Ryan Wright

#wxtwitter, #Nuggets, #Rockies, landscape photographer and part-time storm chaser Prints here ➡️

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My instagram is - https://t.co/fSB08O9VC7

[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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@RyanGreeneDNVR That cat has probably seen some things

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@BianchiWeather Y’all should fact check. West Fork Complex was over 100k acres

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@statmuse 7

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@KalleSorbo Crash out. Film it. Profit.

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@DLineCo Really starting to think the Kroenke’s will go extremely cheap and we won’t be good. Awful waste of Jokic’s prime.

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@Mike_kim714 Who is your favorite course designer? Is there one whose courses you prefer more than others?

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@KylePorterNS Tom Brady. Signed, Broncos fan.

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Jail Blazers 2.0 incoming now that Ja Morant is in Portland?

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Tell me again how sports betting companies funneling millions upon millions into our sports is a good thing. Sports betting is a cancer.

[Shams Charania @ShamsCharania]

Nine-year NBA veteran Malik Beasley has been indicted on federal charges for gambling related to a sports betting scheme, such as point shaving and prop bets, his attorney Steve Haney tells ESPN. The government is coordinating a voluntary surrender of Beasley this week.

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@LinksGems @BayonneGC Could Bayonne host a USGA tournament?

[Patrick Lyons @PatrickDLyons]

The greatest Father’s Day performance in MLB history:

#Rockies Nolan Arenado hits for the cycle with a walk-off home run against the Giants in 2017.

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@NUCLRGOLF Nah, not a fan 💨 🐷

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@KylePorterNS Car Dealership Owner in Davenport, IA

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@NUCLRGOLF ZJ is such a whiner

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@den_shorts “A splendid Serbian hooker” on a random night in Memphis in 2021

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@DNVR_Nuggets @Will_Gottlieb @Adam_Mares @BrendanVogt @DLineCo Question for y’all; could the Nuggets land Marcus Smart to fill the secondary ball handler and defensive wing spot this offseason? If he declines his player option, could the Nuggets get him? I liked the hypothetical Braun/Ikoro swap and Cam is likely traded. So, worth it?

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@NUCLRGOLF All but 11 and 14

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@NUCLRGOLF "that's gotta go"

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@LoveTheRox Ability to recall useless trivia answers shockingly well