nathan 🇺🇸🇹🇷

🇺🇸🇹🇷 Arsenal fc - dub nayshun - saka pr team - ø believer - keep pounding fc

[nathan 🇺🇸🇹🇷 @txrknowitzki]

@afc_25079 Belgium super team with Trossardinho going all the way icl

[nathan 🇺🇸🇹🇷 @txrknowitzki]

@TappedfreakR 😭😭😭 he was buns against Paraguay icl

[nathan 🇺🇸🇹🇷 @txrknowitzki]

@TappedfreakR Dw you guys are gonna get Barc cause “Berta” would rather sign a keeper that got benched by Karl Darlow

[nathan 🇺🇸🇹🇷 @txrknowitzki]

Are they trolling brah

[Charlotte FC @CharlotteFC]

Proud of Tim and the @USMNT's World Cup journey ❤️🤍💙

[nathan 🇺🇸🇹🇷 @txrknowitzki]

@DavidOlson32238 @bwfast It incentives teams to produce local talent since there would be a much larger pool of teams throughout the country. Hopefully this would encourage better infrastructure as well easier (and more importantly, cheaper) access to it for all kids and not only those with money.

[nathan 🇺🇸🇹🇷 @txrknowitzki]

Ivan Barton is ASS

[nathan 🇺🇸🇹🇷 @txrknowitzki]

HOW THE FUCK DOES THAT NOT GO IN

[nathan 🇺🇸🇹🇷 @txrknowitzki]

Thought Xhaka was gonna bury that ngl

[nathan 🇺🇸🇹🇷 @txrknowitzki]

@Maina_Bajie @jeremyb___

[Sam Mahmood @TheSammahmood_]

The U.S. soccer federation is a poor return on invested capital.

I played soccer for 20+ years.

Grassroots.
Academy.
D1 college.
Pursued professionally after.

And I’ll say the quiet part out loud:

The US soccer infrastructure is broken.

In America, we treat playing D1 soccer like it is the peak achievement.

For most families, clubs, coaches, and players, the entire youth soccer machine is built around one goal:

Get recruited.
Get a scholarship.
Play college soccer.

But if the objective is to produce world-class players, D1 soccer is a terrible development path.

From 18-22, some of the most important technical development years of your career, you are preparing for a 3-4 month season built largely around athleticism, direct play, set pieces, fitness, and survival.

Now compare that to an 18-year-old in Spain, Argentina, Morocco, Italy, England, or France.

That player has likely been in a professional environment for years.

Training daily.
Playing meaningful matches year-round.
Competing against grown professionals.
Getting thousands more touches.
Learning how to solve the game under pressure.

The gap is massive.

And it shows.

American players are usually athletic.
They are usually fit.
They usually compete hard.

But at the highest levels, that is not enough.

The biggest difference is technical comfort.

We do not move the ball like Spain.
We do not combine like Argentina.
We do not play with the same fluidity, rhythm, and confidence you see from countries where the game is embedded into the culture from childhood.

That comes down to volume.

Volume of touches.
Volume of street soccer.
Volume of futsal.
Volume of unstructured play.
Volume of high-level training environments.
Volume of meaningful games.

In the US, youth soccer is expensive, overly organized, overly coached, tournament-driven, and too often built around winning games at 13 instead of developing players for 23.

Parents spend thousands.
Clubs charge thousands.
Travel teams fly all over the country.
Showcases become the product.
Recruiting becomes the scoreboard.

But the return on invested capital is poor.

We probably spend more money on youth soccer than almost any country in the world, yet the technical output does not match the investment.

That is a broken operating model.

And like any business, if the output is weak, you do not blame the customer.

You inspect the system.

The US has talent.
The US has athletes.
The US has money.
The US has facilities.

But the foundation is wrong.

We built a pay-to-play, college-recruiting machine and confused it for a world-class player development system.

Those are not the same thing.

Until we fix the grassroots layer, increase meaningful touches, make development less dependent on family income, and stop treating college soccer as the top of the mountain, the US will keep underperforming relative to its resources.

I’m not saying this to trash US Soccer.

I’m saying it because I lived it.

And if we actually want to become a powerhouse, we have to be honest about the infrastructure first.

[nathan 🇺🇸🇹🇷 @txrknowitzki]

@Rilesdinho Tyler Adams is still great I would take him even if he wouldn’t start assuming he doesn’t regress majorly

[cheese @cheese_taw]

@CracraftFan only 1

[nathan 🇺🇸🇹🇷 @txrknowitzki]

@USMNTReportV2 0 goals in a home wc is disgraceful lmao he’s set the sport back at least 3 more cycles in this country

[﹒ @aroyagain]

I thought ‘Argentina being refereed differently’ narrative was deranged CR40 stan talk

[General Butt Naked @GenButtnakedMSU]

It’s about depth.

The US can legitimately put 20 Olympic caliber teams on the court.

Europe has started producing unicorns and that’s good for the game, but it’s like France v Norway in football. Haaland and Odegaard are top class, but the French can legitimately put 10 teams of guys born in France (many of whom play for other nations) on the field that can make the World Cup.

[nathan 🇺🇸🇹🇷 @txrknowitzki]

@6packillakal @bennufc_18 Eye guess

[nathan 🇺🇸🇹🇷 @txrknowitzki]

@6packillakal @bennufc_18 “Anderson” I’m so shore

[nathan 🇺🇸🇹🇷 @txrknowitzki]

@6packillakal @bennufc_18 He’s giving it to Saka kid

[nathan 🇺🇸🇹🇷 @txrknowitzki]

Ingerland went from playing “Egypt” to Argentina with devil magic dlc

[nathan 🇺🇸🇹🇷 @txrknowitzki]

Such a horrible way to go out for Egypt