Mostly tweets about American soccer, rugby and Utah (the state and associated sports teams)
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I’ve been brought back to Twitter dot com thanks to FOMO about the World Cup…but y’all really ain’t ready to have a tough love convo about prediction market apps are you??
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RIP @SacRepublicFC Kuni Chevrolet Cornerkicks.
(Sacramento OGs know.)
You guys know me - I am far from a football purist.
But let me say this one thing: I hope I never hear a 10-second countdown before a match, ever fucking again. Burn it with fire.
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Oh honestly, toss off about this take. @MLS is younger than I am and is the longest running pro soccer league in American history. I went to the press conference announcing @realsaltlake when I was 13.
Pro soccer has been continually running in England since 1888.
What is Tom Cruise going to do here exactly? Jump out a plane? Give Trump a copy of Battlefield Earth?
FIFA confirm the World Cup closing ceremony will feature Tom Cruise, Laura Pausini, Nicole Scherzinger, Robbie Williams and IShowSpeed.
Jennifer Hudson will perform the United States national anthem ahead of the final.
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Oh come on now, this is silly. This is the United States, where it’s a right of passage for a professional sports teams to move states unless the government subsidizes their new stadium.
Air dropping franchises into new cities is American as apple pie. See @GoldenKnights.
MLS franchises are not woven into the fabric of communities... they are just air dropped into a city with no true & organic connection.
People & communities are the are the heart and soul of football/soccer clubs around the world.
This is why MLS is ignored by most USA ⚽️ fans.
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US sports fans: people don’t watch MLS because the format is boring and it’s not pro/rel.
Also US sports fans: I watch predominately leagues and sports without pro/rel and am incapable of accepting a draw as an interesting game.
People don't watch MLS, not because of the quality, but because the league format is boring. There is very little jeopardy and most teams make the playoffs. Not enough can happen in the regular season.
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One day I will write a history of American nationalism in sports, specifically its use of the anthem at sporting events.
Why? It’s the final and the US aren’t at the final. The only anthems that should be sung are of those playing who reached the final.
“bUt tHeY’rE tHe HoSt nATiOn!”
Yeah, but so are Canada and Mexico.
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Between this and Qatar, late stage capitalism is officially coming for international soccer.
FIFA to break football's laws by having half-time break at World Cup final of up to 30mins to accommodate glitzy Super Bowl-style show.
ITV will cover half-time show in full and BBC expected to do so too. thetimes.com/sport/football/…
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So we all agree that Tuchel probably discovered Kalshi right before the match and threw the second half right?? Because what was that monstrosity?!
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When women like @CarliLloyd and @sydneyleroux comment on #Pulisic’s performance (and utter lack of media training) - they get vitriol hate. Men like @TaylorTwellman and @landondonovan criticize him and the pushback is minuscule in comparison. Misogyny alive and well I see.
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Ummm….academy system in the US has existed for 20 years…
U.S. could easily win the world cup in 12 years. We have a huge population of players and we are on average far more athletic than europeans.
Just do what europe does — every pro club gets an academy that starts at age 6, coached by former european pros.
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Just a friendly reminder some MLS teams (cough DC United) still charge fees for their academies. And don’t get me started on MLS Next.
Club soccer has done more harm to the development of soccer players than anything else.
It’s a money grab full of promises and false hope.
Sincerely,
Former Club Soccer Coach
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Neither would Pelé, Cristiano Ronaldo or George Weah. Even players with working class backgrounds like David Beckham or Zidane likely wouldn’t have the money for today’s system.
Btw lalas supporting the current system is basically proof that it doesn’t work. Thierry Henry and Zlatan Ibrahimovic would never have had the money to pay for the American system. So we are stuck with players like Lalas and Pulisic as a result of this exclusion.
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The US is competing against countries where the sport is culturally central and clubs are financially incentivized by FIFA to find and develop talent (MLS has generally failed at this).
That structure is entirely different for exist for basketball.
All good points. But a similar dynamic exists in basketball and the US has always dominated there. And what about Womens soccer where we are also he best in the world?
I despise what has happened to youth sports in this country but the reasons we are so far behind in soccer is cultural. It’s just not nearly as important here as it is around the world. And we have Title IX so our women kick ass across the board.
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I’d go a step further…the American youth system (money issues aside) is still set up in the traditional youth sports to college pipeline.
Pulisic, Roldan and Freese are the exception and not the rule. (And probably the last exceptions honestly.)
My teenage daughter plays soccer. She plays on her high school team and a club team. There is no way she can get onto a college team without uber expensive travel teams and ID camps. No chance just playing for her school or a rec league. This is the root of the problem.
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Got back on Twitter only to see we still haven’t evolved passed the “What if our greatest non-soccer playing athletes played soccer?” discourse. 🫠
