Chris Kessell
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Straight from the banks of the raw Kanawha. Coach, DOC of West Side SC, WVSA Board Member #CVAC #ProRelForUSA
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This is one of the best Onion articles ever.
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For those of you who don't understand why a very vocal percentage of fans of soccer in the US are so upset about Gregg Berhalter being rehired....
To many, he is a glaring symptom of the corruption, nepotism, and disheartening lack of quality of the processes and of the work..
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If Paramount and Peacock merge I think LOTS of people will be set with their combined soccer coverage.
📺 Executives from Peacock & Paramount+ have been discussing merging their apps, per WSJ ✨
This comes after last week's announcement from FOX, ESPN & TNT about their plans for a merged app.
Apple and Netflix get left out of these discussions.
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Our 7v7 field, two 4v4 fields, and our new thing... four 2v2 fields.
We are moving to 2v2 for our youngest two age groups. Going to try to get these kids on the ball more, more decisions, more goals, more fun... more development.
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"The fundamental flaw in American youth sports, and particularly soccer, is we are sorting the weak from the strong well before kids grow into their bodies, their minds and their interests," said Aspen Institute executive Tom Farrey to NPR.
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The 20 year old and his agent handling this better than the National Team coach at this point.
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I think the most absurd thing about the Wrexham story is American soccer fans trying to say them having rich owners makes their accomplishment less valid and not "real" when in the US having a rich owner is a required prerequisite to buying a spot in any league.
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I am just not sure why anyone wouldn't want this in the US.
I believe these guys when they say this stuff. I truly believe it would be a game changer for the CULTURE around the game in the US.
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I see the MLS fans are still talking about how they have these equally compelling storylines as Wrexham fighting for promotion that need told...
Just can't seem to provide any examples.
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Americans are going to ruin world soccer aren't we?
US billionaire hopes for formation of World Super League
“I want the world to play, I want the New England Revolution to have a chance to beat Chelsea. I want Palmeiras to come over."
#NERevs
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@SonnyBunch
@Hecalledtheshi1
Totally different distances. Makes sense that one is great for rail and one is great for car.
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Options for US Soccer in response to MLSs statement about the
@opencup
if they want to fight.
1. Pull D1 sanctioning for MLS
2. Make MLS register all MLS2 players with D1 team and pull D3 sanctioning since D3 team won't be playing in USOC as required.
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Promotion and Relegation is amazing. The US needs it.
#ProRelForUSA
BROMLEY REACH ENGLISH FOOTBALL LEAGUE FOR FIRST TIME IN 132-YEAR HISTORY. 🥳
South London club beat Solihull Moors on penalties to win promotion to League Two. The Ravens, representing David Bowie's hometown, are Heroes at Wembley. 🐦⬛
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Chuck Roberts just posted this great photo of Charleston. I've never actually seen one from this vantage point.
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Hey look... think there is any correlation between this and guys who bash womens sports?
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So players are now coming out and questioning Gregg Berhalter's level of coaching and who he called up via sources now.
#USMNT
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Breaking: MLS just called every politician in Michigan to set up some meetings...
Making moves in the Motor City 🏟️
@DetroitCityFC
announces the acquisition of land to build a soccer-specific stadium in Detroit.
➡️
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The term "recreational" soccer was created by people who didnt want the sport to be as competitive as the traditional American sports.
It was intentional.
"Travel" soccer was created by those who wanted to take it serious.
It was coopted by those who saw they could $ off it
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You know... if we wouldn't have hired from within the US Soccer cool kid MLS friend group we wouldn't be dealing with this fiasco of a Reyna Berhalter saga.
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Never forget that MLS asked Davies to waive his portion of the transfer fee... well, asked is a nice way of putting it. Threatening to not allow the deal to happen if he didn't pay them €1.13M by not taking his cut.
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US Soccer has DENIED the
@MLS
request to use reserve teams in the
@opencup
!
Great job
@ussoccer
,
@cone_cindy
,
@jtbatson
, and the Board!
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So PBS News Hour did a full segment on the NWSL abuse issues today.
It has crossed over from a sports story to a major news issue.
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MLS via Soccer United Marketing (SUM) managed the Open Cup for years and did nothing to grow it.
As soon as USSF took control back in-house and saw IMMEDIATE growth...
MLS left.
That is the story here. Not whatever Garber says.
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An integral part of the story of Wrexham is Promotion and Relegation.
