Doug Bracken
speaker
1,381 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 5 Aug
Doug Bracken’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Because it's all about winning.
And we don't want to take away the importance of winning, which we said before or whatever.
But it's kind of interesting to me, Christian, and this is going to be a hot take.
So buckle up for this hot take.
And that is the people screaming...
about pay-to-play and all the ills of it are the same people that are demanding of winning, it seems like.
You know?
Like, pay-to-play is terrible, but you must win.
And if you don't win, then we're out of here and we're going to go somewhere else.
Yeah, you're talking about the consumer?
Yeah, we've experienced this firsthand.
The parents?
Yes, there's so little...
for the idea of development.
There's so little look for a long-term path or a way for this player to go on this process and this process of development.
And the thing that I'll say is, and I have empathy, having seen it from the lens of doing it and running a club and having seen it through the lens of having a kid who goes through it,
It's probably hard to know if what a club is selling about development is actually true or not true because it's hard to know what the – other than a track record or what the qualification – it's just hard to say.
Are these snake oil salesmen or are they?
And that is probably just because there are more soccer people and people that played soccer who are becoming parents who have more knowledge about the sport.
So it's better.
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