🇦🇷 🇺🇸 You wanted MLS to "play the kids"? You wanted MLS to transfer players overseas? You're welcome. Education at https://xitter.cf/t.co/jrqDCXVlZ7. 3four3 podcast
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What Pochettino personally confirmed in this excellent interview:
1) It is/was a tough job reversing the broken and chronically ill ship he inherited.
2) The difference between "soccer" and football everywhere else in the world?
In the US it's about entertainment since there's no consequences like relegation in MLS. Overseas it's NOT merely entertainment.
3) People lose perspective and show a lack of respect for those with expertise. To boot, pro American soccer coaches also demonstrated this lack of respect [to me].
4) US Soccer is not interfering in his roster decisions.
5) The American European-based players had a posture of entitlement, and were treating call-ups as unimportant. One main reason is (unlike the earlier generations) they didn't/don't need the USMNT platform to get to Europe and, crazily, believed their spot on the World Cup was already secure. Nowhere else in the world is there that entitlement. "I've never heard of even Messi, Maradona, Ronaldo, saying a year before the world cup 'nah, I'm gonna rest so that I'm fresh for the WC next year.'" Even the media/fans were justifying that rationale, that culture.
6) Copy the best in the world. Don't try to invent something new.
7) The USMNT generation from the 90s, who now have media jobs, had to fight in a very different way for what they earned. The current generation is different in that respect as well.
8) Elsewhere it's team first, not player first. We've got to get to that here in the US as well. This doesn't just go for the player posture, but the media/fans as well.
9) Proper culture: Players need to take all these friendly games as if they are world cup games.
10) There are players who we [the technical staff] fell in love with, and others we became disappointed in. Every player is unique and must be analyzed as such.
11) It's silly to work for "legacy", with the exception of being remembered as a good person and good professional.
12) The goal is to WIN the World Cup. If one doesn't think that way, what's the point?
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Mano a mano imperdible con Mauricio Pochettino. Tiene el equipo? Los rivales de marzo, la diferencia entre el fútbol y el soccer, y que encontró en USA...
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Please make sure to go vote in the midterms so America can continue empowering innovators who create wonders like this rather than persecuting them with the weight of an oppressive and wasteful bureaucracy, our collective future depends on it – at San Francisco, CA
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Hard to think of a wilder product unveiling. Not sure how quickly drivers are going to be leaping over each other in traffic, but damn, this was a cool way to introduce Roadster to the world.
To think it's never gonna happen again. 😢
Hoping and waiting that another genius, another 👽, will show up before I leave this earth.
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If anyone says that the Roadster demo wasn't cool take anything that they ever say and immediately throw it into the trash forever. If they can't even admit that this was freaking cool they have a COMPLETE ego problem. Blinded by hatred. Total derangement. Incurable. Terminal.
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In American youth soccer, the general relationship between parents and coach is adversarial.
But most are misguided by why that's the case and where it comes from.
Everything one sees at the youth level is a downstream consequence of how the *professional game* is regulated.
That is what creates the incentives all the way down the chain.
Since the ecosystem in the US is closed and monopolized at the pro level, there is negligible business incentive for clubs to focus on developing players.
Parents, without understanding the underlying pathology, still sense the misalignment.
So they're burdened with trying to figure out what's wrong and concocting solutions.
Unfortunately, this isn't their profession and thus are woefully ill-equipped to do that.
Hell, most all practitioners in the space don't understand the pathology.
But who can blame either of them?
Parents aren't practitioners with expertise.
And practitioners generally have their heads down in the day-to-day milieu.
In the end, due to the broken incentive structure CAUSED by having a closed, monopolized pro ecosystem, both parent and practitioner perception(s) of what's good and what's bad is warped and only in particular cases, temporarily aligned.
So of course I'm not surprised by what this coach shared below.
The general relationship between parents and coach in the US is one of tension.
Perpetually teetering on directly adversarial.