If the LA Galaxy were in USL-C fighting their way back to MLS... it would be very compelling.
Trying to make the playoffs is not compelling compared to trying to get promoted.
@JoieGalactique
MLS needs to better leverage the audience that Wrexham brings in. US soccer can still tell those kind of stories without Pro/rel. The story of the Galaxy should be one of a fallen king fighting to regain their throne but we don't get that coverage here. Thats a problem.
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You asked people to care about soccer and to be passionate...
Here they are.
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There is nothing in American sports that equals this. Absolutely nothing.
We need to just admit that structuring leagues the way we do isn't in the fans, the players, the coaches, the communities, or in the broadest sense of the word... the game's best interest.
STUTTGART SCORE A 92ND MINUTE WINNER TO STAY IN THE BUNDESLIGA!!! 😱
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Just a reminder...
Soccer works exactly as designed in the US.
Everyone who participated in its design decided that MLS owners' profits are the most important thing there is in the game.
Even more important than children.
Oklahoma City and USYNT U15 Rogelio Garcia '08 will not be play for any MLS team. I know there's been a lot of bullshit going on inside SKC but this isn't just Kansas responsibility. MLS is guilty of this and who does something? nobody.
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No country or nationality flags at MLS games now.
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Sometimes you have to be the person to do something when you say "I wish someone would do something about that".
I am running for the position of Vice President of
#USSF
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These clubs all deserve a chance to move up the pyramid by winning their way to the top.
#ProRelForUSA
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I have people tell me we need a stronger 2nd Division in the US...
They don't seem to actually know what our 2nd Division looks like.
#ProRelForUSA
This is a soccer match in LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY. 🤯
In a soccer-specific stadium. 🤯🤯
With
@jackharlow
in attendance. 🤯🤯🤯
This is American soccer, baby. 🇺🇸
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My wife and I have a 36 year old friend that went back to college this year... she checked with the AD and had a year of eligibility left.
Just made the swim team.
Hadnt swam competitively since 10th grade.
We are going to a meet full on cowbell ringing screaming fan crazy
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Both these are
#MLS
games today.
One is the team that has the best record in MLS last year and the other is a teams first ever game.
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Yesterday leading up to the FIFA Council meeting in Miami via email and hand delivery to Gianni Infantino, all the members of the
@FIFAcom
ExCo,
@ussoccer
and
@Concacaf
over 100 US clubs spoke up in support of
@StockadeFC
and
@TheMiamiFC
's CAS case by asking for
#ProRelForUSA
.
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They see the ridiculous timing of it all...
They see him as the most glaring example of incompetence at best and corruption at worst within USSF.
His hire represents every single thing wrong with soccer in the US to many people.
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Newest rumor in the
#MLS
v
#OpenCuo
saga.
Open Cup Committee member
@stuholden
has submitted his resignation, citing that the Open Cup Committee has been left in the dark during this entire ordeal.
I've been told that the committee still has not been told the plan.
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Matt Crocker was hired April 25th 2023. US Soccer said he led the search in their press release.
The entire process lasted 52 days.
- Outside consultants
- 10+ candidates
- 6 months
- Presentation requirements
- New Sporting Director
- New CEO
- No financially restrictions
- Established metrics
- Psychological testing
- Beep test (kidding, just seeing if you read this)
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I have an
#OpenCup
@MLS
question that I don't know the answer to.
What happens if
@opencup
just releases a schedule with all
#MLS
teams in it making a good faith & fair effort to schedule around
@LeaguesCup
and if MLS teams do not compete in the individual games, they forfeit?
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So basically, a reverse result from parents and players on which is cared about more... HS or Club soccer.
What are your thoughts on these poll results? Do you think this says anything about the youth soccer landscape specifically?
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If you are a
#ProRelForUSA
advocate, feel free to be excited about this
@USL_HQ
news today.
I know it is easy to be cynical about soccer in the US but this is exciting and yes, good.
Now, how can we help?
I have a few ideas...
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Soccer in the US doesn't get to this without a plan like this
We need a comprehensive plan for how to grow local men's/women's soccer, rules reform at pro level w/ PLS rewrite, along with systemic changes on how USSF deals w/ solidarity, training compensation etc
#ProRelForUSA
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In the United States, it is against the rules for a group of fans to start a pro soccer club that represents them and their community in the way they want to be represented
They must follow the guidelines, socially and politically, that the owners of the league and USSF enforce.
