Ricardo Manosalvas

[Ricardo Manosalvas @tostito16]

“I got front post” -my whole career

[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.

[(fan) Trey @UTDTrey]

Bro just started winning trophies and decided to throw it all away💔

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨🔴⚫️ Pervis Estupiñán to AC Milan, here we go! Verbal agreement in place with Brighton after green light from Tony Bloom.

€17m fee plus €2m add-ons, long term deal for Pervis who’s set to become new AC Milan left back.

Formal steps to follow. 🇪🇨

[FIFA World Cup @FIFAWorldCup]

🇪🇨 Ecuador have booked their ticket to #FIFAWorldCup 26!

@aramco | #WeAre26

[La Tri 🇪🇨 @LaTri]

¡ESTAMOS EN NUESTRO QUINTO MUNDIAL!

🇺🇸, 🇲🇽 y 🇨🇦; allá vamos

[Jimmy Lange @JimmyLange31]

Me hoping @paigepullman sees my email and application for the Partnership Marketing role I just applied for🙏🏻

#VIVA

[Ricardo Manosalvas @tostito16]

I can guarantee you it’ll be ‘15 all’ next point

[nocontextatp @nocontextatp]

Witnessed this line call made in the middle of the third set at line 2 singles of @spidermten vs @MasonMTEN at the USTA National Campus A10 Conference tournament.

Ball wasn’t even close to touching the line. This has to change.

Paxton Pritchard from Richmonds Mens Tennis made the call. Horrible.

@SpiderAthletics @MasonAthletics @NCAATennis @bgtennisnation @MardyFish @andyroddick @atlantic10 #A10MTEN

[Grant Certiorari @GrantCertiorari]

A plane just crashed in Philadelphia.

Please stay calm while Donald Trump figures out which minority to blame for this

[Sleeper @SleeperHQ]

When you’re getting smoked in the fantasy championship and you accept defeat:

(This is your attempt of a reverse jinx)

[Ricardo Manosalvas @tostito16]

@_MLFootball @DynastyDorks Omg this is incredible

[NFL Fashion Advice @fashion_nfl]

They called him a madman.

[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

Arsenal this season

[Bleacher Report @BleacherReport]

COWBOYS FANS THIS SEASON 😅

COWBOYS FALL SHORT TO THE RAVENS and drop to 1-2 😬

[Justin @Justin_14P]

“Rhamondre Stevenson has been elite he’s a must start tonight”

[Sleeper @SleeperHQ]

me looking at Rhamondre in my starting lineup:

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

“Is he gonna sit on his couch & watch 7 hours of commercial free football?”

[MLFootball @MLFootball]

WHOLESOME: #Cowboys 3rd round OL Cooper Beebe practicing playing center with his MOM in their backyard.

She does the silent count and Dak’s “HERE WE GO.”

🥹🥹🥹

(🎥@kcgorilla)

[Joel Beall @JoelMBeall]

From convict to Olympian, the promise of America

[Ricardo Manosalvas @tostito16]

@b_dechambeau How about with someone who’s only broken 90 once. Can we do the impossible?? Only one way to find out, my challenge to you 🤝🏽
Break 50 with a breakfast ball…

[Shooter McGavin @ShooterMcGavin]

29 years ago Josh stepped on the scale