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Win, Lose, or Draw

Soccer teams can buy their players via the transfer market, but that's expensive work. How do teams find youth players, sign talent, and develop them until they eventually start playing with the first team? That is...if they ever do.

Around the world, teams manage academies that are developing the next generation of soccer talent. How many kids make it out? What happens when they don't make it? And how is America flipping this illustrious and proven system into a money-making scheme that's only working for the rich kids?

Music for this episode was provided by Soundstripe.

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