Rizzi

C’est la vie.

Tottenham | Hawks | Falcons | Atlanta United | Ferrari

[MK 🇫🇷 @mkliebmann]

Cristiano Ronaldo begged for hamburgers outside McDonalds. He’d never turn pro in America

Messi’s parents were factory workers. He’d never turn pro in America

Lalas went to boarding school. Failed to get into college until his dad made a call to Rutgers. He went pro in America

[Sam/FIFA Brit @FIFABrit]

I’m getting so tired of these American athlete posts now

Every single one of them says something along the lines of “if we trained our best athletes in the best soccer academies, we’d have the best players”

Congrats. You just created Adama Traore

[Jonathan Adamson @adamsonjon]

Americans will watch their team get absolutely slaughtered by Youri Tielemans and Leandro Trossard and tell you with a straight face that if NFL running backs had been playing soccer since a young age they would win the World Cup 🤷‍♂️🤣

[Winna F.C. @WinnaFC]

🚨| BREAKING: Argentina vs Egypt drew more viewers in the U.S. than the Super Bowl Final.📺

Football is finally conquering America.🐐

[The Internet Fish @TheInternetFish]

It’s the no look high five for me

[Barça Universal @BarcaUniversal]

🚨 NEW: Barcelona's Kobe Bryant away kit will be officially released on July 31st.

[CharlieIntel @charlieINTEL]

Xbox's Obsidian Entertainment studio has canceled work on the next Avowed game as part of restructuring and is now starting to work on a new Fallout game

[via Bloomberg]

[B/R Football @brfootball]

That was the World Cup last 16 🔥

[Polymarket Sports @PolymarketSport]

🚨 Chris Richards’ mother on paying for football in America:

"When the economy crashed in 2009, we lost everything and were pinching pennies every week. I remember Chris handing me a letter that said if we didn't pay his soccer fees, he wouldn't get to play. I was so embarrassed.”

[Rizzi @RizziGod]

@thenotorious617 You didn’t win shit, sit down lmao.

[Rizzi @RizziGod]

@FiveFoxtrot @BRICSinfo No wonder you stick to tweeting. You can’t talk with Trump’s old, geriatric dick so far down your throat.

[Rizzi @RizziGod]

Americans thinking they would suddenly win the World Cup if their current NFL/NBA players played soccer is making me laugh.

The best player in the world is 5’7”. Not a freak athlete. Yet he’s the GOAT. It isn’t based on speed, strength or power.

It’s technique, vision & more.

[Rizzi @RizziGod]

@BowTiedCrow Stick to the NFL, lmao.

[Peter Nadimi @pnadimi]

As a soccer dad with a son in the youth program of a MLS team, I see it firsthand: US Soccer is run like a pure revenue business with talent development as an afterthought.

Without fixing the infrastructure and incentives, we’ll never build a system that can compete for a World Cup.

[world cup crimes 🇺🇸🇩🇪🇳🇴 @tommy_crimes]

“The Problem” with american soccer isn’t that our best athletes don’t play soccer. it’s that our best soccer players don’t play soccer. they’re locked out of developmental opportunities because playing high-level youth soccer is unreasonably expensive

[Rizzi @RizziGod]

@KylePagan_ You don’t want the World Cup with just talent alone…you need passion…and you can’t force passion…

[Derek Cody @derekcody]

aaaaaaaaand THAT attitude from the "old guard" of US soccer is why the round of 16 is our ceiling

"who's gonna pay for all this free soccer?" is about the dumbest response to all this that I've seen... not shocked it comes from Alexi Lalas

[Etan @EtanBoss]

Landon Donovan says America is missing soccer talent because kids can’t afford to play.

“Only 2% of kids playing organized soccer in America came from households that made less than $50,000.”

“If you don’t make $50,000, your kid cannot play organized soccer.”

“Think about how many kids you’re missing out on in this country because they can’t afford to play the game.”

“There is zero chance I could have played club soccer.”

“My mom made $34,000 a year, single mom raising three kids.”

“She couldn’t pay $4,000 for me to play club. Are you kidding? She couldn’t pay $400.”

“That’s not a good system to create good players.”