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[Shane @shane_76]

@douglewinenergy Wait. Hold on. You’re telling me gas and coal plants have outages? 🤯

[Jesus @JesusMalaga]

Brutal

[Shane @shane_76]

@fiago7 Chicago opted out.

[Shane @shane_76]

@neilsherwin Dempsey vibes.

[Shane @shane_76]

@nova_burke @TheBolivianYank You do realize the whole point of that argument is our elite athletes spend hours and hours and hours training their fine motor and quick twitch skills in their particular sport. If they spent those same hours and hours and hours on futbol it would be a different story.

[Shane @shane_76]

@reformussoccer Make it so.

[Shane @shane_76]

@JamesSurowiecki Spain won 2-0. France didn’t score. The better team won regardless of this play.

[Shane @shane_76]

@peet2 https://t.co/2qdnZGVkdE

🤷🏽‍♂️

[FIFA Media @fifamedia]

Before England’s goal in minute 45+2 against Norway, the sensor in the Connected Ball showed no peak in the 'heartbeat of the ball' when in the air, and therefore no evidence that the ball touched the overhead wire and changed the movement of the ball.

[Shane @shane_76]

Interesting.

[FIFA Media @fifamedia]

Before England’s goal in minute 45+2 against Norway, the sensor in the Connected Ball showed no peak in the 'heartbeat of the ball' when in the air, and therefore no evidence that the ball touched the overhead wire and changed the movement of the ball.

[Shane @shane_76]

@japan_nobunaga Texas-BB/pellet gun at a young age. Actual gun not until age 18.

[Shane @shane_76]

@MrPool_QQ Tens of thousands of injured vets would beg to differ.

[Shane @shane_76]

@RogerSartet3 @javiqm94 There was no contact until Mbappe fell/let his feet go to try to draw a call.

[Shane @shane_76]

@javiqm94 There was NO contact. This is why a lot of Americans still hate soccer.

[Shane @shane_76]

Spain!! Bye bye Belgium. 👋👋✌🏽

[Shane @shane_76]

@TokeTheilade Never? You clearly missed the last US goal vs Paraguay.

[Shane @shane_76]

@Gee__Gazza You are missing the point

[Shane @shane_76]

@PaulSpacey No. Our elite athletes are still in the NFL and NBA. but even if they chose soccer, we don’t have the youth system to develop them.

[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.

[Scott Enyeart @ScottEnyeart]

The national anthem at last night’s Round of 16 game was by far the loudest I have ever experienced a crowd singing, including the Army-Navy game.

[Shane @shane_76]

@ASvanevik Since it does not appear you posted an anti-US tweet after the Balogun decision, I may be with you…