How France dominates the world soccer development scene:
1. They built the structure to enhance street soccer in highly populated poor neighborhoods, (combining the two BEST ingredients: Street Soccer AND high-end academy development)
2. These poor neighbourhoods are heavily populated by West and North African immigrant demographics, (explosive, agile, and physically resilient athletes)
3. Highly centralized, government-funded scouting infrastructure that filters the best players no matter where they find them
4. Mandatory schooling in the academies so players don't burn out, while keeping them grounded and disciplined
5. Export economy: French clubs HAVE to sell players in order to survive. This means they're forced to give teenage prospects constant first-team professional experience in order to develop them, and in turn turn a profit...
No other country is even close to this.
France is set to continue producing the highest amount of elite players for decades to come
“…The National Health Service, the celebrated pillar of the British cradle-to-grave welfare state, has a backlog of 6 million patients—almost a tenth of the population—waiting for treatment…” https://t.co/9sEuGUkw1a
'The Swedish economist Assar Lindbeck—a socialist, mind you—[wrote]: “In many cases rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city—except for bombing.”' Very good @JonahDispatch on tiredness of 'new' DSA ideas https://t.co/1q6VwpdGY3
And the three worst landlords in NYC with OPEN Class C violations are all taxpayer funded:
1. NYC Housing Preservation and Development (HPD)
2. Neighborhood Renewal Housing Development Fund Corp (taxpayer funded non profit)
3. NYC Housing Authority (NYCHA)
Class C violations designate "immediately hazardous". These issues pose a danger to life, health, and safety. Landlords are legally required to begin correcting them within 24 hours.
So...
Who wants to tell them that Marx's patron Friedrich Engels got rich by running a cotton mill that sourced its materials from the slave plantations of the United States?
A 21-year-old man has been charged with hate crime and arson after a burning cross was found in Grant Park last week.
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