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Let us translate. We speak autism. 7:55 CST in 24 hour time is 1955. The year Marty McFly travels back to in Back to the Future. The poster also says “Where we’re going” when you saturate the colors, an homage to “Where we’re going we don’t need roads.”
Flying cars confirmed.
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🚨 Lisandro Martínez: “Every season is the SAME… we talk about the same things. If we don't say the truth then NOTHING will change”, told CBS.
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"Objective truth" is like "biological sex". It shouldn't need the modifier, but it does, because a bunch of wackos have tried to redefine the terms in incoherent ways.
It's always the same.
Former [non-compromised] top players, coaches, and others (who have experienced the international scene) state the poor football and state that is MLS.
MLS media/homers/fans look for any and all angles to discredit the person.
By contrast, Nico Tagliafico just came out and stated the poor state of the domestic Argentine game.
The Argentine public's response?
"Tagliafico is 100% correct."
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Abundance vs scarcity is upstream of morality
People become zero-sum and amoral in zero sum games
Abundance ensures positive sum an a greater propensity to adhere to moral values
It's why engineering abundance theough techno-capital acceleration is so important – at San Francisco, CA
You don’t hear “developed in La Liga”, “La Liga 3”, and “La Liga Youth”.
That’s because in legitimate football, clubs are the fundamental entity.
In the US, one single entity owns all the teams and, with that monopoly power, puppeteers the Federation.
Of course *all the domestic players are going to come from the monopoly.
That’s not an accomplishment.
That’s a priori going to be the case.
Developed in @MLS, @MLSNEXTPRO, @MLSNEXT ⚽️
In the @USMNT's October window, 21 of the 28 players have ties to Major League Soccer's ecosystem.
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If your life's work is a truly important problem - like curing cancer or fusion energy or discovering the true nature of quantum reality - then suddenly getting a solution from AI would be cause for great celebration.
You might ponder for a moment the second order impact on your profession, but that would be overwhelmed by JOY for the gift that you and the rest of humanity have received.
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Physicists want to understand the universe!
Physics ❤️ AI
Wigner:
Until 1925, most great physicists, including Einstein and Planck, had doubted that man could truly grasp the deepest implications of quantum theory. They really felt that man might be too stupid to properly describe quantum phenomena. ...the men at the weekly colloquium in Berlin wondered "Is the human mind gifted enough to extend physics into the microscopic domain ...?" Many of those great men doubted that it could.
... it is sad to lose touch with whole branches of physics, to see scientists cut off from each other. Dispersion theorists do not know axiomatic field theory; cosmologists do not know nuclear physics. Quantum mechanics is hard to explain to a chemist ... and yet the best theoretical chemists really ought to know quantum mechanics.
Specialization of science robbed us of much of our passion. We wanted to grasp science whole, but by then the whole was something far too vast and complex to master. Only rarely could we ask the deep questions that had first drawn us to science.
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A publication that doesn’t understand that MLS teams are not clubs, is not a respectable publication.
"𝙄 𝙙𝙞𝙙 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙜𝙪𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙖𝙣𝙮 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬𝙡𝙚𝙙𝙜𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙧𝙪𝙣𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙨𝙤𝙘𝙘𝙚𝙧 𝙖𝙩 𝙖𝙡𝙡."
@thesoccerdon explains how his years at the helm of the NFL's international business helped him shape the trajectory of MLS and its clubs.
Credentialism is stupid.
And credentialed people/orgs who cling to that for authority and protection against competition are weak.
Respect to anyone who laughs at their own credential(s) and deeply understands your actual work and value you create (or lack thereof) is what matters.
If someone, or something, is better than you at "the work", adapt.
But crying and clinging to some credential/license for protection and privilege is pathetic.
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Against the tyranny of the mids
.@SecRubio: "Too often, these days, we build downwards. We design our standards to ensure that no one will lose. We preoccupy ourselves more with the comfort of the worst than the potential of the best. We hold the most exceptional things among us hostage to the average."