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My wife surprised me by getting a place I like to open up for a private brunch with soccer games on every TV and a surprise party with like 25 of my friends this morning to celebrate my birthday tomorrow.
It was fucking awesome.
She also had a tower of fresh donuts... I ate 7
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As my Facebook timeline fills up with parents sharing pictures of their kids making college selections I'm always amazed at how many kids who are BALLERS ... That their soccer career ends the last day of their HS senior season.
No college, no adult league, no indoor, no pick up
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I was under the impression
@dcunited
were playing too many games that is why they had to drop out of the
@opencup
?
Is that not true?
D.C. United has struck a multiyear deal with the Ethiopian federation and league for matches at Audi Field, starting this summer: Top two clubs to clash in a friendly and DCU to play the national team on separate dates. Details tba.
#mls
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“The Mewises spent between $10,000-$12,000 a year on the girls’ soccer starting in their mid-teens.”
Soccer in the US works exactly as it has been designed to work.
It is not broken.
It has been intentionally designed to work this way. Gatekeepers & artificial exclusivity
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This is a BIG deal.
Also, USL is now more accessible than MLS. Just in time for them to potentially move to
#ProRelForUSA
and the World Cup coming...
BREAKING: CBS Sports has acquired the media rights to the USL through 2027.
Deal includes 100 USL matches annually. Coverage will air across CBS television, Paramount+, CBS Sports Network, and CBS Sports Golazo Network
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Charleston West Virginia.... I have 10 scholarships for kids on the West Side or East End born in 2010 or 2011 to play soccer for free this season.
Zero cost... Free uniforms... registration taken care of... quality coaches...
DM me for details if you know a child interested.
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done by the Federation in many areas over the last generation.
You can't ask people to pay more attention and invest more emotionally and financially in to the game while also asking them to just support every single thing that they see.
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Soccer United Marketing is really bad at marketing soccer.
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@AlexiLalas
@NWSL
@ussoccer
We KNOW MLS would have folded without the USSF subsidy.
We also know millions were spent by USSF to get it off the ground.
So what's the point of the question really?
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Every single bit of positivity I felt after the USSF AGM just left my body.
I don't even know why I care any more.
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So basically... every person that sees it loves it.
It is also how soccer in the US can differentiate itself in the sports marketplace among fans.
#ProRelForUSA
#ReformUSSF
J.J. Watt says promotion/relegation "really enthralls" him as a Premier League fan. "It's not like you get the first draft pick and you're back ... you're out of the league."
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Everyone who had been paying attention knew
@USL_HQ
was firmly in the
@MLS
crosshairs ...
This interview puts it out there for everyone who hasn't been paying attention.
MLS plans on replicating USL but with MLS branding. They even...
Don Garber said recently that MLS plans to go into "dozens of new markets" with the third division MLS Next Pro. Why and what does that expansion look like? I spoke to the league's president Charles Altchek about the plans
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He is correct.
One of the worst things about US sports leagues continuously maximizing profit over passion is that the world’s best players don’t get to compete in environments like this. Real fans get priced out and the atmosphere at games becomes much less fun.
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What does it say about the state of soccer in the US when the largest off-season topic of discussion so far has been how teams/leagues in the US can become as popular as a 5th division Welsh team in the English pyramid?
Storylines matter. Soccer in the US has next to none.
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Nothing would be better for American soccer social media than
@DetroitCityFC
winning the
#OpenCup
That is a fan base that would absolutely let everyone know all the time that they are the one and true National Champions.
The next games
@opencup
trophy tifo would be epic.
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One USL owner told The Athletic. “The reality is MLS will destroy USL long-term (on our current trajectory). But if USL successfully adopts
#ProRelForUSA
& can get division one sanctioning (for the top level), it’ll be transformed.”
BREAKING: The
#USL
is set for a milestone vote on the adoption of a promotion and relegation system, per sources.
• Plan for 3 pro tiers
• Potential restructure in 2024, pro/rel in 2025
• Sources optimistic, but vote may have opposition
w/
@tombogert
:
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I'm going to give every writer a lead.
Find out why US Soccer didn't mandate NWSL clubs had to start Academies in the Girls DA the way MLS was mandated to start them in the boys DA.
Start asking questions... you may very well get an interesting answer.
Gatekeepers.
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I was just told...
