Andy Kilinskis

Software Engineer | Music, esports, and Fantasy Football Enthusiast |

[Andy Kilinskis @trainofk]

@ASvanevik @NimblewNumbers 🤝🫡🇳🇴

[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.

[sreeky @sreekyshooter]

you’ve found me at a particularly Paraguayan time in my life

[Paul K @pkrenek]

@rodger Imagine not having 3 against Paraguay in the 1st half. Could not be my deeply-flawed country whose national team I am still supporting

[moesha @yunclesage]

Watching gta rp is unfortunately my guilty pleasure

[Andy Kilinskis @trainofk]

@jubileemedia @itsdeaann All the various clips I’m seeing come out of this is just proving that Dean is goated. I’m gonna have to watch the full thing for a change.

[Virtus.pro @virtuspro]

The ‘Trust me, it’s our year’ trio, but it’s actually their year.

[ESL Counter-Strike @ESLCS]

Divine Intervention. 🐸

#IEM

[Andy Kilinskis @trainofk]

@B3nClipsHQ If you love something let it go…

[Andy Kilinskis @trainofk]

@MetalBlakedowns @SECRETSofficial Oh fuck yes

[Andy Kilinskis @trainofk]

@MatthewMKE98 The way this was written, I was expecting Dontayvion Wicks

[Andy Kilinskis @trainofk]

@fiago7 Wait until you find out the cake has mayonnaise in it

[Andy Kilinskis @trainofk]

@MetalBlakedowns The “Dark Divine bad” from a character perspective have not yet proven it to me…? Happy to be proven wrong, but I feel like at this point you can only clown their music if you’re into that, not them as humans.

[Andy Kilinskis @trainofk]

@LanXemily This is dripping with ChatGPT tone

[Andy Kilinskis @trainofk]

@SOTSPodcast Enter Shikari with a close second though

[Andy Kilinskis @trainofk]

@SOTSPodcast Broadsideeeeeee

[Andy Kilinskis @trainofk]

@Tricia_Cee_ @GayAndEvil I thought that song specifically was about quitting alcohol

[Andy Kilinskis @trainofk]

@mrworldwidest The Pretty Wild; Deadlands

[Andy Kilinskis @trainofk]

@Clabel_ Kind of love that they used specifically IShowSpeed

[Andy Kilinskis @trainofk]

@CDonnick1 Wait is Abdul actually facing backlash beyond the known parody account Steinberg tweet?