David Kilpatrick
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Professor of English and Director of Sport Management at Mercy University
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US Soccer lesson from 1928. Don’t want to compete in the Open Cup? Fine. Then you lose your D1 sanction. Simple. Nonnegotiable.
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Hearing Sigi Schmid has passed away. So grateful for his kindness and candor. Such a super nice, unassuming guy. Among his many accomplishments, he was on the very first
#AYSO
team in 1964. A legend and a champion.
#RIPSigiSchmid
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Increasing global attention with a World Cup coming soon and US Soccer doing its best to embarrass the nation.
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Cosmos Chairman Rocco Commisso and Kingston Stockade Chairman Dennis Crowley at tonight’s NPSL match.
#ProRelForUSA
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Glad to say I have just been legally released from isolation. Yes, I was vaccinated. Was due for my booster last Monday. COVID is truly awful and scary but I am absolutely sure my breakthrough case would have been so much worse had I not been vaccinated. Feeling better now. 😷
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DaMarcus Beasley: US Soccer needs promotion and relegation "💯%"
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How many Olympics do we need to miss out on before we recognize the current system is a failure?
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Those in control of soccer are working really hard to make those who care about soccer stop.
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Yes, fair and based on merit. That’s what we need, indeed.
Remind me how
#InterMiamiCF
earned top-flight?
How exactly is Beckham protecting these values as an owner?
"Unless we protect these values the game we love is in danger..."
David Beckham shares his thoughts on the Super League.
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Rocco Commisso Q&A: Fiorentina's new owner on why he's investing in Serie A and his fight with US Soccer
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MLS kills this stadium project for Indy XI and they can string along Indianapolis for years to come by dangling the carrot of franchise scarcity.
Join the queue with Raleigh-Durham and San Antonio as former NASL markets that fell for that schtick.
“The city can't sacrifice its chance to bring another major league sports franchise to town in order to protect the feelings of one rich guy and a few thousand Indy Eleven fans.”
About as dismissive a statement as I have seen. Like I said, good luck out-PR-Ing the mayor, Ersal!
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So many SUM enablers adopting the rhetoric of moral indignation as they scapegoat Cordeiro. As if US Soccer legal tactics were a secret. What a herd of hypocrites.
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“I don’t understand how FIFA can say one thing for Europe and another for America. [...] Football is a global game regulated by FIFA so the rules must be the same for everyone on all continents” - Rocco Commisso.
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Hundreds of dollars spent on coaching courses last year, not so much as a complimentary pencil, and I need to pay a $25 annual subscription fee to keep using planning tools in the Learning Center?
@ussoccer_coach
Absurd.
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Wild idea: wouldn't it be great if we could put in place some kind of system that allows every city to compete, with the best teams playing the best teams on sporting merit alone, rather than cities competing to see who can exploit taxpayers and benefit billionaires the most?
INBOX: Per
@JimmyShapSRI
and Zucker Media Group, these are the latest odds for the next
#MLS
expansion slot.
*lights match, turns and runs*
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USMNT only considers MLS.
MLS only considers D1.
D1 only considers academy.
Academies cost parents $1000s.
Wonder what's wrong?
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Thrilled to confirm I have completed all requirements for my Master of Science in Sport Management from the State University of New York at Cortland!
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Paying an expansion fee and dissolving a club in a 2nd or 3rd division league to become a single-entity franchise in a 1st division league is precisely the kind of artificial promotion
@FIFAcom
wants to prevent with the
#SportingIntegrity
Statute.
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Shame on all those at US Soccer who have taken us down this path, creating a system great for generating profit but dreadful at identifying and developing talent.
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Promotion and relegation. Sporting integrity. This is what we need to make soccer more meaningful in America.
#ProRelForUSA
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But American investors cannot accept the uncertainties of an open system with promotion and relegation…
NFL veteran JJ Watt together with his wife Kealia Watt have announced their involvement with Burnley Football Club 🟣🔵
“Burnley is a really special club. When you invest in a club that’s been around since 1882, you must have great respect for its history and tradition”.
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The Leagues Cup is a North American Super League and should be viewed with the same disdain as the failed European Super League for the good of the global game.
It's very difficult to know if Leagues Cup will be a long term success..
Outside of Miami, there have been quite a few empty seats, fans acting unruly, a lot of complaining, and just an uneasy feeling at times.
How are YOU seeing it outside of what's happening in Miami?
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The biggest advocates for US soccer reform should be supporters of MLS franchises. When you realize you are stuck in an anticompetitive structure that prevents you from being the best you can be at the global game you want to break free.
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No, it is about young players chasing their dreams.
MLS commish Don Garber on domestic Academy products signing abroad: “I don’t know that it’s entirely about young players chasing their dreams as much as it’s international clubs chasing our young players."
🗞️
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Bad enough to reject an established open competitive commitment. To do so because you invented your own closed competitive commitment is absurd.
The Professional League Standards are a Major League Sham.
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Greatly appreciate
@nytimes
addressing concerns with how soccer is being governed/owned in today’s paper.
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Arena said no
@naslofficial
players ever on
#USMNT
. Beat by T&T w 2:
@kickitwithkevan
of
@JaxArmadaFC
&
@king_moses12
of
@NorthCarolinaFC
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If anyone at Soccer House celebrated yesterday’s legal decision as a victory for
@ussoccer
, they really need to take another look at the Mission, then a good look in the mirror.
