Christian Lavers
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2,515 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 5 Aug
Christian Lavers’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And you can guess, you know, the best players are being paid for and the kids who want to be the best players are paying for it.
Right.
So there's going to be pay to play to provide sport.
OK, that's going to happen.
We're talking about what what are the factors that are different in other parts of the country, parts of the world than what.
Yeah.
So we're going to say what are some differences between the U.S., you know, just to sum this up as we transition to some other topics here.
But one is we don't have a deep self-funding professional club pyramid in this country.
Correct.
Correct.
Two is scale and geography.
We talk about the distances and the size that we deal with.
Three, and you mentioned this before, we have multi-sport culture and these countries generally do not.
But you can measure what is that?
Well, what is multi-sport?
How is that different?
Let's not get into specialization or anything like that.
But there's a competition for resources that go into youth sports that are part of that.
But it also reflects in the numbers I just read, which is how many players per thousand.
you know how many people are invested and engaged in and participating in soccer in your country right those are three very very big differences um between them but then there's other arguments that have been made of why doesn't the us first of all the us does not enforce fifa training compensation and solidarity okay um and there is no domestic mechanism that pays clubs
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