of heart 54yo Argentine boss set to remain in charge of #USMNT for next cycle @TheAthleticFC after @AndresCantorGOL https://t.co/TYHr8JVuHm

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

🙌🇭🇺

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

Victory in our opening US tour fixture 👏

[red @bluelemxnade]

Christian Pulisic played so ass in the world cup that he started a large scale political debate about the American athletic development system and the influence of private equity in youth sports

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨💍 OFFICIAL: FIFA to award the winners of the World Cup with championship rings.

It’s the first time in history, following some of the American sports.

30 rings will be made available to the world champions, with a further 1,996 rings going on sale to fans.

[Sosa 🇭🇺 🇪🇺 (Komorebi) @EternSosa]

Scaloni in the 70th minute of every Argentina match at this WC be like
"But what if Messi just moved out wide???"

[Big El 🏝️ @BlackKyle5]

Messi wins the World Cup.
Balon D’or number 9.
Messi wins super Balon dor in 2030.
10 Balon dors for the number 10.

Last page of the script.

[Tandy @LFC_Tandy]

3 Finals in 6 World Cups

[Freddy🇩🇪 @FreddyLA7]

Tennessee❤️

When people told us at the beginning of our road trip that people in the South are different, we didn’t really know what they meant. But after spending several weeks here, we finally understand.

The hospitality here is just something else. Everyone knows everyone, and it feels like people are living one big shared life. Someone is always stopping by, doors are always open, and everyone is welcome.

One guy told us he hasn’t locked his house in 23 years. When we were out on the lake, we met some people who immediately invited us to their lake house to hang out. They offered us drinks, chicken wings, and made us feel completely at home. It’s a kind of hospitality I’ve never experienced before.

When we got back to the dock late that night, one of the guys on the boat said something that really stuck with me:

“You don’t have to live in some big, exciting city. What matters is the people who live there. That’s what makes you happy. I’ve lived in many places around the world, but nothing comes close to Ocoee, Tennessee. And you know the best part about living here? We’re going to do the exact same thing again tomorrow.”

We will be back.

[Agalleza 🆑 @Agallezacydl]

Llevo 9h jugadas al black OPS 2 y mi mejor racha ha sido un UAV

[Luis Mazariegos @luism8989]

Messi hanging with Mbappé and Haaland in 2026 is sort of like

Maradona competing with R9 and Zidane in 1998

R9 competing with Messi and James in 2014

Ronaldinho competing with Modric and Kane in 2018

In fact all were younger then than Messi now 😂

[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.
🇺🇸🦅
B

[dandelion georgism 🔰🏗 @DandyGeorgism]

“And every four years when the World Cup comes around, we will say that we’d dominate if we had a stronger youth program.”

“And will we develop a stronger youth program?”

“We will not.”

[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.

[Garrett @GarrettQuinn]

World Cup loses hit harder as you age. You think about where you will be in four years, how your kids will be older, if you’ll ever see your country win, your own mortality, and how many more of these you’ll see. I have probably 11-12 left in my life. Unsettling thought, really.