How to Invent a Football Club

MAX MANSFIELD is the CEO of Brooklyn F.C. — and joins the show this week to explain how a brand new footballing institution gets built.

To the extent there’s any kind of offseason for men’s football this summer, it might be the two weeks where we now find ourselves between the Champions League final and GERMANY vs SCOTLAND in the opening match of EURO 2024. Well, it’s lawsuit season — just ask Man City — but for the most part, the football folks are taking a fortnight off.

What better time, then, for a quick change of pace. It’s all well and good covering the game at the top level, but how does a football club come to be in the first place? Right here in TFW’s own backyard, Brooklyn F.C. is sprouting up out of the asphalt to become a fully fledged professional outfit. So we decided to ask the young enterprise’s CEO, MAX MANSFIELD, how exactly that happens:

Find out more about Two Bridges Football Club here. It’s a wonderful project that Max also spearheaded.

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