Ol Dad

[Senator Mark Kelly @SenMarkKelly]

I’ve launched off the front of aircraft carriers hundreds of times, have a Master’s degree in aeronautical engineering, and am a test pilot and even I wouldn’t suggest to the Navy how to engineer specific systems on its ships. Donald Trump should stick to what he knows best — ballrooms, bankruptcy, and bullshit.

[Ol Dad @Younger8027]

@MLSGoneWild 🤣🤣🤣

[Upper 90 Club Podcast @Upper90ClubPod]

Wait, you’re allowed to do that?

[The Crew @ColumbusCrew]

From an MLS rookie to a cornerstone of the Crew right before our eyes 🥹

Wishing you nothing but the best in Middlesbrough, Max 💪

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

43-time Club Champion.

[Ol Dad @Younger8027]

@DiceElDani Same league, same standards...way different history. Suarez does something stupid nearly every time he see the field. That matters.

[Ol Dad @Younger8027]

@TaylorTwellman You also said you thought the dangerous tackle shouldn't have been a red which was insane.

[Ol Dad @Younger8027]

@johnwoo18364027 @LaurelPfahler 🤣🤣🤣

[Ol Dad @Younger8027]

@CyrusRock24 @LaurelPfahler Take your L and STFU

[Zawadzki agenda pusher ⭐️⭐️⭐️ @CrewPropaganda]

Columbus forever man. In a season with a lot of disappointment that was an unreal effort from the fellas. Still our state. #Crew96

[Patrick Murphy @_Pat_Murphy]

Outclass… outperformed... outcoached. You pick. And against THAT New York City team?

This felt like an extension of the Rydström era by #Crew96. Where was the energy, the passion, the “Crew DNA” that was supposed to be back? I understand the team is lacking attackers (did Diego Rossi change that much?), but the attempts and decisions were brutal until the final few minutes, and even then they couldn’t put a shot on goal.

Max Arfsten, who spent the last month plus playing with World Cup players, had perhaps the worst game of his career. Taha the same. Jamal Thairé with no idea where to be on the front line repeatedly. Akhundzada with another uninspiring performance. Then Rudy Camcho with the hold-my-beer moment.

By all accounts, Daniel Gazdag has been nothing but the consummate pro, yet he can't get on the field with the attack this shorthanded? At this point, I think you have to move on instead of allowing a DP to rot on the bench, even if that means eating the money (which is easy to say when it's not my money).

Late penalty kick aside, this felt more like a friendly than the Burnley game. That’s on the players for not being up for it and the staff for having no plan based on the players on the field.

[Ol Dad @Younger8027]

@DegenerateTBone The Crew offers a great stadium experience and a winning tradition right here in Columbus. Nothing wrong with following a big European Club but support your hometown team too!

[ًًً @_captainpulisic]

after everything he went through for doing absolutely nothing wrong, he still went over and did something he didn’t have to at all AFTER just being eliminated. what a player but more importantly, what a person

[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.

[Josh Chavis @JoshChavis65]

For those who have fallen in love with this sport for the first time in the last several weeks, the worst part about that reality as an American is unlike other sports there’s really not a “next season.”

Find an MLS team and get behind them.

Otherwise, see ya in 4 years.

[Maciej Łaszkiewicz @maciejlasz]

Pierwszy w historii przykład człowieka, który podczas popołudniowego spaceru strzelił gola na wagę awansu do ćwierćfinału Mistrzostw Świata

[Ol Dad @Younger8027]

@FavianRenkel Hell no.

[BearsShowYo @BearsShowYo]

This is the greatest commentary I’ve ever heard bro holy shit😭🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[Ben Stevens @BenScottStevens]

1. Win your country’s FIRST EVER knockout game in the World Cup

2. Lead all your supporters in the Viking Row

Incredibly cool.

[Futbismo @futbismo]

Para mí, el momento más emocionante del Mundial sigue siendo la jugada del Cucho Hernández contra Uzbekistán.

He visto está jugada 300 veces y en todas me sigue emocionando 😭.