Doug Bracken
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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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Maybe it's nine years old.
So let's say...
That kid's been in your club for three years.
And then a professional club's youth academy could bring that player on.
Yeah.
The endowment piece, I could shoot some holes in because you could, in theory, you're, you're, you're an amateur club or youth club.
You're, you're not,
you know, moving that many players on to where you can build a war chest to the point where you can actually.
Yeah.
So far, so good, Christian.
Yeah, and maybe you just have a definition of a home club or something like that, right?
Something like that.
Yeah, and I think...
I think back about, and again, we've talked about the start of the ECNL back in the day, and you and I were part of these, you know, young kind of directors, and the club landscape was changing, or sorry, the youth landscape was changing in soccer more recently.
From a team-based kind of thought to a club-based, and clubs were becoming more prominent or whatever, but we all sat around the bar and talked about how bad everything was or whatever.
Nobody ever did anything about it, right?
Now, we do have to say the Federation did start the Boys DA in 2007, but...
What happened is we finally just said, if we're going to do this, how would we do it?
And we put a plan in place, and we started by trying to sell it to the clubs that we thought we wanted to start with or whatever.
That's how that happens.
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