"USSF told local Chicago area female youth players they had to play for Rory to get a look.
You read that correctly."
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Is there a worse case PR scenario for the long-term perception of the league than having the biggest star in the world come to MLS and then...
MESSI CALLS MLS "A MINOR LEAGUE" 😳
"I am also aware that I went to a minor league," says Messi in a new interview with Star+. "Today the only thing I think about is getting to the Copa América well and being able to compete in it."
#Messi
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Can't afford referees.
Discovered Giroud.
Yep.
Sources: LAFC in advanced talks with France all-time leading scorer Olivier Giroud about a summer move when his AC Milan deal ends
Nothing agreed or imminent, but talks serious. LAFC has his discovery rights. Giroud considering options
w/
@David_Ornstein
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If you are a white person who feels its appropriate to use the N-word in any context.. go ahead and unfollow me. If you @ me with a defense of the action I'm straight blocking you.
It's never cool. It's never acceptable. Do not do it. Ever.
Even you... never use it.
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One could argue that a different structure would have delivered better results.
In 30 years, MLS has created the most successful pro soccer league in North American history. One could argue that no organization has done more for the growth of soccer in the U.S. than MLS.
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I think some MLS teams and fans would be world-class in an open pyramid that featured
#ProRelForUSA
Seattle and Atlanta, for sure.
I think a bunch of MLS team fans KNOW their team would fall like a brick if they actually had to compete. That's why they don't want to see it.
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The main takeaway from this
@Wrexham_AFC
v
@Blyth_Spartans
FA Cup game on
@espn
that soccer fans in the US should have is how good the players and teams are in the 5th and 6th division in other countries.
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So it was 75 on Wednesday... its snowing today... its going to be 80 this coming Wednesday.
Have all 4 seasons in a few hours is always awesome.
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I was just informed that next week in Kansas City, USASA is hosting a meeting with all the amatuer National Leagues
NPSL, UPSL, NISA, NWPL, UWS, etc. to discuss how everyone can work together to better the adult amatuer game.
This is a great move by
@JohnPMotta
/
@USAdultSoccer
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From looking around the room.
There appears to be less than 10 black people.
This is a problem.
#USSFPresident
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Just caught a few minutes of MASL indoor soccer... looking good with a crowd like this plus 15,000 people streaming it live on Twitch.
I had no idea.
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I have a DM from a former player that says Rory Dames regularly used the N word about Black players.
I just retweeted a former player of his that publicly says he used racist language as well.
So... US Soccer led an investigation in to Dames that didn't uncover anything but...
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US Soccer and Soccer United Marketing are ending their relationship at the end of the current contract.
This is great news for everyone who wants to see reform within US Soccer.
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I've lost a little over 100 followers this week.
Good riddance.
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Finally just finished
@WrexhamFX
...
When you watch this show and think about how we are choosing to deny communities this same opportunity in the US and what that means...
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I'm watching
@TTownSoccer
play against
@SportingKC
of the MLS in the
@opencup
while wearing a jersey with
#ProRelForUSA
emblazoned across the chest.
When I made that hashtag up I never in my wildest dreams expected this... wow.
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I can see why MLS needs its own 3rd division for reserve teams now.... lol
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Then they see Gregg Berhalter get hired during the middle of the
@CNationsLeague
with the info leaking basically during the most thorough dismantling of Mexico by the
#USMNT
ever...
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Read the room.
You are the ONLY reason why these people are losing their jobs and the team and community the fans cared so much about.
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So Disney/ESPN produced a documentary series about
@LAFC
...
0 ratings on iMDB.
Wrexham gets one on FX ...
11,000 ratings with a 8.2/10.
I believe we were talking about what is compelling and what isn't.
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You want to know why Black kids don't play soccer in the US?
Listen in to the USSF AGM right now... soak it all in... this is why.
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So remember when I told yall MLS wanted to own all of youth soccer because that's where the real money is in soccer in the US as it is designed now...
MLS now has a rec soccer program.
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I just don't understand why it's so hard to grasp the fact that if every soccer club in this country was in one pyramid there would be more people caring about the total pyramid instead of the disjointed mess of leagues we have now.
It just seem like common sense...
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So Rocco Commiso is now officially the owner of a club in Italy... there goes $250M of his own money and $250M of promised outside investment that
#USSF
pushed to Europe.
How many billions are going to be pushed to Europe before we figure out there are more investors than MLS?
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