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That a founding “club” would need to rebrand after a quarter-century tells you everything you need to know about why Major League Soccer is still not a major league. Its failure is the failure of US Soccer to deliver on its mission to make soccer the preeminent sport in the USA.
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@FenafuthOrg
I am sorry our national governing body made the unsporting decision to deliberately and unnecessarily expose players to such dangerous elements.
Wishing them a speedy recovery.
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There’s SUMthing terribly rotten about bundling National Men’s and Women’s Team television packages together with an exclusive, closed, single-entity male league.
Using sexist arguments to defend that corrupt financial arrangement is repugnant.
@ussoccer
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Missing
@StephenConstan
at this year’s
@UnitedCoaches
Convention, but at least his book is here. Good luck in the
#AFCAsianCup
v Bahrain Monday!
#CHI19
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Thrilled and grateful that
@NYCosmos
Chair Rocco Commisso is keeping his word from last year, when he swore: “I am going to fight this until I have my last drop of blood.”
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Will they call it Minor League Soccer?
MLS is finalizing a plan to launch a new league expected to apply for U.S. third division sanctioning, sources tell
@jeffrueter
and
@MLSist
. This move could have far-reaching implications for American men's soccer beyond just talent development.
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If $500million isn’t a “compelling reason to deviate” from a failed process, you’ve got some cash cow hidden in your barn.
#ReformUSSoccerNow
#ProRelForUSA
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Gio won 3 league titles for NY (2013, 2015, 2016).
He will win plenty more titles before he’s done coaching, no doubt.
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I hereby declare today Reformation Day for Football.
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"We must not cheapen our game. [...] Above all things we must not place money above the sport" - Thomas Cahill,
@ussoccer
Secretary, 1923.
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But Americans won’t invest in such an uncertain sporting structure with promotion and relegation.
A message from our owners-elect...
Welcome to Wrexham AFC,
@RMcElhenney
and
@VancityReynolds
🥳
🔴⚪️
#WxmAFC
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Just learned
@NYCosmos
legend Seninho passed away last weekend Deepest condolences to his family.
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Do I think the single-entity’s monopolism has restrained American soccer’s organic growth for 20 years? Yes, I do.
Do you agree? 🤔
Jim Curtin has said that Ted Lasso has hurt US coaches in Europe...
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🇬🇦 45 years ago today, Pelé played his last competitive match, leaving the pitch a champion, as the Cosmos defeated the Seattle Sounders 2-1 in Portland to earn the club’s 2nd league title. 🇬🇦
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While in London the last few days, found it next to impossible to explain how the USSF tried to relegate an entire league from 2nd to 3rd division under the ruse of "Professional League Standards." We're in an absurd situation without
#ProRelforUSA
.
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Keeping distance from my parents just a hill away has been the most difficult challenge of this crisis but my 77-year-old father sneaking up to our porch and dropping off bottles of wine without our seeing him has to be up there among the sweetest things ever.
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You read it on soccer Twitter every day, “But what about the billionaires who invested millions? What if they don’t want promotion and relegation?”
Who the hell cares what 29 billionaires don’t want if what they don’t want is what’s best?
You read it in the newspapers every day, “A group of donors said A, B and C.”
Who the hell cares what a group of rich donors say?
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Another one bites the dust.
The fatality rate for association football clubs in the United States goes from worse to worse. Almost like someone ought to ask if there’s a better way…
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Yesterday marked the 50th anniversary of the naming of the North American Soccer League.
#NASL50
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The Commissioner of MLS/SUM CEO cast the vote on behalf of the United States in the 2016 FIFA Presidential election. No greater symbolic act of authority over the domestic game than that. The flagrant control of a non-profit by a for-profit is flaunted.
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My daughter made me this when I was a bit down back in June. Since then whenever I look at my wrist it reminds me how much she cares.
💚💛💙
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@VgwartsTy
@GrantWahl
Those stadia are tiny, those supporters are few, because they are locked into a major/minor system that doesn’t allow for them to ever achieve the highest level. Duh.
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What good is it to host a World Cup if working people cannot afford to attend? What's it all about? The rich getting richer. Spare us the voodoo economics a windfall will trickle down to the grassroots. Shameless custodians of the game do nothing but serve their self-interests.
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I remain perplexed by US Soccer's "Professional League Standards." This is a "2nd Division" crowd? What will announced attendance call this turnout?
@EmptySeatsPics
#BSTMEM
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I’m always saying amnesia, antagonism, apologetics characterize the history of US Soccer, but I need to add apathy to the list.
US Soccer is losing players and losing fans at alarming rates.
Reform is needed now before it is too late and all the progress since 1994 is undone.
Latest ticket sales for
#USMNT
friendlies:
Ecuador Thursday in Orlando: 12,000
Chile next Tuesday in Houston: 10,000
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Four years ago
@HampdenPark
I dreamt of a massive event to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the first international football match today. So many others shared the same dream. It’s happening (without me). Proudly with them in spirit. Congratulations
#ScotchProfessors
!
#Fitba150
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Guy does this while leading
@fc_motown
to the
@NPSLSoccer
Final. Amazing.
Over 350 cleats packed for Za'atari Refugee Camp. Need another 150 to get to our goal of 500 cleats for the Syrian kids! Let's goooo.
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Honored and thrilled to serve as Grand Marshal at today’s Mercy College Commencement ceremony.
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Something is desperately wrong when your National Team draws this poorly.
From ticket prices to talent identification, this is a mess.
Change we must.
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MLS-LigaMX merger contemplated, pro/rel too complicated? 🤦♂️
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